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Cake day: June 9th, 2023
  • John_Coomsumer@beehaw.orgtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•what tech company is the worst in you're opinion?
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    9 months ago

    Apple. Not the most evil, for certain, but they have the highest percentage of high level business choices that piss me off. Just so antithetical to my philosophy and consumer preferences. All closed, all hyper controlled, low customization, anti-repairable.

    Do it their way or go fuck yourself. Something break? Fuck you, it’s your fault, buy another one. Want to play games on their very capable hardware? Grow up, no compatibility. Want to make their OS work on other machines? How dare you. Thief.

  • John_Coomsumer@beehaw.orgtoGaming@beehaw.org•CD Projekt Red devs unionise after its third round of layoffs in three months
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    9 months ago

    The only thing happening in the industry is the same thing happening in every industry and most of the first world:

    The wealthy owners and executive leader roles have learned that COVID, COVID supply lines, interest rates, ‘consumer sentiment’, and inflation, are all very easy scapegoats that both the public and investors will easily buy as reasons for lowering product quality and availability, while also firing employees, squeezing the non-fired ones to death, and raising prices. This has lead to almost 2 straight years of corporations showing record profits (even adjusting for the inflation that they are largely responsible for in the first place).

    This downward spiral will continue until some force with nearly as much power pushes back.

    This is typically and ideally a representative government in the form of regulation or taxation. But the US government has suffered decades of regulatory capture and congressional gridlock.

    So the only other potential option is a large amount of highly populated unions. Which have to fight against nearly 100 years of media and political demonization and nearly 150 years of ‘american independent attitude’.

    The perfect modern system has all 3 parties; unions, government, and corporations, equally strong and antagonistic. Just as the perfect modern government would have the executive, legislative, and judicial branches equally strong and antagonistic. Neither could be much farther from the case here.

    Stronger bigger unions. Weaker smaller corporations. And a government that actually functions. All are necessary to fix our current shit show.

  • John_Coomsumer@beehaw.orgtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•*Permanently Deleted*
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    10 months ago

    The fact that it’s Chinese really isn’t even a blip on the radar imo. The censorship sucks and a lot of US platforms do it too ( I mean shit look at YouTubes content rules).

    Their content algorithm being really good at showing you what your brain craves in an endless stream is the real big problem. It’s creating such strange micro cultures. Live streams of people slowly filling balloons with food coloring and water, on a bunch of white printer paper. Teasing the water. Like an hour before it pops. 1,200,000 views. It feels insidious in such a weird way.

  • John_Coomsumer@beehaw.orgtoWorld News@lemmy.ml•'We are in absolutely new record territory:' July could be the hottest month in 120,000 years
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    11 months ago

    ice sheets form as snow builds up, with each year’s snowfall preserved as a single, visible layer. There are measurable chemical differences in snow formed at different temperatures, so ice cores provide a record of polar temperature going back around 250,000 years for Greenland and 800,000 years for Antarctica.

    Yearly banding is also found in fossilised corals and lake sediment deposits, and each band has a specific chemistry that reflects the temperature when it formed. Growth rings in tree trunks can be wider or thinner depending on the climate at the time of growth, so fossilised trees can reveal the length of growing seasons. And fossilised or frozen pollen grains allow scientists to determine what plants were growing in the past, which can give us a good idea of the climate at the time.

    Marine sediment cores provide temperature records spanning millions of years. They contain the fossilised shells of tiny marine creatures that preserve a chemical record of the sea temperature when they lived.

    -the guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/mar/07/past-climate-temperature-proxies

  • John_Coomsumer@beehaw.orgtoTechnology@beehaw.org•what AI tool do you mostly use Bard or ChatGPTEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is a bit close minded and reductive when you can see a large number is examples where these tools beat the shit out of search engines, and search engines have been on a precipitous decline in quality for years now. Not talking shit; the privacy concerns are very valid and i dont think there is anything at all wrong with an anti-ai stance in these areas, I just don’t want novices reading this and thinking these tools are “glorified keyboard autocorrect” when some near version of them is undoubtedly the future of both internet search and internet assistant.

  • John_Coomsumer@beehaw.orgtoTechnology@beehaw.org•Non right-wing tech podcasts?
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    1 year ago

    The WAN show is a great option for a one stop shop for broad tech stuff. It is often very long but they add very clear chapters to the youtube video that make it easy to jump to the stuff that interests you. Luke is a software developer/manager so he is fairy knowledgeable in that realm, and Linus is a very transparent CEO of a tech media company, so the coverage is actually very good between the two of them. Just dont expect in depth conversations about RHEL forks and node.js code efficiency and stuff, its very much meant to be consumed by regular tech enthusiasts and not hyper deep code monkeys.

  • John_Coomsumer@beehaw.orgtoPolitics@beehaw.org•The Supreme Court Has Killed Affirmative Action. Mediocre Whites Can Rest Easier.English
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    1 year ago

    I think this decision is stupid and not particularly well structured legally. I do hope that it might lead to a better system though, one where schools examine a more appropriate factor instead of race. Race is a useful shortcut, and definitely the best easy identifier we have, to help the people who need the most help and have historically been fucked over, but i do think looking at something like two generational wealth will have the same impact but also include people who are struggling from other races. A more precise system would be ideal. Colleges are already factoring wealth or direct family income, they just need to restructure that approach.