Razengan

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by Razengan 2mo ago
I like your quote formatting, I'll steal it. And no, yes I do like butt stuff :) Seems like most of your whinge is "AI → anti-AI measures → net bad for everyone" Like guy, as if you didn't notice all the enshittification
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by Razengan 2mo ago
> The old web culture can't exist because advertisers won't let it exist on modern platforms. Again, what's preventing you from buying a domain name and putting up your own website? bypass the advertisers? "Not enou
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by Razengan 2mo ago
> Your post is oddly hyper-focused on pointing out the negatives because people are hyper-focused on the negatives of the "current" web, or acting like the sites they used to love can't be recreated anymore.. > it wa
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by Razengan 2mo ago
Oh my gosh I loved Diaryland, and how you could customize your shit with some simple HTML, but I think they went through enshittification while they were still around anyway But..what says something like Diaryland can't be brought back
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by Razengan 2mo ago
Allow me to switch to asshole mode for a minute: "Things used to be so good" is mostly rose-tinted glasses: What exactly WAS the "old web" anyway? 100s of half-baked sites hosted on Geocities, Yahoo, about pointless stuf
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by Razengan 2mo ago
I've kept all photos on iCloud since decades; there's too many to move elsewhere and keep updated, but the local copy on my Mac is regularly backed up to a Time Machine disk.
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by Razengan 2mo ago
I wish the classic Lemmings would get a revival.
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by Razengan 2mo ago
Reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtV33YSKOJk "Mega-billionaire can't relate to his millionaire friends" - Wizards with Guns
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by Razengan 2mo ago
After a point what difference does it make? When you literally have a billion dollars what difference does 1 million more make?
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by Razengan 2mo ago
Why do the richest and most powerful humans, who have seen all of the world and its wonders, and can go anywhere anytime, and get all the luxuries our civilization has to offer, and never have to struggle for anything in their lives.. want
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by Razengan 2mo ago
We Reddit & Facebook now
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by Razengan 2mo ago
3Blue1Brown - "Compression is Intelligence": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6DKRf-fAAM
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by Razengan 2mo ago
The real irony is how Americans still claim to be much better off than outright authoritarian states like China.
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by Razengan 2mo ago
> Fandom and Reddit are not the old Internet What exactly WAS the "old" internet anyway? 100 half-baked sites hosted on Geocities, Yahoo, about pointless stuff, covered with gif-vomit that looked like epilepsy simulators? Ser
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by Razengan 2mo ago
How was this not "banned" 50 years ago..
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by Razengan 2mo ago
Correct, the enshittification of AI would fuck us up more widely and deeply than the enshittification of the internet but..that's not a problem inherent to the technology or medium itself. That's a separate problem that's the
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by Razengan 2mo ago
I guess/hope that's where Yann LeCun and their proposed "world models" etc are going to fill in :)
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by Razengan 2mo ago
You’re absolutely right. Yo momma is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Her load-bearing methods have the right shape.
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by Razengan 2mo ago
Well, just as the "internet" supplanted newspapers, magazines (gosh those classic gaming mags), and broadcast television for many people, and how the newspapers replaced the town criers before them, why shouldn't the "in
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by Razengan 2mo ago
wow did not know that!
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by Razengan 2mo ago
Oh come on guys, don't... Can't believe all this shit just allowed to happen then Muricans still claiming to have more freedom than China or Russia for long..
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by Razengan 2mo ago
Ah the we can't win so whine about the playing field And they can't win because nobody smart wants to work there for long
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by Razengan 2mo ago
What the fuck are people doing about it?
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by Razengan 2mo ago
DD&D? Luckily the local temple has a discount on resurrections
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by Razengan 2mo ago
Not to mention corporations GOVERNED ENTIRE COUNTRIES: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company
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by Razengan 3mo ago
I wish there were more games based on Persian lore. Like how Al-Qadim was an Arabian-themed setting for D&D.
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by Razengan 3mo ago
There were literal wars started and people murdered over corporate interests.
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by Razengan 3mo ago
In the 10+ years since I stopped using Windows, every time I hear news about Microsoft I never see a reason to not be glad of leaving :)
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by Razengan 3mo ago
I intended that to imply "with care and respect", not trapping in cages. I meant, more people should explore the joys of companionship with a broader variety of species, if that makes sense.
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by Razengan 3mo ago
> How do you responsibly test something like this? Into the ocean, I would hope

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