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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Showing your ID to get online might become a reality⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. The sentiment was fine, the execution terrible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Showing your ID to get online might become a reality⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The following:

  If companies are indulging in abusive use of cookies (or index DB, local storage, plugins or other things) then ban those abusive use of cookies and fine companies that transgress until they stop. The EU essentially caves to industry pressure and put the burden on the individual visitor, which just allowed the companies to make it very, very annoying to opt out. Have you noticed how ‘allow all’ is always a single click, but allow none isn’t, if the option exists at all? Regardless, those settings? Guess where they’re stored: Cookies. Which means that those of us who were already preventing local storage of data are now having to deal with those lovely “choices” over, and over and over. Every visit to youtube, every newspaper article we try to read.

  This was not an improvement in my quality of life. And I doubt the practical efficacy to boot. Can’t track user behavior and Internet usage patterns by way of cookies anymore? Fingerprinting to the rescue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Showing your ID to get online might become a reality⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey EU? Do you remember when you forced every website to ask for permission to store cookies and made the entire web immeasurably worse to use without in any way having a positive impact on people’s right to some fucking privacy?

  Yeah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You'll only survive the scorching wasteland of Hello Sunshine by walking in the shadow of a giant robot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, that was… Profoundly disturbing in a way I haven’t seen since dodging a Reaper on foot in ME3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaked video shows PlayStation toying with Aloy from Horizon as an AI chatbot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thing is, I really don’t see how that’d work for any useful scenario. Even in this very limited case natural language processing and response generation is definitely off-loaded to a remote server farm, and isn’t running on the console. TTS for a single characters voice could - but likely isn’t - be done on the hardware, but as I mentioned elsewhere, the voice models for modern text-to-speech synthesis are very, very large. Typically gigabytes of data - per voice. Completely unrealistic for any meaningful game.

  Even if all those trained models existed (they don’t), I doubt any consumer would be amused by a multi-terabyte download.

  Even as it is, the response latency is hilariously bad. I players having to wait seconds for each NPC response would fly as well as a lead brick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaked video shows PlayStation toying with Aloy from Horizon as an AI chatbot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting point, although I don’t see how you’d manage to run modern TTS (the models can get very large, and that’s per voice; as an example Parler-TTS’s mini model is 800Mb, the HQ model is 2.3Gb - for one voice) + a LLM for content synthesis on any personal hardware, console or not. The storage requirements alone would make that grossly infeasible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaked video shows PlayStation toying with Aloy from Horizon as an AI chatbot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does anybody actually want that, ever?