Mr PoopyButthole

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Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: July 7th, 2023
  • Mr PoopyButtholetoTechnology@lemmy.world•GenAI tools ‘could not exist’ if firms are made to pay copyrightEnglish
    30•1 year ago

    I keep thinking how great it would be if the federal government made a central server system to access digital content for free via taxes.

    All public domain and publicly funded research and content, all in one place. Could also host owned content for people/entities and pay out royalties automatically based on consumption.

    There are ways to make this fairly affordable to everyone via taxes, but maybe the big opportunity is it could also allow companies to train AI on all the data for a fat, but fair subscription. The value of that could easily pay for enough to shrink any tax costs for the public.

  • Mr PoopyButtholetoTechnology@lemmy.world•AI-Generated George Carlin Drops Comedy Special That Daughter Speaks Out Against: ‘No Machine Will Ever Replace His Genius’English
    5•1 year ago

    I don’t think he was trying to make literal statements with things like that. Yes, he used sociopolitical commentary as his medium, but he was still a comedian.

    He’s not trying to convince his audience that everybody is stupid, he’s speaking to a feeling most of us have had when looking at what others are doing. Everyone sometimes feels like like everybody around them must be stupid, just like we all sometimes feel like we’re the only one missing something.

    He’s beloved because most really talented comedians can derive humor from relatable or absurd situations and stories, but Carlin could make a rhythm linking broad abstract concepts of human experience to really specific examples.

    He’s not a god, he was just a really talented comedian that had a unique style and medium.

  • Mr PoopyButtholetoTechnology@lemmy.world•Apple hit with $1B UK lawsuit over ‘abusive pricing’ in App StoreEnglish
    24•2 years ago

    Nobody has beef with the annual developer fee.

    The problem isn’t even that they want to charge 30% for processing app payments. They can charge whatever they want for their own services.

    The problem is that Apple prevents users from installing any apps from outside their own app store, then bans developers from using any other service but Apple to process payments. It’s anticompetitive 101.

    If Apple allowed 3rd party app stores or let apps implement their own payment processing, there would be no issue here.

  • Mr PoopyButtholetoTechnology@lemmy.world•[Lifehacker] - Your Phone Isn’t Spying on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That)English
    0•2 years ago

    This is not only an ad written by a hack, it contributes to widespread gaslighting on what our phones do.

    It’s well documented that our phones are always listening and sending keywords to advertisers.

    Battery life is the single biggest indicator of how invasive our phone are.

    If you’re old enough to remember flip phones, you know they’d last easily days, to a week, or even longer between charges.

    Even as Blackberrys came about with GPS navigation, WiFi, Bluetooth, etc, the battery life stayed about the same. Over time we’ve expanded the ability of those features, but we’ve also made them all significantly more power-efficient.

    Some argue all the “always-on” features for optimizing signal and spontaneous device pairing is responsible, but these can all be turned off.

    Even with all the Android Dev settings optimized for minimum background activity and all apps restricted, an S22 Ultra with 5000 mah battery will burn through most of its capacity in your pocket in a day.

    Worth mentioning how tiny flip-phone batteries were too. A 500-900mah battery would take a flip-phone through a week where a modern smartphone with a 5000mah battery barely lasts a day.