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- Comment on As Fortnite Enables Third-Party Microtransactions, Steal the Brainrot's Developer is Slammed By Fans For Immediately Adding $45 Premium Bundles and Gambling-Style Mechanics 22 hours ago:
But you launch Fortnite to access it on every platform. There isn’t an “Epic UGC” app. So this is what Fortnite has become. An umbrella for experiences that include Battle Royal.
- Comment on As Fortnite Enables Third-Party Microtransactions, Steal the Brainrot's Developer is Slammed By Fans For Immediately Adding $45 Premium Bundles and Gambling-Style Mechanics 22 hours ago:
Those in the industry know that the guy running the content in question is just using the most profitable techniques available to him.
- Comment on AI’s Memorization Crisis | Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry. 3 days ago:
It’s a very complicated compression algorithm.
- Comment on Logitech caused its mice to freak out by not renewing a certificate 5 days ago:
- Comment on Logitech caused its mice to freak out by not renewing a certificate 5 days ago:
This one’s all on Logitech.
- Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why 5 days ago:
huh, if there isn’t explicit content in the repos, the ban is nonsense. Makes me assume this will get resolved eventually.
- Comment on F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email 5 days ago:
I like how the article just regurgitates facts from Wikipedia just like the the thank you email does.
- Comment on What happened to lem.ee? 1 week ago:
None of that makes you look at mutilated children, though.
- Comment on What happened to lem.ee? 1 week ago:
Moderation is the most difficult aspect of tuning social media platforms.
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, the people who are racing to download it all want to use it for profit. AI companies, companies that run databases, etc.
- Comment on NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions 2 weeks ago:
There’s a lot of unhappy gamers downvoting us.
- Comment on NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions 2 weeks ago:
Some of the comments on this post sound really addicted to PC gaming.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Not feeling great about the opening saying keys are necessarily locked to a single device. If that was true, they wouldn’t be in active use.
- Comment on Through gritted teeth, Apple and Google allow alternative app stores in Japan 3 weeks ago:
With a Japanese Apple ID and probally GPS spoofing too, sure.
- Comment on Why do some website logins have the username and password entry on different pages? 3 weeks ago:
I always assumed some sites harvest what ever you enter in the first box. Especially if it’s an email address. But other people in this thread have the legitimate answer.
- Comment on ‘Invasive, deceptive, and unlawful’: Texas says your TV is tracking you illegally, and is suing to stop the dreaded Automatic Content Recognition 3 weeks ago:
Do YouTube next. Do websites next.
- Comment on There's ads on an apple 4 weeks ago:
“How can we compete with Apple TV’s prestige shows?”
- Comment on Reddit files legal challenge against social media ban for under-16s 4 weeks ago:
There’s a chance most of the historical bullshit and nonsense (pre bots) was 16 year olds and younger…
- Comment on Disney Invests $1 Billion in the AI Slopification of Its Brand 4 weeks ago:
Seems like an awkward conflict. If the generated material can’t be copyrighted and the characters are “licensed.”
- Comment on iFixIt announce FixBot: Your AI Repair Helper 4 weeks ago:
I feel like iFixit has always talked out of both sides of their mouth. It’s one of those situations where it becomes clearer over longer and longer timescales.
They are a business, not a non-profit organization.
- Comment on RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components 5 weeks ago:
Native apps are so much better, on every platform.
The JavaScript must flow….
- Comment on Why I Think the AI Bubble Will Not Burst 5 weeks ago:
There was a time in my experience of twitter where the only anime profile pictures I ran across were people arguing about gamergate.
- Comment on YSK that in most countries, traffic fatalities have been falling. But in the U.S., the opposite happened. Americans die in rising numbers 5 weeks ago:
Nice. I think it should be a standard feature. And the need is ever increasing, it seems.
- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 5 weeks ago:
Just make sure you don’t use the butt soap.
- Comment on YSK that in most countries, traffic fatalities have been falling. But in the U.S., the opposite happened. Americans die in rising numbers 5 weeks ago:
The poster’s account is about a day old. For more context. (Voyager shows you an icon and age when accounts are new. Just like Apollo did)
- Comment on How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM 5 weeks ago:
To summarize: the device is riddled with security flaws, originally shipped with default passwords, communicates with servers in China, comes preinstalled with hacking tools, and even includes a built-in microphone - fully equipped for recording audio - without clear mention of it in the documentation. Could it get any worse?
I am pretty sure these issues stem from extreme negligence and rushed development rather than malicious intent. However, that doesn’t make them any less concerning.
Slop everywhere. As far as the eyes can see.
- Comment on How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM 5 weeks ago:
Their reviewers are always so flippant and trying to be cool and casual about it all. I don’t know how anyone can take them seriously.
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 5 weeks ago:
VRChat is the most popular “metaverse” and it’s still growing every year.
So it’s weird to call the metaverse dead when Horizon wasn’t even in the lead among its competitors.
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 5 weeks ago:
Yea, and asset ownership will make federated Social VR awkward. As in, few will put in time making spaces and games that can be instantly duplicated and rehosted.
It’s an upside that platforms have, they can do at least some moderation regarding content theft. It’s never perfect, but it’s better than a free for all.
- Comment on RAM is so expensive, Samsung won't even sell it to Samsung 5 weeks ago:
The AGI you are talking about sounds woke, and that’s illegal, at least in the US.