Still down 2 hours later. Guess AI has taken over Microsoft you guys. The robot uprising begins…

I’m convinced that the intentions you have don’t mater that much. It’s how well you’ve managed to solve your own problems that determines how fucked up your kid is going to be.

This is not going to be a popular opinion around these parts, but I’d suggest using Ubuntu, at least at first. It’s the biggest distribution for beginners, is relied on by corporations that provide Linux options, and seems to “just work” most of the time.

Maybe it’s a kind of dummy content for the test phase? Pretty sure too many people blocked ads and this is their solution

how it now tries to stay clear of drawing hands lol

It probably is more like the LLM is able to „pack the truck much more efficiently“ and decompression should be the same.

But I agree that the likely use-case of uploading all your files to the cloud, having it compress your files, and downloading the result which is a few kb smaller isn’t really practical time efficient or even needed at all.

Business and the economy is doing pretty good atm tho. I feel like the whole reason for all these blatant cash grabs so many companies are doing rn, is because they made so much money last year they want to keep getting that much richer every year, which is plain stupid from a long term perspective if you ask me

I’d personally seek out any good open source alternatives before trying anything else nowadays. I’m pretty happy with blender and krita now I’m starting to get back into animation and drawing. But I’m old, I don’t know if joung people would not simply choose the one that is free-ish and more popular and better supported

Good point. All unity users are basically (small) businesses, which does make a difference in how they might react. But I still think the entire platform going under because of this decision is more wishful thinking (wishing that corporate greed is punished) then an inevitability at this point in time

This will probably work great with comedy podcasts lol

We’re here on lemmy and mastodon, but Reddit and twitter still have waaaay more users. Unities move has boosted the popularity of other (open source) alternatives, sure, and if I was a game dev I would transition, but most of the devs and studios are going to need a lot more incentive to abandon the tool they spend decades getting to know

Read the threads and it looks like the @fediblock made a post claiming mastodon.art was abusing reporting. But the evidence seems flimsy at best, and could be deliberately cherry-picked at worst. In response, mastodon.art muted the instance of @fediblock, and they where then like “this ain’t worth it” and withdrew. I must note though that mastodon.art is an instance that is a known safe space for black people and other minorities and face lots and lots of harassment on the reg. No one is perfect, but I tend to side with them on this one given the “receipts” provided, and the likelihood of there being more harassment towards them.

Researcher, pointing at brain scan: look at the brains on this guy lol

Honey, how about we spice our family vacation up this year and go to a drought stricken stolen land near an active war zone?

Toof Teef got me lol

Well we would be if everyone just blocked them like gab or truth social etc. But I guess mainly Rothko is considering federating which is why everyone is freaking out

The problems I personally have with Meta are:

1. Data scraping Meta is an ad company and tries to collect as much data from anyone. They are known to make shadow graphs of people not even in their network to try and know as much about as many people possible. This is their business model so they will do it to the fedi.
2. Moneyed interests They are going to compensate instances that federate with them, which turns people that run instances from volunteers into business owners. From there they can try and dilute admins further into showing ads etc.
3. Sucking users from the fediverse They will make it easy to get in (import with history when mastodon does not support it), hard to get out (if you go, you can’t take your posts) and will hold your connections hostage against you (we will stop fedarating with the other instances now, so if you want to connect to your friends you have to have a threads account, sorry not sorry).

That and basically all the shit big corps do like make people angry and hacking people’s brains to stay on the site for as long as fucking possible. Which they are 100% going to try to do here regardless of our intentions.

Omg kids struggle to understand simple file browsers now?