If someone would make a gog/bandcamp for TV and movies, I’d use it. But the only way to view either is through DRM-encumbered physical media or rent-like payments (e.g. streaming and DRM-encumbered “purchases”). I don’t want my files like that, thanks very much.

So I actually pay for far more music and games than I do TV shows and movies. Funny how that goes.

The idea that I should trust “people in my own class” categorically is insane, but that’s not even who I’m talking about. I’m just talking about the kinds of people I’ve met who think of voting and revolution in this binary way, who condemn anything short of insurrection. I’ve seen how these people live, and the most apt description is usually “barely”. Too neurotic, too online, too personally disorganized to actually change the world. Never met an IRL Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, or Sankara.

So imma let them work on that. Meanwhile, given the world as it is, between “Do revolution” and “Vote” I’ll vote every time.

Indeed.

Lol

Don’t worry about “AI”, worry about the idiots who will give the imprecise statistical output extruder a gun.

Vote for a politician who advocates for slightly better policies, or…try to build a paramilitary with people I wouldn’t trust to run a lemonade stand with?

Yeah I’m gonna vote so hard let me tell you.

I don’t see anything about how the other people renting here feel, whether they would prefer windows or AC. The AC appears to be for the whole house, of which you only rent 1 room. Legally he might be in the wrong, but you’re a terrible roommate.

First time seeing this, watched the whole thing, no lies detected. (Though he didn’t touch on my point about income.)

You know given the differences in prevailing wages I’d bet it’s easier for a USAian to fund an Indian union’s strike fund. Workers of the world unite, but is anyone out here facilitating that?

It’s not: “Gaming is unaffordable.” it’s “People aren’t willing to give us more money.”

Well no but also yes.

An Atari 2600 was $160 in 1979. Cartridges were $25-40. Adjust for inflation and that’s $738.56 for a console and $115-184 per cartridge.

Also minimum wage was $2.90 ($13.39). Median family income was $19,660 ($90,750.94).

And it was new tech.

So the prices have come down. There are a lot of amazing games that are cheap that you can play basically forever. Minecraft, Dead Cells, Skyrim, etc.

But our expectations have risen while our wages have come down.

So not wrong, but not right for the reasons you’d assume.

Guess they missed a few.

How is IBM still in business?

“It is Anthropic’s understanding that the government believes there is a method of bypassing, or “jailbreaking,” a safeguard that would prevent Fable 5 from being used in identifying software vulnerabilities, the company said.”

So they’re saying the LLM is, in fact, an LLM.

I use Debian btw

Very normal looking. /s

Christ almighty I need language that can robustly and efficiently communicate the depths of my frustration with the lack of wisdom and thought behind this choice.

With Labour like this, who needs Tories?

Nothing.

There is a rule against low-quality or low-effort content which I believe is machine-generated content falls under.