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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European game publisher group responds to Stop Killing Games, claims 'These proposals would curtail developer choice"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  So tone deaf, and clearly they’re just trying to steer the narrative.

  They call out that it’s never taken lightly and it has to happen. We know. Stop killing games just says you have to do something when you turn off the servers. Either release the server source code so it can be engineered by the community, release a self hostage server alternative, even just documents or guides on how to get started.

  But they’re going to try to make it about the mean old gamers want them to go broke

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally I agree. I’ve seen way more startups kicking off with these waves of layoffs. It’s a silver lining, not much more, but I’m happy to see people finally realizing they don’t want the big tech solutions anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh they may call themselves Christians, but none of them uphold the ideals or beliefs of Christians. They are hypocrites. The same day they do this they take away healthcare from millions, take food out of children’s hands, and ramp up more violence to those already hurting.

  I don’t care what their label is they put on the outside, none of these are Christian. They openly spit on the morals that Jesus laid down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gravity⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Same as any theory, but it’s enough to make Christians freak out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want to leave tech: what do I do?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah writer doesn’t mention money anywhere there, that’s the real trap. All of those sound nice but I have rent to pay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google loses $314 million lawsuit over data transfers when Android phones are idle⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Always nice to see a positive outcome, let’s hope they lose the appeal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My statue Peebee (Mass Effect Andromeda)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally I couldn’t stand her, but I’m glad she brought you so much joy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft layoffs are reportedly underway, with ZeniMax and King employees losing their jobs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember kids, don’t buy into hype anymore. Hype is a marketing tool. They don’t have to make any promises that a game will be good or even come out just because they hyped you up for it. Don’t allow yourself to be excited for anything until it actually releases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft cancel Perfect Dark reboot and shut the developers down in the name of "continued success"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta love how they always have a euphemism available for “ruining people’s livelihoods so we can appear slightly better to investors”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young Americans Are Spending A Whole Lot Less On Video Games This Year⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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  Interesting, would be nice if they showed what the average increase in prices was on this graph too, I bet there could be a correlation…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's real problem was never PlayStation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They ran off even their most loyal players one by one with their asinine moves. Lame games, vendor lockin, nickle and dining.

  I was die hard for Xbox. Had every one, dozens of games, more probably. Have fond memories of lan parties and friends coming over to play split screen. I remember playing through halo 3 the night it dropped into the early morning, and getting the beta from Reach.

  Then they killed off split screen. And lan gaming. You had to use Xbox live to play with your friend in the room. Oh no they don’t have Xbox live. Oh no there’s an update. Now they don’t have their password. They can’t join my party. The audio doesn’t work. It became a hassle to play with people

  Steam just works. And it’s a fair price

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What we can? How? I’ve been eating ramen and hemorrhaging savings paying for cobra

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wheee⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Was gonna say, covid if anything made me more focused. I did so many side projects

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Update to last week's BestBuy Shenanigan. They refused to refund me after not delivering me the stuff I ordered after a so-called "investigation".⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Seconded. This seems like a gamers nexus story ready to happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Update to last week's BestBuy Shenanigan. They refused to refund me after not delivering me the stuff I ordered after a so-called "investigation".⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Best buy had one of the lowest lows and best recoveries I had ever seen while working there. The new French CEO made it about customer service, and I saw people and teens who had never considered going to a best buy start going. Stock price went up, people were happy.

  Then the board ousted him a few years ago and made it all about profits, going right back to where they were in the downward spiral, completely unaware of the irony. I hope they fail now. They could have come out on top but greed took over again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black Forest Labs - Frontier AI Lab⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  6. Reporting. As part of Your use of a Licensed FLUX [dev] Model, you must provide us certain data related to your use of the Licensed FLUX [dev] Model or Derivatives, such as the number of images that are generated by the Licensed FLUX [dev] Models or Derivatives, or we may require you to use software to track and report usage to us. You agree to provide us those metrics or use any required software to collect that data for us.

  So … I assume comfyui ain’t going to do this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the nuance of AI that anyone who has done any actual work with ML has known for decades now. ML is amazing. It’s not perfect. It’s actually pretty far from perfect. So you should never ever use it as a solo check, but it can be great for a double check.

  Such as with cancer. AI can be a wonderful choice to detecting a melanoma, if used correctly. Such as:

  • a doctor has already cleared a mole, but if you want to know if it warrants a second opinion by another doctor. You could have the model to have a confidence of say, 80% sure that the first doctor is correct in that it is fine.

  • if you do not have access to a doctor immediately, it can be a fine check, again only to a certain percentage. Say that in this case in the future you are worried but cannot access a doctor easily. A patient could snap a photo and in this case a very high confidence rating would say that it is probably fine, with a disclaimer that it is just an AI model and if it changes or you are still worried, get it checked.

  Unfortunately, all of that nuance in that it is all just probabilities is completely lost on both the creators of all of these AI tools, and the risks are not actually passed to the users so blind trust is the number one problem.

  We see it here with police too. “It said it’s them”. No, it only said to a specific confidence that it might be them. That’s a very different thing. You should never use it to find someone, only to verify someone.

  I actually really like how airport security implemented it because it’s actually using it well. Here’s an ID, it has a photo of a person. Compare it to the photo taken there in person, and it should verify to a very high confidence that they are the same person. If in doubt, there’s a human there to also verify it. That’s good ML usage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah with their “everything is an Xbox” nonsense it’s pretty clear they want to focus on the platform, marketplace where you buy games. Playing them is kind of second. I’m sure they’ll still have something, but it’s going to be more geared towards cloud streaming, pc, handhelds, and “play where you want” so they can just do the digital side. I wouldn’t be surprised if they get partners like Asus to build boxes now.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bestbuy decided to use fucking **DOORDASH** to deliver my order, I couldn't cancel it. Today I was supposed to get it, and I saw the driver stealing the package after marking it as delivered.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Having worked at best buy, I’d say there’s a very small chance the manager can even do anything at this point. They already have such a small level of power. Maybe the store manager, like the manager of the other managers at the store, usually the store locator can do that. They have authority to actually just give away a laptop and eat the cost, maybe they can disable the cheap ass shipping options

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 user has 30 years of 'irreplaceable photos and work' locked away in OneDrive - and Microsoft's silence is deafening⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  RAID definitely does not count as part of your backup, it’s a helpful thing, but the entire array can fail. You still need minimum 2 other copies of your data to be considered safe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 user has 30 years of 'irreplaceable photos and work' locked away in OneDrive - and Microsoft's silence is deafening⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In a raid? No. A drive that has an application copy it every night or something? Yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 user has 30 years of 'irreplaceable photos and work' locked away in OneDrive - and Microsoft's silence is deafening⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember that cloud backups is the last location, the 1 in 3-2-1. You should have two local copies already on top of your cloud copy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do I purchase RDR2 ultimate edition which is on sale or hope for a proper Xbox series x version?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve waited now 7 years - waiting a bit longer won’t hurt - but then again if you wait for the next one there will probably always be another one after that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Witcher 4's development is "more console-first", but don't worry, CD Projekt will still try and turn your PC into the sun⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Makes sense. CP2077 they completely ignored at release that the game was unplayable on all the consoles the suits promised.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Driver stops in the middle of a cross ride, and starts using her phone.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They probably will, doesn’t mean she shouldn’t be shamed for parking in the middle of the walk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Requesting c/kingofthehill, moderator inactive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A KotH community is exactly what we need, I tell you hwat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Google about to destroy the web? Google says a new AI tool on its search engine will rejuvenate the internet. Others predict an apocalypse for websites.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Google has been floundering since chatgpt came online. Their press releases all sound the same to me. “We haven’t had real competition for so long that we got complacent, and now we’re not really sure what to do”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What in the...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To all the young engineers here, this is one of those things that seems really funny and a great idea at the time, but lasts way past the joke being funny.

  If you name your services Megatron or aragorn then be ready for business and executives to use those names for 10+ years. The joke is officially dead when you force someone 3 layers above you to demand “why did Galactica go down over the weekend, who is responsible?!”. Be thoughtful in your naming.