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“All of it, obviously!”

It’s weird to me that people complain about how long it takes to get to work, why don’t they just aggressively speed to get there earlier? Sites need money to run and many rely on ads. Blocking them is an asshole move (that I admittedly do) but so is dumping them all over a page. It would be nice to have some sort of pay for what you use alternative but until then, bitching isn’t half as weird and obnoxious as whatever you’re doing in this comment

“Skytanic” was a great episode of Archer. For anyone that hasn’t seen it, the running gag is that Archer thinks the non-flammable helium is going to explode leading to things like this slap

And social media is arguably the main thing. The network effects make it sticky but the US has been amazing at exporting it’s culture, social media amplifies that, and right now that culture is a bit fascisty with a hint of freedom stopping regulation of the rich and misleading. That said, but that lens, I’m not really sure Lemmy is a great alternative since it has a lot of people from the US already and I think it wouldn’t scale well (either because of lack of instances, burn out from moderators, or the problems migrating here)

Ironically I went searching for if that was true and ended up at this same article: History was unmade last year, as engineers began the massive project of ripping the first-ever transoceanic fiber-optic cable from the ocean floor. Just don’t mention sharks. SHARKS ARE INNOCENT. Or at least they’re not eating the internet. As a family of cartilaginous fish, sharks are collectively not guilty of most, if not all, charges of biting, chomping, chewing, or otherwise attacking the underwater network of fiber-optic cables. The people who build and maintain the nearly 600 subsea cables that carry almost all of our intercontinental traffic—supporting just about every swipe, tap, Zoom, and doomscroll anywhere on the planet—have a love-hate relationship with this myth, which has persisted for decades. They might even hate that I’m starting this piece with it. It’s a terrible way to open an article: here’s some irrelevant bullshit that hides what will actually be in the article until after you pay us.

And what’s with the (presumably genAI) image of a shark tearing the cable? Is a shark associated with something I’m not aware of like a company or something?

personally I wouldn’t even call it clunky. The current headline misleads about grok and has the wrong focus (the guy did a lot of bad shit and a small portion of that included some actions on grok which are being audited)

Yeah, no. LLMs are known untrustworthy so need a validation step so they aren’t a great fit for any automation you don’t look at unless you don’t really care about the outcome What would work here is a browser API for cookie settings. You set your preferences with the browser and the sites check the browser. I don’t think this is likely to happen because people wit influence and money in tech wouldn’t be able to point to how annoying the modals are and say “Look X government is doing something we don’t like and you should be angry and not trust them”

🤦‍♂️ Thanks

I don’t see anything there that indicates an AI positive agenda. What am I missing?

Why is this being downvoted so heavily?

Even with the comment making a lot of sense, if someone has a good summary / write up / video that helps build an intuition or understanding a bit more of thermodynamics then I’d love the recommendation