This feels like rage bait.

Once again dominated by stardew valley for me

‘White’ isn’t an ethnicity.

“Black” isn’t a single ethnicity either, so by your logic it’s impossible to be racist to them?

Making a small assumption about someone’s hot sauce preferences isn’t racist nor prejudiced; that’s just making a generalization.

Generalising based on someone’s race is racism, surely you know that?

If an Asian walked into my restaurant and I looked him up and down and said “you should probably have the fried rice”, that would be racist.

It doesn’t matter whether there’s “injustice” to the statement, or whether he took offence. It’d still be a racist statement.

Clutch your pearls and continue to desperately vie for offense

The only one doing that here is you. As I’ve already stated, it’s so mild a form of racism that I doubt anybody cares. But it’s still racism. Racism that you feel very passionately should be protected or encouraged.

Christmas wasn’t really a THING in England at that point

??? It absolutely was a thing. A huge thing.

it hadn’t been too long ago that Christmas was banned as a practice in the UK

Christmas celebrations were banned for a 2 year period under Cromwell, almost 200 years earlier. Even then it saw huge backlash and public resistance.

Dickens wrote with the intention of bringing back the Christmases he remembered of his youth

They never went away.

Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol because he was very concerned with the plight of poor people, the working class not having enough time with their families, child labour, and the wealthy keeping all their money to themselves with no regard for those below them.

I truly don’t know where you got the idea from that Christmas wasn’t a thing, that Christmas was banned shortly before, or that Christmas was a thing in Dickens’ youth but not his adulthood.

Do you not notice the “can” in your excerpt?

And no, no, no. Don’t try to play off your chosen definition of racism as the ‘academic’ one, and imply any other definitions are wrong. That’s not how this works.

Literally the first line on Wikipedia, your chosen source:

Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to inherited attributes and can be divided based on the superiority of one race or ethnicity over another.

But here’s some other sources:

The belief that there are different races of people with different characteristics and abilities, and that some races are better than others; a general belief about a whole group of people based only on their race

• Oxford dictionary

Harmful or unfair things that people say, do, or think based on the belief that their own race makes them more intelligent, good, moral, etc. than people of other races.

• Cambridge dictionary

The belief that each race has distinct and intrinsic attributes.

• American Heritage dictionary

All of these describe this scenario perfectly. I’m not really sure why you’re so ready to defend such a mildly racist situation.

Do you think they just get charged without any evidence?

Judging someone’s personality or their likes/dislikes by their ethnicity is definitely racist, I don’t see how you could possibly argue it isn’t?

Of course it’s a bit racist, but not offensive. Nobody’s going to be losing sleep over someone assuming they can’t handle spice based on their skin colour.

Some of Mozilla’s AI integrations have been amazing, despite the community crying about it. Like private, offline translation (I don’t care what anybody says, this is much better than sending the contents of your web page to a proprietary Google Translate server), and enhanced screen reader functionality.

But this one puzzles me. They’re not being very descriptive, but it seems like it’s just integrating generic LLM stuff? Not really what I’m after personally. At least it’s opt-in, I guess.

I’ve always been surprised that Nintendo never saw any litigation over pretty much calling their racing game Formula 0

I work in IT and have since 2011… most people are buying $800+ phones for no reason

I do actually agree, but it’s funny you say this in a post where you’re glazing the Galaxy S4.

Adjusted for inflation that thing would cost $876 today.

But yeah, people spend way more than they need to on phones. Midrange or used is perfectly fine.

If you look at the top sellers, SATA SSDs still occupy a few of those spots, including 3rd place.

There is still huge demand for SATA SSDs.

On the contrary people expect this to be a step towards a general redistribution of manufacturing capacity towards HBM for parallel compute products.

That is where much of the overall wafers are going. But that would be happening regardless of whether the Crucial brand is around or not. Even if Crucial was still a thing going forward, those same wafers would still be going towards HBM.

I think he hit the nail on the head when he said that Crucial being cancelled is just a symptom of our shit market, not one of the causes. It makes zero difference.

Who says the Samsung NAND couldn’t be bought by other OEMs to make consumer SSDs

His point is that Samsung (the manufacturer) is scrapping production, not that Samsung (the consumer brand) is stopping selling products that otherwise are still being produced and sold under different brand names.

Stopping production of something sold under many brands is obviously a lot worse than a brand stopping sales of something that other brands will still sell (albeit in lower quantities in previous years due to HBM production being ramped up at the cost of DDR5).

There are plenty of reasons to put SSDs in a home server.

Needlessly divisive identity politics that gets spread around a lot in the form of tweets/articles/memes because it’s controversial.

Unless the dataset, weighting, and every aspect is open source, it’s not truly open source, as the OSI defines it.

OpenAI is pretty well established.

I know Lemmy users avoid it, but a lot of people use LLMs, and when most people think LLMs, they think ChatGPT. I doubt the average person could name many or even any others.

That means whenever these people want to use an LLM, they automatically go to OpenAI.

As for to the degree of $300bn, who knows. Big tech has had crazy valuations for a long time.

Oracle recently put out a ridiculously optimistic forecast that had them matching AWS within a handful of years. At first the market loved it.

Now I think people are beginning to realise that was a load of bollocks and that they were just overhyping the stock.

Brand recognition cannot be overstated.

If there was a better-than-YouTube alternative right now, YouTube would still dominate.

If there was a phone OS superior to Android and iOS, they would both still dominate.

If there was a search engine that worked far better than Google, Google would still dominate.

The average person won’t look into LLM reasoning benchmarks. They’ll just use the one they know, ChatGPT.

There are other even more dyslexic-legible fonts that IMO look better

It really doesn’t, but it that’s how you want to run away from the truth little guy then go ahead.