Shrinking their market share is a much bigger middle finger. If you use their product and shut off a bunch of features, you’re still using the rest of their product and its other features.

If you’re planing to ‘invest’ your lunch money and get returns big enough to pay for the lunch too, you don’t have a plan, you have a gambling addiction.

Too late. I already jumped ship because of Copilot’s “Recall”, and I’m not interested in going through a round of partitioning the hard drive and installing a new OS so soon.

“They” is the car manufacturers. And yes, they were promised by Apartheid Willy Wonka.

And they fell for it. Partly because this happened back in like, 2010, when tech still felt promising and fun and partly (mostly?) because they wanted to.

Ehh, they were promised that full self driving was only a few years away. If that had been the case, touchscreens would be perfectly fine. But a decade of “only two more years, we swear” later, it’s time for the manufacturers to get back to work on AM instead of FM.

Wait, are these AI boosters bragging about how close they are to building God the torture that Roko’s Basilisk is inflicting on us all?

You can just switch to Libre, but as Microsoft products (even paid) enshittify and as the Linux scene makes itself more user friendly, switching the rest of the way over just kind of starts to make sense.

He can’t say that in a meeting that will obviously have leaks. It would be “value-destroying.”

What’s the point of having “Fuck You Money” if you don’t say “Fuck you” when it matters?

Blue sky (and just about anything else) is an improvement, but remember, there is no bottom, things can always be worse. Truth Social and Gab both still exist.

These websites, because they are all centralized, are all ultimately moderated in accordance with the whims of their owners, the effect of which was thrown into sharp relief after Apartheid Willy Wonka bought Twitter.

With a federated platform like Mastodon, no single owner would be able to do this. If an instance suddenly became terrible, they could be de-federated and they’d lose their reach.

Of course, if one instance became particularly large, the ‘whims of the owner’ problem would come right back, but at least the alternatives would still be readily available.

What if your robot was just a guy?

Grok Habsburg

We even let AI write our script!

You know how the Tesla board voted to gone him a $50 billion compensation package? After child support gets deducted he’s actually making a modest six figure paycheck.

They invented FSD in the sixties and it makes a handy little loop through downtown Detroit.

You’re definitely paying for legality and safety, but when you have to search through five different streaming apps to find that the movie you’re looking for can only be rented via yet another service, the convenience becomes debatable.

Best guesses would be the way that Ticketmaster’s site shit the bed when people were buying tickets when the Eras tour kicked off or the way that ticket scalping has grown online

Yeah, pay to post was Something Awful founder lowtax’s idea.

We’ve finally figured out how to trick the computer that’s bad at math into being less bad at math.

These kinds of guys have been active in California since basically as soon as it was granted statehood. The Big Four (a clique or robber barons) tried to rule over the state with the wealth they built up with the Central Pacific Railroad.

One of them, Leland Stanford (of Stanford University), actually did become governor and eventually senator.

Another, Charles Crocker, invented Californian NIMBYism with his infamous spite fence.

That’s good advice. Shame he and his colleagues didn’t follow it in 303 Creative