Fuck Spez

Maybe it's like the dotcom bubble: there is genuinely useful tech that has recently emerged, but too many companies are trying to jump on the bandwagon.

LLMs do seem genuinely useful to me, but of course they have limitations.

The funny part was when he said he was a free speech absolutist, but then he started restricting the free speech of people he doesn't like

If the US had a single transferable vote system then you could comfortably vote for a third party, if you wanted to, without helping out the opponent you dislike the most.

You just rank the candidates, so you could rank Jill Stein as 1 if you want, then Harris as 2, and Trump below that. So then if Stein has fewer votes than Harris and Trump each have (likely) then her votes would transfer to whoever her voters ranked 2nd.

Under this system, a third party candidate is more likely to win (maybe you don't like Jill Stein, but conceivably a third party could produce a good candidate). The ballot under this system looks like this:

I don't think it's just the fact that she's a black/Asian woman.

I saw this on BBC News which is probably correct:

[Trump has] completely "reimagined" the Republican party from its country club voter stereotype to appealing to working class families, while the Democrats had become the "party of Hollywood".

If someone has bought a Switch game legally, then it's legal to dump that game to a PC and play it on a Switch emulator, right?

Sure you could say that very few people dump their own games, but those that do are doing everything legally I think?

Good PSA. Personally I'm not that worried because

1. I don't use Instagram
2. Firefox has an option to copy links without site tracking, which hopefully would work on Instagram links
3. I try to only write stuff online that wouldn't be massively embarrassing if anyone does happen to figure out who I am

The West should then not allow Russia to have nuclear weapons "under any circumstances". Fair is fair.

I just use Google with uBlock Origin to get rid of adverts

You mean Amazon is bad to their workers?

Lemmy seems to have quite a lot of people to be fair. Apparently Lemmy.world has nearly 7,000 users a day, which is quite a lot when you think about it.

One thing I think about is that maybe there are drawbacks to the Reddit-style format of Lemmy. A cool thing about old internet forums is that posts were show in chronological order with no upvotes, which is more similar to a real world conversation. You'd read the most recent posts, rather than the most upvoted posts. This means somebody new to the conversation can have their opinion seen.

The upvoting system means that a small number of posts get nearly all the upvotes and attention, and people who post later have their posts largely ignored.

Maybe I'm wrong but it's just something I thought about.

I feel like the West is just doing the bare minimum to support Ukraine. Enough to be able to say "look we did something" but not too much, because maybe some voters won't understand the benefits of spending their taxes on Ukraine.

the Democrats are slowly becoming the party of affluent, educated white voters

Except if your name is Elon Musk, or Peter Thiel, or David Sacks, or you're an affluent educated white supporter of them...

Some of your points might well be supported by polling (I don't know enough to say) but I'm sure there are plenty of affluent educated whites who support Trump.

I was thinking how, back in the day, the most popular web browser was IE, which wasn't on Linux. Now the most popular browser is Chrome, which has been on Linux since 2009 or whenever it was.

And of course lots of other big software is on Linux, like VS Code, Zoom, Slack, Skype. And Linux is on the Steam Deck. So yes I agree, Linux has come a long way.

We all thought Bill Gates was a megalomaniac, but clearly we didn't know shit

I like Linux but there is some truth to the OP cartoon

For example if I say I use Ubuntu, some Linux users will get angry and say that it's a bad distro, it's a beginner's distro, it means you're an idiot, etc.

You are wrong. HMD is a Finnish company, not Chinese. Apparently it is largely made up of former Nokia employees.

If you're going to be a smart-arse and say things like "you're welcome", maybe you should check the facts first.

Edit: I take back that last part because he honestly admitted his mistake in another post, and also maybe that sentence of mine was pretty smart-arsey itself.