I use Firefox with ad blockers to watch YouTube. Chrome seems to be allowing them to block my ad blocker

steps down with a golden parachute, all the richer.

We need real consequences for greed that is ruining everyone’s lives.

Its the same with drawing.

Its funny how no one gets confused about lawyers having to practice law, etc. We need better PR.

same I attribute some of my success to the fact that our computer lab teacher provided cracked versions of adobe and 3dsmax. Well over 10K in software and this is in the 90’s

Meh, how is surgery a thing? You let people just open you up and dig around your insides?

it’s a mix of need and belief in a proper vetting process. For computers there’s the additional layer that any one machine is probably low stakes. In early internet days most software was prohibitively expensive but gave you the equivalent of super powers - as a teenager / young adult with ability to take that risk you’re not going to do it?

What are the specific DVD discs you’re using?

If it’s got any type of rewriteable ability, it likely won’t play in a DVD player.

If I remember I had the best luck with DVD-R discs ( NOT DVD+R ) but it has to do with the dvd burner and the final dvd player they end up in. Might be worth trying both.

edit: just read your comment that it previously worked but stopped working? In that case Id agree that maybe your DVD burner needs a replace

I feel like this story is essentially propaganda at this point- at least in the USA where the ‘risk’ for the rich never plays out.

The rich don’t actually risk their money. They risk the government’s money and other’s lives and livelihoods. When they fail, they get bailed. Bailed out by the banks. Or they simply don’t pay their bills and lay off all their employees and let everyone else take a bath.

Rather than inflating everything, why don’t we tax the shit out of their held wealth? Seems more direct without all the side effects of making FOOD, HOUSING, AND HEALTHCARE UNAFFORDABLE

all these takes kinda suck.

The people most affected by inflation aren’t the rich at all. Theirs a whole generation inflated out of housing. Some might understand that as modern serfdom.

Because capitalism = cancer. It survives on endless growth. it hates retraction, even if the host survives longer.

So they print money and target inflation. They take actions that MAKE it so things never deflate.

very hit and miss. It’s okay if Im trying to learn something new, and once or twice it has found and suggested some fix that I probably wouldn’t have thought of otherwise - but it also makes up methods & syntax and then you’re playing ‘whack a mole’ to figure out where it hallucinated.

I think right now it’s not really boosting my productivity much, but I think in another 5ish years it could be better.

I’m curious what your area of expertise is? I’m interested in using ai for a programming assistant, but it seems an entirely different skillset than, say, a language model. I assume some models will be good in 1 area and some models in another

Seems like it was a mix between usenet being a magnet for piracy, which all the ISPs were getting pressure to combat, and demand for usenet cratering - as newer users came on the internet they went to other places (myspace had started which appealed more to young users)

IMO the best way to solve it is to ‘lower the stakes’ - spread out between instances, avoid behaviors like buying any highly upvoted recommendation without due diligence etc. Basically, become ‘un-advertiseable’, or at least less so

when you say import tax do you mean actual monetary payment? Or a computing power tax? I don’t think I understand

reddit was always heavily moderated for real piracy discussion, I believe

Meanwhile inside Microsoft: I’ll just copy this Xerox GUI aannndddd … Windows!

Hmm, isn’t this basically what LA gangs are?

I’ve never really understood how this ideology can work. Who enforces NAP in an anarchist society? Or is it up to each individual to enforce it for themself? (i.e. defend themselves physically if needed)

Developer of the Web

Now I just need something like this for my favorite video streaming sites