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- Comment on GPD WIN 4 handheld plans to support Valve's SteamOS in 2025 1 month ago:
GPD has been in the handheld PC game for quite some time. But, unlike Valve who can sell their deck with little revenue thanks to their storefront, they actually need to make a profit on the individual units.
- Comment on Two decades after Enron’s bankruptcy, the company is back as a crypto firm? 1 month ago:
Every other few days there’s “news” of another meme coin rug pull
- Comment on Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer 1 month ago:
AI hallucinates and generates jibberish when you’re asking it to generate text about edge cases and knowledge bases which aren’t commonly talked about.
I’ve had AI give me examples which were could’ve been right but were wrong in the given context. I don’t find it too difficult to believe it could use details from one file format to supplant knowledge for another.
Go ask chat.openai.com
ChatGPT may not be the ai used to generate these articles.
The website that she refers to in her video, and the massively wrong verbiage in the paragraphs proceeding, is definitely not “AI Slop”
That’s may be true for some, but the hourlong podcast ‘discussion’ on the file format was definitely AI generated.
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 1 month ago:
According to the company, CMG Local Solutions’ access to advertising data based on voice and other data is collected by third-party platforms and devices “under the terms and conditions provided by those apps and accepted by their users.”
In the since-deleted blog post, CMG Local Solutions discusses whether Active Listening is legal. “We know what you’re thinking. Is this even legal? The short answer is: yes. It is legal for phones and devices to listen to you. When a new app download or update prompts consumers with a multi-page terms of use agreement somewhere in the fine print, Active Listening is often included,” the company said in the post.
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 1 month ago:
Except it is also listening. This was a minor scandal back in September. I believe Cox media has since been dropped by Facebook and Google and such, but it happened.
What’s Happening: In a pitch deck that has surfaced since the initial story broke out, Cox Media Group (CMG), a digital marketing outfit based out of Atlanta, Georgia, was spotted touting “the power of voice” in a pitch. In it, they outlined how they can use AI to collect and analyze voice data from users through more than 470 sources.
- Comment on Wubuntu: The lovechild of Windows and Linux nobody asked for 2 months ago:
I wouldn’t call “what servers/clients?” a particularly broad question. Unless you’re serving the likes of Microsoft or Google, that can be very specific.
And, generally, no need to share unwanted personal details online. - Comment on Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again' 2 months ago:
He also had that one Elden Ring “build” where he was carrying like three shields
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 3 months ago:
At least
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 months ago:
Here you were saying the average user isn’t going to use Wake on LAN, but you expect them to disable USB devices waking their computer?
I have my USB’s disabled as well, but I was talking averages here.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 months ago:
Why need Wake on LAN when basically any USB input device can take your computer out of sleep?
- Comment on Cities: Skylines latest DLC came out this week, 18 months after its "final" DLC came out last year 3 months ago:
This is for the original release, not the sequel.
- Comment on What Ever Happened to Netscape? 3 months ago:
That’s a bit reductive
- Comment on Annoyed Redditors tanking Google Search results illustrates perils of AI scrapers | "Spreading misinformation suddenly becomes a noble goal," Redditor says. 3 months ago:
They do want people in their game, they just don’t want them to have any influence.
- Comment on WebStorm and Rider Are Now Free for Non-Commercial Use 3 months ago:
Compared to something like VSC, yeah JetBrains IDE’s take a while to boot up. But if the alternative is Visual Studio, they’re amazingly smooth.
- Comment on New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer 3 months ago:
Does it also have coloured usernames?
Back when I was still on Reddit I used Joey which, if a user commented more than once in a thread, their username would get the colour of the first “level” on subsequent replies. Any other username, including first comment, would be white/black (depending on night mode).
- (red) | User1 > Comment
- (orange) | User2 > reply
- (yellow) | User3 > Another reply
- (green) | (orange) User2 > another reply
- (yellow) | User3 > Another reply
- (orange) | User2 > reply
I’ve missed that feature on all alternative Reddit, and now Lemmy, clients I’ve tried.
- (red) | User1 > Comment
- Comment on New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer 3 months ago:
I assume the numbers never made business sense for them to continue development.
I guess so.
I was sorta waiting for Sync to become more fully featured before committing to an ad-free purchase, but I guess I should start looking for other clients again. - Comment on New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer 3 months ago:
Sync still uses Reddit’s markdown rules, Lemmy is a little different.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim 4 months ago:
Sorry, I phrased that poorly. It is the default alternative, most users don’t bother to look for anything else.
And Chrome also does pop-ups not unlike it when you visit Google websites on a non-Google browser.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim 4 months ago:
If users had a pop-up which allowed them to select more than just Edge or Chrome, other browsers may see an increase in users. Chrome is as much a default as Edge is in that way.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim 4 months ago:
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- Comment on Apple Removes ‘Parasitic’ Streaming App 'Musi' Following Persistent Complaints. 4 months ago:
When will ChatGPT and its ilk be banned
- Comment on Remedy Entertainment Has Received A Loan From Tencent 4 months ago:
Epic paid for (part of) Alan Wake 2’s development. Without them we may not have had the game in the first place, and certainly not in the state it released in.
- Comment on Mozilla launches privacy friendly AI addon called "Orbit" 4 months ago:
The general tone in this thread seems so very different from when “Mozilla is working on AI” was first announced
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 5 months ago:
Not the point I was making.
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 5 months ago:
This is " People getting upset when an idiot tries to blame end users, instead of holding the people who created the problem accountable"
Did Linus blame anyone though?
No. He simply stated a fact. - Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 5 months ago:
But that doesn’t mean it isn’t piracy?
Downloading old Nintendo ROMs because the company refuses to redistribute them is also piracy, even though I would say it’s morally justified.
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 5 months ago:
Its protection.
From your point of view, yeah. Not from the point of view of the creator and the platform.
Linus isn’t clutching his pearls nor is he crying, he’s just pointing out you are circumventing the method of payment to the platform. It is detrimental to both the platform and the creator. That is a fact. Your choice has an impact and you should be aware of that.
But at no point did he say “you’re a bad person if you use adblock”.What has got you so worried?
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 5 months ago:
I really don’t get the hate he got for that take.
Circumventing the method of payment could be argued as being a form of piracy. From that point of view, adblock is piracy.
Like them or not, YouTube is not a charity and requires the serving of ads to continue funding the service. You could argue about how they go about it, but it’s a fact they need some sort of income to continue to exist.
Same goes for YouTubers. They get a percentage of that ad revenue. And they also need some form of income.But just because he said so doesn’t mean he doesn’t understand why adblock is used. He didn’t say “don’t use adblock.” He’s shown how to use adblock before and since. He’s also mentioned that buying something from their webshop gives them a lot more money than turning off adblock.
Saying “watching movies for free is pirating” isn’t the same as saying “you shouldn’t pirate movies”.
Using adblock isn’t engaging with YouTube on YouTube’s terms. - Comment on Nissan develops paint that keeps cars cool in summer heat 5 months ago:
This might match your criteria:
An image of a car painted in army camouflage(Jokes aside, I do agree with your sentiment)
- Comment on 16GB of RAM Could Be the New Minimum in Apple's Upcoming M4 Macs 5 months ago:
Does it?
Previous benchmarks have shown the 8 GB models seriously fell behind in performance.
