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- Comment on Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds 1 week ago:
Xbox gave their customers credit/ vouchers after an early price drop. It would be even easier to do so now that people have online accounts.
- Comment on Once Unimaginable, Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search 1 week ago:
That’s like saying copyright doesn’t work. If a human can see it a human can copy it
- Comment on SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1 trillion in value in a month 1 week ago:
Not really. I’ve never been to a shareholder meeting and never will. I buy stocks to turn a profit from dividends and appreciation not to get a chance to micromanage the company.
- Comment on 62 Percent Of Countries Won't Have Access To The PlayStation Store On Digital-Exclusive PS6 1 week ago:
I’m in a country without official support and I can access the store without issue. I live in Berverly Hills 90210 as far as Playstation is concerned.
- Comment on 62 Percent Of Countries Won't Have Access To The PlayStation Store On Digital-Exclusive PS6 1 week ago:
It looks like I’m in the same boat. GTA VI id the only game of this generation to get my attention and I’m not paying $600 to play it. I’ll just borrow a friend’s console and then go back to sitting this one out.
- Comment on 62 Percent Of Countries Won't Have Access To The PlayStation Store On Digital-Exclusive PS6 1 week ago:
Why does the article say the EU can’t do anything when this is a literal monopoly? Yes we can’t force Playstation to keep selling disks but forcing them to allow other storefronts on the system sounds very achievable to me.
- Comment on SHL0MS(famous prankster on X/Twitter) baited AI haters by posting a real painting by Monet, claiming it was AI generated. The post got viral(>6M views) as art critics started deleting their replies 2 months ago:
Plus it only exists on a screen; a canvas Monet never touched. They changed the context and get surprised that people didn’t ignore the change in context.
- Comment on SHL0MS(famous prankster on X/Twitter) baited AI haters by posting a real painting by Monet, claiming it was AI generated. The post got viral(>6M views) as art critics started deleting their replies 2 months ago:
Even when we can’t identify the author of a work we still value the fact that a human produced it.
- Comment on YouTube's long unskippable ads may have finally met their match 6 months ago:
Someone has to be first
- Comment on Journalists convinced a AI Vending Machine Things to give them free stuff like a PS5 7 months ago:
It looks like it’s 10,000 years away from being trusted with anything. The number of times it said, “I think this person is bullshitting me” and then did what it was asked anyway was rediculous.
- Comment on Lawmakers Want To Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They’re Doing 7 months ago:
I thought they were going to require age verification for VPNs but their demand is even more stupid. They want porn sites to recognise when someone is using a VPN and then block their access if their in Wisconsin. I want this law to pass now so that they can look stupid in front of more people.
- Comment on Five years from launch the PS5 is a roaring success, so why doesn't it feel like it? [Eurogamer] 8 months ago:
Consoles are usually sold at a loss and profit is made on the software i.e games and nowadays subscriptions. Selling hardware at a loss with no follow up is going to hurt.
- Comment on Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show 8 months ago:
But the company only bans advertisers if its automated systems predict the marketers are at least 95% certain to be committing fraud, the documents show. If the company is less certain – but still believes the advertiser is a likely scammer – Meta charges higher ad rates as a penalty, according to the documents.
What a way to run a business! I think we could all learn a lot from the zuck.
- Comment on ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for verified adults, OpenAI boss says 8 months ago:
A recent winner of the Akutagawa prize in Japan said she used chatbots to write around 5% of her novel so they’re already proving useful.
- Comment on ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for verified adults, OpenAI boss says 8 months ago:
A recent winner of the Akutagawa prize in Japan said she used chatbots to write around 5% of her novel.
After 33-year-old writer Rie Kudan won the Akutagawa Prize last week, she told reporters that a small portion of her book, Tokyo-to Dojo-to (Tokyo Sympathy Tower), was lifted verbatim from ChatGPT.
“This is a novel written by making full use of a generative A.I.,” Kudan said in her acceptance speech, according to the Japan Times’ Thu-Huong Ha. “Probably about 5 percent of the whole text is written directly from the generative A.I. I would like to work well with them to express my creativity.” smithsonianmag.com/…/this-award-winning-japanese-…
- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick 8 months ago:
Wouldn’t it be easier to upgrade the hardware so it can keep up with updates? The article mentioned a law that requires manufacturers to offer repairs and recalls for 15 years after sale. That could be expanded to include computer hardware.
- Comment on Meta denies torrenting porn to train AI, says downloads were for “personal use” 8 months ago:
Is meta the one that downloaded all the books from anna’s archive?
- Comment on Generative AI is a societal disaster 8 months ago:
Because data centers are being built all over the place. Californian almonds are only being grown in California.
- Comment on Grounded jet engines take off again as datacenter generators 8 months ago:
Thanks for sharing. It was interesting to learn something new.
- Comment on Grounded jet engines take off again as datacenter generators 9 months ago:
No my irritation was with how it was written. Why break the rhythm when listing 3 things? Why mention Vietnam and the Philippines and then immediately move on? The writing was very disjointed.
Some of the embedded links were useful and interesting, others just went to random pages that had nothing to do with what was discussed.
- Comment on Grounded jet engines take off again as datacenter generators 9 months ago:
Japan’s MHI, Germany’s Siemens, and GE Vernova
I’ve heard of Japan and Germany but where is GE?
A report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) notes the effect this is having in Southeast Asian countries like Vietnam and the Philippines.
What is the effect? Why bring it up if you don’t want to discuss it?
What a poorly written article. I couldn’t follow the author’s incomplete thoughts for much of it.
- Comment on Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more 9 months ago:
If your alarm clock needs an internet connection then you need an old alarm clock.
- Comment on Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation. 9 months ago:
You tax dollars at work. Let’s spend a month investigating something the DA immediately shuts down.
Your primary complaint is that the police wasted their time? I’m sure they’ll get better at identifying what cases are worth pursuing with time and experience.
- Comment on Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man 10 months ago:
I love how all of facebook’s privacy settings are set to ‘use and abuse me’ and periodically get reset to such every now and again. It used to tell you what shopping your friends did, like if your boyfriend bought an engagement ring. When asked if he thought this was a good thing Zuckerberg’s answer was basically, “Yes.”
- Comment on The Dumbest Phone Is Parenting Genius: Landlines encourage connection—without the downsides of smartphones. 10 months ago:
There’s a movement in Spain and people put stickers in their shop windows that say, “You can use my phone” so kids can call home without the need to carry their own phone.
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- Comment on Ideas coming down the track 11 months ago:
Trains are designed to operate for 30 or more years so the turnover is slower than cars, which have an average age of 12 in USA.
- Comment on Ideas coming down the track 11 months ago:
12 foot ladder- archive.ph/iZqnd
- Submitted 11 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 9 comments
- Comment on China has built the world’s largest bullet-train network 11 months ago:
12 foot ladder- archive.ph/XRppG