Kichae

Here’s a google prompt for you: “raspberry pi police”

Are they still playing apologetics for the cops? Because if so, no thanks.

propaganda

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

The experiment isn’t really valid with optgin data, but that doesn’t mean there’s a need for it. That’s entirely contingent on whether the experiment is needed at all, and most of the time these things are about squeezing one last drop of blood out of a dead corpse. And I’d argue that that’s not something that’s needed.

Even still, without a consistent experience over a reasonable amount of time, all you’re really monitoring is novelty or discombobulation. You’re not learning which interface generates more money.

This only makes sense if discombobulation makes the most money.

Of all companies out there, I’d expect Google to be able to run an a/b test right. You don’t learn anything of value by constantly pulling the rug out from underneath people.

But how far away is the chemist’s?

It does, but it’s still attached to all of the bullshit in Jira. It’s one more thing to look at there, not the thing that’s used to manage.

would such a thing be okay to give away free?

No. Assuming they rebuilt the game in a publicly available game engine, they could release whatever they did to that, but the characters are trademarked, and the game level design and any audio they’d have used would be copyrighted. The fact that you didn’t ask for money isn’t a defense that would stand up in court.

Have you considered just forcing everyone to access your sites via Internet Explorer 5.5?

There’s join-lemmy.org, but that’s just a list of instances.

There’s no “main URL” to a decentralized space. There’s only the URLs of participating websites.

And one of the primary reasons they never had to make a profit was that, so long as interest rates were functionally zero, it didn’t really cost the investor class much of anything to park money in a money losing operation while waiting for it to become sellable.

With interest rates back to pre-2008 levels, though, there’s a price to money again. And a real opportunity cost. So, compete with bonds or watch your investors walk.

Indeed.

Obviously, then, megacorps should be abolished.

On some level, protest is about harming other people, at least mildly. Protests are frustrating. Protests are interrupting. Protested make it more difficult for people to do what they want.

This is by design. This is part of the point.

Protests that aren’t inconveniencing people are protests that can be safely ignored.

It’s all the better, though, when those inconveniences can be paired with a clear alternative for people to turn to to have their needs met.

There is also always a flurry of people trying out accounts in multiple instances whenever there’s a migration wave, so not only are we seeing people who dipped a toe in only to leave, or go back to Reddit, but we’re seeing the effect of people understanding how the ecosystem works better and settling into a single active account.

Something something ludites, something something sabot, something something hence the word .

It absolutely sucks. And it’s total bullshit. I don’t mean to in any way come across as ok with it. I just think it’s important to highlight what’s driving things like this, because we very often have in mind that businesses exist to serve customer’s needs.

And they do. It’s just that consumers aren’t their customers. They’re in the business of selling stocks and ROI, not consumer products. The consumer products are just how they mine that value for shareholders, and like any miner, they’re always going to be seekin gout the richest veins.

We deserve an Intel, or an AMD, or a whoever, that has a mission of creating quality and accessible products for the public. But under our current set of systems, we’re never going to get that, because these organizations and industries don’t work for us.

We’re just a resource to them, to be exploited for their real customers.

Providing consumers with budget friendly hobby PC’s should be what Intel’s mission is.

As a publicly traded, for-profit entity, it’s mission is to create value for shareholders. Shareholder value is its product, not computers or microchips. Those are nothing more than strategies for creating that shareholder value.

I didn’t say they blocked few people. I said they blocked few websites.

Lemmygrad is full of agitators, and Lemmy.world and SJW have, from my experiences, a disproportionate number of people who reject communal solutions to communal issues, while still feeling entitled to access to communal spaces.

Meanwhile, other large sites, like Lemmy.ml and kbin.social, and smaller regional sites, such as Midwest.social, Lemmy.ca, and feddit.uk, are federation with them just fine.

That doesn’t sound like mass defederating to me.

That sounds targeted.

Yeah, setting up new instances is a different issue, of course. And there is definitely a lack tools to help with that as of yet. We need things like rate limiting on new federations, or on unusual traffic spikes, mod queues for posts that get caught up in them. Plus the ability to purge all posts and comments from users from defederated sites.

Among other things.