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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Downdetector, Speedtest sold to IT service-provider Accenture in $1.2B deal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Neat, didn’t know about theirs!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The City of Encinitas, California is removing a protected bike lane to replace it with a painted bike lane. Cost? More than $3 million.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Its always some boomer isn’t it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Downdetector, Speedtest sold to IT service-provider Accenture in $1.2B deal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Speedtest hasn’t been trustworthy for a while. Okla bought them and immediately started selling to ISPs nodes that they could install (probably just a container or something) that would sit as a “local” speedtest node, so you were testing your connection to the ISP, not testing your actual internet connection. (i.e. giving you the best possible results and what your ISP wanted you to believe).

  Fast.com is slightly better in that Netflix spun it up to test your connection to their servers. So it’s independent of ISPs - but then they built high speed optic lines to most ISPs so it’s more like the second-best possible speed.

  Accenture will be the same or worse. I don’t trust it for speedtests anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Pulls Back From PlayStation Games on PC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Corporate suits love ignoring player feedback and telling people they’re wrong.

  No, we’re goddamn sick of enshittification and would rather PlayStation failed than give into it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah this stuff was never impossible before, it’s just easy to digest now.

• Laura Fryer talks about Phil Spencer, and tells her story of why she left Xboxwww.youtube.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Block ditches 4,000 staff, because AI can do their jobs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They always claim it’s AI. In my experience they want to sell, and their operations budget just got halved so they look extremely profitable.

  Because fuck those people’s livelihood, there’s money to be made!

  Also why you should never trust private equity. Because they’ll buy this company, come in, realize what just happened, and their solution will be to… cut more people and pawn the company off on yet another firm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jason Schreier says Sony is backing away from putting single player games on PC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They keep forgetting this, Xbox thought it too. We are with our digital libraries, I’m not going to go buy a PS5 because of one game. The hardware is only the portal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah so they found a way to treat their employees even worse! Great

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Louis is going after the DMCA lawyer trying to take down YT-DL (and needs your help)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some choice comments from the YT thread:

  Louis, even just one person submitting a complaint to the Grievance Committee of the NYC Bar with even paltry evidence, not the cavalcade you detailed, will end up having a proctological experience. As well it should. I’m speaking from experience (not me, someone I worked with, and she was simply of counsel, and did about 15 hours of work on a multi year case). The lead attorney crushed the lies in the bullshit grievance, but still took dozens of hours of work to defend. If the fact pattern you cite is accurate (as seems evident), and all of this is in writing, this sack of excrement attorney is going to be in a world of well deserved hurt.

  It’s genuinely surreal to see a real life person being to cartoonishly evil and so openly as well. He’s like every stereotype about lawyers rolled into one person. Bury this guy’s career under the courthouse!

  I’m usually on the fence about Louis, but he’s doing good work here.

• Louis is going after the DMCA lawyer trying to take down YT-DL (and needs your help)www.youtube.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy needs real deletion, not just soft‑delete/hiding⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good on you for realizing you were wrong, I’ll upvote that.

  However, as for the behavior it’s standard forum functionality. People may respond to your comment, and then you delete it. You individually have the right to remove all discussion underneath, and future users need to understand there was something there.

• Qwen Image Multiple Angles 3D Camerahuggingface.co ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone who thinks Xbox is still going to be worth anything is a fool. They overspent on gaming studios, didn’t produce anything of value, gamepass value went down, and now everyone hates them for the constant enshittification. Even stepping back from “This is lemmy and we all hate microsoft” they have done some horrible business moves with Xbox. I don’t know anyone who is positive about the brand. They have ran it firmly into the ground.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if this is a huge demotion for the AI guy. AI teams in Microsoft are “good” right now, I wonder if he fucked up in some way and they put him on xbox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey don’t discount them that much, they also can’t make games either. They’re going for full on business-only approach, consumers are not a priority for them at all anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Toronto the Latest Ubisoft Branch to get hit With Layoffs, Work on the Splinter Cell Remake Continues⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And they want us to stay hyped about games. I refuse to believe any marketing garbage because I know now they’re just measuring hype to determine if they should keep making things. That is not a long term strategy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hot midi trax⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The shame, the people should know!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I truly believe its bad now, but its not going to last. Yes, I know that they want to take computers from us, but their purchasing isn’t going to stay this consistent. Its going to be rough for a bit, but after a few more contracts fall through and these purchases aren’t renewed for year after year (and looking at stock prices investors are not happy about these massive purchases) data centers are going to purchase less, and I really believe we’re going to see hardware crawl back to gaming.

  Its up to us to decide which companies deserve our money when that day comes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They do have this, unless I’m not understanding. I run a space (same as discords servers) and in there I have channels that are just like discord’s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Families in New York City demonstrated against a proposal to allow cars in a local park. A politician showed up in a car to mock them⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They always forget that others deserve to have places without cars. Seriously why do they need to drive through a park. It’s a park.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Qwen-Image-2.0 released: 7B params (massive drop from 20B), unified Gen Edit, and beats Nano Banana in elo. Weights soon?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Impressive, if it’s true. Would be interesting to see. So far I’ve seen flux 2, which would require way more GPU! Han I have, and queen image which seems on par with flux 1. This could get me to finally up my pipeline

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Could be? Soon? People they’re already doing it! Do people really not think so?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1200 Ubisoft staff go on strike against Assassin's Creed company's massive cutbacks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah when the company is looking to cut as much cost as possible, if it’s not an indefinite strike then you’re just telling them ahead of time that they should probably just let you all go

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1200 Ubisoft staff go on strike against Assassin's Creed company's massive cutbacks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point a year is generous

• 1200 Ubisoft staff go on strike against Assassin's Creed company's massive cutbackswww.rockpapershotgun.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly a thousand Google workers sign letter urging company to divest from ICE, CBP⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The I learned the hard way years ago that that the one thing the company doesn’t want is a loud employee. It doesn’t matter what the issue is, who it’s about, if I can get the company in trouble or put some in an awkward position they don’t want you.

  That’s why HR is such a dangerous place to go, they’re not looking out for you, they’re looking out for the company. By going to HR at all. You just prove that you are someone who can and will speak out, which is bad for the company. Whether that’s complaining about a co-worker or something the company is doing, it doesn’t matter, it shades you in a negative light because you are willing to speak out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord roll out global age verification system, including an "age inference" model that runs in the background⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither do I, but from other platforms it’s only a matter of time until you’re prompted for it. You join a server where someone has posted something NSFW before, or the server admin “to be safe” set it to adults only, or they just clamp down on the definition of adults only. At some point I fully expect it’ll force me to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord roll out global age verification system, including an "age inference" model that runs in the background⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Best I’ve done is try to minimize the hassle by hosting myself, and giving a how-to guide. My group is small, I’ve been sitting down individually with them showing them how to migrate

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord roll out global age verification system, including an "age inference" model that runs in the background⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Revolt (now Stoat) is an option, personally I don’t like it because there is no federation and it’s text-only.

  I’m using Matrix, with Element, which does have encrypted voice chat if you set it up. I want federation because I don’t want my users to be locked into only my server. However, the bar for entry is higher.