It’s not as extreme but they have managed to normalise a President being involved in open corruption, so I wouldn’t rule it out.

US Government - not on my watch…

I wonder, did they have to do this when search engines became a thing 🤔

Feels like so much of the AI hype is smoke and mirrors to get investor money, give it another year everyone will be wondering how the bubble got so big and popped and how no one saw it coming.

That being said I don’t think it’s going away either, just that a lot of investor money is going to be lost chasing shadows.

Especially when you see some of the tech being rocked in Asian cities

The reality of funding is probably going to mean that open source is off the table.

I’m with you, Elon Musk is a life lesson into why key services such as internet or brain computer interfaces should not be in the hands on the few. Path seems set unfortunately as too much money is on the table.

Is there an open source equivalent then?

Headlines you didn’t expect to read. Rather a Gabe chip than at Musk chip for sure

The down voters don’t appear to agree 😂

If Apple can push the price further into the thousands won’t Samsung, etc follow anyway?

People thought a phone that was $1000 would never sell, Apple came out with the pro models and now here we are with the high end models all being a thousand plus.

Of course it is and you’re also not physically going somewhere to steal the content it’s just ones and zeros that are landing on your storage device.

I can certainly agree with the argument that the content owners create an environment that makes piracy more likely to occur, but they are just making a judgement that current subscribers will keep paying higher fees and that some piracy will occur from those that won’t pay.

But those that do pirate making out that have moral justification for doing so is bullshit.

I use a pihole.

What I won’t do is write a diatribe about how what I am doing isn’t going to deprive websites of a ad impression or that the websites deserve it because of how many ads whey paste across their site. I do it because it’s simple for me to setup on my network I have control of and it makes my browsing expriance better, I fully accept that if everyone acted like me then most websites will end up behind a full paywall.

Its people who pretend what they are doing is justified and moral over just being easy to do with nominal risk to themselves. Just own it bro, that’s all I ask. You do it because you can, it’s easy and you’re unlikely to get caught.

That’s a different argument though. If you have paid for a license to the content and they remove the distribution method or kill the drm that allows access to it. I’d say it’s fair game that you find an “alternative” copy of the content or work around to keep access to what you paid for. Unless you are knowingly buying it on a 1 off rental basis.

Don’t get me wrong, the current system is not weighted in the consumers favour at all and it’s a good reason to not play the game and avoid netflix, buy drm free computer games, etc but I just object to the argument the people who pirate are somehow noble robinhoods in a legally sound position. You’re still knowingly accessing something that someone paid to create and you’re gaining a benefit from that in entertainment. You’re just finding a way to justify doing so that sits right with your own moral code.

If everyone pirated, the entertainment industry would cease to exist or at least be greatly reduced the remaining people would only be doing it as a hobby. Big budget moves and TV series, AAA computer games would no longer find funding if no one at the consumer end is paying for it.

“If I couldn’t easily grab it off the table and walk away with it ,I wouldn’t have stolen it.”

Screw the media companies for the price gouging and being general dicks dragging people through the courts, but it’s still knowingly working around and accessing content that someone else paid to create. I dunno why people can’t be honest “I did it because it was easy and the chances of being caught were nominal. The risk / reward was in my favour”.

Trump probably thinks that’s woke libs creating clouds in the sky to fight climate change.

Russian and Chinese hackers certainly are.

Well now they will just crush opponents via favours from the politicians they directly and openly paid for.

Because people have become comfortable enough (can’t remember the downside) to flirt with populism.

Once they get the short sharp shock of what it actually means to be governed by these people we might recover from it… Maybe

This is just the process of getting users use to them existing.

Mike Masnick is also been added to the bluesky board which gives me some faith Bluesky will less of a Elon / Dorsey vibe

https://bsky.social/about/blog/08-06-2024-board