Just another voice yelling in the void.
I’ve probably protested for your rights. I’m definitely on at least one list.
I believe firmly that everyone should have a fair shake and as much freedom as they can be afforded - so long as it does not encroach on the freedoms of others.
Occasionally a wordy cunt who will type a book when a sentence or two will suffice.
Absolutely. I should have used the term productivity rather than service. Lack of caffeine had blunted my vocabulary. In essence: more output for less work. Output in this case is profit.
Enshitification is, in essence, the push beyond diminishing returns into the ‘lossy’ space … sacrificing a for b. The end result is an increasingly shitty experience.
It’s technically closer to Schrodinger’s truth. It goes both ways depending on “when” you look at it. Publicly traded companies are more or less expected to adopt AI as it is the next “cheap” labor… so long as it is the cheapest of any option. See the very related: slave labor and it’s variants, child labor, and “outsourcing” to “less developed” countries.
The problem is they need to dance between this experimental technology and … having a publicly “functional” company. The line demands you cut costs but also increase service. So basically overcorrection hell. Mass hirings into mass firings. Every quarter / two quarters depending on the company… until one of two things becomes true: ai works or ai no longer is the cheapest solution. I imagine that will rubberband for quite some time. (saas shit like oracle etc)
In short - I’d not expect this to be more than a brief reprieve from a rapidly drying well. Take advantage of it for now - but I’d recommend not expecting it to remain.
It’s like drugs and alcohol in that the urge is there just no easy and legal access to the same outlets. In the case of porn - I’d say it’s gonna get bad.
Will they fear monger? Have they wasted a single opportunity to do so yet? I’d be hard pressed to point at a time where we had stopped.
…or anything Christians don’t like into one big bin called illegal?
Not to lump everyone into the same boat but I’ll take the low hanging fruit for the obvious low blow:
I’ll tell you one thing that those churches seem to like that will definitely not see an uptick as we make legal outlets less accessible…
Prohibition and the war on drugs sure worked out well when they were implemented. Surely this time …
… I mean getting rid of standards and quality control … and testing can’t possibly have adverse effects here. Ah well. We’re speed running regression in just about everything else: what’s one more offering for the pyre?
Surely the children will thank us for … saving them … when they are older.
Agreed here. Frequently people charge these near where they sleep and the failure mode is… sudden. Couches and beds tend to be really good kindling too.
Urgency in this case is probably warranted.
Gonna be a lot of issues that come from this. Legally speaking. It’s already on the books that an IP address doesn’t represent a single person… so I’m not terribly clear on how they plan to enforce this even if it were to pass.
Charge it in the morning and it’s dead when you go to use it. Good news is: your bag is nice and warm now. That’s what you wanted, right? … right?
This right here is why it’s so VERY important to read things before accepting what is presented as the unblemished truth. 🍻
Don’t be caught being evil…
Share an ice cold one with a friend!
Nintendo isn’t just the nestle of companies to users… they are the same or worse to their own.
I’ve seen people lose teams over errant comments about a novel idea for the IP they would love to see happen, or maybe even be developing as a passion project, purged for the notion that they were anything more than drones.
It’s a disgusting work culture taking advantage of bright eyed developers that grew up with fond memories of the brand. I genuinely love some of the IP and worlds made by the developers - but I will never, ever, spend a fucking penny on that company until it is changed.
mmmm banana bombs, holy hand grenades, and those cursed shopping levels * shudder *
Look I don’t fault developers for kissing the ring. I know and have spoken with multiple devs at different Nintendo affiliated companies and they don’t enjoy it either but it lets them make the games they love for the people that they want to entertain.
I can’t say I support hating a full group of people because that’s not great either. “… except for the Amish but it’ll never get back to them” - John Pinette
I see Nintendo emulation / mod chipping / console hacking I support it. Toxic company deserves a return in kind for its abuse of its fanbase.
Meanwhile StarCraft, one of the most pervasive rts for its time and in the PC gaming sphere in general … let you have multiple people play multiplayer on a single disk. Offline. It’s kinda like it advertised itself and people went out to buy it… which influenced more people… who bought it… gasp.
Mindblowing.
I had this as my take away too. I could personally give two shits about his or any others creators userbase / content - I think that if we want Linux adoption rates up it’s always welcome when it is talked about.
They really haven’t taken massive hits because we are creatures of habit: it’s more convenient to hang around even if we know we’re getting ripped off. There is a conversion rate - but it’s low enough where clearly they believe the market will bear more abuse.