[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 119 points 6 months ago

They were a $3500 dev-kit to enable some base level of preparation when the costs come down. They were never going to be mainstream.

[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 377 points 6 months ago

If it's unwanted, disruptive, and (allegedly) impacts performance, that's not "malware-like". It's malware.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works to c/books@lemmy.world

I'm not a big YouTube guy, but this is interesting, and I know a lot of people in here are reading/looking forward to reading Wind and Truth. Her end result is some beautiful (obviously impractical) books that make the regular giant hardcovers look like little baby books.

If you ignore the handful of YouTube-isms it's a pretty cool video.

edit: adding screenshot of the books compared to the regular ones.

[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 148 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Adding kernel malware after the fact should entitle every single owner who requests one to a full refund no matter how long has passed.

[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 134 points 9 months ago

So, they're videos.

If only there was a way to watch those.

[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 118 points 10 months ago

It doesn't solve most of the problems Steam already solved either.

[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 190 points 10 months ago

The lawsuits also argue that RealPage pressures landlords to comply with its pricing suggestions—something that would make no sense if the company were merely being paid to offer individualized advice. In an interview with ProPublica, Jeffrey Roper, who helped develop one of RealPage’s main software tools, acknowledged that one of the greatest threats to a landlord’s profits is when nearby properties set prices too low. “If you have idiots undervaluing, it costs the whole system,” he said. RealPage thus makes it hard for customers to override its recommendations, according to the lawsuits, allegedly even requiring a written justification and explicit approval from RealPage staff. Former employees have said that failure to comply with the company’s recommendations could result in clients being kicked off the service

Holy shit that's blatantly cartel pricing.

[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 127 points 11 months ago

However, those who synced their desktop apps with the mobile versions have discovered that some of their tokens did not correctly synchronize, making their associate accounts inaccessible.

Lol

[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 551 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"Without these agreements, we don’t have any say or knowledge of how our data is displayed and what it’s used for, which has put us in a position now of blocking folks who haven’t been willing to come to terms with how we’d like our data to be used or not used,” Huffman said in an interview this week

It's not your data.

Fuck off.

[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 190 points 1 year ago

If it worked for most shit and escalated to a human when it actually needed to, reliably, I'd be fine with it.

I don't believe there's a realistic chance that there's a lot of overlap between the people willing to invest to actually do it properly and the people paying for AI instead of people though.

[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 138 points 1 year ago

As a default judgement because they don't know who runs it lol.

[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 137 points 1 year ago

That's basically what comments are most useful for. When you're doing something that's not obvious, and want to make sure the "why" doesn't get lost to time.

[-] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 229 points 1 year ago

Cable lobby group NCTA-The Internet & Television Association claimed that the commission's "micromanagement of advertising in today's hyper-competitive marketplace will force operators to either clutter their ads with confusing disclosures or leave pricing information out entirely."

Or, you know, you could just tell the truth.

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