Spaniard

Today I asked AI to tell me which phone providers were available short by price and offers and it lied all the time, when I pointed it the AI corrected most of it but also removed some that were accurate for some reason.

It would have been quicker if I did that myself instead of ask AI, oh also didn’t provide all companies.

Maybe those companies have better AI that can make no mistakes but I doubt it, I think the LLMs will lie and no one has time to check if they are correct.

Firefox mainly and some forks (Floorp, Librefox, Fennex, Ironfox) also Vivaldi

Babylon 5

You vote with your wallets, it’s has a bigger impact on how companies proceed.

I can’t fight the local company because competition isn’t allowed.

No I can’t when the people voting just say “let’s the government do it” without thinking about why or what would that improve. I can vote against the current gov, I can try to convince people or make them think but as you proved in a previous reply they will just ignore it.

There won’t be ever a report that’s how Spain operates.

One of the possible reasons was too much sun power and not enough demand. Solar and wind are unreliable.

The government has no incentive to provide a good service because what are you going to do? Stop paying?

Not necessarily, it could also be better run, more efficient with less employees.

For example maybe instead of 4 sets of at least 2 trash containers around my street there would only be 2 or 1 with all the pertinent colors (the company does more stuff than water)

But I guess this is the bad side of living in a country with more public employees than private.

That’s not an answer. In my city for example, the water and trash service are public and price duplicated from 2024, water pipes, sanitation and all that is public infrastructure maintained by the city, the only thing private in this whole thing may be the trash trucks.

Energy is also heavily subsidized and we still have to pay a lot.

In my experience government doesn’t make utilities cheaper.

can’t slow the sun.

Take a look at what happened April 28th in Spain.

How would it be cheaper?

Because as a general rule governments aren’t efficient running services and that’s fine for a while but long term that means infrastructure isn’t properly maintained which leads to service malfunction, which leads to privatization because someone else can do it better and competence appears because someone else things can do it better than the other or to collapse because things don’t work anymore.

Source: I am Spanish, a lot of companies were privatized after the dictatorship because they weren’t efficient and infrastructure was falling apart. Privatizing allowed competence which meant someone had to invest in infrastructure to be better than the other. Problem is now governments are confabulated with some of those companies to create oligopolies. For example my city has it’s own water/trash company (half private half public) so no one is allowed to bid against them; you can imagine how that is going (from paying 35€ every 3 months to paying 65€ in one year), price goes up, no one can’t complain or hire a cheaper one, while with cable and phone companies since Telefonica was privatized other companies popped out and you can have cheaper and better internet/phone/tv.

Spain invested in green energy and I am paying a shit ton on utility bills.

No it doesn’t. It’s in plural. A blog is a single person creating and sharing, others may comment but that’s it. It’s a single person (well it can be many authors but that’s covered in the newspaper example), that’s why I used newspaper sites, they don’t facilitate the creation, sharing and aggregation of content amongst virtual communities and network.

Reddit, facebook, instagram, tiktok, lemmy allows people to create communities, content and sharing. A blog allows ONE person to publish stuff, rarely it builds a community but it can happen, so can happen if you manage to read my diary with a bunch of strangers.

I disagree. By definition social media is “new media technology that facitilates the creation, sharing and aggregation of content amongst virtual communities and networks” so Reddit and Lemmy are social networks.

There are several subkinds of social networks some are worse for kids (and adults) than others. Most sites in the internet don’t allow users to create and share content, online newspaper only may allow users to comment but the content comes from “journalists” and collaborators.

Discord is used like a forum though, with chat capabilities but it’s social at it’s core.

The EU is going to pass a law to enforce this, discord is just getting ahead of the imposition. That’s why France and Spain have been on the news regarding social network regulation for under 16.

So when you have to setup a system for 27 countries plus some members of the eurosphere you just do it for everyone and be done with it.

Exodus to another discord-clone. Great.

“Capistalism is when bad” that’s your whole argument, with adding disrespect and lack of education.

I hate discord but they are just implementing what the EU will force every single “social network” to do.

Why are you so hostile? Read what I said and then read your reply and see if I am trying to argue against you or simply adding information to what you said.

Anyway this is what replying against your original comment looks like: you are blaming an economy system of political (parties) policies. The more socialist governments turns the more control government have over everything (including economic systems), the more, well, controlling the State becomes. Democracy doesn’t need to be capitalist, and social-democracy is just a political system.

He is talking about forums because the main issue with discord is that it’s cut from the rest of the internet so nothing is indexed and a lot of platforms and services use discord like a forum (it isn’t).

No one wants our conversations indexed, and discord shouldn’t be a forum.