If I remember correctly the entire home 3D printing industry was held back by patents for decades. It was technically possible and feasible for much longer than we have commercially available 3D printers, but one or two businesses held all the patents and made it impossible to sell them cheap.

I’m starting to learn that patent trolling is a much bigger problem than we give it attention for.

The worst example I’ve heard so far is a US patent on fungi or mycelium as a plastic and styrofoam alternative. Think biking helmets or packaging material. That’s almost like granting a patent for wood as a construction material. It’s outrageous and seriously damaging progress across the globe because no one gets funding for something you can’t sell in the US.

It’s always refreshing to read reasonable comments to a nonsensical headline, but I do wonder why it even shows up in my feed when it has so many downvotes.

First big tech slapped “powered by AI!” on everything and now - a mere 2 years later - it has been exposed as nothing but a safety risk without a tangible benefit, they’re trying their best to hide it’s mere existence while still dumping it into everything. They just can’t help it.

Isn’t .org reserved for non-profit websites though? At least on the basis of internet etiquette? Some .io websites I know are completely monetized and about making money. And of course not everyone can afford a .com domain with a cool name right off the bat.

What’s next? Temu as your default search engine? The hotline to your nearest car dealership? Maybe just sit a tea leaf reader next to your desk to answer your questions. The possibilities are endless!

That was only for businesses that for whatever reason couldn’t update to Win10. Normal users weren’t eligible to get milked.

Sounds like they’re about to get sued by the EU because they’re basically asking you to pay again for a product you have already paid for. Discontinuing a service that was advertised as the “last windows you’ll ever need” is one thing, but sending you another bill on a whim is something entirely different. Microsoft might just have ensured the longevity of Win10 for the foreseeable future without making much if any profit from it.

And that seems to be the general consensus on the term screen time. Most of the time they only assume social media on a mobile phone specifically, leaving out TVs, game consoles or even desktop PCs or Laptops. And by they I mean journalists, content creators themselves and of course scientists who release studies. It’s very ironic because all of those groups accumulated screen time to release their findings.

Right? I was just thinking that entire countries run on chips so it sort of sounds about right at least.

I think the second part of my sentence you cropped was the more important one to get across. It doesn’t matter how indistinguishable ads become from regular content when nobody is even willing to use your billboard for an excuse of a website anymore. Besides, institutions like the EU and even the FTC in the US will step in and break apart those dark patterns when they keep getting out of hand. We already grand Google way too much leeway but there’s only so much Silicon Valley giants can get away with before getting slapped with fines and bans. There are already strict rules in the EU about transparency when it comes to advertisements and not even Youtube can ignore them for a very long time.

Sure, so the Rant I was talking about is this by german Youtber Geschichtsfenster

He linked sources. For example the Mandalorian armor slob can be found on the header image of this page: https://www.bauernkrieg-bw.de/uffrur-ausstellung

Another campaign can be found on an Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/magda_lautseit1525/

They’re both about the peasant wars, so not actually medieval now that I think about it. Terrible nonetheless.

Now they can fill new holes at the google graveyard at twice the speed!

Seems like a sure way to lose my engagement. I don’t understand what Google thinks they’re getting out of this except for flooding you with more ads between video recommendations at the cost of people actually watching anything and using the damn website.

Between removing the dislike counter, a defect search bar that shoves garbage down your throat, recommendations of decreasing quality on my end and shorts (which I hesitantly gave a try but ultimately lost all interest in because it remained mostly low effort content despite my efforts to train my algorithm), this is just another reason why I find myself spending more time enjoying other things lately.

Maybe I am just out of touch, but I smell another bubble bursting when I look at how enshittified all major web services are simultaneously becoming.

Just watched rant about a large historic museum in Germany using plenty of awful AI imagery, supposedly about the middle ages, showing what can only be identified as Mandalorians from Star Wars. It’s unnerving how far AI slob cancer reaches and we’re only at the early stages and how little responsibility anyone is willing to take when using AI.

As far as I remember they started as a pirating site and only later started to acquire more and more streaming licenses. By all means they shouldn’t even be in business today.

B-b-but China said all their chips are self made and that sanctions only accelerate their technological progress. You mean they got caught lying through their teeth again?

Instagram or smart phones didn’t exist when China started it. This isn’t about TikTok starting anything.

Humans absolutely come up with new music theories, instruments and genres and painters do come up with new techniques, tools and styles all the time. We are still inventers, especially in the creative space. Ironically the LLM is one of them and it will completely stagnate and fade into obscurity if humans stop tinkering with it as well.

Read a comment a while ago that if libraries weren’t a thing today and someone would propose them, the FBI would be on their ass and stalk after them for even suggesting such radical views. Copyright law is utterly broken and a disservice to society in it’s current form and execution. Politicians need to get their fat fingers out of the stock market by law.

Opera, being owned by Chinese big tech is probably the only “mainstream” browser I find worse than Chrome and I doubt it will have any measurable effect on Googles market dominance. Don’t get me wrong Google would absolutely deserve to trip and fall for the enshittification route they’re taking, but I don’t see how Opera could do what Firefox can’t when Opera is very reliant on Google.