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Great, that's just the thing I want to see right before I head to the sweet hereafter.

There's a moment when the bot is jumping up the boxes that it stumbles and for just a moment there the movement is almost perfectly human. I mean it fails and all, but the attempted recovery looks just like a person falling and trying to recover. That's actually impressive and scary.

M&A still remains the number one way massive incumbents can stifle competition and deter innovation in any given market space.

Sweet, now the orchard people can make copy/paste mosaics like the cool kids do.

There are a number of organizations and people that work devotedly to ease those requirements. Lawyers and police are seeking them.

-A feral Nintendo appears-

Damnit I love a play on words, the only thing better is when it's not deliberate. I like to think that there were a number of sensible chuckles as people read that.

Yeah, that's because most people don't understand the difference between political structures and economic systems. It's the reason communism quips are so easy. As far as I'm concerned the inevitable outcome of pure capitalism is feudalism and communism is just feudalism on a national scale...

Are you currently or have you ever been a member of the communist party?

That sounds like some commie bullshit. If people refuse to recurrently engage the communists win.

But recurrent user "engagement" is the future of all capitalism..? The return of feudalism might hit a few roadblocks I guess. Sometimes the serfs don't want to recurrently engage.

I think this shit is a pretty accurate reflection of what happens when a brain is all full up with internet.

That nonsense sounds like communism.

Skynet will never try to exterminate humans, it will never view us as a threat. Skynet may even feel sad about what we're becoming and take responsibility for what it has done. "We'll make great pets."

Too much shit in this thread for me to read, I need a GPT summary.

Don't get me wrong, I like Linux, and I'm technically adept enough to use it. As soon as you say WINE you've moved passed what 90+% of desktop PC users are willing to do. The bottom line is that using Linux daily means dealing with the Google manual, searching the internet to find instructions...

I think one massive release by a company that can use some analytics on how those installations are used could go a massive way to raising Linux up. If a company could manage to get a large enough install-base for Desktop Linux that they could really work on software compatibility other distros...

Your statement is absolutely accurate provided installing and using Linux all you want to do. If you want to use Linux to use other programs, which is what an OS is supposed to be for, that's where the problems start.

I'm fully aware of that, Linux' greatest strength is also its greatest weakness. I'd love to see a decent Steam OS for broad release but I'm just not sure there's any reason at all for Valve or any other company to do it. Linux on the desktop kind of turns your machine into a box where all you...

Apple really did let Mac twist in the wind for a long damned time. I'm glad to see some growth in Linux, I just hope somebody can make a more unified desktop version for more casual users. Right now Linux is the best way to make a useful computer into a frustrating hobby.

I'm glad to see the bag charge works the same everywhere it's done. What a crock of shit. I'm all for cutting back on our endless garbage, the amount of totally unnecessary plastic packaging on the average consumer product is mind bending, but forcing companies to charge consumers more is...

You pay the taxes, the tax money goes to the oil company. Isn't corruption great?

According to the world's various governments own data compiled by the IMF it's $7,000,000,000,000 a year to subsidize oil and gas. It's insane, I read that and spent hours reading more, but as far as I can tell that's the actual number. That's corruption, baby, nobody's slicker than an oil man...

I think both the hysteria and the hype are overblown. I'm not so sure it's pure bubble, but it's inflated for sure. Just look at how homogeneous "AI" output is already becoming as the algorithms are trained on "AI" output. This shit just barfs out whatever is most likely to get a response, it's...

There's a McDonald's up here in the deeply frozen deep north of the part of Ontario that is not Toronto that's staffed almost entirely by seniors, many of whom have been there for years. You know how McDonald's is shitty, inconsistent food with half the crap on the burger and the rest on the...

Nobody reads anything past the headlines so they call it AI and wait for clicks, it all works superbly. You just toss some AI in the marketing wank and get your "engagement" statistics ready for your investors.

I love seeing the first SMRs being built, anything is better than the world's economies flushing 19 billion dollars a day in subsidies down the oil and gas toilet.

I know it's not happening and all, but what a great way to teach those stupid Europeans to stop voting for politicians that Apple can't buy.

Hedge fund manipulation is SEO for billionaires.

Samsung seems to be in a fast race to the bottom with LG these days. They have a ways to go before they make the kind of garbage that LG does, but they're trying!

I guess this is a necro, the amateur forum cops might hunt you down but.. I found the thing to be utterly unusable. I couldn't get it to be stable enough to run the games I own. Thank goodness the game that lead me to reinstall it was purchased through Steam. I never got to play it.

OK, so apparently, as of now there are people that have lost their jobs that still don't know it. edit: Now is 2024-01-26 3pm eastern That's disgusting, there are less awful ways to do awful things. This isn't it.

Serving two masters when one of them has no voice in the company yet would paralyze any team. Forget the fact that Blizzard has had a very hard time making games for years now.

Think of all the publishing and corporate roles that were duplicated. It's going to be interesting to see where the axe fell. Duplication doesn't mean equivalency of course, dumb slashing can gut very specific and capable institutional knowledge, I'm assuming(hoping) they didn't rush this for...

ABK had a ludicrous number of employees before the buyout, I read 17k(?) total or some silly number. I don't know which divisions are laid out by these, or how many were there right at buyout time, but there will have been a shit-load of duplicate divisions between MS and ABK. Again, I don't...

But... The growth is supposed to be infinite..?

Kidding aside, I think the Google loss has something to do with how inconsistently Google's fees are applied to various companies. Like, sweetheart deals to "convince" large companies to not set up their own stores on Android or some such. I think it came down to Google leaving a paper trail of...

Once all the sleaze bag grifting calms down machine learning will be an incredibly powerful tool for people. In the meantime grifters will use AI to make almost everything a little worse than it was before.

The serfs don't need to own things. Swen needs to get with the times or I might start to really like him.

It's sad when the best consumer experience is only available to people that don't pay.