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- Comment on Apple blocks Fortnite's return to iPhone in US 13 hours ago:
Do you think a court could force Apple to allow any and all software in the App Store? In other words, it’s not Apple’s decision who they do business with?
- Comment on YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick 13 hours ago:
Hey, did you hear veritasum made a video?
- Comment on Bungie appears to have plagarized an artist's work and style in their extraction shooter "Marathon" according to this Bluesky post 1 day ago:
Bungie had similar problems with Destiny 2, if I remember correctly.
- Comment on TikTok charged with breaching EU online content rules 1 day ago:
I wish we had these rules in the US.
Targeted advertising can be insidious, and it’s difficult to uncover some of the worst stuff because it’s not really broadcasted widely.
- Comment on Algorithm based on LLMs doubles lossless data compression rates 1 day ago:
I wonder what the practical reasons for starting with h.264 are.
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 2 days ago:
People really abuse that new and very useful word. It diminishes the usefulness of it.
- Comment on AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented 2 days ago:
They also shouldn’t report on the horse race. They should report on issues.
Reporting on elections is always disappointing.
- Comment on Trakt Upcoming VIP Renewal Pricing Changes – Effective May 20, 2025 3 days ago:
As I remember things, TVDB is the one with the weird episode splitting and ordering…
- Comment on Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection 3 days ago:
Well, this sounds like poor/broken communication to me. Why didn’t they cite another app that’s doing the same as them that has access to the app they want?
The idea that Android use to just let any app access any file on the system sounds like a nightmare. But I live in the modern security reality that is our world. And that reality is just going to continue to get worse and require more care. Not less.
- Comment on FCC commissioner writes op-ed titled, “It’s time for Trump to DOGE the FCC“ 4 days ago:
He’s a dummy.
- Comment on Giant Bomb, a web site about video games, has been purchased from Fandom 6 days ago:
Good news for those who are into the current generation of GB.
- Comment on Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project' 6 days ago:
That’s how projects go. But I bet it happens faster when enthusiasm for a game has the curve this title did.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 6 days ago:
Totino’s Pizza Rolls remind you AI makes mistakes, always double check important information. [AD]
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 1 week ago:
That’s, like, a normal logical one. It’s actually food, it’s spicy. It makes sense to compete to see who can handle the spicy food.
Stealing faucets from public bathrooms? That’s not a normal logical one. That’s a devious lick, and something invented to be highly memetic and propelled by a highly optimized algorithm that incentivizes recency, novelty, and dopamine hacking. It even had a marketing/brand name!
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 1 week ago:
Yeah, no worries about the lithium fires. Fuck those chromebooks.
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 1 week ago:
You didn’t have the same social and monetary incentives TikTok provides.
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 1 week ago:
I don’t remember Friendster causing mayhem like this.
Lemmy seems to not be spreading challenges either.
You have a point, but TikTok has a unique power.
- Comment on Microsoft Bans Employees From Using DeepSeek App 1 week ago:
Oh? That’s great to hear. That means I’m out of date on that. I have a friend who experienced this once.
- Comment on Microsoft Bans Employees From Using DeepSeek App 1 week ago:
Sadly, it’s not uncommon from what I understand.
- Comment on Microsoft Bans Employees From Using DeepSeek App 1 week ago:
Ever heard about software devs not being able to work on personal projects because all the code they produce, even off the clock is owned by their employer?
- Comment on X blocks 8,000 accounts in India under government order 1 week ago:
The town square shouldn’t have regional muzzles as a feature.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 1 week ago:
The line? Usually you need to be doing something conceptually different. This knockoff electrabuzz wouldn’t have raised as many eyebrows if it was in a farming simulator, or a card game.
It’s like if you had a chainsaw gun in your game, and your game was set in a dark gritty sci-fi world where you are fighting subterranean monsters called the Focus Board.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 1 week ago:
Bingo. In many ways, but not all, palworld was lazy, and unoriginal.
- Comment on Instacart CEO Fidji Simo is joining OpenAI as CEO of Applications 1 week ago:
So she’s the one who oversaw the misleading Facebook Video numbers that destroyed a whole swath of websites?
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2 1 week ago:
Yeah, they finally added one of the common anti-cheat tools to it. No anti-cheat is perfect, but it has made a huge difference.
- Comment on OpenAI and the FDA Are Holding Talks About Using AI In Drug Evaluation 1 week ago:
Turns out Umbrella Corp was an AI company that pivoted?
- Comment on Apple Eyes Move to AI Search, Ending Era Defined by Google 1 week ago:
Shareholders
- Comment on ‘How come I can’t breathe?': Musk’s data company draws a backlash in Memphis 1 week ago:
“If you let me do this, I promise ai will invent a cure for asthma.”
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2 1 week ago:
It’s definitely the most photorealistic game of this scale. IMO. It’s looking to be quite the feat, and worth the development time/wait.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2 1 week ago:
It took them until this year to finally start addressing rampant cheating in GTAO PC.
The most profitable game in history, and they couldn’t muster a solution to the hacking/bullshit.