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I hate to wreck this beautiful dream, but tech is not nearly as blue as everyone thinks it is.

I've never spent time around big tech types where the split wasn't 30% libertarians, 30% right-wingers, and 30% american-style liberals.

The problem there is the libertarians land all over the damn spectrum but you end up basically the same place you do everywhere else: it's a 50/50 split.

And let's be honest, the expectation here is that a lot of the employees won't move.

If the goal is to avoid "liberal bias", or whatever, moving the people from California to Texas won't do a damn thing. What you do is you move the jobs somewhere unpalatable, knowing full well this will let you do a mass layoff without it being a layoff, because people "chose" not to move to where their job is.

So we're going to get a couple of jobs, but they're going to be filled by people already here.

Or maybe I don't buy enough?

I dunno, I've just kinda changed what games I play to things that appear to also be the same kind of stuff that Epic is making deals to give away for free?

Also, in fairness, I do buy the occasional game for console even if it's available on PC as sales permit, but we're talking a game or two a year at most.

$5 says there's a hard fork led by all the commercial providers and anyone else who has a business that depends on Wordpress, and that it happens fairly soon.

It's GPLed, so while you can't call your fork Wordpress, you can just rename it and carry on with everything as it was, except you're no longer involved in dealing with crazy.

I'm not sure the average customer of any of those businesses knows or cares about the name of the software that their site runs, and won't give a single crap about it not being Wordpress but some other name while otherwise staying exactly the same - or, maybe, without an opinionated obstructionist sitting in front of the code approval path, perhaps even better.

Eh, I'd say you've almost got it but not quite.

I wouldn't tolerate it in any sense, "ironic" or not.

Too many people are too stupid to determine irony from a serious statement, and just assume the "irony" is a legitimate support of their shitty opinions.

No tolerance at all is required, because we don't want to confuse anyone into thinking that maybe that crap is remotely acceptable here.

Essentially, yes: they're not going to contribute to their primary project because some fee-fees got hurt. It's not really a suicide note, but they've certainly decided they're not opposed to it.

That's so petty, I'm actually impressed. Like, it's VERY hard to end up universally disliked by everyone, but it looks like Matt's figured out how to do it.

That's the biggest crybaby nonsense: Oh no, the lawsuit is making us broke. Yes we started this whole thing but it's not OUR fault! It's those bad evil private equity firms. Yes, we take equity money too, but not from the BAD firms! Fine! We'll take our ball and go home!

Also, hilarious because I'm sure all the developers they have on staff are not involved in doing ANY lawsuit anything, though if they are, I'm going to watch this even closer since if there's a group of people that firmly do not understand legal shit more than developers (because developers rightfully expect the rules and procedures to make some sort of damn sense) I don't know who it'd be.

+1 for Frigate, because it's fantastic.

But don't bother on an essentially depreciated google product, and skip the coral.

The devs have added the same functionality on the GPU side, and if you've got a gpu (and, well, you do, because OpenVino supports intel iGPUs) just use that instead and save the money on a coral for something more useful.

In my case, I've both used a coral AND openvino on a coffee lake igpu, and uh, if anything, the igpu was about 20% faster inference times.

They're offering to pay you to watch ads, same as what Brave does.

You're going to get people who fall for the "free money" aspect, same as always.

(Also replacing a site's ads with their ads is exactly the same shit Honey is doing, so it's nice to see that the founder has a single idea and is going to keep going after it.)

It's almost stopped me buying ANY games, at all.

At some point within a year or few of a release the odds of anything I find interesting showing up for free on epic is damn near 100%.

It's the ultimate patient gamers bit: wait 2 or 3 years and that game you want will be $0.

(It's why my epic library is now bigger than my steam library, despite spending $0.)

That's probably true, though I'm not sure who has ever actually made a legitimate determination since you'd have to remove the non-humans from the numbers first and, well, Reddit isn't going to tank their MAU numbers by ever releasing that kind of stat.

It's also not helped once you hit a certain size and the nature of scale takes over and the level of toxicity goes up: even in small groups, when a new person shows up and asks the same question for the 20th time, they start taking shit for it. If you're in a BIG group, it turns into a giant dogpile, and people stop asking questions because who the hell likes that kind of response, so you end up with a lot of people who are subscribed to something, but none of whom actually contribute at all.

It sounds like British politicians are the ones deciding harmful content, no?

So this will probably go exactly how you're expecting, in the long term.

A Lemmy community with 100 active members is more likely to be 100 active humans than a subreddit with 10,000 members is, based on the last time I went to Reddit: it was so, so clear that everything was either ChatGPT, or a repost of shit even I had already seen, or was just otherwise obviously not an authentic human sharing something interesting.

So yeah, not entirely surprising.

Not quite.

We'd need the waymo cab to start screaming about how the robot just jumped right out in front of it, and how they should stay the hell out of the way.

Then we'll have reached parity.

Stuttering and texture pop-in makes me immediately wonder if your SSD shit itself.

Maybe see if there's anything in the system logs and/or SMART data that indicates that might be a problem?

The $95 million is about nine hours of profit for Apple

I'm sure this will stop them from ever doing something like this again.

(Also I can't wait for my $0.48 check three years from now.)

Sir Lord President Muskovitch owns an ISP, so he's on the side of whatever makes him more money, which is always going to not be the one that you're on.

US yes, maps no.

There are less dumb dumbphones that do a bit more, but I went for quite literally phone-calls-and-sms-only.

I have navigation in the car that works fine, so I personally don't need that, and am using an iPod, so I don't need any media functionality.

The camera is shit, but again, if I'm going somewhere specifically to take pictures then I've got a reasonable DSLR.

Like I said, not for everyone but works great for what I want and makes it where I basically spend zero time on the internet unless I explicitly sit down at my desk.

I'm with you on phone reduction, and I'm closing in on like 8 months of using a dumbphone.

If you're really serious about removing distractions, a Nokia that feels like it fell out of 1996 is a shockingly good way to do it.

A bit harsh, perhaps, for a lot of people and I won't deny there's a lot of compromises you have to make, but if your goal is to reduce distractions and be in the present, it's pretty much the gold standard.

No social media, no group messages, no email, no push notifications, no advertisements masquerading as 'important', nothing. If you want me you can call or text, and if you don't want to do either then I guess whatever it was turned out to not actually be that important anyways.

Also mine lasts like 10 days on a charge, and doesn't cost $1000.

My compromise to survive in modern society was an iPad mini. It's loaded down with all the crap my phone used to have, but it's also something I do not take to bed or out of the house, so I can still do banking apps and totp 2fa, and take and send pictures via email and all that stuff without it being a device that's attached to my hip most of the time and thus in easy reach of noise and nonsense.

Not shocking? There's probably zero ROI on bothering to invest in R&D for consumer gear.

You can't sell enough premium drives to offset the fact they're down to commodity pricing now: the market for a $45 1tb SSD is much larger than a $100 one, and frankly, I wouldn't be on the premium side of that business either.

High-spec big and expensive enterprise drives are 100% the way to go.

Same thing already has happened with GPUs and CPUs, so storage being next is not surprising.

Cloudflare tunnels are the thing you're looking for, if you're not opposed to cloudflare.

You run the daemon on your local system, it connects to cloudflare, and presto, you've bypassed this entire mess.