skisnow

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah the irony of it all is that professionally subtitled shows were already inferior to fansubs, because the fansubbers were a self-selecting group of people who were fans of that show specifically. I guess Crunchyroll realized that their subs sucked anyway so why pay money for them?

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don’t know why it’s so difficult for these Ayn Rand readers to understand that almost no market is perfectly free, efficient, contestable or optimal. When it comes to licensing IP in particular, the overhead of trying to get permission for a show that’s already licensed by a competitor is an insurmountable barrier to entry for anyone who isn’t already a huge media conglomerate.

The only realistic alternative to shitty subtitles is piracy.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago

Just wait, AI dubs are next

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 days ago (4 children)

The people who complain the loudest about disrespecting the flag are the same people who ruined it in the first place.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Do you work for Microsoft or something? This reads exactly like their sales FUD playbook

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago (9 children)

Not entirely sure what you mean; Linux’s user management, access control, security etc has always been ahead of Windows’ for its whole existence.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 79 points 5 days ago (13 children)

We're in the process of moving to Linux in our company, entirely because of how aggressively awful Windows 11 is. We'd have been perfectly happy staying on Windows 10 forever, but last week our head of development woke up to discover that Windows 10 had spontaneously chosen to "upgrade" itself during the night without him agreeing to it.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 60 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wait I thought it was Woke that was supposed to be policing what language we used?

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

I've heard it said that the difference between Machine Learning and AI, is that if you can explain how the algorithm got its answer it's ML, and if you can't then it's AI.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No. This is a specious argument that relies on an oversimplified description of humanity, and falls apart under the slightest scrutiny.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, the thing I hate about these memes is there's often an implicit suggestion that we're let off the hook for the things we can control.

The moral isn't "you can stop recycling now", it's "eat the rich, they're fucking up the whole planet".

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

I don't have many pictures of myself on my own phone. Most pictures of me are on the phones of the people who took them.

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