stellargmite

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[–] stellargmite 3 points 7 months ago

They may lose a few percent of customers due to it. But will they deliver enough growth for execs or shareholders? They'll find some other rotten carrot to dangle in front of their customers/victims. Race to the bottom. It’s a good thing the commitment is only monthly, and that there are alternatives arrrr.

[–] stellargmite 3 points 7 months ago

SAAS your shit up…

Great phraseology, and have experienced it with Arlo.

[–] stellargmite 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I was fretting over Doctor Specials, season numbers, eras and naming a few weeks back. In fairness it has been running since black and white times so not too bad considering. Whats a filebot by the way and whats a good one?

[–] stellargmite 3 points 8 months ago

No wonder it descended into a mob. They ordered ribs and got livers. Sounded pretty orderly saying that.

[–] stellargmite 1 points 8 months ago

Great to hear! I’ve perservered despite this as it’s great for me in all other respects.

[–] stellargmite 1 points 8 months ago

Yeh theres a danger in that I can see. The Machine is learning from our dissent.

[–] stellargmite 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

My main prob with viewtube has been its flakey resolution auto or manual selection. The UI with it is weird and i basicially have to randomly click unclick autoselect , and switch between resolutions before it somehow lands on 1080 . Might be my browser and OS combo - macOS librewolf. Hosted on kde locally. Otherwise love it. But I dont use much other than search and watch. I use metube if I want to keep anything.

[–] stellargmite 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If your’e telling the deglazers to giveup because we will never stop glazing ourselves then I agree.

[–] stellargmite 1 points 8 months ago

indeed, which is a bad thing. Those with less visibility and less resources (money) are open to exploitation by these tech industries who seem to believe content which others have invested their own labour to cultivate and develop - including celebrities who I myself am also cynical of for other less relevant reasons - are a free resource to plunder for their own profit at a net loss to society. Sam had a boner for the film with her voice in it - interestingly theres plenty to be critical of with film industry’s treatment of labour and talent also, but even that industry manages to arrive at a compromise where the celebrity actor applies her skill to the process and her celebrity helps sell the product. So an industry with less moral fibre than the arguably corrupt virtually mafia like film industry is running what some fear may be an existential threat (eventually) to human life? Yikes. OpenAI attempted to pilfer it for free after being denied in the first place. so imagine the disdain they must have for individuals such as you and I. The strange thing is I generally don't believe in copyright , or the gatekeeping of intellectual property. This is not really the issue here - it only touches on and indicates a larger one.

[–] stellargmite 10 points 8 months ago

Tone deaf mega cringe, or savy meme generation ? Not mutually exclusive I guess, but I’ll keep steering clear of Canva.

[–] stellargmite 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I’d agree about waiting personally. Not to defend it of course, but isn't this already happening? Probably not at the banking side other than for their internal benefit (I presume as they're fairly regulated) , but at the retail , POS , even accounting system sides? Theres also all other data collection and harvesting sources - internet use basically, location data etc - but thats all known. This is likely to be a more consolidated competitor in that space I guess. All speculation. I’m more curious so fishing for knowledge

[–] stellargmite 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

They’ve been increasing usage relatively fast. Air quality is an apparent motivator, but being less sufficient on coal , as well as increasing energy demands with of course massive (though recently slowing) growth of middle class population and their consumeristic and life needs are also motivators. I’m not sure of the share of generation. There is a fair amount of NIMBYism in China if you check on local or regional news occassionally. I’m not sure about recently but nuclear plants under construction have had protests, as well as serial polluting factories and other cases. I’m not sure if those qualify as NIMBYism but there is a culture of dissent where it affects the outcomes of especially individuals, believe it or not. None of this is in defence of the CCP who can go suck an egg and who have been much more stern in their responses to dissent in recent years.

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