I think AI has mostly been about luring investors into pumping up share prices rather than offering something of genuine value to consumers.

Some people are gonna lose a lot of other people's money over it.

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The reasons for this shift in budget away from funding Free Software and the NGI initiative seems to be an allocation of more funds for AI, leaving internet infrastructure by the wayside.

Good old AI bubble strikes again.

Is it because their planes keep falling apart or because they keep murdering people?

I've installed it from F-droid but still. Fuck google. They really do need breaking up.

I heavily rely on Syncthing. Does anyone know what the outlook is for Syncthing-fork, or what the likelihood is of someone taking on maintenance of this version?

In case this is ever useful for someone to read:

It is OK to just put a child down and leave the room if you can't handle them for whatever reason. It doesn't make you a bad person. Just leave the room, get some space and call someone for help if you need it.

Update: was not expecting a meme/prank about porn to generate such a thoughtful and valuable discussion about child safety and cultural attitudes to parenting. Thank you Piper Perri.

Getting served a captcha often results in me closing the tab. I'm not doing stupid puzzles for you.

If there are any French or Germans in particular reading this please share on your numerous native instances: If you are in the EU you need to contact policy makers (as outlined in the article) about this. I'm sorry I can't be with you on this one but Brexit.

In your Lemmy account settings, set your default feed to 'subscribed' instead of 'all'.

When you open the app or log in on your browser you will only see communities you've subscribed to.

It will greatly improve your (and everyone else's) experience if you subscribe to positive communties and participate in them.

Don't forget that the president of the United States is caught up in all of this too.

The sad thing is that we don't even need 99.9% of this plastic in the first place. People were making disposable packaging, clothing, building materials etc out of non-toxic and biodegradable materials for most of history and it was fine. I seriously detest plastic and wish it was banned/not made unless for exceptional uses e.g replacement heart valves.

I can't imagine any messenger is private if you invite random people into a group chat 🤦‍♂️

I'll just say it:

Selling useless shit that kills the planet by keeping billions of people addicted to wasting their finite lives is morally wrong.

Nobody involved, whether it's the company, influencers, or viewers will look back it from their deathbeds and see any good in it whatsoever.

"Hey we have some pretty serious and urgent problems that need sorting out, shall we get to work?"

"Nah, let's fuck around with pronouns in emails."

Here in the UK a massive grow was discovered in a former Ministry of Defence nuclear bunker. It was so secure that the police couldn't get in to bust them and had to wait outside until they ran out of food.

At the end of the day, this is just yet another example of how capitalism is an extractive system. Unprotected resources are used not for the benefit of all but to increase and entrench the imbalance of assets. This is why they are so keen on DRM and copyright and why they destroy the environment and social cohesion. The thing is, people want to help each other; not for profit but because we have a natural and healthy imperative to do the most good.

There is a difference between giving someone a present and then them giving it to another person, and giving someone a present and then them selling it. One is kind and helpful and the other is disgusting and produces inequality.

If you're gonna use something for free then make the product of it free too.

An idea for the fediverse and beyond: maybe we should be setting up instances with copyleft licences for all content posted to them. I actually don't mind if you wanna use my comments to make an LLM. It could be useful. But give me (and all the other people who contributed to it) the LLM for free, like we gave it to you. And let us use it for our benefit, not just yours.

Bro I just want some more bombs, please bro come on, I won't even do anything with them bro

This a beautiful story. Bankers get shafted lending money to apex capitalist.

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I smoked some opium once when I was travelling and it was possibly the most pleasant experience of my entire life. Shortly after that I was left alone in a hostel room with someone who was dying from an overdose on it, which was possibly the most unpleasant.

Nice to see EU policy finally flourishing now that they're no longer getting nerfed by the UK's membership.

When I was a kid I thought grownups were out of touch when they used slang and it made me cringe.

Now I'm a grownup I know that they did it to make me cringe.