“The Time I Was Forced By The Government Into A Relationship With My Tsundere High-School Sweetheart”

I have a very sinking feeling that websites will be streamed in the future (SHTTPS) and it will be pioneered by Google :'(

It’s not a pure monopoly by choice. While it’s true Youtube has a monopoly in terms of number of creators, viewers and content, it’s still not a profitable venture. I heard it was burning through money to keep up with the sheer amount of content they have to deal with. Youtube is doing all this monetization now because they have ran out of VC money and upper management decided that it needs to be self-sustaining. Even the obscene amount of data Alphabet is gathering from Youtube does not create enough revenue to generate profit. But it’s a “too-big-to-fail” product now so Alphabet will continue to invest. Competitors saw all of this and just noped out.

Other commercial video services, like Nebula, have popped up but they are subscription-oriented right from the get-go, like Netflix. This means they have a very small audience and it will take years to build up an audience like Youtube. So I don’t see them growing, at least in the near future.

There are hundreds of Windows and Linux apps which can open PDF, but so far only Adobe’s version is the only one which can attach a digital signature. I normally use Zathura on Linux which is like a 5 MB maybe. It’s tiny, very configurable and JUST a pdf reader.

TRUST THE BOX!

Adobe is worse than scammers. Scammers at least have the self realization that they are scamming. Adobe will steal your money and huff on the fumes that they are providing a valuable service by letting people open PDFs.

I recently downloaded their PDF reader (because it’s the only app which allows for digitally signing a document with a visible cryptographic signature) and it’s 400 MB in size. In no world should a PDF reader be that large.

Yeah, the general attitude of wild witch-hunts and instant zero-to-11 rage at the slightest mention of it. Doesn’t matter what you’re actually doing with AI, the moment the mob thinks they scent blood the avalanche is rolling.

This wasn’t always the case. A lot of research on NLP uses scraped social media posts (2010’s). People never had a problem with that (at least the outrage wasn’t visible back then). The problem now is that our content is being used to create an AI product where there is zero consent taken from the end-user.

Source: My research colleagues used to work on NLP

A year back this was a joke. But now it’s true.

Just as a sidenote for others, I have been using MyPaint for years now. It’s open-source, cross-platform, supports graphic tablets, no AI bs. It’s super stable, opens fast, and you can use it for maximum snideness by drawing circles and arrows

https://mypaint.app/downloads/

…and ethically!

You can’t make art about Mario

Most of the comments about HDR on Linux is

• “Yeah, that’s a weakness of Linux”
• “Yes, it’s being worked upon. Hope it comes soon”
• “Some distro X has partial support for it”

I’ve never seen anyone become mad, both on reddit and Lemmy

I enjoy predictive text/auto-suggest during chat, Google’s old voice-recognition for setting alarms/timers/conversions. OCR is also nice.

Did anyone buy the Pi Zero at $5 or did we all mass hallucinate?

And thus begins “why isn’t the profit line going up?” phase of the company

All artwork will be deligated to AI. Photoshop discontinued. New “CS Suite With AI Agents” released. Works only with voice prompt and eye gaze.

“We promise”

Source: Trust me, bro

Let me tell exactly what will happen.

• Step 1 - It’s opt-in. Everyone chill
• Step 2 - It’s opt-in but the opt-in button is advertised during startup
• Step 3 - “opting in in crucial for your safety and comfort” advertised everytime during startup
• Step 4 - it’s opt-out now but it can be turned off in settings
• Step 5 - it’s opt-out but the off button is hidden below 3 layers
• Step 6 - the opt-out button is gone but can be turned off with a registry edit
• Step 7 - sorry, it’s a core component of W11

We are currently at Step 1

This comment is taken from another lemmy post but I forgot the username. Apologies.

Adobe and Microsoft Office will continue to fleece their customers. The customers will cry but they won’t do a single thing. Expect this to continue for the next 20 years.

I’ve posted the link to the Github project so people can avoid it

https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts