spankmonkey
@spankmonkey@lemmy.world
Also known as snooggums on midwest.social and kbin.social.
- Comment on Tesla accused of hacking odometers to weasel out of warranty repairs 2 hours ago:
A large number of Tesla executives should be thrown in jail over this blatant fraud.
- Comment on Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project 4 days ago:
Just stealing the data.
- Comment on Data centers contain 90% crap data 1 week ago:
The Cloud made the crap data problem infinitely worse. The Cloud is what happens when the cost of storing data is less than the cost of figuring out what to do with the crap.
Yeah, cheaper to hold it just in case is actually a best case scenario for audit trails and the occasional look back. If 99.9999% is useless down thw road but one file answers some obscure question and it would have been more expensive to sort through it, then the cost savings and benefit was worth it financially.
And nobody in management cares because it’s so ‘cheap’ to store data. And this is what AI is being trained on. And we wonder why AI gets stuff wrong so often? Crap data in. Crap data out. And nobody cares.
Hold up. No, you don’t get to blame cheap data retention for AI being shit. AI is shit becsuse they train it on this shitty data instead of curating better quality data. AI gets shit wrong because they are training it on reddit data without taking into account humor subreddits instead of educationally verified content. Libraries curate their content,AI just jams whatever they can find into their AI model.
People and companies are not responsible for AI using their shitty content and presenting it as a reliable source of information.
- Comment on Nintendo is Bringing Us Kicking and Screaming Into the $80 Game Era with the Switch 2 1 week ago:
Game prices aren’t all about play time or pretty physics, or anything in particular. My top 3 hours played in steam are all from 2019 and after.
$99 special edition 1000+ hours
$70 for a game plus two expansion 800+ hours
$20 discounted preorder 500+ hours
All three just happen to have interesting and enjoyable replay loops. But I also have a few games I spent $60 on and played less than 50 hours and still felt like I got my money’s worth.
Recent intendo games tend to feel well done, but not groundbreaking or unique enough to justify being full priced all the time, much less $80 even if I was to get 100+ hours out of them. They seem overpriced for what they include and that is the real reason for the pushback. Nintendo chose the closed envirionment with everything eternally at full price and that is why people are pushing back in their case.
- Comment on Nintendo is Bringing Us Kicking and Screaming Into the $80 Game Era with the Switch 2 1 week ago:
Digital distribution is far less than it was in the 90s, many games sell in far higher numbers they did in the 90s, plus a ton of other cost savings due to scale exist on the distribution side. Yes, costs are higher to develop some types of games, but quite a few studios are able to put out profit generating games at far less than $60 per unit sold.
Cost comparisons over time tend to not be very informative when it comes to products that have significant changes in costs over time, and games are one of those things.
- Comment on How Software Engineers Actually Use AI 2 weeks ago:
We kept hearing conflicting accounts. This programmer used AI every day; that programmer wouldn’t touch the stuff. This company paid for AI services; that company banned them. So which is it?
The article as a whole wasn’t bad, but this sounds like someone who refuses to accept that people say different things because they have different opinions and if only someone knew what the consensus was.
It’s all of those things! Honestly I was suprised at how evenly divided things were.
- Comment on Discord plans to roll out third-party ads on its mobile apps, starting with a mobile pilot for Video Quests, video ads that let users earn rewards, in June 2025. 3 weeks ago:
user-first, reward-focused advertising experiences
I just threw up in my mouth.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 4 weeks ago:
Stop gAsLiGhTiNg me!
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 4 weeks ago:
People use terms wrong all the time and ruin the nuance. Like calling all lying gaslighting.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 4 weeks ago:
The same way drowning can be used to describe all types of suffocation, sure. As long as you absolutely ignore context, words can mean anything!
Making things worse, making them stop functioning, and making them overly restrictive are three different things.
Enshittification: making online products and services worse over time to serve business interests.
Planned obsolescence is making things stop working after a period of time, not just making them worse.
I don’t know what the term is for HP printers not allowing third party ink to work or not letting a scanner in a combo printer/scanner work without ink but that also isn’t something getting worse or stopping due to an arbitrarily short end of life. Those are overly restrictive design decisions, which is different than enshittification because the printer sucked from the day it was purchased.
- Comment on Trump plan to fund Musk’s Starlink over fiber called “betrayal” of rural US 4 weeks ago:
Voter disenfranchisement is a significant portion of that, where the difficulty of voting or inability to vote because of voter purges, having the ability to vote denied because of felonies, and other barriers exist too.
Plus polling was fairly close so roughly half would have voted for Trump if they were forced to vote.
Not to mention the high chance that the election was actually rigged this time with all the election deniers put into positions of power, the fact that Republicans love to project what they are going to do on the opposition before they do it, and Trump bragging about Musk being able to rig voting machines (which is probably a baseless boast, but shows his willingness to cheat).
Blame the people who voted for Trump. They are the real problem.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 4 weeks ago:
Originally coined it was meant to describe online software that started out useful and frequently free, then run into the ground when it came time to monetize it.
Enshittification, also known as crapification and platform decay, is the term used to describe the pattern in which online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize profits for shareholders.
Just because people atarted using it to mean ‘stuff gets shitty’ doesn’t change the original meaning.
- Comment on Trump plan to fund Musk’s Starlink over fiber called “betrayal” of rural US 4 weeks ago:
I did vote against the orange turd and it is still happening.
- Comment on Surprisingly, Valve rated Grand Theft Auto V Enhanced and Rainbow Six Siege as Steam Deck Playable 4 weeks ago:
Sounds like there needs to be a separate indicator of whether it is playable online.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 4 weeks ago:
Owners of smart TVs and streaming sticks running Roku OS
The article clearly states
Owners of smart TVs and streaming sticks running Roku OS
It IS affecting tvs with roku built in.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 4 weeks ago:
Enshittification was coined for online services, which includes roku, but doesn’t apply to all products.
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 4 weeks ago:
What? This is reported to be happening on both sticks and tv versions of the rolu app.
- Comment on Email signatures are harming the planet and could cost people their lives — it’s time to stop using them. 4 weeks ago:
The results showed that in Canada, where about 15 per cent of people include gender pronouns in emails, the resulting carbon emissions from this small change (three extra words) may contribute to the premature deaths of one person a year, according to the 1,000-ton rule.
This a comedy piece, right?
- Comment on A court has rejected Elon Musk's request for a temporary injunction against OpenAI, OpenAI says Elon Musk "is finding out, facts matter - especially in court". 4 weeks ago:
Openai saying facts matter is pretty fucking funny.
- Comment on All this bad AI is wrecking a whole generation of gadgets 4 weeks ago:
On top of the tech not working as promised, it has been continuously enshittified in the interest of selling more and more crap. Alexa used to answer questions asked, which was a cute novelty, but now she tries to sell something or rambles on at length about related topics instead of answering the question and shutting up. I’m sure that was the starting goal, but it means something that was mildly convenient is now tedious and annoying to use because it has reached the monetization phase.
Not to mention all of the ridiculous filters on top of the seemingly less accurate results over time. It could be that I use it rarely enough that the decline is more obvious, or that I mainly remember the wrong results, but even if it credits the source there is often missing context. Like the meme about John Backflip being the first person to do a backflip or the glue on pizza being from reddit misses the context that they were posted in a joke subs.
- Comment on Google changed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps 2 months ago:
So fucking petty and stupid.
- Comment on A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? 2 months ago:
I guess there are no checks and balances that apply?
- Comment on Trump says new US sovereign wealth fund could purchase TikTok 2 months ago:
Malicious socialism.
- Comment on Library 2 months ago:
Racing game, FPS, arcade style fighting game. I trade off which of the three I’m playin.
This also explains how I’m only ok at all three!
- Comment on Mexico asks Google to reject U.S. renaming of the Gulf of Mexico. 2 months ago:
It is fucking freedom fries all pver again.
- Comment on Mexico asks Google to reject U.S. renaming of the Gulf of Mexico. 2 months ago:
As a US citizen I want it left as the Gulf of Mexico.
- Comment on Almost a third of developers think generative AI is a negative for the games industry, says new survey 2 months ago:
Games and movies have already used algorithms for background crowds and hair movement, AI would just be a continuation of that kind of thing. One reason to be against it for that purpose is because of the concern of how it will be implemented, since those old algorithms were seen as a tool for professionals to use instead of something to replace those same professionals.
The main concern with generative AI is the ‘replace your workforce’ mentality that is associated with it.
- Comment on Politics content to be pushed on all Instagram and Threads users 2 months ago:
Full on propaganda machine, and as usual they blame ‘most users’ for what they force on all the users.
- Comment on Hermen Hulst: Sony Will Continue To Make Live Service Titles, As They Are “Learning” From Helldivers 2 3 months ago:
Sony is most likely learning all the wrong things from HD2. For future projects I forsee the normal trends:
- They willl force PSN requirements ip front (already in progress)
- Benefits of monetization will most likely be dialed up.
- Content releases will be spread over time, but not for in game reasons or to allow time for fixing QA issues like with HD2.
- Crossover with other media will be a mix of overpriced ceap with a small numbef of freebees because they don’t understand the free stuff was in response to fucking up in the first place.
- Sony will most likely think that a buggy release is fine because people put up with it.
- Comment on Promoted by influencers, this popular browser extension has been a scam all along 3 months ago:
A paypal extension promoted by voluntary shills is a scam?
Say it ain’t so!