Yeah these were annoying AF. Couldn't look up anything movie related without done shitty AI faked up trailer YouTube video being the first hit

I actually don't consider this an issue of being dumb. It IS an issue with being under-educated (often deliberately in R states) and fed a ton of propaganda

Yeah, people have said that they thought I'd love the idea of a brain implanted computer so I could do cool hacker shit or VR.

Like, noooooo that'd be like the Matrix run by the upper management suites of Boeing and Microsoft.

"Yeah we're sorry hackers broke in and stole all your childhood memories but we couldn't apply any security updates because the QA team had to be fired after the last one left them all barking like dogs and pissing on trees, . Don't worry, we'll fix it in BrainOS 9.8. You'll need to pay for that updated but we're now offering a choice between our premium $1500/mo subscription model or new ads-in-your-dreams model for $600/mo"

I'll add to this: it was also from an age where necessities were fairly readily available at basic income levels (in most cities) and through a lifetime you could get ahead and upgrade your house along the way while supporting a family on a single person's income.

Now you can have two people making a decent income and still have issues affording rent/mortgage. Necessities have gone up significantly while stuff like TVs have become cheaper but also shorter-lived.

The funny (in an "wtf" not "haha" sense) thing is, individuals such as security researchers have been charged under digital trespassing laws for stuff like accessing publicly available ststems and changing a number in the URL in order to get access to data that normally wouldn't, even after doing responsible disclosure.

Meanwhile, companies completely ignore the standard mentions to say "you are not allowed to scape this data" and then use OUR content/data to build up THEIR datasets, including AI etc.

That's not a "violation of a social contract" in my book, that's violating the terms of service for the site and essentially infringement on copyright etc.

No consequences for them though. Shit is fucked.

Honestly, not the worst argument to make regarding the sale price, but the "we had coupons" bit is a bit much as those are only valid for actually buying shit.

Honestly, this is why we should have stuff like anti-monopoly laws breaking apart too-large corps.

Being a behemoth that can just buy up almost all the content producers and then starting your own content distributor (/steamer) and undercut the competition is dirty.

Given that Valve is a private company, I hope this would also mean that it's a bit harder for MS to attempt a hostile takeover by buying up majority stocks.

But yeah, MS can fuck right off. The only reason to buy Valve would be to reduce competition

I liked the idea of DirectMusic. Gameplay influenced music scores are an under-used concept

Draught, and storms with not so much rain but lighting causing fires. Then a week of a heat dome with a subsequent cold front that brought in high winds and pushed fires out at rapid speeds

It's not just a training issue. Lighter (color) tones reflect. Dark tones absorb. There have been lots of issues with cameras or even just sensors having issues with people having dark skin tones because the lower reflectivity/contrast of dark tones. 3D scanners - even current models - have similar issues with objects having black parts for similar reasons. Training on more models can help, but there's still an overall technical difficulty to overcome as well (which is also a good reason that using facial recognition in this manner is just bullshit, period).

Feels like Elon bought Reddit and we just haven't heard about it yet