Modva
@Modva@lemmy.world
- Comment on Elon Musk Begs Advertisers to Return as Twitter's Revenue Plunges 1 week ago:
Can’t remember the last time I was on Twitter. Turns out I don’t need it. Turns out I’m just a little happier without it.
- Comment on V Rising 1.0 review: one of the slickest survival games gets even slicker 1 month ago:
Playing this now, it’s really good. I last played just after EA launch, a lot has been added and refined.
- Comment on US labor official calls on companies to exit China's Xinjiang over forced labor concerns 1 month ago:
Shareholders don’t care about anything other than a rising share price, and one of the ways to get that is through cheap labor.
Responsible operation? Don’t make me laugh.
And just to be clear: They’re not responsible for those crimes themselves, no sir. No way.
- Comment on Larian have two new games in the works, "fueled by the very same fire" as Baldur's Gate 3 2 months ago:
I will buy anything they make next.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’m holding something the size of a mobile phone with no screen or buttons. Specs are that it supports up to 400mb/s NNB, or Native Neural Bandwidth.
Fortunately it’s the newer wireless model so I don’t have to worry about cable management in my hair.
- Comment on What web services do you subscribe to? 2 months ago:
1Pass NordVpn ChatGPT YouTube Premium
- Comment on Ex-Activision CEO Bobby Kotick looks to buy TikTok amid shutdown fears - Dexerto 3 months ago:
This guy is an incredibly dangerous parasite with apex predator instincts. Fucking up games is one thing, but stepping closer to the social fabric is a next level concern.
- Comment on ChatGPT's Growth Is Flatlining: Where Does It Go From Here? 4 months ago:
Yup. Shareholders are the problem, who bought shares at price X and want to sell those shares at X+Y.
And they will do anything to get it.
- Comment on ChatGPT's Growth Is Flatlining: Where Does It Go From Here? 4 months ago:
Jesus Christ, can we leave things alone that aren’t infinitely growing
- Comment on I'm a US citizen, people in other countries, what do you think when you read stories like these about the US health care system? 4 months ago:
That story is horrific, I can’t imagine living like that.
When I have a medical emergency (or even if it’s just a possibility) then I go straight to the ER. I might have a small administration cost to pay, but it’s easy enough to manage that I don’t have to give it a second thought.
My job isn’t linked to my healthcare, that sounds like insane leverage.
- Comment on Air Canada must pay damages after chatbot lies to grieving passenger about discount | Airline tried arguing virtual assistant was solely responsible for its own actions 4 months ago:
Motherfuckers tried to get away from responsibility for their own systems?
Air Canada, disgusting.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
There are many to blame, but we have to start executing somewhere, might as well be here:
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3 boss says gamers don’t want mass subscriptions 5 months ago:
There are many different reasons than to pursue continually escalating profits.
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3 boss says gamers don’t want mass subscriptions 5 months ago:
Those top level folks are sometimes “incentived” by bottom line targets and other end targets. So sure, you do get greedy people inside private companies.
I don’t think shareholders driving for infinite profit is easily disregarded.
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3 boss says gamers don’t want mass subscriptions 5 months ago:
The thing is that this guy is not the head of a public company where shareholders demand massive and continually growing profits. So he acts in the interests of the consumer, the customer, the gamer. But if this was a public company, shareholders would buy shares and then demand he do something to grow that share price, so they can sell the shares later for profit.
When that happens we see that CEOs do everything they can to maximize profits, like promising release dates in earnings calls.
The difference between private and public companies is the single biggest threat to us all because as soon as the company acts in the exclusive interest of profit, everything else gets fucked. And most do.
That means employees, customers, everyone. Only the 1% benefit from the gutting of everyone else.
- Comment on Ubisoft Exec Says Gamers Need to Get 'Comfortable' Not Owning Their Games for Subscriptions to Take Off 5 months ago:
No.
- Comment on Adobe faces big fines from FTC over difficult subscription cancellation 6 months ago:
For this reason I have never and will never buy an Adobe product. I’m an anti Adobe activist in all decision making conversations around their product suite and services.
I’ll never change my mind.
- Comment on OpenAI employees really, really did not want to go work for Microsoft 6 months ago:
They already do, who do they think called the shots when Altman was tossed out? Santa Claus?
- Comment on Spotify axes 17% of workforce in third round of layoffs this year 6 months ago:
Merry Christmas to all those families!
Yes, we had record profits but our CEO has the job of raising the share price so that investors can buy and sell higher, so we have to find more profits somewhere.
You understand.
- Comment on Spotify to axe 1,500 workers to save costs 6 months ago:
Just as they announced their profitable quarter.
This isn’t to “Save costs”. It’s to further boost profits at any measure, which is what publically traded companies want. Happy investors.
- Comment on How Googlers cracked an SF rival's tech model with a single word | A research team from the tech giant got ChatGPT to spit out its private training data 6 months ago:
My fun guesswork here is that I don’t think the neural net weights change during querying, only during training. Otherwise the models could be permanently damaged by users.
- Comment on Elon Musk on X antisemitism controversy: “Don’t advertise. Go f*** yourself” 6 months ago:
It’s not companies pulling ads that kills the platform. That’s not a root cause. Ads pulling out is a consequence.
The root cause of this, is the platform owner choosing to publically engage with a heavily charged emotional minefield where everyone and their dog has chosen hills to die on.
If your goal is to try make Twitter a successful company, wading into that mess is simply not a high quality decision.
- Comment on Starfield's new PC patch delivers the game we should have had at launch - Eurogamer 7 months ago:
Think I’ll keep waiting a bit more. Give great mods time to get in.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
And no self awareness in sight.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg personally rejected Meta’s proposals to improve teen mental health, court documents allege 7 months ago:
I wonder if any of these billionaires secretly harbours the desire to subjugate humanity.
- Comment on There's A New Record For The Fastest Human-Made Object: 394,736 MPH! - The Autopian 8 months ago:
0.058%, but impressive nonetheless.