JIMMERZ
@JIMMERZ@lemm.ee
- Comment on Announcement 5 weeks ago:
SNES was my happy place when I was growing up. I would be beyond happy if it was supported again. I mean, it won’t be, but it’s nice to dream.
- Comment on Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy 1 month ago:
I think it’s worth noting that this is the effect of the free market behaving as designed, however no one has risen up to challenge Amazon enough along the way. So many retailers ignored e-commerce in the early days and went on with business as usual. Fast forward 20 years and Amazon has eaten into their market shares. A large retailer like WalMart absolutely has the ability to challenge Amazon by investing in the user experience and warehousing/delivery infrastructure. But often the old heads at these companies ignore improving the user experience in favor of making cuts. Amazon didn’t happen overnight. It’s been a steady growth in their business model over decades and the user experience is key to what made them so popular. It takes seconds to find what you want, for often times cheaper than the competition and in many cases the shipping is lower and faster.
What would be difficult is for a start up company with little capital to try and take on these behemoths. Perhaps a coalition of large companies like Target, Best Buy, B&N, Kohl’s, etc. grouping together to create a large distribution network and app platform with a good user experience could compete.
Just a thought.
AWS is a whole other can of worms.
- Comment on Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots 2 months ago:
Exactly. The flaw is in the streaming service. They say “upload your music and make money” while skimming the lions share of the profits. But if they use tools that are openly available to all, i.e. generative AI (which uses copyrighted works for it generational algorithms) AND the Streaming service systems themselves, somehow this user is at fault because they don’t like the way he did it and the amount he uploaded. It seems to me it’s a problem with the system and not the user.
- Comment on Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots 2 months ago:
That’s the outcome that seems most logical. I want to see real artists get paid for creating real music. The current system is too prohibitive and unrewarding.
If an artist spends hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars creating their work, only to see a return of maybe a few dollars that’s a big problem.
If someone can use AI to game that same system for millions of dollars by creating loads of fake music in a fraction of the time; that’s a symptom of the big problem.
The current system of streaming just isn’t beneficial to artists. I imagine it’s not great for movies either. Yet, these companies are taking in HUGE profits. It was only a matter of time before someone tried to take advantage of a loophole.
If you think about it, it’s kind of like reverse piracy.
- Comment on Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots 2 months ago:
He found a flaw in the system and exploited it. Although he didn’t do anything particularly wrong, the tools he used allowed him to do it. Yet, somehow he has to pay the consequences and the companies that made the tools to exploit the system are not liable. Got it.
- Comment on Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10 2 months ago:
Windows 10 will be my last Windows operating system. It’s been fine and it works well enough. I’ve already started setting up a drive with Linux Mint 22 for use moving forward.
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- Comment on Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking, and color-coding of employees 5 months ago:
Just another huge ass company that values short term profits over its employees and customers. Probably won’t be buying any more of their products.
- Comment on Legend of Zelda 7 months ago:
The Wind Waker for me. At the time, the open world and sea felt so massive, and the colorful cell-shaded graphics made me feel like I was immersed in a cartoon. I played other Zelda games before, but it was the first one to hold my attention all the way to the end. To me, it’s one of those games I wish I could experience again for the first time.
- Comment on Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs 8 months ago:
I do use Windows for a lot of specific programs, but this behavior is really pushing me to Linux and to find alternatives to the software I use.
- Comment on Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service 9 months ago:
I’ve been using Thunderbird and loving it. They’re developing a mobile app now as well!
- Comment on 23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached | TechCrunch 10 months ago:
Absolutely; and this is another example in a long list which should serve as a lesson for people to not share their personal data with any company if possible. Yet, I feel that lesson will never be learned.
- Comment on Tesla again threatens to sue Cybertruck buyers who try to resell the cars 11 months ago:
“You won’t own anything, and you’ll like it.”
- Comment on She broke it so she could baguette properly.... 11 months ago:
I mean, how else are you gonna make the sandwich anyway?
- Comment on Bungie Longtime Composer Michael Salvatori Is Laid Off 1 year ago:
Safe to say Bungie no longer cares about retaining high quality talent.
- Comment on Carbon Capture Tech Hype Is Fizzling Out, IEA Says 1 year ago:
I drank the carbon capture kool-aid for a time early on. It sounded too good to be true. Unfortunately it was.
- Comment on IBM Software mandates in-office work for employees living within 50 miles | "Software Executive Focals" will be laying down the law 1 year ago:
“Boomer company pushes boomer policies, more at 10.”
