Venator
@Venator@lemmy.nz
- Comment on Panasonic, the former plasma king, will no longer make its own TVs 9 hours ago:
Can’t compete with lower wages, it’s similar to when Sony and Panasonic etc. took over from GE etc.
- Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 2 days ago:
in the classroom specifically though? did they control for screen time outside of the classroom in the study?
- Comment on Why fake AI videos of UK urban decline are taking over social media 2 days ago:
Misunderstood ia when you thought you understood something but accidentally did not. Disunderstood is when you understood something but pretend that you didn’t.
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 3 days ago:
I was averaging roman, British and Mongolian empires, based on Google AI summary, so take that with a pinch of salt 😅 🧂
- Comment on Google says its AI systems helped deter Play Store malware in 2025 | TechCrunch 3 days ago:
Next minit: play store is discontinued and they launch YouTube app store 😅
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 4 days ago:
About once every 350 years… With a sample size of 3… 😅
- Comment on Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State 6 days ago:
People are stuck in the role they were born to, but it seems like there are no artificial barriers to advancement
In the lower three classes, people are cloned in order to produce up to 96 identical “twins.” Identity is also achieved by teaching everyone to conform, so that someone who has or feels more than a minimum of individuality is made to feel different, odd, almost an outcast.
www.huxley.net/studyaid/bnwbarron.html
I’d argue that intentionally cloning people with limited abilities and then raising them to stay in thier lane is an artificial barrier…
- Comment on Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State 1 week ago:
It seems Brave new world is the global north/middle class, 1984 is the global south/working class… With class experience varying by county and over time with a tend towards 1984 experience as the majorities wealth gets extracted by the upper class.
- Comment on Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State 1 week ago:
I haven’t read it, what’s not dystopian about it?
The first thing Wikipedia says about it is “Brave New World is a dystopian novel” 😅
Maybe you not finding it especially dystopian says more about the state of the world right now than the book… 😅
- Comment on Darwin was a real one. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Darwin was a real one. 1 week ago:
It seems lemmy doesn’t like the direct letter url. But you can find it by searching: www.darwinproject.ac.uk/search?keyword=DCP-LETT-3…
- Comment on The EU Moves To Kill Infinite Scrolling 1 week ago:
Sometimes it can be handy to be able to load all the data into one page by middle clicking and moving the mouse to the bottom of the screen, waiting for a bit, then saving the html.
Used that and some regex to export my list of musicians I like from Spotify and import them into tidalrr.
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 1 week ago:
TIL about pixelfed, tried to sign up on pixelfed.social but I couldn’t understand what the captcha was asking me to do 😅
- Comment on YSK about this Italian tradition of putting corrupt politicians in a cage and dipping them in the water 1 week ago:
This must be why Italy is so well known for it’s low rates of corruption…
- Comment on Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability 1 week ago:
Feature creep.
- Comment on Remedy's new CEO is a former sports betting guy and EA executive who aims to 'scale Remedy in a way that builds lasting value' 1 week ago:
Konami’s pachinko(Japanese slot machines) and casino business used to be bigger than thier video games business, but thier Digital Entertainment (home videogames) division has been turned into more casino type things, completed around when Hideo left:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL-BmDNuS7w
And now thier “Digital Entertainment” division is way more profitable: pcgamer.com/konami-just-had-its-best-ever-year-th…
- Comment on Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers. 1 week ago:
It’s not worse for action games if you get good.
- Comment on Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers. 1 week ago:
You should try VR
- Comment on Taste the flavor 2 weeks ago:
Oh probably just desensitised gradually enough or early enough to not notice/remember it then 😅
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 2 weeks ago:
There’s been a lot of good games for free on epic, and epic still pays the dev/publisher for it, so it’s worth clicking the button even if you don’t download it and play it from thier client.
- Comment on The Linux kernel is just a program 2 weeks ago:
So which is the part where I add Hannah Montana?
You could possibly add her just after here 😂
- Comment on people with ADHD self-medicate with amphetamine, overly sensitive empaths self-medicate with alcohol, what does people with OCD self-medicate with? 2 weeks ago:
Light switches, door latches (j/k)
- Comment on Hiroshima scientists turn any smartphone into a radiation detector 2 weeks ago:
Could probably make it way cheaper than $70, and might be easier to source and distribute the EBT4 film in an emergency than geiger counters.
- Comment on ...is this retro? 3 weeks ago:
They’re on pc now…
- Comment on ...is this retro? 3 weeks ago:
Did x360 even have any exclusives? I think most games released for it came out on PC too, so you’ll have a way better experience playing them on a cheap 10yr old PC…
- Comment on ...is this retro? 3 weeks ago:
Yet most other open world games are still struggling to surpass its world design…
- Comment on Are there any women here who felt they didn't deserve to be called women? 3 weeks ago:
Doesn’t “cis” exclude that identity?
- Comment on Huang declares Israel Nvidia’s “second home” with record-breaking campus investment 3 weeks ago:
Also thier consumer sales is next to nothing compared to what they’re selling to data centers now…
- Comment on Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI | It now says AI headlines are a ‘feature,’ not an experiment. 3 weeks ago:
If they’re not willing to do something as simple as install an app to talk to you, then they were not likely very good friends to begin with (imo).
This argument is very susceptible to Uno reverso 😅
- Comment on Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI | It now says AI headlines are a ‘feature,’ not an experiment. 3 weeks ago:
I find the bigger issue is critical mass: “why would I use an app that nobody else uses?” (when they say “nobody else” in this context they actually mean “not literally everyone else” 😅🙄)