Some right libertarians actually believe the bullshit that free markets magically pop up out of the ground like weeds if you just don’t regulate anything. This is obviously untrue. You need the right type of regulation to have a free market. Otherwise you end up with cartels and monopolies.

Those that operate the cartels and monopolies know this, but continue to feed the propaganda machine that spouts the opposite.

If the Sociopathic Oligarchs had their way, he’d survive their purge, but not because he’s rich, but because he’d be their dancing monkey.

Which is supposedly what he was refusing to be when he quit his show so long ago.

Dave chased “controversy” (aka bigotry) to stay relevant. Now he’s somehow surprised that it was insincere culture war bullshit used to distract people the whole time? Fuck off.

The other thing is that his timing on this is opportune as well. He waited for Trump to become extremely unpopular before coming out with statements like this.

Nextdoor also works for buying and selling junk, but it’s basically as terrible as Facebook at this point. Nearly every post is full up with brunchlords and Karens.

I wrote my own. It’s one of the easiest possible services to write.

Between this and expedition 33, France is coming up with some Ws these days.

Hey, I know this one. I’ve had it since I was a small child but didn’t quite know the name.

How are they preventing public release then?

Look it’s either skynet or it fucking isn’t.

Uh no I would never think of that officer

The fact that you can legally drink at 21 has something to do with this phenomenon.

It seems clear to me that cloud LLMs have the same scaling problems and demand concerns that cloud gaming did.

Oh well, maybe regular people will have to still run software locally after all. 🤷

I thought part of the point was to have a website work more as an application: one update to a piece of information results in that information being near instantly updated across the site.

Then I looked into the angular stuff the UI people were working on and yeah… something like 10 (costly) requests for the same exact fucking JSON. They were talking about doing caching on the frontend to optimize it. What are we even doing?!

Modern UI development is such fucking shit. I have no idea why they went with all of these heavyweight shit frameworks.

There’s a kind of law here that should be named IMO when dealing with LLMs:

In a long enough interaction with an LLM the probability that it generates a very incorrect, borderline insane response approaches 100%.

Time to dump GitHub for codeberg.

Including being good to hypothetical, unlikely trillions that may live someday if we colonize Mars.

Not gonna happen. Not with the effective altruist cult running things.

The real issue is when other countries that don’t give a shit throw stuff up there and we can’t do much about it.

Dude, we are the country that doesn’t give a shit and throws stuff up there and we can’t do much about it. WE ARE.

This is fine IMO, because you shouldn’t use the smart features in the first place. Just get a 3rd party streaming box. The ONN one is like $25. (Or if you’re a giant nerd hook your computer to your TV.)

It does. I wound up buying two new TVs because of the thing OP is talking about here. You could actually get around agreeing and then opting out by removing the TV from the network and then restoring it to factory and never reconnecting it.