torpak
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- Comment on Tesla will sue you for $50,000 if you try to resell your Cybertruck in the first year 11 months ago:
The best solution to this problem is not to buy one in the first place.
- Comment on Weird 🤔 11 months ago:
Is there anyone who likes landlords? Why would they?
- Comment on Unity CEO John Riccitiello is retiring, effective immediately 1 year ago:
You only get to become CEO when you have friends in high places. Why would anyone risk the backlash for hurting you when silently letting you go with a golden handshake doesn’t cost their own money or at least a neglegible part of it.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
I remember the 1984 incident. At the time I thought this is so ironic, it has to be satire. Now, just a few years later it doesn’t even register as odd anymore.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
If I recall correctly there was a time, where they did a deal with Disney a few years back. Disney wanted to bring one or more of their classic animations back to the cinema and Amazon disabled playback of those movie(s) for that time even for people who had “bought” them.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
When it comes to corporations, the problem is there are no good actors. They are required by law to do what ever maximizes shareholder value.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
I wouldn’t do that if I hadn’t warned everyone who would and wouldn’t listen about this since the start of the business model. I’m just frustrated, that nobody listens until it’s to late.
- Comment on Meta wants to charge EU users $14 a month if they don't agree to personalized ads on Facebook and Instagram 1 year ago:
Ad targeting should just be banned outright. It serves noone and creates huge pools of easy to abuse data.
- Comment on Meta wants to charge EU users $14 a month if they don't agree to personalized ads on Facebook and Instagram 1 year ago:
The funny part is that contextual ads are at least as effective as targeted ads. So not only is facebook violating your privacy. They are ripping of their customers at the same time.
- Comment on Meta wants to charge EU users $14 a month if they don't agree to personalized ads on Facebook and Instagram 1 year ago:
So you give them $14 and hope, they don’t sell your data? I never had a facebook/whatsapp account and never will and I know why.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
The only thing that surprises me is that anyone is surprised by this. If you buy a physical book from anywhere, you own it. If you “buy” the rigth to play a movie (or read a book) from amazon, you own nothing. Usually they don’t show that so clearly but that’s the reality.
- Comment on Unity May Never Win Back the Developers It Lost in Its Fee Debacle 1 year ago:
When you make your business dependent on a single supplier, that’s a massive risk. I don’t quite understand why many Managers don’t grasp that concept. There are two solutions: build your own infrastructure or use something that’s either publicly available (like open source software) or easily replaceable (like a library with a common interface that many others also implement in a way that would also solve your usecase).
If you don’t do that, one day in the future your supplier will increase the cost until it’s just below the cost of switching. If the cost of switching is more than you can afford at that point, you are screwed.
Cloud computing anyone?
- Comment on George R.R. Martin and other authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement 1 year ago:
he reality is if you give it a simple prompt, it generates the blandest, most uninspired, badly paced textural garbage imaginable
Which is not too far from the typical sequel quality coming out of hollywood at the moment ;-)
- Comment on George R.R. Martin and other authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement 1 year ago:
That is definitely not inevitable. It could very well be that we reach a point of diminishing returns soon. I’m not convinced, that the simplistic construction of current generation machine learning can go much further than it already has without significant changes in strategy.
- Comment on They’ve grown up online. So why are our kids not better at detecting misinformation? 1 year ago:
I’m sorry. Before that adapted educational system is ready, civilization will already be doomed by climate change. We have the next 15 to 20 years to act and we are already much to late to prevent some really bad stuff.
- Comment on They’ve grown up online. So why are our kids not better at detecting misinformation? 1 year ago:
To be fair: not pushing lies that are big enough to provoke a successful lawsuit any more is not the same as telling the truth.
- Comment on Linux file system developer: we're severely under-resourced 1 year ago:
- Comment on They’ve grown up online. So why are our kids not better at detecting misinformation? 1 year ago:
Misinformation predates the internet. I would bet it even predates written words. Humans are bad at detecting misinformation unless they are tought a scientific mindset and even that is not a 100% fix.