Maybe it’s Mike Johnson monitoring his son’s porn? I guess that tracking app didn’t quite cut it for him.

Next up: You get a free hour if you watch this AI slop ad. And since we’ve now required eye tracking to be enabled, if you look away from the ad for even a moment, then pay up.

A third take is that they are unhinged cult members who are high on their own supply. Although I expect it’s a mix of both types (maybe within the same people).

A/b testing? It’s not paywalled for me, although maybe the link was changed as another user mentioned.

I’ll add that wired links are not usually paywalled for me either.

I suspect it’s the same people that blindly copied stackoverflow code without understanding it. Which is likely where the LLMs are getting most of its answers from in the first place.

What a country!

Right, but then we are back to the question of how these companies are supposed to make money. I suppose hardware manufacturers will be okay with this outcome but I’m not sure how these heavily inflated software companies will profit under a local first world. So we are back to the bubble deflating or bursting.

People will pay $10 a month for chat GPT to write their emails.

They won’t even pay that in many cases but instead rely on the free offerings. Expect those to go away altogether, to be heavily hamstring, or to become absolutely riddled with advertisements.

It’s more likely to go up in price for the foreseeable future.

Collaborative editing and the like isn’t really easy to solve with other methods. Maybe a P2P approach could be viable.

Magit is err… magic, but the Emacs hurdle means many avoid it understandably.

Hopefully forgejo will have federation released soon which will make interacting across projects easier. Although maybe that will just encourage the bots to use it, so can’t win really.

See what happened to Xiaomi bootloader unlocking for an example of this in action.

I think all of these have sdcard mods now (and the 360 had long had HDD mods from memory).

Visual novels are well represented and sometimes more complete than their PC counterparts as it has become pretty dominant in Japan. Other than that, I’ve never really gotten into Nintendo’s first party games either. Somehow, they just don’t hold my attention.

Once businesses were on board, Facebook hoped to sell them analytics tools, too.

Then once we’ve got them hooked, it’s Enshitttification Time!

I’ve found that most of their games are overpriced and take years to lose their value, as well as being more demanding of hardware then their image quality suggests. Still, a shame to lose a publisher doing AAA single player games that aren’t live service slop.

And the Black Mirror episode Be Right Back.

They also initially took content from libgen, which is a fair bit less legal. Personally, I have mixed feelings about all of this. On the one hand, I don’t like some shitty for-profit AI company making money from the collective works of civilisation. On the other hand, I think copyright protects works for far too long anyway and most should be in the commons already. Mind you, I would be more sympathetic if Anthropic et al. were doing all this for research purposes instead of capitalism. Maybe that would be a better copyright reform, in that it expires much more quickly than the current laws (say 10 years) but restricts third parties making a profit for a longer period. Likely that would be complex to design and enforce, however.

I still complain about the lack of the headphone jack (and SD slot). It’s just become almost impossible to buy one that supports it without it being lacking in some other way. But I held out for ten years at least.

I get you’re making a broader point about how most people act and I agree.