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- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 3 days ago:
All this actually does is push people to porn sites outside of Missouri’s jurisdiction and/or sites that don’t give a fuck about being “legitimate businesses” or whatever. It’s effectively prohibition and the outcome will be the same.
This shit never actually makes anyone safer, it just draws more normal users to seedier parts of the internet.
- Comment on The Supreme Court Is About to Hear a Case That Could Rewrite Internet Access 1 week ago:
I’m gonna go to businesses I don’t like, hop on the Wi-Fi, and pirate from all the most obvious trackers.
- Comment on OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates 1 week ago:
as ubiquitous and useful as Microsoft 365
What a line! Directly referenced a hated service that butchers a whole suite of actually ubiquitous products.
I don’t know a single person who pays for M365. Companies pay for it because they’ve been locked in and/or are forced to for government compliance reasons, but no one actually wants that. Fucking ace thing to compare your AI service to, dipshit.
- Comment on Google’s Sundar Pichai says the job of CEO is one of the ‘easier things’ AI could soon replace 2 weeks ago:
Being a good CEO is 95% about social networking; creating and maintaining trustworthy relationships with others who will provide you with good support. AI can’t do this, as it’s a truly human thing.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 2 weeks ago:
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It’s Argo Workflows
- Comment on AI country singer Breaking Rust tops Billboard with ‘Walk My Walk’ 3 weeks ago:
Here’s the track for the curious.
It’s pretty basic with lyrics that are pretty pandering. Not exactly a good song, but here we are.
- Comment on What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? 4 weeks ago:
This is a running joke in the Far Cry games. I know Far Cry 4 does something similar. You meet the big bad at the beginning of the game, he asks you to wait for him, and if you just chill for like 15 minutes he shows back up, honors his word, and you finish the mission that you came to the island for.
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- Comment on ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent 4 weeks ago:
So look,v this is just gonna happen. It’s legal to film people in public (in the US) and we all know stores, etc. are already using facial recognition.
The real problem here is the (apparent, though almost certainly assured) lack of responsible use of the data. Scanning faces means you also get time, place, and event/activity, and that citizens then have zero control of what the govt does with this, who they share it with (e.g. Palantir), etc. All prior collection of US person data required appropriate approval, limited scope of access, and timely adjudication/disposal. But ICE is (again, apparently) operating outside the law.
- Comment on YSK - the crazy questions all jobs on usajobs.gov now ask 1 month ago:
Who the fuck is gonna write four bullshit mini-essays just for a job that pays well below market rate?
- Comment on N++ — 10th anniversary update 1 month ago:
I picked this up on Steam for cheap today just so I don’t have to hook up my PS4. Still a super duper amazing game.
I have no idea how to unlock the TEN++ content, though.
- Comment on BALL x PIT | Release Trailer 1 month ago:
Played this for a couple of hours today thanks to Game Pass. So far, it’s a pretty good time. It has some Binding of Isaac / Enter the Gungeon vibes and interesting meta-progression.
- Comment on They say remote working less productive 1 month ago:
Sleeping for an extra 60-90 minutes is using the time.
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 1 month ago:
You have my attention… Does it have a good / comparable app that you can use to view recordings?
- Comment on I wonder what game they're trying to play 1 month ago:
Hilariously, the actual Cyberpunk game would work for this. There’s a weapon in the game that’s just a giant dildo, and holding it causes your controller to rumble continuously.
- Comment on Spokesperson 2 months ago:
Look, the dude’s an asshole. He shouldn’t be on any talk show because his personal views are not worth listening to. But he has also sold 26 million albums, which is enough to count pretty much anyone as a “music legend”.
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 2 months ago:
I mean “corpos” in the Cyberpunk sense - mega-huge companies that put profits far and above all else, discarding any notion of ethics, morality, or care about others in the process.
They’re the companies that buy up emerging tech solely so they can kill it (their competition). They don’t give a shit about long-term sustainability - if it raises the bottom line today, they do it. They disregard laws and consumer protections because the only consequences are paltry (for them) fines, which they see as the cost of doing business.
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 2 months ago:
That’s a good callout - treating these game rental services more like we do with streaming video services by subbing to one for just a few months, then dropping it for another.
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 2 months ago:
Ehh… PSN isn’t really any better. Their Game Pass competitor is a hot mess. Better to just buy games outright, especially during sales.
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 2 months ago:
Once upon a time, the idea with subscriptions like this was to have customers set it and forget it. Charge them a small/reasonable amount and they’ll keep giving you money forever. Giving people a reason to think about - or worse, evaluate the merits of - the monthly deposit they’re giving you used to be a sin for companies.
But here we are, seeing the difference between “companies” and “corpos”.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’ve been a big Xbox dude for a long time but I can’t possibly defend this. It’s a garbage move, during a time when everyone’s chief complaint about life is “everything goes up in price way too fast, all the time.”
They call these changes “upgrades” but that’s just PR bullshit. The big value of Game Pass used to be how it was cheaper than buying games outright. Now Ultimate is $360 a year. How many brand new games that you’re interested in come out each year? Would buying them on day one total anything near $360??
The value just isn’t there anymore. - Comment on Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice 2 months ago:
Unless of course the manufacturer hamstrings it well before that time.
See: Samsung
- Comment on Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice 2 months ago:
“I’m going to spend $1500 so I can save $8/month.”
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 2 months ago:
I just use a USB cable. No extra software required.
- Comment on Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact 2 months ago:
Nah fuck them. They black box said analytics, making any kind of audit of the decisions impossible. This is HORRIBLE, especially in the contract of government and health care.
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 2 months ago:
What is this thing supposed to do?
The article says “Gaming Copilot – which provides recommendations, help, insights and more –” but that tells me nothing.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 | Review Thread 2 months ago:
I’m pretty curious (read: leery) about the post-launch monetization. Does the game feel complete or did they obviously hold things back for the battle passes or whatever? Will I have to pay in to enjoy things like a level cap increase?
They were pretty clear about going HAM on paid stuff after launch, and the game is already priced super high, so this might end up being a sale pickup for me.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 2 months ago:
I also hate, and this is another compounding factor, the complete lack of enemy HP bars.
IIRC, HK1 had a badge that turns these on. I’m not far enough into the new game to have found this yet, though.
- Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms 2 months ago:
No. There’s no “hopefully” anything when it comes to this bullshit. It’s bad for the individual, full stop. This is not a thing to compromise on, because any compromise at all will eventually harm the users (though leaks/hacks, or government overreach, etc.) without any actual benefit or offset to them.