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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yahoo wants to buy Chrome⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess I better go dust off my Yahoo and AOL emails, Assuming this happens we’ll probably need to change to one of their logins.

  Yes I know, use Firefox, but on my cheapo Chromebook I use at night for streaming that isn’t an option

  Also, I can’t imagine Verizon and Apollo are going to have a heart and fix Chrome, more like they want that sweet sweet data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Walmart is considering buying TikTok, sources say⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They didn’t buy Vizio because they like TV’s, they did it because they like data harvesting. They are an advertising tech bro giant, just more quiet about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. Workers Are More Worried Than Hopeful About Future AI Use in the Workplace.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry slazer2au but our employment AI noticed you slacking off today, we’re going to need to terminate your employment at this time.

  For real, at least in a lot of the southern US, companies look out for anyone that discusses unionization and will find a reason to fire them. At-will employment is a curse. My favorite busting technique is the tried and true “Who needs a union? We’re a family here.” Followed by a pizza party instead of a real bonus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coming from someone who loves the game: it feels like BGS is quietly deciding to end it's post-launch support in favor on focusing on TES6. - REPOST⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This game had a lot of promise, but the hype could never be lived up to and on top of that they chose to use it as an experiment with the procgen stuff.

  I think they have some good bones to work with going forward, seeing as it was Fallout 4 in Space, but they need a team to flesh out and then write a mountain of lore to go with it in the future. Elder Scrolls and Fallout tend to have excellent game lore that comes with their IP, something Bethesda at least in part inherited from the original creators of those games. Not realizing a lot of that is what makes their games special really hurt Starfield.

  Other things that I didn’t like was they were too busy saying can we do this, instead of should, when it comes to the procgen systems. It was too ambitious for their first time out especially when their other games have well fleshed out worlds, yes I know Skyrim caves were similarish, but they weren’t the exact same thing every single time. Then to top it off, barely anything came from the Unity, they basically wanted you to play this game 10 times in a row to get all the achievements, which I did, but it ruined my want to play it again for a long time. Then you have the space aspect, sounded super cool, then it wasn’t, go to location, load screen, enter ship, load screen, go to space, load screen, map, find world you want, load screen, maybe have a battle, open map, choose planet, choose landing location, load screen… it was very repetitive and not always in a fun way.

  In future games I think it would be way better if they focused on a core group of systems, IMO 5-6 would be best, if they want to actually keep most planets empty, which they claim was on purpose, then pump it up to about 10. Set a cool story in that area, then in Starfield 3, do another 5-6 new ones but only keep 2-3 from the game before. IMO, that would give them more longevity in the series and allow them time to build that lore and flesh out some stories. Think Elder Scrolls and how most games focus on a different region of the Tamriel.

  Obviously this is just like my opinion, but man Starfield has a good idea with an overly ambitious and ultimately poor execution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kroger’s Surveillance Pricing Harms Consumers and Raises Prices, With or Without Facial Recognition.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve read some comments on other articles about this saying that by using cash and avoiding the loyalty card they won’t have the data that shows how often you buy certain products and if you buy them at regular price or only during sales. I don’t know if that’s true, but it does seem somewhat logical to me that the AI is going to use your past purchases against you, they already use that same idea to send me paper coupons once a month based on stuff I usually buy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain Orders Apple to Build a Backdoor Into Your iPhone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as I know Apple didn’t give in, Trump and the FBI wanted it during his first term but I don’t think it happened. At least I hope it didn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain Orders Apple to Build a Backdoor Into Your iPhone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Global access is wild, basically it means if the UK could force this that any five eyes country would then have the same access without needing to look bad to their citizens.

  Also, how hard do we expect Apple to fight this? I have a hard time believing they would just pull out of the UK but I could be wrong. From what I understand China has this type of access because they don’t allow E2EE.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's slow Chrome Extension reforms anger developers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m shocked I say, shocked… well not that shocked.

  I think the most interesting part of that whole thing was the people at AdGuard and Privacy Badger apparently believing the advertising company wasn’t going to hurt them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

  Don’t apologize, this shit is rage inducing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mexico asks Google to reject U.S. renaming of the Gulf of Mexico.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not official until the Government enters it into the Geographic Names Information System. Once that happens Google will begin changing their maps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump signs exec order delaying TikTok enforcement action for 75 days⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s interesting that under the law ordering the shutdown or sale he could have given them 90 days and chose to only do 75.

  Must be some kind of power move or they already have a deal and it’s all theater like that 12 hour “shutdown.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate to defend Zuckerberg but if true he turned down investing and claimed short form wasn’t going anywhere it’s because he had some proof of that. Vine wasn’t doing well and eventually shut down, as did WWE backed short form video app Tout. At the time it looked like it wasn’t worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex redesigns its app to look more like a streaming service⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve put a lot of effort into making plex posters that match/have a uniform look for 90% of my library, from what I’ve seen this will make all that useless as they switch to what appears to be fanart only. I don’t necessarily care for that change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is shutting down Freevee⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Once they added advertisements to Prime Video, they no longer had a need to have FreeVee. I assumed this would have happened sooner, but I’m not shocked. Hopefully this frees up space on all those Fire devices that were forced to have the app without the ability to remove it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Open Source Project DeFlock Is Mapping License Plate Surveillance Cameras All Over the World⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not only do you have to watch cities for these things, you need to read the privacy policy on some websites to see what their physical locations are doing. Lowe’s and Home Depot both have Facial Recognition and ALPR policies.

  I can’t even come home at night without being hit by a Flock Camera, we have one outlet and they put it right when you turn into the neighborhood, for “safety” of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Pentagon wants AI to enhance the capabilities of US nuclear weapons systems⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are they going to name it WOPR or Joshua? Maybe some teen will feed it crazy info and it’ll start trying to find the launch codes on its own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive generational gap: Gen Z flocks to multiplayer, while 55+ sticks to single-player⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not that old, but time is flying at me, and in my experience it’s that older people don’t have the same time options and skill level to “git gud” at newer games and that just makes online games less fun for some of us. So single player games we can take our time on and finish without somebody in the headset barking at us. I really prefer things like Fortnite STW these days, I can log in and choose to pair up with others or go it alone and I have the option to choose my difficulty level with the different biomes.

  It’s ok, one day Gen Beta will be the same way with the Z’s, it’s the circle of life.

  I still play online some, but I’ve come to the conclusion I’m not great at it and never will be and I’m ok with that.