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  • ‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI

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  • I now avoid all videos showing deaths or serious injuries (if I know that kind of content is coming).

    Feels better to not have those images in my mind.

  • Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App

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  • Once they are following, I'd think you can begin to convert them to higher tiers of support through private channels?

  • Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App

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  • It's all about control of reach.

    If I was an influencer and using Patreon (I'm neither), it's a simple decision:

    Total reach * conversion rate * platform commission = income

    Apple's app store has a fuckton of desirable reach - they monopolize (arguably literally) all the easy payments from iphones and kill anybody else who tries to redirect eyeballs. They are too strong. But what else are you going to do if you need Patreons or app customers, etc?

    You can't ignore the reach, and you'd have to pay or work harder to get eyeballs another way too unless you can get free publicity by being crazy or something and pull people into your own payment/ download channels.

  • Selfhosted Jira alternative

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  • Huly is worth checking out. We've been on it for about a year. They're in super active developments so features are coming rapidly, sometimes breaking or requiring migrations.

    They have both a SaaS version and self-hosted version.

  • Leaked Windows 11 Feature Shows Copilot Moving Into File Explorer

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  • I wonder if I'll soon be able to just lean back and bark orders at my PC.

  • China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible

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  • I'm no China expert but I lived In South China for a while between 2016 and 2024. The Chinese people I know are mostly hardworking, very motivated to succeed, and well capitalized. In their major cities you might be surprised to learn normal guys who earn half what you do are living a higher quality of life than you are, in terms of access to technology.

    Their government is no doubt using uncouth methods to give their country unfair advantages. They don't play well with others.

    But holy shit there is one thing this Chinese government is doing well: effectively driving growth with targeted investments in the economy. They have been focused on that one mission consistently for a long time.

    While democracies fuck around trying to decide if they should tax themselves to build public transportation, China installs 10 new ultrafast subway lines in just a few years in every big city. Covers the country in a network of high-speed rail. Drives the price of shipping goods around the country to almost nothing.

    A kind of monoparty like China has is very likely a net negative when we look at world history, but for moments of time, if it's the right one, amazing things can happen.

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  • No conversation about UBI is complete without also discussing the source of the funds and how other government programs might be effected.

    I think UBI sounds great on the surface but I worry that it could alter our basic survival incentives which may have unintended consequences for the group of people who aren't needing UBI.

    Should UBI replace existing food and housing programs? Should UBI replace other things that are designed to mold the economy such as subsidized public transportation or small business loan guarantees? What about income tax incentives designed to encourage saving and growing money carefully versus consumption (capital gains versus income tax, tax-deferred retirement savings accounts).

    I suspect there's a fairly significant carry-on effect from shifting resources away from these types of programs to a UBI program. But what I'm not clear on is how that might impact other behaviors from well resourced people who may start to play the game, so to speak, by a new set of rules.

    For example, do we see inflation around inelastic needs such as rent prices and grocery bills? If we did, UBI is not much more than a grocery store/landlord stimulus program. It's hard to imagine that we wouldn't see this unless controls are placed on those businesses which in turn, removes incentives to own and grow businesses.

    It seems like a UBI program would promote an economy based on consumption and not on savings and investment. Why save your money if you'll get topped up again next month, and every month for the rest of your life? By investment I'm not talking about Wall Street, I'm talking about finishing college degrees, investing in new ideas, chasing startup ideas, those people who stay up late at night working on inventions that they think could bring them rewards.

    Perhaps the most fundamental question to be answered is this:

    To what degree do we, as the human race, find benefit in helping the less capable of our species survive. Potentially at a cost - not to the strongest and most capable - but instead placed mostly on the shoulders of the slightly-more-capable.

  • Programmers are no longer needed!

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  • After shovels were invented, we decided to dig more holes.

    After hammers were invented, we needed to drive more nails.

    Now that vibe coding has been invented, we are going to write more software.

    No shit

  • Congrats on living long enough to complain about it

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  • I was born at the tail end of Gen X but we were definitely getting up to some crazy stuff.

    It was a normal afternoon to take our bikes off the highest jumps we could build in the middle of the road, constructed from the neighborhood wood pile. When a car came speeding through we'd yell out "car" and quickly move our stuff to the side. We used skateboards on vertical ramps built from whatever, and roller skates on shoddy pavement. Our playgrounds were made of reflective metal hotter than lava attached to towers that seemed to reach 20 ft above the ground.

    We built dangerous tree houses with rusty scrap in the ravine behind the neighborhood, next to place where the neighborhood's older kids were surely taking all the drugs and hiding from their D.A.R.E. officers.

    I used to load my sisters in the back of a red radio flyer wagon and we'd all ride down the neighborhood's steepest hill, occasionally tipping at high speed and then sliding the rest of the way down likely removing several layers of skin and rolls of gauze from my mom's medical kit in the process.

    In primary school, I don't think there was ever a moment without at least one kid on crutches or with a limb in a cast.

    While it did harden us up, and provided some amazing memories, just about everyone I know who was a kid at that time knows of some kid who died while digging a tunnel, or got hit by a car, or spent half of his early teenage years in a cast, or who always seemed to have a finger splint.

    Somehow through all of this we moved from thinking this is normal childhood stuff to blaming anyone and everyone by way of lawsuits.

    There was nothing "safe" about that time. The debate seems to hinge on whether a dangerous childhood results in better adapted adults, perhaps by culling a few unlucky kids who hadn't learned their own limits, and who know how to be creative in the absence of almost any artificial or algorithmic stimuli.

  • ‘Jmail’ is like any other inbox, except this one has Jeffrey Epstein’s emails

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  • Should have been Jeemail. Lost opportunity....

  • Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away

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  • A lot of FOSS projects are freemium based which seems viable for larger more complex projects.

    In these projects it's common to see the developer get paid for adding features on top of the core version, for a SaaS version, for custom development, or for offering support.

    Other projects with a lot of community interest - and a good "community manager" style organizer can attract contributors in the form of pulls, bug testing and reports, and widespread use which generates valuable marketing. These projects only exist because of the labor of love from the whole community.

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    TIL: There are 27.4 Empty Homes for Each Homeless Person in the U.S

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  • The problems of the group of people whom we call "homeless"... has it ever really been a lack of homes?

    There are homeless shelters with empty beds at night. Some people who probably really need them refuse to go there and instead sleep outside because they don't want to be sober.

    It's amusing to think that if we just assign one empty home to each homeless guy - thus eliminating homelessness - all would be right. In the world. But I don't think it works that way.

  • The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You

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  • I'm not against ads in principle. The advertisers are paying the bill for stuff I consume. Great.

    For that effort, they get a chance at my wallet. And to be honest, making me aware of a business or product is indeed a way to get me interested in what they sell. I do prefer the ads to be relevant instead of always useless.

    That being said, it's currently preferable to use a blocker and let the people who don't know how to use blockers subsidize my ad-free ways.

  • Art & writing

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  • A lot of terms are starting to blend... Now anything that does work a human could also do is AI / robots / automation / machine learning.

  • TIL: Only four countries in the world have no government mandated minimum paid vacation or paid public holidays: Palau, Micronesia, Nauru, and the United States of America.

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  • It hasn't been like that for most of human history, and the standard of working conditions that I am guessing you're thinking of is not even experienced by most humans alive today.

    I think ideal working conditions should be society's aspiration and would hopefully pay for itself through superior output. But if businesses can compete unfairly this may not be true. For that reason we should break up companies that get so large as to control entire markets and force them to compete again.

    Sadly

  • TIL: Only four countries in the world have no government mandated minimum paid vacation or paid public holidays: Palau, Micronesia, Nauru, and the United States of America.

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  • Unfortunately for labor, absent of regulation, that's how it's been since the beginning of time. B2B dealings are similar... Add value in excess of cost or be replaced.

  • TIL: Only four countries in the world have no government mandated minimum paid vacation or paid public holidays: Palau, Micronesia, Nauru, and the United States of America.

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  • While possibly true, in reality an employer doing this struggles to keep reliable and quality staff. They would likely calculate that hiring and training expenses, poor output, and other issues are a higher cost than the cost of offering 15 minute breaks and some amount of benefits.

    At least that's how it should work.

  • Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like

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  • Thank you

  • How did Gen X/Millennials failed at tackling the political issues they criticised in the 90's

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  • I feel like this is pretty much it.

    We're busy AF trying to live and the boomers now have nothing to do except vote.