Comment Bring Back Walnut Creek CD-ROM (Score 1) 67
Nuff said
Comment "Just" 59K (Score 1) 98
I remember selling my hoard of Bitcoin at $4500 thinking how absurdly high it was and that it was just a fluke and how stupid it all seemed. Look who's stupid now. I still retired, but "if I'd just HODLed" I'd be a retired philanthropist instead of just retired and comfortable.
Comment Re:What is socialism? (Score -1) 122
definition of "socialism", which is: worker ownership of the means of production
Bzz, false. The dictionary definition of the term is:
a way of organizing a society in which major industries are owned and controlled by the government rather than by individual people and companies
See? No "worker ownership" — government ownership. Schools don't need to be owned by the teachers for public education to be socialist, they need to be owned by the government. And they are!
Same goes for retirement financing, and medicine for retires — with millions clamoring to expand it ("Medicare for all!!") — what GP enumerated. The "single-payer healthcare" — another euphemism — would be exactly that too.
Workers can own shares of their employers — indeed, Anthrophic employees do (and anticipate to profit handsomely). That's not socialism at all — not by the dictionary definition.
I blame the libertarians for making the definitions unclear
I blame you for pulling the definition from under your tail — and the morons upvoting you.
"anything the government does that benefits the people instead of corporations."
That's spelled "KKKorporation$". Make a note of it. Benefits the people, eh? The per-pupil spending nationwide went up (inflation-adjusted) from $9083 in 1989 to $13790 last year. And what did this expense buy us — the barely literate population unable to even define such terms as "socialism" correctly...
And they've adopted the word "democratic socialism"
The term (not "word"!!!) was adopted by "former" Communists, who've proudly elected a Senator some Congresswomen and, most recently, New York mayor. Who immediately proceeded to establish a government-owned supermarket.
Comment Are unsubstantiated accusations Ok now? (Score -1) 122
some wondering if they were being picked on by President Trump
Seriously? "Some wondering" — and it is on front page... What a contrast to Trump's supporters accusations, his electoral win was stolen in 2020 — no, any time someone mentioned those, a bunch people would jump up to add: "unproven" and "without evidence".
Comment Re: You missed the part where they socialized ever (Score 1) 122
Socialized only to make sure they fail, not to provide for the general welfare.
Comment Re: Of course not! (Score 0) 122
The modern democratic party is quite right of center, and that's a problem. The Democratic party is an enormous fan of corporate welfare and subsidies for industries that are aligned with their talking points. There are still a few firebrands in the party, mostly centrists like AOC and Elizabeth Warren and possibly Bernie Sanders and Ilhan Omar, but they took suck at the teat of irresistible corruption.
And this is not a both sides argument. For there to be a both sides argument, there have to be two sides in opposition, and the truth is that there aren't.
Comment Will be rebranded TrumpTV (Score 0) 74
I can't wait until the Roku crawler is just chock full of Trump propaganda
Comment Employment is not the goal (Score -1) 74
AKA: mass layoffs.
AKA: people doing stuff, that does not need doing, having to find something else to do.
Submission + - Software engineer scored a religious exemption from using AI at work (notthebee.com)
schwit1 writes: Erin Maus is a Unitarian Universalist and Unitarian Universalists believe everything.
And it worked.
Her employer granted her the religious exemption. Now, she's coding vibe-free.
‘I'm writing my code and reviewing my code by hand, which seems crazy to say,‘ she told Business Insider.
‘Just two years ago, how else would you do it?'
But it's not just the Unitarians who could file for the exemption. Pope Leo has also condemned AI as unethical, particularly the huge numbers of people enslaved at data labeling centers around the world who are forced to work in near slave conditions teaching AI.
And the number of people suddenly finding religion just so they don't have to use AI is kind of hilarious.
The funny thing is, U.S. citizens don't have to prove their sincerely held beliefs. All these heathens don't have to actually convert to get the exemption.
Besides, at some point the companies will realize what Maus did: Maus found that completing her coding tasks without AI was just as quick as her colleague, who used AI, telling the publication that ‘AI doesn't really seem to be this game changer.'
And it worked.
Her employer granted her the religious exemption. Now, she's coding vibe-free.
‘I'm writing my code and reviewing my code by hand, which seems crazy to say,‘ she told Business Insider.
‘Just two years ago, how else would you do it?'
But it's not just the Unitarians who could file for the exemption. Pope Leo has also condemned AI as unethical, particularly the huge numbers of people enslaved at data labeling centers around the world who are forced to work in near slave conditions teaching AI.
And the number of people suddenly finding religion just so they don't have to use AI is kind of hilarious.
The funny thing is, U.S. citizens don't have to prove their sincerely held beliefs. All these heathens don't have to actually convert to get the exemption.
Besides, at some point the companies will realize what Maus did: Maus found that completing her coding tasks without AI was just as quick as her colleague, who used AI, telling the publication that ‘AI doesn't really seem to be this game changer.'
Comment I can't wait! (Score 1) 1
I can't wait to see Trump plastered all over the Roku crawler.
Submission + - Fox to buy streaming device maker Roku for $22 billion (cnbc.com) 1
schwit1 writes: The combination will merge Fox’s sports and news networks, as well as its free ad-supported streamer Tubi, with Roku, which makes streaming devices and has The Roku Channel.
The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2027.
The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2027.
Submission + - Fox to buy streaming device maker Roku for $22 billion (cnbc.com) 1
schwit1 writes: The combination will merge Fox’s sports and news networks, as well as its free ad-supported streamer Tubi, with Roku, which makes streaming devices and has The Roku Channel.
The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2027.
The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2027.
Comment Re:Trump (Score 1) 184
Trump never promised to end the Ukraine war overnight. He promised to end it "on day 1," so before there could be an overnight.
Comment Can do something fun too! (Score 0) 49
it is relieving workers of tedious old chores but creating new ones
Bot-sitting does not require as much attention as doing it myself requires. While the AI is handling the tedium, I can do something fun — both work-related and otherwise...
A co-worker next to me is doing cross-word puzzles, for example...
Comment Re:AUR (Score 1) 43
I have literally never seen anyone who uses Arch make any claims whatsoever about the AUR being a safe or secure place to get packages. It's a standard disclaimer to install packages from there at your own risk. Which is fine: Arch is not at all designed to be newbie friendly to begin with, so having an extended package universe that is "install at your own risk" is fine: you should use Arch iff you're very well aware of the risks of something like the AUR.
