[-] blusterydayve26@midwest.social 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Nah, it’s a repost from late 2007.

Sorry, I mean a repeat of late 2007, the fourth or fifth “once in a lifetime economic crisis” for millennials that will somehow magically end with billionaires owning an even larger percentage of the GDP.

“How could this possibly happen, again, again, again, again,” will cry the ~~economists~~ billionaire simps.

[-] blusterydayve26@midwest.social 64 points 4 weeks ago

He’s been a week away from shutting down for… a dozen years?

[-] blusterydayve26@midwest.social 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

7 years ago, I bought a flagship phone in hopes of keeping it for a decade.

Last year, I had to buy a new phone because the cell towers stopped broadcasting on frequencies my phone supported. It became a neat WiFi-only brick, and useless for my purposes, in 60% of my target lifetime.

In short, the entire industry is configured for a sub-decade obsolescence cadence.

[-] blusterydayve26@midwest.social 26 points 1 month ago

Tax the rich.

[-] blusterydayve26@midwest.social 32 points 1 month ago

Economists: “WONTFIX: Working as designed.”

[-] blusterydayve26@midwest.social 19 points 1 month ago

The hero we didn’t deserve.

[-] blusterydayve26@midwest.social 87 points 1 month ago

I wish I had a decent explanation. But instead, I have Windows 11’s shiny new Taskbar configuration menu that politely warns me that showing seconds on the clock takes more power. Right under the “Show Copilot” button.

These fucks are fucked.

[-] blusterydayve26@midwest.social 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That is (was) DMOZ: the Mozilla Directory of websites, now curlie.org, after AOL shut it down in 2017.

They have a Patreon if you want to help them maintain it.

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I prompted Bing with Ian Malcom's timeless quote, "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should," and it gave me this nightmare in return.

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Moral Crumple Zones discusses how humans are used to absorb liability from automated systems.

With Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths getting traction, it’s time to remind everyone that Tesla’s design choice to disengage self-driving in the instant before impact is intentional to ensure the driver is in control during the moment of impact, even though self-driving disengaged way too late for the human to react.

In my opinion, they’re sacrificing both bystanders and customers to preserve immunity from liability.

[-] blusterydayve26@midwest.social 19 points 2 months ago

I dunno, Folding Ideas broke down Fortnite's monetization policies, and they're pretty damn barbaric, particularly in how they target kids.

[-] blusterydayve26@midwest.social 18 points 5 months ago

This is significant because this is the first time in the history of copyright bots that they've ever had to remove a work from the bot's registry. Given how rarely it happens, the code to do that probably won't even be worth the cost of writing for another decade or two: some guy at YouTube will just add a manual exception for that video. (And that's assuming the best of intention and action from the copy-vio-bot sellers which is unlikely, given their existing behavior.)

[-] blusterydayve26@midwest.social 20 points 7 months ago

I always rate my movies by volume of Tom Bombadil.

[-] blusterydayve26@midwest.social 36 points 9 months ago

The death of this guy has to do with some of it, he worked on some pretty cool stuff and was an all-around pretty awesome dude working for the betterment of the world.

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