7rokhym

7rokhym , 1 month ago to Technology in ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services

The other concern is censorship. Essentially a movie that you bought is on a server and then someone's decided that words, content, or scenes are no longer appropriate. The video, song, etc, is different from the original and without any notification. The old scenes get sent to the memory hole. Oh dear Winston, I fear we will meet soon!

7rokhym , 1 month ago to Technology in Google Accidentally Deleted $125 Billion Pension Fund's Account

Backup was on Azure. I get the sentiment on the cloud, but there is no excuse for this incompetence at Google.

7rokhym , 4 months ago to Technology in Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis

They didn't apologize. Headlines just say they did.

7rokhym , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to Technology in Microsoft's Pricey AI Assistant Copilot Leaves Early Adopters Feeling Cheated

Yeah it's a classic case of Microsoft marketing. So far I found the office integration to be the least useful and most over hyped in marketing. However what it is good at is actually helpful. Join a meeting late it already has an update for what's happened on the meeting so far and it's really good for summarizing a meeting especially a key topics and a summary of action items. Tedious tasks like taking data copied from a PDF file and reformatting it correctly in CSV. And my favorite is making custom graphics based on a specific colour palette, though most images are really good for entertainment, demos and samples, but not production quality for final products. Weird results include creepy human images just don't look right in a disturbing zombie-like way.