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OOPMan commented on Moments in Chromecast's history blog.google/products/goog... · Posted by u/sibellavia

kardianos · a year ago

This is not the same thing. My Chromecast dedicated device would put a default nice picture, then wait for a cast.

Google TV and this new device displays advertisements, store, and more. I hate it.

It's the last google thing in my house. When it dies, google will be gone from my house.

OOPMan · a year ago

I have Google TV on my Sony TV and found that I was able to disable the ads and crap.

There was a setting to toggle. They tried to make it unattractive by saying I wouldn't be able to use the Google Assistant feature but this just seemed like a win for me.

I don't need my TV to be fancy, it just needs to accept signal from my consoles and HTPC.

I do kinda miss seeing all the suggested dogshit movies sometimes tho XD

OOPMan commented on YouTube experimenting with server-side ad injection fosstodon.org/@sponsorblo... · Posted by u/judiisis

randerson · a year ago

After they disabled the site for ad blockers I begrudgingly shelled out for YouTube Premium. I've now come around to being OK with paying for the convenience. Much of the content I watch wouldn't exist without the revenue they get from ads or subscriptions. I'm sure some people will find creative ways to pirate content, but Premium is cheaper than Netflix and I watch more content on YouTube than Netflix so it seems reasonable to me.

OOPMan · a year ago

Ad-blockers still work fine on the site tho, you're paying Google money for no good reason.

Money of which only a small part goes to the creators.

If you actually want to support the creators, do it via a more direct method than paying Google to send a few pennies their way.

OOPMan commented on YouTube experimenting with server-side ad injection fosstodon.org/@sponsorblo... · Posted by u/judiisis

atrettel · a year ago

I already largely watch YouTube through RSS feeds to find the videos and yt-dlp to download them locally. Ads injected straight into the stream will be annoying, but still just as easy to skip as the sponsored content sections of videos. That said, the ads on YouTube have gotten more and more scammy and suspicious over the years, so I don't particularly appreciate being incorporated into the video feed itself. But it doesn't materially change much of how I watch YouTube anyway.

OOPMan · a year ago

There is some talk that YT are making it such that trying to seek will not skip the ad.

OOPMan commented on Instead of “auth”, we should say “permissions” and “login” ntietz.com/blog/lets-say-... · Posted by u/tambourine_man

Pxtl · a year ago

Because people frequently in English use the abbreviation "auth", which is ambiguous.

OOPMan · a year ago

Tends not to matter, the context usually makes it clear what is being discussed.

OOPMan commented on Instead of “auth”, we should say “permissions” and “login” ntietz.com/blog/lets-say-... · Posted by u/tambourine_man

DowagerDave · a year ago

I don't really get the point of this post. Yes naming things is hard, but the fact that these two words are similar is actually a good thing, despite laypersons getting them confused, because they are both functionally and implementation-wise closely related. The confusion is not going to be solved with trying to relabel the concepts. The author never actually illustrates the harm caused by this confusion either. My guess is they ran into something like installing a package that didn't cover their desired needs, attributed this to the "auth" name and instead of moving on decided to write about it.

>> "The canonical solution is to call these "authn" and "authz", the n and z evoking the longer words."

or we could just use the longer words?

OOPMan · a year ago

Just your usual internet attention seeking I guess.

Narcissism is a powerful stimulant ;-)

OOPMan commented on GPT-4o openai.com/index/hello-gp... · Posted by u/Lealen

cs702 · a year ago

The usual critics will quickly point out that LLMs like GPT-4o still have a lot of failure modes and suffer from issues that remain unresolved. They will point out that we're reaping diminishing returns from Transformers. They will question the absence of a "GPT-5" model. And so on -- blah, blah, blah, stochastic parrots, blah, blah, blah.

Ignore the critics. Watch the demos. Play with it.

This stuff feels magical. Magical. It makes the movie "Her" look like it's no longer in the realm of science fiction but in the realm of incremental product development. HAL's unemotional monotone in Kubrick's movie, "Space Odyssey," feels... oddly primitive by comparison. I'm impressed at how well this works.

Well-deserved congratulations to everyone at OpenAI!

OOPMan · a year ago

I really don't think Sam needs more encouragement, thanks.

Also, if this is your definition of magic then...yeah...

OOPMan commented on I Lost Faith in Kagi d-shoot.net/kagi.html... · Posted by u/Tomte

__loam · a year ago

All news is political.

OOPMan · a year ago

Oh really?

So when some local newspaper reports about some random old person in an old-age home that's political?

Please, take this destructive attitude and reassess it.

Not all things are political and making them so actively makes the world worse.

OOPMan commented on I Lost Faith in Kagi d-shoot.net/kagi.html... · Posted by u/Tomte

OOPMan · a year ago

Interesting post, honestly feels like the NFT cult: Discord full of true believers, leader with wildly optimistic takes on everything, nonsensical profit model.

I will say, however, that the authors one comment "Vlad is one of those people who thinks not everything is political" annoyed me a bit.

I get that for people living in the US it can seem like everything is political but I don't think it is and more importantly, I don't think it's a healthy attitude.

Not everything is political but there are certainly people who will try their best to make it seem that way, usually as a means to engage in politicing, often with unpleasant results.

I can judge the Kagi founder negatively for a lot of things in the post but this isn't one of them and it's a weird little jab to throw in that says more about the author of the post than the Kagi guy.

OOPMan commented on Mario meets Pareto mayerowitz.io/blog/mario-... · Posted by u/superMayo

davemp · a year ago

This great visualization/article highlights one of my pet peeves with current game design--options for the sake of options.

I feel like the common trap for designers is to put too much stock in tag lines like "Over 700,000 different builds!"

You're dumping a combinatorial explosion of overhead onto players. If all those choices don't significantly enhance the core game experience, you as a designer as wasting people's time. Doubly so if most of the choice space can be safely eliminated by savvy players. The internet exists after all and someone is going to do the math. Why would you gate the competitive portion of your game behind convex optimization problems? Certainly not to make things more fun.

Some examples of these trends are load-outs in FPS games. Every gun now has tradeoffs for sights, barrel, under-barrel, magazine, ammo, etc. and these choices only come after you've chosen a class/weapon. When the core of an FPS is tactical positioning and aim, these options feel like a cheap gimmick in order to milk slightly more time out of players. Franchises like Halo and Battlefield fell for this trap and have completely ruined their reputations.

You can still give players choices that _add_ to the core gameplay like counterstrike does with the round economy. If the entirety of a choice you're giving a player happens in a menu, that should be a red flag. The game design industry needs to less emphasis on statistics/combinatorics and more on gameplay/narrative.

OOPMan · a year ago

This is why I preferred Shadow Warrior 2 to Borderlands. Millions of randomly generated guns sounds nice, except they're mostly trash. I'd rather have the 70 hand-crafted options in SW2.