Kirk

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[–] Kirk@startrek.website 8 points 3 months ago

One could make the argument that short term gains protect against future downturns, but yes you are exactly correct it's not any deeper than that.

The job of being a CEO does not even involve an understanding of the product beyond an ability to connect it to future stock speculation.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

CEOs have a fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of shareholders. That's literally it. If "Metaverse" or "AI" makes line go up, they are legally obligated to talk about it.

The actual technology or product has nothing to do with the job of being a CEO the same way Mattel's accounting department doesn't need to understand where Skipper fits in the Barbie family tree.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 17 points 3 months ago

Love Bandcamp, I just discovered Bandcamp works perfectly with Music Assistant (popular Home Assistant app).

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago

I thought it was just a chromium thing with a big ol delete history button

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 13 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Tidal is better than Spotify for music enjoyers. The quality is clearly labeled on each track and the UX has a focus on well, music. There aren't any podcasts or social features and other crap.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 8 points 3 months ago

The reporters who pretend perfectly functional alternatives to Google don't exist are the same reporters that call twitter "The Internet" and if they left at all, went to BlueSky.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I turned to Amazon's chatbot to ask if a particular appliance had a switch or a button because it wasn't obvious from the photos, and well, it got it wrong.

I honestly have no idea what anyone is actually using these things for.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 81 points 3 months ago

I got the lifetime plan on Black Friday back when it was $0.00 I'm really glad I did that now

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 5 points 3 months ago

on one hand we should not be ascribing personally to next-word-predictors but on the other it can be pretty entertaining when we do

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 28 points 3 months ago (6 children)

...Remind me what this "industry" actually produces?

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That's true, but only juuuuust enough to keep the advertisers paying. There is no incentive for a monopoly like Google to provide better service for their customers (their customers are the advertisers) than the bare minimum, since they have no meaningful competition.

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