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Yeah, part of me thinks this is part of why they are desperate for these LLMs to take off.

Get everyone to trust it, then just manipulate it to saw whatever fascist lies they want as truth. Look at how Elon gets all pissy everytime Grok starts going to the left on its ideas.

Nah, just Musk. The US Government will bail out Grok and let the others fail.

They also ban you for suggesting Fascists need to fuck off. They tell you its “inciting violence.”

Fuck Reddit. They caved to the fucking Nazis.

Yeah, I love my 2015 Sonic.

Becsuse you get someone in on the creation thst can say things like.

“99% of all software uses Control+s to save, yes W stands for Write Out, but literally no one thinks that way and Control W is unintuitive.”

“People prefer larger icons with meaningful symbols.”

“This setting is only accessible by using a CLI to edit a .conf file in /etc/software/config/current and thats a terrible design.”

“Your pop up dialogs should all be consistently sized with Yes/Cancel buttons in the same space so users can more instinctively know where to click.”

“The window design looks like Windows 95 and makes people think they are in prison and has driven at least one user to depression and suicide, maybe consider modernizing the look with some color and roundness.”

Yeah, the real “Year of the Linux Desktop” only occurs when devs actually get input from UX designers and stop designing clunky as fuck UIs.

think its your duty to enforce them on others…

Thats the wild part of all this.

There are ways for users to filter things themselves. Its not hard, and that is the user’s choice. I filter out several instances, but its MY CHOICE. And if others want to read those, that is fine, its THEIR CHOICE.

104.26.9.209 is a bunch of 8 bit numbers. Lemmy.world is a bunch of translation from ascii to numbers to something meaningful. It directly understand 01101000000110100000100111010001 as on off electrical signals.

Data centers are useful.

Massive AI data centers are not.

It may also be worth adding, this is done because computers work in numbers, and do not inderstand what a “lemmy.world” is at all, but they understand “104.26.9.209” just fine.

Did they even give a reason?

I mean, Becoming a DIK is kind of a complete game though. Steam has some stuff that feels like someone stuck stickman art in a GODOT tutorial and called it good.

You get Itch.io for that.

This isn’t a know against small devs, but I do get it a bit becsuse there is a LOT of questionable nonsense on the indie dev circuit. Like, I have played a lot of them too. But Steam is kind of bad with letting too much garbage in and frankly, I stopped using Steam as much over the years for it.

Especially since fossil fuels gets just even larger subsidies.

U.S. Spending Bill to Grant $40 Billion in Fossil Fuel Subsidies

Renewable Energy Received Record Subsidies in 2024

In the United States, new Treasury Department figures show that subsidies for wind and solar dwarf all other energy-related provisions in the tax code, costing $31.4 billion in 2024,

Hmmmm, interesting…

Also, in the broader sense, thats the point of the government. So the larger community can collectively support “unprofitable/less profitable” systems for the greater good through Taxes. But then Libertarian and Republican fuckwits keep supporting corrupt as fuck assholes for office.

I saw that speach on Landman about the cost of building Solar/Wind.

You know what else takes a ton of concrete and metal and shit, and a need to deliver from the middle of nowhere?

Fucking Oil.

Yeah, this is why I don’t buy digital movies.

No DRM Free download option.

FWIW, I buy digital music all the time, because I can download it, back it up, etc.

If it lasts 5 years, maybe its durable enough.

I recently set up Navidrome on my home server. I listen using Symphonium. Its all basically “Spotify but my own music collection.”

Bah, maybe in some backwater European country like Germany or France, no laws in Freedomville™ America, Laws are for COMMIES who hate capitalism!

/s