JoeKrogan

@JoeKrogan@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Do it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft saved $500 million using AI — after slashing over 15,000 jobs in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And when a competitor arises they just buy them and repeat the process

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox tests letting you stream your own games on PC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Next it becomes the only way to play

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the advantages/disadvantages of the different backup solutions?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do monthly backups with cron and tar and syncthing for my containers.

  I do quarterly backups of my server (14TB) to external USB HDDs. This is done via a script that mounts the drives, runs rsync to copy, then unmounts the drives again and emails me when it is done. I dont bother encrypting them as it ia mainly just media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goldman Sachs is piloting its first autonomous coder in major AI milestone for Wall Street⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Give it a project tender and lets see how it does

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pop it in your calendars⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But you played it Right ?

  Right ?

  </Anakin meme>

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam deck is a great option too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*Now you're playing with power!*⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Transformers… Robots in disguise

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cyberpunk, brothers and brotato at the minute. Thinking about death stranding or shadow of the tomb raider next

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[UK] Police forces to get authoritarian powers to extract data from online accounts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t extract the data if you don’t have the account .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen X and millennials three times more likely to be diagnosed with appendix cancer than their parents, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was very young at the time, like 5 years old so the only thing i remember is feeling pain in my intestinal area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing that gets me the most is they dont push the story forward. It felt like they said “lets slap some shit together so we can focus on competitive multiplayer”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The outer worlds . it was just meh in my opinion. Not to be confused with the outer wilds game that I’ve yet to play

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen X and millennials three times more likely to be diagnosed with appendix cancer than their parents, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I had it removed years ago when i was a kid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists spot ‘superorganism’ in the wild for the first time — and it’s made of worms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Image

  This is their final form

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨London-bound plane crashes in India with 242 on board⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Brutal. My condolences to the families of the victims

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How the US is turning into a mass techno-surveillance state⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Where are all the “nothing to hide” people now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sundar Pichai is vibe coding. 'It feels so delightful to be a coder.'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Replace the CEO with AI

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VCs are starting to partner with private equity to buy up call centers, accounting firms and other "mature companies" to replace their operations with AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Enshittificatin intensifies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  +1 for language transfer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Book Review from Cory Doctorow about the Evil of Facebook: Sarah Wynn-Williams’s ‘Careless People'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is on my list to read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There’s AI Inside Windows Paint and Notepad Now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They need to put AI inside the AI next and add a couple more full screens of ads , some subscriptions and super ultra premium++ edition OS DLC for functionality to save files.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Replit CEO Amjad Masad says learning to code is a waste of time, citing Dario Amodei's prediction that AI may generate essentially all code by next year.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Listening to this guy talk shit is a waste of time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK | Man who stole 325 Creme Eggs banned from Cambridgeshire for three months⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He just wanted some eggs in these trying times

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI startup Synthesia says it's creating a $1M stock pool to pay actors with equity for the use of their likeness, a first for the AI industry.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This will end well 🙄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google hit with 2 charges under EU rules, risks fines.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Great stuff. They have been throwing their weight around for far too long.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which co-op first person shooters would you recommend?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  +1 for halo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple reveals M3 Ultra, taking Apple silicon to a new extreme⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well this news means there will be cheaper second hand machines on the market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They just reskinned it and slapped irc in it and called it teams

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal will withdraw from Sweden if encryption-busting laws take effect⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the correct course of action. Pull out of anywhere mandating this. The users will find a way to get it.