vane
@vane@lemmy.world
- Comment on Are you even old enough to remember number 1? 12 hours ago:Image 
 Author started in 90s and missed entire generation of 80s suitcase phones
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 12 hours ago:They also lowered their share in OpenAI from 32.5% to 27% 
 …microsoft.com/…/the-next-chapter-of-the-microsof…
- Comment on OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly 21 hours ago:Charles Manson would be happy seeing OpenAI cult evolve. 
- Comment on monumentale 21 hours ago:get date switch case 
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 3 days ago:But they are they are much better for energy companies 
- Comment on Albania what are you doing? I thought you just made peace with Aberbaijan???  3 days ago:www.youtube.com/shorts/73Ii25cUyJc - he literally said that, I need to lay down 
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 3 days ago:Schools removing books as teenagers cannot read them. 
- Comment on Ex-PlayStation boss says the games industry is "littered" with Fortnite clones and "people trying to do Overwatch with different skins," but keep dreaming if you're just trying to get "big sacks of money" 4 days ago:Gamers Literally Only Want One Thing And It’s Fucking Disgusting. Pew Pew Pew. 
- Comment on Krafton is now an 'AI-first company,' will spend $70 million on a GPU cluster to 'serve as the foundation for accelerating the implementation of agentic AI' 6 days ago:$70 million on gpu cluster + $21 million yearly on employee AI tools and training. That’s like 21 $1 million indie games they could found blindly per year with zero expectations, but no push the money to the slop and get nothing in return. Fuck them. 
- Comment on If I shut off the internet how many days do you think it would take before people lose their minds? 1 week ago:There is great sci-fi book about shutting down all electronic and how society collapses from perspective of the prepper guy. 
 Not sure if it’s in English because it’s Swedish author.
 Stjärnklart
 Author: Lars Wilderäng
 www.goodreads.com/book/show/22937310-stj-rnklart
- Comment on $96.5 million for Nadella | Microsoft's CEO receives record pay in a year that saw 15,000+ layoffs 1 week ago:they’re not killing them, they’re monopolizing what they have by adding mandatory cloud like apple and google so you have no way to switch, sure they will lose customers but those who will stay won’t leave anymore because there won’t be way back 
- Comment on $96.5 million for Nadella | Microsoft's CEO receives record pay in a year that saw 15,000+ layoffs 1 week ago:Microsoft Corporation’s Revenue by Segment Products & Services (Percent Share) 2023 2024 2025 Server Products And Tools 37.74% 39.87% 34.94% Microsoft Three Six Five Commercial Products And Cloud Services - - 31.15% Gaming 7.3% 8.77% 8.33% Linked In Corporation 7.15% 6.68% 6.32% Devices 2.61% 1.92% 6.15% Search And News Advertising5.76% 5.13% 4.93% Dynamics Products And Cloud Services 2.57% 2.64% 2.78% Enterprise Services 3.64% 3.1% 2.75% Microsoft Three Six Five Consumer Products and Cloud Services - - 2.63% Other Products And Services 0.1% 0.02% 0.03% Microsoft Office System 22.99% 22.39% - Windows 10.15% 9.48% - Total Revenue 100% 100% 100% I doubt they care about consumers, it makes them pennies compared to servers and cloud. 
 source: bullfincher.io/companies/…/revenue-by-segment
- Comment on $96.5 million for Nadella | Microsoft's CEO receives record pay in a year that saw 15,000+ layoffs 1 week ago:In 2015, for example, he took home about $18 million, a small sum compared to 2025’s $96.5 million. the company pushed its overall 2025 revenue to $281.7 billion Microsoft has around 230 000 employees. That means that 1 Microsoft employee in 2025 earned for company roughly $1 280 454 That how monopoly looks like. 
- Comment on Data Centers Turn to Aviation Engines for Power Solutions 1 week ago:What are chances they fly away and leave us alone ? 
- Comment on Inside Amazon’s Plans to Replace Workers With Robots 1 week ago:Good people create bad times. 
- Comment on OpenAI will allow mature content, including erotica, to verified adult users as of December 1 week ago:They will go for everything that will increase their user base, that’s just my feeling. This shit is addictive like drugs or gambling. 
- Comment on Most of us are the bottom row to the billionaire's pyramid scheme. 1 week ago:I know that if consumers stop buying during Black Friday and Christmas all economy will collapse because it’s around 40-50% of companies income. 
 There is some data here
 www.pwc.com/us/en/…/holiday-outlook-trends.html
 deloitte.com/…/holiday-retail-sales-consumer-surv…
- Comment on Ex PlayStation exec says Sony can't keep "increasing the graphics power" with new consoles after tech plateau, but PS5 has already "made almost every game a better game" 1 week ago:bonk 
- Comment on OpenAI will allow mature content, including erotica, to verified adult users as of December 1 week ago:Next one will be clone your partner / relative. 
- Comment on Fucking math... 1 week ago:4*75/1003.5% of 7535*75/1000
- Comment on The Origin Of Mario’s Trademark Death Animation 1 week ago:There is video with every Mario death www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GVCumK4qf0 I didn’t know his death pose is trademarked. What does it even mean ? I can’t make character in game die like Mario ? 
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 1 week ago:“I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that” 
- Comment on AI might be creating a ‘permanent underclass’ but it’s the makers of the tech bubble who are replaceable | Van Badham 1 week ago:Well as long as people will be using tech monopolies products, alternatives will be underfunded and there will be AI development. No movement or article can stop it. 
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 2 weeks ago:Donald Duck Gold Meme.jpeg Electric companies after Microsoft announced AI PC. 
- Comment on Steam Next Fest is back for October 2025. What good demos have you found? 2 weeks ago:For those who don’t know you can see the games people are playing during that event in steamdb I played so far. 
 Heroes of Might and Magic Olden Era - nice demo but the graphics map interest points blends with background and it looks like it’s unbalanced.
 Alchemy Factory - automation game / shop simulator - also nice demo but the controls are a little clunky and hard to get used to.
- Comment on Selfhost an LLM 2 weeks ago:You can host ollama and open-webui on container. If you want to wire search you can connect open-webui to playwright (also container) and searxng (also container) and llm will search the web for answers 
- Comment on New California law requires AI to tell you it’s AI 2 weeks ago:What if it’s foreign AI ? 
- Comment on Steve Jobs unveiled the NeXT Computer on this day in 1988 — 'The Cube' would be used to develop the WWW, Doom, and Quake 2 weeks ago:We haven’t moved much since then. People still scroll internet and mostly play FPS games. 
- Comment on A.I. Video Generators Are Now So Good You Can No Longer Trust Your Eyes 2 weeks ago:Commercial web over the years is slowly transforming from education and news into video entertainment platform, this is just next step. I hope AI slop will accelerate transition towards decentralized federated trust ring networks. I also hope it will destroy or at least largely damage current internet / cloud monopolies - google / meta / amazon / microsoft. Maybe public knowledge will be harmed but people will always find the way to pass information without slop. 
- Comment on ‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder 2 weeks ago:I bought a coffin, lay down in it and outsourced my entire life. Never felt more comfortable in my life.