Talaraine

Thankfully there are alternatives out there, and we should be using them.

They don’t. The message right now is to boycott Spotify.

I mean you’re right haha, but while I hate to be that guy, this is from Britain, where ministers are members of government, not the church.

I think there ARE other ways to combat this, and the main one is ending activist investors that empower the Jack Welch pump and dump doctrine.

If someone wants to invest in something because they like it, they should be able to do that. What they should NOT be able to do is overwhelm a company they may or may not even like with dollars and then tell the company how to run its own business. If you don’t like what a company is doing, you SELL YOUR STOCK.

It’s this incessant worshiping of the shareholder that is step # 1 of enshittifcation.

Cancelled two weeks ago, and while it’s too early for me to have a fully informed opinion, so far I’ve noticed that if you just hold items in your cart until you reach some kind of threshold (and I admittedly don’t know what that is) you can get free shipping anyway.

It’s almost like I was paying all that money just so I could one off order anything on a whim. I’m an adult, I can exercise impulse control and stick it to Amazon in some small way by doing it. Win/Win.

Not to mention lower price which is… the point.

Henceforth I will refer to OpenAI as ClosedAI.

Cry more.

Case closed.

Yeah practice tests are the way. This isn’t the only industry that asks ridiculous questions to keep the passing rate low.

Not entirely sure what you mean, but the image in the thumbnail is taken from a video describing an old theory that stars might have a black hole at their center. It would just look like a star. You couldn’t see the black hole, but they visually cut out a section allowing you to see the center.

The question of dark matter is something that is gravitational and invisible spread in patches around the universe that can’t seem to be tracked. The idea of primordial black holes (that are clearly gravitational and they are invisible) fits the amount of dark matter predicted by our mathematical calculations under specific circumstances which are detailed in the video. It’s a theory, it’s not proven, but would answer a lot of questions.

As far as the gravitational well question… there’s only so much matter that can fit into an atom sized aperature, and all the rest of the matter trying to fit in ends up rotating around the black hole so fast that it flings away other matter trying to get in. Does that help?

Video beamed. Video intercepted by aliens. Think cats rule earth.

They’re right.

When a corporation is willing to lose billions of dollars to capture an audience, effectively locking out any competition, and then counters any possible avenue to blocking their monopolistic stance, your first statement shouldn’t be about choice, because there isn’t one.

I love how they blame Unity’s shortfall on acquisitions, but make no argument whatsoever that perhaps acquisitions should be more carefully considered with regard to the bottom line.

“Let the plebs pay for it!”

Captchas for dayyssss

So, they mad b/c of an internal skill issue.

I’m… not the brightest person in the world but the very first time I heard of companies buying carbon credits that would cure their pollution the alarm bells went off.

I guess the politicians that fall for this kind of crap put the ‘whale’ in whale phishing.

Will Microsoft also bend the knee to China for gaming $$$? We’ll soon find out.

Gaming is much better on Linux thanks to Steam, but having lots of problems with more recent games and their cursed launchers. I try and remember that Gen X had to figure all this stuff out with early versions of Windows and I should resurrect the same determination that got me through back then… but I’d be lying if I said it was easy.