cygnus

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[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 37 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (10 children)

At this rate, if people keep cheerfully piling into dead ends like LLMs and pretending they're AI, we'll never have AGI. The idea of throwing ever more compute at LLMs to create AGI is "expect nine women to make one baby in a month" levels of stupid.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 97 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The overwhelming majority of webservers run Linux ~~(it's not even close, like high 90 percent range)~~ Edit: Upon double-checking it's more like mid-80s, but the point stands

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 33 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This happened to me years ago (the .com of my full name). I kept checking in at expiry date for 3 years and they eventually let it expire, so I bought it back for normal price.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

it’s peak capitalism too.

The screenshot sounds more like "peak anarchism" to me.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 22 points 4 months ago (10 children)

They don’t make games

DOTA and CS beg to differ. Spotify is a "storefront" that produces nothing but has about 25x more employees.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 114 points 4 months ago (84 children)

Genuine question: why is this such a big deal?

These are not all video game companies, but for reference:

AMD: 26,000 employees
EA: 14,000
Facebook: 84,000
Netflix: 11,000
Spotify: 9,000
Twitter: 7,500

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 18 points 4 months ago (3 children)

And yet the article doesn't mention whether they're going to do anything about it. I'm guessing nothing, based on this:

This isn’t the first time the FTC has examined the use of dark patterns. In 2022, it also authored a report that detailed a range of dark patterns, but that wasn’t limited to only subscription websites and apps. Instead, the older report looked at dark patterns across industries, including e-commerce and children’s apps, as well as different types of dark patterns, like those used in cookie consent banners and more.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

This is absolutely false, but I should perhaps be thanking you. I've been wondering in these Israel vs. Palestine discussions why so many people have such dogshit takes on the matter. It seems many are simply running their mouth despite a complete lack of understanding of the facts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel#Jews

That aside, your willingness to deport millions of people is appalling. You are a hateful, miserable person and what you are advocating for here is a type of genocide.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

You know what they did? They gave it back to the people living there, so let’s give Israel back to the people who lived there, that is the majority the Palestinians.

The Israelis can be like White South Africans, stay or fuck off, it’s not important.

Holy fuck. I'm going to be charitable and assume you're just unaware of history, and not a full-blown Nazi. You know Palestinians and Mizrahi Jews are the same people, right?

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca -2 points 4 months ago (5 children)

The division was because the winners couldn’t coexist,

No, the division was because the winners couldn’t agree on who gets to build a new country where the old one was.

Sounds to me like we're in agreement here? In any case, the Allies didn't give have Poland annex German territory or whatever. It continued to exist. Lots of people in this thread on the other hand want to delete Israel altogether and give it all to Palestine (which, incidentally, has never been a state at any point in history)

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca -1 points 4 months ago (7 children)

The division was because the winners couldn't coexist, not because Germany inherently needed to be split. The whole thing could have been treated like West Germany.

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