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• Post #3274235

  How can something implode that doesn’t exist?

• Post #2910652

  They are just as profit-driven as US corporations are. They are also leading the world in coal mining. And I remember people singing the same song about Japan in the late 70s as they do about China now. Extrapolation works perfectly in a world with no limiting factors.

• Post #1104421

  felt I could justify buying a used Tesla, as it wasn’t giving him any money He’ll still get money for the subscribable services scam and dealer service.

• Post #840817

  More like tattooing her ass on your face, and everyone in the bar nodding and saying “Been there, won’t be going back.”

• Post #840734

  It’s not dead. I have elderly relatives who still use it.

• Post #840710

  No do the same with the unwanted AI shit.

• Post #770653

  Marx’s view was that socialism would develop as an emergent phenomenon (a modern term, not one he used) to correct the contradictions of capitalism. But in both Russia and China, they tried to impose socialism on what were essentially feudal societies. The result was state capitalism, the industrial revolution imposed at gunpoint with no control of the means of production by the workers. And, as capitalist societies, both countries continued the imperialism and nationalism of their predecessor r...

• Post #769013

  Uncontrolled capitalism is the wealth inequality machine. AI is just one of many enablers of that much more pervasive system.

• Post #760907

  Unless capitalists are forced to share their gains, they won’t.

• Post #739492

  Locked out of driving your car because of a false positive from an unreliable algorithm. Sounds typical. There’s no shortage of idiot legislators who will accept a bullshit sales pitch, especially when it’s accompanied by a campaign donation.

• Post #542164

  Also it creates space junk that can damage or destroy other satellites.

• Post #477903

  So your reasoning is that it’s not enforced now, so it’ll never be enforced? Okay, no point in bothering then, huh?

• Post #477443

  I’m a software and systems architect. Architecture won’t save you if the implementation is crap. That’s just marketing jive talk.

• Post #477203

  Also tax evasion.

• Post #42713

  And, if I recall correctly, the other option besides rolling their own interpreter was to just use Scheme as the browser scripting language. Which would have been immeasurably better.

• Post #41820

  “End-to-end encrypted using the time-tested ROT-13 cypher.” Or something even more porous.

• Post #27013

  what you find online through search engines is only the standard case which just so happens to not work for you for some odd reason Usually because the highest-rated solution is half-assed bullshit proposed by an overconfident newbie (or an LLM regurgitating it). I mainly use Stack Overflow as a way to become pissed off enough that I’ll go solve the problem myself, like I should have done in the first place. Indignation As A Service.

• Post #26980

  It’s even worse than that. Porsches are locked by default, and can only be enabled remotely.