TroublesomeTalker

@TroublesomeTalker@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They did this with “plays for sure” DRM protected music files too, way, way back. Never bought content of any kind from them after that and then killing Windows LIVE.

  Just assume everything from them has a “destroy after” date set in the near future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTuber Faces Possible Jail Time for Reviewing Gaming Handhelds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When the scores are settled sure, doesn’t mean there’s not mechanisms in any particular country that make this harder. Work two Jobs in the UK without carefully sorting PAYE and one of those will be collected at 40% emergency rates. You get it back eventually, but if you are paying transport, meals and other expenses to attend the second job I can see how it could get close to nothing. You get most of it back later, but that doesn’t help marginalized people trying to earn extra right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home cooking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you read the news lately? We’re just training for the next few years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ALVR isn’t awful. I needed new hardware and bit the bullet knowing I was likely going to lose VR, but with the hardware upgrade, it’s nicer in the new machine (Bazzite, 7900XT) than the old (Win 10, 2080 Super Max Q). Definitely not a drop in replacement yet though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a “how the mighty have fallen” kind of thing. They are well into the click-bait farm mentality now - have been for a while.

  It’s present on the news sites, but far worse on things where they know they steer opinion and discourse. They used to ensure political parties has coverage inline with their support, but for like 10 years prior to Brexit, they gave Farage and his Jackasses hugely disproportionate coverage - like 20X more than their base. This was at a time when SNP were doing very well and were frequently seen less than 2006 to 2009.

  Current reporting is heavily spun and they definitely aren’t the worst in the world, but the are also definitely not the bastion of unbiased news I grew up with.

  Until relatively recently you could see the deterioration by flipping to the world service, but that’s fallen into line now.

  If you have the time to follow independent journalists the problem becomes clearer, if not, look at output from parody news sites - it’s telling that Private Eye and Newsthump manage the criticism that the BBC can’t seem to get too

  Go look at the bylinetimes.com front page, grab a random stort and compare coverage with the BBC. One of these is crowd funded reporters and the other a national news site with great funding and legal obligations to report in the public interest.

  I don’t hate them, they just need to be better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But the BBC is increasingly unable to accurately report the news, so this finding is no real surprise.