Yup I remember thinking to myself at the time that I must be tasting incorrectly or somehow my tongue is different from everyone else lol.

Yeah I’d still need Windows every day for work

Windows is just so ingrained in everything. Like this job I’m starting soon I’ll need it. At the very least it would be like a dual boot situation and like I said, not even willing to spend a minute let alone begin a whole project. Cheers

I guess a combination of things. Bad early science that was easy to present in a little diagram. Then when it’s disproved, nothing similar to replace it with but the unglamorous fact that it all just sort of tastes the same.

I’m sure lots of other OS work but not really worth the energy for me to switch over and learn a new OS just because I’m annoyed by them wanting to update me to a new version. Once I’m all set up and have learned it, it’ll probably be better than Windows but I’m just not willing to spend even a minute on it.

I dunno… I’ve always used Windows, being annoyed by their requests to update me to the newest version isn’t enough to want to learn a new OS or anything.

I always think about when I was taught about taste and the human tongue back in grade school, they had these diagrams about zones on the tongue corresponding to sweet, sour, bitter, etc. like a “taste map”. I’m not sure how many generations were taught about it but turns out it just isn’t true at all. So, not like it’s important but you got a lot of misinformed folks out there in regards to taste lol

I’m holding out until they force me to upgrade from 10. They’ve tried probably a half dozen times or so already to have me choose to upgrade but it’s been a minute.

Do we get a heads up like “You’re about to suddenly wake up a thousand years ago in England good luck!” BOOSH because otherwise it kinda matters exactly where you get dropped. For me it really wouldn’t matter much, I’d be dead pretty quick either way but someone with some skills might have a go at it.

I’m terrible too lol I only play on PVE servers. Big update 42 is coming down the pipe soon(ish), might be a good time for you all to pick it back up.

I mean it’s a different topic, aside from how a business (for profit or not) takes software (foss or not) and makes money from it. Wikipedia software is used a lot I’m just saying it’s not relevant to what I was talking about. Like if companies didn’t use this free software for internal documenting they would use something else, no biggie. In the same way that if the worlds largest online encyclopedia no longer had Wikipedia software, they would use something else, no biggie. The word wiki is like the word kleenex and that’s great for the founder of wikipedia, maybe? But it’s still just tissue paper.

Steam tells me 4 games over 1000 hours. I had 6136 hours in Crusader Kings 2 when I stopped playing in 2020. 1018 in CK3 but I don’t play it anymore either. 1132 hours in Project Zomboid. 1210 hours in SCUM. Back in the day I put in a stupid amount of hours in Everquest and WoW though.

I guess so. I would really love to see the paid competitor that successfully displaces Wikipedia. It would have to be extremely impressive wouldn’t it? Like paradigm shift level impressive. Any startup that currently claims to do it “better” will also need to make it available for free, or instantly fail because of no users ever bothering to sign up.

I guess I just don’t get how being open sourced code is really relevant to Wikipedia? The code is not special is it? They don’t need donations to pay for elite programmers, it’s servers and IT people. The code being open source means that someone else can copy their own Wikipedia if they felt like competing and thought for some reason that they could. The fact that Wikipedia Foundation is non-profit basically precludes this but I think you answered my question basically anyway, they don’t rely on only donations.

Wow did not know that about MLK! Very interesting! Yet another reason to admire the man. Cheers.

Yeah it works but Wikipedia is constantly threatening to close up because of lack of donations right? That’s a huge fault that persists no matter how well done their fundraising campaign. I wonder are there examples of fundraising where they gather more than enough to foot the bills? Do they expand then like a business would or do they save that excess for next year? I have to assume they’d invest and grow it. Is Wikipedia or lemmy an example of FOSS though? It’s not as simple as open sourced software once you put it on the web and build a business behind it. Maybe the bones of it was FOSS but we’re passed that point now yeah? Obviously I have more questions than answers, just an interested layman. Cheers.

its sort of depressing that they will rely on donations though. would be nice if there was some way for them to make money without gambling on random ppl

Never paranormal. Everything has an explanation sometimes the explanations are beyond our comprehension and I think that’s the tricky little blank spot where people tend to insert whatever the fuck they want in place of the truth. To me being able to admit I will never know certain things is important, I can still keep a open mind while I do that. Basically I’ll believe it when I see it and haven’t heard a believable ghost story in my 40 years. People get scared and they lock that moment into time and refuse to budge on the fact that the reality may not be exactly how they always remembered it, or something.

Mmmm Kraft dinner + tuna

Is the title really relevant to the video? It’s an interesting topic but we have a lot of different points we could jump off from in this video for a discussion. They don’t talk about capitalists scheming to use it as a weapon though. That is an interesting way to describe it for sure. I wonder how they imagine the workers will be exploited despite AI “not being there yet”. If they fire you before they make sure the AI actually works that’s totally on them… I agree.

Seems like the journalists here are trying to articulate a general opinion that does exist about AI without actually holding or really understand that opinion themselves. We do need to worry about how regulations are handled during all of this and corruption is rampant in bureaucracy, inevitably going to find its way into any relevant legislation surrounding AI. If the concern is that we don’t trust our officials to handle it appropriately and therefore we should not try at all, I can’t help but understand and likely agree. I have zero faith as soon as some guy with no passion (99% of politicians) takes over. But, they will attempt it, there’s no turning back. Another single breakthrough in AI could make this entire conversation irrelevant.

AI taking jobs, absolutely inevitable. The same way the conveyor belt took jobs, we can look at AI as another type of automation which capitalists will use to make money. This “weaponizing capitalism” just sounds like capitalism to me and there’s no stopping it. Why would it ever be worth it for an employer to keep you on if they could replace you and do whatever with your savings? That’s straightforward capitalism, not even a loophole or corrupt at all. You want to limit technology advancing so that you can preserve an unnecessary job?

Maybe there’s a socialist agenda here. It’s hard to ignore the sort of inevitable timeline we can envision where there just aren’t a lot of jobs due to AI advancing so much. In that future there really isn’t capitalism as we know it due to the economy no longer having supply and demand. This is where conversations about UBI, higher taxes on the wealthy, taxing corporations based on AI or automation that would represent an employee which no longer exists, etc. which have already been introduced long before such intricate systems of AI were on the front page, machines have been gobbling up jobs since the day they were invented.

TL;DR Automation has been coming for our jerbs for a long time now and AI is just another flavor of automation. We need to adapt somehow