AnonStoleMyPants

Yeaaah I doubt they give a fuck about this. Just an automated system doing automated things.

I mean, the rest of the world has been hyping AI since the start, no? Most companies are not run by billionaires.

Musk decided to respond to the EC’s findings on Friday by claiming: "The European Commission offered X an illegal secret deal: If we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us.

“The other platforms accepted that deal. X did not.”

The same Musk who in March said, “Just to be super clear, I am not donating money to either candidate for US President,” and reportedly now has donated to a super PAC working to elect Donald Trump to the White House.

Lmao. What a response. Doesn’t respond in any way, instead blames eu for some random “illegal secret deal”. Sure bud.

Weird how much that response sounds like Trump. Just say random bs to divert the actual question.

Some countries have limits to nfc payments with a card. Finland has 50e but with a phone no limits (unless the bank limits).

I guess it is more following of people of certain topics that talk about them in twitter. Like someone follows few people abour their hobby, some politicians maybe, and people of other interests they have. I haven’t really gotten the idea that people use it to talk to friends per say, or follow them, but for sure people do that as well but maybe it is not the main point.

Though I could be spewing shit because I don’t use it. Just the vibe I’ve been getting over the years.

Thank fuck.

Though they’ll make opt-out soon enough, when the backlash has dwindled down.

People like to use things that are used by many people. Not that surprising.

I doubt most Windows users care enough to hate it.

Lmao yeah when they realised how much money they can do it they suddenly “understand” the “risk” it “poses” if it is freely available. Uh huh. Sure bud lemme have some of what you’re having. Smokes capitalism yeah that’s some good shit.

Can’t say I do tbh. You make it sound like if one prefers healthy foods they can’t get a craving for a burger and yet ditch the fries. To me it seems completely normal.

Preferences are rarely black and white. I prefer locally grown vegetables, yet those are not the only kind of veggies I buy.

And now they nuked the entire IA.

Well done.

Intentions were probably correct but this result is kinda ass.

He is proposing not to break them and work toward changing the law first.

Tasker task that puts sound on when receiving a txt with some string of words. Should work.

Yup. Currently working at a company that has machines still running ms-dos due to them being critical and still working fine.

Well they’re fine until you can’t find replacement parts on Ebay anymore.

Dunno, I got entirely different results. Reddit, homeairguides, forbes, a bunch of listicles like consumerreports, wired, ny times, cnet and whatnot, and other websites.

Man, I wish I could chromecast netflix from my phone but apparently Netflix now requires you to use their app.

I should get smarttube though.

Oh yeah that’s true, I should try it as I use it as my main search engine nowadays.

Man, and it works great. It is waaaaay more common to find good answers to a question from a bunch of randoms on the Internet than trying to get an actual answer from a random website. Sometimes you find bs but you can usually quite quickly filter it out, and it gives a good basis from which to then continue to search on the topic.

Are you suggesting a case in which it’s funded by some billionaire who does not need to charge money in order to cover the cost of hosting?

This is a fair point. I doubt anybody would do this, or the monetization would be done through ads which might fall into the commercial aspect? Don’t actually know, but this is already a thing and not something I was really thinking about. Relating to this actually, it would be interesting to know how much licencing fees are in comparison to server costs for the current streaming services.

I was thinking something more like a program that just pulls data from torrents directly, so no need for a central server. Yes, probably not feasible using the current system as everyone would just leech, but maybe one would have to also share things you watch or something. Yes, again, this would complicate things but I don’t think that is necessarily has to. I feel like there has been a service like this (popcorn time or something), I think I used something like this aaaaages ago.

Definitely there would be technical challenges for something like this but to me it does not sound impossible. I just feel like that if something like this system would exist (if piracy were legal), it would completely nuke the cash flow for tons of companies. It would not remove all of it, some people would donate just like they do for open source projects.

At least for me personally, I am willing to pay for stuff in order for it to be legal. Should the need to pay be removed, while keeping things legal, I’d have no incentive to pay. The only incentive would be convenience, but I don’t think there would be any reason for piracy to be less convenient than non-piracy; it’s already more convenient for tons of use cases I’m sure.

When iTunes came along, it instantly ate up the vast majority of Limewire/Frostwire/IRC traffic for music.

Definitely true, just as happened with movies etc when Netflix and the like popped up. However, one can also argue that this was not due to convenience, but due to now there being a legal way of doing things. In reality I’m sure that everyone weighs legality and convenience (and the cost of the service) differently and makes their own decision.

Currently the convenience factor is going down due to enshittification (among other things), while price is going up. I feel like piracy is up but it’s not like I can get a non-biased view from Lemmy (or reddit) and I have not actually looked into it.

It’ll be interesting to see the direction in a few years.