[-] slartibartfast42@beehaw.org 45 points 8 months ago

If Microsoft wants more RAM just to do AI shit on my computer, I'd rather have even less just to make sure they cant.

[-] slartibartfast42@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

The Mozilla Foundation did a tech podcast called IRL. It hasn't updated in nearly a year, and I don't know if it's ever coming back, but some of their back episodes are worth listening to.

[-] slartibartfast42@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

OK, so you want to have your cake an eat it by implicitly accusing her while saying you just don't know.

Anyway, I think you're giving the American voters too much credit if you think they couldn't elect Trump without Russia's help. You're also vastly overstating the size and influence of the Internet Research Agency. If it truly was a Russian attempt to influence US politics, it was a deeply unserious one.

[-] slartibartfast42@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

Instead of "just leaving this here", how about you actually clarify what you're implying? It sounds like you're accusing Jill Stein of being a Russian asset, and I think it's really irresponsible to make this kind of accusation in a vague way that gives you plausible deniability.

[-] slartibartfast42@beehaw.org 21 points 1 year ago

Obligatory "Americans will use everything but the metric system" joke aside, I wonder how astronomers can even discover an asteroid this small.

[-] slartibartfast42@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Not a big fan of this, but I can't really blame her when the only other options are "unserious protest candidate who's a bit of a crank" and "unserious protest candidate who's completely nuts and possibly a crypto-Republican".

[-] slartibartfast42@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago

I don't think Biden wants to do big things.

[-] slartibartfast42@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

If I can't watch YouTube without ads, I won't watch it at all.

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[-] slartibartfast42@beehaw.org 21 points 1 year ago

I think somewhere in the ballpark of 10-20 years is probably enough to reward creators. Anything significantly longer than that, and it just incentivizes them to milk their creations forever, and punishes other creators who might otherwise make novel derivative works.

I am also of the belief that intellectual property in general (copyrights and patents) should be subject to eminent domain in the same way that physical private property is, i.e. it should be possible to force the creator to sell it to the public (with fair compensation) in cases where it would be an invaluable public good.

[-] slartibartfast42@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

I would encourage you to stay as far away from Raddle as possible. It has an incredibly toxic site-wide culture, and some serious security problems.

[-] slartibartfast42@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

Reddit’s plans—driven by an urge to make the company more profitable as it inches toward going public

Correction: Reddit's plan is driven by an urge to make the company profitable.

[-] slartibartfast42@beehaw.org 23 points 1 year ago

It's wack how the internet seems to have collectively forgotten about this technology over the past decade, despite it not being the least bit obsolete.

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