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scrollaway commented on GPT Image 1.5 openai.com/index/new-chat... · Posted by u/charlierguo

Rodeoclash · 4 days ago

Where is all this wonderful visual self expression that people are now free to do? As far as I can tell it's mostly being used on LinkedIn posts.

scrollaway · 4 days ago

It’s a classic issue that you give access to superpowers to the general population and most will use them in the most boring ways.

The internet is an amazing technology, yet its biggest consumption is a mix of ads, porn and brain rot.

We all have cameras in our pockets yet most people use them for selfies.

But if you look closely enough, the incredible value that comes from these examples more than makes up for all the people using them in a “boring” way.

And anyway who’s the arbiter of boring?

scrollaway commented on Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union rockpapershotgun.com/id-s... · Posted by u/simjue

popalchemist · 8 days ago

If the company's existence depends on the unfair exploitation of its staff, its foreclosure is inevitable and justified, and that is simply the price everyone involved must pay to maintain equilibrium.

scrollaway · 8 days ago

Your theory only holds in the case that there is unfair exploitation happening. This is not that easy to define beyond salary averages…

scrollaway commented on Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop geohot.github.io//blog/je... · Posted by u/cspags

arcanemachiner · 14 days ago

I have no idea what that is. Is it the Google suite of office tools or something?

scrollaway · 14 days ago

It's google's b2b offering (suite of tools including gmail, google docs, drive etc). It's an Office 365 competitor and changed name more times than I can remember. GSuite, Google Apps, Google Apps for Work, Google Apps for Business...

scrollaway commented on Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop geohot.github.io//blog/je... · Posted by u/cspags

chrisandchris · 14 days ago

You know as a company that you have gone out of the ability to create something if you come up first with name changes of existing products. Looking at you, Office (or whatever your name is today).

scrollaway · 14 days ago

Google Workspace hasn’t changed its name in a few years now. Do you think it’s due for a change or has it finally sobered up?

scrollaway commented on John Giannandrea to retire from Apple apple.com/newsroom/2025/1... · Posted by u/robbiet480

ecshafer · 19 days ago

Siri is really a pretty useless product. Its annoying that sometimes I can say “siri is x y” and it will answer me but other times it will respond “sorry I cant google this while youre driving” or whatever response. I see no reason I cant say “siri read me the wikipedia page on the thirty years war”. Why cant I query with siri? “Siri where is the closest gas station coming up?” I basically only want siri whilst driving and half the features are turned off then.

scrollaway · 19 days ago

Asking “what’s the weather” in the morning gets Siri to yell at you about the phone being locked, or even “I don’t know where you are”.

It’s such trash. Constant conditioning for garbage.

Timers and alarm clocks it is.

scrollaway commented on EU Council Approves New "Chat Control" Mandate Pushing Mass Surveillance reclaimthenet.org/eu-coun... · Posted by u/fragebogen

zelphirkalt · 23 days ago

This is of course a process, that does not lend itself to be democratic, because it is way longer than most people's attention span. People don't manage to remember things that happened in politics 4 years ago in their own country. Now they are required to follow up on dozens of shitty proposals, all probably illegal in their own country, and those don't even happen in their own country? That divides the number of people, who even start looking into this stuff by a factor of 1000 or so.

scrollaway · 23 days ago

People’s attention span has decreased to a matter of days now, if not hours. Have you seen how quickly front page news in the US is forgotten?

The democratic process needs a revamp but it shouldn’t be driven by the general populations attention span.

scrollaway commented on Color.io Is Going Offline · Posted by u/hilti

scrollaway · 25 days ago

So the founder is going to work at a company they want to work at, and I’m guessing as part of the hiring agreement he had to wind down his activities on or shut down the project…

For his sake I hope he doesn’t end up regretting it when the job isn’t as rewarding as he thought, or he gets laid off after a few months and doesn’t have a project to go back to.

I don’t have enough context to really judge I am sure, but this is a story that happens often enough for me to already think he’s making a massive mistake.

scrollaway commented on The Cities Skylines Paradox: how the sequel stumbled selix.net/notes/the-citie... · Posted by u/jhy

voidUpdate · a month ago

Well ok, I know "value to shareholders" is a good enough reason for some people... I guess I'm not thinking capitalistically enough about stuff

scrollaway · a month ago

I don’t want to harp on as you had a couple answers on this already but if you need to pay your devs, what is your suggested alternative to “having money in the bank”? The latter only happens with more sales, and that only happens if you have something to sell.

scrollaway commented on Google must pay German price comparison platform 465M euros in damages reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7

scrollaway · a month ago

There are entire American industries that are only profitable because of the EU funded education that its largest contributors received.

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close04 · a month ago

The problem is for now more of principle. Any DRM means you depend on Valve/Steam to continue to legally play your purchased games. If Valve has a change of heart, or of leadership, or hits a financial rough patch they can easily become a rent seeking gatekeeper. That non-intrusive DRM is the thin line between perpetually accepting Valve's conditions or playing illegally. This isn't a Valve specific problem but they get a free pass today because of all the good things they've done and the good will they're continuously showing. If this ever runs out a lot of people will be very disappointed.

I'm not judging them "by comparison" because it's hard to look bad next to Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, etc. Just looking objectively at the situation, even if Valve was alone on the market.

scrollaway · a month ago

“Not having drm” is also a “for now” thing. Everything is “for now”. A person being good, a corporation being bad, everything can be appended with “for now”. It’s not an argument. You look at historical actions and willingness to change. Valve has been doing business this way forever.