sigmaklimgrindset

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sigmaklimgrindset, (edited )

Didn’t Ubisoft layoff 45 people in April, and then 100+ people before last Christmas? Sure that’s not Google/Microsoft numbers, but I’m struggling to see how that’s not related to the “reducing headcount” here.

They’ve also had a bunch of games cease production/get quietly cancelled, and if there were contractors working on those instead of full employees, those wouldn’t count as “layoffs”.

Edit: Apr. 2024: Ubi lays off 45.

Nov. 2023: Ubi lays off 124 people, 98 in Canada

Sept. 2023 - they closed their London studio and 60 positions were “affected” (they never said if they were let go or redistributed within the company)

May 2023: Ubi Lays off 60 people

Connected cars’ illegal data collection and use now on FTC’s “radar” (arstechnica.com)

The Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Technology has issued a warning to automakers that sell connected cars. Companies that offer such products “do not have the free license to monetize people’s information beyond purposes needed to provide their requested product or service,” it wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. Just...

sigmaklimgrindset,

Lina Khan, the current chair of the FTC, seems to have a history with anti-trust legal research and seems to actively care about pursuing anti-competitive industries.

I truly wish her all the best in this regulatory captured mess.

sigmaklimgrindset,

Japanese companies and doing everything via fax machines.

sigmaklimgrindset,

Wish granted: You’ll get it on Disney+

sigmaklimgrindset,

Google doesn’t sell your data because they don’t need to. They take the data and use something called Real Time Bidding that also skirts GDPR and data protection laws/best practices.

People in this thread are really showing their ass about how little they know about how their data is actually being collected and protected. Sure, Proton isn’t 100% private, but to say Proton and Gmail are on the same levels of consumer protection is hilarious.

iPad Pro with M4 chip boasts impressive performance jump compared to just-released M3 MacBook Air (9to5mac.com)

On raw performance might, the M4 really does live up to Apple’s promises, should deliver. Single core is up about 20% compared to all M3 chips and more than 40% compared to M2. The generational computational leap from the previous M2 iPad Pro is at least a 42% jump on single-core and multi-core.

sigmaklimgrindset,

RUNNING IPAD OS?? Apple what is happening 😭

sigmaklimgrindset,

Why is a company called “Moroccan Oil” from Israel? I feel like they should be from…somewhere else.

sigmaklimgrindset,

Benefits how? I feel like gaming is going to become like the startup sector where companies create something to specifically get acquired by a big company.

Like it’s becoming so prevalent for these big gaming publishers to vacuum up IP and sit on it, it’s just the Disney-fication of gaming.

sigmaklimgrindset,

Paris looks like Vaultboy’s cousin in this

sigmaklimgrindset,

If you have any tips or tricks for DDG please do share! I’m definitely getting better overall results there, but the local ones can still be a bit rough.

sigmaklimgrindset,

I see a lot of my friends actually use Bing through ChatGPT, and they seem to get better results than Google. That might be what Microsoft is actually optimizing Bing for

sigmaklimgrindset,

I play with a couple of friends in the Baltics. I have PSN. There is no PSN in the Baltics. So I guess I can’t play with the friends I solely bought this game for.

Just because it doesn’t affect you doesn’t mean it’s silly to complain about this.

sigmaklimgrindset, (edited )

No because it is not available in their country, and making an account with a region different from your Steam account would have inherent EULA risks.

sigmaklimgrindset,

There’s a Tiktok account (yes, boo hiss tomato, etc) that makes AI generated music, and the country songs are indistinguishable from actual country songs on the radio until you listen to the lyrics.

There was one where the lyrics were something like “thinking about corn/gun up my butt” that I still think about…

sigmaklimgrindset,

I mean they’re trying to ban it because they don’t want American social media data in China’s or hostile 3rd party hands.

The hypocrisy comes from the fact that they won’t regulate the Silicon Valley social media companies the same way. Cambridge Analytica (now Emerdata) wasn’t Chinese, they were British. The fact that tech giants like Meta are looking to buy Tiktok in order to stop the ban should also be something to raise eyebrows at.

I’m not for or against Tiktok, btw, I see it as a tool for study. From a professional standpoint, it’s algorithm is fascinating, especially as so much other social media is getting more and more enshitified. And a lot of people who don’t use it don’t realize how tailored it can based on their usage. Scary stuff, but also shows an effective use of user data compared to other sites like Instagram or YouTube’s algorithms.

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Where is this from?? Is this AI?

sigmaklimgrindset,

Thank you, I just read the Wikipedia summary of the event, and I can’t believe this isn’t even as big as the “Big One” everyone talks about for Yellowstone.

sigmaklimgrindset, (edited )

Haha, yea, I wasn’t born in the right decade on the right continent to know about this, so I had a really good time learning about something new!

The only reason I even know about the Yellowstone caldera eruption zone is because my American cousin once told me about it in the form of a horror story when we were both younger, and I started crying because I thought the world was going to end while we were visiting Connecticut, lol.

Newpipe is getting updates on fdroid again and seem like will be getting updates for the foreseeable future as the issue stopping it is solved. (f-droid.org)

Also on an unrelated note anyway to remove live from your subscribed channels update field ? Some channels are filling it with live so i have to really scroll down to see my video feeds and can’t find a setting to switch it off. Newpipe didn’t used to add live in your what’s new feed of subscribed channels, related pic .

sigmaklimgrindset,

Just got a 2nd hand Pixel I am currently tinkering with/thinking about Degoogling. Is there a significant difference between Newpipe vs Revanced?

sigmaklimgrindset,

Thank you for this thorough breakdown!

sigmaklimgrindset,

I’m scared about the monetization of FFXIV now…

sigmaklimgrindset,

They’re Belgian.

source: trust me bro

sigmaklimgrindset,

I wonder how many new people bought Fallout 4 after watching the show, and started playing it vanilla. I don’t think I’ve ever played it un-modded.

sigmaklimgrindset,

Emulator on Steamdeck is unironically the best way to play Switch games. I say this as the owner of multiple Switches.

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