Notices by Mastokarl (mastokarl@mastodon.social)

@alberto_cottica @pluralistic @VaroufakisDE already love the intro statement of the Scifi writer Doctorow "there is a kind of cadre of tech billionaires who've read our dystopias and mistaken them for business plans".

Brilliant.

@RL_Dane @sam @sean @praxeology well, but google‘s business model is ads, while apple primarily sells you hardware. Quite a difference.

Only very very few apps may send me notifications, and I strictly disable notifications for every app who sends me shit to remind me of their existence. And often the app as well.

@RL_Dane @sam @sean @praxeology if ChatGPT did its web search right and I did the math right then 75% of apple‘s revenue is still hardware with the iPhone taking 49%. ads are just 1%

(Nb this is not so important to me that I checked ChatGPT‘s web search result, might be wrong)

@scream @crk5 fun fact of the day: DeepL translates English AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH to German
AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH (two A more, one H less).

Does this say something about the German vs US way of screaming? Do we Germans scream louder, while the US screaming has some more whispering qualities?

Or is it the mind of the AI that felt like „people give me such stupid tasks, I‘ll add two AAs to vent“?

We will never know.

Ich muss gestehen, dass ich zu schwach bin, mehr als die leichten Dinge gegen die #klimakatastrophe zu tun.
- viel weniger Fleisch essen (aber nicht keins)
- viel weniger Milchprodukte (aber nicht keine)
- meistens 120 auf der BAB (aber wenn ich wirklich dringend heim will...)
- öfter Rad statt Auto (aber der Regen!)
- Photovoltaik angeschafft (kostet nur Geld)
- Fast nur noch Elektrisch unterwegs (aber doch Hybrid für stressfreie Langstrecke)
- Praktisch keine Flüge mehr (praktisch)
etc.

@patrickcmiller @verbrecher Read this if you intend to buy a Tesla. You shouldn’t. I won’t.

@BeAware hm, well, each of those departures is something we might think about. I’m not happy that X is still that big. It is a place of evil now. And I understand him. X : Mastodon is like Italy : Scotland. Very rough nature, takes a lot of time to grow on you.

The aspect of X I hate so much - algorithms that feed you “interesting” stuff that keeps you engaged, and which often is tweets that make you angry - is the aspect that makes it so easy to get into. Unlike here.

Funny how the Reddit boss talks about his data and makes money from these data which are 100% not his data but content from us. I don’t see where he is better / less greedy than the companies he complains about. #leavingReddit

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/31/24210565/reddit-microsoft-anthropic-perplexity-pay-ai-search?utm_source=tldrnewsletter

Now that was fun. Not. Started another #diablo4 session after a long time. Played hardcore mode of course. Until my Lv19 character met a boss, and a bug. Character couldn‘t move, squirmed frozen to the floor, and all I could do was seeing my health drop, run out of health potions and die after a minute or so of helpless squirming. Shitty game.

Versteh ich das falsch? Wir hatten eine (vergleichsweise) überschaubare Krise namens Covid-19. Für die wurde die Schuldenbremse ausgehebelt. Dann gab es eine andere (vergleichsweise) überschaubare Krise, in der Russland ein friedliches Nachbarland überfallen hat, was zu Aufrüstungswunsch Deutschlands führte. Dafür wurde ein im Grundgesetz verankertes gewaltiges Sondervermögen eingerichtet.

Für die existenzbedrohendste Krise der Menschheit ever dagegen kann man das nicht machen? #klimawandel