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- Comment on Google seeks to undo Epic Games antitrust win over app store 2 weeks ago:
This would be so much more of a clear cut case if Apple hadn’t won in Epic’s suit against them for the same reason. That was a bad call, and now with that inconsistency, Google’s argument holds some water.
- Comment on Multilingual, open source and a 'distinctly European perspective': Germany's Fraunhofer Institute's OpenGPT-X research project releases large language model 3 weeks ago:
Is fraunhofer the group that used to / still do sue other organizations over video codec use? I assumed it was a company but apparently not?
- Comment on Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X 5 weeks ago:
Did they say why?
- Comment on AI Slop Is Flooding Medium 1 month ago:
How well does the “AI detection startup’s” product work? This is a big unsolved problem but I’d be hecka skeptical.
- Comment on Chatbot that caused teen’s suicide is now more dangerous for kids, lawsuit says 1 month ago:
That will show that pesky receptionist
- Comment on We can now watch Grace Hopper’s famed 1982 lecture on YouTube 2 months ago:
Wait did they do one?
- Comment on I don't hate Body Type replacing Gender, I hate laziness 3 months ago:
That would be a fun can of worms
- Comment on I don't hate Body Type replacing Gender, I hate laziness 3 months ago:
What if you found a portal to a parallel universe? What if you could slide into a thousand different worlds where it’s the same year, and you’re the same person but everything else is different? And what if you can’t find your way home?
- Comment on The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con 4 months ago:
There is no reason to believe that it thinks or reasons—indeed, every AI researcher and vendor to date has repeatedly emphasised that these models don’t think.
Geoffrey Hinton, for one
- Comment on What's your favourite and/or least favourite gaming hardware? 4 months ago:
Love the switch. The only reason I’m still a console gamer at all.
- Comment on "Brain time of young Europeans is not a currency for social media": TikTok commits to permanently withdraw TikTok Lite Rewards programme from the EU to comply with the Digital Services Act 4 months ago:
What was this program?
- Comment on EU Citizen's initiative to pass legislation to stop game publishers disabling games we paid for 4 months ago:
Good question. Presumably games like this will have a server that is proprietary, and the compulsion may simply be to make the server source or executables available
- Comment on The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins 4 months ago:
Man THIS is what the Internet was all about
- Comment on What is Firefox supposed to do? 4 months ago:
Ditto
- Comment on AI Is Already Taking Jobs in the Video Game Industry 4 months ago:
No, generative ai is a blanket term that covers them both. Lots of people are both forcefully opinionated about this topic, and clueless. Like the person you’re responding to
- Comment on ‘If you want to have a good party, ask your friends not to take photos’: Carissa Véliz, expert in ethics applied to technology, advocates for a system of digital anonymity 5 months ago:
I am… very interested in the particulars of this zero knowledge system.
- Comment on ‘If you want to have a good party, ask your friends not to take photos’: Carissa Véliz, expert in ethics applied to technology, advocates for a system of digital anonymity 5 months ago:
A lot of people don’t seem to “get” digital privacy and this is really well articulated. Will be sharing when it comes up
- Comment on 98% compatibility 5 months ago:
Eyyyyy (╭☞´ิ∀´ิ)╭☞
- Comment on Palestinians living abroad have accused Microsoft of closing their email accounts without warning - cutting them off from crucial online services 5 months ago:
How well does spam filtering work for you?
- Comment on Apple Vision Pro U.S. Sales Are All But Dead, Market Analysts Say 5 months ago:
I happened to be in the apple temple to supplicate the priests there for an exorcism for one of my other infernal contraptions. I saw the vision pro sitting around while he did his incantations so I thought I’d check it out and it turns out they won’t let you without an appointment. It’s like they don’t want to sell these
- Comment on 98% compatibility 5 months ago:
Eh they’ll find something else to whine about
- Comment on Vivaldi: "Many have tagged us in discussions about a specif…" - Vivaldi Social 5 months ago:
I suppose there might be features I’m missing from meets/Hangouts but I’ve used the services regularly and not had any trouble.
- Comment on I asked what your fave controllers are, now. What is the worst controller you have used? 5 months ago:
Man this thread is making me mad so I’mma head out
- Comment on Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission 5 months ago:
You can disable so-called essential components and I believe it ships without almost any of the bloat. So essentially you could just take one drive out. Or at least that’s my hope
- Comment on Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission 5 months ago:
It’s ltsc an option for 11 like it was for 10?
- Comment on Man makes money buying his own pizza on DoorDash app 5 months ago:
That’s funny but I think Son is easily the dumbest billionaire. He’s also the bag-holder for the whole WeWork grift.
- Comment on Facial recognition startup Clearview AI settles privacy suit in the U.S. by giving plaintiffs a share of the company’s potential value, rather than a traditional payout, over lack of liqudity 5 months ago:
More like, “they will be offered part of the proceeds of any further watches we steal.”
I don’t know if I’m personally part of the class, but if I am, as relief I would want an injunction for them to fucking leave me alone, not shares in their operation.
- Comment on Can somebody explain why game makers don't start their own companies together? 7 months ago:
As a counterpoint to most of the cynicism here, this is how the company I now work for formed. Caveats include: the founder had a lot of money because he had previously worked for a big name Internet company when it was a startup, and we spend almost all of our time as contractors for other studios rather than developing in-house IP.
- Comment on Palestinian Relief Bundle - Itch.io 7 months ago:
Ngo monitor is right wing bullshit with zero credit.
- Comment on Palestinian Relief Bundle - Itch.io 7 months ago:
Holy fuck. 373 games. I’m very touched that so many are giving their hard work away to support this cause. Got it and added the extra payment on.