Frankie ✅Very easy
StarkRG@Some_Emo_Chick My initial reaction to them was something along the lines of "Ok, sure, so, what's the point?" And, as it turned out, the point was money laundering, tax evasion, and scamming people. I don't think making climate change worse was entirely intentional, people making them just didn't give a shit.
Erik (OLD ACCOUNT)@StarkRG @Some_Emo_Chick my guess is the last thing people who launder money, evade taxes and scam other people care about is the climate.
But glad that grift is over, can't wait to see what the next obvious one is
Joe Dowland@erikcats @StarkRG @Some_Emo_Chick the next obvious one is "AI" (put in quotes because it's not intelligent, it's just a marketing scam)
@Aradiel @erikcats @Some_Emo_Chick LLMs are a solution looking for a problem. You can usually tell by the way it's marketed as being useful for anything and everything while not actually being better than anything that already exists.
Other types of generative AI aren't as bad, though that isn't saying much since LLMs are the literal worst. There are, at least, a handful of cases where they have advantages over existing solutions, but they still need a lot of handholding.
@StarkRG @erikcats @Some_Emo_Chick I don't like the fact it's going to be forced on us in the next Windows update (I wonder if forced market saturation will truck investors) and also wonder if LLMs are why Google has suddenly become much worse for search results
@Aradiel @erikcats @Some_Emo_Chick Google search results have been terrible for at least a decade. I switched to DuckDuckGo a few months ago. I have a few complaints about functionality (removing a search term using minus doesn't work) and the search results aren't as good as Google's was in the early 2000s, but it's much better than it is now.
I've used Windows as my daily driver for two years out of the last two decades, I'm always highly annoyed when I have to use it for anything.
@StarkRG @Aradiel @Some_Emo_Chick I have used DDG for years and it does have some functionality issues indeed but boy it's better. Do you also happen to know if ecosia runs on its own browser or uses Google, and if it's a greenwashing op or genuine? Because I've been on the fence for that one
@erikcats @Aradiel @Some_Emo_Chick I generally assume everything like that is greenwashing. I always wonder where the money comes from and where it goes. If it isn't obvious, It probably is.
Also "carbon neutral" is a marketing lie. You can't pay someone to plant trees in Indonesia while polluting in Canada and expect it all to work out. Not to mention that almost all carbon absorbed by plants is released when they die and decompose. Carbon sequestration is the only real solution.
@erikcats @Aradiel @Some_Emo_Chick While that goes without saying, if you're absorbing it all and putting it back in the ground where it belongs, I don't see it as strictly necessary, it's just significantly less expensive if you do.