In a world run by the rich who need to get more rich every second, normal people’s well-being succumbed to pollution and labor exploitation. Decades after the total collapse of the economy, grandparents scare children with bed-time stories about wastelands made inhabitable by factories dumping toxic refuse into main water sources. The government didn’t care as long as they continued to make bank.

Old grumpy dev here.

Of course you don’t want the API built for data retrieval also generate the HTML structure for display in a single location. But chances are your application is the only consumer of that data, and adding a server-side or middleware component that retrieves the data and generates the display structure for your application is still easier and faster than using whatever framework or vanilla JS to turn raw data into a display structure.

You may be tempted to argue that downloading a few bits of data is better than downloading an entire display structure. This is countered by the additional time spent by the web browser attempting to render things on screen.

You could argue that creating a display structure in a service causes a dependency between that service and the data, that needs updating with any change requirement, so now instead of having to update the data service and the web page, you also have to update the display service. This is countered by pointing out that it wouldn’t make any difference: it also needs updating if the display is generated in JavaScript on the web page that shows it.

If you depend on the JS or CSS framework of the month to display your raw data, you don’t have decent control over things like accessibility and usability - you’re subjected to the whim of its vendor.

Good luck.

Yes, those parts of those particular platforms are troublesome and should be avoided. But all that has to do with the word Social Media is the fact that they are one. That doesn’t mean Lemmy isn’t one. It merely means Lemmy doesn’t yet stoop to such practices. Let’s not run up strawman arguments, shall we?

Clearly you seem to conflate the word Facebook with Social Media. The bridge is all yours, pal.

Surely nobody could make an LLM-based a.i. do bad things.

The same Senator Warren who falsely claimed to be Native American to usurp an education chair, and never paid back the money stolen from people who should have been in that position? That Senator Warren? How quaint.

AWS user here. They offer a separate plan and infrastructure for governments and companies that handle government data. One assumes they employ trustworthy people, and pay them well: as we know a data leak is just a single disgruntled or underpaid employee.

Yes, it is likely secondary copies exist of the database. My clients create those all the time for a variety of purposes. And those copies should be handled with the same strictness and diligence as the original.

What I wonder is where these senators were when Musk let a team of hackers hack the central government…

Will that end subtooting?

With practical applications like contact lenses that augment reality with information about what it is we see?

So you’d delete your Lemmy apps then, yes?

Says the person posting on a social medium… Can you hear yourself?

Odd. I continue to tell various social media to stop shoving disturbing ads down my throat. They never listen.

I foresee an uptick in sales of air defense systems. Invest now.

/s

Not to mention bandwidth. I pay for bandwidth, for my own consumption. Not for an ad broker to keep pushing data at me in an amount that only deteriorates the experience for which I pay. The ad brokers are stealing my bandwidth from me. Let’s sue.

Who would turn off the safety protocols?

We would. We do it all the time. This shouldn’t surprise anyone.

AI isn’t safe because we aren’t, either.

Free Schlep!

Arguably the most capitalist and exploitative undertaking of the decade, Roblox is making serious profit. Its moral choices expose a concerning lack for the well-being of its target audience. Going after the whistleblower is a common trait in organizations lacking ethics.

If it doesn’t start with refusing to let nazis participate, it ain’t gonna help.

It shouldn’t surprise anyone that the Chinese government deems USA computer chips a security risk. It’s tit-for-tat, as the USA government has claimed the same about Chinese computing products, both hardware and software.

What may concern is the impact on European computer chip and semiconductor production. With the USA also selling to China, supply goes up, price goes down. Market will change.

In the mean time, sites are getting DDOS-ed by scrapers. One way to stop your site from getting scraped is having it be inaccessible… which is what the scalpers are causing.

Normally I would assume DDOS-ing is performed in order to take a site offline. But ai-scalpers require the opposite. They need their targets online and willing. One would think they’d be a bit more careful about the damage they cause.

But they aren’t, because capitalism.

Am I just dumb, or is this common practice among corporations? Shell companies are used for all kinds of purposes, including shady ones.