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- Comment on EU orders Apple to open up access to iOS notifications, allow AirDrop alternatives - GSMArena.com news 3 days ago:
Headphone manufacturers need access to system functionalities such as proximity auto-pairing and automatic audio switching.
If Apple were a restaurant, they wouldn’t provide tableware for free and would charge you for bringing your own while tying one of your hands behind your back.
Hey, as long as the competition is reasonable, you can be as unreasonable as you want and say the customer has options. Curious they never say their customers appreciate what they do as a defense.
- Comment on Games can no longer use virtual currencies to disguise the price of in-game purchases in the European Union 3 days ago:
Considering you can’t sell platinum for money, you could add complexity by converting it to another currency when exchanging hands. No value lost, exact same ratio. You buy platinum, you spend it on the store or it decays when you give it to another player. Platinum carries real world value, decayed doesn’t. Would that work? The only reason for doing that would be to obfuscate the fact platinum has real world value. The players being constantly aware of the fact might mess with the economy.
Honestly, their monetization is really something I could never criticize.
- Comment on Dunning-Kruger 1 week ago:
Reading the discussions and some of the disagreements, a correction is needed to be more precise.
Some XX people will be Assigned Male At Birth. Some XY people will be Assigned Female At Birth.
- Comment on Meta is trying to ‘offload’ kids safety onto app stores with new bills, Google says 1 week ago:
My cynical take is that Facebook wants the money from ads target at children, but not the responsibility of vetting the apps they might download because the trust the platform they are in. Google and Apple just want to pass the responsibility to developers and create laws that punish them for misusing tools they want to provide so other people deal with the complaints.
Still being cynical. It’s not that big corporations can’t do anything. They just can’t do anything without using their own money.
- Comment on OpenAI calls for US government to codify 'fair use' for AI training | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
The conflict that people that hate both copyright and exploitative AI had just got resolved. It’s nothing new, but I still get surprised by how shameless the justifications can be.
“Your honor, if I hadn’t stole all that money, I couldn’t be investing to make myself more money. Think about it, it was so much that I had to hire people to help me, so I created jobs.”
- Comment on US Justice Dept. Doubles Down on Request to Break Up Google 1 week ago:
Google control the browser most people use and that browser could be defaulted to use a different search engine, which controls what you see when you have a question. They can take control from google and allow a real ally to buy it.
- Comment on Photographers Are on a Mission to Fix Wikipedia's Famously Bad Celebrity Portraits [404 Media] 1 week ago:
I think that is a little backwards thinking. Common folk are at these events taking the pictures. Common folk are producing high quality content. I’m pretty sure the celebrities themselves wouldn’t have as much information on their peers as the collective of researchers do. Far from mere spectators.
- Comment on Elon Musk says X hit by 'massive cyber attack' as users unable to log in 2 weeks ago:
It wasn’t true. I wasn’t even trying to deceive anyone, but the problem is that people will mostly believe without asking for sources if they don’t care. I put an edit above now.
- Comment on Elon Musk says X hit by 'massive cyber attack' as users unable to log in 2 weeks ago:
My oopsie. Clarification above.
- Comment on Elon Musk says X hit by 'massive cyber attack' as users unable to log in 2 weeks ago:
Let me spin that for you so you see the problem.
Mastodon, the social network backed by terrorists. By signing up, you put your name on a FBI watchlist as well.
- Comment on Death Stranding 2: On the Beach - Pre-Order Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Lots of people complain when the game is called a walking simulator, but I got very excited seeing all the different environments we’ll be able to traverse. Hoping to have a little bit of Lockne / Mama somehow. The mechas were something curious, then they doubled down at the end.
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 5 comments
- Comment on The burning of the Library of Alexandria for fandoms 6 months ago:
I thought the same. Now plataforms have a target audience to focus. The accounts move, the artists have to follow, the rest has a reason to move as well.
- Submitted 6 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 24 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
I agree there’s abuse, but there are laws:
Article explaining the laws used as support / Article with historical precedent.
Both in Portuguese.
- Comment on Technology@Beehaw.org, Community Culture, and Moderation 7 months ago:
I was talking about how we always have this type of discussion frequently with my therapist earlier today. It’s always nice to pause and remind ourselves and those outside of our philosophy. One thing that I’d like to add is we might not be(e) nice sometimes because of personal circumstances. We are having a bad day and a comment will trigger a reaction that would be uncommon or we might be aggressive without provocation.
In cases we feel the need to hit back, I’d advise postponing the response by at least one hour. Give yourself time to clear your mind and think things over. And if you are the target of users having a bad day, reminding them that they are not be(e)ing nice is the alternative. Asking questions is the best. “Did I offend you?”, “Did I say something wrong?”, “I don’t understand what the issue is.” Even if they keep the aggression, they will point to the specific issue that needs to be worked on, or prove they don’t want to discuss genuinely.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 4th 7 months ago:
I decided to give a chance to Super Virus Defense. It was made by the brother in law of my best friend, but it was described as tower defense so it sat ignored for over a year. I play on PC, but it’s very mobile like. I’m addicted. There’s a grind element to buy upgrades, but it’s been so non mindless that it reminded me of how big companies just choose to make you suffer. Specifically, I can grind while completing higher difficulties in previous levels or by playing the endless mode.
Playing it made me want to create a post with all the Brazilian indie games that I really liked over the years.
- Comment on The 10 worst science fiction movies of all time 7 months ago:
I looked it up after commenting. It’s a Trapalhões movie. I probably watched it as a child. I don’t know how or when you watched it, but I would have to defend it for historical reasons. It’s the first movie with the four comedians that formed the main group together. The special effects are awful for being filmed using videotapes and sending them to the USA for transferring to 35mm (an illegal act at the time). They are clowns, as in circus clowns making cinema, which informs a lot of the comedy.
All that to say, as before, it’s good dreadful, something not everyone even believe exists.
- Comment on The 10 worst science fiction movies of all time 7 months ago:
I haven’t watched it, and I’m Brazilian, but I’ll defend Brazilian Start Wars anyway. I’ll basically defend [any nationality] Star Wars actually. [any nationality] [any popular franchise] needs to be a genre.
- Comment on Astronomers discover technique to spot AI fakes using galaxy-measurement tools 8 months ago:
Does it really work like that? I would say that they are not trying to fool any test, just getting harder to be detected. The goal being looking completely realistic.
- Comment on Compulsory voting in Australia is 100 years old. We should celebrate how special it makes our democracy 8 months ago:
It’s the same in Brazil. The electronic transition even accounted for the possibility of choosing a blank or void ballot.
- Submitted 8 months ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 9 comments