Fuck politico.

You see, this way they get to share the losses with the public too!

It‘s just the good old „privatize profits, nationalize losses“ playbook because AI companies are in fact not making money with it. They know the party is over so they‘re preparing to make it everyone else‘s problem. It‘s another grift on top of a grift, but unfortunately for everyone else they‘re trying to legitimize it.

Youtube already makes more money than Disney, right? So of course they ramp up prices. It‘s a successful product after all and the line must go up. The more money it makes the more expensive it‘ll get.

That‘s why you should never give them anything in the first place and use an Adblocker instead.

I would also recommend Sponsorblock because most Youtube sponsorships are overpriced garbage or complete scams. It honestly seems too good to be true but it‘s open source and apparently can cover operational costs on just donations. What I really like about Sponsorblock is how you can curate your experience to a T. It lets you skip all sort of content that you may not like such as self-promotions, credits, previews/flashbacks, intros, and more. It comes really close to the internet highways concept I have long only dreamed about where you‘re served exactly what you want and you don‘t need a silly AI agent to do any of it.

DeArrow is another useful extension for Youtube, created to remove clickbait from your feed. It removes thumbnails and changes video titles based on user suggestions similar to Sponsorblock.

Youtube „Premium“ could never give you this experience for all the money in the world.

Clearly the super power thing isn‘t working anymore so why bother spending that much on it?

The incentive to buy one comes from the expectation it‘ll be even more expensive this time next year. Not sure it‘s working, though.

I guess calling it „Agriculture in Spain“ didn‘t have the same ring to it but believe me it‘s almost as dystopian.

That is despite huge propaganda campaigns by tech giants and the government in favor of them mind you. Everyone who experienced what it‘s like living near one absolutely hates it for many reasons including health issues from the noise and vibration. Anyone who doesn‘t already got a taste of it when utility bills climbed up.

Not hard to figure out why. There‘s an oil crisis and these AI bro fucks keep constructing giant diesel engines to power the giant data centers. Everyone else loses.

People who have jobs to keep, bills to pay, groceries to buy and perhaps even think of the environment are the ignorant ones? Okay buddy. 👌

Everyone hates AI. Takes an AI company CEO to not notice.

More consumerism is never worth it burning the planet to the ground even faster with more data centers.

The economy isn‘t doing great and the overly rich are greedy fucks.

Building a computer like 5 years from now will be a weird experience because you will buy most parts from brands that you have never heard of. Very few of the manufacturers we know today will still be around by that time.

So it‘s going from basically unaffordable to absolutely unaffordable?

Right? How do you even cheat on a ruleset this dumb? You don‘t. It was a stupid contest from the start.

Yeah I hope Valve loses this in favor of developers and consumers. If another platform asks for a smaller share devs should be allowed to set a lower price.

Yup. It would simply be more fair if this rule would be applied after distributors took their cut. Let devs make their games cheaper when platforms ask for a smaller share. That‘d only be reasonable.

I remember having to sit down my boss and explain how it can only become more expensive over time. It’s the big tech playbook after all. Didn‘t matter. I‘m told again and again how AI is only becoming stronger and cheaper. Especially during salary negotiations. Nasty stuff. They know I know it‘s BS and they still cling to this nonsensical narrative because it would be very beneficial to them.

It sounds like the guy treats these issues in a very standard way by notifying the company beforehand with a note that the findings will be made publicly at a certain date. Microsoft ignores it and it inevitably gets published. That‘s standard procedure. Microsoft throwing a tantrum is the only extra thing here although „shooting the messenger“ seems to become more common these days with these findings.

These guys pretend they reinvented the Internet after they ruined it.