masterspace
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- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 3 weeks ago:
Honestly, the killer application is really simple, but this headset wasn’t quite designed for it (nor is MacOS in general), and that is simply as external monitors.
You know what’s annoying? Trying to use your computer outside, trying to use it on an airplane, or while travelling. Or being in an open plan office with a million visual distractions.
If you’re working in a professional setting where your company is already buying you a giant ultra wide display or multiple professional 27" screens then you’re approaching the territory of a thousand or two dollars spent on each employee, and suddenly a VR headset is starting to look more reasonable as a monitor replacement.
If this was closer to the size of the size of the Big Screen Beyond but could let you place as many windows / monitors around you as you wanted, they might actually have a compelling product.
Or if it was cheaper it could be used for gaming.
Or if it had transparent AR displays it could be used for industrial applications like Hololens.
But yeah, as is, it feels like it had a neat idea or two, some really fancy tech, and fell right in the middle of not being that useful for anyone.
- Comment on *Everyone liked that* 1 month ago:
I mean, there are huge problems with American health care companies and insurance in general will always tend towards being a scam unless it’s extremely heavily regulated, but at a fundamental level insurance does offer a service (that of socializing the cost of extreme losses), and while executives do have fiduciary duties, the idea that they always have to pursue short term profit no matter what from a legal standpoint, is overblown and exaggerated.
- Comment on *Everyone liked that* 1 month ago:
We left Reddit because it was a corporate captured shit show that killed the only nice apps for interacting with it. We didn’t leave because they were too mean to health insurance executives.
- Comment on *Everyone liked that* 1 month ago:
Understandably. I’m emotionally removed from the situation enough to know that I shouldn’t actively celebrate, if I knew a loved one who’s medical care was denied by a for profit health insurer or if I had to waste my life fighting with them for basic care, then I’m sure I would be actively celebrating too.
- Comment on *Everyone liked that* 1 month ago:
Quite frankly, executives of health care companies continually make money by denying medical coverage to people with children and letting them agonizingly die.
I’m not on here celebrating his death for the sole reason that I think it’s just as likely this corporate espionage / assassination for money, but if it is a normal person shooting a health insurance executive for denying a loved ones coverage it’s hard to imagine how the executive didn’t deserve it.
You don’t get to be separated from the morality of your actions, just because you use neutral sounding business language to describe how you’re fucking over and killing people for personal profit.
- Comment on Calcrelatable 2 months ago:
So you’re saying mash both a bunch of times to be super sure?
- Comment on Alan Wake 2 still hasn't quite made its money back, according to Remedy's latest financials 2 months ago:
I know I tuned out of Alan Wake 1 really early thinking it was going to be a boring ‘look around with a flashlight game’. I was very surprised by how fun and intricate the combat eventually got when I went back and actually played it through.
And just how funny and tongue in cheek all the writing is. I think it’s a bit of a hard sell because they want to gradually build and surprise you with new things, and all their humour is super deadpan and satirical of this hard boiled story, which can make it seem kind of boring at a surface / marketing level until you get into it and realize what’s happening and how much fun it is.
- Comment on Alan Wake 2 still hasn't quite made its money back, according to Remedy's latest financials 2 months ago:
I will be buying this as a Christmas present for several friends.
Really, really fantastic game, and Remedy is one of the best studios in existence right now. I can’t think of many other games / studios that take swings as big as them.
- Comment on hard to argue with 2 months ago:
Russia gives Ukrainians Russian citizenship and resettles them away from warzone with all the social security preserved: food, medical, shelter etc.Russia murders some Ukrainians and kidnaps others and forces them to toil under their dictatorship to enrich Putin.Ftfy.
Jesus fucking Christ do fucking better. What is wrong with you?
- Comment on 'They Know Who You Are': Harvard Students Use Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses To Pull Up Your Identity In Real-time 2 months ago:
Everyone having a FaceTime call does this. Every dash cam does this. Every Ring doorbell and self driving car does this. You can do this with a $10 usb pinhole webcam and an android phone or raspberry Pi.
The problem here is with facial recognition databases, not with people using cameras in public.
- Comment on 'They Know Who You Are': Harvard Students Use Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses To Pull Up Your Identity In Real-time 2 months ago:
PimEyes does not use photos from Facebook or other social media.
- Comment on 'They Know Who You Are': Harvard Students Use Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses To Pull Up Your Identity In Real-time 2 months ago:
PimEyes doesn’t use images or data from Facebook or other social media.
- Comment on 'They Know Who You Are': Harvard Students Use Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses To Pull Up Your Identity In Real-time 2 months ago:
Dumb, click bait headline.
This is about PimEyes, and databases that hoard facial recognition data, not Meta or Rayban or smart glasses.
- Comment on 'They Know Who You Are': Harvard Students Use Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses To Pull Up Your Identity In Real-time 2 months ago:
This has nothing to do with Facebook or Rayban. This can be done with a webcam and a laptop from 2006.
The entire problem here is PimEyes and the fact that it’s legal to collect and build a biometrics database in the first place.
- Comment on hard to argue with 2 months ago:
Oh so you’re the type that sees Hitler invading Poland and thinks “doesn’t effect me”.
Go volunteer for Putin’s army if you love his propaganda so much.
Jesus fucking Christ, the fucking idiocy of thinking that Russia unilaterally invading a country is that country’s fault. Thankfully Biden is finally getting lead out of the water a might solve some of this dumbassery in the long term.
- Comment on hard to argue with 2 months ago:
Bruh, you’re an American repeating Putin’s bullshit about Ukrainian Nazis. You have no excuse for being so ill informed.
- Comment on hard to argue with 2 months ago:
Russian thinks he has a wife and kids, when in reality Putin has a baby maker and more cannon fodder.
You happy that your kids will die in Ukraine for no reason?
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 2 months ago:
LMFAO, shut the fuck up dumb little bitch boy.
Oh daddy Putin, please feed me more propaganda, I’m such a dumb little boy, I’ll believe anything if it helps you rob the Russian people more
Why are you typing and not dying for Putin you little bitch?
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 2 months ago:
Stop spilling your dumb orc blood on Ukrainian soil and watch the deserved anti-Russian hatred melt away.
- Comment on PS5's 'Resume Activity' Feature Apparently Gone for Good - PlayStation LifeStyle 2 months ago:
Yes I do, both are designed to get the user to where they want to be in the game faster than loading the game from scratch and navigating through menus to get there.
They do different approaches in design, but both are attempting to tackle the same UX issue.
- Comment on PS5's 'Resume Activity' Feature Apparently Gone for Good - PlayStation LifeStyle 2 months ago:
That’s what I mean though, both are trying to accomplish basically the same thing, but Sony’s implementation is kind of half baked in that it requires developer support and doesn’t actually resume the game, just gets you close to where you were.
- Comment on PS5's 'Resume Activity' Feature Apparently Gone for Good - PlayStation LifeStyle 3 months ago:
Despite other problems, it really feels like Microsoft runs around Sony in circles when it comes to their software prowess. Quick Resume doesn’t work flawlessly with every game, but when it does work it’s pretty incredible to jump straight back to the exact same state in another game as if you’d never closed it.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 months ago:
To directly quote Linus:
Ok, lots of Russian trolls out and about.
It’s entirely clear why the change was done, it’s not getting reverted, and using multiple random anonymous accounts to try to “grass root” it by Russian troll factories isn’t going to change anything.
And FYI for the actual innocent bystanders who aren’t troll farm accounts - the “various compliance requirements” are not just a US thing.
If you haven’t heard of Russian sanctions yet, you should try to read the news some day. And by “news”, I don’t mean Russian state-sponsored spam.
As to sending me a revert patch - please use whatever mush you call brains. I’m Finnish. Did you think I’d be supporting Russian aggression? Apparently it’s not just lack of real news, it’s lack of history knowledge too.
- Comment on Excel enters its 40th year 3 months ago:
The only low-code platform I actually respect.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Here’s the actual interview that was requested to be removed:
- Comment on College students used Meta’s smart glasses to dox people in real time 3 months ago:
No actually, in this case Meta just built a phone into a glasses form factor. The entire problem lies with that much data about individuals being allowed to be amassed and hosted.
You can literally do exactly this with your iPhone right now.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 3 months ago:
So your opinion is that Amazon’s leadership decisions are always perfect and they have perfect insight into their company and foresight? That leadership of a tech company has never before undervalued the importance of their engineering staff, or how willing they were to quit in the face of an RTO mandate?
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 3 months ago:
This is pessimistic trash not worth posting.
No, Amazon is still very dependent on their software engineers, and no, it’s actually quite easy to move cloud offerings and they face stiff competition from both Azure and GCP amongst others.
Literally every virtually every single internal piece of HR and management software at Amazon is written by software teams at Amazon. You fundamentally do not understand how big tech companies operate if you think they can afford to hemmorage engineering talent without impacting their bottom line in a multitude of ways.
- Comment on Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration 3 months ago:
Congrats then on making a bold pedantic claim that you can’t actually back up and is based on nothing.
Big round of applause for yourself. I’m sure the Valve software engineers who know how profitable they are happily accept lower salaries than their counterparts at Amazon and Meta. Such wisdom.
- Comment on Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration 3 months ago:
Great! So in the context of the conversation, you then agree with me that Valve is an worse company definitely not worthy of praise since they can afford to make all their employees multimillionaire but instead keep it for themselves.
Glad we can agree on the entire fucking point of this thread. That valve is a greedy company not worth praising or dick riding.