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@saramg@fosstodon.org @twipped@twipped.social @loathsome_dongeater@toots.matapacos.dog i just went and tested to see if there's a CPU spike from opening the start menu, and there does not appear to be

@MaddieM4@raphus.social @huntingdon@mstdn.social @nswigger@mstdn.party I think it's critical to follow the money. Almost all the pro-oligarchy economists are, surprise, paid by oligarchs (directly or indirectly). So the ideas they produce become entirely unsurprising.

@VANTABlack2000@mastodon.gamedev.place @anolandria@mastodon.social Yes, precisely; a 500-char toot doesn't have room for a lot of nuance. Any given person might favor domination or cooperation more or less in specific contexts; a person might demand cooperation in politics while preferring domination in their family or business life. A friend group might operate cooperatively except one guy has a tendency to passive-aggresively push to control things a little. Etc.

@blogdiva@mastodon.social read this and immediately said "omg you're right". so long, P-word

@navi@catcatnya.com @jasmine@chaosfem.tw this is true, but until it is possible to exist in the capitalist system without engaging with some for-profit companies, the next best option is to engage with the least evil companies possible

@Daojoan@mastodon.social just like how when they say "move fast and break things" mostly what they're breaking is laws

@scalzi@mastodon.social I got lucky when I bought my Pixel 5 in Dec 2020. It still worked great after 5 years, was as snappy as ever, although it did have occasional bouts of senility. Longest I ever went without replacing my phone. Got a Pixel 9 this past December, but installed GrapheneOS as soon as I opened it. First step toward getting Google's bullshit out of my life.

@danluu@mastodon.social at this point in history, how can anyone look at the literally *hundreds* of blatantly unethical things Microsoft has done over the course of its existence and say "yeah this is a company I trust"?

@jrconlin@mindof.jrconlin.com fuel for the "all companies should be worker-owned" fire

@richpuchalsky@mastodon.social @ramsey@phpc.social lol i was just saying that same thing to someone yesterday. i thankfully haven't been forced to "use" LLMs like that yet but if i am, day 1 is writing a script to fake it luckily the bubble is starting to collapse and prices are skyrocketing and it may not be long before LLM usage is banned rather than encouraged! *crosses fingers*

@ramsey@phpc.social "I was running Claude at work" i think i see the problem

@rey@toot.cat @rnd@toot.cat an easy way to get high is to call them hash signs instead

@josh0 @ZachWeinersmith @glyph I mean statistically about 2-3% of the population will be on the toilet when the rapture happens

@radieschen @claudius @davep @ahltorp @jtb agreed. as an example, we have here in the US the Secret Service whose job is (among other things) to protect the president from physical threats. it is not the president's job to do threat analysis or secure locations. similarly there should be a technical branch that provides secure tools that are highly resistant to being misused, rather than govt officials just using off the shelf software on their own initiative.

@cwebber@social.coop maybe I misunderstand but aren't LLMs and neural nets fundamentally different technologies

@mhoye@cosocial.ca Wilhoit's Law remains undefeated

@josh0 @ZachWeinersmith @glyph look I gotta excrete all this sin somehow

@manchuck s/everything/anything

@kaye I feel attacked, but I can't argue with this

@nikitonsky@mastodon.online some dubious unstated assumptions here. "if everything is highlighted, nothing is highlighted" presumes that syntax highlighting is akin to text highlighting; that is, the purpose is to draw attention to some parts (but not others). that's not what syntax highlighting is for; it's for color-coding different elements to make them distinct from *one another*. there is no "base text" in code. bad color choices are a legit issue, but "only color code some things" is the wrong solution

@fj I guess this is the "radical transparency" Muskrat was talking about

@rbreich@masto.ai not only do we outnumber them, we outnumber them TWO MILLION TO ONE.

@mysk@mastodon.social I uninstalled all Meta products. you can too.

@tknarr@mstdn.social @briankrebs@infosec.exchange It doesn't really matter if it is a roast; people who are ostensibly journalists absolutely cannot, ever, socialize with the people they are supposed to hold to account.

@endrift@social.treehouse.systems right there with you. AI boosters love saying "this [use case] improved my efficiency by 5%!" and I'm like, even if that's true, it cost the bones of like three orphans to do it

@nextcloud@mastodon.xyz you left out "hostile opposition by billionaires"

@scalzi https://barrayar.org/i/shocked.gif

@Crell@phpc.social "30 years" add two zeroes onto the end of that

@dangillmor@mastodon.social never more glad that I avoided TikTok from day 1

@sean@scoat.es oh wow, i read this and thought "hah yeah that sounds fun, i should do that" then realized that i haven't been to a drive thru in like five years

@cthos@mastodon.cthos.dev @xgranade@wandering.shop @SnoopJ@hachyderm.io this popped into my head: "Signal is the worst form of encrypted chat, except for all the others"

@vicfroh@mastodon.social i think i remember this from when it was originally posted 2.5 years ago

@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io i know this isn't important, but the fact that the sun, earth, and moon are not to scale is irritating

@mhoye@cosocial.ca and on top of all that, who exactly thought naming a protocol after the evil program from Tron was a good idea