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It all comes down to greed and enshitification in the end.
It all comes down to greed and enshitification in the end.
Joined on one instance, it went away, had to create a new account on this instance.
Finding communities and content has been challenging, at least Memmy has the number of subscribers front and center when searching.
Content depth could be better.
These are also, IMO, growing pains that will resolve over time
Heinlein wrote eloquently on the subject in more than one essay. ”The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress” being one, and “The Man Who Sold the Moon” another.
Transparency is not a bad thing, as long as it’s applied equally.
Will look for it, thanks.
Need an aquatic version for Nessie.
Gear on the cheap?
If you’re patient and can self-support, your local non-profits and their online stores may be useful.
It’s rare to see big gear NIB, but it does happen; have seen rack mount Cyberpower, 10 outlet, hi-watt units, IOB going for around $200+ in the last 6 months. Picked up a previous generation, 5 disk NAS for a tenth of its retail price, used.
You’re north of my border so my sites won’t work for you, but seriously, look into any Goodwill/Salvation Army type organizations, and don’t neglect local, they can be rewarding too.
GL&HF!
Would also like to know more, started there after fleeing u/spez’s meltdown.
edit:fucking predictive spelling
Actually, politicians give up public privacy under the fiction of helping children, repeatedly.
I cringe every time “online” and “children” are uttered in the same breath.
Oh, no, rural broadband and the telco money pit that was going to make it a reality are very real and I consider myself lucky to live where I actually have “choice” in my provider options.
As for performance clauses, who’s to say whether they were there and stripped out in committee.
My house is gigabit, everything else as a standard should be as well, IMO.
“Brighter than a 30 watt lightbulb.”, yep, have to agree.
This is the poster child for enshittification; RIP bluebird, we salute what you were.
Can’t risk it going “woke”, doncha know? /s
In a perfect world maybe it would work that way, but I’ve seen too much enshittifaction via vertical integration or ego driven CEObros to have anything but skepticism for industry regulation, self-regulation in particular.
“This highlights issues with A-I generated content crowding out human writers and the need for Google to better regulate such sites to ensure quality.”
Can agree with the first part of that statement, but Google regulating…feels like handing a fox the keys to the hen house.
Regulation of industry should be coming from our legislators, but they’re too busy polarizing their base, abasing themselves to donors and gilding their own cages to care.
Apologies for the rant, but this whole “AI” imbroglio is a textbook case of the cart put before the horse whilst heading downhill.
Shiiiit. Bard, Chat GPT, etc., are the LLM AIs we’ve been allowed to see.
We have no clue what’s in the closet over there, let alone in the cage in the back room.