I knew a guy who went to work for palantir a bunch of years ago. Was always friendly at work. I asked him “but what’re you going to do if they do bad stuff, like spying on people?”
He just shrugged. Didn’t care. The money was good.
I don’t know if this alone is proof that’s a bad person, but I think it precludes him from being a good one.
It’s hubris and/or abuse, and should be illegal barring exceptional circumstances.
Public schools should be well funded.
Private schools should also be illegal.
Do the other ones have forums? I don’t remember even seeing them.
Is the steam forum supposed to be moderated by valve or the developer? I always assumed the developer.
I did some webdriver stuff for reasons I don’t remember anymore.
I also made a simple Django app to track job applications.
Unsolicited advice:
Mixed. I find new artists I like somewhat frequently, but genre-wise I don’t often go that far.
I don’t really relate to “I listen to all kinds of music! A hundred new songs a day!”. I find an album I like and spend a couple weeks with it, then find something new. I go into my backlog a lot.
I buy music (mostly on Bandcamp) so that works for me. Cheaper than a subscription,.and now I have a library.
There was someone a while ago who was trying to get a web ring going for like nerd stuff. They said so many of their friends and people they talked to loved the idea, but no one made a site of their own.
I posted it in a local community group, and everyone said the same thing.
I can see the appeal but I wouldn’t trust it.
Related thought: I despise how much stuff is made into video when a few paragraphs, maybe with a gif, would do just fine.
The other contenders mostly are bad.
Drm-free still exists.
They provide a lot of value without charging the end user very much.
Microsoft could have done this except they’re run by idiots and assholes. Nothing technical stopped them from launching a good store platform. They just didn’t want to.
Why would someone want a page summarized?
If it’s short, just read it.
If it’s long, the LLM will probably fuck it up.
They’re really going after the illiterate and lazy segment.
I use them as reactions on platforms that support it. Someone sends a PR and I react with eye emoji for looking at it, checkmark for done, or speech bubble for comments. It takes less space than a full text response. Especially in damned Teams that doesn’t have threads in chats, so you can’t even group your responses.
That’s pretty much it. I don’t use them as punctuation and rarely use them in an actual message
Yep. Infrastructure shouldn’t be privately owned.
Yes that is the legal justification. I am not interested in the legal justification. Laws are not inherently good. They were clearly paid less than their worth if there’s six figure payouts to be had here.
This is the fundamental injustice of capitalism. The owner pays you a small amount and keeps all the profits. A child would recognize that as unfair.
I didn’t personally find it difficult, but I have thousands of hours in video games.
This feels like theft. Maybe not technically legally but the people who did the chatting aren’t getting the money. Capitalist hellscape
Pop!_os has been fine for me. I’m not a tinkerer. It’s a machine for a web browser and video games.
Microsoft is probably salivating at the idea of being the only legal OS provider.
“wearing all black doesn’t make you cool, but it probably doesn’t hurt and I think you’re kind of cool anyway” - no men:
https://no-men.bandcamp.com/track/w-a-b-d-m-y-c
Furthermore, if you are being paid the same but your productivity goes up, and the owner keeps all the new profits, you’re being robbed.
People don’t understand things but that doesn’t stop them feeling ways about it.
Also the US tax system seems complicated and error prone.
It’s hard to make a full judgment without knowing more details but “the pay is good and it’s easy” isn’t really a compelling justification for “and I help evil manifest in the world”.