Facebook also requires login, maybe that’s why reddit thought they could do it too?
But I agree, I don’t think it’s a good recipe for reddit. People will just think “nothing to see here” and leave.

I agree, when I came over here 3 years ago, I had already stopped using reddit for a couple of years.
Lemmy is more like reddit was originally.

There are absolutely degrees of consciousness.

I don’t think this AI shit is like when Christians destroyed Rock and Roll records in the 50’s.
I think AI is a real problem. And I’m not so sure we will be fine anymore.

Reddit began to suck years ago, I stopped using it because the quality of the content declined as they began to become more and more like the old Digg.

I never used anything but old reddit, their new interface was crap from day one.
I quit using reddit about 5 years ago because of enshittification.

I can only agree that reddit became crap, I quit it after having used it for many years.

Surprisingly, the weakest number may be logged-in users. Growth held at just 1% for the second straight quarter, down from 12% one year ago.

I haven’t used reddit for many years, but this is probably not a good development for the internet (or humanity), if it means people use AI instead of reddit.

Pretty normal stuff

For humans it is normal. The “simple” function as you call it, is actually the foundation for consciousness.

Brain hunger is a very good description IMO for what is probably a conditioned unhealthy dependency.

I think this is the general formula:
The Serotonin decides (expected reward). The expectation of biggest reward in the shortest span of time with the least amount of effort and sacrifice of other things.
If time is prolonged, the reward needs to be bigger.

Being hungry moves you towards the food, not being hungry will move you towards the TV show.
If he is not that hungry he might choose the TV, but if he gets hungry while watching he might change his mind and go for the food, despite being in the middle of the show.

If money is short the dish will decline in priority, especially for people with functioning frontal lobes.
But there can be many many factors that are weighed not consciously but emotionally. Research shows we are way more guided by emotions than we think, we do what our emotions tell us, and then we rationalize it afterwards to convince our consciousness that it was in control all the time, despite it wasn’t.
A significant part of our emotional state is actually controlled by bacteria in our stomach! So it is not entirely the brain alone as another comment claims. But it is signals that are sent to the brain, so in that way the brain remains the ultimate decision maker.

Yes I agree, fortunately especially public services are actively reducing their use of AWS in Europe.
But it is shameful to use American services at all by European public services, as they are technically illegal. Because of US intelligence practices. The illegality is just ignored because EU and USA made an agreement USA has clearly demonstrated they aren’t keeping.

Amazon has absolutely zero safety that isn’t required by law if it doesn’t benefit themselves.
I’ve seen plenty reports about how worker safety at Amazon workplaces is way inferior to other companies.
They don’t give a shit about their workers, the only thing that counts is to maximize profits.

Well, you probably do use Amazon

That’s something I have no power over. And that’s like saying I also use Microsoft because I buy things from companies that use Microsoft.
As I see it AWS is illegal here in Europe, and all use by European companies of AWS should be terminated. The same goes for American companies selling in EU.

maybe we shouldn’t allow USA to decide European foreign policy? Just a thought.

IDK these Wildberry fires seem pretty crazy, there seems to be absolutely zero fire prevention or safety in either how the buildings are designed or safety like sprinklers. If Amazon is doing the same, maybe they should plan so that an accident or attack doesn’t destroy everything. But I wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out those Wildberry facilities are not up to western minimum standards.

Personally I NEVER use Amazon, as I despise the company, and I don’t think Amazon is nearly as relevant outside USA.
I don’t think many would have a problem if Amazon didn’t exist in Europe.

Absolutely, although China can’t match Nvidia yet, they can now make chips that are good enough for 90% of the tasks.
Nvidia can no longer sell their second rate products developed specially for China anymore either.

Due to Western export restrictions, ASML is only allowed to export some of these machines to China; the most modern equipment is subject to a complete blockade.

In the past quarter, 14 percent of the machines that ASML sold went to China.

Play stupid games and win stupid prizes.

Preventing one of your biggest customers (China) from getting the equipment they need forces them to make it themselves.
Now China can make their own DUV lithography machines of similar quality to the ones they can get from ASML.
And obviously it won’t stop there, China will continue to improve, and probably in a few years compete with ASML on the high end EUV equipment too.

My wife uses Debian, but I love her anyway. ❤️

That is simply not true, stock prices are all about the profits. Just not only the current profits but also expected future profits.
But regarding the stock price of SK Hynix, I recently heard an analyst claim that to make a full return on current stock prices for some RAM companies, they’d have to continue with current record profits for a 1000 years!!
People just don’t always know what they are doing, and some buy wildly overpriced stock, because their delusions make them think the stock can magically only go up.
Tesla has been wildly overpriced by a factor of 10 for years. Because enough people believed the FSD/robotaxi/AI bullshit Musk continues to promise.
So even when the stock market overwhelmingly believe huge profits will come, it may never happen. And when the market realize that there will never be profits to justify the stock prize, the stock will plummet.