from what I’ve seen yes, at least in spectrum’s case they basically give you ad subsudised for free, and for something like 8.99 you can upgrade that to ad free. I think most give that option.

I mean both in reddit and lemmy the concept of downvotes was never meant to be a “agree” or “disagree”, even “like or dislike”. It’s meant to be a “good for discussion” vs “hinderance of discussion”. AKA lets say we’re discussing linux distributions, I come across this.

Person A: I like linux mint, it’s much easier to install, I like the defaults and my printer just works with no setup.

Person B: “Linux mint is for noobs, arch ftw”

Within that, as I am personally a die hard fan of archlinux, so in the agree vs disagree system, I should downvote A and upvote B.

But in a discussion based voting, I’d perhaps respond to A with my pro’s or cons of arch (though in this situation probably agree if the user in question sounds to be a newer user, though I may still make a case for possibly the pro’s of using arch even as a starting distro.

Meanwhile person B, is hostile, gives zero details for WHY anyone should use arch, does absolutely nothing to open discussion or actually help anyone make an informed decision.

Why not, just host your own lemmy instance? Then you’d only get defederated if you got banned basically. or if you are looking for one for you and your friends. then you can just federate with the groups you want to federate with

They absolutely do suck, but I can see some practical uses for them. IE I can see LLM’s as useful in localized specialized uses. for me I’d really like basically LLM as a like calendar, scheduling kind of thing, also say translating home assistant commands through a voice assistant to make it figure out actual intent etc…, nothing super mission critical, but also mostly things I wouldn’t want any 3rd party service that could change the rules for me, share them to others etc…

I mean I think they figure those things out off sight and initial body language etc… generally they do the sniffing asses after they’re already pretty confident it’s a dog. I think more of “how’s your mood right now, are you healthy, what are you up to”. I don’t now fully what information they get, but it’s stuff we don’t really think about.

I find this unlikely… IMO I think they are hedging in both directions.

Personally I like the idea of local AI. open source models that you an control, decide, and use smartly, sort your things etc… and not pay an absurd cost or link up.

Personally I think MS is actually betting on the opposite. IE they had a prototype windows that was basically just an AI prompt, no start menu etc… and applications just “streamed”.

IMO I think that’s more of the goal, use the data center buildout to drive up hardware prices, until people cannot afford a basic PC. Sell thin clients… then sell us “access” to compute in a form where we own nothing, but pay by the processes used etc…

It’s a tragedy that pop country music has become Republican radio.

Now it’s all jean-shorts, parting, and trucks. Bring back the alcoholism, divorce, and murder please.

I think bo burnum’s “pandering” song is dead on the money. In short I think that’s really it, Country music has a strong tie to a very uneducated population. As a result a very rich corporate machine realized they can mass produce it using the right key words to basically sell low effort music. The tiny handful that actually make it into the top by actually being talented and writing because of passion. Will inevitably trigger controversy by seeing humans as humans. Same thing happened with the Dixie Chicks a few years ago.

Agreed, though that might be the way to actually get people who aren’t already opposed to stupid warhawks saying stupid warhawk things to apply some critical thinking to what’s being proposed. Because I’d say almost everyone can tell at a glance how stupid this idea is, but a lot of trump supporters wouldn’t apply the slightest bit of critical thought to something that came from trumps Institute of Peace.

There’s lots, but just like everything, very few people actually can stick with and use them. Probably the thing that I think would be a logical feature in most chat programs, would be if say you put in your timezone into the client somewhere, then when you type a time you put some character before it like *3:30pm - the chat client could determine your timezone, put it in chat as UTC, and each recieving client could automatically convert it to their users timezone (and I suppose some kind of tag to make it so people know it is already translated to their timezone).

rooted in a well-documented pattern of unfair trade, subsidies, intellectual property theft and surveillance

I have faith in America, there’s no way we’re losing to china in patterns of unfair trade, subsidies, IP theft and surveillance.

It’s the scale rule… steal a $25 disk, jail… steal 2 billion dollars worth of media… bailout.

No no you win by having continuous construction projects that never finish and rack up “points” (IE taxpayer dollars) through your cronies.

From what I’ve seen, there’s definately a vocal group of little people, that consider it a slur. What percentage of actual people with the condition that think it I have no idea

Agreed that’s trying to preserve the workaround, without fixing the problem.

Problem is it doesn’t matter, the reality is, demand for jobs, and people who need to survive… isn’t a number guaranteed to match, and between automation, and wages falling so far behind inflation that many households need 2+ incomes just to keep the lights on, an unemployment problem is inevitable.

If AI actually can cut enough jobs, that the number of jobs available, is less than the number of people who WANT to work, then all we need to do is make it so people don’t HAVE to work.

Wasn’t even close to saying he shouldn’t be in jail, just saying the story puts so much emphasis on facts that literally have zero relevance to what actually happened. At bare minimum that should be manslaughter, assuming 100% of his story as true and the gun went off accidentally.

Honestly based on the heated arguements before, I’d be skeptical and lean towards murder.

The thing I find somewhat odd of the story, is if the facts are accurate, what’s even the point of the trump arguement. It feels like the article is flooded with basically details not directly related to the shooting. The “relapsed alchoholic that had 2 glasses of wine”, the topic of the arguements (and even the specific things said in them).

Actual relevant facts of the shooting.

Dad had an arguement with the daughter.

Several hours later they had an arguement on guns, Dad brought out gun to show her… then claims he accidentally shot her.

Point is the arguement doesn’t really hold relevance, Dad either horribly mishandled the firearm, in which case the situations up to it were irrelevant.

Or dad murdered his daughter in a fit of rage.

I don’t think so… I honestly think the direction anyone supporting the AI bubble wants, is going to be streaming games. You won’t run them on the PC… they will run out of a data center and your inputs will go back ot the data center, You’ll own nothing, you’ll adapt to paying a subscription price for single player games, hell instead of monthly you could pay by the hour or minute.

Because the whole idea is to discourage people from behavior that is likely to cause bad things to happen. Obviously when bad things happen we go “I wish someone had stopped the person before people died”.

A letter warning that they might consider supporting their primary opponent. Unless that primary opponent actually wants to consider even a baseline of progressive policies, or heaven for bid uses the word socialism in a non negative context.

Most likely it is going to be a whole lot of “arrest anyone with slightly foreign appearence, ignore their paperwork, let them out in 3 days after enough lawyers get involved and the person has overwhelming evidence they are legal citizens”.