acosmichippo
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world
- Comment on HHS Winds Down mRNA Vaccine Development Under BARDA 12 hours ago:
literally killing people, RatFuKjr.
- Comment on Steam and itch.io “mustn't succumb to unjust pressure with no legal basis,” Japan free speech organization urges amidst mass censorship of games 12 hours ago:
it’s an association, not the government.
- Comment on 15 hours ago:
i don’t get the obsession with device batteries lasting more than a day.
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wake up
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live life
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plug in devices to charge
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go to sleep
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repeat
i would even say larger batteries are a waste. we need to be mindful of the battery materials we use as we transition to clean electric energy.
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- Comment on 15 hours ago:
it might be rubbish as both a watch, Android device, and masc-coded jewellery - but it shows that USB-C is viable for devices of this class.
just because cheap ass watches use USBC ports doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. you need to know how these USBC watches actually hold up in the long run before you make that judgement.
- Comment on The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) 1 day ago:
why not
- Comment on It's time to boycott U.S. digital services! Here's a chart to help you do so: 1 day ago:
it’s hard because you’re leaving the critical mass of users for niche communities. Lemmy only really works for large communities like this one.
- Comment on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand 2 days ago:
so this is a game of telephone between activists, banks, payment processors, and vendors.
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 2 days ago:
Is the EU not subject to GDPR?
- Comment on SignalRGB takes a swipe at Razer, makes functioning RGB toaster PC — quad-slice toaster case incorporates a Stream Deck, Mini-ITX components 2 days ago:
so if you openly promise to do a thing on social media after people get tattoos with your company’s branding, and then don’t do that thing, surely that’s some kind of fraud, right?
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 3 days ago:
you’re missing some context in that.
“The sale of a product… which is patently offensive and lacks serious artistic value… (such as… images of… Nonconsensual mutilation of a person or body part”
insert joke about COD lacking artistic value, but clearly there is more to COD than just body mutilation.
- Comment on Google loses app store antitrust appeal, must make sweeping changes to Play Store 5 days ago:
for banned US app stores like Steam and Google Play.
- Comment on SEC says it will deregulate cryptocurrencies with 'Project Crypto' 5 days ago:
now we get to see what happens with AI running wall street too!
- Comment on SEC says it will deregulate cryptocurrencies with 'Project Crypto' 5 days ago:
the IRS needs some way to track income based on the fluctuating value of crypto.
- Comment on Google loses app store antitrust appeal, must make sweeping changes to Play Store 5 days ago:
no doubt china will be making a similar judgement for Tencent etc.
- Comment on I need to tell you something unsatisfying: your personal consumption choices will not make a meaningful difference to the amount of enshittification you experience in your life 5 days ago:
disagree.
i stopped using most social media, and what little social media I do use now is FOSS like lemmy.
I cancelled my youtubeTV subscription and now pirate all my media.
I stopped using Plex and switched to Jellyfin which is FOSS.
Not saying it’s possible for everything, but sometimes there absolutely are non-enshittified alternatives.
- Comment on Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again 5 days ago:
in this case, the specific action gives the entity an unfair advantage in the global market. Epic (with the help from tencent) is suing US companies for antitrust laws, but tencent benefits from exactly that with stores like Steam and Google play outright banned in china. They have the entire chinese market to themselves and use the profit from that to push out further into the global market by doing stuff exactly like this.
- Comment on Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again 5 days ago:
Epic is mostly owned by Tencent which is a chinese company that directly benefits from Chinese Governement sponsored monopolies. China legally banned US based stores like Steam and Google Play.
Epic is not here to do you favors, they are here to push Tencent and China’s global agenda.
- Comment on Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again 5 days ago:
depends how much chinese influence you want in the gaming market. They are already the biggest gaming company in the world.
- Comment on Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again 5 days ago:
it’s also bankrolled by Tencent.
- Comment on Uber Eats is adding AI to menus, food photos, and reviews 5 days ago:
the details which it doesn’t seem like most people are reading:
The AI tools can be used to generate descriptions for menu items and summarize customer reviews to quickly highlight feedback regarding areas of the business that need improvement. Uber Eats also says it’s using AI to “detect and enhance low-quality food images” on menus, either by making changes to lighting, resolution, and framing, or editing the food onto different plates or backgrounds. The example images provided by Uber Eats suggest that this feature may also use generative AI to make adjustments to the food itself, such as expanding it or filling in any gaps when digitally re-plating.
AI customer review summaries are pretty common and the AI pictures are mostly focused on improving low-quality pics provided by restaurants. they aren’t generating pics from nothing, in that case user submitted pics are allowed.
- Comment on Uber Eats is adding AI to menus, food photos, and reviews 5 days ago:
That’s not what’s happening here.
The AI tools can be used to generate descriptions for menu items and summarize customer reviews to quickly highlight feedback regarding areas of the business that need improvement. Uber Eats also says it’s using AI to “detect and enhance low-quality food images” on menus, either by making changes to lighting, resolution, and framing, or editing the food onto different plates or backgrounds. The example images provided by Uber Eats suggest that this feature may also use generative AI to make adjustments to the food itself, such as expanding it or filling in any gaps when digitally re-plating.
For menu items that don’t have any images at all, Uber Eats will also now allow customers to upload a photograph of their own order when leaving a review.
so user pictures appear to be separate from restaurant/ai images.
- Comment on [Megathread] Payments Processors & Collective Shout VS NSFW games 1 week ago:
of course it’s not unique but they take it to an extreme.
- Comment on [Megathread] Payments Processors & Collective Shout VS NSFW games 1 week ago:
And, what makes the debate difficult with them is that they’ve always viewed adult content as a “risky” subject - due to higher frequency of support cases, chargebacks, general frustration, etc. As such, some processor that sell their service to adult businesses may charge higher rates - rates that stores like Steam or Itch are probably less willing to pay for 90% of their library.
but game platforms are clearly not your typical “adult business”. there are payment issues with adult businesses because they use shady billing practices like dark patterns, automatic renewals after a “free” trial, etc. I don’t know of any popular game platform that is anywhere close to that shady.
- Comment on Thingiverse uses AI to block production of ghost guns 1 week ago:
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you can’t just ignore outliers, that’s called p hacking.
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total guns is important. why should we ignore households with more than one gun? even just households with two guns are not crazy outliers and vastly change the comparison.
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what kind of guns are we talking about? iirc Finns get a standard issue rifle for military service. Handguns are more often used in crime.
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- Comment on 'When' this comes out, my life will be complete, lol. 1 week ago:
what is “ultimate” about it? it never got any DLC did it?
- Comment on Itch.io deindexes NSFW games after becoming the latest target of skittish credit card companies and anti-porn group Collective Shout, catching an award-winning indie and more in the crossfire 1 week ago:
confrontation by what mechanism though? aaa devs can’t be threatened in the same way with payment processors. if these people had a similarly effective way to take down AAA titles they would already be using it.
- Comment on Cloudflare gets involved in the battle against piracy, blocking streaming websites in the UK — and VPNs won't help 1 week ago:
they don’t just whimsically decide on a daily basis whether or not to comply with court orders. something changed legally that caused them to take action.
- Comment on Itch.io deindexes NSFW games after becoming the latest target of skittish credit card companies and anti-porn group Collective Shout, catching an award-winning indie and more in the crossfire 1 week ago:
steam and itch capitulated here because indy games are small potatoes. the calculation changes if they start going after AAA titles.
- Comment on New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism 1 week ago:
so they want Artificial Artificial Intelligence.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 1 week ago:
call? what kind of dumb shit is that?