I have a quest. I still hate meta.

My next headset won’t be from them, and I can’t wait for them to realize they don’t give a fuck about VR anymore and abandon it for another fad.

I won’t regret their “metaverse” one bit. Killing their game dev studios is an unfortunate collateral, but, again, if it means they go out of that business, GOOD.

“The AI hallucinated” should be considered a worse excuse than “the dog ate my homework”.

But, his store has nothing to do with X. And, for example, Horses was banned from EGS too.

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There are stories about people having specific versions of a song, or even making original music that they stored on Apple devices, and those devices automagically “identified” them, removed them unprompted and replaced them with something else from the cloud.

Personally that’s why I don’t trust services that advertise “just working” and doing everything for you. I want control over what I use.

Some people even think that adding things like “don’t hallucinate” and “write clean code” to their prompt will make sure their AI only gives the highest quality output.

Arthur C. Clarke was not wrong but he didn’t go far enough. Even laughably inadequate technology is apparently indistinguishable from magic.

I don’t even use gmail professionally and I was still using that.

Some (terribly implemented) services don’t allow changing e-mail on their accounts, and I have stuff I subscribed to aeons ago with a mail I am not using anymore.

Not that I can’t connect directly to that old crappy mail provider, but it’s very inconvenient.

Your cat’s data belongs to the people, comrade!

Maybe they expected a slightly less angry response, but they probably don’t mind. They don’t care if their model looks bad, they definitely want it to be a talking point before everything else.

Like the recent article in Wall Street Journal dunking on their stupid “vending machine”. Or when they publish studies about how training the model to make bad code on purpose turns it into literally Hitler. They want people to talk about it.

Technically only the first four generations are set in “Japan”.

The ones after them are set in fantasy New York, France, Hawaii, Great Britain, and Spain.

Maybe I haven’t understood your point but it sounds like you’re describing people both acting maliciously and being stupid about it, so I don’t see it as a case of Hanlon’s razor.

Exchanging the item for another one that’s cheaper, even if it’s only $6 total, is still dishonest. The fact that it may not even be worth it for them in the end doesn’t change the fact it was an attempt to mislead. They were listing a product, and delivered another one.

Probably but with all the idiots fueled by sunken costs and desperate to prove they were right to invest, it could still last a long time.

I built a decent PC a couple years ago, and I don’t need to upgrade often since I don’t really care about cutting edge. So I kinda dodged a bullet, but, this sucks.

Yeah, sounds like bullshit. I don’t even see why that particular concern would create more work on the OS’s part.

If an application fits “wonderfully” into the space it’s given, Windows did nothing but telling it the dimensions it needs to fill. And as you said those dimensions can vary wildly.

Regarding how quickly Instagram started sending them personal stuff… Letting an app access your location, especially if it’s not a one-time authorisation, is basically telling it who you are.

There was a newspaper investigation recently on data brokers, they approached one to get a sample of their data. It was “anonymous” data, only in the sense it didn’t contain names. Using Apple’s advertiser ID, they had no problem building profiles from specific devices and could easily identify a lot of their own employees, simply because their routine around a location made it clear it was their workplace. And from there, it was not hard to find out on the data what their home address was.

It probably took only location for the burner phone Instagram to know that this is either the same person, or someone closely related to them.