CosmoNova
@CosmoNova@lemmy.world
- Comment on Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze 1 day ago:
And nobody was surprised. I predict most advertisers will return by the end of January for the same reasons they left previously: It’s the right business decision at the right time. Remember that the next time a corporation makes a pledge. It’s always about money.
- Comment on Microsoft builds first datacenters with wood to slash carbon emissions 2 days ago:
What does a datacenter need a huge glass front for? Slashing carbon emissions? Yeah right.
- Comment on Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like they’re about to get sued by the EU because they’re basically asking you to pay again for a product you should already paid for. Discontinuing a service that was advertised as the “last windows you’ll ever need” is one thing, but sending you another bill is something entirely different. Microsoft might just have ensured the longevity of Win10 for the foreseeable future without making much if any profit from it.
- Comment on 4 or more hours of daily screen time linked to more anxiety and depression in teens, data shows 2 weeks ago:
And that seems to be the general consensus on the term screen time. Most of the time they only assume social media on a mobile phone specifically, leaving out TVs, game consoles or even desktop PCs or Laptops. And by they I mean journalists, content creators themselves and of course scientists who release studies. It’s very ironic because all of those groups accumulated screen time to release their findings.
- Comment on The dead end of chips: Manufacturing semiconductors consumes as much energy as entire countries 2 weeks ago:
Right? I was just thinking that entire countries run on chips so it sort of sounds about right at least.
- Comment on Ubisoft launches NFT game with figures costing up to $63K 2 weeks ago:
Death to Unisoft. Let’s make an example out of them by simply laughing from the sidelines while they bury themselves.
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 2 weeks ago:
I think the second part of my sentence you cropped was the more important one to get across. It doesn’t matter how indistinguishable ads become from regular content when nobody is even willing to use your billboard for an excuse of a website anymore. Besides, institutions like the EU and even the FTC in the US will step in and break apart those dark patterns when they keep getting out of hand. We already grand Google way too much leeway but there’s only so much Silicon Valley giants can get away with before getting slapped with fines and bans. There are already strict rules in the EU about transparency when it comes to advertisements and not even Youtube can ignore them for a very long time.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Flooding Medium. 2 weeks ago:
Sure, so the Rant I was talking about is this by german Youtber Geschichtsfenster He linked sources. For example the Mandalorian armor slob can be found on the header image of this page: https://www.bauernkrieg-bw.de/uffrur-ausstellung Another campaign can be found on an Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/magda_lautseit1525/ They’re both about the peasant wars, so not actually medieval now that I think about it. Terrible nonetheless.
- Comment on More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI. 2 weeks ago:
Now they can fill new holes at the google graveyard at twice the speed!
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 2 weeks ago:
Seems like a sure way to lose my engagement. I don’t understand what Google thinks they’re getting out of this except for flooding you with more ads between video recommendations at the cost of people actually watching anything and using the damn website.
Between removing the dislike counter, a defect search bar that shoves garbage down your throat, recommendations of decreasing quality on my end and shorts (which I hesitantly gave a try but ultimately lost all interest in because it remained mostly low effort content despite my efforts to train my algorithm), this is just another reason I find myself spending more time enjoying other things lately.
Maybe I am just out of touch, but I smell another bubble bursting when I look at how enshittified all major web services are simultaneously becoming.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Flooding Medium. 2 weeks ago:
Just watched rant about a large historic museum in Germany using plenty of awful AI imagery, supposedly about the middle ages, showing what can only be identified as Mandalorians from Star Wars. It’s unnerving how far AI slob cancer reaches and we’re only at the early stages and how little responsibility anyone is willing to take when using AI.
- Comment on Crunchyroll just Committed a Federal Crime. 2 weeks ago:
As far as I remember they started as a pirating site and only later started to acquire more and more streaming licenses. By all means they shouldn’t even be in business today.
- Comment on TSMC suspended shipments to China firm after chip found on Huawei processor, sources say 2 weeks ago:
B-b-but China said all their chips are self made and that sanctions only accelerate their technological progress. You mean they got caught lying through their teeth again?
- Comment on Mexican TikTokers have code words to report on narco-violence without getting banned. 2 weeks ago:
Instagram or smart phones didn’t exist when China started it. This isn’t about TikTok starting anything.
- Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books 3 weeks ago:
Read a comment a while ago that if libraries weren’t a thing today and someone would propose them, the FBI would be on their ass and stalk after them for even suggesting such radical views. Copyright law is utterly broken and a disservice to society in it’s current form and execution. Politicians need to get their fat fingers out of the stock market by law.
- Comment on Opera explains how it plans to keep uBlock Origin support as Google Chrome disables it 3 weeks ago:
Opera, being owned by Chinese big tech is probably the only “mainstream” browser I find worse than Chrome and I doubt it will have any measurable effect on Googles market dominance. Don’t get me wrong Google would absolutely deserve to trip and fall for the enshittification route they’re taking, but I don’t see how Opera could do what Firefox can’t when Opera is very reliant on Google.
- Comment on Mexican TikTokers have code words to report on narco-violence without getting banned. 3 weeks ago:
It’s yet another dystopian online trend that China pioneered over a decade before the ‘free’ internet adopted it because money.
- Comment on The Death of the Junior Developer 3 weeks ago:
Good metaphor! Some companies even scraped their boats already to build wooden horses as ‘gifts’, invading our systems like the greeks invaded Troy.
- Comment on 2 in 3 People Often Encounter Hate Speech Online. 3 weeks ago:
And the other third is committing or just unaware of it. I encounter it several times a week and virtually no platform cares about most of it. Although I’m pleasantly surprised to almost never see it in my communities on Lemmy.
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 1 month ago:
I legitimately do not have enough space on my phone to install all the crappy bloatware of all the stores I go to. They quite literally ask the impossible of me.
- Comment on YouTube Shorts can now run up to three minutes 1 month ago:
So they introduced shorts just to… lengthen them? The people behind Youtube are so incredibly lost it’s almost unbelievable.
- Comment on What happened to the turn based RPG and RTS genres? 1 month ago:
Many fans of RTS and Halo swear on Halo Wars when it comes to RTS on a console. Apparently, they really figured out how to do it right, but I haven’t played it myself.
- Comment on What happened to the turn based RPG and RTS genres? 1 month ago:
I guess you’re just playing the wrong ones, really. The Age of Empires games (specifically 2 remake) have been celebrating a decent comeback and AoE4 was released to critical acclaim. Of course Blizzard won’t release anything worth your time anymore, but not everyone is Blizzard. As for turn based RPGs: They’re more popular than ever and I genuinely don’t know what you’re talking about. Turn based JRPGs are hugely popular and even CRPGs can be hugely popular if done right.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price 1 month ago:
I guess my point is that it isn’t worth an article in mid 2024 because it really only repeats what has been said a million times a about the subject. Even before it was bought. No one else would’ve paid much more than $9 Billion at any point because it is legitimately insane.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price 1 month ago:
If I remember correctly the evaluation of Xitter has been around $9 Billion for years so they’re basically saying it tanked only a little if you adjust for inflation.
- Comment on Alan Wake, Control developer agrees €15m convertible loan from Tencent 1 month ago:
It’s okay. The Fediverse assured me again and again it won’t matter how much Tencent owns of your company so as long as you “don’t think about them (Tencent)”. Whatever that means.
- Comment on Shigeru Miyamoto comments on AI, says "Nintendo would rather go in a different direction" 1 month ago:
He can’t decide that and is purely speaking from a perspective of a (legendary) game dev with more experience than some studios have as a whole. He’s been longer in the game than almost anyone else for better or worse.
- Comment on 3D printed 'suicide pod' used by a human for the first time 1 month ago:
Why can’t I shake off the feeling this is some kind of Edison-Tesla situation to give 3D printing a bad rep?
- Comment on Warlord Straight Out of "Mad Max" Says Elon Musk Remotely Shut Down His Cybertruck 1 month ago:
Least unhinged Cybertruck owner. Though I use the term ‘owner’ very loosely here.
- 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:
Some of them are even in this thread which is nothing new, but shocking to me every time: