I’ve seen criticism about these laws holding back AI companies’ development

These laws can’t do anything these grifter-companies full of misguided attempts to mis-use LLMs and LAMs aren’t doing to themselves already, tbh.

It’s all just a huge bubble of C-suites blowing hot smoke up each other’s arses.

Ah, they’re all crap.

Came to Teams from Slack, some upsides, some downsides. It’s a corporate communication tool, I don’t use it because I think it’s beautiful and elegant, I use it because I get paid money to use it.

Over a million actually by now, and they got above 15 mil total.

Of course, but good luck getting those 5% of users that actually produce nearly 100% of the content to move over if their business model cannot work. And once those move, you know where all the people following them move.

Exactly. The design, the sign-up process, the colors, the formatting, it’s all very pre-Musk-Twitter.

Even the icon is reminiscent!

It’s as smooth a transition as you can make it, so no wonder people do it effortlessly.

Meanwhile in camp Mastodon: “Please pick a server” -> tab closed already

Because the mastodon evangelists are horrible.

Yeah that’s another thing, Mastodon is kinda nice, except for its userbase. :P

Because people I want to follow are on Bluesky?

(I mean, duh? Did you really need people to state that?!)

Porn doesn’t wreck your mind if you’re a sensible person?

What are we talking about here? Easily impressionable people with no frame of reference? They’re susceptible to everything. Well-adjusted people with prior information? They’re susceptible to neither.

Same, and honestly, that’s enough for now. It already cuts out a giant portion of the footprint and I got so many other things to worry about, I can work on finding replacement cheese that isn’t a joke later.

I would agree, but I’m still frantically thinking whether I actually agree and whether I should be expressing that publicly!

Difficult to say as that’s really not a common case at all. Might just lack evidence for how to understand this.

Lawn is actually really fragile in most climates. Just stop explicitly caring for it, and toss generous amounts of flowers and grasses seeds, and within 1-2 years there’s nothing left.

That’s a one hour video! o.o

Obviously the former. In fact, it’s 1440p/165Hz right now, and I have 0 intent to increase resolution further since modern unoptimized games already struggle with this.

Pretty obviously false, and I’d genuinely question the social and intellectual capabilities of anybody who truly believes this - originally sarcastic - phrase.

Exactly this.

Indifference is how you know something doesn’t matter. I remember this lesson even from game development: People complaining about your game is still alright. When the feedback stops entirely, that’s when you fucked up.

Yeah but it’s easy to see how they look at their parents who - seemingly - “value democracy” with their voting and yelling and campaigning, and what damage that causes. This causes a general dejection with politics and civil structures as a whole, and hence a disinterest in engaging with it at all.

I mean it makes sense to target these people. If you’re stupid enough to believe the shit Musk or Trump spout, you’re also stupid enough to not see these very obvious scams.

Of course. It’s still just a software project.

I mean even for video games, early access just means “release, but we openly tell you it’s unfinished and buggy”.

For board games, it das you went to retail instead of Kickstarter where you’ll get your game 6 months later and paid more for it.