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- Comment on Are there any games you're planning to pick up during the Steam and GOG sales? 1 day ago:
Just got Stardew Valley. I’m a little reluctant to start it though- it seems like one of those games I could sink hundreds of hours into and I have a huge backlog. But I’m excited to try it.
- Comment on Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising 2 days ago:
Yeah I think the masses are going to be a tough sell on Linux until computer manufacturers start offering Linux builds with a pre-installed instance.
I’m sure there are places that do it but there’s probably money to be made in just setting up Linux on machines for people.
- Comment on Phone calls still assume the people on the receiving end are attached to a desk. 4 days ago:
I think context makes a difference on whether a call is welcome or not, appropriate or not.
If the email asks me to write out a bunch of info I know off the top of my head, just call me. Don’t make me write out something that I can just tell you much faster.
If you’re asking something that kicks off a conversation going back and forth like if you need help walking through something, sending emails back and forth is annoying and dumb. Knocking it out in one call is faster and easier than exchanging 15 emails.
On the other hand, if you don’t need an answer right away, if you need documents or images or if you need to communicate about something that requires a record of the communication, email is better.
I have been annoyed equally by getting calls and emails when people use them for things when they aren’t ideal.
- Comment on If You're An Adventure Game Fan, Duck Detective is For You! 1 week ago:
Got it right after launch. It is fantastic. Puzzles are fun, characters and plot are entertaining, and it’s just frickin adorable. It’s really short- I’m hoping because the dev team is releasing additional cases later, but right now you just solve one case. I finished it in an evening taking it slowly. I don’t regret paying full price, but I definitely want more. Would recommend for sure.
- Comment on Spicy jokes 1 week ago:
Such a great movie. Haven’t watched that in years. Might have to dust that one off this weekend.
- Comment on OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts 1 month ago:
I wonder if Open AI or any of the other firms have thought to put in any kind of stipulations about monitoring and moderating reddit content to reduce ai generated posts and reduce risk of model collapse.
Anybody who’s looked at reddit in the past 2 years especially has seen the impact of ai pretty clearly. If I was running open ai I wouldn’t want that crap contaminating my models.
- Comment on Mozilla to protect Firefox users from bounce trackers - Stack Diary 1 month ago:
I don’t get why companies pull such shady crap to get behavior data. 99% of it is useless and never even is used to make improvements to products or processes.
- Comment on Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two 1 month ago:
For real. If ever there were a time to hop on an Amtrak, I think this would be a good one.
- Comment on Meta’s “set it and forget it” AI ad tools are misfiring and blowing through cash 1 month ago:
They cut thousands of jobs in the name of efficiency, then roll out an AI customer service bot to replace people in managing problems with their flashy new AI tool that is glitching out, more expensive and delivering worse results.
Surely nobody saw this coming right?
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 2 months ago:
There is a great documentary about her on Netflix. It covers her love of science and her attempts to get her design to the military for the war effort.
- Comment on Power-hungry AI is putting the hurt on global electricity supply 2 months ago:
Preach, friend. I’m so sick of seeing how everything is getting some useless AI service jammed into it for no reason. At best its just a pointless feature that can be ignored. At worst it’s a data and memory vacuum that mines people’s activity in the name of “product improvements”.
- Comment on Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets 2 months ago:
What I don’t get is how no company seems to have worked out a legitimately good service and maintenance model for tech products. Fairphone hasn’t invented the wheel here. They’re going to make money on maintenance, parts and repair.
I would think there would be lowered costs involved in not having to push out a new product every 6 months and market it to customers who just bought something less than a year ago.
- Comment on Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites 2 months ago:
I still don’t understand why they keep going after piracy when it is a symptom of the bigger problem. Movies today are expensive and often made inaccessible through BS digital services that periodically just make films and TV unavailable to save server space or avoid paying for licensing.
I would guess that the vast majority of people are not pirating content. I’d also guess that if digital providers and studios would actually try to change the distribution model that allows customers to buy content that is later turned off on a whim, they would see meaningful change in piracy activity.
- Comment on A new bill wants to reveal what’s really inside AI training data 2 months ago:
Interesting that so much of the creative industry is supportive of the bill, but that the MPA isn’t (or at least hasn’t explicitly come out in support). I’m guessing that is reflective of the production companies’ interest in using AI trained on creative content to eliminate the reliance on talent.
- Comment on Using StartAllBack? No Windows updates for you, says Microsoft 2 months ago:
I do this. All programs I access regularly are shortcuts on the desktop. Everything else I can get to with folders or launchers like steam.
- Comment on What are your favorite Dreamcast games? 2 months ago:
I had that game! It was so weird! Cool concept but I never had any idea what I was doing. The DNA sequence minigame (?) was neat but it was never clear how you get any specific results. I wonder if there’s just an RNG behind it and none of your actions really mattered.
I got to the gold man level (which I guess is the pique of evolution and the end stage) and the game didn’t really end. I just was able to walk around slapping animals and taking almost no damage.
I picked it up again used and threw it in my dreamcast and couldn’t get through it. I found it tedious and kind if dull. Would be interested in seeing a remake though- I bet modern engines could do a solid job with some of the ideas in it.
- Comment on Best printer 2024: a humorous critique of the Google search engine and printer enshittification 2 months ago:
Also, nothing the Google llm said was in any way specific to brother. I’m wondering if that’s by design and they made it brand-agnostic to appease advertisers.
- Comment on 60 Percent Of Playtime In 2023 Went To 6-Year-Old Or Older Games, New Data Shows 2 months ago:
Yep. I’ve been working through Horizon Forbidden West,l over the past few days, but before that I’ve been cycling replays of Borderlands 2, Control, South park, Portal 2 and a handful of others older games. Probably will do another Dishonored run this year too. The older games just scratch the itch way more than most of my newer ones.
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- Comment on 25 Years Ago, PlayStation Was Blessed With An Amazing Advergame 3 months ago:
I had the 7-up game on Sega Genesis even before this was a thing. I’m a little surprised that those kinds of games didn’t become more popular since companies are cramming adverts into every possible medium now.
- Comment on Millennials are old now? 3 months ago:
Preach, friend. Got in an argument with my husband about this. He kept saying that it’s a part of getting older but I refused to believe that.
I feel the same way about classic/ old school rap. It’s a defined style of music, not just music your parents listened to.
- Comment on Schools in America apparently have their own army recruiter 4 months ago:
Yeah I read recently that selling student data is a pretty common practice for colleges. It’s good income for them, and students aren’t able to track it easily so they don’t make a fuss.
- Comment on Apple moves away from iTunes on PC with new Windows apps 4 months ago:
Is this in response to the antitrust stuff they’ve been dealing with in Europe? I thought they had tried to split software into different “services” before to avoid oversight (I think they did it with their web browser).
- Comment on A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco 4 months ago:
"with some residents rendering them immobile by putting orange cones on the cars’ hoods in protest. "
Could someone explain this? How does an orange cone on the hood immobilize these things?
- Comment on OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion 4 months ago:
It’s a great way to make a fat pile of cash though.
- Comment on Zuckerberg Brags About How Your Facebook, Instagram Posts Will Power His AI 4 months ago:
So, they want to make an app or service where people just talk to bots all the time without knowing it?
Sounds like Reddit.
- Comment on New Study Says Artificial Intelligence Still Too Costly To Replace Most Human Jobs 4 months ago:
This isn’t a great example of ROI calculations. When companies calculate staff costs they factor in benefits, shared services costs (HR, IT Helpdesk, etc). Even if the ai wasn’t cheaper than the salary alone, benefits put that much higher.
However, it doesn’t really matter. Low or no ROI isn’t going to stop the AI cult from selling snake oil products to companies with the promise of “savings”, real or not. C suite types will say its a better long term investment in new technology and tools, or that multiple applications of an ai service allow costs to be spread across the business.
- Comment on Cable Firms to FTC: We Shouldn’t Have to Let Users Cancel Service With a Click 5 months ago:
The one thing where I agree with cable companies about is the risk to consumers accidentally canceling all or multiple services when they intend to just cancel one. It will be hard to explain that a package price will no longer apply if one part of the package is canceled.
However- it can be addressed with a well-designed cancelation instruction screen. This is a constraint to the communication and process design; it is not an insurmountable barrier like the cable companies are suggesting.
- Comment on Artists are making creative companies apologize for using AI 5 months ago:
Maybe for companies that aren’t selling tools for digital artists, but WACOM is literally trying to sell a product that humans use to create these images. To usurp the their customer base and buy an AI image (even unintentionally) shows at best a complete lack of understanding about what kind of art is being made with their tablets and at worst a disregard for a major concern of their customer base.
- Comment on LinkedIn Isn't Just for Jobs Anymore. It's Now a Dating App Too. 5 months ago:
I used to browse linkedin all the time, and found that my contacts shared interesting articles and links that related to my job. I got 2 jobs from listing shared by my network that I’d never have found otherwise.
But it’s been years since that time, and now it is a cesspool of shameless fake humble bragging and totally non-work appropriate content. I’ve been hit on multiple times with men trying to get me to chat with them about really personal stuff in DMs.
I’m job hunting now, and it’s one of my main methods for finding opportunities but otherwise I wouldn’t log on at all.