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I even remember reading about some of their whinging that he was “unfairly” competing because he wasn’t trying to wring every penny out of it.
derbis@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Roblox Partners With Google to Offer In-Game Advertising0·3 months agoAs someone who hasn’t played it, how so?
derbis@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Google continues pulling the plug on Manifest v2 • The Register10·4 months agoWhat’s wrong with it is perfectly obvious: it doesn’t merely ask, it takes the decision away from you.
Edit: and what’s more, Firefox using v2 does ask. So like, what??
derbis@beehaw.orgto Gaming@beehaw.org•Final Fantasy iOS game shuts down over unfixable bug10·5 months agoI’d be curious what the API change is that caused the bug. I think it’s just as likely that this is yet another case of Apple pulling the rug out from under devs.
derbis@beehaw.orgto Gaming@beehaw.org•Capcom is experimenting with generative AI to help generate the “hundreds of thousands of ideas needed for game development"2·5 months agoPeople will call you an asset flip if you do that. Plus I don’t know if all of these games use engines compatible with “the” asset browser
derbis@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Hollywood stars and geeks unite to billionaire-proof social media4·6 months agoTechnically speaking, what’s the relationship between the “AT protocol” and the rest of the fediverse, like mastodon and Lemmy?
derbis@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Against Google Monopoly in the web: Building a truly independent browser using Servo as a web engine! - Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine1·6 months agoWhat library, do you know? Is it using the v8 engine? Because that one is Google also
Anybody with a tldw or should I get an AI summary?
derbis@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Google seeks to undo Epic Games antitrust win over app store1·7 months agoThis would be so much more of a clear cut case if Apple hadn’t won in Epic’s suit against them for the same reason. That was a bad call, and now with that inconsistency, Google’s argument holds some water.
derbis@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Multilingual, open source and a 'distinctly European perspective': Germany's Fraunhofer Institute's OpenGPT-X research project releases large language model2·7 months agoIs fraunhofer the group that used to / still do sue other organizations over video codec use? I assumed it was a company but apparently not?
Did they say why?
How well does the “AI detection startup’s” product work? This is a big unsolved problem but I’d be hecka skeptical.
derbis@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Chatbot that caused teen’s suicide is now more dangerous for kids, lawsuit says1·8 months agoThat will show that pesky receptionist
derbis@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•We can now watch Grace Hopper’s famed 1982 lecture on YouTube3·10 months agoWait did they do one?
derbis@beehaw.orgto Gaming@beehaw.org•I don't hate Body Type replacing Gender, I hate laziness1·11 months agoThat would be a fun can of worms
derbis@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con2·11 months agoThere is no reason to believe that it thinks or reasons—indeed, every AI researcher and vendor to date has repeatedly emphasised that these models don’t think.
Geoffrey Hinton, for one
derbis@beehaw.orgto Gaming@beehaw.org•What's your favourite and/or least favourite gaming hardware?2·11 months agoLove the switch. The only reason I’m still a console gamer at all.
Fuuuuck that. The option of anonymity is essential to freedom of expression especially where authoritarianism takes root. Especially important now.