Dang it, I was coming in to make the joke.

I feel like “ai generated” music when it’s not lyrical isn’t such an awful thing - ambient sound and the like. I mean, music may not be mathematically solved yet, but we’ve certainly had music-generation algorithms for decades, and there’s no real harm in that. There’s a time and a place for a human to create art, and times for artificially created pleasant sound.

Good. Let him be unhappy. I support any ATC workers not working while unpaid.

When I can access it, I’ll be happy.

Okay, but he didn’t need to make a whole video just to pitch his own detergent powder.

Frankly, it feels like he’s sold out. Every one of his recent videos seems like a way to sell something rather than just an effort to educate or highlight something neat.

Between this and the socks, I really feel like Alec has gone downhill lately.

Oh, she’s going to take up her father’s heritage? What’s next, the younger sister trying to become an Olympic runner?

F-droid and my (example) personal-site-turned-app-store rejoice!

Until Google kills them soon.

So do what my better half and i did - buy a ring from Etsy with a lab-grown stone.

So I guess I’m going to have to learn to use ADB.

I understand where you’re coming from, but that means they care about making sure that the number goes up, rather than fluctuating wildly. And they absolutely don’t want rugpulls (unless they’re the ones holding the rug). That’s the kind of stability I’m talking about. No tycoon actually wants a free market, they want the regulations to make sure that they have a chance to corner the market and protect them against their enemies.

Honestly, this is a huge step forward. I know it sounds dumb, but regulating the crypto market as securities will help provide stability to crypto and help classic securities become more adaptable. I’ve been waiting since day 1 for the SEC to step in here.

So LLMs operate like blind people - like every other web scraper and chatbot to exist.

Lol. That’s called giving away money. If you do that, you don’t stay elite very long.

Anyone who’s a fan of mecha anime or games already knew this. The human body is a comedy of errors masquerading as a marvel of bioengineering. We’re just fish who forgot how to swim and learned how about economics.

You as a person don’t need direct representation, usually (though having a lawyer ready us always a benefit). The only way to stop the social media companies from extracting value and facilitating harmful criminal behavior is to stop their actions completely. Yes, that affects people. Yes, that means people won’t be able to use an online service. But if all social media went away tomorrow, the only one I’d actually miss would be YouTube.

Fediverse instances have a different structure, and what should happen is that the owner of each instance that wants to operate in Nepal should register with the government, and only federate with those who are also registered. Otherwise, you’ve lost out on a country that barely us a blip on the Internet radar, with the exception of rich, entitled, jerks ruining Everest and adding to the colossal body count.

No matter what, it’s not worth dying for. Protesting in favor of big companies is dumb from the start. Protesting in favor of niche platforms is dumb. Don’t risk your life for anything but life-and-death situations.

Ongoing development of mbin and attention to the platform as a whole. His lack of overt politics compared to the Lemmy devs also makes me happier. Plus, as an admin, he’s mostly hands-off in my n experience, certainly not a micromanaging mod.

Another kbin.social refugee here. I only moved when it was obvious that Ernest wasn’t coming back. So instead, I decided to lean on Melroy, who’s been an awesome admin and dev.

So, Ernest, I wish you nothing but the best. Thanks for kicking off a small revolution. And Melroy - thank you for taking up the torch.

My experience is that basically, if you actually want to do anything meaningful with video, you need to host your own instance, because no one wants to be beholden to the bandwidth, especially if it gets any uptake. In which case, obviously, you’re on your own for the costs. The only way I can see PeerTube working is if a few of the medium size YouTubers & Twitch streamers with decent monthly Patreon takes band together and fund it that way.