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- Comment on Interesting Westworld style game with a Next Fest demo 2 days ago:
Doesn’t look like a game for me, but appreciate your quality post.
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 2 days ago:
Lol is this an actual ”feature”? Can’t tell anymore.
- Comment on Federal government says there may not be enough workstations for all workers' 4-day-a-week return 6 days ago:
A lot of people considered the vagueness — eg not having a WFH manual – of the setup a gift and didn’t want to stare a gift horse in the mouth. Irresponsible, IMO, but not my problem any more.
- Comment on Federal government says there may not be enough workstations for all workers' 4-day-a-week return 6 days ago:
This was a pet peave for me as a union rep during the pandemic. Our workplace introduced a WFH on a “voluntary” basis scheme over night with no commitments from the employer. Meanwhile the employer cancelled leases for office spaces. In effect, the employer saved a bunch of money on the backs (homes turned into free workspaces) of the employees while giving nothing in return. People working from home got no promise they’d get to keep doing it, people who had to come in to the office had to deal with a lack of space.
Not a single union colleague wanted to talk about this, never mind raise it with the employer. Reaping: sowing.
- Comment on Microsoft 365 Copilot Mobile: Auto Uploads to OneDrive Raise Privacy Risks 6 days ago:
Things people miss:
- IT not yelling at you for going rogue and UNINSTALLING EVERYTHING
- Being able to access company resources
- Having a job
If their Windows machine is company issued, that is.
- Comment on 'It's Possible to jailbreak F-35 like iPhone', Says Dutch State Secretary of Defense Tuinman 1 week ago:
Sounds more like an admission that there is something that needs jailbreaking in the first place
- Comment on Sony-led program offers PS5 rentals starting at $13.50 a month in the UK across 12, 24, or 36-month leases — console has to be returned at the end of the contract 2 weeks ago:
People are buying takeout on credit. Pushing small recurring fees (and interest) for things consumers can’t afford to buy outright has sort of been the name of the game for the consumer economy for the last 20 years or so.
Maybe more interesting that there is enough of an overstock to do this.
- Comment on Are TikTok and X tracking you across the internet? Our privacy tool can tell you 2 weeks ago:
These link only clickbait posts irk me a little. First of all, I’m not going to take the bait. Second, I’m not going to use your ”privacy tool” without understanding it’s upside and having a tentative grasp of what it does and what data it uses. Third, I’m not convinced there are any best practice, privacywise, for using blatantly statesponsored Chinese spyware or that there’s any helping you if you’re still on X.
- Comment on Pumping the bubble now, pay later 2 weeks ago:
Reading this comment is a great litmus test. If you think that sounds dumb and nothing at all like a brilliant master plan, you are not part of the world’s financial elite.
- Comment on Geoguessr, but actually fun 2 weeks ago:
Thanks, just had my ass handed to me by you :D
It’s fun, maybe make sure to feature articles related to the Wiki resources used so that my random guesses can result in some learning?
Some pictures are very hard (obviously), maybe find a way to have different “levels”?
To me, it would also be fun with more trivia oriented photos (landmarks, famous things in museums) but that would of course move away from the geography theme a bit.
- Comment on outlawing pedestrians 2 weeks ago:
This comment is truly mindblowing to me!
I do welcome you sharing your perspective, but I also feel like we must be of different species, because I so profoundly cannot relate at all. Fascinating!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
This is some true believer shit.
Google launched less than thirty years ago.
At the current rate of deterioration, it’s not exactly certain to what extent the planet will be able to sustain human life, much less whether a much loathed spyware company will still be around to pay the bills.
- Comment on Bethesda x Nintendo Switch™ 2 — Oblivion, Fallout 4, and Indiana Jones Coming to Switch 2 2 weeks ago:
I think its usually in some Microsoft subscriptions if you’re on PC/Xbox, could give you a decent chance to give it a go. If it turns out to be a forever game for you, that might end up more expensive in the end – but maybe that’s fine in that case
- Comment on Bethesda x Nintendo Switch™ 2 — Oblivion, Fallout 4, and Indiana Jones Coming to Switch 2 3 weeks ago:
It was just boring and empty, except for Space Pirates using clean language and some other really bland factions. It tried to cater to everyone and just sucked. That’s to say nothing of the endless load screens and RNG planets
- Comment on US | Trump Says He’ll Only Accept 2026 Midterms If He Deems Them “Honest” 3 weeks ago:
We can imagine a dystopian scenario where a sitting US president loses an election but claims he didn’t. That the election was rigged. Then he sends a mob of people to storm the legislature, either to pressure the vice president not to enact the election results or to have him killed along with leaders of the opposition before he does (the traitor!).
I mean we can imagine something like that happening if a truly deranged person was president, but why would we.
- Comment on Bethesda x Nintendo Switch™ 2 — Oblivion, Fallout 4, and Indiana Jones Coming to Switch 2 3 weeks ago:
On my death bed, one of my many regrets will be having played Starfield
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 4 weeks ago:
The galaxy brain move is buying an old dumb tv for a pittance and use it for watching Jellyfin/Plex/stream from a browser with uBlock Origin/DNS filtering – all running on some relative’s “obsolete” smart toaster from last year that they happily gift you because “the new version’s bagel mode IS LIT – pun intended – but it needs the 128 gb DDR7 ram of the new model, can barely toast on the old one any more”.
- Comment on Mozilla is Building an AI 'Rebel Alliance' To Take on Industry Heavweights OpenAI, Anthropic 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for the link, hadn’t heard about that project, the list of target features looks very promising
- Comment on DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI 4 weeks ago:
But they all suck, or rather the Internet kinda sucks these days
- Comment on DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI 4 weeks ago:
In Google Search’s prime DDG was still terrible and not a viable competitor even with the privacy advantage. Now both services are almost comparable, so it’s kind of a no-brainer to ditch Google.
- Comment on DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, search has degraded along with the Internet, you almost need an LLM now to filter out all the garbage hits. For a while, adding “reddit” to your search term was an OK high level filter to remove blogspam and e-commerce sites, but interacting with reddit is so annoying now that it’s barely an option and many of the quality reddit posters have moved on while the state and corporate astroturfers are running the show. Never mind that the “reddit filter” also removed results from much better sources, like specialist forums.
- Comment on Mozilla is Building an AI 'Rebel Alliance' To Take on Industry Heavweights OpenAI, Anthropic 4 weeks ago:
What does Mozilla doubling down on AI and becoming less appealing to core users mean for Firefox forks going forward? How independent of Mozilla are the biggest ones in practice?
- Comment on EU should only buy European components for defence, France space minister says 4 weeks ago:
I agree, but the high global integration has also been a winning hand for Europe in the last few decades. There will be some pain and odd bed fellows.
- Comment on Is OpenAI dead yet? 4 weeks ago:
The problem is that it isn’t clear what kinds of exposure private credit and other actors in the shadow banking space hold, because they generally operate on a model of financial obfuscation to get around banking regulation (i.e. being actual banks). What is known is that they are deeply intertwined with financing the AI bubble, even if all their exposure is through debt instruments, crypto schemes or insurance contracts (that probably is not the full scope though), they will be hit hard when their “borrowers” can’t pay back.
- Comment on Is OpenAI dead yet? 4 weeks ago:
And possibly the most parts of shadow banking, i.e the alt accounts of major financial institutions.
Fun times ahead!
- Comment on New research finds that ChatGPT systematically favours wealthier, Western regions in response to questions ranging from 'Where are people more beautiful?' to 'Which country is safer?' 5 weeks ago:
If you’re rich, you look good That’s not news
- Comment on Fable's evil landlords won't grow devil horns, as reboot ditches classic character morphing due to a lack of belief in objective arseholery 5 weeks ago:
Absolutely, I think games should dispense with the good/evil thing all together and focus on whether choices are self-serving, “pragmatic”, diplomatic, earnestly attempting to be moral. Of course, this only gets interesting if the game doesn’t consistently punish you for being amoral by imposing consequences that are harsher than the rewards. This also means not punishing the player with worse and less content for not following the “intended” story arch.
I haven’t played a lot of Frostpunk 2, but I think that game does a lot with similar concepts.
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 5 weeks ago:
Tl;dr surveillance equipment working perfectly, used for dystopian surveillance. Major shocker.
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 5 weeks ago:
In the context of parenting there are certainly better things you can do to prevent “shennanigans” other than subjecting them to surveillance. Like you know… raising them?
Terrifying with a generation of peole grown up under total control and expected to be perfectly obedient. They will be shitty adults. But hey, at least they won’t have memories of that time they snuck out at night to watch the stars.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 5 weeks ago:
Subscriptions are thieves of intentionality