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This is a good thing if it’s implemented properly.

Explanation: A TV show or movie needs a lot of range in volume: car crashes are supposed to be louder than normal conversation etc.

A commercial can and usually does employ a technicque called compression to make all parts of it as loud as possible without distortion.

Now if the thus treated commercial is as loud as the loudest bits in the show/movie, it’s still too loud.

Serious answer? It probably does but the US government has put such things on hold for 10 years, to push the AI bubble the Trump family heavily invested in.

Thanks!

We learned to shoot lightning at sand until it could do math.

Great quote. The sand:

It’s more about what the guy is saying.

Slightly more convenient search engines. At least according to most of my IT-illiterate peers. “Just ask ChatGPT” - “Fuck, I can already do that with any other search engine, for 1/10th of the energy”.

People never see the cost if they don’t pay it.

It’s not a banger, but I’m just going to leave this here.

Data center noise at Great Oak community outside Manassas

Is that Mamdani?

If that’s your measure of success good luck ever getting succesful in your life.

Yeah, so?

If you’re saying “not good enough”, I repeat: much better than the Ancien régime was.

Realistic

Um. What about most of the “heroes” of Capitalism?

And the US government is doing anything to hold them accountable

You probably meant “nothing” instead of “anything”?

Yes, all this is very much the product of the current US admin.

Doesn’t the GPL cover shit like this? There should be mass lawsuits

I hope it’ll happen eventually.

Currently the USA (and that’s where most of this shit comes from) is aggressively pro AI to the point of breaking the law with government support.

BTW what OP says has happened to Linux (at large) through Google/Android, too. The GPL hasn’t stopped them but surely put some limits on their exploitation of FOSS

Don’t discount the message though. After all we’re interacting with a screenshot of a tweet. It doesn’t make me a fan of this guy.

The French Revolution was succesful. What the king & nobles did before that was much, much worse.

It just wasn’t a socialist revolution. The bourgeoisie won.

It also didn’t happen just like that, it took 10 years - Wikipedia calls it “a period of political and societal change”. I think it’s fair to say it wasn’t completely unplanned.

Much better, thanks for asking!

Point taken. I guess I should completely amend my argument; my real point is that Snowden blew the whistle exactly on what makes the NSA so bad.

Government institution = fascist services. Nice. Remind me to not march beside you when we finally take down the oligarchs.

He didn’t flee to Russia - he was going somewhere else and got stuck in Moscow on a layover because the US revoked his passport.

That said, I don’t like him staying there either, but maybe he really cannot leave.

I completely disagree about “facing the music” - it would have been a guaranteed and long prison sentence.