Punching down vs punching up
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maxinstuff@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for FreeEnglish
26·1 年前So…. not a legitimate business then.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Founder and CEO of Telegram messaging service arrested in FranceEnglish
1354·1 年前This shit is why end to end encryption is so important.
All platforms, no matter how trustworthy, can be corrupted. No e2e, no privacy.
It’s pretty crazy to watch enshittification play out in real time.
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News@lemmy.world•MAGA world is really mad that Trump is no longer running against BidenEnglish
32·2 年前Do they think the dems didn’t spend a bunch promoting Biden?
He won’t though…
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World News@lemmy.world•Why the far right is surging all over the world: The “reactionary spirit” and the roots of the US authoritarian momentEnglish
527·2 年前It’s been clear for some time that centrists are sick of being screamed at and called nazis by an increasingly noisy far-left contingent.
If you genuinely think the Republican Party are fascist nazis… I mean there is simply no discussion that will be productive.
Not American, but “less worse than the other guy,” doesn’t seem like a winning argument to me.
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News@lemmy.world•Embattled Bob Menendez tells allies he'll resign: reportEnglish
01·2 年前I don’t know much about this person, but I do know the media code-word “embattled” is only used when you’re circling the drain.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Google and Microsoft consume more energy than 100+ countries | Windows CentralEnglish
101·2 年前Are we talking consumed for their own use? Or consumed as part of delivering cloud services to their customers?
These are very different things. The former would be horrifying the latter would be misleading in the extreme.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employeesEnglish
61·2 年前Why would Valve produce their own GPU’s?
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Technology@lemmy.world•Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employeesEnglish
102·2 年前Hint: none of those companies need all of those employees.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Switzerland mandates all software developed for the government be open sourcedEnglish
57·2 年前This doesn’t seem like a big deal?
The fact the code is open sourced is much less significant than the fact now the Swiss government will need to negotiate complete ownership of any software they commission.
That’s going to make things more expensive for them, and limit the vendors prepared to work with them.
Their systems, their call 🤷♂️
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Technology@lemmy.world•US Government Launches New Attempt to Gather Data on Electricity Usage of Bitcoin MiningEnglish
11·2 年前For years crypto investors were warned that it was the wild west, and after everything that’s now happened do people still actually believe this?
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Technology@lemmy.world•US Government Launches New Attempt to Gather Data on Electricity Usage of Bitcoin MiningEnglish
41·2 年前We all know the answer - too damn much.
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News@lemmy.world•Largest UK public sector trial of four-day week sees huge benefits, research findsEnglish
01·2 年前Your competitors are willing to work 5 days.
The studies mean nothing, they’re all done in vacuums with government or very sheltered (or overfunded) companies.
It cannot work until it’s legislated (like the 40 hr work week was).
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News@lemmy.world•Largest UK public sector trial of four-day week sees huge benefits, research findsEnglish
01·2 年前This old chestnut again.
It’s always some government department or tech company sitting on a pile of VC money.
Easy to make it work when the people were barely working in the first place, and with no competitive pressure.
Let’s see it at a construction project with a real deadline, or at a business in any kind of competitive industry.
Does anyone actually think that day 5 of a work week has a zero or even negative productivity value?
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Technology@lemmy.world•Qualcomm spends millions on marketing as it is found better battery life, not AI features, is driving Copilot+ PC salesEnglish
471·2 年前Linux support also appears to be coming along nicely (though not ready yet).
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World News@lemmy.world•Australia accused of discriminating against disabled migrantsEnglish
14·2 年前They’ve been here 8 years on working visas, neither is a permanent resident.
Unfortunately Australia does not grant citizenship by birth unless at least one of the parents is a permanent resident.
Not sure what their plans were, but it sure is a shitty situation if they were anywhere close to being granted permanent visas.
To me this just demonstrates how fucked our working visa system is.


Good.
The extra hour of sunshine cannot be good for global temperatures.