baatliwala

@baatliwala@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games do you replay regularly/annually ?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Doom 2, because the mod scene freaking rules

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer released early by rockstar after it was supposedly leaked⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  GTA makes a killing by parodying conspiracy theory nutjobs, maybe Rockstar can make an NPC character based off of you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Local pop radio station is using its metadata to spread anti Biden propaganda⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  that would mean anyone going to http:// will perceive as the server being down so what you are saying will not work in practice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Local pop radio station is using its metadata to spread anti Biden propaganda⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Funniest thing I’ve ever seen is the docs for Nginx do the same, no http to https redirection. I mean, you would hope that the maintainers for the biggest web server in the world would be able to manage that but somehow… No they don’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From the Middle Out - Silicon Valley⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Whoops guess I never replied for this

  Few examples I can think of in the show:

  • There’s many technologies shown were more impressive for their time. Jian Yang’s hot dog/not hot dog app i.e. the joke that we were mislead to believe, that it would identify an object and identify what it is would genuinely have been more impressive at the release of the episode and not so much now. There’s things like drones, AI where at release you thought “wow imagine a future with these” compared to now where the future for these has actually arrived.
  • IIRC the last season starts with Richard Hendriks testifying in court, and it’s a big reference to Zuckerberg doing the same for I think the Cambridge Analytica scandal? The moment would be lost today
  • Lots of things around the opening sequence changed per season as companies got acquired and died, you saw that and said “Oh yeah that happened!” vs now you might just say “Oh yeah. that happened”.

  Then there’s things not in the show that would date itself like the shift to remote working post pandemic, or the massive focus companies are giving mobile now which again wasn’t as big as at release of the show. I bet Gavin Belson trying to micromanage remote workers or something around the short form video craze we have would have been important plot points if the show came out now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From the Middle Out - Silicon Valley⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a great series but sadly I think it dates itself far too much with the references, jokes, and plot lines. A person who started watching in 2023 probably won’t enjoy it as much as someone who did around the release. Unfortunately reality of making a show focused on tech.

  That said I would love a new season based on everything GenAI and GPT, it would be amazing.