Then you’re on purpose just not reading my argument, and you’re avoiding replying to any of the points i make.

Thanks for the tiny bit of genuine discussion, and have fun trolling other people.

So his own company is his sponsor (the company that existed long before he had any meaningful amount of viewers, and that has a good reputation because he does good work)

And his current employer is also his “sponsor”.

You might want to look up what the word sponsor means.

And even if you had a point (which you don’t), you’re still refusing to answer why MKB is ok for you while any incentive you say is bad for Louis is amplified by 100 for MKB, yet there all is fine… so odd…

I was reallly hoping you would actually engage in an honest discussion, because if you actually could make a case for Louis being toxicly negative, i’d love to hear it, and i think he would also love to hear about how & why and try to improve on that. His goal has always been to empower his viewers, if he’s doing the opposite, i’m sure he’ll do his best to change that. Similarly to the other points we could discuss.

But you seem to be intent on just trolling and refusing to answer… so the dialogue ends here i guess… Thanks for at least trying to make one or two points, it’s always interesting to see other opinions :).

Ok, name his sponsors… i’ll wait…

He makes videos on youtube to empower his viewers and because he feels he has messages that are important to be heard. You know… there are still genuine people out there that do things not for profit.

and again, everything you’re saying is even waaaaay more true for MKB, so why does he get a pass?

You’ve got one more chance to actually adress the arguments, if not, i can only assume you’re a troll.

But it obviously isn’t how he makes his money. He used to make his money with his repair shop, now futo is paying him to do right to repair/open software advocacy. Youtube pays jack shit for the amount of views he gets, and he never took sponsors, so youtube was never the way he earned his money. He gets some money from it, but would absolutely love it if everyone watched him on odyssey or any other platform that isn’t youtube and that doesn’t pay him anything.

And yeah, there is truth to ragebait working well in algorithms. But you’re making a claim that’s plain false: he has economic incentives, and you’re avoiding a few more:

• You claim he’s got financial incentives to do all the ragebaiting. He regularly mentions his finances don’t depend on youtube, never have, it’s probably a fun extra for him, but it’s never been what makes the money for him.
• You seem to prefer MKB, because he’s positive. But his income does depend on youtube, and he’s heavily sponsored by the brands he reviews. So somehow because he’s positive all the things you claim are an issue for Louis Rossmann aren’t an issue for MKB??
• Your algorithm claim: you claim the algorithm favors his kind of content, but his channel is far smaller than the less critical techchannels such as MKB and LTT that take all the sponsor money and say all is fine. So it seems the algorithm favors that even more?

And you name his negativity toxic, why? He’s addressing actual shit that is happening all around us and can get you into serious issues in the future. Your car manufacturer selling your data to your insurance can have a serious impact on your life. Manufacturers suing customers that leave a bad review can seriously ruin your life, … But at the same time he always tries to use this criticism to empower the viewer to make better choices, to teach you how to avoid such issues, and how you can make a difference. Just this week he made a video regarding doing business in an ethical way, that’s like the least toxic video possible, his message is always: bad shit is happening, here’s how to spot it, here’s how to make a difference, and not “all is lost, you may now despair because there’s nothing you can do about it”

Your arguments are imo very biased, and simply don’t show the truth. I know the kind of youtubers you mean, and there are plenty, but putting people like Rossmann in that basket is just insane. He actively tries to make the world a better places. Makes incredible videos on how you can be part of the change, has for over a decade done everything to empower his viewers and customers, and you’re all like “he’s just a toxic negative youtuber that does it for money”.

And one follow up question: can positivity be toxic? Can the likes of MKB & LTT just sweep all the stuff that’s happening under the rug, take huge payouts to make the viewer look the other way, and just slowly let everything enshittification take its course and make everything worse for the consumer until someday we wake up and wonder where it all went wrong and why we didn’t see it coming? That’s what it feels like for me when i watch those channels “all is fine, don’t look into the closet full of skeletons please”.

Whenever i see channels like MKB & LTT, for me it’s fun for a few videos. They sure can be a bit critical at times, but in general, they’re obviously paid by a lot of sponsor money, and can’t be truly critical often, and will never address controversy. They’ll also just copy al lot of the marketing claims verbatim, barely testing them, and just mostly appeal on emotion, making sure presentation is top notch, etc… But it’s all pretty shallow imo, and it’s intended as such.

And there are thousands of people like louis rossman? How many of them actually take political action? Show up in front of legislators and actually try to change things? Gather funds to create an app like grayjay to fight the big monopolies? How many made a huge wiki documenting to insane detail how to do self hosting? Make a videod on how to ethically do business? etc… etc… etc…

I know the kind of youtubers you mean, watched a bit of yongyea for a while, he’ll just find any controversy to complain about, and that’s it. He’ll never be a catalyst for change. He’ll also just latch on to whatever is already happening, rarely he’ll be the source of the news.

But lumping in Louis Rossmann with such youtubers… Then you really haven’t watched his channel. He’ll of course regularly jump on the bandwagon, when some controversy is happening that aligns with his message. But also regularly he’ll be the first addressing certain issues, people also know to contact him, but also from his daily life, seeing what’s happening. He’s also actually trying to change what he sees. Not just get popularity by complaining, but doing something about it. He also makes insightful videos.

And regarding no longer making repair videos… he’s so often complaining about manufacturers making a lot of repairs near impossible, and working against it at every turn… Things are made less repairable, What use is there to make videos on how to repair your apple phone when you can’t get repair parts, and if you could you couldn’t get them to work since you don’t have the software to authorize them on your phone…

It can indeed be depressing to watch Rossmann, but sadly enough, his pessimism just makes sense. You can sometimes not entirely agree with him, but bad shit is happening, and it’s only getting worse. It used to be “when the product is free, you are the product”. Now it is “when (even the very expensive) product is cloud connected, you are the product”. 5000$ tv that sends your data to advertisers? Your car sending your data to insurers, etc… etc… etc…

If according to you he’s just a serial complainer, feel free to make your case, i don’t always agree with him, but i’ve got insane respect for him. He ended up seeing what big tech is doing, and he’s the first to suffer the consequences, and he’s actually putting his time, money & effort where his mouth is and doing something about it. He also from time to time makes really insightful videos, and yes, he complains a lot… sadly enough there does seem to be a lot to complain about, and it’s actually stuff that really matters…

You’re missing one key difference:

MKB is getting the big money for just mindelessly repeating whatever big tech wants the audience to hear, Louis is somehow financially surviving despite not having any sponsors for obvious reasons (and not wanting them either for integrity reasons).

And saying louis rossmann is about self promotion… I’ve lost count how often he’s openly wondering in videos why people are still watching his crap. He’s happy he can do what he’s doing, and he can make the difference he’s making, but to say he’s in the business of self promoting… i guess as a youtuber, you always are in some way, but he’d be happy if he’d run out of content and have nothing to complain about, and could do actual repairs that then aren’t being blocked by stupid companies. I doubt MKB would be happy when he’d no longer be an influencer.

So just show him an example, if he then continues antagonizing you, call him out for it and for moving the goalposts etc… you could have solved this in no time, i really don’t get the point you’re trying to make… I’ll show this guy who i claim to be a troll by being a troll myself, even though i could prove him actually being a troll with far less effort than that.

That’ll show the internet how serious and not a troll i am…

I don’t know why your brain got stuck in this mode, but maybe try to snap out of it…

Ah, now he’s a well known troll.

Now i don’t know much about the users here, so could be he’s a troll. But i don’t see him as trolling you in this discussion, he asked a good faith question, and you go completely off the rails…

The proof that would be required would be you calling out openai and people defending them. I mean, that’s just blindingly obvious you know. The few times i referenced something i did in the past in a discussion, i linked my previous posts showing that, otherwise i could claim anything. It just seems like the most basic etiquette in a discussion. You said people were defending openAI here on lemmy when you were calling them out. And now people are curious about this and you’re like “i’ll never show you”.

I really don’t get how that’s so difficult for you. Great that you saw the openai bullshit coming from a mile away, but that doesn’t mean you have to act this ridiculous when someone is curious to the context and asks you for an example when they did the effort to find such an example and couldn’t…

And to not be too hypocritical XD. Here’s an example of me linking to a previous post when i thought it matter to show i was saying what i was saying before more information about a subject came to light: https://old.reddit.com/r/TrackMania/comments/njq0q0/lots_of_people_have_been_saying_that_he_just_made/gz9it8s/

As an outsider in this discussion, who just read it now, what are you talking about??

You got 1 single question: show some examples of people being positive about AI/OpenAI on lemmy, something you said is very common. The one asking about it even did their best to find them themselves, but can’t, so is asking you since you seem to come across it all the time.

And then you’re like “i don’t owe you anything, and i’ll reply 50 times to you, but not take the minute it should take me to give a single example of what i was talking about (something i say is/was very common here)”…

If there’s someone looking bad in this situation, it’s you dude… The question communist asked is very normal in an honest discussion, and even more so after he did the effort to find it himself, and showed he did the effort.

If there’s this pro AI community on lemmy, plenty of people would love to see it and maybe see what their views are. It sounds genuinely interesting if it exists, but for some reason you mention it, and when someone asks “where are these posts? i did my best finding them, but can’t”, you’re like “no, stop harrassing me, i said it exists, but i’m not going to show you”.

It does? I guess we’ll differ on that opinion i guess.

Unless showing you a hand of playingcards means you look like a general poker gambling site. It has a very specific artstyle, and since its gameplay is completely different from actual poker, so is how it behaves. For me it’s close to a slay the spire or heartstone kind of game, and looks like that…

Have you ever played balatro?

Because calling it a pokergame makes me think you haven’t. It’s a deckbuilder that uses pokerhands (and impossible pokerhands) as mechanic to score, but there is no actual gambling, and except for which hands exist in poker and their relative value, you don’t learn any pokerskills. You also don’t do any gambling, you modify your deck of cards, and gather jokers that modify what cards are worth and how they score, and end up also making hands that are impossible in poker etc…

I can imagine the imagery and the link to poker to require some warning, but i’d find it hard to say it stimulates you to gamble, as it’s not a gambling game, doesn’t teach you the poker rules, and is a completely different kind of game. It just uses poker to flavor the gameplay, and uses some other poker terms (blinds, ante, chips) to indicate difficulty/score.

We can all imagine the imagery of balatro being somewhat a problem.

But less of a problem compared to games with actual gambling for actual money in the form of lootboxes or gacha mechanisms?

If you can get that to make sense, i’d love to hear it. Can there be a serious warning regarding gambling on balatro? for sure. But how is gambling imagery 18+, and actual gambling with actual money 3+? That’s just insane.

What is most likely to get kids to become gambling addicts? Them learning pokerhands via balatro, or them gambling real money on lootboxes & gacha games and getting addicted to the thrill of winning after gamblling money?

That’s why he said roguelite. Semipermanency (being able to unlock upgrades for future runs) is what separates the roguelite from a roguelike. In a roguelike, every run you start from 0, in a roguelite you unlock things that make differences in future runs (in the case of balatro: different decks, new jokers, …)

Looking at that list, most things look like very basic components that can be easily found on aliexpress, and thus in China, and thus probably easy to get for Russia. Are we going to forbid selling those components to China or how is this supposed to work? (genuinely curious)

Indeed, it’s a very nice boost, and great work, but this clickbait nonsense is just so stupid…

And i’m really bothered how it’s just parrotted everywhere… Doesn’t anybody wonder “94x faster is like… really a LOT… that can’t be true”

Whomever wrote this article is just misleading everyone.

First of all, they did this for other kinds of similar instruction sets before, so this is nothing special. Second of all, they measure the speedup compared to a basic implementation that doesn’t use any optimizations.

They did the same in the past for AVX-2, which is 67x faster in the test where avx-512 got the 94x speed increase. So it’s not 94x faster now, it’s 1.4x faster than the previous iteration using the older AVX-2 instruction set. It’s barely twice as fast as the implementation using SSE3 (40x faster than the slow version), an instruction set from 20 years ago…

So yeah, it’s awesome that they did the same awesome work for AVX-512, but the 94x boost is just plain bullshit… it’s really sad that great work then gets worded in such a misleading way to form clickbait, rather than getting a proper informative article…