vinyl7

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61.
by vinyl7 8mo ago
We live in a technofeudalist society now, we're all at the whims of the tech corps
62.
by vinyl7 8mo ago
Everyone should go back and watch The Matrix again
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Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions(pcgamer.com)
16 points by vinyl7 8mo ago|0 comments
64.
by vinyl7 8mo ago
Kinda sad that in 3 decades into the tech industry the only viable business model is to build a moat and then sell ads
65.
by vinyl7 9mo ago
AI is as far away from useful and necessary as bitcoin and NFTs were. I'm sure society can survive without it
66.
by vinyl7 9mo ago
The US govt is already useless in constrast with the ruling corporations. Congress can't get anything done. What makes you think they could or would do anything to the slave owners who pay them?
67.
by vinyl7 9mo ago
> So they allow even more bots to increase traffic which drives up ad revenue When are people who buy ads going to realize that the majority of their online ad spend is going towards bots rather than human eye balls who will actually bu
68.
by vinyl7 9mo ago
Delusional
69.
by vinyl7 9mo ago
Arguably Google could go the way of AOL and no one would notice
70.
by vinyl7 9mo ago
The thing with inflation is that a product's individual components may cost the same or less over time, but the cost of everything else...like housing...doubles every couple of years. So you need to increase prices to support higher sa
71.
by vinyl7 9mo ago
It's just a temporary PR move
72.
by vinyl7 10mo ago
Stock market is all based on vibes at this point. Giant gambling system
73.
by vinyl7 10mo ago
Something changed in the US in the last 15 or so years that caused our whole country to become a death cult. All I see in the economics is a bunch of looting and pillaging before the music stops
74.
by vinyl7 10mo ago
I'm using it
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OpenAI Wants Federal Backstop(finance.yahoo.com)
17 points by vinyl7 11mo ago|4 comments
76.
by vinyl7 1y ago
It's only a sandbox in as far as Google lets it be a sandbox. I'm sure Google has telemetry in chrome that deeply tracks users beyond what is publicly known or available.
77.
by vinyl7 1y ago
Don't we have the right to "face your accuser" ie getting automatic tickets from the government is illegal because you don't have an accuser.
78.
by vinyl7 1y ago
Vibe coded internet keeps getting better
79.
by vinyl7 1y ago
When every industry is dominated by 1 or 2 players, collusion becomes a lot easier. This concentration has been slowly happening for decades now, and we're pretty much at the end. Every industry is dominated by what is essentially a mo
80.
by vinyl7 1y ago
Vibe coding takes its first global victim
81.
by vinyl7 1y ago
Should add a link to the main site from the blog on the mobile layout
82.
by vinyl7 1y ago
Its true though, unless you can find your purpose in life. Gotta be more to life than transient hits of dopamine
83.
by vinyl7 1y ago
Western companies haven't thought about long term value in decades
84.
by vinyl7 1y ago
Meta essentially forces every instagram user to install threads....so it's more forced growth than natural growth
85.
by vinyl7 1y ago
Seems like a lot of adults yearn for having a mommy and daddy take care of everything for them
86.
by vinyl7 1y ago
Netflix and other streaming sites have ads on some paid subscriptions. First they start with ad free subs, then introduce ads and introduce a higher priced tier to get rid of ads
87.
by vinyl7 1y ago
This was a thing back in the windows 95 days...but is no longer an issue.
88.
by vinyl7 1y ago
I wonder how far away from critical mass where the amount of ads just push people off of tech entirely. I know it has started for me
89.
by vinyl7 1y ago
This isn't about supporting babies, this is about the government pumping up the stock market
90.
by vinyl7 1y ago
AI will be the end of civilization

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