keep debtors and investors from ripping apart a company and then transferring the debt to the ones running it

So instead we get “vulture capitalism” as an entire ecosystem of companies, doing this but with more diffuse consequences, by spreading out the bag holders far and wide (but always among the powerless). Fits like a glove with the general “privatize profits, socialize losses” strategy of wealth extraction we like so much.

Corporate person-hood is a stain on humanity and the world. We should never have shifted culpability and direct experience of negative consequences away from human beings, ever.

Uvalde showed us all what cops are. Nothing else needs to be learned or said about police, that disgusting event told us every single thing worth knowing.

The very hardest part of designing software, and especially designing abstractions that aim to streamline use of other tools, is deciding exactly where you draw the line(s) between intended flexibility (user should be able and find it easy to do what they want), and opinionated “do it my way here, and I’ll constrain options for doing otherwise”.

You have very clear and thoughtful lines drawn here, about where the flexibility starts and ends, and where the opinionated “this is the point of the package/approach, so do it this way” parts are, too.

Sincerely that’s a big compliment and something I see as a strong signal about your software design instincts. Well done! (I haven’t played with it yet, to be clear, lol)

This sounds really interesting, I’m looking forward to reading the comments here in detail and looking at the project, might even end up incorporating it into my own!

I’m working on something that addresses the same problem in a different way, the problem of constraining or delineating the specifically non-deterministic behavior one wants to involve in a complex workflow. Your approach is interesting and has a lot of conceptual overlap with mine, regarding things like strictly defining compliance criteria and rejecting noncompliant outputs, and chaining discrete steps into a packaged kind of “super step” that integrates non-deterministic substeps into a somewhat more deterministic output, etc.

How involved was it to build it to comply with the OpenAI API format? I haven’t looked into that myself but may.

Woof, after reading your “contributions” here, are you this fucking insufferable IRL or do you keep it behind a keyboard?

Goddamn. I’m assuming you work in tech in some capacity? Shout-out to anyone unlucky enough to white-knuckle through a workday with you, avoiding an HR incident would be a legitimate challenge, holy fuck.

I was in a fight with some coked up racists in my youth (we were prolly gonna lose that one, lmao) and that precise sound legitimately stopped the fight. Don’t get the wrong idea, we dipped too, it wasn’t “for” us lol

Exactly right.

As such, any bleating about markets being driven by “consumer choice” is either hopelessly out of date / embarrassingly naive - or malicious.

Just as consumer sales are a rounding error, so is consumer choice - it’s a direct relationship.

This extends a lot farther than the AI bubble, we have allowed corporations to merge and monopolize, and “investors” to gamble on it all, to where they completely invert the relationship.

They shape our experience by constraining choice, dictating only options with profit margins and heinous licensing terms that work exclusively and overwhelmingly in their favor.

Weren’t you listening trend?! The AI is going in the nostrils

Very unlikely to have been his first. Spent time deployed in Iraq, and had quite the composure, to keep the cellphone in hand as he murdered her. Especially considering he was injured last year in a similar scenario.

I like hearing strong opinions about stuff I haven’t thought too deeply about. Rant away!

What about it feels not-fantasy? Maybe more broadly what characterizes the appropriate use (and misuse) of genres like this?

That whole ass record goes exactly as hard today as it did on release.

(Rage Against the Machine’s self-titled debut, shit rips)

Always loved that Futurama scene, for the way it’s perfectly in line with Fry’s character and his amazingly broken reasoning facilities, while also just directly pointing out the bitter hatred of self, as a class, this kind of thinking always entails.

Thanks, I should probably clarify that I’m aware people have mixed experiences and it’s not the kind of extreme heavy handedness that I understand Reddit has largely incorporated.

.world is known for censoring topics precisely like you’re complaining about, as well as having a reputation for some of the most toxic mod behavior across the Lemmy instances*.

Specific mods, plural, on .world are known to encounter comments they disagree with, and go back through user histories looking for unrelated, thin excuses for bans.

I don’t care quite enough to go find sources, these are my accumulated observations. But they are fairly well known and uncontroversial, among those who watch such things, I believe.

[*originally said Fediverse in place of Lemmy, bigger claim I realized I wasn’t meaning to make at all]

This is the kinda harmless but thoroughly bananas take I’m here in the thread for. Great work lol

I feel like what sounds personally insane to us (and is, don’t get the wrong idea), to the people making such decisions the situation is more like -

“Emerging market with unknown upside thanks to new and evolving capabilities, exploration and competitive advantage shaped and constrained, globally, by hardware capability. Not my money I’m betting, ‘risk’ is extreme opportunity for me, negative consequences borne by others. Let’s go”

Easy enough, guy was tryna line up the good stuff, it fell through, and he was like “well I’m not just gonna sit here and experience reality - cough syrup it is”.

Then later the acid came through after all, and he was like “well, it’s important to follow through on commitments”.

Could happen to anybody, really.

Best way I know is to observe them being unable to comply with legal demands to supply data when they receive them. From what I’ve heard Mullvad has passed that test, but I’ve never tried to follow up and find details.

Feel like saying more about what ya like?

Just in the name of completeness, I wouldn’t say that’s the only downside. I definitely have some stability issues with Bazzite, only when gaming though. But game crashes, occasional OS crashes, that hasn’t been exactly rare for me. But I will say, gaming is about the one thing in my life I’m almost unwilling to troubleshoot these days. Could be something specific to my setup that is uncommon for others, making my data point unhelpful.

And by and large, I’d absolutely recommend it for any Windows user who wants an easily transferable user experience and broadly fantastic gaming support with minimal fuss.