Most people have no critical thinking skills whatsoever. You can see it in the polls everywhere.

I‘m surprised Stoat is gaining so much traction here. It‘s no open source and will likely go down the same path as Discord if given the chance.

Becoming independent from the US empire‘s dollar or oil is a serious crime that gets punished with dictatorship. It‘s no coincidence the US is launching a cascade of fascist think tanks and lobby groups against Europe right now.

I’m afraid they‘ll get a slap on the wrist and be forced to introduce face ID or something equally harmful for users after politicians get involved. I don‘t trust these things anymore when „it‘s about the children!“

On one hand yeah sure, people ditched Skype and MSN as soon as something better came along but that was a long time ago. Discord has sadly been the go-to for people for over a decade. Many users literally grew up with it. They are conditioned. A lot has to happen for them to leave their comfort zone. It‘s like asking someone to stop drinking coke or get McDonald‘s after they‘ve had it for their entire life.

I‘ll say this probably won‘t be the straw that breaks the camel‘s back but there is a silver lining. Discord will lose revenue over this and might change course quickly. This already rolled out in Canada and from what I‘ve heard many users cancelled Nitro at least. That‘s a start. Discord may also try to milk remaining users even harder as a result very soon and that will definitely put them into a down spiral.

Everything running on LLMs can easily be dislodged with prompt injection. This is just a translator so the worst it can do is establishing a parasocial relationship with users I guess.

But over 30 years of cybersecurity go down the drain with agent based clients and operating systems and there is no fix in sight. It‘s the epitome of vaporware except big tech is actually shipping it against better judgement.

Oh I never ever intended to imply it‘s a good thing. It just is. They won‘t give in or can be reasoned with. They became billionaires because they care about money, status and power.

Way too late. This has been a talking point for a while. The AI bubble will burst but that doesn‘t mean they‘ll just return to their roots. Those new data centers need a use case and they need a good reason to keep building more.

I guess the silver lining is that this plan B won‘t work out either so we‘ll have to see. But until then we better take good care of our current hardware. It will probably have to last a good while longer.

I don‘t own Razer products but I knew it was over for them when they revealed the tabletop waifu echo dot knockoff. They‘re too far gone.

The whole economy reminds me more and more of the decline of the Roman Empire. Their biggest problem was that there were no consumers left to keep money in circulation and the economy afloat. You either owned lots of land and slaves that provided pretty much everything you need or you were a slave, meaning the only one you could trade with were merchants from outside the empire but as the empire expanded, those became harder to reach. War expenses spiraled out of control while the economy declined until it ceased to exist.

Now mega corps only trade with each other and threaten to replace all workers with AI and robots. Meanwhile the economy becomes stale, people buy less while politicians around the globe cut down the social sector, meaning people will have even less money to spare. Money won‘t circulate as much, slowing things down even further.

There are ways out of this spiral of decline but billionaires won‘t give up so easily. You can say many things about them but they are persistent as hell.

Yeah no shit?

So they invested like $100 billion in AI just for the stock price to slide down by 10%? And Jeff was already so excited for consumers and especially gamers to not own anything anymore.

You mean it‘s still censored?

I can‘t decide whether you‘re being way too optimistic about AI in the foreseeable future or about millennials.

Time to break it up because it‘s a monopoly that spans over several industries for no good reason at all but oh wait the USA is a dysfunctional mess so nothing will be done about it.

I do not understand the desire to have alternatives to the world‘s dumbest format. We had good video platforms that worked. Users had agency. Short form video stripped everything away that made the internet a great place once. It‘s poison for society. It needs no alternatives. It just needs to implode.

Unfortunately this would be a gift for stupid liars because only honest people who seek the truth would use it. It‘s a good example for a way to hell that was paved with good intentions. Beautifully naive.

It sure was the last Windows I ever needed. Privately at least.

I know some of them personally and they usually claim to have decent to very good media literacy too. I would even say some of them are possibly more intelligent than me. Well, usually they are but when it comes to tech, they miss the forest for the trees I think.

Maybe to left leaning Americans. To a European like me they look essentially identically bad and promote authoritarianism. I wouldn‘t use either version.