you can add “–cookies-from-browser firefox” or whatever browser you use, to the end of the yt-dlp target

My guess is the month is most relevant to an agrarian society. It tells you where you are in the growing cycle that the entire culture revolves around. The day and year offer little practical utility to a 19th century farmer.

At that time, the first second of eternity will have passed.

We’ll be back the next time protons happen.

There is no escape.

A dozen, a hundred, there’s no way to tell.

yeah, just serve up some r34 animated rats and put cocaine in the beverages

There’s a lot to unpack here.

Lets start with the attempt to define “usefulness” as the degree to which connection to humans happens. Human connection on the internet has always been illusory. Yet we still find utility in it.

“Trusted sources” have always been 100% biased in favor of whoever owns them. We all have equal free speech rights, but some of us are more free than others because the ability to purchase a bigger megaphone scales with access to capital.

Organized, capitalized propaganda farms existed before LLMs and have been engaged in the same kind of destructive information warfare. LLMs seem to be more persuasive than the wage-slave humans employed by troll farms and other mass media outlets, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing if it manufactures a more rational public opinion.

LLMs lower the capital requirement to begin competing in the propaganda war. The biggest players who could afford to buy enormous media empires and fund human-generated influence operations are going to have to compete against the rest of us.

This planet has been a soulless hellscape longer than any of us have been alive, and LLMs are more likely to improve the situation than make it worse.

π == 3

When billionaires use those agglomerations of capital to manipulate markets and engage in other types of anti-competitive practices, it turns a free market into a captured market.

Anti-monopoly regulation & enforcement is required to maintain a market’s freedom.

Where will you be when the zoomies wear off?

they can’t be corrected or are never wrong

This is #1 for me. Its easy to spot, and they won’t be able to hide it because it would drive them nuts to admit fault.

I take your money.

I make a show of returning a fraction of what I took.

Look how generous I am!

it rose from its grave

parasite

There’s a lot of state sponsored propaganda from right wing, authoritarian countries that pay lip-service to popular communist ideas to keep the dictator in power.

A lot of the noise comes from just a few of the users, so for the moment its easy enough to just block them all.

Running a scream test for a scrappy small business on a shoestring budget is sensible.

USA should have better options.

The Svoronos Star Tug can, in principle (assuming perfect efficiency), accelerate the Sun to ~27% the speed of light (after burning enough of the Sun’s mass to transition it to a brown dwarf).[9]

Adequate.

That’s a bit of an oversimplification, but yeah, that’s similar to how an Alcubierre warp drive is hypothesized to work.

PC: keyboard & mouse, faster load times, bigger games library, MODS

Person with a financial stake in Sony: “But our graphics are only a little bit worse!”

Just like Lemmy more.

Reddit gave me a temp ban, but I declined their generous offer to return after a week.

I had reported a post by some far-right religious fundamentalist for promoting political violence. Reddit told me that reporting ToS-breaking content is a bannable offense, perhaps because the far-right owners of reddit feel like kindred spirits to the uber-conservative terrorist sympathizer that got reported.

IP law itself is a band-aid over capitalism’s disincentivizing of humanity’s innate tendency toward ingenuity, innovation, and iteration

public domain is the default - its IP law and the artificial scarcity it creates which is useful to the capitalists