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skisnow

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  • Dozens of engineers laid off at Apple headquarters

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  • Every few years for over half a century, someone decides that VR is finally going to be a big thing, spends a bucketload of cash on it, only to learn the exact same lesson: VR doesn't actually solve any kind of practical problem anyone ever had, but it does create a whole bunch of new ones.

  • YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the globe

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  • yeah, one of the responses lower down made me realize why PeerTube is unlikely to be a success any time soon - it's not something the typical YouTube user has to deal with.

  • YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the globe

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  • I wanted it to not be dog slow, because every one I tried spent all its time buffering. I’m not really sure how the architecture of it works but it seemed to suggest some kind of p2p thing so thought that leaving the window open might seed it? But either it didn’t or just nobody was interested.

  • YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the globe

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  • I wish PeerTube worked. For a while I tried just leaving in running on the theory that it might help out, but it didn't seem to do anything. Not sure if I'm doing it wrong?

  • YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the globe

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  • Sure but it's the opportunism and greed that grates. They pay literally zero for the overwhelming majority of their content, and very little for the rest.

    If you Writer-Produce-Star in a TV show that gets 2 million viewers on NBC or ABC, you're well into the five figures per episode in individual take-home pay, maybe even six. YouTube on the other hand you might just about hit $10,000 for 2M views depending on niche, but they cover zero of your expenses and take none of the up-front risk. If you've got more than one person working on making that show, or you had any expenses attached to it, you're pretty much screwed.

    Google could VERY easily keep turning a profit on the old price, but shareholders demand infinite unending growth.

  • AI Slop Button

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  • I went there just now, and the only slop I saw was being posted by people who I don't follow but who LinkedIn thought I should hear from anyway

  • TIL about the Flashpoint Archive

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  • And you're not going to share?

  • TIL about the Flashpoint Archive

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  • None. I just used to play it a lot during the 2000s, I think it was featured on b3ta. It's a good relaxing timewaster.

  • Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

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  • dude it reads like you're just arguing for the sake of arguing and completely lost sight of (or deliberately misunderstood) what my original point was. And then you're capping it off with an unnecessary personal attack. Maybe you're the one that needs to reassess your values?

  • TIL about the Flashpoint Archive

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  • Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

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  • Thanks for that textbook example of the exception proving the rule: a QA tester is as far from "internet rando" as you can get; the fact that you had to cite someone whose actual job is to make sure accessibility law is followed, proves how few actually good examples there are.

  • Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful

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  • I'm not unsympathetic to accessibility issues, but at the same time it's REALLY suspicious how much internet randos (especially on Bluesky) suddenly started being really militant about alt-tagging at EXACTLY the same time as the tech billionaires started needing tagged images to train their clankers.

  • Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened

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  • see now you're just being argumentative and indulging in petty pedantic point-scoring mental gymnastics for its own sake.

  • Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened

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  • It looks exactly the same as Amazon in every other country. That's a not a good counterpoint.

  • Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened

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  • It gives more details, but it doesn't particularly make the US not look like a bunch of dickholes whose definition of "free market" changes to shape whatever suits them from one moment to the next.

  • Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened

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  • Japanese customers genuinely do like it like that. Rakuten do A/B testing up the wazoo just like every other big ecommerce company.

  • French civil servant drugged us to make us urinate on ourselves, say accusers

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  • I think it was the plot of a long-buried Pepe Le Pew episode?

  • Google buys Spirit Airlines data for AI training for just $10 million — purchase includes hundreds of millions of emails, Microsoft Teams chats, billions of flight pricing records, and anonymized pass

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  • Especially if you're Google. Matching "anonymous" travel activity to their Google Maps, login, Chrome, and Gmail history should be pretty trivial with a high success rate.

  • Google buys Spirit Airlines data for AI training for just $10 million — purchase includes hundreds of millions of emails, Microsoft Teams chats, billions of flight pricing records, and anonymized pass

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  • Everyone loses here. It's no longer possible to trust any organisation with your data, because no matter what they say or do, they have no control over what will happen to it if they ever become insolvent.