CosmicTurtle0 [he/him]

DeBeers used this strategy for decades and it’s worked out for them.

Line of organized capital must go up.

Fuck humans if line goes up. Fuck humans if line goes down.

This is the kind of Robin Hood shit I can get behind.

Steal from people who not only increased prices for the common folks but can easily afford the loss. Give it back to folks who are just trying to live their lives.

Fuck AI.

I was actually talking about this with a friend of mine. The sad part is that people who use AI bots for smut are being conditioned that humans will react like their bot.

And as a result, creating more red pills/incels that think that people will just drop their pants at their prompts.

The fact that these services are so popular is very concerning and really hope that people find the connection with other people that they are looking for.

You know, if they did nothing wrong, there’s nothing for them to worry about.

Capital One does something similar and it’s so fucking annoying. They send text messages that read “Your transaction for some company was DECLINED! Take action now: http://someweirddomain.com/sketchy/uri”

I used URL Checker to figure out where it ultimately landed and it does go to Capital One.

I’ve even complained about this and they said, “Well, you should know these texts only come from us.”

Maybe before they needed to lick Trump’s taint. They would rather get on his good side than be “regulated” to death.

Let’s not say never. Because they can course correct but it has to be hard pivot:

• immediately recognize the union
• in the same statement, provide a path for every other employee to form a union and guarantee that if formation passes, that they will immediately recognize it
• commit whatever amount they were going to pay their union busting attorneys plus 25% towards helping other unionizing efforts across the tech industry
• provide free legal services for unions at other companies to help them get recognized

The fact that Wikimedia foundation chose profits over people is absolutely disgusting.

Arrests don’t mean anything.

Are they getting convicted?

Almost like they want to profit by harming kids.

I’m going to disagree slightly.

IMO, outlook is bloated. It has too many features that are either confusing or difficult to use. Microslop should have released a completely new mail app and given it a new providence along with modern features.

Think gmail but it would work with any email account.

Made with modern programming practices. Streamlined and zippy.

But nope.

They needed to create Outlook (new). Which they enshittified.

I fucking hate Outlook. It is stuck in the age of emails being the primary source of communication in a company. Teams isn’t any better. (Give me back slack please!!!)

But let’s be clear here: we (the users) aren’t Outlook customers. Corporate IT is. And from their standpoint, Outlook does exactly what they need it to do.

Conservative logic be like: “It’s personal responsibility. If you don’t want to get an abortion, just don’t have sex!”

Also Conservatives: “We can’t have anyone look at porn! So we must make it as difficult as possible for people to view porn.”

Here’s the thing: we can’t even trust them to release the unredacted files at this point. There is no 100% truth with this administration.

If they did release unredacted files, we’d have to ask why. We’d have to ask “why now? What’s missing?”

The sad thing is that this is the alt-right goal: to erode trust in our systems. And they have fucking succeeded in spades.

During COVID: we made record profits!!! But we can’t afford to give anyone raises

During AI: We spent too much money on tokens. So we can’t afford to give anyone raises.

Accounts and backups

[Admin] Claude, the company has declared bankruptcy and we’ve been asked by the board of directors to begin scaling down our systems. Please truncate all our tables and begin rolling back our backups.

I got really lucky. I bought my PC between the crypto crash, right before the AI uprising.

Buying from Costco is still relatively decent.

Company is going to challenge that they can’t give that away for privacy reasons.

But they can sell it for profit reasons.

They no longer provide a free tier. It was 10 login entries and I think 5 simultaneous logins.

I use Dashlane myself. It’s free tier is 10 logins which is a bit of a joke.

I like Keepass and do use it for my non-critical stuff. I sync using syncthing

Edit: Dashlane no longer offers a free tier.

But AI would be doing the debugging, not humans.

Why would AI bros need to worry about reading the code?