And when people send me FB links that only display the login wall.

Yeah that’s funny how a gaming laptop with a beefy i7 can’t be upgraded but an enterprise laptop with whatever pitiful i3 can be. Even though gamers see windows as their primary OS, Microsoft clearly doesn’t see gamers as their primary audience.

Reminds me of the amazon products titled: “I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy,”.

I think we’re way beyond the point of no return. The internet has been ruined for good.

And what’s the problem with owning, buying and selling things? We’ve been doing that for millennia. Obviously, unregulated American style capitalism is very broken, but there are better ways to do business. It’s just that those ways are not that appealing to the greedy.

Copilot is just so much faster than me at generating code that looks fancy and also manages to maximize the number of warnings and errors.

I was wondering the exact same thing. Nobody uses ats and hashtags on Lemmy, but on Mastodon, that’s the only way to tie the conversation fragments together. This is just ActivityPub doing its thing. Welcome to the Fediverse.

Being a lonely hunter gatherer.

If you have crafted nice spears and axes, but you have no food, that’s too bad. You’re not allowed to barter with talented hunters who can’t make spears as nice as you can. Go hunt your own food or die of starvation in this non-commerce based society.

Oh wait, how about we allow trading after all?

Drop table animals, is clearly the best one.

Considering quarterly numbers in a vacuum… sounds strangely familiar. Feels like we’ve done this many times before, but we still keep on repeating the same mistakes.

Google gets more money if the video has more ads. Google also pays more in bandwidth and storage if the video is really long or high res. Also, advertisers don’t like drugs, violence or guns, whereas makeup and mobile phones are totally fine, so those videos are a suitable background for ads.

All of these variables go into the calculation that determines the sweet spot for Google, and the search results are ranked accordingly. You may be looking for an hour long video essay on the torture methods seen in the Hellraiser movies, but Google really wants you to spend more time on 5-minute crafts instead. Actually, 30 s shorts would be even better, as long as they keep you preoccupied.

Commerce is fine, greed is not. OP missed that distinction.

Having tried to photograph purple flowers, I can confidently say that the human eye+brain combo messes around with the colors a lot. You can spend a lot of time trying to take the most authentic photo you can think of, but you’ll somehow still be dissatisfied with the end result, because that’s not what the flower looked to you in real life. Naturally, you’ll assume that your experience of the colors is exactly what real life is, but your camera still somehow comes to a different conclusion. Most likely, that’s because the camera doesn’t do all the fancy color corrections and distortion your mind does automatically. It’s also possible that cameras are really bad at seeing shades of purple.

Fun fact: These fancy automatic corrections also fail under certain circumstances and produce interesting visual illusions.