It was all just a tech demo in the beginning. Then it got popular and was promptly taken hostage by the desperate Next Big Thing™ gang, who really needed something to exploit to keep the gravy train rolling.
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WanderingThoughts@europe.pubto
Technology@lemmy.world•HDD prices spike as AI infrastructure and China's PC push collide — hard drives record biggest price increase in eight quarters, suppliers warn pressure will continueEnglish
16·11 hours agoIt’s because the average USA citizen is economically irrelevant. The money is in the top 10% and the big corpos, especially AI with all the money sloshing around there. The 90% consumer market doesn’t matter as much these days.

It’s got electrolytes.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pubto
Leopards Ate My Face@lemmy.world•‘I Didn’t Vote for This’: A Revolt Against DOGE Cuts, Deep in Trump CountryEnglish
25·21 hours ago“I prefer common sense in the middle"
Then don’t vote on the one commited to dragging the Overton window further away from the middle.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pubto
Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it*English
18·22 hours agoOnly had youtube cutting of a clip halfway because it was suddenly set to private. The amount of clips I put in Watch Later to have them disappear is also too high. Stop recommending slop that disappears later, stupid alghorithm.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pubto
Futurology@futurology.today•5D glass storage 'memory crystals' promise up to 13.8 billion years of data storage resilience & crams 360 terabytes into 5-inch glass disc with femtosecond laser.English
1·1 day agoBasically the same as project Silica. Microsoft has been working on that since 2017.
MrWhosetheboss testen that. Turns out the main difference between a cheap and expensive phone is the amount of bloatware that comes with it.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pubto
Technology@lemmy.world•LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites BacklashEnglish
34·2 days agoThen follows a class action lawsuit because the AI exposed children to unsuitable materials and the thing is gone the next update.
It’s not just tech workers. More people are going back to retro tech. Physical media instead of streaming, one device one function no internet, that kind of thing.
It’s a nation of individual freedom taken to the extreme. That includes the freedom for wealthy individuals to exploit everybody else. And Anon is on the side of the exploited. Anon does seem as a person that will always argue for complete freedom, so finally maintaining the exploitation of themselves and the situation they find themselves in.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pubto
Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•American planners: how do make sure oil companies and automakers get even richer?English
82·2 days agoHostile architecture. When you only want to fight the symptoms, not the cause.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pubto
World News@lemmy.world•European Diplomats Are Dissociating in Trump’s WashingtonEnglish
12·3 days agoI’m afraid that this might summon some of the darker sides we usually keep buried in Europe’s past, but the die has been cast.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pubto
A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•It will trickle down any second now
2·4 days agoThe debt of the nations are the assets and income of the rich. They don’t want that to disappear. Not until they de-invested at least.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pubto
Technology@lemmy.world•Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer contentEnglish
5·4 days agoMove fast, break things, pay fines.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pubto
Europe@feddit.org•Eurovision winner Nemo to return trophy in protest of IsraelEnglish
20·4 days agoIt has always been part of a political program, basically to introduce countries to each other to form more of a union.
fostered programming exchanges between members and mediated technical disputes between members
WanderingThoughts@europe.pubtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Oh yeah then explain TenetEnglish
19·4 days agoAfter the third question, I would explain the plot and ending. They learned to stop asking.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pubto
Technology@lemmy.world•Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer contentEnglish
48·5 days agoScammers make FB a lot of money.
EU is making a rule that would make FB liable to the financial damage of the scammers if they don’t remove scammer posts. Of course the platforms scream bloody murder.




And some use it as a manual, not a warning.