willington

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[–] willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We should still benefit from China making good memory chips. Assuming the chips are fungible, China might buy fewer Samsung or Taiwanese chips and that's more chips for us.

[–] willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I use Organic Maps very often. It's not perfect. It wrongly identifies a shop next to me. It also occasionally gives less than ideal for my taste directions. However, it is subjectively 99% good and right about the map objects and the directions. It is reliable, basically.

Google's app has given me issues too in the past. It's not like Google is without its chinks.

So I am happy with it and would recommend it at least for a spin. For me it's a daily driver app.

[–] willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago

But can you 3D print a guillotine?

Asking for a friend.

[–] willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

A plane should still be capable of unassisted taking off and landing for emergencies, imo.

[–] willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

They are already unpopular now. Wait till the pigs dive even deeper in popularity.

They might convince the general population that the first amendment is not worth exercising, and instead we all neet to contemplate military style resistance.

Nobody apparently wants to bring trouble to themselves as long as there is still anything left to hope for. However that calculus can change once the powers that be engineer a life even more glaringly worthless than it already is. Lots of people are quiet quitting or not having children already. That trend will accelerate even further.

[–] willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

This looks like the problem here isn't a technical one, like how to best render a site.

The problem is that some of us (too many) have become dependent on hostile systems (machines + hostile owners + desperate humans willing to serve the owners in exchang for bread aka the employees).

The solution as I see it is twofold:

  1. Shift to friendly systems.
  2. Treat the relationship to a hostile system as a war, and properly prosecute that war.
[–] willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

People are the product.

[–] willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes, but how many pull ups does it do?

Seriously though. 70km a week is insane. Animal!

[–] willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

With ownership being as concentrated as it is now (more concentrated than during the guilded robber baron age), naturaly, most of the benefit flows to the biggest owners, and AI seems poised to deepen the wealth inequality further.

In a scenario without the insane wealth concentration, and with a dignified and decent economic floor being guaranteed universally, I would be in favor of any AI that does not burn our planet to a crisp and stink up the neighborhood with the gas turbine exhaust.

So in our world as it is, I have to be agaisnt the AI for the foreseeable future.

[–] willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I can operate the car as I see fit once I take posession of it.

Whether the camera can continuing spying is up to me if the car is mine.

If the vendor has other ideas, they will lose in court.

The best they can do is try to condition services like warranty repairs, or software updates on my compliance, but that has to be tested. They may be compelled to provide some minimum level of service no matter what.

In other words, what's mine is mine to control.

They would need to rent the car instead of selling it if they didn't like letting go of it.

I am already generous. I don't feel the slightest need to be polite or generous to someone or some entity, or a process, I didn't like.

[–] willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

That's free money for the buyer in a lawsuit.

We get all the downsides of private ownership with none of the upsides. Meanwhile, the billionaires get all the upsides of private ownership with none of the downsides. Fuck that!

[–] willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Guess which cameras are getting the hammer or the duct tape?

Or buy used.

If this disease spreads, we'll need to have a talk with the CEOs and the big investors.

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