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I’ll bet there is a website that calculates this stuff…

There is. Have fun!

My first guess is that it would have been overpriced and deliberately incompatible with existing chargers. No loss.

Everything it says is shit

What kind of fediverse search are you talking about? Provide a link. That would do much, much more than any explanations or testimonials possibly could.

Because people are dumb. If the machine knows when someone is looking at it, it can stop doing whatever it does to try and get your attention, and put itself in “sales mode”.

Still, you’re right. It seems like an overly complicated and expensive solution. Old-fashioned vending machines did the job just fine.

*Beehaw. Two Es. 🐝

They’re talking about the money. It’s the income that’s renewable, not the company.

If all cars were designed by computer with the sole purpose of being as aerodynamically perfect as possible, all cars would look the same.

Don’t support corporate “personhood”. Refusing to call Twitter by the stupid name Musk has given it is 100% acceptable.

This was an interesting read, but I’ve got stuff to do today, so I skipped the 90 minute video on their “outrageously ambitious mission”. Anyone care to summarize?

This is only a temporary “problem”. Eventually, ads will be incorporated into the story, and/or advertising companies will include clauses in their contracts. I imagine those clauses will DEMAND that websites include advertising in AI readers or not get paid for any ads they run.

Think enshittification. AI readers are only ad-free now in order to make them seem like an attractive option, and get people hooked on using them. I bet the numbers have already been calculated and decided on. Once AI readers are used by enough people, the ads will start.

Microsoft reneged on promises it made in court…

If those promises aren’t legally binding, then why take them into account in the first place?

This might have been interesting a few months ago, when they were getting the kind of free publicity that CEOs would kill for. Now that the momentum is gone, though, nobody cares. They took WAY too long to get their shit together.

This is by far my favorite answer.

Jesus. I always hated those ads, but even the industry’s own “self-regulatory” system thought 10G was bullshit.

This is an excellent article. I work hard for my boss because my boss is good to me. I actively look for stuff to do because I give a shit about him and the people I work with. That is not the case when my employer treats me like a replaceable asset instead of a person.

Too bad, so sad

At one of my old jobs, someone who was a manager at another business called and assumed I was a manager as well. He asked for a reference on an employee who had recently quit. The guy who left hadn’t been very good at the job, but he was a good person, clearly trying something different in a new field. I gave him a good “reference”, and the other manager sounded happy.

I wonder how it went for my old coworker…

Stone memorials - like the Lincoln, Jefferson, Vietnam, or WWII memorials in Washington D.C.

Don’t worry, I didn’t.