Rottcodd

Wrong about what? I don’t even get what the point is supposed to be.

Are you saying that people transition from Linux to Windows? That seems obviously backwards.

Are you saying that Linux is female and Windows is male? That’s not even coherent.

What am I supposed to be trying to prove wrong?

What “entitlement?”

I don’t expect anyone to start a web site or service or to give me or anyone else access to it at all, much less for free.

I’m just making the very narrow point that when a company chooses to do all of that, and manages to make enough money to build a plush corporate headquarters on some of the most expensive real estate on the planet and pay its executives millions or even tens or hundreds of millions of dollars, then starts crying about not making enough money, that’s self-evident bullshit.

If anybody’s acting"entitled" in that scenario, it’s the greedy corporate weasels who spend billions on their own privilege, then expect us to cover their asses when they come up short.

I expect a wave of internet users to get upset and call paying for used services “enshittification”, because people don’t realise how much running these AI models actually costs.

I am so tired of this bullshit. Every time I’ve turned around, for the past thirty years now, I’ve seen some variation on this same basic song and dance.

Yet somehow, in spite of supposedly being burdened with so much expense and not given their due by a selfish, ignorant public, these companies still manage to build plush offices on some of the most expensive real estate on the planet and pay eight- or even nine-figure salaries to a raft of executive parasites.

When they start selling assets and cutting executive salaries, or better yet laying them off, then I’ll entertain the possibility that they need more revenue. Until then, fuck 'em.

I prefer “used-to-be-twitter.” I think it captures the context better, and it’s clunky, as it should be.

Pshew - look at that pendulum swing…

Ironic that the thread is about men dying on average younger than women, and the majority of the responses are people completely ignoring that fact and instead just taking an opportunity to negatively stereotype men so they can shit on them collectively.

Well… except that “cis” is actually a shortened form of the precise, latin-rooted, technical term “cisgender,” which is the opposite of the precise, latin-rooted, technical term “transgender.”

And it has nothing at all to do with heterosexuality, or with sexual preference in any way, shape or form.

So he’s not just wrong, but wrong in pretty much every way he could possibly have been.

Which seems to be pretty much par for the course for the world’s richest middle-aged teenage edgelord.

Or you could just not care so much.

If you post memes that are likely to offend someone somewhere, then there's a risk that one of those someones is going to be a mod, and they're going to delete it. And really, that's just the way it goes.

Certainly you might prefer that they have explicit, precise and closely followed rules so you can accurately predict what they'll do, but there's really no requirement that they do so - if they want vague rules arbitrarily enforced, that's their prerogative.

And really, what are you out if they do delete a post? It's not like you paid for it or you have some sort of quota you have to meet. You just toss things out into the internet, and some of them float and others sink.

Good.

It’s reached the point (or had a couple of years ago, which was the last time I went to a wiki hosted there) that it’s virtually impossible to even read an entry, since there are so many ads that the actual text of the article spends more time off the screen than on it.

That’s not a new thing though.

I first learned the wisdom of waiting until after the bulk of the bug-squashing was done before expecting to play a reasonably stable game with Oblivion, 17 years ago.

Granted that Cyberpunk 2077 was a particularly egregious example of the problem, but still…

The thing I really can’t understand, and a likely consequence of the ubiquity of apps, is all of the people who can’t seem to function without them.

Like when the Reddit exodus to the threadiverse happened, people started immediately crying for Lemmy apps. And it doesn’t seem to matter that much how bare-bones or unstable one might be - the important thing is that it’s an app. That’s all that seems to matter to them.

It’s as if they aren’t even aware of the fact that these are all websites, so they all work in a browser - as if to them, an app is a necessity and they can’t figure out how to accomplish anything otherwise.

Right, but that wasn’t really my point. I mean “artificial intelligence,” as the term has come to be used in this current world in which, for example, film and television producers want to have large language models write scripts, is a substitute for intelligence, in that people who don’t possess actual intelligence want to use it to create strings of words with which to impress other people who don’t possess actual intelligence. It’s pretend intelligence by and for people who don’t possess the real kind.

It just struck me that artificial intelligence is an accurate term after all, just in a different sense than the classic idea of a non-living consciousness.

It’s “artificial intelligence” in that it’s a substitute for real intelligence.

I love it.

I have accounts on a dozen or so instances, though I’m only really active on maybe half of them. That gives me a fair amount of variety (every instance is different, depending on who they’re federated with and what communities the users have subscribed to), and makes it so that if one of them is having issues, all that means is that I won’t be using that particular account.

The relative lack of users doesn’t bother me in the long run - yeah, it’s sort of unfortunate that there aren’t enough people to maintain really narrow communities, but I much prefer a thread here, on which there might be only three responses but they’re all trying to actually communicate ideas, as opposed to a thread on Reddit, where there’s 100 responses and 99 of them are just regurgitating memes.

Really, my biggest problem with the threadiverse is all of the people who want to make it into something it’s not - who want to centralize and streamline and homogenize it so it’ll have more appeal to easily-confused, meme-regurgitating idiots. I like it pretty much the way it is (with minor improvements around the edges of course), and would much rather that it be left to just slowly and surely draw in people who actually appreciate it for what it is.

Jet Set Radio Future, Oblivion, Fallout 3, Need for Speed ProStreet, Torchlight II, Paper Mario, Freelancer, Uncharted Waters: New Horizons, GTA San Andreas & Vice City, Front Mission 1 & 3, Metal Max Returns…

I hadn’t thought about it before, but on reflection, O do too. And I wouldn’t be surprised if most people do.

Exaggerated a bit for effect, it would me more or less:

There = thehr

Their = thayr

They’re = thay-r

“There” is just simple and straightforward with a pure short ‘e’ sound and no particular stresses.

“Their” has more of a long ‘a’ than a short ‘e’ sound, and a bit of stress on the vowel sound.

“They’re” also has more of a long ‘a’ sound and it’s pronounced just a fraction longer than in “their”, and there’s a very slight pause between the vowel sound and the ‘r’.

Huh… learn something new every day.

It’s the entire reason I still own an original Xbox.

My vote for best - Secret of Mana

My personal favorite - Jet Set Radio Future

Why should that difference matter, in particular when it comes to the principle I mentioned?

Because creative works are rather obviously fundamentally different from physical objects, in spite of a number of shared qualities.

Like physical objects, they can be distinguished one from another - the text of Moby Dick is notably different from the text of Waiting for Godot, for instance

More to the point, like physical objects, they’re products of applied labor - the text of Moby Dick exists only because Herman Melville labored to bring it into existence.

However, they’re notably different from physical objects insofar as they’re quite simply NOT physical objects. The text of Moby Dick - the thing that Melville labored to create - really exists only conceptually. It’s of course presented in a physical form - generally as a printed book - but that physical form is not really the thing under consideration, and more importantly, the thing to which copyright law applies (or in the case of Moby Dick, used to apply). The thing under consideration is more fundamental than that - the original composition.

And, bluntly, that distinction matters and has to be stipulated because selectively ignoring it in order to equivocate on the concept of rightful property is central to the NoIP position, as illustrated by your inaccurate comparison to a pen.

Nobody is trying to control the use of pens (or computers, as they were being compared to). The dispute is over the use of original compositions - compositions that are at least arguably, and certainly under the law, somebody else’s property.

How is that proving their point?

The question was wherher “Lemmy” was deliberately and unnaturally biased, akin to a car forum that was biased entirely toward Ford and against Chevy.

There is no mechanism by which that could even be accomplished here, since there’s over 1,000 individual instances, each subject only to the authority of their individual owners.

So the answer to the OP’s question is and can only be “no,” simply because it’s literally impossible for it to be otherwise - there is no mechanism by which any such lemmy-wide bias could be imposed or enforced nor is there anyone with the authority to do so.

So clearly, if the downvotes prove anything at all it’s something else.

I would say that, as far as the OP’s thinly veiled concern-trolling goes, it’s fairly obvious that what they prove, if snything, is that bias against right-wing ideology occurs naturally on internet forums, even in the absence of mechanisms by which it might be enforced or people with the authority to enforce it.

You might do well to honestly consider why that might be the case.