corsicanguppy
@corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Epic CEO wants Valve and Steam to stop requiring devs to disclose generative AI usage 6 days ago:
avoid games/etc over AI content, and the actual AI content is really minor
There’s no gradient for how much Ai goes into a game, so a little taint qualifies as diseased.
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 2 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure Ubisoft isn’t the company you go to for a focus on the customer and a thumb on the pulse of the industry. They were one of the first to require this authenticated umbilical to their servers or the game would crash, while operating from a country and era where internet wasn’t 100% solid. Many non-urban areas around me now will suffer disconnections and blips constantly as over-used infrastructure drops a random packet here and there. They know this, they knew this, and still.
Given they’ve always presented a little self-centered, I can imagine what they’re really saying is that from their point of view that Ubisoft is struggling because their customer base is dwindling from a lack of stable, playable games.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 and InZoi publishers announce voluntary layoff program "amid the era of AI transformation" 2 weeks ago:
I love the many ways the Dead Sea Effect is getting press during these otherwise joyless times.
- Comment on New data shows companies are rehiring former employees as AI falls short of expectations 3 weeks ago:
hold out for higher pay, better hours, more vacation – anything
Not immediately. Take the job now and get the finances under control. But don’t stop interviewing and applying, and move from a position of strength into a better job when it comes around. And if you’re back at the old job that ditched you, then ditching them isn’t so hard this time.
Always take care of the basic needs - money for food, money for clothing, money for shelter - before moving up the Maslow pyramid.
- Comment on New data shows companies are rehiring former employees as AI falls short of expectations 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. The issue isn’t what Ai can do, but more that CEO/CIOs have been sold magic beans.
- Comment on New Arizona law to restrict online porn access; Pornhub will block state 2 months ago:
Voting blue no matter who turned out to not be a good strategy.
It’s funny how you relabel harm-reduction in voting, and imply the alternative wouldn’t have been far worse. It’s an art.
- Comment on The Software Engineers Paid To Fix Vibe Coded Messes 2 months ago:
regular software engineers
Regular competent software engineers
Same thing. Otherwise there’d be air quotes.
- Comment on Microsoft mandates a return to office 2 months ago:
But, as per the Dead Sea Effect, they’re not gonna shed the people they think they are.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 3 months ago:
Good excuse to lay off without paying unemployment while power-tripping. That’s all these kinds of things usually are about.
You know who will be the slowest to adopt any Ai assistance? Senior devs. You know who this guy just fired? Senior devs. If you want to know the people you never want to fire, I have news for you.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 3 months ago:
everyday
“every day”, if you mean ‘daily’.
- Comment on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. 3 months ago:
why do everybody want to make it count letters and stuff like this?
We do not applaud the tenor for clearing his throat, as they say; yes. But we also do not applaud the tenor who can’t even do that.
- Comment on AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day 3 months ago:
it’s debut
Yes. It is.
- Comment on LinkedIn Banned A Trans Woman For Using Her Preferred Name 4 months ago:
As mentioned previously, I have a weird Rupert J Farnsworth name; it’s the only thing I inherited from a very mean grandfather. I don’t use that name anywhere; even my mom has called me something else since birth.
If LinkedIn found this out, they’d delete my account, I guess, because I don’t use that name there either.
Wheeee.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 4 months ago:
Glossed over after someone was shouting about my “A Child.” I think it’s an honor roll student thing but I wandered off.
- Comment on Stung by customer losses, Comcast says all its new plans have unlimited data 5 months ago:
For now…
- Comment on GeoGuessr Map Makers Make Most Popular Maps Unplayable In Protest Of Saudi-Backed Esports World Cup - Aftermath 6 months ago:
Fetch
- Comment on Trump DOJ Threatens Wikipedia's Nonprofit Status Over Alleged 'Propaganda' 7 months ago:
We need to.move the hosting
… And cover this heavy-handed approach in an NPoV smackdown that will never be deleted.
- Comment on Medical Device Company Tells Hospitals They're No Longer Allowed to Fix Machine That Costs Six Figures 10 months ago:
America is the most litigious region on the planet.
You sure you’re carefully assessing the risk?
- Comment on API error knocks PayPal, Venmo offline around the globe 1 year ago:
- Not sure the point
- Not sure the relevance
- Not sure the timing.
Its like a kid on the transit bus talking about dinosaurs.
- Comment on GOG launch their Preservation Program to make games live forever with hundreds of classics being 're-released' 1 year ago:
DRMs
Not pluralized. We don’t say “4 managements”
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 1 year ago:
Teslas (and almost all other EV’s) have electronic only doors
- but Teslas don’t.
- we never pluralize with an apostrophe.
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch a security flaw on over 60,000 NAS devices — the company instead recommends replacing legacy NAS with newer models 1 year ago:
Continuing to not support an EoL model that you already don’t support due to EoL (or even dropping support for an EoL model that no one expected you to support in the first place due to EoL)? Non-issue.
Dropping support should mean opening the source. I think there’s a movement about that.
- Comment on Microsoft tests wooden data centers in a bid to cut carbon emissions 1 year ago:
FIRE’S FAVOURITE FOOD !
- Comment on Samsung update bricks phones, giving harsh reminder of data backup importance 1 year ago:
Huh. This is an S10. Duck and cover I guess.
- Comment on Remedy Entertainment Has Received A Loan From Tencent 1 year ago:
I’m not supporting a company just for charity. Companies aren’t people.
- They make something I want
- I buy it
An epic release isn’t what I want.
- Comment on Ikea is testing a secondhand marketplace, but only in two countries 1 year ago:
And if you find them old enough, they contain actual wood!
- Comment on [Interview] Signal's Meredith Whittaker on the Telegram security clash and the 'edge lords' at OpenAI 1 year ago:
Usually, no.
- Comment on Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast” 1 year ago:
This from the guy who can’t remember what he wrote, nor can he scroll up.
You fell off the high horse a ways back. Pay attention.
- Comment on Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast” 1 year ago:
I wish I could see a liberty ad.
The only crap I see is “before you buy something on Amazon, see this” garbage.
- Comment on Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast” 1 year ago:
Sail the seas, m’boy!