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- Comment on Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results 1 day ago:
Restaurants offering a substitution because they don’t have something isn’t really comparable.
This is more like being offered something other than what you ordered off the menu every single time even though they have what you ordered.
- Comment on This is mostly serious but it ends with a shitpost so maybe it belongs here 1 day ago:
High effort Rick roll.
- Comment on Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results 1 day ago:
Currently, there is a single ad spot at the top of search results in the App Store. For example, if you search for “Facebook,” you might see an ad at the top of the results for TikTok. This is because TikTok is targeting specific search terms and has won the auction for that placement.
A second app ‘winning search results’ in an app store is the stupidest fucking thing I have ever heard. Like ordering something in a restaurant and always being offered something else instead.
“How is the onion soup?”
“Would you like tomato soup?”
Every single time.
- Comment on Trump-appointed board renames Kennedy Center to 'Trump Kennedy Center' 2 days ago:
Epstein Kennedy Center you say?
- Comment on Reporter suggests Half-Life 3 will be a Steam Machine launch title 2 days ago:
So like the previous sequels Lost Coast, Episode 2, Episode 3, & Alyx
- Comment on Larian want to release Divinity in "three to four years", and they're making limited use of generative AI 3 days ago:
Sure, and construction workers hit nails with hammers before they had nail guns.
Sometimes tools make doing the same things faster. Using AI to recolor a complex image based on a starting image instead of doing it by hand is just doing the same thing faster, like a lot of other tech that is used intentionally and not just vomiting something based on a few keywords.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 3 days ago:
I wouldn’t have been surprised if it was only 10% due to the massive backlog available.
- Comment on Larian want to release Divinity in "three to four years", and they're making limited use of generative AI 4 days ago:
Are they being replaced or are the same staff using a new tool to do their work faster?
The increase in staff for writing and scripting suggests using a tool instead of being replaced. Like how a nail gun can be used for the same nunber of employees to do more work faster or to reduce employee headcount depending on the circumstances.
- Comment on Larian want to release Divinity in "three to four years", and they're making limited use of generative AI 4 days ago:
I’m torn on this one because they are using it as a tool similar to digital artwork in place of hand drawn animation, not as a replacement for people.
In less positive news, Larian are reportedly making limited internal use of generative AI for tasks such as concept art development and internal presentations.
In fact, they are hiring more people.
For this, they’re enlisting a lot more writers and scripters - Larian currently employ 530 people across seven locations, including their recently founded Warsaw studio.
The less salubrious side of all this is that Larian have apparently been “pushing hard on generative AI”, in Schreier’s phrase, using generative AI tools “to explore ideas, flesh out PowerPoint presentations, develop concept art and write placeholder text”.
This is the one approach that I think AI is fine for, quick mock ups to explore an idea and then going back and doing it from scratch for real. Well, if they are using local models which the article doesn’t mention as if they are using one of the major slop promoters that would undermine the otherwise responsible approach.
- Comment on Fair's fair. 4 days ago:
Corn farmers should be tested every 90 days if they want a government handout.
- Comment on 102% 4 days ago:
Most presidents had double digit people on the fence because a lot of people were only indirectly impacted compared to prior presidents, as in no worse off or better than before.
Only 4% being undecided is mind boggling!
- Comment on US | FDA OKs libido-boosting pill for older women who have gone through menopause 5 days ago:
Name checks out.
- Comment on Why does everyone put celery in soup stock? 5 days ago:
Sensitivity varies, and I find celery to be a nice and subtle flavor like onions and carrots on soup. Love celery with peanut butter on it, although for the crunch as the peanut butter totally overpowers it.
Some people are more sensitive to different flavors.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Atlantis!
- Comment on hl shirt 1 week ago:
As similar as n and h
- Comment on Still relevant, hasnt changed much after 2 years 1 week ago:
“Separate conversations are splintering discourse, we should all just shout over each other in one massive wall of text!”
The separate communities across instances is a benefit of federation just like separate posts are a benefit over a single thread for everythjngs. Yes, features that allow them to be combined for those that want that way of interacting is great, but we don’t need a single news community between all instances when there are can be massive differences between instances.
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 1 week ago:
“Thousands of people said touching a hot stove hurts. He touched the stove to try it himself, and I respect him for burning himself instead of using shared human knowlesge.”
- Comment on Let the awkward silence begin... 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 2 weeks ago:
Not where I live. I am clean, the towel is clean, and it has a lot of open space to air dry between showers. Wash every 3 or 4 showers just in case the house is more humid than I think to avoid the possibility of mildew if the towel gets bunched up.
When I travel sometimes it is every time if the location is really humid since air drying there doesn’t work very well and they frequently have hooks that don’t let the towel spread out.
- Comment on The amount of ghost towns in the US and elsewhere will skyrocket in our lifetimes and become a normalized thing 2 weeks ago:
A lot of the small towns in Nebraska and Kansas will be ghost towns when the few boomers that still live there pass away as all of the younger generations have already moved away.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 2 weeks ago:
Third down and 3 meters to go!
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 2 weeks ago:
Major League Football (MLF)
- Comment on My Religion 2 weeks ago:
You can have that worldview without religion.
- Comment on My Religion 2 weeks ago:
Everyone else caring about their religion is how they are able to impose their religion on others.
- Comment on What's the best way to answer someone who accuses you of being a bot because they don't like what you have to say? 2 weeks ago:
please click on all squares with a post-it note
- Comment on What's the best way to answer someone who accuses you of being a bot because they don't like what you have to say? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, being overly polite and accommodating is default bot behavior.
“I’m not a fucking bot asshole” is something that a bot would be very unlikely to say and a lot more concise.
- Comment on Creating bots that show russian-like speech that are anti-US would be a good use of AI 2 weeks ago:
“We want to make Russian propaganda palatable through AI”
-dbzer0.com
- Comment on Helldivers 2 install size reduction effort yields 131GB in cuts, and you can try the slim build right now 2 weeks ago:
Good, the install size was ridiculous and this will also increase the likelihood of other games who took a similar bloat approach for HDDs might double check their assumptions and possibly pare down their duplication as well.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 2 weeks ago:
Never in PVP or competitive type games.
I’ve used ‘cheat codes’ and mods on single player or teamwork vs environment games for decades after playing a game long enough to want a different experience. Depends on what kind of fun I’m looking for.
- Comment on is the peak life in 2026 is marrying a AI Girlfriend and having a AI friends? why no one wants to be social? 2 weeks ago:
Complaining about chit chats!