Action Bastard@lemmy.world

Yes, but have you considered that the Supreme Court doesn’t care and wants instead to allow religious activists (like themselves) to disregard prior precedent and other religious beliefs in favor of enshrining their own personal beliefs as civil law? It’s really rather unfair of you to not consider their personal beliefs, which says they should be able to impose theirs and ignores yours, y’know.

He’s Ronald Reagan, except this time there isn’t a Nancy in place to tell the secret service to fill the pool with leaves.

Historical legacy. It made sense when they were first rolling out. Someone would take the risk of trying to build up a market for these really expensive new devices and then the factory would swoop in and undercut them and destroy their business after they had done all the initial leg work of creating demand for the vehicles. They wanted protection from this.

Well, cars are now everywhere in the US market and it doesn’t take a whole lot of effort anymore to convince someone they need a car, and not just a horse. But the laws protecting “car market development” in the former of dealerships never went away.

I’ve already had several non-tech people say something along the lines of “What the heck is this X thing on my phone?”

I gotta wonder how many other people are just impulse uninstalling something they don’t recognize off their phone as well, since ol’ Musky boi did this with basically zero user notice as well.

It’s almost 100% because they were in violation of at least some of the content policies found here

It’s just that the Fediverse now has enough global attention being paid to it that they’re probably actually cracking down on enforcement. Probably something under the “Insults” or “Racism” content policy, since those are the most vague and poorly defined and highly likely to be “obvious” primarily to the country who is operating them, Mali.

As someone who tried to use Tidal for nearly a year because it paid better rates, it’s literally just 2 things: Artist Discovery and Algorithm Degradation towards a mass consumer mean.

Spotify actually feeds me tons of great indie artists I’ve never heard before. Tidal was a constant struggle to purge mass produced giant record label pop from constantly infiltrating every single station and it almost never gave me some little artist who maybe has 5k listens total. I get those literally every single day from Spotify though.

Void is gonna do real well this year, I’d imagine.

I’d wager they’re attempting to replicate or integrate tools developed by the open source community or which got revealed by Meta’s leak of Llama source code. The problem is, all of those were largely built on the back of Meta’s work or were cludged together solutions made by OSS nerds who banged something together into a specific use case, often without many of the protections that would be required by a company who might be liable for the results of their software since they want to monetize it.

Now, the problem is that Meta’s Llama source code is not based on GPT-4. GPT-4 is having to reverse engineer a lot of those useful traits and tools and retrofit it into their pre-existing code. They’re obviously hitting technical hurdles somewhere in that process, but I couldn’t say exactly where or why.

I’m not terribly surprised. A lot of the major leaps we’re seeing now came out of open source development after leaked builds got out. There were all sorts of articles flying around at the time about employees from various AI-focused company saying that they were seeing people solving in hours or days issues they had been attempting to fix for months.

Then they all freaked the fuck out and it might mean they would lose the AI race and locked down their repos tight as Fort Knox, completely ignoring the fact that a lot of them were barely making ground at all while they kept everything locked up.

Seems like the simple fact of the matter is that they need more eyes and hands on the tech, but nobody wants to do that because they’re all afraid their competitors will benefit more than they will.

Meta provides a lot of other backend B2B services beyond just Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.

You think that’s the only way they have of scarfing down data? Absolutely not, they make other useful tools as well that businesses can use, because if they can’t get their info directly from you, they can get it from the people you have to regularly interact with instead.

They’re literally just dumpsters with a little airlock chamber on top so that trash stink can’t escape and attract animals. If you’ve mailed a package at the post office and had to use one of those weird chutes, you can figure out a bear can.

It’s the great divider. The smartest bears get to eat the garbage and the dumber bears get to eat the dumb people who can’t figure out how to throw their garbage away and keep it in their tent instead.

Swear this happens every year. Someone either gets gored by a bison or tries to go swimming in a geothermal pool and gets boiled alive and then dissolved.

Some people just do not grasp the concept of National Parks. They’re not zoos or amusement parks. The things in here can and will kill you and there is almost nothing in the way stopping you from committing suicide in a horribly painful fashion.

It’s entirely dependent on housing stock supply.

In a lot of cities, new housing development is deliberately surpressed, which in turn causes rent to skyrocket. In other areas, where land is still cheap, its very often cheaper (in the long run, maybe 10-20 years) to just get a mortgage to buy or build a house because newer housing stock is still being put into the system to which helps regulate the max price landlords can get away with before people just start building their own homes or buying new one from developers.

It has a pretty severe memory leak issue during the period where Chrome siphoned off most of its users.

Not in that region, to the best of my knowledge CSX and Norfolk are the ones who control the lines around there and UP and BNSF can only buy passage on the lines, so you can compete on the cost who actually hauling the freight, but not on the cost of passage on the lines.

In this case, it was a Norfolk line being used by a CSX manned crew, but CSX also only holds a very itty bitty tiny stretch of track in PA, connecting Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to out of state branches, while Norfolk operates nearly all the East-West Rail.

In this case, CSX operates as a figleaf competitor for Norfolk to be able to claim they have competition, while it’s pretty marginal rail at best unless your goal is to ship stuff out of state.

Edit: It appears Amtrak also owns some lines connecting Harrisburgh, Philly, and then into the greater Eastern Seaboard passenger lines.

It was always there. Europeans are just finally having to actually deal with the fact that they’re historically ethnostates and being a multicultural society isn’t as easy as they think, especially when things start getting economically rougher and you have to learn to pull together rather than turn the knives on the “other”.

It was a CSX train, which is literally their direct competitor in their duopoly so that both of them can cry about how they’re not a monopoly because they have a competitor. It’s just entirely coincidental that they both behave in exactly the same manner in terms of complete reckless disregard for safety and employee health.

Awwww shit son, a Lemon-Egg! Fucking wild! Top tier shit, A+ lad. Well done.

It’s because people are too focused on who controls the capital and not focused enough on what the capital itself is actually doing.

It doesn’t much matter whether it’s controlled by a Capitalist or a Communist if the person controlling the capital is a fucking idiot. Hell, it honestly doesn’t even matter that much if they’re smart, because the actual driver of growth has always been competition, which is only very indirectly connected to who controls the Capital, largely because it’s pretty much always been taken at the point of a gun for all of human history and likely will be for as long as we exist unless we somehow manage to decide on post-scarcity society rather than infinite growth society.