The second twitter one is infuriating
“Come on, y’all know this” is the best they could come up with to argue that their slopware is better than these long established huge open source projects that have been worked on for decades as opposed to a week
it’s still using the '💙’s lol
As others have mentioned, it was engineered to be worse for the capitalists to make profits from ads and the statistics to look better to shareholders. This in turn has made people to create a shit ton of garbage articles and blogs that say a ton while saying nothing, so even if you used a new search engine with the funding of Google but the algorithm of back then it would still be shit probably, because the volume of shit on the internet has now reached a level where finding anything in it is impossible.
The explosion of AI has come right at this moment where search engines have been lobotomized and gives people an option to be able to find things again, which is also another factor contributing to the profits of the AI companies, but even that is limited to what an LLM can average out from the totality of information that it has been fed and has the obvious danger of making stuff up and treating its biased training data as truth.
Generally, I think we’re fucked. I really don’t know if we’re ever going to get back the internet experience that once existed and what it’s going to take to get there, but it would probably involve a massive societal change to come before it.
Notice how all the Scary Countries™ are steadily against Nazism while the good democratic West first tried to act like unopinionated centrists about it and then dropped the mask completely like daddy USA wanted them to
Exactly what it sounded like when I learned there’s a Firefox fork called Floorp
I wish I could give you a magic trick but the reality is that under capitalism, if you’re not lucky enough to be born into riches or have powerful connections, then you’re pretty much stuck being a wage slave. There is no real alternative to selling someone your labor either for a 9-5 work or multiple part times etc. The only real way out of this is systemic change.
Deadlock, it’s become a proper addiction at this point
It feels like Pandora’s box has been opened. I don’t think it’s all smoke & mirrors. It will not impact all industries equally. It won’t fix humans being poorly intended or malicious actors seeking power & wealth. In many ways, they benefit the most (giving capital more access to creativity). It’s built on the largest scale theft of public good for profit. To me, that’s wrong, and the people/masses should be getting financial returns, collectively & universally, in exchange for what was stolen.
I completely agree and this I believe is the most important conclusion that can come out of these AI debates. You can not stop AI from existing now that it has been implemented so widely and there are open source/weight models out etc, this technology is going to survive even if the big companies that started it die off.
The big contradiction of our times is yet again, the private ownership of the means of production. Within capitalism, AI can never be a positive thing since at best it’s going to eradicate so many working positions and at worst it can further destroy our planet etc. At the same time, there is nothing you can do to stop it from existing. The only thing that can truly solve the contradiction is socialism, restructuring society in a way that people don’t have to struggle against each other for a job position just because capitalists want to pay the minimum amount on wages, and production will not be done for profit but simply for making life better for everyone. And if there truly is nothing useful left to be done from humans, then they can freely be artists, scientists, athletes or whatever without the system letting them starve for not being a machine cog.
If someone is wearing glasses made by Meta and aren’t being held at gunpoint for it, I don’t trust them camera or no camera
The most consistent ones for me are cat trees, cardboard box scratching pad, an elastic ball that they both love to chase around (one of the two cats also fetches and brings it back like a dog), cat tunnels, and an elastic carrot thing with catnip in it that they love to attack
Also hiding some of the old toys they don’t care about and then bringing them back once they have kinda forgotten about their existence can spark up their excitement sometimes
Yeah can confirm they love that shit
The thing with that is, it won’t be implemented in a capitalist system where companies will collect most of the data they can so they can sell it to ad companies, business partners and government intelligence who are all willing to pay big bucks for it.
The reason it doesn’t happen is not that there was no engineering architecture design to prevent it, but because no company is going to willingly break the iron law of “profits above all else” that capitalism requires.
The antithesis to all this is free open source alternatives, like Lemmy itself for instance, that don’t collect more data than they need for the simple reason that they are not built with the goal of profit in mind.
So if we want a better web experience in the near future, the best thing you can do is convince people to use FOSS alternatives and create communities here instead of the giants like Reddit, Instagram etc.
If you mean for Reddit, you’re on one lol
If you mean for Pinterest, it depends on what you need out of Pinterest. If you want a federated social media for images then Pixelfed might be what you want. Karakeep and Pinry are much closer from a user experience perspective, but they seem to me for personal usage rather than a social one, though I can’t say for sure because I’ve never used either.
If we’re talking about freelance scale websites that don’t have that much complexity, as others have said I think AI is a real threat because it’s something that has been done a billion times already. If you really want to stick to this then you need to either be the one taking advantage of AI in order to decrease development time and increase the amount of customers, or you need to be really creative and good at it so that some customers will prefer to pay you to get a quality result instead of AI slop.
Overall I think you’d be better off being a developer in a company instead of freelance nowadays, but that’s my purely vibes based opinion having only worked for companies and never tried freelance
no dog in the “conflict”
very poorly informed on the matter
I somehow struggle to believe that you can possibly be poorly informed on the most livestreamed genocide in the history of humanity
“The evil tankies have taken over Lemmy and our instances are next”
The evil tankies: “Who even are you”
If you’re willing to go into the terminal based editor rabbit hole, I recommend going straight to helix, coming from vim/neovim in the past it’s much easier to get into and maintain since it’s batteries included and doesn’t take huge dotfiles to configure it like you want, and the movement feels more intuitive to me than vim’s
Exactly, and it doesn’t take any effort to come up with software that will make it impossible for most people to even consider doing things a different way than big tech wants them to. Download the wrong app, use the wrong OS, attempt in any way to reclaim your privacy, and all of a sudden you can’t be authorized to open your own banking app because of some bullshit “security” message. What option does that leave you? Either become a hermit and reject all technology with whatever cost that has for you, especially in a decade or two as technology transitions to something completely mandatory for everyone, or fall in line and use everything the way they intend you to.