Devasta

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by Devasta 3y ago
If you don't have a good phone and a high speed connection, you don't have any money to spend on either the sites products or the products of their advertisers. When looked at from that angle, bloat is a feature. It's not rea
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by Devasta 3y ago
> Mozilla doesn't seem to have much of a clue what it ought to be doing, either. They know exactly what their purpose is: to provide a figleaf that Google can point when facing allegations that they control the browser market.
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by Devasta 3y ago
Artists lose little by licensing their art to AI models???
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by Devasta 3y ago
Whats the benefit to artists to licensing works in a way thats favorable for AI models? Most artists hate the concept of AI art regardless of whether or not its a threat to their livelihoods.
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by Devasta 3y ago
Why are you asking us this question when you could instead have asked chatGPT?
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by Devasta 3y ago
https://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude The W3C specced something out around 20 years ago, but browser devs are allergic to all things XML.
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by Devasta 3y ago
I feel the same. The entire planet enacted a total reorganization of society in a matter of weeks! Oil is worthless if we aren't all consuming, governments can give generous payments to those who need it without nonsense about how we w
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by Devasta 3y ago
Gotta pump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers!
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by Devasta 3y ago
Its honestly a fantastic feat of marketing that JavaScript apps outside the browser are still referred to as web apps.
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by Devasta 3y ago
What do you mean? SWIFT payments are usually pretty fast and cost pennies.
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by Devasta 3y ago
A gif of Woody Harrelson! Sure showed me! Look, I can do that too! https://tenor.com/view/uncle-scrooge-mcduck-money-rich-gif-1...
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by Devasta 3y ago
When the world wide web was new, everyone could see that the idea of it was appealing, the skepticism came from the fact that people weren't at all certain that online commerce would be financially viable... and it wasn't! At the
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by Devasta 3y ago
They don't need the viewer to read the article, just need them to open the article and view ads.
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by Devasta 3y ago
lol, cry more.
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by Devasta 3y ago
They shouldn't feel too bad. If they still had that 490k they'd just waste it on stupid bullshit like cryptocurrency.
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by Devasta 3y ago
> Words can't hurt you. Sorry, but that is absurd. Propaganda has and will kill people. Look at the legions of dipshits who follow Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh. Sure, all they do is sit at their desks talking absolute horseshit but it
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by Devasta 3y ago
I fully believe that, especially with the rise of AI models, the future of the internet is going to be small enclaves of a few thousand people on invite only message boards. Anything else is just going to be far and away too much effort for
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by Devasta 3y ago
This technology is going to destroy society. Want to form a trade union I'm your workplace? Best be ready to have videos of you jacking off to be all over the internet. Videotape a police officer brutalising someone? Could easily have
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by Devasta 3y ago
The WHATWG was founded as a response to the push from the W3C to try and push everything to XHTML. HTML can never be improved, that belief is at the heart of the WHATWG, even if they don't openly admit it. The best you can hope for is
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by Devasta 3y ago
Has far more to do with interest rates than AI.
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by Devasta 3y ago
Sincerely, every single person involved in a crypto mining operation should be arrested. Just pretend they are financing the Houthis or something and apologize for it in a decade or two, we are way beyond the 11th hour to get our carbon emi
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by Devasta 3y ago
> Energy consumption is frankly not a phenomenon I give two shits about, as an environmentalist. Fossil fuel consumption is. If an org has a big polluting coal plant powering a bunch of crypto miners and with a wave of a magic wand I giv
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by Devasta 3y ago
Everyone loves the cookie prompts, I'm sure they'll be only delighted when its nonstop begging for pennies on every single website.
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by Devasta 3y ago
The above examples you've provided sound pretty dreadful to be honest. I can't imagine how awful it would be to be told I've a serious disease and then be stuck talking about it to a chatbot of all things.
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by Devasta 3y ago
Delighted to see it. Fuck AI art.
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by Devasta 3y ago
There were attempts in the past to formalize stuff like this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_Core To be honest, in the modern age it's not reasonable to have any expectation of quality when it comes to HTML.
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by Devasta 3y ago
I fully believe that the future of the internet is going to small invite only enclaves of a few hundred people, because everything else will be unusable because of AI generated trash.
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by Devasta 3y ago
Its climate arson.
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Even if no one on the planet was willing to buy apple shares from you, you still have something generating income through dividends. Bitcoin requires an ever-growing list of rubes to buy in.
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A fantastically incompetent decision, just unbelievable.

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