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- Comment on OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts 1 month ago:
This is actually a thing. It’s called “Model Collapse”. You can read about it here.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 2 months ago:
I just started a new Fallout 4 playthrough after binging the show, and my wife hopped back into Fallout Shelter. I guess they added the show characters to FS so that’s fun.
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 2 months ago:
Have you gotten the Shark-O-Matic gun yet? It’s hilarious.
- Comment on Amazon Has Turned Into an Monopolistic Shithole Littered With Pay-to-Play Ads, FTC Lawsuit Solemnly Argues 8 months ago:
Etsy is now just as enshittified. Almost everything on there now is dropshipped bullshit from AliExpress. You have to trudge through a massive amount of crap listings just to find anything handmade now.
- Comment on ‘Who Benefits?’ Inside the EU’s Fight over Scanning for Child Sex Content 8 months ago:
Typical government move. Have a blatantly obvious questionable agenda to make spying on citizens easier, but tie it to something like children or “freedom”. Makes it easy to go “don’t you care about the children?!” This approach is so lazy it’s both insulting and nauseating.
- Comment on Can you melt eggs? Quora’s AI says “yes,” and Google is sharing the result 8 months ago:
Had a friend open a conversation line by referencing something on Quora and I immediately tuned out. Quora is a wealth of nonsense.
- Comment on Unity May Never Win Back the Developers It Lost in Its Fee Debacle 9 months ago:
Unity doesn’t deserve them back.
- Comment on I downgraded to an iPhone 11 Pro Max – and I'm not missing much 9 months ago:
The only plus I see is USB-C and that is definitely not enough to justify starting the new phone pay cycle all over again.
- Comment on I downgraded to an iPhone 11 Pro Max – and I'm not missing much 9 months ago:
I was just done at that point. I had a slew of problems with the phone and having it be unreliable in a time where I needed it was enough to push me into the walled garden. Everything else? I love to tinker. Linux, the Steam Deck, etc. For a phone, I’m past the age of tinkering. I needed something more consistent.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Their TVs are annoying as fuck. I’ll never buy anything Samsung again.
- Comment on Whatsapp is going to run terribly... 9 months ago:
“Features board members demanded because they increase value for shareholders”
- Comment on Whatsapp is going to run terribly... 9 months ago:
I refuse to use anything Meta has its claws on.
- Comment on I downgraded to an iPhone 11 Pro Max – and I'm not missing much 9 months ago:
I was on a Nexus 6P before I finally got sick of disposable Android phones. The last straw that sent me back to iOS and the iPhone was when I was in another country and my phone kept shutting down at 50% battery. No matter what I did, it kept shutting down. This was not good when I was trying to traverse a city I wasn’t familiar with and needed to rely on Google Maps.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Android. I still have a Nexus 5 that has had a ton of different ROMs on it, but the amount of just plain terrible devices I had was staggering. The kind of tech that gets shoved out the door and thrown in the trash a year later.
- Comment on I downgraded to an iPhone 11 Pro Max – and I'm not missing much 9 months ago:
My partner and I are still on the 12 Pro Max and have no plans on upgrading. Of course like clockwork, Verizon has texted us both the same upgrade message every few days or so. I finally had to tell them to stop.
- Comment on Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud 9 months ago:
I think the endgame is to speedrun getting filthy rich and buying up a chunk of the earth before it’s completely destroyed.
- Comment on Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud 9 months ago:
Companies these days: “help us think of products we can sell to procure data. No, I don’t care what the product is; we just want the data.”
- Comment on Nearly 500 smartphone brands have left the market since 2017 9 months ago:
I still have a white HTC Dream, aka the G1. It’s still dope.
- Comment on Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike 9 months ago:
I used a tool that synced my Spotify playlists to Apple Music. It worked surprisingly well. I signed up the one time, moved everything over, and then made sure to cancel the service.
- Comment on Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike 9 months ago:
I actually met employees from the company at a conference years ago and knew people that worked there off and on. It was a pretty toxic environment and the management was basically a frat party. The office had an in-house chef for a while before they had to tighten the purse strings due to the multitude of lawsuits they were getting hit with (most of which I learned came from Sony BMG). Their team of lawyers basically worked around the clock.
I used to have a ton of stuff on Grooveshark and had stuff shared to me (and vice versa) from others. It was a cool UI even if it was a little clunky at times. Great place to find obscure stuff.
- Comment on Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike 9 months ago:
This is what I like to see.
- Comment on Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike 9 months ago:
What’s to stop every single corporation from leveraging third party contractor companies just to escape union bargaining? Cognizant seems like a company that basically exists for this reason. Both Amazon and Google play this game and it’s infuriating.
- Comment on Most U.S. adults don't believe benefits of AI outweigh the risks, new survey finds 9 months ago:
I mean, they’re already doing it. Not in every role because not every one of them can be filled by AI, but it’s happening.
- Comment on Most U.S. adults don't believe benefits of AI outweigh the risks, new survey finds 9 months ago:
I work with AI and don’t necessarily see it as “dangerous”. CEOs and other greed-chasing assholes are the real danger. They’re going to do everything they can to keep filling human roles with AI so that they can maximize profits. That’s the real danger. That and AI writing eventually permeating and enshittifying everything.
A hammer isn’t dangerous on its own, but becomes a weapon in the hands of a psychopath.
- Comment on Meta is bolstering perks like happy hours and company swag as it pushes staff to return to office, despite its 'year of efficiency' 9 months ago:
Got laid off a while back for about 3 months, along with a handful of others (some of which were there 5-7 years!). When I talked to an old friend that still works there, he said the morale is basically non-existent. The company is also ranked in the bottom 5% now on Comparably 😬
- Comment on Unity apologises. 9 months ago:
TIL. Now I know how to refer to those methods. Thanks!
- Comment on Unity Backpedals on Its Horrible Plan for Game Install Fees Amid Developer Backlash 9 months ago:
This was my theory too.
- Comment on Unity apologises. 9 months ago:
Reading this suggests they’re just greedy assholes and nothing more.
- Comment on Unity apologises. 9 months ago:
“Well I’m sorry that you feel that way.”
That’s how this comes off. The ultimate non-apology. Fuck off, Unity.
- Comment on Google says it can’t fix Pixel Watches, please just buy a new one | With no official repair program and no parts, broken Pixel Watches are just e-waste. 9 months ago:
The only way I was able to get continued OS support and updates was by going the way of installing custom ROMs, which is absolutely not ideal. It’s also the only reason my backup Nexus 5 is still kicking.
- Comment on Google says it can’t fix Pixel Watches, please just buy a new one | With no official repair program and no parts, broken Pixel Watches are just e-waste. 9 months ago:
I’m pretty sure almost everything they make these days simply exists to obtain data from users first and foremost. They don’t want long term support or products that stick around forever; they want to add more and more vectors to build those profiles and record behaviors.