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Same here. The last couple of weeks infinite scroll has been broken with lemmy.world. Tried another instance and it still works fine so I assume it is a lemmy.world problem.

The boost app pops up a timeout when it happens so presumably lemmy.world is dropping connections for some reason.

Blockchain isn't really a great storage mechanism for large files, it is good for small transactions/records. This is why most NFTs are just links to content instead of storing the content in the blockchain itself. It is possible to store that data in the chain but you usually pay transaction fees based on the size of that data. To store the data in the chain everyone participating in the chain would need a full copy of every video posted which isn't really feasible long term.

It is also nearly impossible to moderate. i.e. how do you remove illegal CSAM content from something that is designed to be immutable.

So storing data like this is just not the right use case for blockchain.

Someone could create a site based on a blockchain where you distribute links to videos, but those links would still need to be stored somewhere else. You really aren't gaining much beyond just hosting the content yourself.

The only valid use case would be if you are attempting to avoid government influence that might try to modify your content later, or able to prove that you are the one posting the content. You could use the blockchain to post a link to a video and the hash of the file to verify it is the correct file, then anyone with access to the chain would have a record of who posted it and a way to validate that the content hasn't been modified.

There are federated options like PeerTube that are close to what you want but without the blockchain issues.

Yeah looks like you are right. Appears that they just got control of it in Feb.

I think the better solution is if the company is so important that it needs to be bailed out, then should just get nationalized when it fails.

Our money goes towards bailing them out, but the public owns it after that. The shareholders that ran it into the ground shouldn't get to keep it.

I thought James Bond is special though? The family still gets to approve the script, so the issue is that Amazon wants to milk it with a crap story, and the family says no this isn't good enough.

Probably liability issues. Some customer doesn't see it, steps on it, and face plants into the floor then they get sued.

From an insurance perspective these drugs are one of the largest reasons for premium increases in the last couple of years. The high cost combined with the number of Americans that medically qualify to get these covered (usually requirements are just high BMI or other diabetes risks) has increased insurance costs considerably.

So if they are trying to lower insurance premiums (or keep them in check at least) this is a good way to do it.

From a Medicare perspective losing weight is one of the best preventative things you can do for long term health, so getting these covered by Medicare could easily translate to long term savings.

"Tech companies don't care that students use calculators to cheat"

AI is just a tool like a calculator. No company cares about their employees beyond getting work out of them. If a potential employee shows that they can use the tools at their disposal to get the job done then why would they care?

I think they worded that backwards and are referring to the adage (or maybe that is what the banks go off of?) that your loan shouldn't be for more than 3x your income. So if you make 80k per year you can generally afford a $240k house.

Going above that 3x means too much of your income goes to paying for the house and you don't have enough for other living expenses+maintaining the house.

The biggest question is going to be will the AI be able to run locally or will they use it as an excuse to turn the game into a subscription.

I can see it now... "The game needs to make calls to OpenAI that we have to pay for to generate dialog so we need to charge by the month for the game"

They will finally have an excuse to turn single player games into subscriptions as well.

Using AI in games isn't about AI coding. Using AI to code games is likely already in almost every studio.

When they say AI in games that means AI artwork, voice lines, environments, etc.

i.e. imagine NPCs that change their voice lines based on recent events like recently completed missions, or your player looks/equipment/etc. With AI you don't have to pre-record a near infinite amount of voice lines they can be generated on the fly.

It's not like they want to punish you for paying off your car.

The reality is that a high percentage of the population loads up on more debt after paying off current debts, so the algorithm reflects that. Usually those points come back after a couple of months.