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restingboredface ,

Just got Stardew Valley. I'm a little reluctant to start it though- it seems like one of those games I could sink hundreds of hours into and I have a huge backlog. But I'm excited to try it.

Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising ( www.techradar.com )

Windows 11 is getting out of hand with its push for advertisments, frankly - remember the recent full-screen pop-up to persuade users to install Edge or other Microsoft services? Then another advertisment was placed in the Start menu, and now Microsoft has finally worn my temper thin - with a new Game Pass ad coming to the...

restingboredface ,

Yeah I think the masses are going to be a tough sell on Linux until computer manufacturers start offering Linux builds with a pre-installed instance.

I'm sure there are places that do it but there's probably money to be made in just setting up Linux on machines for people.

restingboredface ,

I think context makes a difference on whether a call is welcome or not, appropriate or not.

If the email asks me to write out a bunch of info I know off the top of my head, just call me. Don't make me write out something that I can just tell you much faster.

If you're asking something that kicks off a conversation going back and forth like if you need help walking through something, sending emails back and forth is annoying and dumb. Knocking it out in one call is faster and easier than exchanging 15 emails.

On the other hand, if you don't need an answer right away, if you need documents or images or if you need to communicate about something that requires a record of the communication, email is better.

I have been annoyed equally by getting calls and emails when people use them for things when they aren't ideal.

restingboredface ,

I look forward to Apple Marketing coming up with their usual line of nonsense, like a meaningless name for an existing capability that they are claiming to have invented.

restingboredface ,

Thr problem the AI tools are going to have is that they will have tons of things like this that they won't catch and be able to fix. Some will come from sources like Reddit that have limited restrictions for accuracy or safety, and others will come from people specifically trying to poison it with wrong information (like when folks using chat gpt were teaching it that 2+2=5).
Fixing only the ones that get media attention is a losing battle. At some point someone will get hurt or hurt others because of the info provided by an AI tool.

restingboredface ,

I wonder if Open AI or any of the other firms have thought to put in any kind of stipulations about monitoring and moderating reddit content to reduce ai generated posts and reduce risk of model collapse.

Anybody who's looked at reddit in the past 2 years especially has seen the impact of ai pretty clearly. If I was running open ai I wouldn't want that crap contaminating my models.

restingboredface ,

They must have fucked up some mundane detail like misplacing a zero or something.

restingboredface ,

It's an interesting way to manage the guilt of sending so many men and women to their deaths for nothing.

restingboredface ,

I hope this spreads to all Olympic sports so our teams each get a hype man (or lady), preferably an old school rap artist.

restingboredface ,

If people want to make computer characters date they should just save themselves the trouble and get the Sims.

restingboredface ,

Yeah, some of these are just getting extra attention because the plane is a Boeing and media is on the lookout for it. (Probably) not Boeing's fault, but they will continue to be blamed for all issues on their planes until things are resolved with the investigation. Not exactly fair for Boeing, but they kinda brought this on themselves.

restingboredface ,

Some interesting info in this article. If game pass hasn't really paid off (in maintaining growth of new or recurring users), this may be an indication that they will make some changes to it.

restingboredface ,

Coveted Kevin Spacey Endorsement

WTF, Rolling Stone- Who exactly aside from maybe RFK is coveting an endorsement from him?

restingboredface ,

This pic looks like someone put "Henry Cavill as superman getting dressed" into an AI image generator.

restingboredface ,

They cut thousands of jobs in the name of efficiency, then roll out an AI customer service bot to replace people in managing problems with their flashy new AI tool that is glitching out, more expensive and delivering worse results.

Surely nobody saw this coming right?

restingboredface ,

For real. If ever there were a time to hop on an Amtrak, I think this would be a good one.

restingboredface ,

WHEN LAWYERS WRITE IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS IT MEANS WHATEVER THEY ARE SAYING IS SUPER DUPER LEGAL AND NO ONE CAN EVER QUESTION IT.

restingboredface ,

It seems like it's unclear who actually sang it. I wouldn't be surprised if it was just recorded by a bunch of randos vs people actually in jail. But the idea than anybody could actually believe that a version of America the Beautiful would make the billboard charts and beat Taylor Swift is comical.

restingboredface ,

It also has a chicken-egg problem. What if the indicators of talent or skill aren't apparent because of abysmally poor living and educational conditions? The lack of opportunity in many developing countries is such that people will be less successful and appear less talented simply because their country has limited ways for them to demonstrate it.

Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets ( arstechnica.com )

But of course we all know that the big manufacturers don't do this not because they can't but because they don't want to. Planned obsolescence is still very much the name of the game, despite all the bullshit they spout about sustainability.

restingboredface ,

What I don't get is how no company seems to have worked out a legitimately good service and maintenance model for tech products. Fairphone hasn't invented the wheel here. They're going to make money on maintenance, parts and repair.

I would think there would be lowered costs involved in not having to push out a new product every 6 months and market it to customers who just bought something less than a year ago.

restingboredface ,

This is terrifying. Obviously he's a smart guy, but he's incapable of seeing how unethical and risky this is.

Just because they were born and seem normal and healthy now that doesn't mean the gene therapy was successful. The kids may be lucky or just not showing symptoms of anything they are tracking.

He basically jumped out into traffic, didn't get hit by a car and said that made it okay.

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