Yeah, and all because god forbid you give your (future) employees time to learn another language besides JavaScript. Nope, line must go up so programming must be further commodified.

!dadjokes@lemmy.world

I think you need to beat the pork vigorously first, to tenderize the meat, you know

I disagree, a fridge to me is a cool place to put a big screen for useful information. You know, all the stuff that was promised and under delivered on when they first pitched smart fridges, like shopping lists, calendars, the weather.

The reason why in 2025 I would never consider buying a fridge with an internet connection, is because it’s clear I’m never getting those features from fridge manufacturers. They would only put a network connection on a fridge for half baked “features”, which get more ads with every firmware update, and eventually remotely brick the device. In short, to enshittify your smart fridge.

My point is that it’s not that there is no reason to not put a network connection on a fridge. It’s that capitalists can’t be trusted not to enshittify whatever useful smart feature they implement.

Yeah Stalin was like “You want to see totalitarianism with socialist window dressing?”

I think this is mostly a symptom of the gerontocracy. Most elected officials have not grown up with computers, which is already likely to make them incurious about them. Couple that with being in office so long, likely developing a very high opinion of themselves that they know best. I would guess a significant minority is actively hostile to learning anything about computers, so you can hire any professional to explain stuff with baby talk, it won’t work on them. Combine that with the rest of the technologically illiterate politicians just being indifferent, and you get this kind of policy.

It makes more sense if you read it as a threat.

Yup, just look at what happened to De Blasio. Mild criticism and they kidnapped his daughter.

Now that’s a tax rate I could get behind.

It’s not even the original spare I think. If you look at the middle brake light there’s way too much room.

Irish people have contemporary, first-hand experience with colonialism and oppression from the British. I think their support for Palestine is admirable and brave, but it’s also not surprising given their recent and not-so-recent history.

That’s reparations for capitalism

Why? Because of the chat control stuff?

Also it’s mostly security through obscurity. It is just difficult enough to dissuade most people, but not actually secure because that costs money.

That’s true yeah, there is a lot less retail investment in those companies.

What is similar to the dot com bubble though is many “smaller” companies (i.e. not Google or Meta) are buying into AI as an investment into infrastructure for their company, just like was happening with useless websites during the dot com bubble.

The AI bubble is going to be like the dot com bubble I think, but with the world being so heavily financialized it might spiral into something like 2008 or worse…

WE WILL WIN! WE WON’T REST!

Consolidation in real-estate and the entertainment industry are why. In real-estate it leads to higher rents and mortgages, which for restaurants makes the location more expensive, but also the staff because they need to make rent as well. In entertainment it’s all just ticketmaster, which owns venues and the ticketing system. That makes them able to double dip on every ticket, since they can charge exorbitant rents for event locations, and also take IIRC a 30% fee on every ticket sold.

I doubt they’ll be that stupid, however, all bets are off with the MBA’s back behind the wheel…

Man I adored my Pebble back in the day, and I’ll never forgive FitBit for buying the company just to kill off competition. I kind of want to buy the new one, but with them being based in the US I’m a bit scared of getting a nasty surprise due to import taxes…