HarkMahlberg

This is the same criticism that was made of cryptocurrency's claim to fame regarding decentralization, consensus, and resilience to authoritarian takeover.

"If you take all these different parts of your identity, all the games you play, all the things you buy, all the groups you join, and stick them into one system, that's a central system. It doesn't matter how many servers that system spans, you've pooled all that data in one place."

And ultimately we can make the same criticism of the Fediverse itself. It's nice that there are different platforms, different instances, different communities... but it's still just one entity at the end of the day. This is especially apparent with the spam wave we just saw. Misskey, Mastodon, Lemmy, even kbin was not invulnerable. You don't need to attack them individually, you can attack them all at once, and then they will naturally spread your attack to other instances for you.

Super bowl ads don't mean anything. The crypto world also ran ads before/at the super bowl, look how they're doing now.

Air Canada had to shut down their AI chatbot because it was making up refund policies and costing them money.

New Hampshire is pissed that someone used an AI Biden voice to spread voter disinformation.

If it's not already there, AI is quickly approaching the FO phase of FAFO.

Almost makes me nostalgic for the way clothing used to work in Cyberpunk 2077.

"We have Fandango at home."

Fandango At Home at home:

The value-add is the comedy of a man pretending an Intel Q6600 is better than a Ryzen 3600X.

Yeah that's the guy. Hilarious to see he thinks his garbage biased opinion is worth any amount of money.

I love my Grados for that exact reason

For what it's worth, I guess they saw this coming.

Oh I'm not giving you grief, I just think it's funny.

the article is on a CO site

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The irony of this being crossposted from ML.

Probably not without some tinkering, but DRM can always be defeated.

How the tables have turned.

Sony won the case against Universal that allowed people to record TV shows with their VCR. I wonder how they'd feel if I pointed OBS at their streams.