@A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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- on ‘I miss old Google’: readers tell us how they search the internet in the age of AI in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7h ago
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on ‘I miss old Google’: readers tell us how they search the internet in the age of AI in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7h ago
because they found out people would click the next page a few times before giving up, so they started making their results worse, so they could get more page views and more ads shown.
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on ‘I miss old Google’: readers tell us how they search the internet in the age of AI in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7h ago
theres entire AI generated websites that are just filled with popular key words and bullshit to put it at the top of the search results.
SEO is as bad as AI when it comes to finding shit on the internet.
I miss the old internet too, before we even had search engines… when the only way to find a webpage was a webring, or the internet yellow pages… which was just a directory of all known urls at the time.
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on ‘I miss old Google’: readers tell us how they search the internet in the age of AI in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7h ago
more like they’ll call it google classic, and charge you 25 dollars a month for the privledge of using it.
but don’t worry, after 6 months they’ll start putting AI and ads back into it.
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on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7h ago
that appeals to farmers who wont have to send their tracter 400 miles away to the nearest service center to get it fixed because they arent allowed to work on their own equipment anymore thanks to john deeres invasive DRM.
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on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7h ago
I’ve been hoping for the same for 20 years and smart bullshit just gets dumber and more plentiful every year.
its not exactly easy to spin up a factory making deshitified good… and things like fridges and stoves are not exactly something someone can make artisanally in their garage.
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on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7h ago
yep.
Samsung has got to be the worst, most piece of shit manufacturer of appliances.
Literally ever. single. person. I know that has foolishly bought a samsung appliance, has gone on to very loudly regret it. The worst story I know, is someone who bought a samsung dishwasher and had to have a repair guy out at least once a month to fix whatever fresh hell was wrong with it, on samsungs dime thanks to warranty, before samsung said fuck it and just refunded them because it was cheaper than having what was almost a 24 hour on call service man for their house.
Samsung made their name on phones, and people assumed everything else would be just as good (when in fact even their phones are kinda shit now)
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on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21h ago
The problem would be solved by not buying a fridge that needs a goddamn firmware update to operate. Just buy a regular, standard fridge. the kind we’ve used for 70+ years. All that smart shit doesnt make your food colder, or last longer, all it is, is cheap slop garbage shoved into a device to turn a 200 dollar device into a 2200 dollar device at little extra cost to the maker.
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on Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Peter Thiel All Fled California’s Billionaire Tax. Nvidia’s CEO Isn’t Going Anywhere. Even With an $8 Billion Bill Coming His Way in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1d ago
They didnt flee the billionaire tax.
They fled to other countries to avoid their epstein ties and to keep raping kids.
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on Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo in c/games@lemmy.world · 1d ago
how many times do they have to be destroyed, when all they make is gold 😭
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on Winamp will be reborn in 2027 to take on streaming in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1d ago
as a streaming service… That really sucks the llama’s ass.
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on Meta Now Banning Ads That Promote Feminism: "We have given social media unlimited power and every day we can see how dangerous this is." in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago
I’m sick of men telling me that I’m overreacting about these issues.
The ones telling you that you’re over reacting are the ones who have a vested interest in your downfall
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on Meta Now Banning Ads That Promote Feminism: "We have given social media unlimited power and every day we can see how dangerous this is." in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago
The viable alternative is nothing.
Because no one gives a shit about you (general you, not specific at BitsAndBites), or about what you say. You use it cause you’re addicted to performing for people you dont even talk to or like, because no one can actually maintain hundreds, if not thousands of connections like you collect on facebook, most of whom don’t even give a shit about you. its just a mutual masturbation session, only instead of jerking each others dicks off, your jerking eachother off with pointless likes.
All social media is, is a means of generating profit from mental illness, and manufacturing mental illness for profit.
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on FAA tees up $875M AI tool to help manage air traffic congestion in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3d ago
because we havent had enough air disasters in the past 2 years.
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on Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes in c/games@lemmy.world · 3d ago
yeah, anyone can make a game. that game will probably be a slop generic asset flip game, but still technically a game.
to make a good game takes years, and money, and either knowledge or time available to be spent pursuing that knowledge…while also working an actual job to actually pay for all the bills for everyday life, in addition to what the game needs.
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on Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes in c/games@lemmy.world · 3d ago
and those indie companies will get bigger, become corporatized, and continue the cycle.
Just like the ones before them did, just like the ones after them will.
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on Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes in c/games@lemmy.world · 3d ago
“to deliver last blow to the final boss, please watch these 10 minutes of ads. failure to do so will restore the boss to full health”
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on AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4d ago
Petrov is a man who took enormous risk in the name of common sense and humanity. He should be honored by all people.
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on Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites in c/technology@lemmy.world · 5d ago
Its only illegal when peasants do it, not when billionaires do it. *
*it being anything.
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on Zuckerberg's Pervert Glasses Have Been So Publicly Shamed That Meta's Reportedly Now Working on a Version With No Camera in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago
they are creep glasses with hidden cameras that record people in public and can use AI to identify people and find their social medias and shit at a glance.
supposed to have an LED that indicates when the cameras on, but there is a big underground industry of disabling the LED without disabling the camera so creepers can record without people knowing.
also facebook gets a copy of everything you see and do, which is especially problematic in bathrooms, in doctors offices, etc.
Big creepy pervert stalker stuff.
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on Grandmother jailed for six months after facial recognition mistake launches $10 million lawsuit against Fargo and detective in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago
yep, I know. All this, but the lawsuit, broke a couple months ago.
the lawsuit is the only new bit of information in the story
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on Grandmother jailed for six months after facial recognition mistake launches $10 million lawsuit against Fargo and detective in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago
they jailed her with pretty much no proof, pretty much a call from north dakota sayin “go arrest this grandma”
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on Grandmother jailed for six months after facial recognition mistake launches $10 million lawsuit against Fargo and detective in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago
I remember this story.
This is why facial recognition is bullshit.
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on Devastated father says his 9-year-old son spent $118,000 on YouTube ad campaigns for his Minecraft channel using a company credit card — bill racked up in just three weeks was supposed to be one $20 in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026
“I left my son unsupervised with no controls or access restrictions, This is clearly someone else’s fault!”
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on Mistral and Mozilla are bringing open, private and multilingual AI to your web browser: a partnership to bring privacy, control and choice to people using AI to browse online. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026
Mozilla is in the sweet spot of basically being the only available browser that isnt chrome, that has adblocking.
and they are doing everything in their power to fuck it up by chasing this bullshit AI trend thats already dying on the vine.
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on Trump Claims the Only "AI Guardrail" Needed Is Himself in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026
Funny how the guy that is obsessed with using AI to manufacture a false reality where he is buff and popular and to tell himself hes a genius, says we dont need limits on AI.
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on There's so much cheating in Fortnite it's getting unplayable. in c/games@lemmy.world · 16 Sep 2026
How can it have cheating? Sweeney said all the cheaters are on linux, which is why he’s blocked linux from playing it?
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on FFVII Revelation Director Insists S-E Had No Choice but to Require a Download to Play the Physical Disc Version in c/games@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026
like buying a steam game retail and just getting a slip of paper with a code in it.
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on FFVII Revelation Director Insists S-E Had No Choice but to Require a Download to Play the Physical Disc Version in c/games@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026
to many gamers that find their self worth in buying the latest shiny to ever do that.
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on Ubisoft begin removing Ubisoft Connect from Steam with the new Ubisoft Connect Services in c/games@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026
its bait.
Even the stupidest motherfucker wouldnt be all “Woe poor ubisoft”
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on Ubisoft begin removing Ubisoft Connect from Steam with the new Ubisoft Connect Services in c/games@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026
I still don’t understand the point of making every game have a shitty launcher. I mean, I can understand MMO’s for updating the actual game and shit, but why the fuck do single player games have them?
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on Flock Camera Tells Cop New Car Didn’t Have Insurance When It Did, Cop Writes Ticket Anyway in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026
being black was absolutely the real crime the cop was concerned with, the insurance bullshit was just manufactured cause.
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on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026
no, we are not talking about two different things.
We are talking about one single thing.
the theft of human potential for profit, and the sacrifice of the world for the enrichment of the few due to exploiting that theft.
You are just trying to play word games and split the discussion to defend the indefensible.
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on Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Trailer in c/games@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026
wah wah people don’t like things that i like, how dare they upset me with contrary opinions wah wah wah.
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on TiVo Plans to End Free Automatic Commercial Skipping in November, Tests Paid Premium Replacement Service in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
literally the first words out of my mouth. seeing a news headline about TiVo feels like i’m back in 2001
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on Calls in the UK to ban sex offenders from buying smart glasses in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
Just ban the sales of pervert glasses, period.
It’ll accomplish the same thing, but be a lot easier legally.
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on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
go one step further and open it up and unplug the wifi antennas, just to curtail it even further.
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on Exemption on age verification for Linux operating systems in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
Aside from, you know, not being able to access anything that looks for that OS okay, or worse…declaring people not on compliance in criminal violation of the law and mass arresting.
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on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement in c/games@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
Sure Buddy.
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on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement in c/games@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
Sure Pal.
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on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement in c/games@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
Sure Pal.
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on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement in c/games@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026
Sure buddy.
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on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement in c/games@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026
No, I think you denying reality because of sunk cost fallacy has said enough.
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on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement in c/games@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026
Which is bull, because we’ve been playing games from our couches for like 40 years and there were beautiful, amazing, wonderful graphics long before the 4k propaganda.
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on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement in c/games@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026
i miss when GPUs just rendered the game, and that was all.
None of this upscaling, AI graphics altering bullshit that is there ultimately to distract from the impotent promises of 4k gaming, which is unnecessarily ridiculous to begin with.
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on Pentagon employee launches 'DSA Explorer' site to track left-wing groups in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
Statistics: Right Wing extremism is responsible for 80% of all domestic acts of terrorism.
Republicans: 1 IN EVERY FIVE DEMOCRATS IS A TERRORIST.
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on PlayStation Wants To Prove In Court That You Don't Own Your Digital Games in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
I’m getting Desura flashbacks. Lucky I downloaded everything I had when I felt the signs of it going down, but I know others weren’t as lucky. Silver lining is they’re still playable, DRM-free is nice, but like I established we’ve already moved on from that into bigger fish like “the credits reference a consulting company I don’t like.”
with direct2drive it didnt matter if you downloaded the files, cause the installers still did a call home to direct2drive to decrypt, and that call home server died with the rest of d2d.
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on PlayStation Wants To Prove In Court That You Don't Own Your Digital Games in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
I warned from the moment that steam became a market place that the end of the road was us not having physical games anymore, and not owning our games anymore, and not being able to play our games should steam ever go under.
and my god the insults I received over the years about it.
Then other DD platforms popped up, and people bought games there (myself included, fuck you direct2drive), and lost all the games and all the money when the platform died.
“but steam lets you back up your games!” the inevitable response was.
Okay.
But steam backups still require steam to unpack and run. So that does fuckall.
and with how old steam is, and with how many people use things like humble monthly and shit, who the hell can afford to store local copies of 1500-3500 games? especially when a lot of modern games are 50-150gb in size each.
Also, at least on PC, we can relatively easily acquire our games via alternative methods. Which I have had to do a few times, for games that I owned and paid for, because of stupid bullshit DRM.
You aint doing that on modern consoles. If you wanted to play console games via alternative means you either have to 1)Luckout on a jailbreak and have the right firmware for a jailbreak or 2) wait years for an Emulator and a PC that can run it.
I’m so sick of this cyberpunk hellscape bullshit where you pay everything and own nothing.
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on PlayStation Wants To Prove In Court That You Don't Own Your Digital Games in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
because they HAVE to have the latest shiny, because their self worth is so low and non existent the only measure of worth they have is owning the next shiny.
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on PlayStation Wants To Prove In Court That You Don't Own Your Digital Games in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026
because their fanbase are brainless cattle.
because gamers are brainless myopic cattle.
gamers on the whole moan and groan and whine and bitch about every misdead, but the second the new shiny comes out they are out there en-masse rewarding these companies with billions and billions and billions of dollars (a great example will be GTA6, which I almost guarantee will bring in at least 2 billion dollars within its first week)
and as long as the idiot masses keep doing that, we have no recourse and no hope.
there is SO GOD DAMN MUCH AI slop on youtube… especially in the shorts. Which I fucking hate shorts, Shorts is literally just the same infinite scrolling addiction driven bullshit that Facebook is being sued over, because google thought “We don’t have to not be evil anymore, so lets develop our own cocaine… with blackjack, and hookers!”