mostlikelyaperson

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am genuinely curious, this whole thing is most likely an effort to sell more TVs, but does that actually work? Is there a significant segment of customers which buys TVs based on whether or not it has a (link to a) chatbot in it? Or did some exec just decide “our products need to have AI now” with 0 research done.

  I would really like to see data on this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pebble maker announces Index 01, a smart-ish ring for under $100⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yet another product for the “yeah this would be interesting if smartphones didn’t exist” pile (and funnily enough this one even requires one to even do anything)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Revisits JPEG XL in Chromium After Earlier Removal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing, most software has supported webp for 15 years, the last few stragglers have caught up two years ago or so, people on the internet are just very incapable of letting go of an opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How One Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Up until very recently, the cult of rust was going - very - strong on lemmy. Things have somewhat normalized by now, but for a long time, any programming related topic was full off, often ill informed, takes why “rust should have been used for this” and similar things. The Rust community has generally been extremely toxic as well, not helping its reputation. Now that we are a few years in and various major Rust projects have had numerous embarrassing bugs reality has sunk in, but as these things go, the backlash will last longer on the internet than the hype ever has.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, no, no, feudalism. With the present techbro billionaires as the bew aristocracy. Money will be useless because the serfs can’t afford anything anyway and work will be optional yes, you always have the option to starve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do Not Put Your Site Behind Cloudflare if You Don't Need To - Rik's Weblog⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, and modern webservers are - very - good at handling a ton of requests, if your backend is solid, it takes quite a lot of traffic before it’ll buckle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a quite enjoyable game, though some elements grew old towards the end. The visual design and music is also amazing. Unfortunately they dropped the ball on the ending a little, and it is very likely that this is the result of a flubbed rewrite, as there are certain hints within the game that imply very strongly that at least at some point things were clearly meant to be more complicated. The version of the ending we got has a very clear message as to what the writers intended to be the right choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thiel killed the outlet that outed him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Given how much squenix struggles with changing its development practices, I would be very surprised if they actually got there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, I remember even back in the print era there was significant criticism about the relationships between games publishers and various magazines resulting in what was essentially advertising disguised as articles. Payment was either indirect (exclusive access to preview builds etc) or direct via in-magazine advertising. Can’t badmouth the big flagship game releases too much when EA just paid big bucks to advertise the very same title for the next view editions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI will allow mature content, including erotica, to verified adult users as of December⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So they are -that - desperate now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The AI stuff might genuinely factor into it, I largely don’t use it myself but from what I understand from some colleagues it’s churning out decent react and co, while other languages can have mixed results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 | Review Thread⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly my greatest fear for the game is that it’s just bland. I can live with a flawed game (the original VTMB certainly could be called a flawed game itself after all.), but I think blandness would be the real killer for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨15,000 Retro Gamers Voted And Chose The Best Retro Handheld Of All Time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah it couldn’t, the DS only supported its own and GBA cartridges.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, because review bombing doesn’t exist on steam. You have to own the game to review it. A customer leaving a negative review is not review bombing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow [1:49:08]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I presume it’s a mix of things, there are near daily changes making them worse for consumers in one way or another, which fuels the relevancy of Doctorows writing on the one hand and the desire of people to be agreed with of people on the other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Molyneaux is of course an extreme case, but I do find it remarkable how many of these “legends” of old utterly failed to replicate their success later down the line. Romero, Mitsoda, Roberts, so many more, all in the lamplight for their success in the 90s to very early 2000s, but utterly unable to live up to their reputation for near 3 decades after.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ghost in the Shell – 1997 Developer Interview - shmuplations.com⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have vague memories of playing the demo on a friend’s playstation, I think at the time I was kinda disappointed that you only got to play the fuchikoma.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah a lot of the comments I have seen are outright bizarre, EA won’t change in any noticeable form. It’s maximum profit extraction now and it will remain maximum profit extraction after.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, the baseband modem does what it’s firmware tells it to, and that’s entirely independent from the phone’s software. And open baseband modems to my knowledge don’t exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT joins human league, now solves CAPTCHAs for the right prompt: Could this bot-prevention technique now be obsolete?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean the data from those has been used for AI training for ages so it’s hardly surprising it got good at it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare DDoSed itself with React useEffect hook blunder⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Clownflare staying true to its name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s been recent pushes in that regard, investment in AI shit has been enormous but the financial payoff for anyone besides hardware manufacturers remains nonexistent. So investors and corporations have recently redoubled their efforts into trying to get everyone to use it in the hopes that this somehow will make them profitable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most likely, yes. Probably some sort of automation that ran wild.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia plans to boost presence in Israel with multibillion-dollar tech campus in north⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some deal with the israeli government if I had to guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The “unfair advantage” bit has been incredibly funny to me ever since I sat in a call to prepare a joint research proposal and the representative of a certain large euro automotive supplier told us that their company would only participate in any project if they got at least a certain amount of government funding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust | The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am guessing the ultra-Elon fanboys managed to convince themselves that it’s a 4D chess move or something. That dude had an insane cult following, there’s some where I am not sure there’s anything Musk could do short of murdering a loved one in front of them that’d make them change their mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nexus Mods to Enforce Digital ID Age Checks Under UK and EU Laws⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which would be particularly wild given that nexus mods is run by a British company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you, Thor!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude had entirely disappeared from my timelines before every youtuber and lemmy poster seemingly felt the need to tell me about how naughty he is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gartner Predicts Over 40% of Agentic AI Projects Will Be Canceled by End of 2027⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect they didn’t want to make it sound alarmist or something, but yes the real percentage is likely going to be higher, including a good chunk of “technically finished but remaining unused and forever idle on some box until it’s quietly shut down 5-10 years later @