Any reason why Keeper isn’t on the list? Is it bad?

You’re totally on point. Lemmy has a lot of people stuck in the past. It’s a significant bias.

The store will garner good sales and the Tekken devs will eat well. This will be enabled by people who see value in their work and happily pay for it.

It really doesn’t matter what a vocal minority thinks, when the valuable non-vocal minority is out there paying big bucks for Kazuya in a fundoshi.

In order to reach new heights as a game service, Tekken needs all the money it can get.

People also seem to forget that Tekken started off in arcades. These arcade releases were far more aggressive in their monetization, especially in Korea and Japan. You would have people paying 5-10$ for a couple of hours. Players would also have to pay for their online player IDs.

Tekken 7 still had this business model. The game released for arcade in 2015. 2017 for all platforms.

The game was thoroughly milked before it was more accessible.

Very much agreed, though I’m not looking to switch back. Reddit had gradually turned into a homogenous slurry of astroturf and toxic groupthink. Lemmy lacks the critical mass for both of these to become a problem.

I still find Lemmy a better alternative, because at least I can see opinions that differ from mine. I’ll gladly throwdown and get my opinions challenged rather than feel that I don’t need to contribute to a discussion.

I agree. There should be good laws already in place for this. Defamation should do it.

A “technically gifted teenager” is someone with an attention span longer than 5 minutes and a computer with a decent GPU. While definitely a scarce resource, not super scarce.

Running stable diffusion locally is getting easier and easier. Took me about 15 mins last time. I just followed the readme. It won’t be long until it’s just a one-click setup and everyone can do it.

Isn’t MPC dead now?

I believe Spotify did this back in the day in order to hide as much of their AB testing from Apple who is essentially a competitor due to iTunes.

Having much of the UI delivered via web also makes it easier to deploy updates as no software update is necessary.

Somehow this reads like a Mars Volta song and I’m here for it.

Thanks!

That address is on the money. Bill should be funding local business in Africa directly for the most immediate impact in the region.

His current approach at best helps once the innovations become accessible.

I do agree with Gates in part that hunger is a production problem. Increasing supply lowers price, which would help with food accessibility. It’s not a silver bullet and has many blockers, like the issues mentioned in the address.

Do you have articles on Gates’ work causing harm on the food sector? I’d love to learn more.

He had some valid reasoning behind preventing an open source covid vaccine. Whether it was the right call is up for debate.

The most prominent reason that stuck in my mind was to ensure the vaccines were of high quality and made using proper equipment. This is reasonable as a bad one could’ve drastically reduced trust among the general population.

I work in an AI company. 99% of our tech relies on tried and true standard computer vision solutions instead of machine-learning based. It’s just that unreliable when production use requires pixel precision.

We might throw a gradient descent here or there, but not for any learning ops.

Pretty much. Doesn’t help that Firefox is the best browser for customizing your browsing experience. So all adblockers are very good on it.

Probably some summer trainee tasked with solving the Firefox + ublock Origin combo made an oopsie.

With all that said: fuck Google for even beginning their crusade against adblockers.

Crosstracking is indeed a thing. Obviously it has its limits, since the other devices have to communicate back. It should be easy enough to see all devices that are on the same network though.

IoT is a popular attack vector. So proper precautions should be made. Perhaps only give them access to your guest wi-fi. Perhaps a separate network entirely.

True to some extent, but I think a lot people give these firms too much credit.

Your microwave will not send your food heating data to NSA. At best the manufacturer uses it to see how people use their appliances.

Voice guided home assistants might send sound to servers for analysis, but even then it’s just the stuff you actively sent to be used as a query. When they’re listening for activation messages “passively”, this data does not get sent outside of the device. This conception really bothers me as it really propagates an illusion that we’ve already lost and have no control.

There’s no need to covertly spy when the biggest data is given voluntarily through the TikToks, Facebooks and Twitters of the world.

Hey all allright.

Calling me names for asking how people are dying due to actions of the food industry isn’t something that will help affect my choice of words. Sorry for sounding cocky after that. Showing me you seemingly didn’t know how stocks are created and then sold by the company helped set the stage.

Businesses exist for a number of reasons, legal and personal. A business can exist without profit as long as its expenses and earnings meet. So I wouldn’t say businesses exist for profit.

It is up to each individual how they run their business. This also applies to whether they sell shares to outsiders. Best we can hope to do is through legislation try to make sure there aren’t feedback loops that reinforce skewed power dynamics and negative behaviour.

You’ve said your piece, I don’t think I agree. I’ve said mine, I don’t think you agree. That’s about it. Keep on rocking in the free world.

That’s caused by things much bigger than the food industry. This has its roots deep in human psyche.

The uncomfortable truth is that we are all responsible for the food crisis. Inaction is the biggest cause.

Only by changing global and local policies will we begin to solve this.

Your method for changing them is yours to choose. History has shown a myriad of options. All stem from individuals teaming up, deciding a course of action and acting on it.

The first step to teaming up is learning social skills. Calling people names is very detrimental. Especially the people who might join you.

You’re only thinking of very large businesses. Not all companies are on the stockmarket. Numerically, most are not.

All stock originates from the business. Even big business. It was all bought from it at some point. If you don’t know how stocks work, please go read. It’ll help you understand.

A business benefits greatly from being bought. Many fledgling companies get funded by investors buying stock. Often these investors will also act as advisors and critical connections to the company’s target markets. This helps companies grow enough to be able to provide jobs which generate more wealth.

Publicly traded companies still experience similar benefits even though at this point most stock gets traded. However, public trading can increase company value. Increase in company value gives possibilities where they might dilute the value of stock by creating more. There are many methods for this, which I don’t have the energy to teach you.

However, the process of creating and selling these stocks acts as a cash injection for company.

If you want to dismantle or regulate this system, you better learn how it is built. Not knowing about this will not do anyone any favours. Your ignorance makes you complicit.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/investing/what-are-stocks-how-they-work#:~:text=Stocks are shares of ownership,your long-term financial goals.

Know your enemy.

Profit is generally speaking invested back into the business. This manifests in various forms. You hire more staff next year, increase pay of existing staff, buy repairs, invest in new tools and so forth.

Sure some profit is paid to stock owners in dividends, however this stock was bought from the company at some point. In exchange the company had received money to sustain its workforce and business. It is a fair exchange for the risk the investor was willing to take.

Profit isn’t a boogieman.

Yeah, EU is slipping. We need to pay attention to the flaws that we’ve been introducing.

I don’t find profit to be an inherent antagonist. I believe that workers (even CEOs) need to be rewarded for good work. This is where profit comes in. Without profit there can be no pay rises when job experience and responsibilities increase.

Unchecked profits on the other hand… This comes in many shapes. Tax havens and top-heavy distribution of profit spring to mind immediately. These are counter-intuitive.

It is acceptable for the company owners to receive most profit as they have taken the largest risks in terms of capital. However, things like inheritance, bonuses and stock options can distort the degree of risk taken. A newly-hired megacorp CEO will not have taken significant monetary risk relative to the founder.

Systems should be in place to reduce unfair wealth distribution. Eg. Stock options should be given to the entire company workforce rather than just the top dogs. Annual bonuses should apply to all.

Profit-seeking drives innovation and efficiency. These to me are good values as we look for incentives to fight climate change or improving working conditions. Obviously legislation must follow suit and ensure it provides structures that encourage this while protecting people from skewed power hierarchies.

How are they dying? Is it due to issues in quality control? Worker safety? Or are you attributing world hunger deaths to the agricultural industry? Big numbers are cool, but they’re awesome when they are elaborated.

Farmers where I come from are generally the owner and the worker. They already get the “full” value generated.

Funnily enough due to the government paying them, this allows the manufacturers and stores to drive down the price of goods (when bought from the producer).

The main idea behind this was to drive down the value of goods for the consumer and to ensure the EU produces food locally, but it has created an ugly transfer of wealth where manufacturers and stores now earn more. Consumer barely sees the difference.

So most likely something should change for manufacture and vendors as well if the system was to be made fair.

Locking prices for manufacture and vendors is not a thing. Giving subsidies to them will stifle competition.

Agriculture subsidies do help producers compete with China, US and other outside markets, but at the cost of reward for labor.

I think the system is not oppressive, but it certainly is not fair. Issues crop up in the middle of the value chain and there are no easy solutions.