OpenAI said it aims to “create a family of products for the AGI era”

A family of products that no one will be able to buy, sounds great Sam! 👍

So, I make things for myself to replace commercial software that either doesn’t exist or that is becoming (or will become) enshittified like all commercial software.

I like to cook, for instance. It’s a hobby of mine. Cooking, BBQ, grilling, baking, all of it. So of course, I have recipes and they are important to me. I could spend all my time painstakingly entering all my recipes into recipes dot com or whatever, right? But of course, as soon as I do that, their barely usable app that does almost everything I want (and a hundred things I don’t give a shit about) gets updated in the third update of the week (rolleyes) and they have completely changed the UI and on top of that, they removed a feature that I used daily.

OR - I could just make my own fucking app. Which I did. It’s awesome, it does everything I need and nothing I don’t. It also doesn’t update every thirty seconds and become less and less usable or require me to completely overhaul my workflow because the programming staff and middle management need to justify their existences.

I also recently made a wishlist extension for Firefox, because Amazon removed the ability to add non-Amazon items to their wishlist. I have probably a dozen other ideas I’m working on at any given time. None of this is to make money, but just to make my life more convenient and unplug myself from the wider (bullshit) Internet as much as possible.

Yeah no. Even if the United States sits out on it’s dumb fat orange ass, Russia is not likely looking to pick an active fight with all of Europe when it’s disinformation warfare can disassemble Europe from the inside out, given enough time.

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and the sun also rises

There are full-on doctors who are conservative wack jobs though.

No, I was referring to discretionary spending.

40% of the nation’s budget is blown on military spending, the next highest military spender, China, spends a quarter what the United States spends.

Of course, none of it matters if you just refuse to collect taxes. So DOGE “saved” 180 billion, it’s not true but even if it was - the fuck does it matter in the face of a 4.2 trillion reduction in tax assessments?

You started your quest for good faith engagement with “Wtf you on about?”

You’re not just a corporate simp, you’re a hypocrite as well. I don’t want to engage in conversation with people like you, there’s no point.

The real story is buried in there:

Reddit is going to ask for a bit more identifying information from its users, too.

Yeah not going to happen.

Thank you for repeating the talking points.

Then die. Open source software wasn’t created to generate revenue.

Oh look we’re back to the “open source software can’t survive on its own without gobs of money and million-dollar CEOs wah wah wah” again.

Pardon me, I didn’t realize throwing money at stupid people was the same thing as skillful rebranding to appeal to thoughtful voters.

No seduction is involved. The masses go where the billionaire influencers direct them to go because the masses are largely stupid.

Unfortunately, due to the piss-poor human condition, Canada - and every country on Earth that allows free speech - will go whatever direction the bots run by the nations that do NOT allow free speech want them to go. Anything else is a temporary reprieve.

Boy, I sure didn’t see that coming. It’s going to be very interesting seeing where such a path ends. Uncomfortable, likely, but interesting.

The US has recently warned it would walk away from negotiations if progress was not made.

Aren’t negotiations typically between the two parties involved in the conflict? Who the fuck cares if the US walks away? The US currently provides nothing to Ukraine. Take away everything from nothing and you still have nothing. Why is this story even reported?

I’d imagine a lot of Filipinos voted for Trump too.

Doubtful in Vancouver.