Brewchin
@Brewchin@lemmy.world
- Comment on OpenAI drops plans to release an adult chatbot 11 hours ago:
Isn’t all this “OpenAI drops…” stuff (goonbot, Sora/Disney, etc) all because of Altman’s recent statement that they’re going to switch to being a one trick pony shop? As in: one product, win or lose.
But if it’s lose, I guarantee they’ll Ministry of Truth that statement.
- Comment on [Episode] Wash It All Away • Kirei ni Shitemoraemasu ka. - Episode 12 discussion 11 hours ago:
I was thinking the same thing. 👍🏻
- Comment on [Episode] Wash It All Away • Kirei ni Shitemoraemasu ka. - Episode 12 discussion 3 days ago:
Agree! Though they’ve foreshadowed a
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possibly difficult background before her memory loss,
so I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Hope they handle it well, as it’s a feelgood, relaxing watch as it is.
- Comment on Watchtower replacement recommendations 4 days ago:
After too many wild rides with Watchtower auto-nuking services, thanks to breaking changes (migrations, DB updates, deployment changes, etc), I switched to What’s Up Docker and pin the version for all of my containers.
WUD lets me know when something has an update, so I periodically go through their release notes and do the update(s) manually. Usually as simple as read the notes, changes version in compose, down (or pull), then “up -d”. But this approach has saved my bacon multiple times.
I’ve seen there are other solutions - of varying degrees of promises vs delivery - but most of my stuff is long term and stable. My approach maintains all that.
- Comment on Tinder Plans to Let AI Scan Your Camera Roll 1 week ago:
Who’d have imagined that “jumping the enshittification” would be a thing.
- Comment on SK chairman warns global memory shortage may last through 2030 1 week ago:
DeBeers, diamonds and FOMO marketing… not a new strategy.
But also not necessarily artificial scarcity in this case. Hard to tell.
- Comment on Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers 1 week ago:
It’s telling of this era that it’s impossible to initially know if this is corporate greed or vibe goonery.
So… intentional or unintentional enshittification, I guess. 😬
- Comment on Meet the AI rapper funded by a far-right party— Advance UK has hired the mystery ‘collective’ behind Danny Bones, a white-nationalist musician and activist – who isn’t real 1 week ago:
From OP’s linked article:
[The same people use] a second AI persona, a young purple-haired woman called Amelia, who appears in various Danny Bones videos and standalone clips. The character was originally created by the political and media literacy organisation Shout Out UK for a Home Office-funded video game designed to steer teenagers away from extremism – but was then co-opted by the online far right and became a viral sensation.
So yes, I guess “she” is. (Assuming Amelia and Emilia are the same persona; I didn’t check).
- Comment on Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation 2 weeks ago:
This reminds me of workers being paid in vodka during the USSR era. 😬
I wonder if it’s a coincidence.
- Comment on EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN 2 weeks ago:
It probably does, and I doubt the difference is anything to do with you. (Beyond not sticking your head above the KPI parapet, etc).
The last place I was laid off from was notorious for a LIFO/stack policy whenever heads needed to roll. The one before that looked purely at the highest earners. And the one before that did whatever the nice vulture capitalists told them to do… or else.
None of them looked at how much you made (or retained) for the company, customer and colleague satisfaction, impact on teams or projects. Just “thought leaders” looking at spreadsheets while telling everyone that they know what they’re doing. And for the IC it’s indistinguishable from Russian roulette.
- Comment on [Discussion] Has anyone seen The 100 Girlfriends? 2 weeks ago:
I’m reading the manga and it’s a crazy, slapstick story. The
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break-in, guard dog and then Mission Impossible-style hallway traversal
scene that leads up to the one you mention was funny.
Am yet to check out the anime, but I hope it captures its odd combination of bonkers, sweet and earnest properly.
- Comment on EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN 2 weeks ago:
You make good points about them being contractors and the CV aspects. I’d not thought of that.
But it’s not just in gaming. It’s all of the tech space, or at least those run by American companies, and applies to full time staff. The last decade or so of my tech career is a mirror image of it.
Though it’s hard to tell if it’s layoff FOMO, AI changes, or AI being used as an excuse. Something’s changed in recent years.
- Comment on EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN 2 weeks ago:
Classic modern tech company formula. If any records or targets are broken, mass layoffs must happen.
I think MBA schools have forgotten the golden rule of economics: you get what you incentivise for. Guaranteed unemployment isn’t it.
- Comment on GoldenEye 007: The Accidental Masterpiece Trapped in Licensing Limbo 2 weeks ago:
This was a great read. Thanks for sharing. I bought my N64 specifically for this game at the time, and it didn’t disappoint. 😊
Sadly, not having touched Nintendo products since their ClockWatch LCD handhelds years earlier, I struggled to find any other games I really liked on the N64. 🤷♂️ There were a couple, but it was all just filler to me.
- Comment on Is fedinsfw.app inaccessible for anyone else? 3 weeks ago:
The pinned post explaining it can be found at !askfedinsfw@fedinsfw.app on most instances (eg. lemmy.world has it).
Either way, as an earlier commenter said: the post says it should be resolved next week.
- Comment on Instagram says it will alert parents if their teen repeatedly searches for terms related to self-harm or suicide in the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia 3 weeks ago:
Sure it does. It lets them smile and say, “We did tell you. But you chose to do nothing.” Probably even while you’re grieving at the recent of your child or loved one.
As always, when it comes to the intersection of techbros, threats of legislation and society, this is about making their problems and decisions your responsibility. Politicians fall for it every time, because they love “personal responsibility” rhetoric, and Number Must Go Up continues as before.
- Comment on AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations— Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95% of cases 4 weeks ago:
Yeesh. I miss Joshua from War Games and Asimov’s three laws of robotics. What utopian fiction…
- Comment on US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere 4 weeks ago:
If they’d decided to use
truth.govas the domain, that would have been the cherry on top. 😄A ludicrous “plan”.
- Comment on Sony plans to minimize effect of rising PlayStation 5 memory costs by boosting software and network service revenue, according to CFO 5 weeks ago:
…by monetising the user base…
I assume PlayStation users have higher prices for games and subscription services to look forward to. Probably even “ad-supported” tiers, if they don’t already have them.
- Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it 5 weeks ago:
Yup. That’s the main thing stopping me from yeeting Google from my phone (also Samsung): the tickbox sanctity of a non-rooted phone that financial (and some other) apps require. Very frustrating.
- Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it 5 weeks ago:
Don’t forget the phone. Almost everyone with a smartphone is either an Apple or Google user via it, and everyone seems to forget that.
- Comment on Notice: failed container health check for example.org 5 weeks ago:
I mean, this is exactly why example.com exists. But I bet ICANN didn’t expect this level of meta abstraction to the absurdity. 😅
- Comment on Russia is using DNS and DPI to block YouTube, Telegram and WhatsApp while pushing state-controlled MAX as alternative 5 weeks ago:
Improvement? Unsure. Likely? Yes.
- Comment on Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICE 1 month ago:
What does Zionism have to do with this topic?
- Comment on Is browser preference a personality flaw? AI job interview evaluation raises questions— AI said applicant's 'habitual' Chrome use could indicate a 'lack of adaptability' after screening interview 1 month ago:
Classic example of a buyer’s market.
Knew a guy who worked for Goldman Sachs in London pre-2008. One of their interview tests was to ask the candidate to stand on a chair with one leg in the air, and hold the pose. Will doing this absurdity get you the job? Choose wisely…
When you have people lining up down the street for one job, you can make people bark like a dog or cluck like a chicken, knowing they’ll never know if agreeing to debase themselves is a pass or fail.
The interviewer probably doesn’t even know until they spin the (mental) wheel. The humiliation/inconsequentiality is the point.
- Comment on Should I be using Debian? 1 month ago:
My recommendation is Debian for a server (real or virtual), or Proxmox. The former is perfectly reasonable and excellent experience; the latter is more flexible and more complex.
Debian is the parent distro of numerous Linux flavours (including *buntu, which aren’t suitable as a server OS, IMHO), so administration and services are all common (apt, etc). No need to learn dnf, pacman/yay, etc.
It’s still my preferred server OS, despite other options and being experienced.
Though I do also have a NUC running Proxmox (for VMs and LXCs), and both a NAS and RasPi running Docker. 🤷♂️ My Debian server is a VM inside one of them.
- Comment on New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer 1 month ago:
It’s a good post. I’m not in the US, so will take their word for it on the details.
Good intentions, it seems, but classic thin-end-of-the-wedge territory. IP holders must be rubbing their hands with glee.
As with the US DMCA, I can easily see this DRM expanding to include patterns and blueprints of patented items so “Blocked: This file’s characteristics seem to match a patent/IP owned by Ford” (or Apple, Hasbro, John Deere, etc) will almost certainly follow quickly.
And as with the UK Child Safety Act, even poorly written, unfit for purpose laws can expand rapidly. It went from “age verification on adult sites” to “…and all VPNs” in mere months, and is heading to “age verify everything!” if they get their way.
- Comment on Guitar technology 1 month ago:
I was imagining that setup with any stringed instrument that traditionally uses catgut or nylon. “Loaded gun” doesn’t begin to describe that. 😄
- Comment on How to revert Firefox’s latest changes to address bar suggestions 1 month ago:
Waterfox had a rocky start, with privacy settings being reset to defaults on each load. Once that was unbroken, I made it my permanent browser on PC and mobile. Zero regrets.
Mozilla is a shadow of its former self. I understand they desperately want that Google pay cheque, but “number must go up” mentality and MBA-infected CxOs can both get in the bin.
- Comment on Doing Gigabit Ethernet Over My British Phone Wires – The HFT Guy 1 month ago:
Unless it was laid in the 1950s, in which case it’s probably aluminium wire rather than copper.
There’s an area like that between the local exchange and my house, which meant internet speeds were like living in a time capsule before FTTC came along. Always 25% of what the rest of the town had.
But other than edge cases like mine, I agree. Copper lasts a long time with minimal things to go wrong. Modern solutions like FTTC require their own power, air conditioning, etc.
