Migrated away from Google because they’re just genuinely useless.

Search results are infested with AI bullshit and SEO slop, can’t actually search for anything useful unless you know the website you’re looking for, in which case I just go to the website directly.

Youtube curates a selection of completely irrelevant videos to try to shove ads down your throat, I still have to change my user agent string every time because YouTube throws a hissy fit at firefox with ublock.

Gmail is pretty much the same as any other email provider but comes at the expense of your data being sold for advertising purposes.

Don’t even get me started on the shit show that is Android.

I run GrapheneOS, Fedora and debian, self host what I can and use decent providers for what I can’t. I’m the furthest away from the big tech corps than I’ve ever been and it feels great to have computers that actually compute and not serve me useless fucking ad drivel.

I miss when hardware upgrades actually did something that wasn’t capitulating to Microsoft’s shitty operating systems.

4chan is back online just so you know

I think this would be more effective on the fediverse too, bots are trying to engage as wide an audience as possible, which gives us a metric to monitor activity across the fediverse.

For example, a user might post an article to the news community on their preferred instances whereas a bot will unbiasedly post it on all instances it deems fit to share with.

This isn’t perfect but it’s another metric to help weight and quantify bot activity for an automated defense system. RSS feeds and the like can specifically flag their accounts as automated to avoid misbans from the system too

It’s well beyond that, we’re in a mass extinction event. They should be tried for crimes against humanity, these companies have known the affects of climate change for decades and have been complicit in it.

Pfft we got rid of that yonks ago, now you just have to have an AI rewrite your documentation as a million shitty tutorials that are all search-engine optimised on different websites and hope the user finds one semi-legible.

It’s a piece of piss, literally.

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Sweet as, I’ll buy a dedicated box and spin up a few instances

For anyone curious to do the same thing, lenovo thinkcentre mini pcs are cheap as chips second hand and make good little homelabs

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Yeah but 0^0 = 1, maybe we just need to inject him with heaps of meth first or something. It’s not like we could make the situation worse

One of the richest people in the world has the humour of a 14 year old boy slipping through the cracks of the education system.

I guess it doesn’t really surprise me though, if only this money went to something good.

Sweet just in time for me to start my first playthrough

Oh god youre the person behind all the legacy codebases I’ve maintained

Oh I can definitely get behind that, I have my gripes with how the current climate consensus is insidiously stacked to give policymakers leeway and mislead the public with this bullshit.

I’m reading through it now and this part on NGFS reports really captures the sentiment:

This is analogous to carrying out a risk assessment of the impact of the Titanic hitting an iceberg but excluding from our model the possibility that the ship could sink, the shortage of lifeboats, and death from drowning or hypothermia.

As much as I hate talking about ‘duh economee’ when it comes to climate change (a thing that threatens the existence of us and many other beings) this report nails it.

Also the critical observations are good talking points when dealing with deniers/idiots

At 4C of warming the feedback loops of Earth begin to accelerate at an unprecedented rate, the economy is irrelevant from this point onwards.

Just one of these feedback loops has more CO2 equivalent than over 60% of anthropogenic emissions since the industrial revolution.

At 4C of warming the human race is due for extinction unless through its self perceived exceptionalism it somehow manages to circumvent the laws of thermodynamics.

The alternative is we start building a better tomorrow TODAY.

Tbh I don’t want modern Bethesda trying to touch Morrowind, it’s beyond their comprehension.

I wonder how well the patent would stick though? If someone implements a similar enough system and it’s taken to court the whole patent could be invalidated if the court rules against it

Still, I wonder how many genuinely fun concepts and systems for video games have been locked behind patents. I don’t even buy AAA titles anymore, they’re all gobshite because of the MBA vermin

Ubiquitous cheap batteries also make renewable energy extremely feasible making a happier future for us all. :)

I hope this tech kicks off asap

Ahaha I guess you can only resell skyrim so many times…

Looking forward to playing it, but I’m not paying for another goddamn fucking remake Todd. Yarr.