Currently I think my leading theory is that Elon Musk has made a deal with a witch, and in exchange for eternal life he has to burn 44 billion dollars as fast as possible. I see no other explanation for these batshit decisions.
SEGA has announced today that their acquisition of mobile video game marker Rovio has been successful. The Finnish developer is best known for its ultra-successful Angry Birds series of games which…
Zoom's Terms of Service say the company can train AI on user data with no mention of a way to opt out. Now Zoom says you don’t need to worry because the company swears it won’t actually do that, even though the Terms of Service say it can.
"Clicking agree allows us to come into your bedroom at night and sleep with your wife. Don't worry, we wouldn't actually do that, even though we did take the time to explicitly add that to our terms of service. You can trust us."
From the video description: In HW News this week, we start with a discussion about Linus Sebastian's recent reply to our commentary about Linus Tech Tips' issues with accuracy, data, corrections, ethics, and conflicts. We are baffled and disappointed by the hastily, angrily-written, and at times inaccurate statement posted.
Like, is the Billet Labs issue supposed to be sabotage or something? He's shitting on it right from the beginning, uses the wrong card, installs it poorly, then refuses to retest because...it'll cost him...like...$500?
It's like if I was reviewing a screwdriver, decided to use nails because I couldn't find any screws, held the thing upside down, then bitched about how shitty it was. And when it's pointed out that my review isn't fair, refuse to retest because a box of screws is $8 at Home Depot and the screwdriver probably sucks anyway. And on top of that, just sell the screwdriver to someone else instead of giving it back.
Does LMG have investments in a competitor or something? It is so willfully irresponsible that I almost want to claim conspiracy because I can't believe that a company would make so many poor decisions by mistake. What is going on over there where a $500 reshoot that would ensure a fair and balanced review of the product is such an nonnegotiable prospect?
Hire more staff to do more development/QA in a shorter timespan
Delay release schedule to not be annual releases
Reduce game scope to something the team can accomplish
Gamefreak cannot keep its historically small team size while trying to make large, open world titles that release annually. Tears of the Kingdom tool over 5 years to develop, and that was working with pre-existing assets. Gamefreak's model is not sustainable.
Awesome. I'm just lurking with Artemis until kbin.social enables the API, but really like how it's coming along. Microblogging is the big reason I chose Kbin over Lemmy, so I'm excited for this.
But you know the industry will learn the wrong lesson from this.
"Wow, people really like Baldur's Gate 3. I know, it must be the dice rolls! Let's have every interaction in Assassin's Creed: Tropical Freeze be determined by RNG!"
Yeah, I think the real message here is that people want stable, full featured games at release. There are a lot of games that still are stuck with a reputation as broken, barely finished messes long after those issues have been resolved. I see people shit talk Cyberpunk 2077 and No Man's Sky to this day, even those those games currently sit in a much better state than they did at launch. First impressions matter.
The real lesson developers need to take away from this is that if you put the time in to make sure your game is finished before released, it performs a lot better at launch.
“We will be seeking maximum sanctions under the law possible,” Marion County Record’s publisher said after the entire local police department seized reporting materials....
Ever notice how with the far right, the second amendment is the only one that matters? Any attempt to restrict gun access in any way is immediately challenged as unconstitutional, no compromise. But the first amendment never gets that benefit. We'll ban books and raid newspapers just fine.
For IT you could do Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, etc. There's a whole lot of angles you could come at it from too. Would you want to maintain systems or develop them?
If databases interest you, you could be a DBA. If networking interests you, a network engineer. If you want to do development, you can focus on front-end development, back-end development, full-stack, embedded systems, and more. Maybe hardware interests you, so you'd like to be a computer engineer. Computers/IT has a lot of components to it, and even if you find yourself a person that likes to bounce between different things, there's a lot here that you can bounce between. School will have you touch a little bit of everything, and you can find that part you want to specialize in.
Taking a picture instantly after would probably create a different hash value. The thing about hashing is that even if one bit is different between source images, the resulting hashes would look entirely different.
I suppose I could conceive of a proprietary hash algorithm that would allow for fuzzy matching of iris photos, but as you said, eyes taken years apart in different conditions wouldn't match the original hash. Or falsely match similar looking eyes. It's not like this system allows them to get high resolution perfectly lit iris photos, after all.
The whole thing sounds dubious, and I suspect AI is mentioned solely to secure investor funding, much like how several years back everything mentioned Blockchain.
The range of Republican voters’ views on Trump shows he continues to have a tight grip on the party, even among those weary of his rhetoric and legal woes.
They're choosing between a man who literally tried to overthrow democracy, a man too focused on drag queens and bathrooms, or a democrat. Politics is a team sport for these people. It's not about electing the best candidate, it's about beating the Democrats.
Republican senators say they’re worried that conservative populism, though always a part of the GOP, is beginning to take over the party, becoming more radical and threatening to cause them signifi…
I was creating a new community and on the rules step when my keyboard broke. After restarting, I have now been greeted with /m/beetlejuicingf . F!!!@#$ How do I mitigate this?
Most social networks have this "growth at all costs" mentality that is usually the root cause of enshittification. When I say 'smaller', I mean it more in terms of fostering a healthy community of dedicated contributors rather than trying to make the fediverse grow as much as possible as fast as possible. This is why I mostly support the notion of preemptively defederating from Threads. While it would help the fediverse 'grow', that's not necessarily what I want out of it. I don't want us to win, I want us to be good.
If you get your public education in the deep south, you'll get a lot of lost-cause revisionist history. Everything from "the civil war really had nothing to do with slavery" to "slaves were actually treated very well".
So yeah... maybe the turtle slowly waking up that he was just a Laptog for reddit and thrown away as soon as they didnt need him anymore ( moderation is allways a volunteer thing and shouldnt be like a 2nd job ).
I would even allow as high as 25, but probably an amount that can be controlled by the instance. But we should stop these 1000+ communities controlled by one mod.
A lot of people mention the waiver, which...sure, there's some assumption of the risk for diving to the bottom of the ocean. But a waiver won't exclude you from gross incompetence and negligence.
If I ran an indoor trampoline park, I may have you sign a waiver before you can use it. This makes sense, as jumping on trampolines carries with it some inherit risk of physical injury. That's a risk you have to acknowledge before you can come in. However, if you got injured because the building caught on fire, and due to my negligence I've blocked all the fire exits with flammable material, that's a bit beyond the assumption of risk covered by the waiver. I would totally be liable for any damages that result.
Did the Titan implode due to the inherit risk of deep sea exploration? Or did it implode due to a dereliction of safety precautions? (It's that one)
Hell, just coming out with a statement that you're delaying the paid API by six months would fizzle out most protests. But they have dollar signs in their eyes with ChatGPT using Reddit for data and they want that money now.
X plans to remove news headlines and text in shared articles (www.engadget.com)
Elon Musk said the idea came from him directly....
SEGA has successfully acquired Rovio (mynintendonews.com)
SEGA has announced today that their acquisition of mobile video game marker Rovio has been successful. The Finnish developer is best known for its ultra-successful Angry Birds series of games which…
Zoom Contradicts Its Own Policy About Training AI On Your Data (gizmodo.com)
Zoom's Terms of Service say the company can train AI on user data with no mention of a way to opt out. Now Zoom says you don’t need to worry because the company swears it won’t actually do that, even though the Terms of Service say it can.
HW News - Linus Tech Tips' Terrible Response (www.youtube.com)
From the video description: In HW News this week, we start with a discussion about Linus Sebastian's recent reply to our commentary about Linus Tech Tips' issues with accuracy, data, corrections, ethics, and conflicts. We are baffled and disappointed by the hastily, angrily-written, and at times inaccurate statement posted.
The Pokémon Company Having ‘Conversations’ About Its 'Constant' Release Schedule - IGN (www.ign.com)
The Pokémon Company is having internal conversations about maintaining game quality amid its "constant" release schedule.
YouTube’s anti-ad blocking test gets even pushier with a new timer (www.androidpolice.com)
Zuckerberg says Musk 'not serious' about cage fight (www.bbc.com)
Doubt hangs over the billionaires' fight plans, but Musk suggests he is open to a bout on Monday.
Microblogging on Artemis is 95% done. Taking a day or two to tie up lose ends and then it’ll go live! (media.artemis.camp)
The Main Lesson From ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Should Be ‘People Hate Microtransactions’ (www.forbes.com)
If reception to Baldur’s Gate says anything, it’s that people hate microtransactions in their AAA games.
Daily Beast has picked up the story: Kansas Newspaper Slams ‘Gestapo Tactics’ After Police Raid - Update: Co-Owner Has Died (www.thedailybeast.com)
“We will be seeking maximum sanctions under the law possible,” Marion County Record’s publisher said after the entire local police department seized reporting materials....
What something you wish you had done during your 20's?
last post here 4 awhile cuz im tired of being the only 1 posting, not like anyone looks at these anyway. wish others would participate 🤧 edit: this isnt 'reverse psychology'. i was petty & sad at 0 engagement & nearly left this mag. i regret my wording
Next Battlefield Is A "Reimagination" Of The Series (www.gamespot.com)
After Battlefield 2042 came up short, it looks like EA is shaking things up for the next game.
Nefarious Data Collection Masking as Public Art? An A.I. Company Has Placed Mirrored Spheres Around the World in a Massive Eye-Scanning Project (news.artnet.com)
A.I. company Worldcoin has rolled out 1,500 Orbs to more than 35 cities in a bid to create digital identities for the world's citizens.
Analysis: Even as third indictment looms, many Republicans still stand by Trump (www.washingtonpost.com)
The range of Republican voters’ views on Trump shows he continues to have a tight grip on the party, even among those weary of his rhetoric and legal woes.
GOP senators rattled by radical conservative populism (thehill.com)
Republican senators say they’re worried that conservative populism, though always a part of the GOP, is beginning to take over the party, becoming more radical and threatening to cause them signifi…
Delete magazine.
I was creating a new community and on the rules step when my keyboard broke. After restarting, I have now been greeted with /m/beetlejuicingf . F!!!@#$ How do I mitigate this?
Reddit demands moderators remove NSFW labels, or else (www.theverge.com)
Article by The Verge, providing details about various subreddits and their mods getting threatened because they are labeled as NSFW
AmeriRule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Awkwardturtle The banned 1000 sub mod Talks about the admins after Ban and got a message "let all burn to the ground" (lemmy.world)
So yeah... maybe the turtle slowly waking up that he was just a Laptog for reddit and thrown away as soon as they didnt need him anymore ( moderation is allways a volunteer thing and shouldnt be like a 2nd job ).
Pfft
After two weeks I visited reddit again. Holy shit the misogyny and lack of critical thinking in the comments is something else....
Why are dried pickles not a thing
title says it.
I just found out that the people onboard the Titan submarine are dead. Is OceanGate in trouble?
Is OceanGate in trouble for not using a good submarine to see the Titanic?
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is fighting a losing battle against the site's moderators (qz.com)
The company wants to charge for API access. Its volunteer moderators have other ideas