Auntievenim
@Auntievenim@lemmy.world
- Comment on Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta 2 hours ago:
You are complaining about me pointing out that there is zero DEMAND for this product. Nobody is asking for “Augmented reality” or whatever. It is not innovative or moving technology forward it’s literally an excuse to harvest a million more data points per minute for no benefit to the end user.
You seriously can’t comprehend how these companies use, manipulate, and coerce you to create a false demand for this slop? There is plenty of great literature on the subject, and if you’d like I can direct you to people with expertise to explain the concepts. Just stop mindlessly accepting and defending this behavior and stand up for yourself as a consumer.
- Comment on Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta 13 hours ago:
They already did this with Google glass and failed spectacularly. There is no market for this. Nobody is wishing they had computer glasses. It is something being forced onto consumers for the benefit of apple and it will not work.
You’d think with the massive failure of their apple vision they’d have learned this lesson already.
- Comment on Big brands are officially worried about American shoppers 3 days ago:
Where are these rising incomes they cite as a reason for continued relatively high consumer spending
- Comment on Venezuela accuses El Salvador president of 'human trafficking 4 days ago:
Thank you someone for finally saying it holy shit
- Comment on Trump’s Social Media Surveillance: Social Scoring by Another Name 1 week ago:
Right what are we talking about
- Comment on Microsoft faces growing unrest over role in Israel’s war on Gaza: ‘Close to a tipping point’ 1 week ago:
Its the technology sub, and there’s AI being deployed to infiltrate all the institutions that contain everyone’s most sensitive data. The company responsible is a tech company. That’s why it’s in the technology sub. I agree that it’s annoying to have this news blasted at me every day but I can’t just make it go away until everyone is just as sick of it and stands up to stop it.
If this were the cat memes community and someone posted this article I might forgive your attitude but, like, nobody asked? There’s three dots on the post with which you can block the community if you don’t want to be aware of technofeudalism usurping more and more of your personal life.
Scroll your subscribed feed and you won’t have this problem. I just don’t think that’s a effective way to deal with the actual problem of it being important and thus pervasive.
- Comment on The therapy I can afford 1 week ago:
I don’t need to check your post history to make assumptions lmao
- Comment on The therapy I can afford 1 week ago:
Im like 99% sure that’s a Russian bot
- Comment on Microsoft faces growing unrest over role in Israel’s war on Gaza: ‘Close to a tipping point’ 1 week ago:
Sucks, grow up.
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 1 week ago:
You would think, but this guy didn’t lmao
- Comment on Age verification for adult sites comes into force in France 1 week ago:
France becoming the Alabama of Europe if it wasn’t already lmao
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 1 week ago:
The important bit in the article was that he had bought it used. I’m sure its not a standard feature for brand new Tesla, but I would absolutely believe that some kind of fuckery to keep pre-owned buyers from taking advantage of the warranty is SOP. It’s counting double the miles, there’s no possible way for that to happen on accident unless the odometer is completely independent of the cars systems.
I’m pretty sure old odometers literally spun according to the wheels turning as you drove. If Tesla is “calculating” mileage then they would absolutely be able to just inject commands to ignore the correct algorithm and make it hit 50k as fast as possible. I’m sure most of the people they did this to weren’t keen eyed enough to notice.
Certainly not all Tesla, just the ones they think they can get away with. 38k miles is not very far from 50k, they assumed he would be a rube and just suck it up when they told him his warranty was invalid.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remaster is real - Eurogamer 1 week ago:
Avowed was a recent unreal open world game that didn’t have many issues but I still had at least one point in my playthrough where every object was ghost trailing and map textures were stretched across the sky. Thats from obsidian busting their asses and it was great outside of the one major glitch.
With oblivion being what it is in its original form and then being handed to some outside studio to port to unreal it just sounds like a nightmare scenario. Maybe they’re unreal specialists idk but they can’t be better than Bethesda themselves. I’ll be holding my breath until we get confirmation but I’ll have to see what people think once it’s out before I’m gonna risk spending money on this. OG oblivion is free on gamepass and I can stream it to my phone lol
If it does end up being great, fantastic! Im just not trusting Todd Howard to do the right thing anymore lmao
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remaster is real - Eurogamer 1 week ago:
Huh, I never knew satisfactory was in unreal. On that point, if they offloaded development to a 3rd party studio does that impact your expectations? Idk who it is but I saw a bunch of people saying it wasn’t Bethesda remaking it
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remaster is real - Eurogamer 1 week ago:
😮
I remember that one from the PSP but I never played it. I didn’t know it was on DS and mobile too! That’s actually pretty sick. It looks much more like the original GTA games, which is not what I expected. I bet that was neat for the time with gta 4 having just dropped!
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remaster is real - Eurogamer 1 week ago:
Wait, seriously? That is terrifying lmao
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
It is the world we should live in though. And it’s the one we should be advocating for instead of justifying the current system that privatizes profits of lifesaving medications and vaccines over making them widely available at the lowest possible cost to society and consumers.
We can get to the point you’re talking to in your last paragraph, we just have to stop letting the people who benefit from the current system demand the conversation be centered around the impact it has on them. You and I sure as fuck don’t benefit from patents. We would benefit from open source medicine. I don’t really care if nobody is able to maintain a billion dollar company based off withholding and silo-ing information.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Cool great job
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Im saying that the companies who currently own the IP didn’t in fact pay for the development. They paid for the exclusive rights. Universities discovered and developed the new drugs, and then, since universities don’t run large pharmaceutical factories, they sell that developed drug to a company to manufacture it at scale in exchange for the sole rights to be the manufacturer. The system as it stands is not like taxes, because taxes are FOR something. If we stopped giving patents to Pfizer we wouldn’t stop having medicine or even stop having new medical breakthroughs, we would simply no longer have to pay $600 for a Tylenol in the hospital.
I’m glad you added that you aren’t advocating for this, but this system isn’t ingrained into society. It was created, and shaped this way by the companies which own the ip and benefit from nobody being able to manufacture their own cheaper versions. The result of dismantling the medical ip system would not result in zero medicine being manufactured it would result in hundreds of thousands of individual small pharmacies producing their own drugs for nearly no cost. The IP rights exist to protect entrenched capital at the very top of the market. This does not protect anyone but the rights holders and hurts everyone else by further increasing the barriers to access for the majority of the planet.
A billion dollar company has convinced you that if they don’t hold exclusive rights to manufacture lifesaving medications they did not develop then all of medical research would cease. That is hilariously false.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remaster is real - Eurogamer 1 week ago:
They had gta on the DS??
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remaster is real - Eurogamer 1 week ago:
Im not denying the bugginess of oblivion I’m more concerned about the general unplayability of a lot of Unreal games in this latest gen
Like if the bugs were bad when they wrote the code I can’t imagine porting that code into unreal with its famously poor optimizations is anything but the worst case scenario for this remaster lmao
My hope was that they were porting it to creation 2 with upscaled assets and taking some time to squash the most egregious bugs. Hearing it’s going to be a ue5 port now I’m almost not even willing to give it a chance. We shall see. For all we know, this could just be industry drivel getting us excited about a fake leak.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remaster is real - Eurogamer 2 weeks ago:
Theres no way I’m reading this in real life
We’re saying the oblivion port to UE5 is going to be less buggy? That makes you hopeful?? What is this place??? Did the gta trilogy not make it to lemmy?
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
First of all, governments already do fund all the research.
Even in your hypothetical, thats just one government. It doesn’t stop medical advancement entirely just because one dictatorship stops funding research. It moves elsewhere. When nazi germany declared that nobody would receive funding for anything outside of Aryan research ^tm the scientists just left to a country that wasn’t barbarically stupid.
Also, everything in your final paragraph is stuff that is happening now, in america, under the capitalist organization of the economy which gives all the rights to a private company after publicly funding the research and development of their drugs. It makes no difference, save the fact that now the authoritarian government in power has consolidated billions of dollars for rich capitalists who will gladly accept the orders to no longer produce those medicines while remaining disgustingly wealthy.
Even if you believe in the delusional idea that private companies are funding the development of novel treatments entirely on their own the fact remains that drugs are currently, as we speak, not for all people. I am pointing out the solution to that problem, and the response was to point out how, if we did what I said, then what’s already happening now would be the consequence.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
I wrote a long winded reply but honestly I’ll just say that your second paragraph is entirely based on fiction and your final paragraph is precisely what for profit medicine is designed to do. Profit is a purely ideological drive, medicine and healthcare do not need profits to exist. The post office does not need to make money. It exists because we HAVE to have it.
You can go see for yourself. Moderna did not single handedly make the covid vaccine. They do not and should not have the right to deny anyone the right to produce it as cheaply as necessary to provide it to their populations. I can go deeper if you want but if this doesn’t show you that we are saying the same thing I’m going to have doubts about this being in good faith.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
We already fund the research of new drugs almost entirely through publicly funded projects which then HAND OVER the patent rights to whichever company has the most former board members in the executive branch at the time.
I watched it happen in real time during covid while working for the DPH. Those companies produce NOTHING. They are the literal obstacle to creating new medicines and making them widely available.
I’m against the context of the main post but putting on a cape for medical patents is wild. The entirety of healthcare in america is inexcusable. Let’s stay focused on the AI tech oligarchs robbing us of our futures and attempting to frame it as a concern with intellectual property.
- Comment on Revealed: The shocking far-right agenda behind the surveillance tech used by ICE and the FBI. 3 weeks ago:
Its super fucked because they’re even using it as a way to point out the real world difference it makes by saying that the Biden admin at least had oversight and inspectors general to prosecute misconduct but OOPS now they’re all fired and nobody is going to stop it. Now the surveillance state is completely unmoored.
How could this happen?? I thought this wasn’t the character of American democracy? I thought people were good and honest and followed the rules, so this must just be a misunderstanding?? Surely theres no way an entire administration comprised exclusively of foreign agents and bad actors would be able to abuse those systems because there were never any real rules just a general respect for the country and it’s people?? We wouldn’t blindly rely on the good faith of our representatives to maintain our constitution almost exclusively, RIGHT??
- Comment on Revealed: The shocking far-right agenda behind the surveillance tech used by ICE and the FBI. 3 weeks ago:
Wow, this was the centerpiece of all my studies on the alt right over the last decade and I never even knew. Mother Jones; never change.
- Comment on The Signal and the noise: Why the messaging app is great for privacy but not for war plans. 3 weeks ago:
The jerk has reached critical mass
- Comment on What actually came first? The chicken or the egg? 3 weeks ago:
I always struggled with the question until I thought about the question itself. Once I realized I was being asked: what came first? The answer became clear
The question is an illusion, there is no chicken
- Comment on What actually came first? The chicken or the egg? 3 weeks ago:
Dinosaurs laid eggs, and chickens did not come before dinosaurs. Eggs came first.
Its that simple