wise_pancake
@wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Meta’s “AI superintelligence” effort sounds just like its failed “metaverse” 1 week ago:
Basically a Zuckerberg read or watched Ready Player One and decided he wanted to own that.
They have put a ridiculous amount of R&D into it at this point but the whole metaverse idea doesn’t actually enable anything new or better than the existing paradigms.
- Comment on User says access to ’30 years of photos and work’ in OneDrive denied by Microsoft, can't get a response after filing form 18 times — 'Microsoft suspended my account without warning, reason, or any leg 2 weeks ago:
There are services line eazy backup or borgbase that I wound consider backups
But iCloud or Google drive or Dropbox or onedrive are not.
Aside from account deletion when you overwrite a file there’s no retention — backups should be immutable, they’re vulnerable to bitlockers, storing media on them can trigger hash based piracy detection systems (whether you’ve legally acquired material or not), and they don’t have a policy that allows you to bulk download quickly without interruption or rate limiting.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s xAI Is Reportedly Burning Through $1 Billion a Month 3 weeks ago:
This guy is terrible at running profitable businesses and somehow Amazon at raising funds.
I don’t get it.
- Comment on Reddit will help advertisers turn ‘positive’ posts into ads 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think the Reddit community needs help being negative.
- Comment on Video apps like Hulu “cannot be used on Nintendo Switch 2,” says support page 5 weeks ago:
They probably don’t have to test most of those games since they’re just thirst trap anime romance reskins
- Comment on Most Americans don’t trust AI — or the people in charge of it 2 months ago:
The training data thing is so frustrating.
Every service just changed their terms of service to allow it and nobody got in trouble.
- Comment on ChatGPT may be shifting ‘rightward’ in political bias, study finds 4 months ago:
Thank you
- Comment on Reddit hints at expanded AI-powered search 4 months ago:
It would be hard to make Reddit search worse, so have at it
- Comment on ChatGPT may be shifting ‘rightward’ in political bias, study finds 4 months ago:
For my own edification, what is this IRA?
- Comment on BMW’s new iDrive turns the whole windshield into a heads-up display 5 months ago:
The one innovation I’ve wanted from this tech: a digital liquid crystal black circle that automatically blocks the sun from your eyes.
In Canadian winters the sun sets and rises at peak commute hours, and it mixes with all the salt on your window to blind you both ways.
- Comment on Discovery Plus is raising its prices 5 months ago:
I dumped it.
I haven’t really missed it at all, except that I never got to finish Shogun.
- Comment on Chivalry 2's new update adds unofficial server support and skill-based team balancing 1 year ago:
This game is a gem and you should all play it.
FOR THE ORDERRRRRRRRRR!!
- Comment on Fairly Oddparents Gets a Sequel Series With Original Cosmo and Wanda Voice Actors Returning - IGN 1 year ago:
Oof 2.6/10
- Comment on Fairly Oddparents Gets a Sequel Series With Original Cosmo and Wanda Voice Actors Returning - IGN 1 year ago:
I want to see it be so awful we all ignore it
- Comment on Fairly Oddparents Gets a Sequel Series With Original Cosmo and Wanda Voice Actors Returning - IGN 1 year ago:
Exactly, if they’re going to ruin it then ruin it properly so we may all ignore it like the avatar movie.
- Comment on Fairly Oddparents Gets a Sequel Series With Original Cosmo and Wanda Voice Actors Returning - IGN 1 year ago:
This should be done as a live action show.
Or not at all.