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I keep seeing news about tech companies having huge layoffs and doing salary cuts. Is it going to collapse? Are software engineers going to paid how much their work really is worth (i.e., next to nothing)? Should I start looking for a new job?
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Good.
Hopefully it will put a damper on the stemlord dick wagging.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-tech-workers-layoffs-industry/
Workers from the hard-hit tech sector find stability in traditional industries
>Laid-off tech workers are increasingly moving into mainstream industries such as banking as they trade the excitement of startups for the stability of long-established companies in traditional sectors.
>While tech companies scramble to cut staff to reduce costs, after swelling by as much as a third during the first years of the pandemic, many tech workers are now looking for opportunities outside the industry, despite its reputation for high compensation, fast-paced projects and intense work culture.
>The result: Some of Canada’s largest companies are reaping the benefits in scooping up talented tech workers.
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FAANG is definitely an endangered species, but the demand for tech workers in the general economy is still there

>>20080
FAANG are long-established companies, not startups.

>>20081
They're different, though. Their business is specifically built on disruptive tech services, which is why they're constantly absorbing newer tech companies and investing into research and development, even if they have some more or less reliable flagship services.

>>20082
FAANG is just short for Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google. They are pretty much all mono- or duopolies. They are not disrupting shit, they are buying up potential competition.



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They've already ruined news and articles since you can't search anything up without all of the top results being confidently incorrect AI-generated shit that doesn't even answer your question. What happens when they start generating videos or break down captcha so that even forums get run over?
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>>20097
>search anything up without all of the top results being confidently incorrect AI-generated shit
Even before AI started worsening this issue this was bad enough I started learning to use my bookmarks and RSS feeds for sites I already know are reliable. Then just use forums like the one you're on right now to curate them to expand your library.
You never *needed* search engines, and you not missing out on something integral now that they aren't an option.
>What happens when they start generating videos
They already do, have you not used YouTube in the last 5 years? Curation and RSS fixes this.
>break down captcha so that even forums get run over?
Legitimate but manageable concern. use robots.txt and ip blocking to prevent search engines from scraping the site, create more obtuse forms of capcha, and foster in-site culture to make the tonal difference between bots and users more appearent, i.e. encouraging non-standard grammar and banning algorithmthings like wojaks.

>>20101
>60 or 70 years old they'll be using AI to fake the voices of my loved ones in order to trick me into doing all sorts of insane shit.
already happening

>>20097
Bots are already used by political operators and I'm pretty sure they can already beat captchas. Reddit and 4chan already have obvious bots and shills there.

Yes. This is why porky wants to regulate it with not only Porky's Policy, but law. It's not a real problem until Porky Starts Replacing Us and things like the video are more common. When robots start replacing us, people WILL die off because they are no longer needed for the Economy.

>>20102
AI can get around that by studying inputs from users and copying them. Say, people don't capitalize the first letter of words or use periods, ai can be configured for this. There really is no way to tell who is real and who isn't, if it's done properly.

>>20105
>There really is no way to tell who is real and who isn't
What if reality is a spook?



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Linux Desktop Environment: tde, also known as trinity desktop is something i used 2 years ago and its like a old fork of kde 3.5 from around 2005 or so that is still being maintained today. it was an interesting experience and every now and again i wanted to reinstall the de but i sometimes decide against it. so i decided to make a thread on it because i checked that nobody had mentioned anything about it here.

also i find it kind of cool that we are almost on kde 6 and this de is kde 3.5. it's almost like the halfway point

https://www.trinitydesktop.org/

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Never tried it, seems like it isn't in any distro package repo, is there a reason for that? does it conflict with qt5 or qt6?

Have you tried enlightenment DR16 (https://www.enlightenment.org/e16)? It is also an old fork and has many themes, it even has a version of a theme you posted.

>>20065
i don't know why exactly but i just assumed it wasn't popular enough or used enough to be added but i might be wrong



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If you unironically think AI will serve an actual purpose and you're not one of the handful of people with a chance at monetary benefit from believing this idea, you're basically the person in this picture
You are a precarious petit-bourgeois who hates capitalism because you're too mediocre for it and need to find an escape, no matter how false of an escape it is in reality
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>>19959
if ai can understand human language, it could probably learn programming languages much easier (as these are basically reduced to basic syntax with no need for nuances). ai does have a use and it could end the it labour aristocracy

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>>20036
Features

Remote Non-LOS Operation
Autonomous Steering
Fleet Integration
Mine Visualization
Map Features
High Speed Tramming

Draw/Dump Goals
Goal-to-Goal Automation
Autopilot Route Properties
Automated Dumping
3:1 Control Ratio
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as always "AI" is the wrong word to use for these technologies. it's just fancier automation
>>20036
I know some people who have worked on an automatic mining jackhammer thing. basically when these trucks dump rocks to be crushed they must pass through a grate. rocks that are too big have to be broken down. previously this was done by hand. they were experimenting with machine vision to locate the rocks and figure out where to hammer them to break them. neat stuff

>>19949
Jelly, meatsack?



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RIP RARBG
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wtf is going on right now. rarbg gone and the YTS movie feed is polluted with podcast and random tv episodes. At the same time. How are people checking the day's releases at a glance? torrentgalaxy is ok but doesn't have the rare gems that were in the rarbg feed

>>19784
PassThePopcorn is the only comparable movie tracker, and it's intensely private and is extremely, extremely strict about ratios

>>19925
the last private tracker I was a member of my ratio was godly. can't seed here though. anyone want to rec a cheap anonymous vps or seedbox?

F

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmbpRxBZ5HDZDVRoeAU8xFYnoP4r5eGCxdkmfFW3JbA6mq/

Found on leddit. Self-hostable archive of all magnet links. Works just fine. Don't know how which torrents will maintain seeders and for how long, unfortunately.



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https://www.businessinsider.com/metaverse-dead-obituary-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-tech-fad-ai-chatgpt-2023-5
>The Metaverse, the once-buzzy technology that promised to allow users to hang out awkwardly in a disorientating video-game-like world, has died after being abandoned by the business world. It was three years old.
>The capital-M Metaverse, a descendant of the 1982 movie "Tron" and the 2003 video game "Second Life," was born in 2021 when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg changed the name of his trillion-dollar company to Meta. After a much-heralded debut, the Metaverse became the obsession of the tech world and a quick hack to win over Wall Street investors. The hype could not save the Metaverse, however, and a lack of coherent vision for the product ultimately led to its decline. Once the tech industry turned to a new, more promising trend — generative AI — the fate of the Metaverse was sealed.
>The Metaverse is now headed to the tech industry's graveyard of failed ideas. But the short life and ignominious death of the Metaverse offers a glaring indictment of the tech industry that birthed it.
Grand promise
>From the moment of its delivery, Zuckerberg claimed that the Metaverse would be the future of the internet. The glitzy, spurious promotional video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKPNJ8sOU_M] that accompanied Zuckerberg's name-change announcement described a future where we'd be able to interact seamlessly in virtual worlds: Users would "make eye contact" and "feel like you're right in the room together." The Metaverse offered people the chance to engage in an "immersive" experience, he claimed.
>These grandiose promises heaped sky-high expectations on the Metaverse. The media swooned over the newborn concept: The Verge published a nearly 5,000-word-long interview with Zuckerberg [http://theverge.com/22749919/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-meta-company-rebrand] immediately following the announcement — in Post too long. Click here to view the full text.
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kek

>>19547
Is this a metaverse thing?

>>19547
Yeah but metaverse (the marketing term) isn't primarily about xr stuff, it's about presenting products next to eachother so people that like one product will like the other product. Fortnite and Smash Bros, for example.
Like if Mark wanted to hype people about xr this was too indirect of an approach.

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>>19593
It is a VR frontend for Retro Arch though someone did make a giant functional C64 in VRChat.
>>19594
Even then online 3D worlds date back to the late 90s that focus was user created worlds with them seeing then as the Metaverse being 90s Internet just with 3D slapped on it that was more palatable then Facebook and Microsoft's idea of the Metaverse.

>advertising business is stagnating so your an entire small island country's GDP into some VR service
>abandon said VR service since literally no one wants it
>shift focus onto mining the newer venture capital copium, AI
A decade ago, you might have thought these people were intellectual ubermensch moving "humanity" forward



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First twitter and now google. I wonder what's going on.

>You may have thought a Google account was forever, but the company's latest blog post details a new policy of deleting inactive Google accounts. The new deadline is two years—if your account hasn't seen "activity" in that amount of time, Google is going to delete your data forever.

>The company pitches this as a way to prevent spam. The blog post says that "abandoned accounts are at least 10x less likely than active accounts to have 2-step-verification set up," and once they get compromised, they become vectors for spam and identity theft. Deleting old accounts and freeing up storage is also probably a good way to cut costs, which has been a thing at Google lately.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/google-will-start-deleting-inactive-accounts-after-two-years/
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>>19655
A good chunk of Active Worlds and Worlds.com are still up, though this is mostly due to their tiny file sizes so they basically have been forgotten on servers.

>>19667
I tried setting up an account but they kept rejecting my email


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>>19628
>trusting proprietary scum with your data
deserved outcome desu
the internet was decentralized for a reason
but people couldn't resist willingly centralizing under the likes of corporate shit like google and here we are.
even other programmers used to roll their eyes when they learned that I host my own email, git, etc. instead of using centralized trash like shithub.

I think Google Drive also culls the data of inactive accounts, not sure though
>I wonder what's going on
Massive lay-offs and increasing energy prices probably hitting their data centres hard



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How do I actually buy Bitcoin? I'm using Bisq as like the market since apparently it doesn't have all the bullshit and it won't freeze my money, as well as Electrum as my main wallet (of course I don't have anything in it). But there's nowhere for me to pay money into it so I can't actually buy bitcoin and when I try to find out the problem it just tells me ways to get bitcoin to start when all I need is to pay my currency into the machine to get a fraction of a bitcoin to spend, I don't even need it to be super duper anonymous or whatever. It's so frustrating, if you don't know someone who knows this shit it's as obtuse as a rock. I just hope I don't have to go through like robinhood or any of those fuck companies that I have no trust for. Help would be much appreciated.
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hahahahahahahahahaha
hell yeah dude

my man's going fin-goth mode

First of all, you should want to avoid bitcoin as it is horrible wen it comes to privacy. Every transaction is public and viewable by everyone, see if you can buy a privacy coin, such as monero instead.

If you want a different way to buy either of them, be it bitcoin or monero, check out localbitcoin and localmonero. You can use many different ways of making transacting with individuals (even cash by mail) and it's even accessible through the darknet.

>>19734
Have you used localmonero personally?

>>19732
Buy drugs with paper dollars, sell drugs for monero

don't lol, we've had two straight years of bitcoin moving horizontally without significant appreciation, which is insane considering we are also going through unprecedented inflation which was the exact scenario that should've pumped bitcoin, but it didn't. because after everyone bought at ATH and lost their fucking money like morons, they never went back and they will never be back.



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The vast majority of people use the internet to do banking and mail but slightly faster, and watch shitty slop on Netflix or whatever
Social media is a pyramid scheme to defraud marketing agencies using inflated numbers and making people talk about nonsense
None of it is particularly necessary to the functioning of modern capitalism like it's made out to be, and a lot of the infrastructure relies on increasing monopolization i.e. Cloudflare and Google/Alphabet buying up IP addresses and backbone networks which will probably easily collapse during a financial recession just like what happened when the dot-com bubble popped
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>>20205
>>20208
>>20209
I would still much rather check out a book from a public library
There's really not very much that online commons resources like libgen have that a well-funded urban library system doesn't have

>>20175
>>20200
To be fair, Kiwi Farms users are only doing what the internet was always meant to be used for: identifying and surveilling perceived threats to order. It's just that it's been "democratized" from governments like the US to random reactionary mobs.

>>20211
Well actually the internet was supposed to be used for exchanging research data over long distances.

>>20212
Public research universities in the US have always been an integral element in the military-industrial complex. Many research programs rely on government and military grants, the CIA recruits their agents from them, and they happily lend their expertise on certain topics to the military.

>>20213
True but that doesn't refute the point



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Thoughts on Reddit? I know they’ve quarantined r/genzedong and finding genuine ML subs on there is difficult, but I feel like that crowd can be more amenable to our worldview. There are already a lot of subreddits that focus on workers rights and are anti-reactionary. What’s stopping us from creating our own sub on there and uniting the proletarians of the world?
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>Thoughts on Reddit?
Venture capitalist social media. Any popular community is absolute shit, filled with bots and platitudes. Aaron Swartz (pbuh) was a fool to help build it. Lemmys (incl. Hexbear) have their major, hugebig issues but are far better, despite them.

Never use it through its main interface, only use an alternate frontend like teddit.net or libreddit (inb4: lib stands for 'libre')

>What’s stopping us from creating our own sub on there and uniting the proletarians of the world?

Just like /leftypol/, you're only uniting a bunch of disparate, desperate nerds. On top of that, it's a horribly ineffective platform, on a technical level, even with an ideal userbase. You cannot effectively organize on it.
Additionally, any community that somehow magically does that will be shafted. We've seen evidence like genzedong and others. And anything that doesn't will get sanewashed like the formally anarchist /r/antiwork . They won't allow you to say anything dangerous. They won't stop the bot armies from drowning you. They are public bourg and they own the system.

OP is a fucking idiot.

>but I feel like that crowd can be more amenable to our worldview

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OH WOW!

>>20161
>prior affiliation with 8chan
It's not a 'prior affiliation' you sanewashing little shit. We weren't affiliated, the board was born there and was there for most of its existence.
You might as well be saying Marxism had a prior affiliation with Karl Marx.

As a matter of fact, there were far more anarchists on the board for the first few years until a mod balleted them, so the problem wasn't even 8ch.

>>20167
99% of 8gag, including the staff, hated us. the only reason /leftypol/ didnt get deleted was thanks to hotwheels, the literal creator and owner in name only

>>20161
You’re a fed

>>20159
this.

>>20169
8chan under hotwheels was terrible. Pretty much all mods on all boards were either retarded or glowing, /leftypol/ was full of spam by COINTELPRO shills. /cyber/ was alright until that too got assimilated.
8chan flourished after hw left and, believe it or not, even /pol/ was on a good path away from being the racist disinfo shithole that it used to be.

Btw, this is the thread that got it shut down:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190803162950/https://8ch.net/pol/res/13561044.html
Now the entire site is full of shitposters again.



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