Bro, don’t hit goats either

*can’t ;P

Edit: And now you edited it

Sharks have a completely neutral attitude to human gender and sexual orientation.

Be like a shark!

I can never understand why the tier list meme template starts at red (bad) for the best rank and goes to green (good) for the worst.

I wondered if red was being used to indicate “hotness”, but then the bad colour should be “cold” blue.

Is it just completely arbitrary? Does my life have no meaning?

What it’s all about is “market segregation”

The purpose being to chop up your product differently to get different groups of consumers to pay more based on what they can afford, or the urgency of the purchase.

This is something that business has known about forever, with things like dividing travel tickets up into first class, business, economy, early-bird tickets etc.

What tech has done is enable not only segregating by service and time, but to segregate down to the individual person and find the maximum you’re willing to pay.

And they can look at every factor. In a rush, pay more. Used the service twice last week? You must be in the habit now, so pay more. Using an iPhone not Android? You must be better off, pay more.

It’s hell, and it should be illegal.

Which is exactly why they want to get rid of physical sales completely

Is “lava buckets coming up the stairs” a Minecraft-inspired hallucination?

Pro tip: It’s easy to be clothed and on the couch at 6AM if that’s how you fell asleep

The PS5 version of GTA6 is going to sell pretty well then

For sure yeah.

I still end up having to use ffmpeg directly (in combination with other CLI tools) because there’s always something the GUIs haven’t caught up with yet. Most recently for me it was converting animated webp’s into something I could actually work with

I find it wild there are countless “convert videos online for free!” sites on the Internet full of bonus malware which are all just thin wrappers around ffmpeg. And yet they persist because people want googleable answers to their problem which don’t need a command line or downloading anything.

Personally I’ve got a Python script which provides a slightly friendlier wrapper around ffmpeg for my common use-cases.

But honestly ffmpeg is such a beast, so much of what we use daily depends on it under the hood.

The expiry date has been a necessary and useful tool, but these dots seem like they could be a good idea if they can actually sense when spoilage happens.

Meat could have been exposed to bad conditions that makes it spoil before the expected date.

But maybe even bigger is that the date is always going to be very much on the side of caution, so it might avoid waste where people tend to bin stuff as soon as the expiry hits, even though that food may still be perfectly good.

You can still buy the Gros Michel banana nowadays. It’s not extinct, but is a rare and expensive speciality, rather than the common type of banana we see on the shelves like it used to be.

$37 USD per banana, on this particular site

If climate change makes growing Arabica coffee commercially non-viable at scale and all the growers move to hardier alternatives, then Arabica will still exist - absolutely - but instead of being the coffee you can drink every day it will also become a rare and expensive speciality, just like the banana.

Blocks shorts.

uBlock filters use a modified form of CSS selectors to determine what parts of a page to hide.

If you know vaguely how CSS selectors work you can infer that the filter definition is matching on youtube.com and is finding an element whose title property is shorts - so it seems to be doing an appropriate thing.

The important part is that uBlock filters are not executable; you can’t inject malicious code through one, as they are simply patterns which describe what parts of a page should be hidden, and hiding content is all they can do.

The worst that a filter could do is hide something that shouldn’t be hidden.

Because they want you to watch shorts. They know that people who watch shorts are the most brainrotted on the platform, and the ones who will keep scrolling and watching video after video, and seeing ad after ad, and those are the users YouTube wants all other users to be like.

And so they will push shorts in your face again and again no matter how much you say no, because they think eventually they’ll break you.

The close button is just a temporary placebo to make it feel like you’re the one in control.

This is gonna be like the Gros Michel banana thing again isn’t it - where decades from now almost none of the world’s coffee will taste as good as it used to, and nobody quite knows why.

Exactly.

LLMs are fundamentally hallucination machines, but this truth utterly conflicts with almost every purpose that AI is being marketed and pushed and sold for, which depends on them being able to analyse data ‘truthfully’ and accurately.

So it’s no wonder that none of the big tech companies have decided to consider or accept hallucinations as a problem, because accepting that truth means also admitting that LLMs are fundamentally unfit for purpose - which is the one thing they simply cannot and will not do with so much money riding on it.

Toaster ovens are multifunctional devices which are good for many cooking tasks. You can do a lot with one, but this flexibility means making compromises.

When it comes to the very specific task of quickly and efficiently making toast, they are not the most optimised tool.

It did, and then real estate investment portfolio companies bought all the property that individuals lost in the crash for super low rates, so now it’s even worse 🙃

It’s viable again because well… gestures vaguely at everything

HP just launched a laptop ‘subscription’ service too. It’s a rather disgusting sign of the times. Companies would love for this to become the norm, because renting is a highly profitable game. Get that sweet money coming in month after month. And you are right; we must not encourage them.

I’d rather save up and go to the second-hand marketplace than line a corpo’s pocket by renting.