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Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising (www.techradar.com)

Windows 11 is getting out of hand with its push for advertisments, frankly - remember the recent full-screen pop-up to persuade users to install Edge or other Microsoft services? Then another advertisment was placed in the Start menu, and now Microsoft has finally worn my temper thin - with a new Game Pass ad coming to the...

Buddahriffic ,

Considering ms has changed the look and feel of windows itself over the years, sometimes pretty drastically, there's some leeway there.

Buddahriffic ,

So the rest will be immortal (going by Logan rules)?

Buddahriffic ,

I don't think I've ever seen a pizza place sell small pizzas for a decent value. They price them to not sell. I'm guessing because they aren't as predictable for the amount of volume you might need.

It wouldn't have been cheaper to go for bigger (ignoring deals), but it wouldn't have been much more and you'd have leftover pizza for lunch the next day.

Buddahriffic ,

Manual release or you die, just like that lady that drove hers into her pond.

Buddahriffic ,

With sarcasm, one might say that it is desirable to have obviously undesirable thing. Your interpretation is one way, but I think they really meant "stupid" instead of "smart".

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Agree on your overall sentiment, though I'd say it is a bit more complicated than that for car doors. You don't want it to fail and come open while moving, for example, especially if the car is coming to a stop and inertia forces the doors fully open. That Boeing door failed open and it was not very safe.

Vehicle doors should be fail functional rather than open to fail safe. As in designed to be very unlikely to fail and/or still functional even if one or several components do fail.

Edit: I normally avoid commenting on my downvotes (you win some, you lose some) but this one is baffling. What's controversial or unpopular about what I said?

Buddahriffic ,

For the fail-safe bit, if the latching system fails to an unlatched position, then the inertia of the door itself could cause it to open on braking and turns (or if someone leans on it or bumps it), since nothing else would be holding it in place.

Obligatory fuck Elon Musk lol.

It's not generally as bad here as it is on Reddit. I still see the occasional comments that make me wonder if their author has any reading comprehension skills, but Reddit seemed to have representation from those kinds of posters in most comment threads. Even on the topics where Lemmy has general biases for, comments can still go off the beaten trail without getting crucified.

Though with the smaller sample size of voters, I think Lemmy might see more cases where a comment initially goes one way and then swings the other way, which seems to be the case with my comment above, at least for now (and is part of the reason why I try to refrain from ever commenting on the votes, but usually there's also a spicy or bolder part of my comment where I'm not as surprised if it goes negative).

Buddahriffic ,

Car doors that aren't on teslas don't fail open, they are reliable enough that I can't think of hearing about any failures that don't involve a collision and deforming of the door (in which case it's a fail closed and they use the jaws of life to get people out, or another door).

An electronic latch is either engaged or it isn't. Fail open would mean that in the absence of an electronic signal saying it should be closed, the latch will default to not being engaged, which would mean there's nothing holding the door closed if another force acts on it.

Don't assume any benefit of the doubt about Tesla's. I made no comment one way or another about what I think of their doors vs other doors. For the record, I agree completely that they fucked up this part of the design. The purpose of my comment was to say that taking that design and adding "fail open" to it won't fix it. Fail open and fail closed both have problems with an electronic latch and the only way to fix it without causing other big problems is to design it in a way that still functions as a door that can be open or latched closed whether or not the electronic part of the latch is working.

And I'm "deliberately misinterpreting" what fail open means? I'm having trouble understanding how it can mean anything other than how I'm interpreting it, even with your clarification, given the disagreement about other car doors failing open. Maybe it's a misnomer that I'm misinterpreting but why are you assuming I'm doing this in bad faith?

The downvotes themselves don't matter, I asked because I wanted to know the reasoning behind them, well aware that bringing them up at all will probably result in more of them.

Buddahriffic ,

But if they want to always have chickens to lay eggs...

Buddahriffic ,

I've also been avoiding playing games that involve some third party launcher or login. I'm not perfectly consistent with this and have bought some games before realizing they had this, but even steam games can be subject to a company deciding they don't want to support their game anymore (which IMO is fair) and just killing the game off entirely, which isn't fair. I'd like to see a requirement that other steps be taken to keep it going without their active support. Like opening the source and relinquishing all copyrights on that code. If they want to keep parts of it, then pull it out into a library that they continue to maintain.

Buddahriffic ,

If they can't keep their committed date (or fold entirely), then the source goes open. If every copy happens to get deleted during the bankruptcy, treat it as criminal fraud by the top levels of the company and go after everyone that could have decided to improve backups and other IT methods of avoiding that but didn't. That's assuming it was accidental, higher penalties if it can be proven to be deliberate.

Buddahriffic ,

IMO a fumbled and later recovered launch is different from the enshitification of video games like P2W, MTX in general, lootboxes, releasing what should be patches as paid DLC, invasive DRM and anti-cheat. I'd file all of those under bad design, while a bad launch is more of a bad execution. There can be overlap, like if they fully intended for early players to fill the role of beta testers.

The way I approach it is I try to avoid the bad design stuff entirely but just avoid buying new games at release and definitely never pre-order. I'll also support games in early release if I really like the concept and want to give them a better chance at being able to pull it off, but I go into those with the understanding that it's not complete right now and there's a chance it never will be. But I don't see any reason to hold anything against the games that have messy launches but later recover.

Though I've learned to not jump on the hype train and that makes it much easier to not take any of this stuff personally.

Buddahriffic ,

Yeah golden parachutes are such a joke in this society that likes to pretend to be a meritocracy.

Though on that note, I'd love to see a law that limits golden parachutes to the lowest paid position in the company. Hell, I'd be ok with that being scaled to full time. Not because disgraced executives deserve even that much but because it would give some incentive to increase pay rates across the company. I've also long thought that executive compensation should also be limited by some multiple of the lowest pay. And yeah, I'd include stock options and grants in that (for both employee and executive compensation).

Buddahriffic ,

Next thing they are going to say asbestos is dangerous even though I've touched it before without dying!

And in a recent survey, 9 out of 10 tobacco executives say, "Don't worry about safety, just have another smooth tasting premium filtered cigarette!"

Buddahriffic ,

Rose could have been fine if they didn't write her character as basically a cop during the introduction, a Mary Sue that figures out the weakness of tech where the start of the conversation was "that tech is impossible" (plus the weakness itself is completely out of left field), spend half of their field trip whining instead of doing their kinda urgent mission, and then the biggest thing she does is prevents a sacrifice that might have actually redeemed the movie somewhat, in a way that would have been physically impossible, given the scene leading up to it (ordered to retreat, she obeys, Finn ignores it and speeds at top speed towards the thing they were retreating from, then she somehow intercepts him from the side and both walk away).

The people that harassed the actor that played her are massive pieces of shit and this by no means justifies their response, but Rose seems like a character designed to draw hate.

Buddahriffic ,

It was bad writing pretty much across the board. Poe, Rey, Finn, and Leia got a pass from me mostly based on not being introduced as a barrier to the other characters and having got shit done previously. I felt as negatively about Luke as I did about Rose or Holdo in that movie, worse even because he could have been and done so much more, despite his past (or maybe because of it, ep 8 Luke was just a disappointment compared to his previous versions, like they took his only negative trait from the earlier films, his whining, and made that his main trait, despite him being mostly over it in ep 6).

And I agree that Rose wasn't a Mary Sue, but figuring out the weakness of hyperspeed tracking based on nothing at all was a Mary Sue moment (and Finn looked just as stupid for enthusiastically guessing where her mind was headed).

And some differences between Poe's and Holdo's plans were a) the audience was informed of Poe's plan (which sounded a lot like a typical Star Wars plan similar to their infiltration of the death star in ep 4) and for all we knew, Holdo had no plan but slowly let her ships get picked off as they ran out of fuel, and b) Poe's plan made the chase that made up most of the movie more interesting while Holdo's was a stall and run, which might have been a better plan but was so underwhelming after so much of the movie focused on that stupid chase.

And yeah, misogyny certainly played a role in the vehemence of the reaction and the bullying of the actors. Incels and other flavours of hate have a higher representation than average in a lot of nerdy niches. I just think that the producers chased that controversy rather than it falling upon them and resent that they did that to those actors even knowing how "fans" had reacted to kid Anakin and Jar Jar.

Buddahriffic ,

"We'll force you to reuse the same username and password for these different functions!"

Buddahriffic ,

Or use it to implement a script that just downloads the video and cuts the ads out entirely for later watching.

Or, failing any of those, a script that pops up a reminder that YouTube has unskippable ads so you can back out and just do something else with your time.

Buddahriffic ,

How sad is it that Idiocracy overestimated people?

Buddahriffic ,

Assuming the show reflects corporate values and isn't just propaganda like US police shows are intended to make the Korean public (and anyone watching from outside of Korea) think that that's how that would be treated.

From what I understand, South Korea's economy is dominated by a small number of mega corps (like Samsung) that try to do pretty much everything.

Buddahriffic ,

And if they didn't develop the culture of sweeping safety issues under the rug at all levels, they won't have much trouble keeping ahead because I'm sure that even at the height of Boeing's safety ignoring, I bet most of the communication still looked like they took safety seriously. Just those in the know realized that they could make themselves look better by faking it and their management wouldn't care. I've gotta assume that some number of them will think the current safety culture overhaul is really trying to send a message of "just be smarter about ignoring safety, don't let it get to the point where doors fall off mid-flight and we need to kill some whistleblowers".

Buddahriffic ,

I hadn't been paying attention to the election results. My first reaction was a happy one at the meme. But then I read some comments and they are disputing it.

So what's the situation? How fascist is Europe now?

Buddahriffic ,

In the whole bad times lead to strong people, which leads to good times, which leads to weak people, which leads to bad times, we're in the weak people leading to bad times stage. Now things need to get bad enough to start making strong people.

Only problem is the fascists are smarter this time and are pushing everywhere, so this time might not have nation states on the good side.

Buddahriffic ,

While I'm not surprised if fascists use it, I don't think it is disinformation if they do, seems like more of a human thing where people generally just want to live their lives but asshole control freaks want to take power and gradually do while most just focus on their own things until the control freaks cross too many lines and people decide the best way to live their best life involves removing them from power.

It all depends on how you define "strong people" and "good times". The fascist version of this isn't quite in sync with the one I believe in.

Buddahriffic ,

I deliberately chose to quit on the spot when I got tired of my CSR job so that it would burn the bridge with the company and prevent me from ever considering going back. In case time dulled the memories.

It was a comcast support line, and I was originally on internet support, which I didn't really mind. I was just helping people get their internet working, though I'd wonder wtf half the time I needed to do something where I saw their final monthly bill number. There were a few different queues, some busier than others, and there was a trick where you could call some extension and ask them to move you to a specific queue so that you could get a few minutes of rest between the calls.

Then they moved me to billing. Didn't really like it but whatever, I could be one of the ones that just gives whatever discounts we were able to find. And then, on my last day (a few days into being moved to billing), our own support system was down with all the knowledge base stuff that told us what was what and they still wanted us to take calls. Internet support I might have been able to do from memory but I decided fuck this shit after one or two calls.

Got an interview for a pizza delivery job on my way home which also sucked but for very different reasons, and I'd still rank it away higher than the comcast csr job.

Buddahriffic ,

I hate people who decide after dealing with the first problem caused by a lack of a rule that hasn't existed for however long things were going on before the problem that it calls for a very general rule to prevent it from ever happening again. And somehow these assholes often end up in positions where they can set rules like that.

Zero tolerance policies in schools are another example. Suspending a kid for making finger guns isn't going to prevent school shootings. Banning nicknames isn't going to prevent anyone from ever insulting someone. It's just lazy and comes from a desire to reduce complex situations that require thought and maybe complex solutions to simple situations that don't require much thought and have a simple solution.

Buddahriffic ,

General rules aren't great when they end up banning benign things along with bad things because they are too broad. Like no nicknames vs don't keep using a nickname if the person asks you to stop.

Buddahriffic ,

Another bash.org memory (paraphrasing)...

User: I just downloaded a song on Napster and when it finished, I noticed the guy I downloaded it from was now downloading it from me

User: I sent him a message saying I just got that song from him

User: He said, "I know, I'm getting my song back asshole"

Buddahriffic ,

Nice yeah! I should have guessed that someone saved a copy of bash.

Buddahriffic ,

I used to do that and liked it, but dropped the habit somewhere along the way. It doesn't even feel that bad after the initial shock passes. It's even pleasant, and then when you get out, the water is cooler so won't evaporate as readily, do it's not just that you're more used to the cooler temperature, but it also doesn't get as cold because evaporation takes away more heat than the higher temperature water provides.

Also, use your hands as squeegees before you get out of the shower area and your towels won't go stinky as quickly (because they dry out quicker due to not needing to absorb as much water).

Buddahriffic ,

Unless there's a spider inside the mask.

Buddahriffic ,

Remember the nipple that ruined a household name celebrity's career? Despite the cover being removed having more to do with the actions of another celebrity whose career wasn't ruined rather than her, adding a layer of misogyny to what was already puritan stupidity?

Even if kids saw it, so what? I can't see any harm resulting from telling a child of any age that women have breasts for feeding babies, that it is done through the nipple, and that women without babies still have breasts and nipples because the body prepares for maybe having a baby later. And men have nipples because that part of the body doesn't get different until puberty. And that it can be rude to ask or talk to someone about theirs, and it is very rude (and illegal) to touch them without permission.

Buddahriffic ,

India has a large vegetarian population that doesn't try to make vegetable versions of dishes that are mostly meat, so I suggest looking at Indian cuisine for meat-free recipe ideas.

Buddahriffic ,

The Repeatophobic: If a question vaguely reminds them of a previously posted question, they become enraged and insist the new thread be locked.

Buddahriffic ,

Could try the approach of posting a rant that mint can't even do what you're trying to do with it, therefore it sucks and anyone that likes it is wrong and a bad person and it's easier to just deal with Windows.

Buddahriffic ,

Oh that controller bar sounds awesome. I've always hated how on PC when you play a game, you can never launch that game again. So glad they finally solved that issue.

Buddahriffic ,

Oh that's nice that they allow that. I really hate in games where I go from dominating everyone that dares oppose me to a cutscene where my character gives up because a few people are pointing guns at me. Two minutes ago more people were not just pointing their guns at me but also shooting them.

Buddahriffic ,

What's the point in even involving a report, then? Why not just auto flag any post with a bad word or just block it from being posted in the first place?

Not saying any of that is a good idea, just following that logic a bit. Censoring words is fucking useless IMO.

Buddahriffic ,

Assuming they actually are and aren't just playing an openly trans character.

The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)

Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....

Buddahriffic ,

It looks like you and the commenter you replied to are talking about two different problems. You're talking about what to do about excess solar energy, they are talking about how to power AI training in an environmentally-friendly way.

Buddahriffic ,

I'm curious how well the systems can differentiate doppelgangers and identical twins. Or if some makeup is enough to fool it.

Buddahriffic ,

Plus our allowing sociopaths to hold so much power.

Buddahriffic ,

Yeah, if we can still recognize those as faces, it's possible for a neural net to do so as well.

But I'm talking more about differentiating faces than hiding entirely from such systems. Like makeup can be used to give the illusion that the shape of the face is different with false contour shading. You can't really change the jawline (I think... I'm not skilled in makeup myself but have an awareness of what it can do) but you can change where the cheekbones appear to be, as well as the overall shape of the cheeks, and you can adjust the nose, too (unless it's a profile angle).

I think the danger in trying to hide that you have a face entirely is that if it gets detected, there's a good chance that it will be flagged for attempting to fool the system because those examples you gave are pretty obvious, once you know what's going on.

It would be like going in to a bank with a ski mask to avoid being recognized vs going in as Mrs Doubtfire. Even if they are just trying to do banking that one time, the ski mask will attract unwanted attention while using a different face would accomplish the goal of avoiding attention.

Buddahriffic ,

Haha that reminds me of a period of my life where I realized it was possible for game devs to detect piracy but instead of making the game say, "not legit copy, cannot play", it would be more subtle and make itself unstable and eventually crash.

I had a pirated copy of RCT3 that would crash regularly after a few hours. Thought maybe that's what was going on, plus it was a good game and worth my money anyways, so I bought a legit copy and installed that.

A few hours into playing, it crashed again.

Oh well, other than the crashing it was still a good game so I don't regret buying it. And I think they sorted it out because my more recent plays didn't see any crashes. I even bought it again on Steam since I'm not entirely sure where the disc is and don't have a drive to read it anyways.

Buddahriffic ,

He's at 39 now... Which of you hasn't voted with your 5th account yet??

Edit: oh nm it was me. There was only a 12.5% chance it would be me but lady luck didn't smile on me.

Buddahriffic ,

Nostalgia can bring the pig shit smell from "unbearable" to "unpleasant but bearable". Though that is from a distance, like existing within sight of a farm, rather than visiting or working on a farm.

Buddahriffic ,

Pretty sure that was macaroni.

Buddahriffic ,

Yeah, I thought Reddit would be a great data set at first because it comes with quality indicators via up/down votes. But, thinking about it more, a) total number of votes is more of a function of how popular the thread is and that comment's positioning is in that thread, b) comments can get upvoted for accuracy or humour, and in the latter case, many times the humour is specifically about making inaccurate comments. And there's a bias towards funny. My own most upvoted comments were mostly short funny ones while long thoughtful ones wouldn't get that much attention. Not that being long or thoughtful implied anything about correctness, because c) different communities had different biases, and d) it was all populist stuff, so something that sounds good but isn't accurate can outperform something that is accurate but less poetic.

And to drive home how stupid the way we're currently training approaching AI is, it's pretty much the equivalent of sticking a kid in front of an internet browser, taking a little while to teach them how to use the browser, then leaving them on their own while they learn everything else they know, including the languages it's all expressed in.

Instead we have a whole curated education system that takes over a decade. I think AI could reduce that time but it still needs the curation part as well as feedback systems to reinforce correct knowledge and correct bad knowledge.

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