oakey66
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- Comment on YouTube Premium is getting a huge price hike in over a dozen countries, sparking user backlash. Some countries are experiencing hikes between 30% and 50% 1 month ago:
You gotta make up for a lack of innovation but just price gouging customers on absolutely everything. I only have Spotify because of the radio function but otherwise all of these services are absolute dog shit. They don’t offer anything new. They’ve just created a new set of moats for features, songs, videos, television and games. Eventually this system has to collapse because treating customers like employees that have no choice but to stay will lead people to innovate on piracy.
- Submitted 2 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on 3 months ago:
“AI” and google pushing ads into the search has made search virtually unusable.
- Comment on Congress gives standing ovation for modern day Hitler. 3 months ago:
Fuck the New York Times for the glowing headline.
- Comment on Elon Musk claims he is training “the world’s most powerful AI by every metric” 3 months ago:
Mfer can’t even deliver the $25k Tesla. You think he’s going to deliver the most powerful AI? Lol. I got some snake oil to sell you.
- Comment on The American dream is over: Why some first-generation Gen Zers are moving abroad 3 months ago:
I’m putting away a sizable nest egg for my daughter in the hopes that she’s going to use it to get out of this god forsaken place when she’s old enough.
- Comment on OpenAI reportedly nears breakthrough with “reasoning” AI, reveals progress framework 3 months ago:
It’s the Elon Musk narrative making we’ve been seeing over and over again. It’s hype. They’re about to run out of input data because they’ve sucked up everything they could. The Internet is being fed a bunch of bad results that come from LLM produced output which enshittifies the Internet further. These companies are burning cash and grid energy while the world burns. Unless there’s a spectacular breakthrough, this can’t keep going on much longer.
- Comment on Meta removes Trump account restrictions ahead of 2024 election 4 months ago:
Yes it was…
- Comment on Meta removes Trump account restrictions ahead of 2024 election 4 months ago:
Luckily very few people use Facebook.
- Comment on Meta to pull posts targeting 'Zionists' for harm 4 months ago:
Shut up. No it’s not.
- Comment on The worst pick-up line I've ever gotten 4 months ago:
I checked it out but there was nothing in my area.
- Comment on These AI generated pics are becoming impossible to spot 4 months ago:
Wolverine somehow ended up in the model data and there you have it.
- Comment on Hello GPT-4o 5 months ago:
Worth listening to a podcast by Ed Zitron who covers this exact same thing.
I work in analytics consulting and aside from some relatively straight forward text classification and parsing there really are so few instances where AI is useful. He actually made the case that AI is useful to people selling AI. But these chatbots are mostly useless bullshit.
- Comment on The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down 6 months ago:
A good portion of windows users are corporate/business users. They’re not going anywhere.
- Comment on AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants 8 months ago:
Not even the benefit of an interview is just weird. It doesn’t make sense.
- Comment on AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants 8 months ago:
Same. And I’ve been getting calls and interview requests for lower positions which I refuse to move to. I’m lucky that I have a good paying position at the moment so I don’t have to leave.
- Comment on AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants 8 months ago:
I’ve been using gpt as well. Still no responses.
- Comment on AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants 8 months ago:
I am a seasoned professional that has over a decade in my field with very solid experience to match. And yet, I am simply getting either no response or a decline altogether. During Covid, I interviewed for over 30 positions. Some were promising but others I declined. I’m hearing crickets right now. It’s wild.
- Comment on Sony misses PS5 sales target as console enters ‘latter stage of its life cycle’ 8 months ago:
They’ve barely released any PS5 exclusive games. This feels like a massive ripoff.
- Comment on Real-time, AI monitoring at work: Major brands are snooping on employee conversations 9 months ago:
This will also be used against union organizing attempts as well which sucks.
- Comment on Sasha kohen messing with white Americans 9 months ago:
If he wasn’t such a Zionist idiot this clip would carry a lot more resonance.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg made $29 billion this morning after Meta stock makes record surge 9 months ago:
The reason people aren’t protesting in not some fantasy that they’ll benefit from it one day but that they will fall under the weight of capitalism’s heavy hand if they get recorded protesting and get fired or get a sick day and get fired and lose everything. The reason that the wealthy don’t want a safety net is not just because they hate the poor (they do) but because they have control over a population of workers who live in fear of the economic meat grinder. The system is so much more cynical and cruel than I would have imagined possible.
- Comment on Moderna’s mRNA cancer vaccine works even better than thought 10 months ago:
I worked for one the first hospitals that was doing genomic testing for oncology patients in the U.S. I am not advocating against genomic testing or precision medicine, but Amerisource Bergen, (at the time) McKesson, and the sales people at the manufacturer were licking their chops at the thought of precision medicine. It was extremely lucrative for some improvements on QoL. I sincerely hope that it’s not cost prohibitive to patients and results in breakthroughs in treatment. But I did watch as a lung cancer drug was administered to patients at the cost of 250k per treatment. I don’t remember how many treatments there were but the cost was insane. The US system of healthcare is absolutely broken and I believe there’s a study that particularly evaluated cancer as a major cause of families depleting whatever savings they had within a couple years of being diagnosed. This is an indictment of the whole system. Not the efficacy of the drugs.
- Comment on Moderna’s mRNA cancer vaccine works even better than thought 10 months ago:
Personalized medicine is a way to rob you blind. Drugs cost unreal money. So does the hospital administration.
- Comment on Breakthrough: "Electronic soil" boosts crop growth by over 50% 10 months ago:
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- Comment on Amazon Fires Up Its Space Lasers 10 months ago:
Yay. More space junk.
- Comment on Cool SQL editor and database manager that I found today, licensed under GPL 3 11 months ago:
I hate how clunky dbeaver is but snowflake support is a must.
- Comment on The Cybertruck Is a Disappointment Even to Cybertruck Superfans / Looking at the specs alone, the car is delivering 30 percent less range than expected for 30 percent more money 11 months ago:
Because everything musk does is basically bullshit.
- $30k Tesla
- Tesla semi
- Cybertuck 4 years late
- Full autonomous driving
- Hyperloop
- Comment on Why the US is the only country that ties your health insurance to your job 1 year ago:
It’s important to ask why employers would be actively fighting against any significant healthcare reform. They spend countless hours annually negotiating insurance contracts annually which always ends up costing them and their employees more money. The only reason to continue to do this is that it allows them the ability to control employees.
- Comment on YouTube TV, which costs $73 a month, agrees to end “$600 less than cable” ads 1 year ago:
If that’s worth 75 bucks to you, then congrats; you have what you need.