spankmonkey
@spankmonkey@lemmy.world
Also known as snooggums on midwest.social and kbin.social.
- Comment on Here's the source code for the unofficial Signal app used by Trump officials 2 days ago:
It is if you are a foreign asset.
- Comment on Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store 3 days ago:
By offering a far better experience for the vast majority of people. Like how DVDs killed VHS, where some people who couldn’t afford to upgrade were left behind.
- Comment on Duolingo said it just doubled its language courses thanks to AI 5 days ago:
Quantity over quality!
- Comment on The Cybertruck is all tricks and no truck, a musky Tesla fail 5 days ago:
Yes, it is a terrible design choice but that isn’t one of the design features they are talking about.
Clearance, cab shape, large wheel wells, flat sides on the bed to make it accessible or for adding racks, bumpers you can step on to climb up, and other functional features are what they are talking about. A large number of trucks have had sloping front hoods and still inckuded all of the truck featured that matter and which the cybertruck failed to include.
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 1 week ago:
Uneducated guesses.
- Comment on Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company 1 week ago:
As long as we are using enshittification for anything gping downhill my word example is lose getting an extra ‘o’ which makes reading ‘I hate it when I loose my keys’ painful. Why the hell is that so common now?
- Comment on Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company 1 week ago:
Originally it was a good descriptor of tech companies starting out as useful and then turning to shit as they leaned into becoming profitable, but if you was to use it as “things get shitty in favor of profits” then I guess it could apply to everything.
I liked the original where it had nuance and was a good shorthand specific to the tech trends.
- Comment on Google is paying Samsung an ‘enormous sum’ to preinstall Gemini 1 week ago:
Whhhhyyyyyyyy
- Comment on Liz Truss to launch her own ‘uncensorable’ social media platform 2 weeks ago:
But it sounds like she want to lettuce say whatever we want!
- Comment on Liz Truss to launch her own ‘uncensorable’ social media platform 2 weeks ago:
So any of the users will be able to freely tell her to kill herself?
- Comment on Wikipedia is giving AI developers its data to fend off bot scrapers 2 weeks ago:
The post title is phrased that way, but you can already download wikipedi and the article sounds like they are presenting it in a new way for a new audience.
- Comment on Google used AI to suspend over 39M ad accounts suspected of fraud 2 weeks ago:
It used the AI to destroy the AI.
- Comment on Tesla accused of hacking odometers to weasel out of warranty repairs 2 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Just stealing the data.
- Comment on Data centers contain 90% crap data 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 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. 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Stop gAsLiGhTiNg me!
- Comment on “Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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. 1 month 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?