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- Comment on No, Phil Spencer, Having AI Mock Up An Old Game Is Not The Same As Preserving It 1 month ago:
According to their Wikipedia, Techdirt only accepted money from Charles Koch’s foundation for a lawsuit (amongst other donors), and are owned by Floor64.
Floor 64’s website only has 2 people listed in their management team, but I couldn’t dig up if either are linked to the Koch’s (I was pretty cursory about it though).
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer 1 month ago:
The hours I spent on that FUCKING DICE GAME
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer 1 month ago:
Kingdom Come Deliverance wasn’t even on my radar and now I’m obsessed. The NPCs are so fucking funny
- Comment on In Response to Amazon preventing to download books you bought: Some DRM free bookstores and publishers 1 month ago:
I see, thanks for the explanation!
- Comment on In Response to Amazon preventing to download books you bought: Some DRM free bookstores and publishers 1 month ago:
Related question: are Kindle Unlimited books digital only? Can you not buy physical copies of it?
Ngl I still buy physical books, and I use my ereader to check out ebooks from the library and/or sail the high seas.
- Comment on In Response to Amazon preventing to download books you bought: Some DRM free bookstores and publishers 1 month ago:
As long as Kobo supports epub, I think it’s fine. They still support my H20 Aura from 2015, I’m not complaining.
- Comment on Dumbware.io - Stupid Simple Software 1 month ago:
Thank you, I was so confused as to what the other comments were talking about. I have js turned off by default.
- Comment on Apple withdraws cloud encryption service from UK after government order 2 months ago:
If you’re not high enough in the British class order to have institutional protections against raping children, then maybe you don’t deserve rights? -British Lawmakers, probably
- Comment on nuked from orbit 2 months ago:
Now you know I was referring to the comments calling her a “space influencer” lol
- Comment on nuked from orbit 2 months ago:
Holy shit, a lot of weirdos mad in the comments.
- Comment on Guy Who Ruined Buzzfeed With AI Now Says AI Is Bad, Launches New AI Platform 2 months ago:
Still can’t believe the former CEO of Buzzfeed is the brother of Gina from Brooklyn 99…
The upper echelons of culture really is a tight circle…
- Comment on After Copilot Trial, Government Staff Rated Microsoft's AI Less Useful Than Expected 2 months ago:
You’re not IN blahaj sonny 😎
- Comment on Jeep's annoying pop-up nags you to buy an extended warranty at every stop sign 2 months ago:
I have a 2015 Rav 4 that’s just on the cusp. It has built in GPS/Infotainment unit that has buttons, and needs to be updated by going to the Toyota website, downloading the software updates onto a USB, and then plugging the USB into the car’s port.
Honestly it’s the perfect level of tech for me. Sure the built-in maps are a bit outdated now, but I don’t need cellular service to navigate around, and I have infotainment and climate buttons on my steering wheel as well as the dashboard.
Praying it lasts another 10 years.
- Comment on Looking for a free speech Lemmy instance 2 months ago:
“Free speech is I get to say whatever I want, and you have to sit there and listen to me!!”
That’s not free speech, that’s a hostage situation.
- Comment on NASA Ordered to Remove Anything About 'Women in Leadership' From Its Websites: Report 2 months ago:
And Parks Services members are out there protesting this time around too. What chads.
- Comment on Two masterpieces, well deserved 2 months ago:
Loved the short manga (same author as Chainsaw Man, Tatsuki Fujimoto), loved the short film.
- Comment on Protesters storm S. Korea court after president's detention extended 2 months ago:
My GOAT Moon Jae In could never. Only Korean president to never: be overthrown in a military coup, assassinated, thrown in prison, executed, investigated for corruption, or commit suicide.
- Comment on Why America Sucks at Everything 3 months ago:
I was rewatching the Pathologic video lol
- Comment on Why America Sucks at Everything 3 months ago:
Hey, this got recommended to me yesterday after an Hbomb video! Cool to see the creator is on Lemmy
- Comment on TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban 3 months ago:
Part of the Tiktok algo is already released on Github. I’m hoping instead of selling they actually make everything open.
- Comment on TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban 3 months ago:
This is from my former coworker who’s father was approached as an investor for Bytedance, so grain of salt.
But apparently the current CEO of Bytedance, Shou Zi Chew, interned at Meta and offered Zuckerberg a chance to invest into Bytedance in 2013 when he was gathering investors (assuming they’d be the American arm of the multinational). Zuck refused, saying that he didn’t think short form video is going to go anywhere, and basically laughed Zi Chew out of the room.
Fast forward to 2024, and Meta is spending the most money lobbying to get Tiktok to sell to a US company, with Meta trying to argue that they have the best infrastructure to “manage the technology” and data from Tiktok, Capcut, Lemon8, etc.
If all of this is true, I would also say “Fuck You” to Mark Cuckerberg and shut down the servers too. I mean, why the hell else am I on Lemmy if not for a CEO saying I can’t have my app?
- Comment on Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund 3 months ago:
It really is a class war, not a culture war.
- Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 5 months ago:
Thank you for this, I had to scroll down so far to find a subscription-wall free link. Makes me wonder if anyone actually checked the article…
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 5 months ago:
Love Keepass. Love that I can sync it however I want. Love that there are multiple open source client options across several operating systems.
- Comment on It's been 30 years and I still can't get over the fact that the French word for "potatoes" is "ground apples." Have The French never had an apple? 6 months ago:
Those look closer to durian than pineapples tbh.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Same account options as yours here on mobile, marketing is also off for me.
Thanks for comparing notes!
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
I don’t even see this option on my account. Old Canadian account, but my phone/Paypal app is EU.
- Comment on Day 76 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots (Bulk photo Post 2: Variety Hour) 6 months ago:
I should have guessed you’d be a gaming connoisseur and already had played AW1 just based on your daily posts (which I enjoy daily too btw).
But playing Alan Wake 1+DLCs more than twice? Damn, you’re not a lake, you’re an ocean 😭
- Comment on Day 76 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots (Bulk photo Post 2: Variety Hour) 6 months ago:
Gorgeous screenshots though, I don’t remember this game looking so good
- Comment on Day 76 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots (Bulk photo Post 2: Variety Hour) 6 months ago:
IMO, assomeone who played Alan Wake 1 back to back with Alan Wake 2…don’t do it, AW2 as a game feels sooooo much better in every aspect. Unless your tolerance for jank is really high, the difference in the gunplay alone feels like you’re using two different skillsets.
Well…AW2 didn’t completely get rid of the jank, just made it a smoother part of the gameplay lol.
Also the story of 2 is really heavily related to the ending of AW1, you might just spoil yourself for a big part of the mystery.