HonorIsDead
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- Comment on Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI. 8 months ago:
Maybe I’m miss remembering but weren’t they restoring stuff users deleted during the API protest?
- Comment on Mozilla CEO quits, org pivots, but what about Firefox? 9 months ago:
I blocked this website on my news feed because of this article. It’s opinion piece written by an asshat.
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 9 months ago:
You would need to pay shipping on orders under 35$ - previously 25$ was the threshold. With some exceptions that require shipping be paid no matter what prime was there to give you two day shipping on all orders at no extra cost. Now they have prime video, prime gaming, prime music, and prime reading as part of it aswell. All of which have were some nice added value to anyone already paying to get the shipping. Although prime video now has ads, music and reading are really just a worse version of their subscriptions for those services - amazon music and Kindle unlimited.
Basically if you have frequent small orders on Amazon it might be cheaper to pay the monthly sub than to pay for shipping. For most people it’s really not worth it, either because you don’t place enough orders or they would meet the threshold for free shipping anyway.
- Comment on Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice 9 months ago:
Wtf is up with that building in the picture it’s lumpy and ribbed
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 10 months ago:
Warframe has been consuming basically all of my game time. It took a long time of playing off and on for it to really click with me like it has now where Ive stuck with it. I’m actually a bit glad though because it’s left this ocean of different things in the game I can do and it’s been great.
- Comment on How to keep a man 10 months ago:
Corn looks like a sludge still thawing out.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 10 months ago:
They have the money and the technical talent to make a good launcher. They just appear to choose not to.
This is completely the case. You can’t tell me the makers of Unreal Engine couldn’t figure out how to replicate at least some of the more commonly used features of Steam. Of course they can do it. Someone somewhere in the corporate ladder decided they don’t need the extra features to compete with steam. Maybe burning money on the exclusivity contracts and game giveaways will work out in the long run, but I doubt that when they flat out said they’re spending more money than they earn in their 800+ person layoff just a few months ago.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 10 months ago:
Instead of offering anything to be a better platform they are burning money on the platform in hopes they can pay their way to dominac by paid exclusivivity and giving away games. One of those isn’t bad for users. Now consider what Epic offers beyond being able to buy and download a game. Nothing. Epic is only a storefront and they’ve had years to work on this at this point. Steam has gained dominance and maintains it in no small part due to all the additional features available to everyone. Do you use the steam workshop for any of your games? Have you use the steam community forums to troubleshoot a problem? Do you use big picture mode for a more console like experience? Do you customize your controller settings with the pretty expensive controller support built into system? The overlay? How about the custom profiles and badges and trading cards? Epic is only a storefront. That’s it. That’s all that’s on offer. So they supplement it with bribing devs to be exclusive to their store and giving away games to try and attract users.
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation calls on US Supreme Court to strike laws that threaten Wikipedia 11 months ago:
Wikipedia is one of the most impressive collective creations of the modern world. One day corrupt politicians will ruin it. They’re one of the organizations I donate to every year in my futile hope they preserve it as long as possible.
- Comment on Nothing pulls its iMessage app from the Play Store following privacy disaster 11 months ago:
This imploded so quickly I’m impressed
- Comment on YouTuber Jirard (a.k.a. The Completionist) has been accused of keeping and hoarding charity donations 1 year ago:
Big “I pledged it” energy here.
- Comment on Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI, Meta for being “industrial-strength plagiarists” 1 year ago:
I’m conflicted on a lot of this. At the end of the day it seems like these LLMs are simulating human behavior to an extent - exposure to content and generating similar content from that. Could Sarah Silverman be sued by comedians who influenced her comedy style and routines? generally no. I do understand the risk with letting these ‘AI’ run rampant to displace a huge portion of the creative space which is bad but where should the line be drawn? Is it only the fact they were trained material they dont own people are challenging? What recourse will they have when a LLM is trained on wholly owned IP?
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion [1] 1 year ago:
Divinity original sin 2. The anticipation of BG3 has got me re playing old rpgs and trying out some new ones.