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Kissaki

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  • Valve antitrust lawsuit reportedly reveals lengths Steam owner is willing to go to prevent cheaper prices elsewhere

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  • Platform A has a 40% fee and requires price elsewhere to be the same. Manufacturer X sells their own product on their own website, at +40% their price.

    This is bad for buyers and competition. Platform A is already big and important enough that you can't skip it, and can drive up and control pricing generally.

    If the requirement were not there, if platform A does not offer enough plus service for the 40% margin, other platforms would keep the prices at a reasonable level. People could buy from the manufacturer at their original price.

    A marketplace important enough that you can't skip it being able to dictate market conditions is how it manifests itself further as the primary player and controlling instance.

  • Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated

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  • With wireless microphones, maybe you can keep talking on the toilet. The company could even provide you with a laptop or tablet to take with you. D:

  • Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated

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  • Prime opportunity to leave some toilet paper on the receptionist's desk after each visit.

  • Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated

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  • rewards like new running shoes?

  • Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated

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  • It only makes sense if

    • you want to drive up adoption because
      • you're confident in usefulness already
      • want to find out about usefulness and need the userbase and usage for it
    • you have ulterior motives to push for AI adoption

    I can imagine leadership - disconnected from real work and any practical AI use experience - being misinformed and misguided into believing marketing and hype-cycle about gains. It also doesn't seem implausible that leadership wants to drive up adoption to quickly gain feedback and results about usefulness and gains/loss.

    In good faith, it requires a certain mindset (no care about the waste or potential loss or risk) and distance from practice. Not implausible, though, in my eyes.

  • Gmail for android silently overwrites links in your emails, so it can track what you open

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  • When I access through Thunderbird via IMAP the emails have been rewritten. It's not local to the Outlook client software.

    I think my webmail is outlook.office.com, dunno if that's the same as outlook.office365.com. It may be a org/account setting managed by my org. Maybe you also don't receive emails with unlabeled links, where it's very obvious that they're replaced. On linked text, only if you notice the URL you're opening.

  • Microsoft is intentionally bricking all Office for Mac 2019/2021 installations

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  • I remember reading about how LibreOffice was better at recovering broken Excel files than Excel itself. It was a long time ago, but I wouldn't be surprised if that still were the case at all.

  • Waymo Pulled Its Cars From the Freeway After One Fled Police With Horrified Couple on Board

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  • Machinery is required to have a big red STOP button that will immediately stop all moving parts. For emergencies. I assume these cars don't have something like that? Maybe they should be required to; stop and unlock all doors.

    /edit: I see it's mentioned/suggested in some other comments as well.

  • Gmail for android silently overwrites links in your emails, so it can track what you open

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  • Outlook replaces weblinkes in emails as well, to a "safelinks" redirect URL. Certainly a security feature, but man it's annoying. Not just the redirect, and the potential tracking, but when a readable URL to my build server build turns into a multiline cryptic unreadable mess and then pollutes my webbrowser history - fuck.

    I already thought about a Thunderbird extension where I can replace them back to their original.

    (My workplace uses Outlook.)

  • What's the minimum number of food items you can survive on exclusively and what are they?

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  • I'm pretty sure I read/saw a more recent case. But this serves as a good source/proof too. Thanks

  • Why do you prefer the Fediverse over other Social Media?

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  • Technically and practically much more open.

    Slick, not burdened by ads and marketing.

    I've always preferred threaded discussions over short messages or linear feed to read and take part in discussion and comments.

  • Professional software engineers of Lemmy, are code reviews still a thing in the age of "AI" assisted coding?

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  • Yes. AI has not taken over anything. It just makes it easier to produce and suggest shit, can help you write or draft or find information if you know what you're doing.

    AI made review potentially or situationally more important.

    There's also a lot of variance how and to what degree people use AI, and which, and cost investment.

  • If most of the jobs get replaced by AI, how people will have income to spend on products which will likely be produced by AI itself?

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  • In the end, the owners have access to the resources, can get labor or whatever for cheap, and can live in control and luxury even without selling much or anything, while trading amongst themselves.

    They don't have a need or use to produce for the parents anymore. It only makes sense for as long as they have gain.

    Owners may incite conflict and war to gain more control. The peasants will join for a lack of better knowledge, access, or alternatives.

    We're back in the middle ages.

    People rise up and destroy or regulate the destructive forces, and establish a more sustainable system - maybe.

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    University of Arizona students boo Eric Schmidt’s AI cheerleading during commencement | Silicon Valley can’t seem to read the room

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  • “When someone offers you a seat on the rocketship, you do not ask which seat, you just get on.”

    Lol, what a statement

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    Kickstarter bans all NSFW content from the website

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  • Can't even view the website without accepting the terms of service, titled "The Contract". Privacy Policy section says provided data is considered public domain.

    I don't think that's lawful. Certainly doesn't feel like an inherently trustworthy platform.

  • Anthropic’s bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator

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  • Or maybe they didn't. Check this cross-post comment thread.

    I replied there, sourcing the original blog post.

    What they said: “Maybe slightly better, not significantly better than existing tools, at least in the context of this single project”. What The Register makes of that: “greatest marketing stunt ever”. They did reference marketing in one sentence, but it was nowhere near as extreme.

  • W Social uncovered: the reality behind the hype

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  • How do you pronounce /?

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    Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.

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  • It's probably a typo and supposed to be Nanu. In German, nanu is an expression of surprise. This model's slogan is "Nanu, wo kommt das denn her?" meaning "Huh, where did this come from?".

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    Why does Lemmy.ML admire authoritarian regimes ?

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  • I searched for Die Linke Israel and the seemingly most recent press is about against Israel. That seems to be the opposite of what you so strongly claim!?