TehPers

The output of a model isn’t speech protected by the 1st amendment, so this lawsuit is dumb. It’ll of course waste time and money though.

So what they’re essentially saying is that if I commit a crime and get subpoenia’d for it, then as long as I’m no longer committing that crime, I can safely ignore the subpoenia.

Got it. I’ll keep that in mind if it ever comes up.

While I can’t speak to the amount itself (somehow the industry as a whole settled on 30%), I do think it’s fair to say that Steam, the App Store, and the Play Store aren’t just payment processors. They also are platforms for users to discover new software/games, and they do a lot of advertising for developers. I can agree with the fee being too high, but I don’t think it’s fair to compare it with PayPal, which only processes the payments.

She’s literally just doing her own version of the MrBeast face. It’s not even that unique. Half the people I watch on YouTube slap their face in their thumbnail, and I don’t watch clickbaity slop.

Just install DeArrow, enable thumbnails through it if needed, and move on.

For roughly the price of a single 9800x3d*, you can buy a complete laptop with a long lasting battery and decent enough specs for web browsing, video playback, and basic office work. It’s unfortunately one of the better devices on the market at that price, especially accounting for the battery life.

*Edit: okay the processors came down in price. Fine, the cost of a kit of decent DDR5 memory, then.

Apple selling a ‘repairable’ and low-end device just looks like a recession indicator to me.

One of the few, I take it?

The lawsuit says Apple did more than just link to content. It claims Apple got around YouTube’s protections to download and use videos directly. The creators argue this breaks the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which bans getting past systems meant to protect copyrighted material.

Nah they can lose that lawsuit fuck that. Not about to see DMCA section 1201 used to block everyone from using a YouTube video ever in any other content.

Agreed. Not only are harassment and abuse not new, but using actual hacking tools to do it is old news too. Maybe the article is just trying to bring it back to attention.

My point was more along the lines of online being impractical. Sure, you can still connect to servers running old software (in which case kernel updates aren’t useful to you anyway), but anything with modern security or software is going to just not run at all on it, whether because the software is too heavy for the processor or because it simply was not compiled for it (and cannot be).

Point is, I think we both agree that the only reasonable usecase for these processors is offline or on a separate network (LAN/tunneled/etc).

What kind of security risk are you at running a 486? You can barely handle the TLS handshake. Modern malware would just brick your system the same way any other modern software would.

If money is speech, then taxes clearly violate the first amendment. In fact, any kind of payment does.

Therefore, I should not have to pay taxes either. It’s not like the rich do, anyway.

The only bet I see here is on large-scale financial decline. If they expected to see any kind of major productivity boosts in the future, they’d be hiring everyone they can.

If he were remotely believable, I’d be skeptically supportive. He’s full of shit though, as he’s always been.

“So in a single building, we can create a lithography mask, make the chip, test the chip, make another mask, and have an incredibly fast recursive loop for improving the chip design.”

He does know how long it takes to make a single wafer at scale, right? Well actually, I guess he doesn’t. GamersNexus has a good fab tour on YouTube that goes over the process and explains just how long it takes for the full production chain, from start to finish. It’s not a very fast process.

The job losses are AI-driven, though. The upper management fucked around with pouring billions into AI and found out, and the people who had nothing to do with that decision get to pay for it.

That’s just what we need. More senior tech workers out of work in Austin.

Hey, we have a ton of those here in Washington too! Maybe if someone finds a way for AI to actually be a productivity booster, they can hire all the tech workers and turn them into money printers with the insane output they’re supposed to produce with it.

The Americas are two separate continents, we aren’t the only Americans.

Bad Bunny’s halftime show called people out for this lol. “God bless America” followed by listing all the countries in the Americas.

Since I don’t really care about him, I asked everyone’s favorite friend (AI) what he has to do with tech, but to respond as a sarcastic Redditor. This is what it told me:

Tech? Oh, now he’s deep in it—can’t escape the guy even if you wanted to.

Back in 2021, Harry jumped straight into Silicon Valley corporate culture by becoming the “Chief Impact Officer” at BetterUp, a $1 billion startup that does executive coaching and mental health support [1][11][12][13]. Yeah, that’s a real job title. No, I don’t know what it means either [4].

Since then, he’s been using his platform to scream about AI, disinformation, and big tech’s evil grip on society. He’s signed open letters calling for a ban on “AI superintelligence” alongside Steve Wozniak, Richard Branson, and—somehow—Steve Bannon [3][5][7][8][14]. Bro’s got range.

He’s also called out Meta for rolling back fact-checking [6], spoken at privacy summits about the “harrowing” damage social media does to kids [9][10], and linked online disinformation to real-world violence during a digital responsibility summit in Colombia [2].

So yeah, he’s not just living off Netflix deals and Oprah specials—he’s full-on tech activist now. Whether any of it actually does anything? That’s another story.

[1]: Prince Harry Takes A Job As ‘Chief Impact Officer’ For Silicon Valley … (15%)

[2]: Prince Harry hits out at spread of disinformation via AI… | The Guardian (14%)

[3]: Prince Harry, Meghan join hundreds urging AI… | Daily Sabah (9%)

[4]: Prince Harry Enters Corporate America—Joining Silicon Valley… (9%)

[5]: Prince Harry, Meghan Markle join with Steve Bannon and… | Fortune (8%)

[6]: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle call for Meta to reverse its… | Fortune (7%)

[7]: Prince Harry, Richard Branson, Steve Bannon, and ‘AI… | Fortune (7%)

[8]: Harry and Meghan join AI pioneers in call for ban on superintelligent … (7%)

[9]: ‘About bloody time’: Prince Harry welcomes lawsuits against tech firms … (7%)

[10]: Prince Harry Welcomes Lawsuits Against Major Tech Firms (4%)

[11]: Prince Harry joins $1bn Silicon Valley startup as senior executive (4%)

[12]: Prince Harry joins Silicon Valley start-up - CBS News (4%)

[13]: Prince Harry Is Taking on a New Job Title: Chief Impact Officer … - WSJ (3%)

[14]: Harry, Meghan join hundreds to call for AI superintelligence ban (2%)

No, I’m not going to fact check that. I don’t care enough. It seems he at least is somewhat relevant though if only as an activist.

The only way he’s raising the market cap is by selling the company. Their market share is decreasing rapidly due to him.

Depending on your investments, the interest and dividends off a few million dollars should be able to sustain someone entirely on its own while still growing in value over time.

You don’t need to be a billionaire for that. It feels like the tax brackets need to go up to 100% after around a million or so in income.

If I paid someone to do a job and they fucked around at Disney World instead of doing their one job at my expense, I’d be pretty fucking pissed. Also, I’m paying them to do a job, along with everyone else who pays taxes here.

Things would naturally be a lot different if they weren’t over a month overdue on securing a budget for work that’s already been done by people who rely on that paycheck.

TMZ is surprisingly putting their professional stalkers to good use here. Having them stalk Congresspeople while they fail to do their jobs at the expense of the entire country is a good use of their time, actually. It’s actually providing some amount of transparency and accountability.