• [object Object]@lemmy.world
    5·
    58 minutes ago

    It so happens that stuff useful for criminals is sometimes also useful for political dissidents or simply people who consider the country’s laws too oppressive. Encrypted communication is another example of this.

  • Avicenna@programming.dev
    31·
    3 hours ago

    I personally hate the “thanks to AI you now can speak to your dead relatives” ones. Especially those ones which try to spin it like a personal story for the developer of the app. Oh shut up, you would sell your own mother for money. And also you are too late to jump on that bandwagon so get lost, we have enough of you leeches.

    • hddsx@lemmy.ca
      50·
      6 hours ago

      Because you have 2/4 general terms:

      1. Rideshare
      2. Short term rentals
      3. Crypto
      4. LLM
      • kevincox@lemmy.ml
        13·
        3 hours ago

        “Rideshare” is also the least accurate term used to dodge regulations. It is just a taxi/cab. You are paying someone to get you from one place to another. They aren’t sharing their ride, they were never going where you are going before you told them to.

        • hddsx@lemmy.ca
          1·
          25 minutes ago

          Taxis/cabs are legal. Also, perhaps because of age, I tend to view taxis and cabs as phone numbers you call for a car to show up (or go to a taxi stand), whereas I see rideshare as reserve via an app.

          I think ride share really just means a vehicle that is used not solely for commercial purposes

          • kevincox@lemmy.ml
            3·
            20 minutes ago

            They are legal if you follow the regulations. The problem with the “rideshare” companies is that they don’t. We should just call them “unregulated taxis” rather than pretending that they are a different service. I think just about every taxi company these days is on some app or another (often the same that call unregulated cabs in countries that actually got their shit together and banned the unregulated ones).

    • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      Uber/Lyft

      Airbnb

      Apart from the recently added surge pricing, what else is illegal about these 2?

      • RamenJunkie@midwest.socialEnglish
        9·
        3 hours ago

        They literally exist as a way for tech bro libertarian idiots to circumvent laws around Taxis and Hotels because “Its totally just people rending their own stuff/time bro.”

        Like, the idea of Uber where its “we go to work along the same route,lets share a ride” is vaguely admirable, ie “rideshare” where it startrd. But its become people’s job and its literally just tsxis without the rules.

        • Grimy@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 hours ago

          To be fair, they were popular at first because they were highly convenient. I remember Uber as the first to have a GPS map that told you where your taxi was. Most taxi companies and hotels were seriously lagging behind in terms of use of technology.

          That being said, they were malicious companies from the start and the whole business angle was built on taking advantage of loopholes. I’d be fine with a lot of them if they were nationally owned companies though.

      • Eq0@literature.cafe
        5·
        3 hours ago

        Taxis and hotels used to be strongly regulated industries. For both, permits were required as well as regular checks. But Uber/Lyft/Airbnb created a system outside of the standard legal framework, allowing them to run an almost lawless business. So I wouldn’t say illegal but ethically grey.

      • kevincox@lemmy.ml
        4·
        3 hours ago

        Nah it’s worse. Bitcoin actually has legitimate uses. (Yes, they are a minority of actual usage, but they exist.) NFTs are only useful for speculation, gambling and money laundering.

  • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
    16·
    6 hours ago

    What would we do without capitalist innovation? Before capitalism, nothing was invented. Look at us now!

      • EzTerry@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        5 hours ago

        That is more a fronteir llm thing…

        I think quite a bit of what they are trying could with some optimization be run local thus no need to send entire context windows to big tech (sure this hypothetical model would know less trivia but in an agent system would be able to look it up)

        But of course big tech and other large orgs like hording all your data for profit.