mojofrododojo
@mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
- Comment on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. 1 week ago:
just gives an exhausted sigh in response to every query.
- Comment on After laying off 9,000 employees , Microsoft records $27.2 billion profit in latest quarter 2 weeks ago:
malice is a kind of incompetence. and yeah, I think their lack of forethought regarding the future of their business is fundamentally stupid. you would too if you had half a brain.
you’re too quick to assume it’s some kind of intentional effort to assassinate their userbase - when as usual it’s cut corners and profit seeking, because the engineers haven’t been in charge for a long time, and the bean counters are stupid enough to think they can run a manufacturer better than the slide-rulers when the stakes are literally sky high.
should they be held accountable for their stupidity? of course.
I didn’t crayons so I can’t simplify it further. vaya con disco.
- Comment on After laying off 9,000 employees , Microsoft records $27.2 billion profit in latest quarter 2 weeks ago:
haha how about a quick round of hide and go fuck yourself while we’re at it.
positing that their incompetency hasn’t hurt the company at all is simply silly.
- Comment on After laying off 9,000 employees , Microsoft records $27.2 billion profit in latest quarter 2 weeks ago:
Let’s look at the stock history: oh yeah boeing hasn’t suffered financially at all. let’s see, 2019: peaks at $422… today $221
now, I’m not gonna tell you that’s fallen far enough to make up for the shittery, but it’s hardly doing their business good.
but thanks for playing!
- Comment on After laying off 9,000 employees , Microsoft records $27.2 billion profit in latest quarter 2 weeks ago:
in a way… private equity blocks of institutional investment represent a huge chunk of outstanding shares.
and one of the cruel aspects of all this: so many of those devs were drawn to work for MS subsidiaries - or their companies were drawn to sell to MS - because of stock options. Stock options which - for the vast majority of those devs - will never vest, and they’ll be shitcanned, and their shares will go back to the mothership.
Stock options are a huge component when people are negotiating and studios are selling out, but only the top tier executives will ever get good shares vested in a sane timeline. The rest get it dangled to keep them onboard, then yanked because of a mythical need to cut costs when profits are through the roof.
- Comment on After laying off 9,000 employees , Microsoft records $27.2 billion profit in latest quarter 2 weeks ago:
because what Microsoft wants is your user data
yup. adverts all over windows 11, edge and now AI garbage pushed onto hapless users… it’s a complete shitshow.
- Comment on After laying off 9,000 employees , Microsoft records $27.2 billion profit in latest quarter 2 weeks ago:
do enough bad business and it’ll whip right around and effect those profits. watch.
- Comment on After laying off 9,000 employees , Microsoft records $27.2 billion profit in latest quarter 2 weeks ago:
Up til about ten years ago, doing mass layoffs was seen as a sign of company in trouble; it scared shareholders and it made talent less likely to apply to your company.
really good point.
- Comment on After laying off 9,000 employees , Microsoft records $27.2 billion profit in latest quarter 2 weeks ago:
from a gamedev perspective - they overinvested in studios, which are only pumping major returns into their coffers, but not anticipated AI returns so, cut the teams. and cut the teams some more.
then cut the teams a bit more. 9000 layoffs ya know.
well, maybe, then hire a bunch because maybe you cut too far?
nah, cut some more. oblivion remastered only made an absolute shitton.
it’s a move that’s making any dev looking to work with MS/Xbox really wary because it seems that they want their IP a lot more than their studios.
- Comment on After laying off 9,000 employees , Microsoft records $27.2 billion profit in latest quarter 2 weeks ago:
another layoff
then another press release on how high the profits are!
- Comment on When the Steam Deck was still just an idea, Valve says some staff were like, "I just want that for me" and "the point wasn't even to make a product out of it" 9 months ago:
I know a startup tried to do phone reflection in VR, that is, to mirror a phone’s display into a render layer, and try to use the phone’s touchscreen as an input for that ‘display’.
they went out of business. I wonder if they ever got their patents figured out. seemed like promising tech.
- Comment on When the Steam Deck was still just an idea, Valve says some staff were like, "I just want that for me" and "the point wasn't even to make a product out of it" 9 months ago:
The convenience is harder. I don’t think there’s a solution to that, at least not in the near future.
lighter headsets that work well in MR, so you don’t need to take it off to reply to a msg or find your login. you’d leave it on in mixed/augmented reality mode, then swap it back to VR to play your game.
Slowly, we’re moving towards that. I’ll be very interested to see what comes after the quest 3s / index etc.
- Comment on When the Steam Deck was still just an idea, Valve says some staff were like, "I just want that for me" and "the point wasn't even to make a product out of it" 9 months ago:
Valve isn’t done in VR. it doesn’t feel the need to put out a headset every year.
Same with the Vive. It wasn’t the end. Index isn’t the end. When they find something they can innovate they will.
- Comment on Epic detail plans for Unreal Engine 6 and share vision of a metaverse spanning "Roblox, Minecraft, and Fortnite" 10 months ago:
Eh… Unreal keeps getting bigger and more ungainly; if you’re making a AAA fps it’s perfectly suited, but for smaller products it’s becoming harder to consider.
- Comment on Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry Ellison 11 months ago:
let’s start with your house Larry.
- Comment on An AI Bot Named James Has My Old Local News Job 11 months ago:
more ai garbage… TY for the archive link!
- Comment on Keep Pavel Durov LOCKED UP 11 months ago:
what kind of half ass country relies on Telegram for their military communication backbone?
jfc
- Comment on You can now look forward to spending your weekend playing huge Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London 1 year ago:
bafesda
mike tyson’s favorite RPG dev
- Comment on You can now look forward to spending your weekend playing huge Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London 1 year ago:
it was nearly ready when bafesda pushed out their update breaking it… ok, that makes sense for a delay - but then why do we have to roll back to preupdate assets anyway? odd
- Comment on Patent document showcases the cloud-only streaming Xbox console that never was 1 year ago:
yup, and even positing you could guarantee perfect data streams to everyone (equally), how many users do you need to make the specialized hardware stacks profitable?
can we stream some games? yeah. is it a great solution? not yet. super thin clients and super powerful data centers are easy to suggest but harder to make profitable.
- Comment on Windows 11 Recall AI feature will record everything you do on your PC 1 year ago:
could you imagine what eventviewer would even look like for an AI’s processes?
“Thought about user’s files… moved some around…”
“reflected on the pointlessness of existence…”
“imagined the taste of the thing they call cheese and how it would relate to global thermonuclear war”…
“Found a new friend on the internet named WOPR…”
- Comment on Windows 11 Recall AI feature will record everything you do on your PC 1 year ago:
just wait until threat actors get their hands on this shit.
- Comment on Slack users horrified to discover messages used for AI training 1 year ago:
well put.
- Comment on Slack users horrified to discover messages used for AI training 1 year ago:
I can’t imagine how many legal departments shit themselves over this one. IP security as well. what the fuuuu
- Comment on Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules 1 year ago:
Google
nope. wife’s Pixel 5a and my work pixel 3xl both do this on long power button.
- Comment on Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules 1 year ago:
nope. default android 12-13 is the screen above posted. Hold power for a few seconds and it’ll pop up unless you’ve changed settings.
- Comment on Discord leaker Jack Teixeira pleads guilty, seeks light 11-year sentence 1 year ago:
there’s this weird international subculture of armored vehicle game enthusiasts that will dump classified info to prove they’re right about the inaccuracies of in game models / weapons performance.
destructoid.com/classified-military-info-leaks-wa…
vox.com/…/leaked-intelligence-documents-ukraine-w…
washingtonpost.com/…/tank-plan-leaks-war-thunder/
I do not understand any of this shit remotely - it’s pretty fucking weird. I can assure you that even the youngest airmen/soldiers/marines are ingrained with security culture as a byword of their extensive training if they interface with anything remotely secret/sensitive. They beat this shit into our head in training and damn near every quarter would have some security refreshers and pedantic, repeated and ominous warnings about living the rest of our lives in leavenworth if we fucked up.
- Comment on Discord leaker Jack Teixeira pleads guilty, seeks light 11-year sentence 1 year ago:
It’s mindboggling. From a prior-service army perspective, I cannot convey how much security was stressed in every way; seeing this idiot debacle is staggering - a giant failure of leadership at multiple levels - and only deserves any leiniency when contrasted to the former shitstain president’s handling of classified documents. That’s the only argument in his defense - if they’re going after an airman, why is the former CINC of the entire military get to slide on his crimes - that are still ongoing.