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Game companies sure are completely disconnected from their audience these days.
When I was growing up, game companies were happy that their games became popular. There was none of this shit going on.
Nobody has actually fined any instance yet, and they are not going after your little instance if they start doing it.
It would be Lemmy.world first as a target because of their size and the entire lemmy network would not stop talking about it for weeks.
You can't buy people anymore but you can buy most of their awake hours. It's called a job.
People sell those hours because they have to. It's called a salary.
Except from Google of course, the worst offender of privacy that exists.
They put all these "privacy" features in so other companies can't do what Google already does.
If you ever tried using a Google phone without Google apps, you realize how completely dependent almost all apps are on Googles API in the background, and most of them won't work without it.
Looking ahead, Hohndel said, we must talk about "artificial intelligence large language models (LLM). I typically say artificial intelligence is autocorrect on steroids. Because all a large language model does is it predicts what's the most likely next word that you're going to use, and then it extrapolates from there, so not really very intelligent, but obviously, the impact that it has on our lives and the reality we live in is significant.
Exactly.
People are paying $23 for this???
Honestly shocked.
And it's Google, so you know they are going to keep raising prices, probably adding some ads also in the near future. And of course selling your behavior to advertisers as well, that's a given.
It really hasn't been that bad. Firefox mobile had ublock origin all this time, which is of course critical to being able to use the web today.
There are a few other plugins too, and now they are going to add a lot more. Sounds like good news. I'm not unhappy about mobile Firefox at all, I've been on it all this time
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Google has sent internet into ‘spiral of decline’, claims DeepMind’ Mustafa Suleyman
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It's a different form of lock-in since it's just his creation. When he leaves, all of this will be very hard to maintain and the company will probably rebuild it all on aws.
I have been bringing this up but they say that it's too late to change direction now (they are afraid to upset the guy).
But I'm looking on the bright side. I get to learn a lot of stuff I otherwise I wouldnt if this was a single managed aws service. I'm bringing in terraform and instead of just putting a message queue there, I need to spin up entire architectures to run his ec2 instances with all the apps and everything required to make things work.
Takes months... So for me it's fun. I don't have to pay for it. But companies are crazy. :)
It's interesting how we all are focusing on tiny non-noticeable performance gains when privacy is what matters in browsers.
Almost as if Google wants us to focus on performance where they can compete.
Discord is pretty much against everything the open web is about. Closed source and proprietary protocols... Probably tons of data mining of users as well.
That's quite rich, after the way they treated their mods.
Really a sign of them not giving a shit about anyone.
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Valve are such Chads.