atrielienz
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- Comment on Microsoft's Satya Nadella wants you to stop saying AI "slop" in 2026 1 day ago:
Generative AI LLM’S? No. GiGo Counters? Yes.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet 1 day ago:
They don’t do that. Just based entirely on their wealth of comment replies.
- Comment on Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet 1 day ago:
People who live in third world countries like the US who don’t have Internet at home/internet isn’t available to them because it’s not profitable for the company providing for that area.
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 4 days ago:
I think the reason it’s sold so many copies is because it’s been on perpetual sale everywhere. People were majorly against buying it and that dampened some people’s interest initially but when the game is $5, a lot of people will buy it just because it’s cheap.
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 4 days ago:
Animal Crossing was a birthday gift. And technically Stadia refunded my money for Cyberpunk.
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 4 days ago:
It’s crazy that I only own two of these games and they couldn’t be more different. Animal Crossing and Cyberpunk 2077.
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 1 week ago:
We have a wireless Android Auto dongle. And it takes an age to auto connect. Not to mention the problems with it still wanting us to pull over and put the car in park to switch, something I thought would be circumvented when I bought it but somehow is not. Usually it’s the person in the passenger seat trying to change something and not being able to. I’m not advocating for distracted driving. I’m pointing out that someone else in the vehicle who’s not driving can’t interact to change certain things even though it’s perfectly safe for them to do so.
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 1 week ago:
It’s a Honda. But that’s exactly the point I’m trying to make here. With both car play and Android Auto I have issues but they’re down to how the manufacturer chose to implement each. Car manufacturers deliberately hamstrung these features and still didn’t get what they wanted.
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 1 week ago:
I have equally bad experiences with both Android Auto and Apple Carplay. I don’t really want either and am fine with what I’ve got (only 1/3 of the cars I own even has Carplay/Android Auto). I mostly dislike how it’s been implemented with “safety controls” that require the phone to be plugged into the infotainment center in some cars and the requirement that I only connect it while at a stop with the car in park. If someone is driving with me and they want to change to their phone I have to pull over and that’s stupid.
The infotainment centers themselves with their stupid touch screens and lack of buttons are where my real problems start, and the end with the tracking BS and telemetry data. You can keep the new cars. I don’t want them.
- Comment on How AI broke the smart home in 2025 1 week ago:
I have a gripe with this article and it’s the way that their “expert” Riedl talks about AI and the anthropomorphic personification inherent in the language he uses.
AI doesn’t think. It can’t overthink. It doesn’t “misunderstand”. It doesn’t understand. It doesn’t do context. So while I understand that this person is trying to communicate the differences between these two types of technology, this gives an unreasonable overestimation of the techs capabilities, making some people believe the tech is more than it is.
Some people on another thread about the same article were upset that this writer bought a coffee machine with AI integration. But that’s to be expected of people who write about tech. They try that tech out. Experience it so they can write about it. See what it does. What it’s good at. What it’s bad at. This is how we get reviews.
- Comment on Amazon faces ‘leader’s dilemma’ — fight AI shopping bots or join them 1 week ago:
Is the AI gonna buy your products? Is it going to buy your web services? Is it going to keep you in business?
This seems like a no brainer to me, but I don’t have an MBA so what do I know. Common sense is thin on the ground I know, but there either needs to be an end game or a long game.
- Comment on Would blockchain work better for the Fediverse, instead of Email Style Instances? 1 week ago:
Can I ask what you’re planning to use block chain for? To verify each account? Or to federate instances?
- Comment on Anthropic’s Claude ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI agents. 2 weeks ago:
Lack of context for what was being discussed, mostly. No joke I read this without context and was very confused (and I had already read a similar article about this event).
- Comment on Anthropic’s Claude ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI agents. 2 weeks ago:
It did what now? What the hell is this title?
- Comment on North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location 2 weeks ago:
Probably because it gets you in trouble with the feds.
- Comment on North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location 2 weeks ago:
There was a scam going where they would offer for someone to apply for a role and use that good candidates clean information to get it v they would do the work and split the pay with the person who’s info they used.
In exchange that person would get “job experience”, the perks of WFH, and the ability to hold down more than one of these figurehead jobs simultaneously.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers 2 weeks ago:
A couple of weeks ago a WAYMO Taxi drove through an active crime scene.
A bit ago they had to patch their tacos firmware to prevent them running down children (something you’d think they already would be programmed to do).
Passengers have reported being held hostage by their taxi when it stopped suddenly and refused to move.
There’s a laundry list of things that have been wrong with them. Some have had reasonable fixes (and some of those fixes should have been implemented before they were allowed on the road).
- Comment on Loops publishes their recommender algorithm 2 weeks ago:
Well. This is good news.
- Comment on UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones 2 weeks ago:
No. You don’t get to decide what is put on my personal computing device just because you want to force the general public to bear the burden of protecting children rather than forcing parents to do their fucking jobs.
- Comment on The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Backlash Against Gemini, Sora, ChatGPT Is Spreading in 2025 - Newsweek 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. I often forget this one because AI isn’t replacing my job any time soon. At best maybe it could potentially be used to streamline some processes to do with tech data and work flow management (what tests and protocols get done when, and combining tests/troubleshooting steps to prevent rework). But that would have to be a very targeted and very very regulated and tested thing before it could be viable.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers 2 weeks ago:
I think this is a case of the lesser of two evils here. Not being Elon Musk is such a low bar to clear.
Their statements each time something bad happens with their products don’t bear out that things will change in a meaningful way any time soon. There are a lot of reasons I’d never ride in one of these but even putting that to the side, objectively they each seem to have significant problems with implementation that are receiving lip service instead of actual fixes.
- Comment on The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Backlash Against Gemini, Sora, ChatGPT Is Spreading in 2025 - Newsweek 2 weeks ago:
The crazy thing is, none of these articles seem to want to admit that AI is bad. They keep making articles like this. Keep saying that approval is falling among the general populace. But when touching on why that is, there’s always some wiggle words. Always some spin.
It’s never “people being forced to use it are seeing it as a detriment to them” people using it are seeing a decrease in efficacy of the results it gives for the amount of prompting required. Or people don’t like it because it’s going to have significant detrimental affects on the environment and their utilities.
All of those are solid reasons for the decline in both the use of AI LLM’S and the approval of them.
The cost of goods and services relating even tangentially to AI are going through the roof. The amount of slop is increasing at a furious pace, directly contributing to things like enshittification and dead Internet theory. The effect on the economy is looking to be extremely catastrophic.
But oh no. It’s lack of authenticity on social media spaces that people are worried about. Sure.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Are Crashing More Than 12 Times as Frequently as Human Drivers 2 weeks ago:
And yet WAYMO taxis have been driving through bus stops like it’s going out of style. They aren’t necessarily better.
- Comment on Would this be possible with the fediverse? 2 weeks ago:
You are assuming that A. Google isn’t scraping data for their own AI, B. that these companies will create their own instances (which opens them up to a certain amount of liability and requires them to retain moderation/admin and maintenance staff (which costs money)). C. That the enshittification of corporate owned versions of Lemmy and the fediverse won’t push people to Lemmy sooner or later.
A fourth assumption you made is that the Threads federation push was made in order to do anything other than create hype around a feature that might draw people away from places like the fediverse. I kind of assumed (maybe I’m wrong) that they were offering it as a way to have all the benefits of federation - namely the assumption of FOSS adjacent services, but with all the “benefits” of corporate social media.
The truth is that it’s likely that Meta absolutely has had a detrimental effect on the fediverse because it has things that pull users away from the fediverse. Instagram has content. For days. And because the fediverse is small (shrinking as you say), and because it doesn’t have an algorithm that pushes certain content to certain users, Meta and the other services that have analogs in the fediverse continue to be popular.
A lot of this is because the fediverse still hasn’t figured out a way to be profitable to content creators and we no longer live in the early 2000’s of YouTube etc where content creation for free was popular.
I’d argue that a lot of the appeal of the fediverse is organic conversation and communication. The popularity of that as a whole is declining because of algorithms that tickle just the right feel good chemicals in our brains.
As for your comment about these corps investing in the fediverse? The only reason for them to do that is if they can make money off it. The major money making scheme the internet is relying on is ad service. So there’s a catch 22 here. I would rather donate money to fedi services than have the fediverse infested with ads.
- Comment on Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didn’t Want Banned 2 weeks ago:
It is possible to be right for wrong reasons. Nothing prevents a general ban on gambling ads from moving forward since underage users might still see them.
I can agree with what you’re saying but also say that this is more a case of the road to hell being paved with good intentions.
They wanted to offload their responsibility as parents for enforcing parental controls for their children onto the internet at large, which puts the identities and PII of adults at risk in a way that is increasingly more dangerous. It also directly contributed to the erosion of our privacy.
They also claim to be a grass roots movement and wouldn’t claim to be affiliated with a corporation (especially not one involved in gambling). That is an important distinction and they should have their feet put to the fire for it because either they knew and didn’t care, or they didn’t know and were manipulated.
- Comment on Would this be possible with the fediverse? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t want that. Part of the fediverse’s appeal for me is that people aren’t constant trying to sell me things on it.
While I can understand certain communities having "suggest a (game, service, product), for the most part I really don’t want to basically invite corps to think this is free real estate. And that’s exactly what I think this would do.
It’s seems like it would invite corps to basically astroturf Lemmy and the fediverse the way they’re doing with bot armies over on reddit.
- Comment on Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didn’t Want Banned 2 weeks ago:
I’m shocked. Well not that shocked.
It’s always a good idea to follow the money. A few random bandwagon jumpers screaming about saving the children provided a front for a gambling company. Should we be asking them questions about their involvement in said company? I think we should.
- Comment on PS5 is outselling Switch 2 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I saw. There were a lot of complaints from consumers about the features that existed in the 3DS/other DS’s that didn’t exist in the switch including this one. And even then I think those people have to be your actual friends on the switch 2 rather than just random people.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I can definitely understand why not selling a game on the most popular marketplace would detrimentally affect a studios ability to make money.
But a lot of the reason games aren’t successful has as much to do with the quality of the game and the amount of money spent developing it as it does with marketing. And plenty of developers/small indie studios assume that they can ouvert stretch themselves monetarily and with other resources like time, and still come out on top because Indies are becoming more popular.
But what it often comes down to is if what you’re selling is worth it to the consumer and they know about it. On steam an indie game is just as likely to get caught up in the influx of games and lost in the noise as it is to get noticed.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Absolutely true.