Mozilla do spend a lot of money on software development, 220 million last year, out of total expenses of 425 million which came from a taking of 593 million of which 81% comes from Google.
But let's be fair, if every bar and liquor store switched to selling meth and kids dad's brought them their first meth on their twenty first birthday, weddings had a traditional opening the meth moment, etc then things would be a lot worse.
Yeah but looking out the window as your plane crashes isn't going to change the fiery death that a system shutdown on a modern airliner will inevitably bring.
I get what you're saying but a window is a structural trade off too, they've obviously done the testing and determined it's a sensible design choice
Guy kills ten black people and Lemmy comments are all 'yeah but death sentence and prison are wrong, maybe we should get him a nice job and somewhere to live, I'll pop round to massage his feet once a week...'
Oh there is but it's sorted through rich people filters, if a hundred show ideas contain important and useful thoughts about our current society and one show Idea boils down to 'capitalism is good actually' then we already know which one will get made without any other information
I don't mind watching a 'capitalism is good' show occasionally if it's risen to the top because it makes important and informative statements but i can't abide a landscape where other opinions don't have that same ability.
Yeah but it's still corporate pandering and drowning your brain in bullshit. 'did you see the latest show that rich people decided we should be brainwashed with, it contains all the talking points they think will help society to continue to benefit them'
I much prefer stuff that's free because it's made by people who want to make it, I'll even put a few coins in their patreon if I really like it.
Because they promise easy solutions to impossible problems, promise to push the pain and hardship onto someone else, promise to make life easier and simpler and to chase away all the things that make it difficult.
Yeah, just wait until they see the ai design tools that allow anyone to casually describe the spare part or upgrade they want and it'll be designed and printed at home or local fab shop.
Lot of once fairly safe monopolies are going to start looking very shaky, and then things like natural language cookery toolarms disrupting even more...
We've only barely started to see what the tech we have now is able to do, yes a million shitty chat bots / img gen apps are cashing in on the hype but when we start seeing some killer apps emerge it's when people won't be able to ignore it any longer
I love that the people who push this kind of rhetoric often consider themselves left wing, it's just so silly.
'every word you ever utter must be considered private property and no other human may benefit from it without payments!'
I mean yes I know you're going to say socialism is about workers getting fair pay but come on, this is just pure rent seeking. We're a global community of people, if this comment helps train an ai that can help other people better live their lives, better access medicine and education or other services then I think that's a wonderful thing.
And yes of course it should be open source and free to all people, that's why these pushes to make sure only corporations can afford ai are so infuriating
Yeah, realistically what will happen is china will get far ahead in natural language computing which will benefit it's economy, everyone who demanded chat GPT be stopped because they're scared of change will demand the government do something to catch up and they'll write exemptions into the law.
More likely they'll realise this is the obvious way things will go and the only legislation will make it harder for open source and community run ai, but hopefully not significantly.
The next round of ai gen will start reaching consumer space soon. CAD, especially for electronics and structural design (E.g. creating the right amount of supports to hold a given load). They'll scare a few corporations into pushing for legislation but I think the utility will be far clearer.
I'm not connecting it to sex I'm using them as examples of groups that if this was a Chinese forum we might be reading about and thinking they're significant but were we to then ask a random American most wouldn't have even heard of them and those that have would almost universally tell you are meaningless and not taken seriously.
When using one thing as an example of a certain facet of something it's generally understood that the other aspects aren't important - the sun is round like a cricket ball doesn't imply it's the same size or that it's used for sport.
I was thinking of Leary's tune in, drop out kinda thing and Keasy was a big part of that movement.
And the downvoting is probably because they want to belive this is a big thing in China because it would go towards the view they want to be true, but the reality is cccp is hugely popular and the obsessive work ethic is still a driving force.
This is becoming a real perennial story, from what I gather the lay flat movement isn't really very significant it's probably less influential in China than incels are here, or a smaller niche that's harder to think of - maybe like the nofap community or something. Big in some weird online spaces but pretty much unheard of out of it.
It's an interesting one, kinda like Ken Keasy but without the acid.
Mozilla do spend a lot of money on software development, 220 million last year, out of total expenses of 425 million which came from a taking of 593 million of which 81% comes from Google.