That’s funny but I think Son is easily the dumbest billionaire. He’s also the bag-holder for the whole WeWork grift. Got more dollars than brain cells.
Facial recognition startup Clearview AI reached a settlement Friday in an Illinois lawsuit alleging its massive photographic collection of faces violated the subjects’ privacy rights, a deal that attorneys estimate could be worth more than $50 million....
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.
Eminem releases "Houdini," the first single from his upcoming album "The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce)," promising a controversial and nostalgic return.
President Joe Biden has suggested he will appoint progressive justices to the Supreme Court if he wins a second term in the White House in November....
I stuck with 7 for an extremely long time under similar reasoning. Like I missed win 8 completely and only got 10 in maybe 2018. And only because I needed a version of directX for work that was unsupported on 7.
And it was the same shit back then. 10 was pulling a lot of the same tricks. Ads, reinstalling candy crush without permission, more bloat and antifeatures.
Eventually a combination of third party tools and understanding of how to keep the garbage at bay made 10 tolerable. And, I guess, now 10 is the semi-reliable legacy alternative to the current shitfest.
Is there a Shutup10 analogue for Windows 11? Or an LTSC? Not looking forward to having to go through that dance again. But I assume the day will come.
It seems like every other week a game studio is massively laying off employees; sometimes after years of development. What I’m reading is that it’s a quick way to lower expenses and pad the investors’ pockets, flooding the market with developers and reducing their value, to then hire them back a few months later at lower...
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.
Palestinians are being persecuted from their homes in an ongoing genocide. Due to the armed actions of Israel, they lack access to essentials such as food, water, electricity and medical care....
If the administration admits this, it will be legally bound by the Lahey act, which constrains military aid to countries committing human rights violations. They know how ridiculous their denials look.
Meh. You’re not just talking about just making it automatic or easy or recommended, but actually forcing everyone to have to go along with it and taking away the option to not do it.
Even at the risk of Microsoft adding more spyware to my machine, reinstalling apps I deliberately uninstalled, reverting privacy settings I set, strongarming me into using their browser, etc? All of which has been reported.
I’d be fine with what you describe in the second paragraph, but that’s not what’s meant by “forced.” That’s opt-out. Forced is what’s really objectionable, especially when it’s abused, as discussed in the article and elsewhere in these comments.
Wyden has been spectacular on actually understanding tech issues for a very long time at this point. The gerontocracy needs to stop acting like they have any clue how the internet works....
Yes thank you. I’m pretty worried about what happens without this guy. We still have Ed Markey but he’s up there too.
Much as a lot of the worst people in government are relics from another time, age discrimination doesn’t behoove us, IMO. Some of the best are also the most venerable. I’d take Bernie in a heartbeat.
As far as I can tell this basically means that all apps must be approved by Apple to follow their “platform policies for security and privacy” even if publishing on a third party app store. They will also disable updating apps from third party app stores if you stay outside the EU for too long (even if you are a citizen of...
“…AI” concerns me. I use quotation marks there because what is often referred to as AI today is not whatsoever what the term once described.
Lost me right there. Not only was and is this AI, but the term gets narrower over time, not broader. If you want to go by “what the term once described,” you have to include computer vision, text to speech, optical character recognition, behavior trees for video game enemies, etc etc etc.
When I see people complain about calling LLMs “AI,” I think the only definition that would satisfy them is “things computers can do that we aren’t used to yet.”
Man I really don’t get how discord has become the default for so many things. It’s chat. It’s persistent, but not in a way that’s easy to look through. Like, support forums or discussions about things that aren’t just fleeting? Whyyy
I was on it back when it was in closed beta and even went to their launch party. People were even saying how much the quality was declining as the closed beta got larger. It’s been a shitfest for a while - it seems tailor-made for blowhards to speak authoritatively without having any real authority on an issue.
To react to the article:
most interesting and longest-lasting corners of the internet: Quora
The first one is subjective but the second one isn’t - and neither are true.
Dave the Diver! It looks so goofy but give it a shot. It’s got hilarious cutscenes, and a really well executed blend of roguelike, restaurant game, resource management, and story RPG.
I might even suggest that having an mp3 or other file-based record collection is still in the same vein.
The big departure, imo, is people who don’t own their music collections. They rely only on Spotify or Apple or Amazon or whatever and just stream.
One day, when their contracts with the labels or whatever expire, or the service is discontinued, or you move to another country… your collection evaporates. It’s happened before.
Yep. BIG deficiency in this article. I don’t use a VPN because of shadowy “hackers” who sit in front of their keyboards with a pistol and a balaclava. I use it because ISPs and governments have demonstrated they can’t be trusted.
How about this?
I live in the United States, where I already have no digital privacy, and tunneling my internet traffic through a VPN owned and operated in another country won’t meaningfully improve my privacy or safety
Uh, what? If someone wants my traffic logs in the US, now they have to go through Mullvad, which has a track record of not providing or collecting it.
They don’t even know who I am, much less have all the data that my ISP has about me. So selling it would be pretty useless
Oh last edit: turns out this is the guy who was trying to well ackshually us into thinking Chrome nerfing ad blockers is not a big deal.
I’m torn on this topic because on the one hand there’s enough evidence for the harm it does, but one thing these finger wagging experts seem to ignore is that if you keep kids isolated from the tools then you’re leaving them behind.
I was probably an Internet addict as a kid with dial up and a CRT monitor, but I don’t regret it given how well it prepared me for the tech-dominated present.
Seems really ridiculous to me that they can write an article like this and still use terms like “deathbed,” “barbones console,” etc.
If anything this shows that hardware matters less and less. The game itself is king and Nintendo is really good at it. Beefier hardware has diminishing returns and people who write articles like this seem to have cut their teeth on the big leaps: 8 to 16 to 64 bit and don’t realize that doesn’t really matter anymore.
Why does this constitute trolling, though? That means they actually did invent and produce the tech for that whole period, doesn’t it? I could understand filling a provisional patent and then only pulling the trigger on the whole shebang when you actually have to protect it.
Patent trolling is buying up patents from their actual inventors for the purpose of suing and extorting money from companies that actually make use of the tech, while not actually doing anything productive with them.
Two facts here: 1) they invented the tech, and 2) they used the invention to legitimately produce items for sale.
While that’s true I think this meme is far from a fair characterization of that arrangement, given how Mozilla differs so starkly from Google on the direction of the open web. Case in point, their refusal to deprecate manifest v2 for browser extensions.
I sort of agree. These things appeared overnight in a bunch of cities. It’s not surprising to me that we didn’t and don’t have cultural best practices around them.
There are always going to be inconsiderate people, like those who don’t pick up after their dogs or don’t follow traffic laws. We don’t respond by getting rid of dogs and cars.
Bird, Lime, and others should have invested in acclimating the culture to the presence of the scooters, helping ensure people weren’t going to react like the top level poster (“I hate these things, get rid of em.”)
I personally used them when they were first out and I happened to be visiting LA. They were useful, convenient, fun, and affordable. And most of all, low-impact compared to the alternative.
It’s a loss to not have something like them as a transportation option. But considering the carelessness of the approach, I suppose it wasn’t long for this world. Typical silicon valley pirate stuff; “disrupt” the culture on VC dime, try to push expenses onto someone else, and try to cash out ASAP. I like them; just wish they had been done better.
Scientists revealed that Neanderthals cared for their disabled children out of compassion (socialbites.ca)
Here is the study: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn9310 (archived)...
Man makes money buying his own pizza on DoorDash app (www.bbc.com)
Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission (www.neowin.net)
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 (apnews.com)
Facial recognition startup Clearview AI reached a settlement Friday in an Illinois lawsuit alleging its massive photographic collection of faces violated the subjects’ privacy rights, a deal that attorneys estimate could be worth more than $50 million....
Eminem Teases New Album ‘The Death of Slim Shady’ with Provocative Single ‘Houdini’ (thenarinder.in)
Eminem releases "Houdini," the first single from his upcoming album "The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grâce)," promising a controversial and nostalgic return.
Joe Biden issues Supreme Court warning (www.newsweek.com)
President Joe Biden has suggested he will appoint progressive justices to the Supreme Court if he wins a second term in the White House in November....
Windows 11 is now an ad platform--this is why we're here (www.ghacks.net)
The writing is on the wall–I suspect the next Windows OS will be a subscription service. Gather your ISOs while ye may.
Can somebody explain why game makers don't start their own companies together?
It seems like every other week a game studio is massively laying off employees; sometimes after years of development. What I’m reading is that it’s a quick way to lower expenses and pad the investors’ pockets, flooding the market with developers and reducing their value, to then hire them back a few months later at lower...
Palestinian Relief Bundle - Itch.io (itch.io)
Palestinians are being persecuted from their homes in an ongoing genocide. Due to the armed actions of Israel, they lack access to essentials such as food, water, electricity and medical care....
Biden Administration Rejects Growing Accusations of Israeli Genocide in Gaza (www.motherjones.com)
The United States on Tuesday rejected charges that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in its war against Hamas....
Steam is a ticking time bomb (www.spacebar.news)
Your Computer Isn't Yours: Apple stores every program Mac users run, and when and where they ran it (sneak.berlin)
Edit: Guys I didn't write the headline; the subtitle that I added, I've now fixed tho...
I hate the term "Boomer Shooter"
Not to say I hate the genre, I actually love me some Dusk or Turbo Overkill, but why, oh why are they called Boomer Shooters?...
Once Again, Ron Wyden Had To Stop Bad “Protect The Children” Internet Bills From Moving Forward (www.techdirt.com)
Wyden has been spectacular on actually understanding tech issues for a very long time at this point. The gerontocracy needs to stop acting like they have any clue how the internet works....
Apple will require notarization for apps from third party app stores, and will disable updates for apps installed via third party app stores if staying outside EU (support.apple.com)
As far as I can tell this basically means that all apps must be approved by Apple to follow their “platform policies for security and privacy” even if publishing on a third party app store. They will also disable updating apps from third party app stores if you stay outside the EU for too long (even if you are a citizen of...
A Small Steam Game Shows How LLMs Could Kill the Dialogue Tree (re: Verbal Verdict demo) (www.404media.co)
Excerpts:...
Large Language Models Are Drunk at the Wheel (matt.si)
Reddit has never turned a profit in nearly 20 years, but it just filed to go public anyway (edition.cnn.com)
Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance (www.404media.co)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/11820406...
How Quora Died: The site used to be a thriving community that worked to answer our most specific questions. But users are fleeing. (slate.com)
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Google's monopoly in the ad industry lets them profit off allowing scam ads to flourish, with no consequences (checkmyads.org)
Google is spoon-feeding fake “Shark Tank approved” weight loss gummy candies to innocent people — and making money doing it.
Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 21st
Hey y’all, what have you been playing?...
Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI (futurism.com)
Duolingo is very much on the Enshittification path, seems like they fired a number of translators and have the rest just proofreading AI....
Exclusive-Unity Software cutting 25% of staff in ‘company reset’ continuation (www.yahoo.com)
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This app lets restaurants and coffee shops charge to use the bathroom (techcrunch.com)
Get ready to hear more about "pre-internet" times (www.axios.com)
You probably don't need a VPN (www.spacebar.news)
Carmen Osorio, expert in technology addiction: ‘It’s not a good idea to give children a smartphone; in any case, you let them borrow yours’ (english.elpais.com)
The State Of The Nintendo Switch In 2023 (kotaku.com)
Apple is now banned from selling its latest Apple Watches in the US (www.theverge.com)
Male players: Why do you play female characters? (kbin.social)
Got the idea of posting this when I watched this YouTube video that talks about reasons men love playing as girls....
truth of opensource and foss (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Electric scooter company Bird files for bankruptcy (techcrunch.com)
Looking for a rec: story oriented RPG with minimal focus on combat
Preferably in the high fantasy or sci fi genre....