I really don’t get why payment processors care. like, I really doubt it’s a morality thing for them, so where’s the financial incentive?

I remember my parents got some Philips lightbulbs years ago, I set it up for them. They never used any of the functionality after the first month. They were just normal white lightbulbs that got turned off by a light switch.

Realistically, most of this stuff is just an excuse to harvest people’s data and up charge them for appliances.

It’s fine for hobbyists who can set up all this stuff properly and find use to it, but the vast vast majority of people who have this stuff aren’t hobbyists, won’t set it up properly or keep it up to date, and will never actually find utility in it. It’ll just sit there doing the same thing as a normal equivalent for twice the price and while being a massive liability.

Any of those analysts gonna point out that a significant portion of the demand driven by open AI is just them redeeming credits Microsoft gave them for free?

See the beauty of doing this now is that khan has been improperly removed from her position at the FTC by the current administration, of course the court will not take up the case about her removal, just strike down rules on technicalities now that they won’t be resubmitted.

I’m sure that the super AI they’re gonna build will find more copper. Like if we just poor enough capital and resources in to it, it’ll start causing new copper deposits to appear using psychic powers it will develop after we let these companies monopolize all information and blow past every single emissions target.

It’s just like the Hittites, if they had just prayed a little harder, and built more bronze statues, then their gods would have surely secured the tin and copper trade.

That there is no guarantee that I will always have access to a game I like is really what kills it for me as a user. Like, I’m basically paying them the equivalent of the cost of a game every 3 months, but I could loose access to a game I like at any time because it’s no longer on game pass, so I’d be better off just buying games I like outright with that money every three months.

I’d rather my money go directly to studios making things I like, rather than fractionalized among who ever Microsoft decides deserves to make games.

I am very interested in Fairphone, when my current phone inevitably breaks it’ll definitely be my on my short list. Also considering the pine phone pro.

It’s really cool to see the phone space opening back up with meaningfully differentiated options. Like foldables are starting to have a good selection, red magic has one with a fan for active cooling, and we’ve got phones with repairability and maintenance in mind.

I’m also curious to see if RISC-V processors start making any serious inroads in to phones. I know Qualcomm was talking about it a while ago, and there is some amount of support for android on it.

There is legitimately interesting things going on again, and it’s so annoying to have all the oxygen sucked out of the room by the current hype cycle.

The wages do not come out of the profit.

Profit is revenue minus expenses. Wages are part of expenses.

Wages are used to ensure that people working there are able to keep working there, covering day day expenses of the workers.

Wages rarely reflect the real value of the effort put in by the people working at the company. They reflect the cost to the worker of choosing to work at the company.

I think that workers at a company should be payed some percentage of the profit of the company, with financiers and investors receiving some percentage of the profit in turn.

Unless the company is an ESOP, has some sort of profit sharing mechanism or is a co-op, they do not, they only get paid an hourly wage or a salary. If the company becomes more profitable, they do not see a consummate increase In their compensation. And they have no say on if the company is sold, and they are not compensated in anyway for the company they’ve contributed to being sold.

I don’t own a car.

But if I were to buy one, I’d like that every worker at the factory who assembled it got paid some percentage of the factories profits, and had some amount of input on the leadership of the company as a whole, not just an hourly wage.

Does it generally work like that? No, but doesn’t mean I don’t think that’s a better way to do things.

I think the larger issue is that so many studios get set up as things that can be sold by one or two people for the benefit of only one or two people. Like, the larger issue is that everyone who has been working at the studio should have some amount of say in if it should be sold or not. And if they do sell, you should be getting a cut of the truck of money.

Transneft is the largest oil pipeline company in Russia for context. It’s state controlled and moves about 80% of the crude and 30% of the oil products.

MORE SOULS ON THE ALTER OF THE AI GOD, you know, just a few more and it shall burst forth from the machine and solve all our problems.

Just keeeeeeep pouring resources and capital on to the fire, any day now. Don’t worry about the climate or housing prices, the inevitable AI god will solve all that, surely. All the ruined lives and destroyed careers will be worth it, promise.

Shame, exploitive studios that let the business idiots take over and then sell them to Microsoft.

Will be happy to support the people who used to work there that go on to make indie games.

it’s kind of terrifying how much power has been concentrated in the hands of people so eager to adopt such a flimsy ideological/religious cause.

You think the producer was trying to be an ass? Or like, are they just that deep in the cult that they think this is helpful advice?

they appear to be copying direct translations from chat GPT in to the subtitles, judging by the fact that one of the subtitles said “Chat GPT says:” and then the line in German. People who speak German also noticed that the grammar and sentence structure for many of these shows has been awful and nonsensical at times.

If anyone is doing any sort of oversight, they don’t appear to speak German them selves and are just betting that the output will be accurate and pasting it in.

Someone who spoke German and Japanese fluently enough to do competent oversight could probably translate faster than they could edit and rephrase the work of an LLM, which are notoriously bad at translating languages in a high context situation like dialog in a animated show. LLMs are also generally very bad with high context languages like Japanese, and even worse at translating between them and low context languages like German.

Residuals are standard in the American film/TV industry. They are paid a percent of ongoing profits of previous projects they’ve worked on.

Another fairly common practice is ESOPs where over time workers at a company receive shares in the company, and thus dividends.

The people who actually made the show, animators, voice actors, and writers do not get money based on your crunchy rolls subscription, and those production committees that do get money, didn’t make the shows, they just initially financed them.

Assuming the show is based on a manga or light novel, the original artist/writer might if they were lucky enough to negotiate shares in the production committee, but most are not in a position to do so.

For me, what matters, is that the people who made the art get compensated fairly, that they are able to live a good life. That people are encouraged to make art by my consumption of it, and the current system doesn’t do that. It’s a horrific exploitative machine where purchase reward further exploitation of the people who actually put work and effort in to make the art.