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- Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead 1 week ago:
So ombudsman can be for “petty” things, like the belt of my e-bike, but also for much more “serious” things like political corruption, vote scams, etc where I imagine Congress might be correct. As en.wikipedia.org/…/Ombudsmen_in_the_United_States clarifies though there are ombudsmen dedicated to agencies but also state level or even city and county level. So I imagine the more precise you are picking the right one, the more likely it’s going to be treated, efficiently or at all.
- Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead 1 week ago:
No idea how it works where you are but in Belgium and in the EU we have en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ombudsman and I can tell you when companies receive an email from them, they don’t mess around. I’ve been waiting for a bike part for a year. I contacted the ombudsman, no cost, just 2 emails, suddenly my carbon belt was shipping the very next day.
- Comment on Spicy spicy 2 weeks ago:
So… I might be neurospicy or retarded or both or either… but IMHO it’s perfectly rational to sort. It means you get access to the sum or individual pieces way WAY faster than otherwise. What’s arguably less rational though is if you can’t help yourself, even in a life or death situation, and have to sort coins instead of doing CPR. Then it’s not normal.
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 2 weeks ago:
FWIW I remember a former colleague who recommended it to me and his argument was about the cryptocurrency you “earn” from it.
I asked him if he could withdraw it. I asked him if he tried. He said not yet but he would. He came back to me few days later saying something along the line that “it’s not straightforward” which was a polite way to say he didn’t manage yet. He worked in IT.
To be clear I’m not saying it’s a scam or that one can’t use the crypto “earned” from it but at least back then, few years ago, some people were just riding on the hope, or even faith, that it would amount to something yet it seemed made in such a way to just hold.
So… not a scam but not exactly empowering users IMHO.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 2 weeks ago:
If it doesn’t ignore artistic intent (good luck with that) I’m fine with it.
Sounds like “It it were to work as expected it’d be amazing” i.e every single entrepreneur out there, backed by VCs who know it’s impossible but don’t mind cashing out of the delusion. Bubbles are propped by this kind of sentiments.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 3 weeks ago:
I’m not saying it’s a good strategy, just that since SoftBank it’s basically core to the VC default playbook.
I believe it’s been tweaked, thanks to Musk, Enron and banks to subsidies transitioning to too big to fail.
So, it might not work, ever, but I still think if you look at the large VC rounds, that’s what they are funding, to be so big nobody can reach you at any cost.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 3 weeks ago:
Damned, edited, thanks! (shows the benefit of discussing ;)
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 3 weeks ago:
Indeed, as they said in Italian “if my Grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike” … the reasoning might be theoretically correct but in the current situation it’s not the case.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 3 weeks ago:
Run up their bills until they can’t afford to be speculative any more.
Sadly I don’t think you’ve met venture capitalists… they will use your usage as a KPI for success. They have a runway longer than you can imagine, check the history of Amazon or Uber. They can be unprofitable for years, heck longer than a decade, and they are fine with it because they are claiming (and sadly sometimes right) to be cornering a trillion dollar market.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 3 weeks ago:
Won’t repeat what I wrote just hours ago in lemmy.world/post/44130119/22616090 but just the ending :
"I would personally consider instead Bottles, GOG (have different problems), Steam (obviously not open source and basically monopolistic position), etc.
Overall I think preventing discussion is healthy (even though sadly sometimes needed, here I lack context, maybe the issue poster did this numerous time on other platforms, title definitely was provocative) but removing provenance is NEVER a good choice. They want to use Claude on their repo? Absolutely fine (even though not to me) but hiding it makes it instantly untrustworthy to me. In fact I even argued in the past that even though I personally do not use GenAI/LLMs (for coding or otherwise) except for testing it should always be disclosed precisely so that others can make THEIR choice in consequence, including using or contributing, cf …benetou.fr/…/AgainstPoorArtificialIntelligencePr…"
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 4 weeks ago:
a special case somehow.
IP, e.g. Mario, Zelda, Pokemon.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 4 weeks ago:
Better integrated than Steam? I’d be curious to hear how.
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 5 weeks ago:
You haven’t. I’m not offended. I’m literally just sharing a solution.
FWIW I know because that’s what I have been every day for the last few months. I have been using music streaming for years, paying SoundCloud user for a while. Few months ago during my on-going transition away from surveillance capitalism I stopped more and more of commercial cloud services. One of the very last few had been music. I tried quite a few solutions and one of my fear was about music discovery. I thought if I download files then it will be hard to get new music. I looked at technical solutions, e.g. recommendation algorithm, offline and online (with API). I also noticed that my usage was split in at least 2 different listening mode : active vs passive. Active is when I specifically pick a song or an album because I crave it. Passive is when I want background sound, nearly like barely better than white noise. For active it was OK but for passive my own selection was too exciting. I then tried a great public and free French radio ( FIP.fr ) and that solved (by luck) both needs of passive listening AND music discovery. That being said I do not always love the FIP selection so sometimes I’ll switch to other stations hence why I said so. That’s it, nothing more.
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 5 weeks ago:
You can switch stations.
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 5 weeks ago:
for “background noise”
FWIW there are also radios, including public ones where content (without ads) is delivered via the Internet, usable via
cvlcormpvor even the browser (so nothing to install). - Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 5 weeks ago:
Checkout Bandcamp for stuff you didn’t buy and SoulSeek if you are missing some backups.
- Comment on Website 1 month ago:
That’s actually a great question, safer to ask your LLM directly! So helpful. /s
- Comment on Website 1 month ago:
Eh… don’t want to be mean but that’s what’s called an “IP address” for Internet Protocol Address… but this one is for your LAN, aka Local Area Network.
So that won’t work, people outside your LAN can’t reach it. What you need instead is a domain. What most people don’t know though is that there is a special domain name anybody can use for free! Check this out, assuming your LLM did the right setup do all that step, making website, starting Web server then try :
localhost and voila, free domain from your newly generated websites!
… /s
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 1 month ago:
Classic GenAI marketing BS :
- show a superficial demo (literally it’s JUST the surface of the things you claim you can “generate”)
- imply that we are on the “brink” of radical change so we “just” have to wait then the “rest” will be generated
- move on to the next grandiose claim to make sure nobody goes beyond the surface
It’s so obvious it’s painful. Sure it’s not random, sure there is “progress” but it’s NEVER tackling the hard problem. What makes a game fun or exciting isn’t the generated world, only a non gamer would claim that.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Worst part is … he’s still right according to the stock. That’s just madness.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yes, that should be done in order to pass national certification. Having cameras is fine when used in a closed loop, streaming data away from the car though, that’s different.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
You mean compared to 996? Actually yes probably. Compared to forced labor though, I wouldn’t go that far.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
All tech is used as such. You think Apple and Microsoft and Android aren’t …
At least “All popular consumer tech …” then, because there are alternatives already.
- Comment on Hurry pls it's urgent 2 months ago:
Does it even matter? Just opening the door of a clean room is enough to make the whole thing useless. Also, even without opening the door, how does one even run an ASML device without their support? That doesn’t sound realistic.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 months ago:
Canada, Mexico, the EU, and others just refusing to do business with the US.
Seeing how the EU is still going business with Russian while it’s at war with Ukraine it’s hard to imagine such a scenario.
- Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games 2 months ago:
Well I do mean physically opaque but true that implies, as few persons did comment regarding e.g. Poker, that the content itself or the rules do not change the distribution to introduce artificial scarcity.
The point is that purchasing a package in itself should not be a monetary bet.
- Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games 2 months ago:
You might enjoy Loot box content is associated with increased user engagement for YouTube gaming videos (2023) then.
- Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games 2 months ago:
To learn why it matters Neuroexploitation by Design at 39c3 (with English dubbing) specifically 28min in.
- Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games 2 months ago:
What I tried to express is that when decks are
- NOT the same
- AND are sealed
- AND there is a distribution of the content (namely some rare and non rare items)
then the purchase of that deck itself is gambling.
That does not imply anything about other situation, namely decks that are all the same can still be used for gambling when there are played with rules that do introduce randomness.
- Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games 2 months ago:
Uno can be gambling too if you start to bet on round. Anything can be gambling if you want it to but poker with non convertible tokens isn’t gambling. Betting on players also would be gambling. Anything can become gambling. If you think that’s an overstatement look at predictive markets to see how broad bettable events can be it’s
amazingscary.