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• Just looked this up and for anyone wondering: The pornstar is Bonnie Blue and it was actually a gambling company that bought naming rights. The gambling company is naming the child after itself. Bonnie said she was going to look into the company, and as of now there is no evidence that the child has actually been named that. Gambling companies are doing lots of weird viral marketing lately, so it’s possible this whole thing was prearranged.

  on GTA 6 Is Getting a $400 Collector's Set Filled With Tons of Merch, But No Game in c/games@lemmy.world · 5h ago

• Unfortunate that this junior employee is apparently anonymous.

  on Rockstar had a mole in the union worker Discord server "for over two and a half years", GTA 6 company reveals during legal battle in c/games@lemmy.world · 2d ago

• Yea, those are often sus to me. Like why would you only use AI for the steam store page details? You’re gonna put all the effort of making a game in and can’t write a paragraph about it or throw some screenshots together? Seems unlikely to me.

  on Level 5 boss admits using AI for Professor Layton, Yo-Kai Watch reveals in c/games@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026

• They’re .ml so a lot of anti western pro-Russia/China stuff, but they’re not entirely wrong that switching to EU companies doesn’t solve everything. It’s a start, and I see the EU doing more and better all the time, but backsliding in some places. I think as always the takeaway is not to trust private companies or the government with things you don’t want them knowing and to try to build our own infrastructure when and where possible. At the end of the day we can all just do our best to protect ourselves and our data and try to make smart decisions about who we trust.

  on The state of European cloud providers in 2026 in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• What argument do you think I’m making and what facts does it run counter to? So a lot of people use AI. That has no relevance to my point at all. Unless you’re using popularity of a tool as a proxy for if it’s good or not, it’s irrelevant to my position. Nuclear proliferation was here at one point, CFCs in everyday consumer products, smoking. There are plenty of things that were popular that we decided were not good for us as a society and we worked to make things different.

  I never said it was unpopular, I said that many people using it have no real need of it and it may be doing more harm than good in many cases. I can say for a fact I know several people who use AI and are worse for doing so. Your own links suggest a majority of the people using it don’t find it actually helpful and that they want more control over their interactions with it. That doesn’t strike me as a population of people who can’t wait to embrace AI or embrace having their governments responsible for ensuring access to it. To be clear, even if they did mostly find it actually helpful, I don’t think it means that we need to be providing it.

  Full disclosure, your second link was inaccessible to me so I am going off the data in the other links.

  on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026

• If you think taking a picture of something and having AI identify it for you is something that 1) people should do on a daily basis and 2) the government should support AI as a utility for, then we have such different concepts of the world we want to live in that I don’t think we’ll come to an agreement here. I cannot imagine how that would be “highly useful in everyday life” for the average person.

  The whole “You could ask a million questions” while supporting the idea it should be a utility is so weird to me. Like, yes, we could ask a million questions, and I think we should before suggesting it is a service that every citizen should be somewhat entitled to access from the government in some way (with all the caveats that come with a utility etc etc). It seems like you have fallen into the trap you suggest is inherent to human nature and you haven’t bothered to ask if we should do that.

  on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• I don’t think anyone is “blindly bitching”. I think people have understandable concerns regarding its development, use, and proliferation.

  The other idea that it needs to be a utility is straight from the wet dreams of every AI company. Realistically, the average person has little use for AI and it’s much more likely to be a detriment to them than otherwise. I know someone who is an exec in a big company and they get AI through their work. They use it for inane things mostly, but recently they used it to generate a list of reasons that their kids *dont need to go to school. This is an educated person with a good job who can’t figure out that AI has no idea what their kids need.

  I don’t think AI needs to be used by nearly the number of people currently using it, but my bigger concern is letting anyone, be it a private company or a government, have access to something people treat like a magic answer anything machine.

  on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• No, there are plenty on the left doing exactly that. Plenty don’t mention it because there’s been so much AI pushback they don’t want to be written off, others don’t mention it because they know it doesn’t really contribute to the conversation most times. It’s unlikely that your use is reflective of most AI use in these large projects.

  Realistically, even your use doesn’t address some people’s issues. People dislike that the training data was used without consent, that’s not really addressed by open weight models. You checking and understanding the output is great, but a lot of people take issue with having offloaded that to the AI in the first place. Maybe your use doesn’t have the same negative environmental impact as some of the other models, but I’m not sure it really matters. If we’re using AI then inevitably some outputs will have larger environmental impact than others.

  I am not saying your AI use is the problem with humanity or anything, but no, you’re not alone. Most people just aren’t talking about people like you and your specific situation doesn’t actually fully address people’s issues with AI regardless.

  on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• Thank you! It’s so weird to see some pro AI people act like this somehow crossed a line. It’s my understanding that part of the issue is that the AI used its chat logs to get some of this information, but I’ve seen no one explain how that is any different from what was done to people who believed their work was private or protected under a license but ended up having it in a training set anyway. I don’t believe there’s an expectation of privacy when using the plagiarism bot, and my understanding is it does reserve the right to train off your chats.

  The concern regarding attribution is also strange to me because it’s possible that the attribution for any specific thing is completely lost during the training process. When people have it generate images or stories or even just a response, it’s not going line by line explaining all the places it stole from. When people talked about AI bootstrapping itself there was no discussion of how we were going to keep track of all the people whose hard work it was building off of.

  I’m against AI in general for a bunch of reasons, but the fact they’re upset they got scooped is so minimal in my opinion. Wasn’t AI supposed to solve all these problems for us, faster than we could alone? It’s doing exactly what they said it would, and since they never bothered to care about attribution before I’m having a hard time sympathizing with them now.

  on AI Didn't Steal the Mathematician's Work, Sam Altman Did in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• Really appreciate your detailed write up. I mentioned elsewhere that some of these comments were swaying me towards trying one out, certainly more convincing than the article in my opinion. I appreciate the fact you outlined some pros and cons. I always have my phone, and anywhere I go for more than a quick chore I generally throw my ereader in a bag, so I understand I’m likely not the target audience, but I guess having more ways to read can’t be a bad thing. The lack of backlight and proprietary charger are giving me pause for sure. I might still give it a week to mull it over, but your comment was super helpful and saved me a cursory search before really diving into comparison shopping. Glad to hear they are helping some people read more. Fingers crossed they keep improving them, even if they’re not quite right for me.

  on Tiny E-Reader Is the Best Piece of Technology in Years - The Atlantic in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026

• Honestly, people seem to really like them based on the comments here. 70 seems silly to essentially combine two products I already have, but I may give it a week or so and if it’s still top of mind go ahead with it. I really appreciate people bothering to share their experiences with it, since I really was not convinced by the article.

  on Tiny E-Reader Is the Best Piece of Technology in Years - The Atlantic in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026

• I just saw someone in a different comment section say that if we ever actually get AGI it’ll start by scamming us all. Apparently there’s no need to wait for AGI, AI is just as happy to basically do fraud.

  on 7 AI models ran real businesses in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026

• Yea, I read ebooks on my phone for years, even back when I used reddit way more than I use Lemmy and I don’t think it being on my phone was a huge issue for me, but I do understand how it could be distracting. My main reason for switching to an ereader was the eink and ergonomics because carpal tunnel was getting to me. I don’t bring my ereader everywhere though and sometimes I do miss having it all on my phone for convenience. Really glad you’ve gotten to read so many books since deprioritizing scrolling.

  Let me know once you find a device like that because I’ll be second in line.

  on Tiny E-Reader Is the Best Piece of Technology in Years - The Atlantic in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026

• Really cool to get an opinion from an actual user. Thank you for sharing! If it gets people reading, I’m all for it. I have an eink ereader, so I do understand both points you’re making.

  on Tiny E-Reader Is the Best Piece of Technology in Years - The Atlantic in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026

• I have an eink ereader, and it really is wonderful, but I absolutely would not use it as much if it was the size and shape of my phone. For short stretches I guess it’s fine, but one of the reasons I got an ereader is because my phone was so ergonomically bad for reading.

  on Tiny E-Reader Is the Best Piece of Technology in Years - The Atlantic in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026

• That’s fair. I did get an ereader in part to have a dedicated device for reading that had an eink display, so I get that desire. Part of me still feels it’s a bit ewaste-y, but whatever gets people to read more is generally good in my opinion.

  on Tiny E-Reader Is the Best Piece of Technology in Years - The Atlantic in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026

• The article worked in reader mode for me, sorry you hit a paywall.

  I appreciate you mentioning the eink bit. I have an eink kobo which I really like and it’s definitely nicer to use than my phone for reading. I did pick it specifically because I didn’t want one that had other distracting apps or anything, but I used my phone for years without issue.

  Not to shill for a product I was just hating on, but it seems like there’s quite an open source community that has popped up around this thing, so it’s possible there’s an app for it that will auto sync with your preexisting ereader, depending on the device. The article mentions Libby by name, but they possibly have others. I’d just be remiss if I didn’t mention that and possibly help a fellow reader out.

  on Tiny E-Reader Is the Best Piece of Technology in Years - The Atlantic in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026

• I’m glad it got the author of this article to read more, but there’s no real mention of why someone would use this instead of the myriad phone apps for reading already in existence, including the one that you have to download special software to get to run on this thing.

  The TikTokification cannot be much different between this and a phone screen. You can only fit a few sentences on a phone screen in the first place, so I can’t imagine there’s a real change even when you halve the size.

  Traditional ereaders have a place for a variety of reasons and this seems to go against everything someone would want in an ereader. I really just don’t understand this product and there was nothing that helped explain it’s purpose in contrast to the phone it’s presumably going to be attached to. Really wish they bothered to address that point at all.

  on Tiny E-Reader Is the Best Piece of Technology in Years - The Atlantic in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026

• This whole thing sucks, but I think the location of the name likely has nothing to do with the change. It’s likely where the name already was just for convenience.

  Also, generally they just show one country or language name for things at a time. You wouldn’t see Deutschland and Germany if you looked it up on the app. You’d see the one that made the most sense depending on the device or app settings. This is basically just a localization setting.

  on John Ternus Era at Apple Kicks Off With the Changing of Lake Ontario to 'Lake America' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• I agree that the corpos being linked to fascism doesn’t make the technology fascist, but plenty of people are switching from MS and Google for that among other reasons. Acting like any interaction with these companies is just as bad as going all in is completely incorrect. All small acts of resistance add up and are important, even if you can’t totally avoid a company that is causing harm. Taking a bus is not as harmful as driving a car just because they both use fossil fuels.

  on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026

• The fact of the matter is as an AI hater I do actually trust AI generated code if run through the right people. I just don’t know when the people I trust will trust the AI more than themselves, and that’s part of the worry. Are they going to be as diligent on checking their AIs bug fix #125 if the first 124 were perfect? Maybe, maybe not. I certainly am not trusting AI code in the hands of vibe coders who have no idea what they’re doing and are only contributing to a project because it happens to allow AI contributions.

  I also just don’t like LLMs in general, the way they collected data, the way they were trained on data, the way they are affecting communities across the globe, and the harm the people at the top of these companies are doing, not to mention the job loss which is really not a main concern of mine. I don’t like the idea of people using tools that are so harmful if it can be avoided.

  on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026

• That’s likely not going to cover it. They’re taking snapshots of what’s on screen and sending that info home. They’re using wifi and Bluetooth to get your location and information about what other devices you have. Never connecting it to the internet is going to be one of the best things to do for privacy.

  on Stopping the smart TV from being used against you. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026

• Are you US based? If so, can I ask how large the companies were? I wonder how much of the effect was HR vs actual programmers looking at a CV. I have never cared about outside work because it’s really none of my business, but I’ve heard and experienced some issues related to it. A lot of people swear that company X won’t even look at an applicant that doesn’t have at least Y projects on their GitHub.

  on Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026

• People give money to streamers. There’s plenty of data to mine there regarding what the streamer was doing or saying vs how many donations they were getting. You can correlate that across different kinds of streams or streamers and get a good idea of how to maximize extraction from a given population.

  on Google buys Spirit Airlines data for AI training for just $10 million — purchase includes hundreds of millions of emails, Microsoft Teams chats, billions of flight pricing records, and anonymized pass in c/technology@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026

• I’m not super well versed, but my understanding was that watching the preview for more than X seconds already counted as a view. At least it was like that a while back after they were introduced.

  Also be careful because these ai channels are sneaky and will use generic pictures or stills but the script and voice are all AI.

  on YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026

• I mostly watch videos from channels I’m already subscribed to, but recently a few shows I watch have dropped new seasons and I was looking for recaps on YouTube. It was nothing but AI slop channel after AI slop channel. I would click off as fast as possible to not give them the view, but I guess they will all count going forward. It really sucks because we can’t opt out of these channels and many of them don’t even admit to being AI anyway.

  I have no idea how this change is good for them. I totally agree that it seems like it’ll encourage low quality content. After a few of those videos I can’t imagine most people sticking around for another, but what do I know. I’m sure they have more accurate stats than I do.

  on YouTube will now count a view as soon as a video starts playing in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026

• My layman’s understanding is that manufacturing like this needs to be run constantly due to the cost associated with the production. Apple would have to sell their stuff to competitors at that point to have the foray make sense. Current manufacturers can make things for lots of different companies so they can ensure their line is always fulfilling an order. I’m not sure if Apple would want to do that.

  on $1 billion of iPhone 18 Pro chips 'on the shelves awaiting packaging' due to DRAM shortages — memory shortages reportedly put a wrinkle in Apple's launch plans in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Aug 2026

• It really only makes sense if you buy a new phone or computer every year/lease term.

  This is good though, so it might not be that bad of a deal if you could use the credit anyway:

  Buy the iPhone outright by paying an amount equal to the device’s retail price minus any lease payments made.

  on Apple Introduces Leasing Program for iPhones and Other Devices in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Aug 2026