Drusenija
@Drusenija@lemmy.world
- Comment on World's Biggest Anime Piracy Streaming Site Put on U.S. Government's Radar as Major Threat 1 month ago:
Capitalism?
- Comment on Nintendo Is Now Going After YouTube Accounts Which Show Its Games Being Emulated 1 month ago:
I saw a similar comment in the last week or so (might have been on TikTok?) but it was specifically Japanese court that they’d said they’d never lost in. I don’t know if it’s accurate though, took it at face value and didn’t really think much about it.
- Comment on Why is UI design backsliding? 1 month ago:
I assume the extra padding was a function of touch screens becoming more prevalent since trying to hit the 2003 style buttons with a finger was not that easy, although I don’t remember offhand when touch first started becoming a thing in Windows so it might have happened the other way around. But either way it’s likely still a factor in why the ribbon with its extra padding has stuck around.
- Comment on YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads 2 months ago:
They do, they’re probably just hoping the advertisers don’t and keep paying for more ad space.
- Comment on Has anyone else ever seen an SSH key/fingerprint thing string together an actual word? Or how about a curse word? XD 2 months ago:
We had a system at work that generated 4 character alphanumeric reference numbers. Originally to avoid this they just excluded vowels from the letters but eventually they grew enough they ran out of available reference numbers so they added the vowels back in and I had to built the blacklist to avoid stuff like this happening. I reckon I probably tripped every IT filter known to man in a week long period looking for swear words in a variety of languages 😂
- Comment on Has anyone else ever seen an SSH key/fingerprint thing string together an actual word? Or how about a curse word? XD 2 months ago:
The part where people share asterisks when they talk about their passwords? Just seems like good security honestly 😂 Glad Lemmy is keeping up with this pinnacle of security best practices.
- Comment on Generative AI creates playable version of Doom game with no code 2 months ago:
I’m more taking issue with this quote from the article:
“Researchers behind the project say similar AI models could be used to create games from scratch in the future, just as they create text and images today.”
This doesn’t strike me as something that can create a game from scratch, it’s something that can take an existing game and replicate it without having access to the underlying source code, and use an immense amount of processing power to do it.
Since it seems they’re using generative AI based technology underneath it, they’re effectively building a Doom model. You might be able to spin a Doom clone off from that but I don’t see it as something you could practically throw another game type at.
That being said as I said in a different reply, I was viewing it through the lens of something more product based rather than that of a research project. As a field of research, it’s an interesting topic. But I’m not sure how you connect it to “create games from scratch” if you don’t already have an existing game available to train the model on.
- Comment on Generative AI creates playable version of Doom game with no code 2 months ago:
That’s a fair point actually, I’m looking at it through a product lens, not a research one.
- Comment on Generative AI creates playable version of Doom game with no code 2 months ago:
This sounds like the basis for a new Warioware game.
- Comment on Generative AI creates playable version of Doom game with no code 2 months ago:
Regardless of the technology, isn’t this essentially creating a facsimile of a game that already exists? So the tech isn’t really about creating a new game, it’s about replicating something that already exists in a fairly inefficient manner. That doesn’t really help you to create something new, like I’m not going to be able to come up with an idea for a new game, throw it at this AI, and get something playable out of it.
That and the fact it “can be played for up to 20 seconds” before “the model begins to run out of memory” seems like, I don’t know, a fairly major roadblock?
- Comment on PS5 Pro Leak Reveals Alleged Name and Design of the Console, so judging by this ps6 will release on 2028 2 months ago:
I wish you the best of luck on that grind, but I just can’t do it 😅 I’ve got one job from each role at 100 for role quests and that’s enough for me at the moment.
- Comment on PS5 Pro Leak Reveals Alleged Name and Design of the Console, so judging by this ps6 will release on 2028 2 months ago:
Fair enough. And both games are still gorgeous even in performance mode. Rebirth’s biggest problem is the same problem Hollywood currently insists on, media that’s being broken up into multiple parts 😂 I want the end of the story dammit!
- Comment on PS5 Pro Leak Reveals Alleged Name and Design of the Console, so judging by this ps6 will release on 2028 2 months ago:
I think the point here was if you’re going to give the console a boost you shouldn’t have to choose between better graphics and better performance anymore to make it worthwhile (that’s how I read it anyway).
Both 16 and Rebirth do have a performance mode you can use but if you want the prettier graphics you’re stuck at 30fps.
- Comment on Logitech’s Subscription Mouse Idea Pulled Back After Backlash 3 months ago:
But wait, most people are going to plug these bricks into their phones or tablets, yeah? Those have data connections we could surely piggy back off so rather than a one time or irregular phone home we could have real time data on where the cables are and how they’re being used. And we can release an app they run on their device to capture that information that shows a nice pretty dashboard of when they charge their devices, how much power they use, etc.
We then use that as the justification to move the entire product range to a monthly subscription instead of a yearly one. We can even remove the sharing restrictions to begin with, and then add them back later with a family tier, and eventually prevent cables from being away from the registered home base for a predetermined length of time.
We could then add an upgrade tier for those that do need to use their cables in other locations.
…Is this the kind of logic that goes through their heads?
- Comment on Logitech’s Subscription Mouse Idea Pulled Back After Backlash 3 months ago:
See the problem here is the price. At $30/yr that’s worth considering. The problem is they’d charge $30/mth.
- Comment on Saturn Emulation Now Available on iPhone and iPad | Retro Gaming News 24/7 3 months ago:
The article says a free version isn’t available, that isn’t accurate:
apps.apple.com/au/app/…/id6630365688
You’re limited to 3 games and it has ads, but it does exist. Probably good enough to test if it works for your favourite games.
- Comment on Apple Intelligence won't launch in EU in 2024 due to antitrust regulation, company says 4 months ago:
Oh, I missed them having to backpedal on that! That’s good news.
- Comment on Samsung mocks Apple’s crushing iPad Pro ad with its own ‘UnCrush’ pitch 5 months ago:
Apple’s issue was they timed it around a shift to USB-C chargers. Their argument was everyone already had plenty of chargers, but no one had the new ones (well, some people did obviously but they hadn’t gotten it with a previous iPhone). That’s why they cop so much flak over it.
I agree that conceptually it’s a good change, they just picked a bastard of a time to do it (one could argue that was deliberate of course).
- Comment on Trump pledges to scrap offshore wind projects on ‘day one’ of presidency 6 months ago:
Will admit that Greedly was the first person to come to mind originally, but reading the wiki Looten just seemed to fit better. Although really he’s got traits of both when it comes down to it.
- Comment on Trump pledges to scrap offshore wind projects on ‘day one’ of presidency 6 months ago:
Does this mean Trump is Looten Plunder in this scenario?
- Comment on Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking, and color-coding of employees 6 months ago:
And even if they do they have dedicated offices with doors.
- Comment on xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas 6 months ago:
So soup sounds like an idea and is actually an idea. Checks out.
- Comment on Elizabeth Warren slammed for wanting to ‘break up Apple’s smartphone monopoly’ 6 months ago:
Article text if you can’t be bothered getting around the subscription popup.
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U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she’s not a fan of “green texts on iPhones” and that it’s “time to break up Apple’s smartphone monopoly,” but statistics show the tech giant doesn’t have exclusive control over the market.
The Department of Justice announced a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Apple in March, accusing the California-based company of engineering an illegal monopoly in smartphones that boxes out competitors, stifles innovation and keeps prices artificially high.
Warren took to social media this week, displaying her support for the suit that takes aim at how Apple allegedly molds its technology and business relationships to “extract more money from consumers, developers, content creators, artists, publishers, small businesses, and merchants, among others.”
Warren specifically called out how people who don’t have iPhones are blocked from sending blue iMessages as messages from Androids and other devices are green. Those without iPhones also face other restrictions, the Massachusetts senator added.
“Green texts on iPhones, they’re ruining relationships. That’s right,” Warren said in a video posted on X Thursday. “Non-iPhone users everywhere are being excluded from group texts. From sports teams chats to birthday chats to vacation plan chats, they’re getting cut out.”
“And who’s to blame here? Apple,” she continued . “That’s just one of the dirty tactics that Apple uses to keep a stranglehold on the smartphone market. … It’s time to break up Apple’s monopoly now.”
Critics quickly called Warren out for spreading misinformation and for focusing on what they believe is a non-issue.
“It would be nice if Android users could use iMessage features,” an X user responded, “but why would anyone think this sort of micromanaging of businesses is the legitimate role of the government?”
An alert attached to Warren’s post shows context that readers added and “thought people might want to know.” It includes data from Statista highlighting how the iPhone had a 57% market share compared to Android’s 42% in North America, as of January.
The alert, which was removed as of Friday evening, also contained information from Investopedia around how a “monopoly is exclusive control, or no close substitutes. The current market share of iPhone v Android does not meet that definition.”
Attorneys general from 16 states filed the lawsuit with the Department of Justice in federal court in New Jersey. Massachusetts AG Andrea Campbell did not sign onto the suit which seeks to stop Apple from undermining technologies that compete with its own apps — in areas including streaming, messaging and digital payments.
The suit is the latest example of aggressive antitrust enforcement by an administration that has also taken on Google, Amazon and other tech giants with the stated aim of making the digital universe more fair, innovative and competitive.
“If left unchallenged, Apple will only continue to strengthen its smartphone monopoly,” Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said in a statement last month. “The Justice Department will vigorously enforce antitrust laws that protect consumers from higher prices and fewer choices.”
Apple has called the suit “wrong on the facts and the law” and said it “will vigorously defend against it.”
If successful, the lawsuit would “hinder our ability to create the kind of technology people expect from Apple — where hardware, software, and services intersect” and would “set a dangerous precedent, empowering the government to take a heavy hand in designing people’s technology,” the company said in a statement last month.
- Comment on Apple Removes WhatsApp, Threads, Telegram, and Signal from China App Store, says it complied with orders from the Chinese government 6 months ago:
Unless the app is delisted which can also happen. Flappy Bird was one of the more well known examples of that (I remember people seeing phones on eBay with it still installed for stupid money). If that happens you can’t reinstall it.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 7 months ago:
I quoted this a week or two ago for something else on here, and someone responded along the lines of you know they’d be trying to up that %, and they were 100% right.
- Comment on Facebook ate and then ignored the news industry. It's hard, but we should leave it be 8 months ago:
In case you hadn’t seen the BLUF acronym before (I hadn’t, so was curious and looked it up), it stands for Bottom Line Up Front and it’s about putting the most important information at the beginning of something.
- Comment on HP CEO pay for 2023 = 270,315 printer cartridges 8 months ago:
Everyone, we’ve been going about this all wrong! We’ve been saying we need to lower CEO pay, when the answer was here all along, we need to make printer cartridges cheaper and fix the problem that way!
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
This trips you up so many times if you visit the US from somewhere else. The number of times I’d see a snack listed for 99c, have a dollar bill on me and then they ask for like $1.12 is higher than I’d like to admit.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Wouldn’t it just mean the cheat tools also move into the kernel space and keep doing what they’re already doing? Whether people will trust that or not I have no idea but I’ll wager people willing to use cheats in an online PVP game probably won’t care that much.
- Comment on Will people show off their old computers and phones in say, 30 or 50 years in the future? 10 months ago:
There’s probably an element of survivorship bias there. If a car is still around from the 70s it’s probably because it’s been taken care off. Given some time you’ll probably say the same thing about cars from the 90s, the ones that are still around are well maintained or restored (cause the ones that aren’t have all been scrapped).