graymess

@graymess@hexbear.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fans Are Accusing Ubisoft Of Using "Incredibly Disappointing" AI Art In Anno 117⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This image was a placeholder asset that unintentionally slipped through our review process.

  If this is true, then that’s just unbelievably sloppy. I work in an industry that does use AI generated audio as a temporary placeholder, but we keep that shit isolated on a separate server with layers of identifiers all over the files to make it clear it is not to be shipped, ever. And in the process of sending our deliverables over to QC, we disconnect from that server entirely so any of those AI generated assets are immediately knocked offline. There’s really no excuse for a studio as big as this with as many resources as it has.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve says it’s still waiting for better chips to power Steam Deck 2⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure we’ll get some smaller form factor handhelds from third parties running SteamOS in the near future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I can respect this practice, but in fairness, that’s like $1000+ of music purchases. Most people can’t just drop their $10/mo or whatever it is subscription and suddenly buy all the songs they want to listen to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Western Digital and Microsoft launch HDD recycling program to recover rare earths from e-waste⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s objectively a good thing that at least some of the vast amounts of e-waste out there is getting repurposed, but it’s also funny as fuck that US tech companies are already in scavenger mode over China’s halted exports.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kawasaki unveils a hydrogen-powered, ride-on robot horse⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kind of hard to think of a use case for this. Not sure I’d ever trust a piece of tech that big, heavy, and expensive to just transport me into unpaved wilderness far from any of the resources it runs on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. Accident or not, when a device is bricked it’s permanently fucked, functionally useless. The term suits it and should be what we call this practice unless there’s a harsher word to describe a company unplugging the necessary server that kills an otherwise useful, working device.