The recording industry did.

Who pirates music anymore. Everyone has one of the streaming services for it, because they all have functionally all of the music. There’s no exclusive releases on one platform or another.

Well, maybe there is, I haven’t looked in a while. Maybe they’re enshitifying that too.

Somehow the TV/movie shit heads can’t figure the same thing out.

You’re not wrong.

I would say that the majority of women that I know are more emotionally intelligent than the guys I know…

Most of the guys I know are emotionally repressed because they need to be a man.

Maybe not but default, but it integrates natively with it.

There’s a partnership there.

I know Apple has been very open with creating their own LLM, and Microsoft isn’t exactly hiding the fact that they are too.

The one that will be hard to squash is Gemini, since it’s fairly far along in terms of development and it’s also backed by Google. Being backed by Google is either a sign that it won’t ever die, or that it will be cut in the next 18 months and end up as another item on killedbygoogle.com

Won’t anyone think of the shareholders!?

For real though, I had a job where the management team tried to motivate us by setting “shareholder expectations” or some such nonsense. Obviously this didn’t work. Also the company was small enough that pretty much everyone working there personally knew all the shareholders… Because they also ran the business. They were the managers.

The balls it must take to be a shareholder, and to be known as a shareholder then talk about shareholder expectations like those are for a different set of people that isn’t just you… Gotta be massive…

Nah, let’s privatize all the services you need to have a functional home. That way the companies can extract maximum value from the customers.

Brilliant.

To be fair to my own argument, I didn’t say they were the only pillars of the Internet.

Yeah, but they have backing from companies with deep pockets. Apple and Microsoft are leveraging chatGPT on their back end, so they’re not going to run out of money until that well dries up.

That’s pure skill. You are amazing at converting Ambien and whiskey to felonies.

Possibly the best turnaround for this exchange I’ve seen. Congrats.

To be fair, these are significant pillars of the Internet.

“AI blockchain” is some incredible marketing bullshit.

🎵 Spatula city, we sell spatulas, and that’s all!

Effective areas of application are basically nil.

Not sure what else to say really.

Hahahahahaha…

Oh wait, you’re serious? Same, but it won’t be over soon.

The whole market will crash when AI takes a dive. I’m hoping for that to happen soon but given how much money the companies involved have and can get… Probably not anytime soon.

Look. I have no problems if you want to use AI to make shit code for your own bullshit. Have at it.

Don’t submit that shit to open Source projects.

You want to use it? Use it for your own shit. The rest of us didn’t ask for this. I’m really hoping the AI bubble bursts in a big way very soon. Microsoft is going to need a bail out, openai is fucking doomed, and z/Twitter/grok could go either way honestly.

Who in their right fucking mind looks at the costs of running an AI datacenter, and the fact that it’s more economically feasible to buy a fucking nuclear power plant to run it all, and then say, yea, this is reasonable.

The C-whatever-O’s are all taking crazy pills.

Thanks. I’ve never owned, fired, or even held a gun.

I have no intention to. I knew most of these, but I’m glad to see it officially written out like this.

If I’m ever in the position where I need to handle a gun, I can do so more safely then I would have before.

Good work. Keep that shit up.

The whole thing stinks of socialism.

Like we should, idk, pool our resources to “improve” our lives or something…

Nah, I’d rather burn prehistoric forests in my trukk because I’m so free.

America, fuck yeah

As a network guy: Ethernet over power lines can be fine, but you basically need to be an electrician, and have a working knowledge of how powerline Ethernet works before you can get there.

Even if you do, or stumble into a working setup by accident, you can absolutely end up with all kinds of bad things happening because power lines are notoriously bad with crosstalk and EMI, both on the wire and emitted from it.

If you absolutely cannot do rj45/Ethernet runs, and WiFi isn’t viable for whatever reason (or even if it is), look into MoCA. Thank me later.

It won’t cost you any more than powerline, and you’ll get a cleaner signal, more consistent performance, and overall a better experience.

In order of preference, I prefer the following connection options:

• fiber
• Ethernet
• MoCA
• Wi-Fi
• powerline

Fiber, not because it’s faster or better (there are many ways it’s actually worse than Ethernet), but because it’s almost impossible to interfere with, unless someone physically disconnects the cable (or breaks/cuts it). As long as the line is protected from damage, it will give the most consistent performance.

Ethernet, more robust than fiber in terms of physical disability, can be faster at propagating data (the time it takes to get from one end of the cable to the other), but only works over relatively short runs (100m or less, by spec), and it’s susceptible to alien interference and crosstalk. However, it is far more rugged than fiber.

MoCA is half duplex but shares a lot of the benefits of Ethernet. The main improvement here is that coax is commonly present in most homes already, while Ethernet is relatively uncommon in homes, so many homes are already wired in a way that works with MoCA.

Wi-Fi is also half duplex, it can go faster than Ethernet under the right conditions (which are almost impossible to achieve in real world conditions). Propagation is as fast as Ethernet but it has more overhead, and it is much more prone to interference from other Wi-Fi networks or other things operating on the same, unlicensed, bands.

Powerline should only be considered if all of the other options are disqualified for some reason.

Also, anyone using wifi extenders (not talking about mesh or anything, just actual Wi-Fi extenders), should probably not be doing that. Wi-Fi extenders are often just retransmitting the packets on the same wifi channel, which dramatically cuts the available bandwidth. You’ll end up with a stronger connection, but a much slower one.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

I work IT support. I’ve seen the dialog about 1000 times.

It’s crazy how many people prefer a browser that’s not edge.

They seem to have removed it in Windows 11, and even might have disabled it in later versions of 10. Idk, everything I’m dealing with now in terms of new setups are Windows 11.