Marcbmann
@Marcbmann@lemmy.world
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 1 month ago:
Hackers like to glitch other users. Randomly turn into a toilet, have all of your ammunition disappear, suddenly fly into the air and die on impact. It made public servers unplayable. Friends only sessions were necessary
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 2 months ago:
This is interesting. It seems a fair resolution would be to pay the content owner what they would have made in ad revenue.
As long as the AI is not reproducing original works to the extent that it violates fair use, I don’t think copyright laws really apply. But there’s definitely lost revenue.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 2 months ago:
While I am generally in the “copyright doesn’t matter when it comes to AI” camp, I also work in advertising. Most people do not use ad blockers.
This is an interesting point that I haven’t previously considered.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 6 months ago:
The cost is too high? Seriously?
You’re not paying anything for the service. You have no concept of what their costs are. You’re mildly inconvenienced by some annoying and slightly obtrusive ads.
It’s a business, not a charity. And they owe you nothing.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 6 months ago:
Sponsored search placements haven’t really changed. Most ads are run through AdWords which are found across the web and on mobile apps. Even this post is about ads run within videos. Thus unrelated to search.
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 6 months ago:
And touch screens were in devices other than smart phones before smart phones came along.
So again, father of the touchscreen, sure. But he did not make smartphones happen. He has nothing to do with 99% of the technology in smartphones.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 6 months ago:
Yeah, completely agree. But this is also Lemmy. The majority of users are either a communist or almost a communist. They want everything to be free or paid for by someone else.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 6 months ago:
Who do you expect to pay for it?
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 6 months ago:
Always was. How tf do you think they make money
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 6 months ago:
So many people in this comment section are pissed that YouTube isn’t both free and ad-free. It’s mind blowing.
Yes, YouTube is a business and exists to generate revenue.
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 6 months ago:
How about father of the touch screen? There’s a fuck ton of technology in smartphones.
- Comment on United Scams of Assholes 7 months ago:
My security deposit was returned to me with interest added.
I was told not to paint anything because they do that whenever someone leaves as standard practice.
Sometimes apartments aren’t bad.
- Comment on VR Headsets Are Approaching the Eye’s Resolution Limits 8 months ago:
It’s definitely written by someone who’s never used a VR headset. It only takes a second to realize that these screens are nowhere near the resolution of your eye. Ya know, cause small text that would be easily read on my phone is blurry as fuck on a VR headset
- Comment on OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model 8 months ago:
Wow didn’t see that the first time
- Comment on Amazon accused again of overcharging shoppers with Buy Box 9 months ago:
I am very well aware of the automated pricing tools in Amazon. The accounts under my management will do over $3.5 million in sales this month. I will also manage almost $1 million in ad spend. I may be the only person in this comment section with a qualified opinion.
These tools cannot adjust price based on customer data. They can adjust pricing based on competitor prices, and based on how many units you are currently selling. That is all.
- Comment on Rumored 'Big-Block' Duramax Diesel Could Be 8.3L and We’re Off the Rails Now 9 months ago:
An engine increasing in size by 1 liter does not make the vehicle itself larger. These vehicles exist, that is not changing. Manufacturers are working to make these engines more efficient.
- Comment on Amazon accused again of overcharging shoppers with Buy Box 9 months ago:
The ability to win the buy box is exceptionally predictable.
It is based on a combination of factors. The price point, fulfillment method, shipping cost, and feedback provided by customers about each individual seller.
If I am the brand owner, using Fulfillment by Amazon, have the lowest price, and good seller feedback, I will win.
If you come on the listing a lower price, no shipping cost, and equivalent feedback, but you are shipping the item yourself and have a slightly lower feedback rating, you will not win the buy box.
The system is not rigged against the customer. Amazon is attempting to improve the customer experience, with price just being part of it
- Comment on Amazon accused again of overcharging shoppers with Buy Box 9 months ago:
Prices do not vary based on estimated income. Pricing control is not that granular.
- Comment on Amazon accused again of overcharging shoppers with Buy Box 9 months ago:
There is a new promotion type used by sellers that allow us to target people who have abandoned cart. We can offer exclusive discounts to those people.
- Comment on Amazon accused again of overcharging shoppers with Buy Box 9 months ago:
Majority of products are not sold by Amazon. Some sellers use price automation software, some use built-in functionality provided by Amazon. Amazons built in functionality allows sellers to set competitive prices relative to other sellers on Amazon.
It has nothing to do with page views, clicks, or cart adds. Sellers cannot see cart adds in real time.
- Comment on Rumored 'Big-Block' Duramax Diesel Could Be 8.3L and We’re Off the Rails Now 9 months ago:
If you read the article, you would see that larger diesel engines have lower emissions due to reduced compression ratios.
- Comment on Americans are asleep, post European windows 9 months ago:
I have a middle income home with these windows. I prefer regular windows that go up and down.
- Comment on Americans are asleep, post European windows 9 months ago:
You can have screens. I don’t understand why everyone thinks these windows don’t have screens
- Comment on Americans are asleep, post European windows 9 months ago:
American with these windows. I have screens. I also don’t like them very much.
- Comment on Americans are asleep, post European windows 9 months ago:
I’m in the US and have these windows. They have screens. They’re also not that special. I prefer the regular windows
- Comment on Math question: how do we get an irrational number pi from the ratio of circumference and the diameter of a circle? 9 months ago:
This is a great life lesson. Even though it’s irrational, you can still do it!
- Comment on SpaceX targeting February for Starship's 3rd flight test 10 months ago:
It looks like you’re just so engrained with hate for Musk that you’re literally denying reality.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free 10 months ago:
Nah, most of it is coming from Alibaba, but at a markup.
- Comment on SpaceX blasts FCC as it refuses to reinstate Starlink’s $886 million grant 11 months ago:
SpaceX has paid for starlink through selling flights on their rockets, not through “subsidies like this”
You seem confused if you’re flip flopping between starlink being paid for by consumers and subsidies.
- Comment on SpaceX blasts FCC as it refuses to reinstate Starlink’s $886 million grant 11 months ago:
After 5 years.
SpaceX sells services. Just because they’re selling services to the government doesn’t make it a subsidy.