Twenty years ago, dating apps would introduce you to people you wanted to be with. In fact, there were no apps. They were websites.

That I actually had success meeting someone that I love and care about shows a flaw in their business model rather than a successful match. They accidentally lost two customers after extrapolating a lot of money from me without being helpful for more than a decade.

Not surprised at all. I don’t even need to check it out because I know they deliberately inhibited public transportation to increase profits.

For all the reasons I despise Sam Altman, this is the primary reason. It was shrewd of him to lock up the entire market, but that doesn’t make it any less sociopathic. The entire world is negatively affected by this. What an asshole.

What happens to all those Stargate RAM wafers, and excess datacenters?

The bigger question is what happens to the world-economy when the largest players bottom out and the companies betting on them are massively downgraded because of their huge investments in a fantasy about eternal growth. Hope everyone is setting aside extra cash; it’s gonna make 2008 look like a walk in the park.

I didn’t expect to open the comments and laugh. Well done.

It’s changed the price of RAM, that much is assured.

Well, he hasn’t been describing our future for at least two decades. /sarcasm

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Attorney’s Office, and Montgomery County District Attorney all initiated criminal investigations of the matter, which they combined and then closed because they did not find evidence “that would establish beyond a reasonable doubt that anyone involved had criminal intent”.

If I don’t have intent to commit a crime but I break the law, it’s not an excuse that a cop or judge will buy. Holy fuck.

Pay for independently-developed software if you care about it continuing to exist. Steal from corporations all you want. But support independent devs (and small teams) to make sure they can keep maintaining the tools you love and rely on. It’s the only way to not get swallowed by the big dogs.

And contributing money to shitbags allows them to keep funding terrible values. See Musk.

We all got along great at my last job. Small company, ~24 people. It was pineapple on pizza. We were at war.

My former manager, who is still a good friend, literally someone I go get drinks with to catch up, can fucking die and burn in hell because of this.

Well, I know who’s gonna take a beating when the bubble pops and the market falls out from under them. What a stupid decision.

“Hey guys, this AI thing is gonna be like this forever. We’ll never lack for insane demand ever again.”

My friend was blathering on about Cory Doctorow two decades ago and I knew the name, had maybe read a little bit. I was kind of annoyed how ofter he brought him up. Man did he come out ahead of me on that. This guy articulates the ills of society so well.

They’re not difficult to use. It used to be the primary reason in the chart. Now it’s second nature.

Well, the Roman numeral M is 1000, so this is a pretty good tip. Not sure about the rest, but hey I’ll take.

We got to rent time on one of these that very summer in an arcade-like coffee shop (or something, I was young, I don’t remember) in NYC. Everything was in Japanese, but Mario was running around in an open world and it blew our minds.

You’re probably looking for something like phpMyAdmin. A lot of hosting companies offer it (I had to log into my own to look up the name of the software). I would host in a European nation if you could (people love Hetzner; I haven’t used any outside the USA). I believe that’s a relatively save route to data sovereignty and I doubt they’d honor a court order from your country demanding records or access to your data, but you should research carefully and not trust some half-knowledgeable / half-ignorant guy on the internet (me) if you’re putting yourself at risk.

I think people on Lemmy will be genuinely friendly about answering questions if you demonstrate that you’ve put in an honest effort to learn things on your own and don’t ask people to basically do the thinking for you. Unix / Linux / network / server nerds like talking about this stuff and are happy to help each other learn so long as there’s a sense of respecting other people’s time by trying to do things on your own and only asking for expertise because you tried first but got stuck. That’s been my experience, anyway, over the years (big old nerd right here).

I’m sure everything is above board and nobody is colluding to step on the necks of the rest of us plebs.

One fascist boot-licker downvoted me. Hey fascist, no one here likes you.