emptyother

emptyother , 4 days ago to Cyberpunk in Pantheon

I loved it, from start to end. It gets a bit out there at the end though, some people might get disappointed.

emptyother , 1 month ago to Technology in YouTube has now begun skipping videos altogether for users with ad blockers

The biggest drain is the copyright fights, I'm guessing. Defending against and pleasing every big company with an interest.

emptyother , 1 month ago to Technology in Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause

Yeah, theres a very good reason I dont use Spotify anymore. Not any music streaming services at all. Only good ol' reliable mp3s. Their idea of "service" is to silently remove songs from my playlists as their licenses expire, and then top it by replacing "Hotel California" with the WORST cover song I've ever heard.

Imagine if Sony stopped selling on Steam, and Steam in response silently replaced my "Days Gone" game with "The Day Before"? I would have been so pissed. But with music it seems that is totally okay.

emptyother , 1 month ago to Technology in Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause

Once. It'll better be one hell of an ad because it will lose them my subscription. I stopped watching television back in the late 90s because of all the ads, before even I had internet to watch pirated media. I don't wear clothes with too visible logos. Just saying to illustrate how this ain't an empty threat.

Losing a single customer probably doesn't matter to them. But I hope Im not the only one?

emptyother , 2 months ago to Technology in Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works

They can. But theres a reasonable level of trust that a security feed has been kept secure and not tampered with by the owner if he doesnt have a motive. But what if not even the owner know that somewhere in their tech chain, maybe the camera, maybe the screen, maybe the storage device, maybe all 3, the image was "improved". No evidence of tampering. We'll have the police blaming Count Rugen for a bank robbery he didnt do, but the camera clearly shows a six fingered man!

emptyother , 3 months ago to Technology in Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works

How long until we got upscalers of various sorts built into tech that shouldn't have it? For bandwidth reduction, for storage compression, or cost savings. Can we trust what we capture with a digital camera, when companies replace a low quality image of the moon with a professionally taken picture, at capture time? Can sport replays be trusted when the ball is upscaled inside the judges' screens? Cheap security cams with "enhanced night vision" might get somebody jailed.

I love the AI tech. But its future worries me.

emptyother , 3 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in A Muslim-American woman is murdered on the beach by her boyfriend. /r/MuslimCorner debates whether or not she deserved it.

I believe MOST people have such a strong need to follow something that they will ignore or invent justification for the morality of it. And I dont think one can learn that, rather one has to learn NOT to follow. But I'm no psychiatrist.

emptyother , 3 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in A Muslim-American woman is murdered on the beach by her boyfriend. /r/MuslimCorner debates whether or not she deserved it.

I dont think theres so few. A lot of people have a need to be led. And if it isnt religion and gods it is something else. Like "leaders". Like the golden(-ish) cow the US' republicans are worshiping.

emptyother , 4 months ago to Technology in Google pauses Gemini’s ability to generate AI images of people after diversity errors

What did people expect, that a text-to-image model would be able to understand centuries of human stupidity and the politics it have created?

emptyother , 5 months ago to Technology in Enshittification: The 2023 Digital Word of the Year

Its still a perfectly good word even if not everyone is a 100% on the same page with what it means. There isnt any better word that could be used. If we stopped making up words just because a few uncultured wordsmiths might mistake part of its meaning, we wouldnt have new words at all. Enshittification has the important part down; things are getting done shittier with intention.

emptyother , 5 months ago to Technology in Enshittification: The 2023 Digital Word of the Year

No, im saying that if you want to say what exactly is shittified, you say whats shittified. Theres no way to make a single word contain a full definition without relying on some common knowledge. In this case saying enshittification, then both you and I have both read that blogpost and knows what the full meaning is. While someone who hasn't can at least know its about stuff getting shittier, and guess the rest from context. You can't really find a better single word than that.

Also I've rarely heard "shit" used for its actual meaning. It is common knowledge that shitty doesn't literally mean "covered in poo". Its pretty clear what it means. And it has never been a shocking word in the 40 years I've lived. Probably back in the 50s or something they could use it for shock value.

emptyother , 5 months ago to Technology in Neuralink implants brain chip in first human, Musk says

Oh you're wearing one of those neuralinks. Dont try any of that mind control on me.

😁 I'm so looking forward to use this quote in real life.

emptyother , 5 months ago to Technology in Enshittification: The 2023 Digital Word of the Year

Reminds me about that post about wishing humans had a dedicated sound for warning each other about bees.

Theres no single word that can clearly communicate the entire reason, context, and meaning. If we want to tell the reason for the shittyness, then we say that in a full sentence.

Though most people would understand from context if I just said "Bees!" instead of spending an entire sentence telling them where the bees are and why they should run.

emptyother , 5 months ago to Technology in Enshittification: The 2023 Digital Word of the Year

“Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification.”

Platforms that over time is made shittier to serve the business before the user. What definition are you using?

emptyother , 5 months ago to Technology in Enshittification: The 2023 Digital Word of the Year

Human nature. Voting with ones wallet will never work as long as advertising, as we know it, exists. We can't really blame the average person to do what an average person does.