essteeyou

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essteeyou ,

Nice for you, fuck blind people.

essteeyou ,

Let me just quote the top of this thread.

people please actually read the article not the headline; this is literally about accessibility improvements for blind and visually impaired people for generating alt text inside of documents and pdfs.

It doesn't just read the page to them, which is a solved problem, it generates descriptions when they're missing, making the web more accessible.

essteeyou ,

118 118 had great ads. My friend and I dressed as the 118 118 guys for a sports event at work. :-D

https://youtu.be/vB9H1Ot7j0s

Amazon Mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp ( www.reuters.com )

Amazon (AMZN.O) is planning a major revamp of its decade-old money-losing Alexa service to include a conversational generative AI with two tiers of service and has considered a monthly fee of around $5 to access the superior version, according to people with direct knowledge of the company's plans.

essteeyou ,

For the first time in at least a decade of being a Prime member. I have set a reminder to cancel before it renews next time.

So many deliveries fail to be on time, I'm getting too many ads in my face when I use products I paid for (Fire TV auto-plays ads for content or cars or whatever now).

essteeyou ,

One day they'll want to stop maintaining two systems, and you'll either have to pay up or lose functionality completely.

essteeyou ,

Nah, I've paid for it and it seems there's no refund.

essteeyou ,

Devices stop functioning eventually. You can't make Apple support your iPod.

essteeyou ,

I'm not sure that's true. There's a pause option and a cancel option. It sounds like canceling ends your benefits immediately, and the pause leaves them. I want to cancel, but at the right time.

essteeyou ,

Well, I've set the reminder. There's no urgency to cancel with 6 months left on the clock.

essteeyou ,

I use the overnight and next day delivery a lot, but when it goes wrong it's very frustrating, because there's seemingly nowhere else to buy an 8TB HDD in-person. Fry's closed down, Best Buy is garbage, etc.

We made this bed by giving Amazon all of our business and shutting down all their competitors. :-/

Favourite patient modern game?

A bit of a weird title, but basically what’s a game that’s more than a year old but still considered “modern” that you love? There’s no real strict definition for modern, I’d just like to see some discussion around great games that aren’t quite classics yet (but probably will be one day)....

essteeyou ,

No Man's Sky dragged me back in again recently. There's an expedition going on for another few weeks that was lots of fun. I've also started a permadeath save that I'm really enjoying.

essteeyou ,

The soundtrack alone is worth playing the game. The incidental multiplayer where you can't communicate directly and you don't see the name of your friend is brilliant.

It's a game that will stay with you for a long time, sort of like Firewatch in that way.

essteeyou ,

Does this cover all messages sent between me and my teammates about the secret projects we're working on, or are we only fucking over the people, and not the companies?

essteeyou ,

Nah, everyone uses Slack or Teams or whatever. Look at Rockstar and the GTA6 leak, for example.

essteeyou ,

Not just in the EU...

essteeyou ,

So they'll be able to see that I recorded some footage of some boats near San Francisco?

essteeyou ,

I've been using this for a couple of years now and it's great.

I have a very occasional problem where Windows tries to launch some sort of non-file-system stuff in Files instead of Explorer, but it's not a blocker.

essteeyou ,

Good that they're still trying. Maybe they'll get there eventually.

essteeyou , (edited )

6 months from now it'll be relaunched, but businesses will only be able to "respond" via AI, and only if they pay for a Gemini subscription. A week later businesses will be posting the insane shit that the AI tells its customers.

essteeyou ,

I know it's sometimes informative, but I really hate the popularity of "$x quietly does $y" in headlines.

You want Google to run ads on TV or something? It's a tiny feature.

essteeyou ,

Magneto!

essteeyou ,

It can solve existing problems in new ways, which might be handy.

essteeyou ,

That's how it currently is, but I'd be astounded if it didn't progress quickly from now.

essteeyou ,

A printing press is not a technology with intelligence. It's like saying we still have to manually operate knives... of course we do.

essteeyou ,

5 years ago I don't think most people thought ChatGPT was possible, or StableDiffusion/MidJourney/etc.

We're in an era of insane technological advancement, and I don't think it'll slow down.

essteeyou ,

There are other people in the world. Some of them are inventing completely new ways of doing things, and one of those ways could lead to a major breakthrough. I'm not saying a GPT LLM is going to solve the problem, I'm saying AI will.

essteeyou ,

I was in a self-driving taxi yesterday. It didn't need to bump into things to figure out where it was.

essteeyou ,

Proof?

essteeyou ,

Saying something like that doesn't make it true. That's not proof.

Are you claiming that absolutely nobody is working on AGI because LLMs exist and are hot right now?

essteeyou ,

Who was making this "real progress on AI" that you mention? Why did they stop that when an LLM became popular?

essteeyou ,

Not only is it just 2 seconds, but it's 2 seconds while the game is no doubt being loaded into memory while it plays anyway.

This is like whining about the Pixar animation that plays before all of their movies (for much longer than 2 seconds).

essteeyou ,

People in this thread don't want to waste 2 seconds per use of a video game on a logo screen, but will happily waste the day discussing it.

essteeyou ,

Don't like it? Write your own equivalent and selfhost it using my favorite distro. /s

essteeyou ,

The irony of not wanting to "waste time" when you're about to play a video game, too.

essteeyou ,

Hey, let's not resort to name calling.

essteeyou , (edited )

Sure, and the Spectrum ZX I used to use 35 years ago had even less. The GameCube is ancient history, it's not the benchmark for a reasonable amount of memory for anyone.

Edit: apologies, I forgot we were talking specifically about a GameCube game.

essteeyou ,

So they don't go out of business.

essteeyou ,

If the port isn't named Linamp then I'll be mildly irritated.

essteeyou ,

This sure felt a lot like I/O 2023 Part 2.

essteeyou ,

You must have really ruffled some feathers!

Self-hosted website for posting web novel/fiction

Hey hello, self-hosting noob here. I just want to know if anyone would know a good way to host my writing. Something akin to those webcomic sites, except for writing. Multiple stories with their own "sections" (?) and a chapter selection for each. Maybe a home page or profile page to just briefly detail myself or whatever, I...

essteeyou ,

This Grav?

Perfect Dark Reboot Is Allegedly In Bad Shape ( www.gamespot.com )

I don't think big companies know how to make a good FPS campaign anymore, let alone hone in on classic deathmatch multiplayer. The last FPS I bought was Half-Life: Alyx four years ago, and the first one to come along and interest me since then was Phantom Fury, but I'm letting that one iron out bugs for a few weeks before I...

essteeyou ,

They're not exactly building the same game, surely.

I'd imagine there's online multiplayer to add for a start.

essteeyou ,

The comparison is to the original PD, not to more recent games.

essteeyou ,

What electric car was better than a Model X in 2015?

essteeyou ,

I don't see "dipstick" in the wild very often, but I always appreciate it. Are you English by any chance?

essteeyou ,

Google users didn't originally have gmail, so if Google paywalls it nobody is losing anything?

Google Photos will soon more easily let you block someone's face from Memories ( 9to5google.com )

One of the best features of Google Photos is the app’s ability to show old photos as a “Memory,” but sometimes showing a specific person isn’t what you want. Now, Google Photos is preparing to make it easier to hide someone’s face from Memories.

essteeyou ,

Fucking finally. I got one of those Google Home devices for free a few years ago, stuck it in the kitchen, and set the screensaver to be pictures of me, my wife, our son, or our dog. Every chance it got it picked a photo of me with an ex-girlfriend, which is definitely not what you want in your kitchen.

In the end I just set it to pictures of our son or our dog to be safe, because Google just flat out wouldn't let me choose people not to see.

I don't want to delete all the pictures of me with my ex-girlfriends because some of them are the only photos I've got from specific places.

essteeyou ,

I think they did pretty well considering the couple of months the teams had to work on this.

The rules might need to be updated a bit though. Safety cars don't make as much sense to me when there are no people involved.

The "don't pass under yellow" rule kind of screws things up when you've got a full course yellow for the half of the race that wasn't under the safety car.

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