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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatever happened to cheat codes and guide books? They were the best part of gaming they just kind of dropped of the earth is there a rhyme or reason for this?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Christmas presents for the gamer who has everything. I got my son a Breath of the Wild encyclopedia, and he spent hours reading about different enemies and collectibles. It even had a map of korok seeds that he could scratch off (although he gave up when he learned what the reward would be).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatever happened to cheat codes and guide books? They were the best part of gaming they just kind of dropped of the earth is there a rhyme or reason for this?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah, a lot of games introduced cheats as easter eggs. NBA Jam set the standard for a lot of cheat variables.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatever happened to cheat codes and guide books? They were the best part of gaming they just kind of dropped of the earth is there a rhyme or reason for this?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Three things have changed.

  First, GameFaqs put all of it online for free. Why would you buy a book? It’s now a relic of the old web, but it’s still there, filled with cheat codes and guides for all your games. Strategies evolve as players learn new things, so forums have replaced prescriptive guidebooks to accommodate new ideas.

  Second, game development has changed. Cheat codes were originally tools for developers to function test. To test a particular level or feature, devs would have to play the actual game. Modern games are not as linear, and modern developers can throw together a test environment on the fly. Game components are more like isolated microservices, so modifying the game to test features does not need to be baked into the code.

  The third thing is that everything has an online multiplayer now. Cheats are fun when it’s just you against the machine, but online competitive play is ruined when your opponent has infinite health. Online cheaters still exist, ruining multiplayer for entire communities, but their aimbots and shit cannot be officially sanctioned or promoted in a guidebook.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  *serfs but yeah

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Withdraws Apple iCloud Backdoor Demand Following US Diplomatic Push⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Three things seem likely.

  First, Apple said absolutely not. British people would need to import their own Apple products, and the UK isn’t a big enough market by itself to force the change.

  Second, the US intelligence probably shared that we have access already and they can have it too. Even if that’s not true, that’s what it looks like if you read between the lines, and a wink is as good as a nod to a conservative who gets their news from social media. So Apple doesn’t have to compromise their customer privacy, and the UK gets some political cover from the implication that Apple can’t actually protect their customers’ privacy.

  Third, Apple may have simply conceded but won’t admit it publicly. The US administration, in exchange for gold baubles, negotiated a compromise where Apple gives the UK the back door, but the UK does not admit that they have access.

  I don’t know which one happened, but all three seem plausible. It could be a mix of any of them, or maybe something else entirely. I dunno, I haven’t had coffee yet today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic says some Claude models can now end ‘harmful or abusive’ conversations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s probably part of it, and all of this is pretty silly.

  But maybe an upside is that if people stop being shitty to chatbots, maybe we can normalize live customer service agents ending interactions when they become abusive. Maybe Claude is monitoring live agent conversations, making and documenting the decision to terminate the call. Humans have a higher threshold for abuse, and will often tolerate shitty behavior because they err on the side of customer service. If it’s an automated process, that protects the agent.

  Of course, all of this is wishful thinking on my part. It would be nice if new tech wasn’t used for evil, but evil is profitable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Atlassian terminates 150 staff with pre-recorded video, AI customer contact solutions rolled out⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  [glancing around my office at all the people using jira] Yeah, sure. That’s the intention.

  Seriously, though, I’m an “educated professional” with a liberal arts degree who uses jira every single day. Being an “educated professional” doesn’t mean you have PM skills, or tech troubleshooting skills, or know how to search documentation for your problems. Educated professionals are a cross section of the larger population, and are more or less a representational sample of the whole of humanity. There are proportionally as many people whodon’t know what a Kanban board is, or can’t figure out why they don’t have permission to delete the 350 epics they accidentally created.

  AI assistance is like an interactive FAQ. It can do a little more than a static list of questions and answers, but the answers should also be validated by a human with the knowledge and understanding of the underlying systems. AI agents hallucinate and make up answers all the time. LLMs are essentially pattern recognition, and novel problems often break patterns. A human would go “huh, that’s weird.” An AI will classify a platypus as a duck and tell you with confidence how to pluck it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Atlassian terminates 150 staff with pre-recorded video, AI customer contact solutions rolled out⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, I agree with you, and I am the same way. But you and me, we represent like a fifth of support callers. AI could deflect an alarming number of daily support cases. Just finding information in the documentation often requires a deep and thorough understanding of the product, and it’s really difficult in documentation to separate “this is a common problem everyone has” from “this weird thing has never happened before and you need to talk to the dev who coded the fucker.” AI is fairly good at that level of pattern recognition.

  The problem is that you still need the people to take the hand off, and deflection doesn’t mean they got the right answer, it just means they left.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delta Air Lines is using AI to set the maximum price you’re willing to pay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They used to pay someone to do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This new SSD will literally self destruct if you push the big red button it comes with — Team Group posts video of data destruction in action⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I always wanted a novelty 5 inch bay device that was release a small wisp of smoke from the front of the pc case. It could be a command, or randomized and it would councide with a BSOD or just a power-off command.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Doubles Prime Video Ads to 6 Minutes Per Hour⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d rather spend 10 minutes avoiding 4 minutes of advertising on a streaming service I pay for. Luckily, it doesn’t take nearly that long.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp defends 'optional' AI tool that cannot be turned off⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, if you’re still using WhatsApp, you should expect that shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s wild that they didn’t do this already, but cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump plan to fund Musk’s Starlink over fiber called “betrayal” of rural US⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s going to be a whole shelf in future libraries dedicated to the books written about how bad this time period was for people. Assuming humanity survives, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft accidentally removed Copilot in the latest Windows 11 update.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  … those who need the app…

  404 error

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why was there a pro-Hitler, Holocaust-denying ad on X?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why? Because it’s owned by Nazis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former PlayStation Executive Says Its Time To Dial Back Game Lengths⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it means dial back pricing, too, I’m for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Max is testing always-on HBO channels⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But why?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is shutting down Freevee⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no! What’s Freevee?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flappy Bird’s original creator says he has nothing to do with the new game⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flappy Bird’s original creator says he has nothing to do with the new game⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The game mechanic is incredibly simple, and has been cloned a million times. The graphics weren’t anything special, so really the only thing special about Flappy Bird is the name Flappy Bird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Landscaping Services In North Carolina⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What, this isn’t a forum related to steam-cleaning your deck or patio?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix is starting to phase out its cheapest ad-free plan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A VPN is cheaper, tho

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All three game console makers have now abandoned X integration⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I had to come to the comments to figure out what X was supposed to mean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is ready to fill free streaming TV channels with ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  FAST, or free ad-supported streaming TV channels that Google’s been hell-bent on getting users to notice.

  Willie sees ya. Willie don’t care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify to increase premium pricing in the US to $11.99 per month⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Cough cough xManager cough hack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This New Dating App Is Only for People With a Credit Score of 675 and Above⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  675 is excellent? Can you share this with my bank?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This New Dating App Is Only for People With a Credit Score of 675 and Above⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m having a hard time imagining a life where my personality is so toxic that I both can afford and require $4,000 a month to find a romantic partner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside Sony’s ‘Madame Web’ Collapse: Forget About a New Franchise⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, and without Sony paying for the rights and making them, there would be no Iron Man.

  But it’s time to recognize that Sony does not have the skill and commitment required to make a Sinister Six or Spider Women multi-movie franchise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside Sony’s ‘Madame Web’ Collapse: Forget About a New Franchise⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t call Kraven a minor villain. Kraven’s Last Hunt was fairly important at the time, and established the character as one of the few Marvel villains to ever thoroughly and absolutely defeat a major superhero, and not in some alternate future universe or What If scenario. Kraven beat Spider-Man, then he was Spider-Man, then he made Spider-Man a better hero.