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You could try, links are helpful - feels are not. You presume a lot of me that isn't true - I have long been in the techno feudalist industry, I just see the damage it does.
You might believe I'm ignorant, but from the inside things are a lot more obvious.
Send me your lectures, send me your links, I'd love to read, but ultimately I rejected your argument that a discount for me is a net good on society.
That's the only argument I've had - people, mostly consumers who don't have a choice because they don't have the means, end up making choices for "today" because today is all they can afford. When philosophy professors tell me it's hopeless and I should just take cheap tendies and accept the future, well, that's also why I don't live in the US anymore! | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
I’ve never said you should accept what is happening. Just that your acts of rebellion and resistance are misguided.
I hear you. Fully. But if your goal is to hurt the system we live in right now then.. well. We can talk about that. Foster community. Pull people close to you. Build community and spend time truly thinking about what alternative ideologies could look like.
Our foundational problem is that we don’t have things to believe in beyond the self and actions we can take. It’s a worshipping of the believe of direct action. And it’s the very thing modern society feeds endlessly.
Conservatives try to replace this hole with god. Progressives try to use direct action (often consumer choices) to try and steer the system. But ultimately what we worship is the actions we can take. A deep rooted believe that by ‘doing’ we can change.
The reality is that our system will come crashing down not because we who resist it. But because those who believe in it will steer it into a place where it simply cannot sustain itself. And I as a human should just move through my own space and try to operate without constantly chastising myself. (It’s a whip we hit the self and our fellow people with. Making us hostile to the complexity that is human experience)
Seeing how much you already know about a lot of things that would normally make pre reading. I’d recommend ‘Too late to awaken’ by Slavoj Žižek as an excellent starting point for you. It’s also a delicious read with some good humour to help illustrate the points of view.
Ps. Unlike the title suggests. It’s a rather optimistic book. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Don't forget the forced arbitration agreement | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
The funny thing is that my Subway has had a “AI” drive through for years on a touch screen and has worked fine | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
That's because most deals are really local, and it actually does let you know if something is unavailable. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
I won't do mine unless I get an additional bribe from the customer. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Not too much different from the regular Checkers experience. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
It also helps keep the customer separated from the rabid McDonald's employees, so this is a win all around | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Checkers? Those places can barely even stay open. Who the fuck thought up using A.I. at Checkers? How do they afford it? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
when I worked there, the *vast* majority of the time that it was "broken" was because there was no one on-shift who knew how to take it apart and clean it properly. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
This is why AI isn’t really for the real world, and quite possibly never will be in the LLM form.
AI can be right *most* of the time, or be just a little bit wrong all of the time, but many business can’t or won’t accept that. Their clients simply won’t accept that level of error—getting one item wrong on every order is not an acceptable level of accuracy for a fast food chain.
That ignores the black box aspect of it entirely, which makes it difficult to use for many other applications, like finance or law, that might demand auditability of the logic.
This is just a bubble, like cryptocurrency and digital ledgers. Ok, maybe not quite as bad. But seriously, this is just AI Hype: part 2, LLM boogaloo. Part one was in the 2010’s, when VC’s were passing out checks to startups like money really did grow on trees. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
I do understand that. You’re describing a failing business model.
So let the economy work and let them find a way to pay their employees enough to survive in this economy.
This isn’t even really going at the franchisees either. It’s directed at McDonald’s Corporation who is selling a predatory business model that is no longer acceptable (it used to be, but not for a very long time).
Also, I don’t give a fuck about people with $1.5M in the bank. They can make 15-20% ($225k-300k) annually by putting their money in an index fund. If they’re choosing to invest in something that’s only going to produce $135k a year, then who is really the person who doesn’t understand how the economy works…? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
You can check if your local McDonald's ice cream machine is working [here](https://mcbroken.com/). | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Is it? Does anyone actually want to work the drive-through? Even if all jobs did pay a living wage? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Cool, sounds like my local Wendy’s has been using AI for years! | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Hey don't try to actually get reasonable answers here. All apps are bad. Big Mcdona is always watching. Sleep with one eye open. Go off the grid. Move into the Amazon first and hunt your own game. It's the only way. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
.... Defending them from what? Lmao. Your literally just making up some fake argument or something here. I'm just trying to eat some mcdonalds man. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
McDonald's does not have an ice cream machine. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
"aaaand theeeeen?" | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Even if you disable apps from location tracking, McDonalds needs it to show you the deals in your area. Now it's tracked. Any app that uses Bluetooth also requests location data. And that's *just* location, not even apps that request more info like phone/contact lists. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
We should boycott everything AI. It fucking sucks on all levels. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
AI Ronald: “Don’t see anyone else in that car? That all for *you* big fella?” | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
I mean every McDonald's is going to be different, but I know whenever I've ordered stuff from the app it's ready within 30 seconds of me walking into the store no matter how long I take to get there.
The fact that all these apps want your data is not exactly a secret, I was just pointing out that this one example actually does try to have a reason for it though which 99% of the others don't. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
I always say nothing. Literally nothing.
Your computer is stupid. It can't understand anything close to a natural human conversation.
I say nothing and wait for a human.
Just today, I noticed one local McDonald's did not have that anymore. Straight to a human.
I'm not gonna talk to an AI. Not because I don't think it would be cool. It would be... If the AI was Her level (as in Her, the movie).
Anything less than that? Corporate America can go fuck itself. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Yes, the USA still has it. But not after 11 pm (in many locations). | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
And yet their computers are built to filter out angry/rude/disruptive people from the automated system so that as few legitimate grievances can get through as possible | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
They don’t run themselves, no doubt - obviously an attendant is always there.
That’s what I just said though, 1 attendant and a repair contract both can and have already taken over what used to be 10 people’s jobs.
They don’t have to be highly functioning intelligent machines, they just have to be enough to eliminate jobs, and those won’t be brought back.
Self checkouts have only grown more numerous, and actual numbers of employees (and their effective wages) have only dropped | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
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Part of becoming an experienced developer is learning how to interpret vague project requirements, manage customer expectations, and deal with ambiguity.
You’re not going to be able to overcome that with an AI assistant.
An AI assistant isn’t going to be able to help you overcome your problem, if you can’t even properly describe what the problem is to begin with. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Snowden already said this. Nobody listened.
Congratulations. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
But we can actually watch capitalism destroy civilization in real time. So thats a big difference.
Not sure why you pick the thing where people's job is to destroy food just so kids can't have it. Seems stupid. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
You thought the documentation and annotations on code was bad before… | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Synergistic, even | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
I get that. And I’m certainly not ready to make a case for AI to take over the software dev market.
But…
The present is already very close to being what it must have been like when computers first started to make their way into homes. They were simple, and unsophisticated in the problems they could solve without much expertise, abd though no where near the capability of what an HR department for a large corporation needs or a design house or research facility they were still remarkably able to do some Things that ordinary humans with no training could use to Do Stuff at a level significantly above what they could do without.
And folks like you are laughing at Wozniak sitting on the other side of their desk scoffing at why more than a handle of people in entire world would ever need a computer….
If people ignore this they are gonna get creamed by it. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
The AI can explain the problem….. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-18-06 |
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YouTube may have tons of content about those things, but it's significantly less accessible and usable for that purpose. Video content has made the Internet worse for learning. It is harder to find information in a 30 minute video that could have been a 4 minute read. Less if all I needed was one sentence out of it | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Queen does bites the dust :D | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
I wish they’d spend more time making their ad models into a tolerable experience for the consumer. I’ve been watching Youtube on the tv (no ad blocker) and it’s fucking miserable. Having to actively babysit the skip button so I don’t have to sit through multiple 2:00 minute ads certainly isn’t endearing me to the brands on offer. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
I might try that. Im on Firefox with ublock currently. Right now I can still skip them after 5 seconds. I was trying other adblockers and instead of the short skippable ads I get the 4 minute long feature length ads that I have to watch. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Either youtube needs to cut down on the videos it accepts, or it needs to moderate its ads and vet each ad.
I seen ads that open the app store and try to force a download of an app or loop through web pages so fast they cant load.
But google will sit there and do nothing, or lie to advertisers like they did like twice before. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
How else will the line infinitely go up? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Tell the brands to make shorter ads with the same cost | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Google isn’t going to run YouTube as a charity because other parts of their business are doing well | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Im paranoid they can somehow tell the last time I touched the remote. Every time I leave the remote a 2 minute ad appears, when I’m next to the remote then it’s only a 10-20 second one wtf | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Why don’t they just make their advertising less annoying. I didn’t used to care this much. But YouTube is almost unusable without blocking. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
If this is the best they can come up with that is all I have to know about the ai google has. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
See: Amazon Prime Video | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
spending more energy trying to fuck everybody else over than just making their site more approachable to people without adblocks lmao | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
>If you enjoy YouTube so much
Let me stop you right there and leave you with *"I don't"* | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
"You guys need to grow up and give me ***MONEYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!"***
lmao | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Yeah. I recently had a 30 minute ad all about bread. Wtf | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Start video, 2x 20+ second unskippable ads. Ads over, fast forward to the part of the video I wanted to see... See the same two ads again. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Of all the sites for ad blockers, why don’t they just use comedy central’s model? If I go to watch a South Park clip on my phone, absolutely nothing plays unless I shut off my ad blocker. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Mr. Super Smart maybe you should have realized that the people who have ads likely watch on TVs or Phones
and while there are workarounds like pi hole and some more or less trustworthy apps it's still a duct tape solution
and most people realize that if youtube wants to stay free, it needs ads. there is no way around it
so the actually intelligent people discuss how a better implementation could work | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Unless you're some kinda shut-in, you're seeing plenty of ads outside.
Everyone says ads don't work on them, but if that were true they wouldn't be spending billions on them. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
The safety argument is just bs. The only safety it gives is stopping your isp from snooping but allowing the vpn provider to do it instead. Net zero.
It does mask your op from authorities if you’re doing some illegal stuff but I wouldn’t call that safety. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Oh right, I forgot they removed dislike number. Firefox has add-ons to keep them shown. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
People don't mind ads, it's when those ads become invasive and take over.. I'm looking at you FB | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
I remember watching tv and we had to sit through the commercials. I’ve done my time some fuck them. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
You're right. If you cannot get your point across in point four seconds you might as well keep your mouth shut. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
I have a S21+ and it still runs like ass on my phone. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
That's... not how Audible works.
The subscription is just to get book credits which let you get 1 book per without paying for it separately. You don't need the subscription to use it. I haven't been an Audible subscriber for... at least a decade now, I think, and it still works perfectly fine. I can buy books, I can listen to them, it all works as intended. The only thing I don't get is a steady drip feed of credits to spend on books *instead* of buying them directly. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
I guess you've evolved into a perfectly 100% rational being without emotions to exploit. Congrats. You've beaten the science. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Some people will be stupid in your mind and never change, that's okay. They are still happy people that exist in the world and have happy lives without your approval. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
The fucking Lego movie. I was cooking in the kitchen with YouTube on in the background and that started playing. It got like 20 minutes in before I realized it. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Oh I'm sure you're happy, ignorance is bliss | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Cool then we're copacetic | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
No, it's a loop of some scammy health supplement. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Doesn't work for TV apps unless you have android. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Either no ads, or I stop watching youtube. I watch online content because I hate how many ads are on TV. All I have to do is find another platform without ads. Why don't the corporate suits in charge understand this? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
But they work on a lot of other people. So they will stay. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Oh I hate song ads that are of a totally different genre when you're listening to music. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
It doesn’t matter, people hate ads so much that they’ll find a way to block em | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Are these attacks on our political system supposed to hurt me? It doesn't matter which President is elected, America will still be leading the world. It just depends on how we end up doing it.
Imagine thinking that America's power lies only in the President. What exactly is failing here anyways? Christianity is in its death throws, LGBTQ+ rights are on the rise, Abortion was just made possible nationwise via mail order.
We're reinvesting in building manufacturing here in the US instead of overseas. We've finally got strong commitment of contribution to the NATO efforts by all the member nations not just us.
Israel is dealing with Hamas one way or another and wracking up a good debt to us doing it, same with Ukraine and Russia. Those will come due and our goods will be cheap again.
So how are we struggling? Because our youth thinks they all should own houses right out of college and not having to pay rent or live with roommates to survive on their own? Nothing really has changed other than as I said a bit of austerity because we handed out so much money during COVID. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
So now people need to know to by a specific streaming device that is starting to get long in the tooth and run a specific 3rd party app for YouTube. Someone should start running ads for it on YouTube or something. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
>so good people actually wanted to watch them.
You know what's funny is these are on tiktok. You can instantly skip ads on tiktok but people choose not to for some of them. They're always the straightforward simple videos of a seller explaining their product. There's a guy who hand makes leather belts on there and his ads are just a cut of the whole process with his relaxing voiceover. Beautifully shot, satisfying to watch.
Corporate ads feel like someone is scraping your brain with a cheese grater. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
You're wasting your time. You could list literally every ad format out there is this person will bend over backwards to pretend they either never saw those ads or purposefully ignored them.
You could even point out that odds are they've seen some native ads, which are literally ads designed to not seem like ads, and they'll claim they have some magic sixth sense to suss them out.
They've decided that not showing any crack in that armor is more important than any sense of believability. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
I will check that out. Thanks | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
It's what some people say when they want to pretend they're being reasonable about the fact that online services cost money and that money needs to come from somewhere.
The truth is if YouTube pulled back and stuck with "reasonable ads", all of those people saying they'd be OK with reasonable ads would suddenly change their definition of "reasonable" and keep blocking them. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
For the money you’d spend on another device, you could have YouTube Premium for over four years (assuming you got a cheap model, double it for something decent, triple it for something nice) and it has the added benefit of actually supporting the creators you watch instead of essentially pirating their content (unless you support them in other ways). | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
I mean Driker is goated though
I don't understand how people are even watching The Acolyte. I love Star Wars, and that's exactly why I can't stomach this shit. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Why did you grant YouTube mic access? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Fair point, valid too.
I assumed people just tolerated ads online simply because they are unwilling or unable to avoid having to watch them, assumed because it's not really something that's brought up in general conversation... And now I think about it, I've never heard people moan about adverts in an in-person conversation.
Now I'm questioning why I feel that way... I think because I didn't choose to watch an ad, and I'm being made to, so I rebel against it.
Eh, oh well cheers for the introspection I guess. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
You don’t drink any popular beverages? Drive literally any popular cars brands? Wipe your ass with any of the massive brands?
These companies spend billions to make us think we are influenced by them | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Instead of a skip button, there should be a "watch more" button which lets the whole ad play. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
It’s already been solved several times people posted links already | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
We’ve strayed away from my point again. Not that I can’t wholly be influenced by ads, but Google is showing me mass ads for things that do not do not apply to me. I do not eat at little Caesars, I dont even care for pizza that much. No matter how many times they show me an ad for little caesars, I will not choose to go there. I don’t even have a clue where the closest one is.
And no ad algorithm is perfect, they all have inaccurate bloat. (google doesn’t have a category for electric car drivers they shouldnt bother advertising mobile 1 oil to (at least not yet)). But the point of my google ad tracking is that EVERY SINGLE AD they show me is like this. At least facebook shows me ads for my local Chinese restaurant chain that I frequent; those ads might actually do something for me. Hell even reddit has shown me ads for discounted video games.
What drove me to do this was google’s supposed amazing Q1 advertising performance. They might have big advertising spenders, but google has definitely missed the mark on who those ads are reaching. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
It’s a waste of time and I don’t recommend it, but I find backing out and going back into the video 5-6 times usually knocks down the 30sec to 1 min ads to about 5 seconds. Sometimes it takes longer. That’s about the most I’m willing to tolerate. A 5-10 second ad. If one plays in the middle of the video. I back out again and go back in. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Well currently they're making zero dollars of me and I watch a lot of Youtube content. I actively lose Youtube money.
They don't need to get rid of premium, just add a lower tier that only removes adverts. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Well you don't have to. Google can't force you to watch Youtube. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Premium is absolutely worth it if it benefits your sleep. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
The advertisers think they know better than you. And regardless, YouTube uses those ads as an incentive to get people to buy Premium. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
If everyone switched to Premium, YouTube would be bringing in 100 billion+ a year. I think Google could live with that. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
The advertisers don't know better because YT feeds them stats that tell them otherwise. I'm just being honest with them and not letting them count my eyeballs in their numbers unless they lie about it. That's on them not me.
Just like sponsorblock, if they want to look at the details and see I skipped every sponsor and not pay it out that's on them, but otherwise it doesn't matter if they have my eyeballs or not. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
Yeah, that's fine. Us viewers are trying to maximize our fun/dollar and Google is trying to maximize their dollars. They will try to get us on subscriptions and viewing ads, and we wil try to circumvent those measures.
What's silly is acting like Google is committing some grave sin by trying to stop adblockers. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
They don't need to get rid of the current tier, just add a tier that only removes adverts and nothing else | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
The main competitor for Twitch is YouTube, with a little from gambling backed Kick. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
I don’t understand how they can possibly think they’ll win this. A [recent study](https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/27/america_ad_blocker/) found that over 50% of all Americans use an adblocker. That’s not “people in tech jobs,” that’s “people.” We don’t even agree on what things melted cheese should go on. But we all agree you need an adblocker.
Adblocking has been described as the largest and most successful boycott in history. No one wants them; even normal people are trying to stop them. And tech enthusiasts are even funding adblocker projects.
YouTube is cooked. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
google must enshitify everything. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-17-06 |
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