Robust_Mirror
@Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia 21 hours ago:
They’ll absolutely be possible, it’s crazy easy to make addons that edit webpages.
What will be really nice is if someone goes to the effort to make some sort of all in one AI blocker similar to an ad blocker, that removes AI summaries from all sources that have it, so we don’t need a specific add on for each site.
- Comment on AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto 1 day ago:
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 2 days ago:
A phone doesn’t break under normal use. It breaks under rough use. If you treat a car rough it will get dents and scratches and rust etc.
- Comment on If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this 3 days ago:
Nah they changed that a while ago
…com.au/…/free-wi-fi-is-now-available-to-anyone-a…
It might not be every single one yet, but they were/are working towards that goal.
- Comment on If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this 3 days ago:
Could be a thing soon, Android has added “sound enojis” that imo were probably the worst idea ever and only exist for kids to annoy their parents. It’s a soundboard with like 3 sounds on the call screen when you’re on a call. I could see them eventually allowing custom ones.
- Comment on If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this 3 days ago:
I like in Australia we never got rid of them. More or less every payphone I saw growing up is still here. But they gave them 2 amazing upgrades:
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They are now free to use
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They are additionally free Wifi hotspots
Much better than dismantling them imo. They may not be widely used, but it’s worth it for those that do. I’ve even used it once when my phone went flat and needed to call my wife.
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- Comment on So close! 3 days ago:
And lettuce is 96% water. Basically every fruit and vegetable is more water than a human is. But you hand me a bowl of lettuce and call it soup we’re gonna have words.
- Comment on A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months 4 days ago:
It’s so we don’t have to spam brackets everywhere
9+2-1+6-4+7-3+5=
Becomes
((((((9+2)-1)+6)-4)+7)-3)+5=
That’s just clutter for no good reason when we can just say if it doesn’t have parentheses it’s left to right. Having a default evaluation order makes sense and means we only need parentheses when we want to deviate from the norm.
- Comment on A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months 4 days ago:
Another person already replied using your equation, but I felt the need to reply with a simpler one as well that shows it:
9-1+3=?
Subtraction first:
8+3=11Addition first:
9-4=5 - Comment on Owned (stocks) 5 days ago:
Sounds like PayID in Australia. I find it pretty good and it’s starting to get more popular. And yeah with ours you can just set up a new email and link it to an account, then it’ll let you choose if you want it to show John Smith or just J Smith when someone sends you money.
PayPal is still more popular overall, but I prefer payid for the instant access to the money so I’m glad it’s gaining momentum. Nothing but PayPal ever took off over here.
- Comment on Owned (stocks) 6 days ago:
If someone disputes $500 with your bank, your bank doesn’t hold your whole $15,000 account while sorting it.
- Comment on Xitter Pause Encrypted DMs. 6 days ago:
There was an exploit in version 0.17.0 through 0.19.0 (fixed in 0.19.1) that, from what I understand, allowed people to view DMs of anyone by reporting them, but as you can’t know the ID of a given DM you’re not part of, they couldn’t really target a specific user, but rather would just send reports to a range of potential IDs and see what comes back.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 1 week ago:
That’s true, but tbh I only know about it because chat gpt put me onto it. I asked it how to access jellyfin outside my home and it told me tailscale and explained how to set it up pretty easily.
- Comment on MEGA PENGUIN 1 week ago:
That sounds perfect tbh. I love fish flavour but mostly don’t like the texture.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 1 week ago:
I set up tailscale for remote access and it was pretty easy and painless. Maybe not as “average user” simple as plex, but no harder than setting up lan games to play across the internet that non techy people were doing in my high school 20 years ago.
- Comment on BlackRock is Suing UnitedHealth for Giving “Too Much Care” to Patients After the CEO was Murdered 1 week ago:
ITT:
- Comment on Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ 2 weeks ago:
A good AI, sure, this could be plausible. Current ones get too much wrong.
The much bigger issue is we’re talking about children, not adults. How many children would be motivated to self teach, every day, for years on end, even if you had an AI equal to a human tutor.
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 2 weeks ago:
100% agree. I no joke own about 900 games I haven’t played between steam (most bought when I was young and naive, probably bought like 10 games in the last 10 years now I know better), epic free games, and playstation plus monthly “free” games (not even counting the catalogue you now get access to), yes they’re technically not entirely free but I’d be paying for plus regardless so they kinda are.
Now as a lot of these games weren’t chosen by me, by no means do I want to play them all, and some are duplicates across platforms. But if even 10% interest me, that’s still 90 games. I probably play games at a rate slower than 1 per month. That’s years of games to me. And more will be stacking up in that time. I haven’t bought a game in like 3 years and it’s entirely possible I’ll never buy a game again at this rate.
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 2 weeks ago:
Imagine preordering a game in 2025.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure this is probably useful and makes sense in some way, but it’s really giving me rest of the fucking owl energy. I just can’t follow it clearly after like step 9 or so.
- Comment on A growing number of young chinese people are avoiding Starbucks Coffee. US executives are furious. 2 weeks ago:
They did, but somehow they’re managing to start making a comeback with their drive through stores. People that want super convenience will put up with a worse coffee for it.
- Comment on A growing number of young chinese people are avoiding Starbucks Coffee. US executives are furious. 2 weeks ago:
Baseball, huh?
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 2 weeks ago:
Man that’s such a strawman, you’re completely misrepresenting why they bring up fallacies.
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 2 weeks ago:
It’s like 15 seconds every couple of videos. I mean I get it, but TV my entire childhood was 21 minute shows with 3 sets of 3 minute ads per 30 min block. Movies that were 90 minutes would stretch to 2-2.5 hours with the ads. I saw Titanic once and it was closing in on 5 hours. It’s really not that bad to me.
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 3 weeks ago:
I would imagine its harder to argue you don’t condone your users using it for piracy when you have a feature that automatically does stuff very closely related to piracy. I’m not going to get into an argument over whether it’s defensible legally or not, but it makes sense to me that they play it safer than not.
- Comment on Mario Kart 64 got finally decompiled! 3 weeks ago:
Usually these decompiled projects run natively as an exe. I haven’t tried this one yet though.
- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 3 weeks ago:
Nintendo is actually the exception in this regard, they sold the switch at a profit from day 1.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think Nintendo has as many die hards as you think. The wii and switch had over 100 million sales. The wii u had 13 million.
Now look at switch game sales, scroll past their major IPs and pokemon games, and once again the sales show around 13 million or less.
On wii u mario kart had 8 million sales, and not one other game passed 6 million.
The wii, wii u and switch all had around 3 million sales in their first quarter and didn’t really pass that 13 million mark in their first year.
If only die hard fans that buy no matter what buy it, I think it absolutely will be a problem for them. And I think it has a real chance of happening. Half my casual gamer friends didn’t even know switch 2 was a thing, and the ones that did know about it said they haven’t seen any reason to get it yet, especially at the prices they’re seeing.
The reality is, the family and casual markets are what carried them whether they like it or not. Not the rabbid fans. And like with the wii u, if they don’t appeal to those markets properly, they won’t sell well.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 3 weeks ago:
Saw this the other day, that part isn’t as much their fault.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 4 weeks ago:
I agree, they definitely priced themselves out of several demographics including casual gamers, parents of young children gamers, and “I guess I’ll get a switch as a second device” gamers. These people aren’t going to look at a switch that’s roughly the same price as the ps5 and xbox and think “yeah let’s grab that one”.
The wii u showed their demographic of “die hard fans that buy no matter what” is actually really small compared to the rest of their sales. And I think we’re going to see a repeat of that.
