At google scraping the internet, putting it in a blender then force-feeding us that goop while selling our eyeballs and data.

they had reusable poop sponges what more do you want??

In what world is that risk comparable to cigarettes?

Even comparing it to junk food is a stretch, and nobody suggests we put age verification on chips.

Is there a paper linking gooning to cancer, why would you compare those things

Fam have you seen evaluations of AI companies. For the amount of venture capital poured into openai, their profit should 20x or it’ll take a century for the investments to recoup. The reason for why they keep investing is that the AI is supposed to blow up the market and earn gazillions back.

Everyone agrees ML is extremely useful. Most people also agree that LLMs have their uses too.

What we don’t agree is that AI is the printing press, electricity and the internet rolled into one. And if it isn’t, then all this investment is made under false pretense, hence it is a bubble

Oh, that’s cause YouTube is blocking a lot of unsigned requests (from non-logged users). I have my own VPN on a popular VM provider and it’s blocked too.

Not really a newpipe fault, and not much to be done unfortunately.

Doesn’t it? https://newpipe.net/

Because having a CEO earning 100x of an average employee disincentivizes looking for stable, consumer-friendly income streams.

Why would the leadership want that, the only way they can continue paying themselves that much money is by sucking big tech’s tit.

Thanks for the link, I’ll def be more critical about it in the future.

I’ll still use it (for now) because as a no-nonsense customizable search engine its by far the best I’ve tried.

Its also popular and easier to google issues for.

I’ll check it out, thanks!

Windows’ lightweight photo editing thing. Great for highlighting screenshots.

All image editing software on linux (that I’ve tried) is 10x more clunky.

I mean, its free no-authentication VMs. They had to put at least some guards against abuse.