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To be more technical correct, all ideals go out of the window the moment a shareholder pushes a little.
Apple has been one of the wealthiest countries for years, they don’t need money, they can’t be doing this just for money.
They are doing it, to get more money yes, but only in order to make the angle of a line go up so they can sell a comfortable illusion to the people keeping them in charge of the available unimaginable mass of wealth already there.
For tv shows and movies:
Older content is rapidly disappearing/getting less accessible. Especially non english content. Shout out to do your part in legally archiving digital media from public libraries.
At the same time new media is pushed build on Existing mega franchises, everything is the same format with the same formula with no higher goal then the profit-margin.
online: is a different story because google owns it. They decide how youtube presents content to users, what do’s and don’ts get punished or get you recommended more.
Again no goal higher then the profit margin,1 ad for a 30 minute video is not as efficient as 1 every so many shorts. And because shorts are more random and your just consuming the flos its harder to tell the ads apart.
Because shorts are optimised on phone, google also rules how 50% of people use their phone it pushes more people to this more exploitative and less ad blockade device.
Good content still exists, its just a lot harder to find because promoting it is less profitable.
Their is a word for this kind of things falling apart to chase profit. Its enshitification.
This administrations brand is to sell government work (or non work) for personal favours and there literally accepting “exposure” as payment to signal how normalised they made it.
If you are a big enough name they don’t care how petty the bribe is. As long as it shows the world that they are open for this kind off business.
Every bribe, no matter how small is pure profit if you never owned what you’re selling.
I have done research into what product i should buy three times and i am still not sure enough to answer this. That says enough about how confusing the modern tech market is.
They are definitly proprietary and a competitor to LDAC from sony. Finding something that supports both sennheiser and sony headsets without being overpriced is a nightmare.
The renaming while still selling it with older packaging for years has been angering me since it happend.
Honestly it would not be so much of a problem if things where actually labeled appropriately with all the actual specs and support features on the package but its more profitable to keep you guessing (and going for the higher priced one just in case)
They do the same thing with Bluetooth audio transmission usb, their “high quality audio” and “ps5 compatible” but does not tell me wether it supports aptx or not?
Also the whole “buy a product clearly pictured with usb A type connector, receive a usb C type connector variant, if lucky, with an added adapter.
Cannot find the source for the pick but there is this where Bernie covers all the same points in different words:
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/op-eds/ai-poses-unprecedented-threats-congress-must-act-now/
I like to use dashes myself but the combination of overuse with other tells often does make me suspicious.
Which isn’t bad, even an intellectual can write things wrong, as ai can also write things right. Always read critically.
I didn’t think dashes where out of place here, but i did get a real ai vibe of the last paragraph. Is this something Bernie is really considering or is something to round up a generated list of scary scenarios. (Which are all existing valid concerns still)
Provides more opportunities to loot the seas.
“Some U.S. automakers have pushed back, arguing that the new design may overstate injury risks and diminish the perceived value of existing safety features such as airbags and seat belts”
nO fAiR, you chanced the perceived value by measuring more accurately.
There is some truth into this reasoning.
But not like this. Not in this climate, not until ai based tools can actually demonstrate any benefit in aiding an artist instead of trying to replace them with low quality slop.
The best lies are build on a grain of truth and that they speak out about this at all is a big tell to how they would rather move.
But we should acknowledge, npc ai, dynamic ingame weather, the decades old blending tool in Photoshop Technically many things are ai or could benefit and i don’t hear many people discuss where to draw the line exactly.
Personally i’d say, at generated images and text/scrip. But i have been day banned on a no-ai place for mentioning npc ai before.
I wish more projects did stuff like this.
It just feels silly and unprofessional while being seriously useful. Exactly my flavour of software, makes the web feel less corporate.
There are custom themes out there that change the interface.
Right click -> identify-> Title name, has yet to fail me.
Its been a long time since i used plex so I can’t say how much “easier” its over there but compared to the days before streaming this little upfront work takes less time then going to a physical store to rent.
Maintenance takes no work and it cant be enshitificated (someone will just port it)
I don’t know why it works but if i rename a .webp extension into a .png or .jpg it just works.
I sometimes contemplate if i rather lose an ear or an eye.
On the surface an eye seems so much more important but vision with one eye is still mostly the same vision with one corner cut out where hearing from one ear is instantly very disorienting.
Also i believe different notes hit my brain differently depending on the ear, hence why stereo is the norm.
Is this open source? I may want to self host if.
I am not sure what you mean with pov that no one else’s understand because many of my European friends speak english on top of native language.
What i can attest is that each language has its own expressions, saying and emergent philosophy that is not always translatable in other languages.
The language you speak/think directly influences what and how you think. Knowing multiple is therefore a very enriching experience.
This is a legit official site??
This is an article on “the biggest political scandal in presidential history” not only does presidential use of autopen go back for decades, it reads like it was written by ai.
https://oversight.house.gov/landing/the-biden-autopen-presidency/
Remind me when i applied for a tech store chain.
“We also mandate workers to recommend extra warranty to customers that ask for advice , how do you feel about this”
“I always try to help people who come to me for advice the very best i can, i would need to see the details of this extended warranty but if i believe it would really serve the customer then of course i will recommend it”
They laughed; i did not get the job.
What i read was long before this even (± 2011) and linked more to psychopathical behaviour then violence but yeah i worded it the way i did because i wasn’t sure about research in the last decade
To be fair i had a very strong reaction to it even on a super low dose, long term side effects caused a lot of scars eventually. But i know for many people it does great.
Drug addiction will do that, and alcohol is a hard one.