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someone7x commented on NSF and Nvidia award Ai2 $152M to support building an open AI ecosystem allenai.org/blog/nsf-nvid... · Posted by u/_delirium

sounds · 11 days ago

Nvidia is interested in commoditizing their complements. It's a business strategy to decrease the power of OpenAI (for instance).

Nvidia dreams of a world where there are lots of "open" alternatives to OpenAI, like there are lots of open game engines and lots open software in general. All buying closed Nvidia chips.

someone7x · 11 days ago

> commoditizing their complements

Feels like a modern euphemism for “subjugate their neighbors”.

someone7x commented on YouTube's new anti-adblock measures iter.ca/post/yt-adblock/... · Posted by u/smitop

Workaccount2 · 2 months ago

Read up on vid.me, which broke YouTube's "monopoly" back in 2016-2017.

Seriously, go see what happened to them.

Turns out everyone complaining about YouTube, when given the option to jump to a new fresh user focused service, still blocks ads and refuses subscriptions.

This thread, and the hundreds like it, are why people nope the fuck out when considering creating a YT competitor.

someone7x · 2 months ago

You seem so certain on the betrayal of the content-creators.

> Read up on vid.me, which broke YouTube's "monopoly" back in 2016-2017

Okay, sounds interesting.

> May 21 (Reuters) - Alphabet's (GOOGL.O), opens new tab Google has persuaded a federal judge in California to reject a lawsuit from video platform Rumble (RUM.O), opens new tab accusing the technology giant of illegally monopolizing the online video-sharing market.

I see what I expected: that google cheated and got away with it. Where is the betrayal?

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/google-defeats-rumb...

someone7x commented on YouTube's new anti-adblock measures iter.ca/post/yt-adblock/... · Posted by u/smitop

gausswho · 2 months ago

I'm unconvinced. I suggest that YT's outlay is a sneeze among the budget of the US. In my estimation, all nations are lagging in the definition of what constitutes a public utility. In a decade we will be facepalming why advertisements were even needed for this common infrastructure.

someone7x · 2 months ago

> In my estimation, all nations are lagging in the definition of what constitutes a public utility. In a decade we will be facepalming why advertisements were even needed for this common infrastructure.

I’m just glad others feel this way.

Why the hell can’t I have my own spam free email account from the post office? Because the ads, the precious ads.

someone7x commented on Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not just a design refresh omc345.substack.com/p/fro... · Posted by u/lightningcable

sheepscreek · 2 months ago

FWIW, I always liked the Windows Phone OS design. Its text first minimalism was refreshingly useful. It was a big leap ahead from Windows Mobile. I think it had something worthwhile to offer.

someone7x · 2 months ago

Luckily it is immortalized in GTA5, when playing as Trevor at least. I found it the easiest phone to use in that game.

someone7x commented on Firefox OS's story from a Mozilla insider not working on the project (2024) ludovic.hirlimann.net/202... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

rickdeckard · 2 months ago

There was a second issue:

The reason why the phones even landed in South America (and Spain) was because Telefonica heavily invested into Firefox-OS and lobbied several HW-vendors to provide devices for it.

The idea for Firefox-OS to carve-out its niche was to go lower in spec than Android could, providing a solid entry-level Smartphone experience at a price an Android device could not match just due to Hardware spec alone.

Google understood the threat, and indeed they couldn't lower the bar that low anymore and have Android provide a decent experience on a device with 1GHz single-core CPU and 512MB RAM.

As a fast measure, Google created "Android Go" as a stripped-down Android variant for lower-spec hardware, exactly to respond to Firefox-OS.

--> The fact that WhatsApp was missing on Firefox-OS was the final deathblow, yes. But even before launch of the device, the wave of "Android Go" devices matching/undercutting Firefox-OS in price was already building up, and carriers not confident in Firefox-OS were starting to order those devices.

Then, at the moment the Firefox-OS device faced its major setback after launch, that wave already came crashing down into the procurement departments of all the carriers, and so the gap to threaten Android was closed.

Just to reiterate the scale: Google made a "Go" variant of Android and ALL it's GMS-applications just to close this gap. After the threat was gone, "Android Go" was discontinued again

someone7x · 2 months ago

> As a fast measure, Google created "Android Go" as a stripped-down Android variant for lower-spec hardware, exactly to respond to Firefox-OS.

> After the threat was gone, "Android Go" was discontinued again

Sometimes the invisible hand of the market is just a middle finger pushing on the scale.

someone7x commented on Consider Knitting journal.stuffwithstuff.co... · Posted by u/ingve

someone7x · 3 months ago

Read to the end and did a double-take: that's the game programming patterns guy!

He has a voice I enjoy and I'm glad I got the chance to read this.

someone7x commented on Workers Want a Four-Day Week. Companies Should Too wsj.com/lifestyle/workpla... · Posted by u/lxm

philipallstar · 3 months ago

This keeps cropping up. It sounds nice, particularly for nebulously-defined knowledge work. But, the usual:

- this only applies to task-focused jobs; e.g. the service industry still needs people to work all the time customers might turn up

- studies may have picked companies/orgs that are likely to have the foresight and talent to try a new way of working; this may not scale well to general work

- how do companies that have customers that work 5 days a week work this out? Do you need two people working overlapping 4 out of 5 days so they cover all 5 days for every customer-facing role?

- if people can do 5 days' work in 4, can they also do 4 days' work in 3? What's special about 4 days? Will work scope down until it becomes true that it could be done in 3 days, just as 5 days' work seems to have scoped down to be doable in 4?

someone7x · 3 months ago

> how do companies...

> Do you need...

> Will work scope down...

Sounds to me like a list of problems for market forces to solve.

someone7x commented on Structured Etymology Dataset github.com/droher/etymolo... · Posted by u/downboots

someone7x · 3 months ago

Wow amazing work.

I tried parsing wiktionary once and gave up in frustration.

I open up your code to see the magic and this instantly caught my eye.

> import mwparserfromhell as mwp

Perfect lol.

someone7x commented on Dead Reckoning damninteresting.com/dead-... · Posted by u/repost_bot

defrost · 4 months ago

Notable for deadpan correct use of Ear regardless . . .

Worth the read.

someone7x · 4 months ago

Thanks for the nudge, a well told story well worth the read.

someone7x commented on Speedrunning and Modding the Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer farlow.dev/2025/05/02/rot... · Posted by u/farlow

someone7x · 4 months ago

Back at THQ we published this. The story goes that there’s some language in the deals between Pixar and Apple that forced Disney to publish a Mac version of all Pixar-based games.

There was Mac hardware that was only used for testing Pixar games; the testers there are the ones that told me the story.

Also I remember now some tester made a Redman/Methodman music video with video clips from the first game and was of course fired.

Unsolicited oral history of the Incredibles games I guess.