JakenVeina

@JakenVeina@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have two main conplaints about shorts, myself, the end result of which is that I prefer to just never see them in my feed, ever.

  1. Most shorts that pop up for me are literally just clips from longer form videos I’ve already seen, or are already on my Watch Later list. And there’s SO damn many of them. Those types of shorts are purely clutter.

  2. The other type of shorts I see most often are just aping the tiktok format, characterized by being extremely shallow and low-effort, as well as having the INFURIATING tendency to be over-edited for length trimming. You know the type of editing I mean, the one where the creator apparently thinks that even pausing to BREATHE between words or thoughts is too much downtime in the video. I find it insulting that TikTok and now YouTube have normalized the idea that creators should be so overwhelmingly desperate to capture every moment of your attention. Plus, it’s pretty well understood by now that feeding your attention that heavily is wildly unhealthy for your brain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I'm sorry we're here again," says Epic Games CEO as Fortnite maker lays off over 1000 employees⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Not sorry enough to do anything meaningful about it, though. You know, aside from shoving all the consequences on you.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor - Heavy Duty Expansion announced for April⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fantastic game, fantastic devs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Look at that, Highguard is coming out next week after all, with a gameplay overview coming, oh, that's odd, launch day⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dweet? Dwitter?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Logitech caused its mice to freak out by not renewing a certificate⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Glad I read the writing on the wall and stopped buying Logitech years ago.

  There is 0 excuse for a mouse to ever need or use an internet connection. Period.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  because Microsoft created the new taskbar from the ground up and didn’t use the old code from Windows 10.

  Which excuses nothing. You CHOSE to dump and rewrite existing, functional code, before its replacement was fully realized. You intentionally degraded your product, based on the calculation that the portion of users who don’t care would be far greater than the portion who do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games Store users can now gift games to friends⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome to last week, Tim.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Lina Khan Is Busy Striving To Maximize Mamdani's Power⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Khan, who spearheaded some of the Biden administration’s worst efforts to disrupt free markets with heavy-handed government intervention, repeatedly tested the limits of FTC power, and attempted to do through an executive agency things that should have been left to Congress.

  Loooooool. Democrats finally have someone willing to turn just a little bit of the Republicans’ own tactics against them, and they’re already whining about it. If Congress (state or federal) doesn’t like they laws she’s abusing, they can get off their asses and fucking DO something about it. See how well it goes over with New Yorkers when they lower prices for shit, and enforce consumer rights, and Congress tries to pass laws to undo it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta used AI to concoct low-carbon concrete it poured for a datacenter floor⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This appears to be a rare proper use of machine-learning tech.

  No, they did not ask ChatGPT to whip them up a concrete mix. They (in co-operation with engineers) trained a mathematical model specifically for the task of predicting the performance of concrete mixes, in order to narrow down the number of mixes to do (time-intensive) real-world testing on. With a focus on also predicting the carbon-emission impact of the mixes.

  This is the kind of technology we need more of. Not LLM slop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok got a Nazi patch⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same concept as how Trump gave no written order for the Jan 6 mob to storm the capitol building, therefore he’s totally not responsible for it.