An embarrassing new low, even with the bars they’ve already set. And fitting, for this being the (egregiously multiply-) branded button to launch the shit show. Christ, this has been a fucking carnival lmao.

Microslop has now regressed to implementing “features” very closely resembling - in sophistication and effect - my own bumbling, desperate, ignorant attempts at similar (“making a button behave like a macro”), using AutoHotKey, somewhere between 15-20 years ago.

And do I understand that they both shipped that, on hardware, AND it’s broken so badly it can’t be easily remedied?

I don’t know what to say. It’s like all the geniuses of comedy who died too young are doing this, all of it.

(No shade whatsoever to AHK, it was, probably still is, awesome at its job!)

Edit: suddenly realized it’s just on purpose, probably. Anyway, rant remains lol

keep debtors and investors from ripping apart a company and then transferring the debt to the ones running it

So instead we get “vulture capitalism” as an entire ecosystem of companies, doing this but with more diffuse consequences, by spreading out the bag holders far and wide (but always among the powerless). Fits like a glove with the general “privatize profits, socialize losses” strategy of wealth extraction we like so much.

Corporate person-hood is a stain on humanity and the world. We should never have shifted culpability and direct experience of negative consequences away from human beings, ever.

Exactly right.

As such, any bleating about markets being driven by “consumer choice” is either hopelessly out of date / embarrassingly naive - or malicious.

Just as consumer sales are a rounding error, so is consumer choice - it’s a direct relationship.

This extends a lot farther than the AI bubble, we have allowed corporations to merge and monopolize, and “investors” to gamble on it all, to where they completely invert the relationship.

They shape our experience by constraining choice, dictating only options with profit margins and heinous licensing terms that work exclusively and overwhelmingly in their favor.

Weren’t you listening trend?! The AI is going in the nostrils

Damn, rough.

This is what I do (and have for almost 20 years). Once I notice what feels like a fever, ASAP I layer up and sleep for as long as my schedule allows. Seems to really work well.

The few things that stick around after that, though, those are guaranteed to fuck me up for a few days.

That whole ass record goes exactly as hard today as it did on release.

(Rage Against the Machine’s self-titled debut, shit rips)

vibe coding but great

Always loved that Futurama scene, for the way it’s perfectly in line with Fry’s character and his amazingly broken reasoning facilities, while also just directly pointing out the bitter hatred of self, as a class, this kind of thinking always entails.

Thanks, I should probably clarify that I’m aware people have mixed experiences and it’s not the kind of extreme heavy handedness that I understand Reddit has largely incorporated.

.world is known for censoring topics precisely like you’re complaining about, as well as having a reputation for some of the most toxic mod behavior across the Lemmy instances*.

Specific mods, plural, on .world are known to encounter comments they disagree with, and go back through user histories looking for unrelated, thin excuses for bans.

I don’t care quite enough to go find sources, these are my accumulated observations. But they are fairly well known and uncontroversial, among those who watch such things, I believe.

[*originally said Fediverse in place of Lemmy, bigger claim I realized I wasn’t meaning to make at all]

I feel like what sounds personally insane to us (and is, don’t get the wrong idea), to the people making such decisions the situation is more like -

“Emerging market with unknown upside thanks to new and evolving capabilities, exploration and competitive advantage shaped and constrained, globally, by hardware capability. Not my money I’m betting, ‘risk’ is extreme opportunity for me, negative consequences borne by others. Let’s go”

The deliberate correct hyphenation character there, that’s how you know this one’s knowledge is not to be tested lol