I think a lot of people thought that they were going to pay a flat monthly fee forever. This is just the beginning.

I’ve been warning anyone who will listen that the metered token-based rates are the future for this industry. I’ve had coworkers dismiss my warnings, and now here we are. It’s gonna be a shit show once anthropic eventually switches over to token-based billing for services like Claude Code.

I don’t think there are many bots on Lemmy. If I were a betting man, though, I’d wager that the 10-day-old account complaining about the .ml instance is the bot

Who owns the implementation of this? Is this something that websites opt into and add to their own site? Or is this something that Google injects when you’re clicking a search result on Google?

I imagine scammers are already thinking of ways to use this for phishing too

How is this guy a fucking CEO

I think that psychopaths naturally claw their way up to that position, so it checks out

I’ll never understand how devs get so confident in their product that they will provoke hackers/attackers. I wouldn’t even have that level of confidence even after an independent audit lmao

Edit: also what kind of dumbass makes an April fools joke about their own product being compromised. Amateur shit.

Yeah I can’t say I feel bad for anyone involved. But something tells me the people who created this problem won’t be the ones suffering consequences.

This is going to all collapse so horrifically once AI companies change their payment model to token usage rather than a flat monthly fee. It’s already starting with Microsoft and Google. Anthropic is the last (and most consequential) nail in the coffin.

Companies are building entire workflows around AI, but they are building them under the assumption that they won’t ever be charged per token.

@grok this true?

Seriously. When unit 8200 comes to you and asks to use your service, it should be pretty obvious what it’s for. It’d be like feigning ignorance after creating something specifically for the NSA.

The problem with vampire hunting games is they typically involve other themes in addition to vampire hunting. But if you’re cool with that, then The Witcher franchise might scratch the itch. I’m pretty sure the Blood and Wine expansion is vampire heavy.

God this gif is a classic

But Russia, China, and the US are definitly broken systems, and ALL of them are imperialistic.

I can see the argument for Russia to an extent, but how is China imperialistic? From what I understand they’ve helped lift up nations in the global south (and not in a “do this or else we will overthrow your government” kind of way). I don’t think they’ve invaded another country for quite some time either.

I’ve found that most people understand that signing up for an email service like Gmail allows them to communicate with people who aren’t on Gmail. Tie that in to explaining federation.

“Mastodon is kind of the same idea, but for social media.”

Obviously the technical details are different, but it helps explain federation at a very high level. Then you can talk about why that’s valuable for longevity of a system.

Example: the decline of Yahoo and AOL as email providers didn’t end email as a technology because email doesn’t depend on those companies existing to function.

Thanks!

Israel is a nazi project from the start.

My understanding is that Israel (the colony) predates Nazism and was a British project.

However, It doesn’t seem far fetched to say that it was hijacked by Nazis since the goals of Zionists and Nazis aligned (Zionists wanted a Jewish state and Nazis wanted Jews in a concentrated area outside of Europe). That isn’t to say that Zionism was ever a good ideology (it’s bad), just one that didn’t originate with the Nazis.

Don’t take this as a challenge. I’d actually love to hear more about your thoughts on how it originated as a Nazi project. I’m relatively new to the subject of Israel. The similarities between Nazism, Apartheid South Africa, Jim Crow America and Israel are striking to me.

Maybe this is the exit strategy all along for the AI bubble.

Either that or it’s the trigger that gets Trump to bail out the industry. “We need this to win the war” is the new “to big to fail.”

I hope you’re right though

I love Fromsoft games, but I’ve always thought that people kind of have horse blinders on when evaluating them as a whole.

What I think sets them apart:

• the art
• the setting and vibe
• melee combat controls

What I think they severely lack:

• sometimes it feels like I have to google nearly everything in these games because they never explain mechanics/items/quests properly. Most people would argue that’s part of the charm, but I don’t think it’s executed well at all.
• Basic combat is generally very fluid, but there are things that are just straight trash, such as ranged weapons. I just won’t use those weapons for anything other than pulling mobs away from others
• the story is just so abstract sometimes that I rarely know etc is going on
• co-op multiplayer sucks. It really says something when a player-created mod works better than a system that’s been in multiple games

Yeah this feels very much like, “censor content, but don’t change Meta’s practices”

Which begs the question, does the author know what they’re cheering for?

I’m an Obsidian user myself, but I have heard good things about Logseq