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- Comment on 5 hours ago:
Microsoft: It isn’t fair to call us that!. Also Microsoft: breaks everything immediately after
- Comment on New computer chip material inspired by the human brain could slash AI energy use 5 hours ago:
AI boosters are no longer allowed to explain what’s good about AI using the future tense. You can no longer say “it will,” “could,” “might,” “likely,” “possible,” “estimated,” “promise,” or any other term that reviews today’s capabilities in the language of the future.
- Comment on France bids to suspend Shein over childlike sex dolls 1 day ago:
This is a horrible take. What if providing access to these dolls actually decreases the likelihood that a buyer will offend against a real child? Would you be against the sale of said dolls then?
- Comment on [DX] What's a Concord-like? 1 week ago:
*Highguard
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable 1 week ago:
On your TV?
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, I think gaming is done with new live service offerings.
Live service used to be a way to get a core-complete, feature-limited games in front of players earlier than if they were fully baked. This was actually good for everyone, as player feedback often guided roadmaps and changes. But now everyone expects every new game to be better than Fortnite, Overwatch, etc. on day one. This just won’t ever happen.
Also, the gaming community of today is OBSESSED with popularity numbers (steam concurrents and twitch view count, mostly), and if players don’t see that everyone else is playing a game then they won’t play either. This is fucking dumb, but we are where we are.
And don’t even get me started on gaming news and influencers, who seem like they love to hate. They bitch about being stuck with CoD, then shit on anything that could someday compete with it. It’s baffling.
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 2 weeks ago:
That’s becoming my takeaway here as well. Don’t jump into any live service game early, because it might get rug-pulled right as I’m getting into it.
Of course, if everyone took this approach then no live service game will ever take off, which kinda feels like where we are anyways.
- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 3 weeks ago:
FTA
If you don’t want to see AI on Firefox anymore, all you have to do is click on Settings > AI Controls. You’ll then see a very bold and prominent option called ‘Block AI Enhancements.’ Hit that, and every AI tool gets disabled.
- Comment on European Parliament blocks AI on lawmakers’ devices, citing security risks 3 weeks ago:
So yeah, about that…
- Comment on EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko 3 weeks ago:
Skate is free to play
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 4 weeks ago:
This - like most problems we’ve created in the US - comes down to money. Google will often donate/grant Chromebooks to schools in order to create future
addictscustomers. It would cost schools a lot more to do what’s right (or at least better) for their students, so they don’t do that thing. - Comment on OpenAI start showing ads in ChatGPT 5 weeks ago:
Let the enshittification begin!
- Comment on Horizon Hunters Gathering reportedly delays Horizon 3, as Sony prioritizes multiplayer PS5 game 5 weeks ago:
Sony really learned nothing from Concord. Incredible.
- Comment on Is the Xbox One X a good console/4k player in 2026? 1 month ago:
Xbox consoles are generally not good 4k/UHD Blu-ray players. I tried using my XSX for (physical) movie watching for a while, and my experience was poor enough that I went out and bought a dedicated Panasonic player instead.
Not all discs would play in my XSX, picture was often noisy, and I ran into a fair amount of audio issues up to and including no sound at all.
- Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder 1 month ago:
Found the person who needs to leave their partner.
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 1 month ago:
8bpp ewwww too
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 1 month ago:
4k’s bump in resolution is nice, but the biggest benefit is the improvement in color (HDR or Dolby Vision).
- Comment on Supreme Court To Decide How 1988 Videotape Privacy Law Applies To Online Video 1 month ago:
Michael Salazar claims that his subscription to a 247Sports e-newsletter qualifies him as a “consumer.” But since he did not subscribe to “audio visual materials,” the district court held that he was not a “consumer” and dismissed the complaint.
- Comment on Is anyone else having a hard time sympathizing with Americans? 1 month ago:
The American system of government is reliant on good-faith actors. When government officials put their own self-interest above the interest of those they have chosen to govern, part of the system is eroded and crumbles.
There are LOTS of American government officials putting their own self-interest first right now.
- Comment on Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking 2 months ago:
We all laughed at the time, but The Matrix was right - civilization peaked in 1999.
- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 2 months ago:
Yes, that is the major problem with LLMs in general. There is no solution aside from “train in another different source (like Reddit)”, but then we rinse & repeat.
- Comment on Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month 2 months ago:
Game Pass also lets you do this via cloud play.
- Comment on Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month 2 months ago:
The Venn diagram of moderate users and GeForce subscribers has an overlap that’s about 2mm wide.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 2 months ago:
Samsung S95F OLED
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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" 3 months ago:
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- Comment on 3 months ago:
It’s Argo Workflows