Well, the point of the article is that the selling point of a framework laptop lies only in its ethical and political nature. Without it, it’s just an overprized computer. So if framework loses its ethical selling point by associating itself with right-wing projects, why shouldn’t people buy a Lenovo laptop with better specs for less money instead?

You did not get what I was saying at all. Fundamentally, we agree on this and believe me, I’m just as frustrated as you with people blindly following these big tech companies. I’m just trying to say we should be more friendly to people who are not yet technically proficient. I experience it in my day to day life all the time that people choose comfort over their own freedom/their own rights. If I were just to call them stupid, this would just build up resentment and would only really benefit me to feel superior. Instead, I try to educate them about how big tech harms everyone and what alternatives there are. I’ve had years of practice being vegan and having to constantly maneuver situations where people would get mad at me for sticking to my principles. I feel like this is something similar, sticking to the principle of not giving in to the comfort of big tech.

Of course everyone should try to be safe online and we should try to give anyone the ability to protect themselves. Shaming individuals will actively prevent people from being educated. The issue at hand is about the business practices and security standards of discord, not individual people. I get that in this bleak capitalist system, neither discord nor any other company has the incentive to care about people. But it’s their responsibility nonetheless. Despite the economic system we live in constantly pressuring us to compete with each other, we should not give in but be empathetic with and help each other.

It’s not about the individual behavior though and shaming someone for this doesn’t change anything. If you have a wildly popular social media network, thousands/millions of people will provide their ID if requested. This is all on Discord for not keeping the IDs safe and for asking for them in the first place.

Well yes, the article is saying exactly that: that individual actions and consumer activism don’t do shit and structural changes are needed. It even gives some examples for structural changes that could be helpful in the short-term.

I completely empathize with your frustration and I feel like individual actions are used as a way to give people some feeling of power that they don’t have and that stays ineffective. It takes the pressure off of companies to change while giving people the feeling like the achieved something. And politicians in most countries don’t have an incentive to change the system either because they live off of lobbying and may get a job at those companies later.

I added the anecdote in my original comment just because I was surprised at the scale that Amazon had an impact on the economy. And yes, it obviously didn’t do much when I took individual action and boycotted them (apart from giving me a feeling of some integrity).

Well yeah, because the author of this article has invented the term and has given insightful explanations like in this article ;)

Really good article and worthwhile a read!

Let the implications of most-favoured nation settle in. If Amazon is taxing merchants 45-51 cents on every dollar they make, and if merchants are hiking their prices everywhere their goods are sold, then it follows you’re paying the Amazon tax no matter where you shop – even the corner mom-and-pop hardware store.

I haven’t shopped at Amazon for well over a decade now, but apparently even I am affected by their business model…

Did you read the article though? It is actually about minimalism

I doubt it would be hard to actually have better train infrastructure in Europe (and some countries do). For example, as a German, my perspective on this is that our government just doesn’t care to invest in most infrastructure because it isn’t seen as prestigious enough. The only projects that do get build are some shiny new additions that no one needs, like a new train station in Stuttgart that has been in planning for over 3 decades, will cost many billions and has seen huge protests against it from the start till today. But any project that is just basic maintenance, be it for cars or trains, just gets ignored and postponed. The German Autobahn is just as defunct and on the brink of collapse in many parts of Germany as its train network. And our infrastructure ministers have been corrupt and utterly incompetent for many decades now.

Apple’s whole business model is creating hype around their products. And if this hype is preemptively damaged by leaking secrets that would otherwise feed the hype, they clearly are negatively affected by this. I don’t say any of this is good, that’s just their business model. And capitalism of course…

However, in this case here the youtuber imo didn’t really reveal the product itself, but only a mockup version. Shouldn’t that be even beneficial to Apple? I’d think creating all this buzz around the “leak” is just one way to try to get more hype going for them.

Yeah, that was weird to watch. Not sure if the speaker realizes how bad this new tech still looks.

And in the end he said that it is very important to use these AI models “with the full permission of the talent” and that they “had full access and the rights to the training data”. He obviously just considers Harrison Ford in this moment, but does he realize what that would mean regarding the AI models and their training data they use? And was the presented short film also created with full permission of all artists contributing to the training data? Was this just a blatant lie to make it sound like they work responsibly with AI?

Yeah, this quote is sooo wrong on sooo many levels :(

Sorry, I misread your question. Yes, google maps shows “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)” in Europe as well :(

No, it shows Gulf of Mexico. The commenter just wanted to give some good alternatives that people could use

Yeah, the art market in on itself is a scam…

The Chinese gaming market is gigantic though and their 500 million gamers certainly need good internet.

It is indeed reminiscent of all the western influencers being invited by armies, police forces or prison systems (especially in the US). They also get paid for portraying a highly idealized or fake image of these institutions. Albeit there is a difference in that these influencers know upfront what they are getting into. Wanting to vlog about e.g. harmless-looking Chinese lifestyle topics and it being made into propaganda is a bit more insidious.

My point is that it doesn’t know for the reasons you gave. It is just hallucinating. So I don’t think the answer is trustworthy. Of course, it seems like a reasonable answer, but how do you get to the conclusion that the answer is truthful? It could just be made up because that was what sounded the most likely to the AI.

No, one is an actual answer to a question and the other one is a hallucination without any inherent information to answer the question.

Well, but is this really a truthful answer by the AI or is it just predicting what some human would say?