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  • ‘I made them do it’ – Donald Trump takes credit for FIFA decision to overturn Folarin Balogun ban

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  • You know he didn’t have to resign right? He literally only did it for honor.

    Ah, i see the confusion now, you're talking about the "honour killings" kind of honour, the excessive toxic pride kind, like "leaving before you're kicked out to try and save face".

    "I don't think i can win so i won't compete", isn't honour, it's pragmatism.

    I'm not even throwing shade for it, it's a good call.

    I was thinking of the idealised honour where you do the subjectively right thing, for the subjectively right reasons.

    The uk political system is driven by honor.

    Its driven by money/power/control, same as any modern political system.

    They even pressured Boris Johnson to resign. Could you imagine a US president resigning before their term was done?

    See the "leaving before you're kicked out" section from above.

    The UK hasn’t had a single prime minister fill out their full term since 2015

    I'm not sure how this is relevant but it is factual.

  • ‘I made them do it’ – Donald Trump takes credit for FIFA decision to overturn Folarin Balogun ban

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  • does he ? when did this happen ?

  • Ford employee fired after 11 years for stealing cookie he’d actually paid for

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  • In principle that application of a face camera holds up, subjectively.

    In practice that won't be it's primary use case.

    It absolutely will bes sold, even if they are banned from saving face profiles directly (which ostensibly they are, for now) it'll just be "anonymous'" data collection. Until they get caught, then they'll pay a cost of doing business tax (fine) and continue on their way.

    It's just another vector for creeping changes that invade privacy for the benefit of corporations out the continued tightening population control of governments.

    In this case, think ring doorbells + GPS as an opening gambit.

    Like how courts orders for "all of the phones in a particular area at a particular time" are a thing, but with a mandatory face cam.

    edit : because these are the type of activities that go on at these companies, unchecked mostly.

    edit edit : God dammit ford

  • Ford employee fired after 11 years for stealing cookie he’d actually paid for

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  • Im not defending privacy overton pushing shenanigans, they are all bullshit.

    But that face camera thing is about to become an EU mandate.

    All the companies are gearing up for data suction (EU or otherwise), if they don't already have a robust system in place.

    China is bad for it, yes, but so is everyone else.

    It's all bullshit from all sides

    edit: I have since been updated on the actual wording of the mandate and it doesn't specify face cameras specifically, just some mechanism for dealing with drowsy/distracted drivers.

    I expect most companies to do this with camera's but it's not a specific camera mandate.

  • Thrust into an AI role

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  • Personally I see LLMs as a tool like any other. You can use it to mass produce low quality slop, just as you can use it to help you produce a higher quality output.

    I agree with this in principle, but I'd argue that it's more like an industrial table saw than a hand saw.

    Meaning the potential for damage is much greater with this particular tool (for various reasons) which means that it need proper training and experience, safeguards, maintenance and fail-safes to be used effectively (without doing yourself or others damage).

    The potential damage of using this tool is a bit less immediate and obvious than an industrial table saw however, which means you should be extra careful.

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  • I meant 'forced' as in ' forced by their capitalist greed and culture ' not like there's an actual threat to anything but the quarterly bonuses of the current golden parachute holder.

    Eventually, perhaps they'll fuck up enough for it to be an existential threat to the company.

    I'm the meantime they'll just continue pretending copilot is a serious contender outside of their walled garden and probably lay off a few thousand people they don't care about, to balance the numbers.

    Edit : "a few days later" - https://lemmy.world/post/48874177

  • AI Software Development Is Near-Impossible

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  • TL;DR;

    Capitalists gonna capitalise,

    Fiscal gain is always going to be the reason behind decisions, even if it doesn't seem like it on the face of it.

    Especially microsoft, with it's history.

    I'll preface this with, this is just my opinion etc...

    I say must, should, has to, etc with the conviction of my opinion, not proof of objective fact.

    i have some insight into the subject/industry but nothing i'd be willing to verify with anyone, so make of that what you will.

    It's less a specific thing to point to and more of a general "profit driven company is going to make profit driven decisions", even if perceived altruism was deemed the best fiscal decision, the primary goal is still commercial viability.

    A full extra year of security updates requires resources.

    Unless they are doing something wildly outside the norms of software development, that means development, testing, deployment, hosting, tooling, marketing/PR, support and more.

    There's both CapEx and OpEx costs to that kind of endeavour.

    For a product of any size that's a non-zero resource cost, for a product the size of windows that's a big number, perhaps not in the grand scheme, but it's a non-trivial amount.

    That is historically not the kind of thing that microsoft would do/has done just for the altruistic benefit of it's users.

    Feel free to provide examples to the contrary, i'd be pleasantly surprised.

    So assuming it's not altruism that drives this decision, the only other conclusion i could come up with was commercial viability/profit/money.

    That might be a failure of imagination on my part.

    The projected cost of not doing this must outweigh the projected benefit of going through with it.

    Be that in goodwill, user/customer retention, PR, straight up sales or something else, there must be a benefit that outweighs the cost of just dropping support.

    I could speculate on specifics but it'd mostly be rehashing the thousands of articles on poor decisions (and poor timing) around the whole win 11 rollout and windows in general.

    i don't mean this from an old man shouts at cloud viewpoint, i don't particularly care for windows(or microsoft) but I'm not a rabid hater.

    Microsoft has some good products that i use regularly, despite their constant and repeated attempts to enshittify all of the end user experiences they can in pursuit of fiscal gain.

    That being said, the win 11 rollout has been a shambles on many fronts.

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  • Microsoft is forced to provide another year of security updates because a series of historic and ongoing colossal fuckups have made it more commercially viable for them to do so than the alternative.

    There is no "give" here, they are doing it for themselves, that the user potentially benefits is incidental.

  • Valve describes just how brutal RAM negotiations are in 2026

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  • yeah there's a bunch f performance bumps you can get with a fixed end platform and a whole company invested in making games that run on their platform perform well.

  • Valve describes just how brutal RAM negotiations are in 2026

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  • You can also plug headphone directly in to the controller (although you've probably seen that).

    nightmare for battery life if your headphones are above average impedance though.

    (or maybe it's just my headphones, i'm not an audio snob, who knows?)

  • Valve describes just how brutal RAM negotiations are in 2026

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  • You’re also not mentioning that even the base ps5, which was released 6 years ago, performs better than a Steam Machine.

    is that based on the specs or some reviews somewhere ?

    edit: nvm, looked it up

    6700(ish) for ps5 OG

    vs

    7600 for steam machine

    pretty close , though ps5 probably wins due to very specific optimizations for games compiled for that platform.

    I'm seeing 7700xt for ps5 pro, not sure if that's correct but it certainly beats a 7600.

  • Google preps Pixel ‘Audio Memory’ that ambiently tracks your ‘important conversations,’ like AI notetaker pins

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  • that's an easy one.

    google is an ad company, their main customers are the people who buy ads, pretending you need a toilet seat let's them charge toilet seat makers more to "target" you

  • What are some actors that can only play themselves?

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  • It is, but he's still him, just with more mental health issues.

  • Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow

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  • I know how MV3 works, thanks.

    That's my bad, i genuinely didn't consider that someone who knew what happened would frame it as ublock dragging their heels and not mention the context at all.

    The point remains that from the moment it was announced people have been claiming, usually with much hyperbole, that Chrome was trying to kill adblockers,

    Along with a lot of people who rightly pointed out that a largely ad based company being in charge of the specification of a system that can limit the ability for their ads to be blocked is a massive conflict of interest.

    Luckily for all of us, google is known for it's history of forgoing ad revenue and corporate interests in favour of end-user happiness...so we shouldn't worry about it.

    ....

    I actually find it interesting that they managed to achieve the stated goal of preventing a certain class of malware extensions while letting adblockers still work (though I know it’s not a widely shared sentiment).

    It's not a widely shared sentiment for a reason.

    Mind you, I still preferred living in an MV2 world, and I still encourage people to switch to Firefox.

    fair enough.

    It’s better for everyone if the ecosystem is more diverse.

    Agreed as a general principle, especially in the mid to long term.

    But if the diversity aspect introduced to 70% of a population is actively hostile (with historical indications that future aspects will also be hostile) then dismissing concerns about it as hyperbole is face-eating leopard territory.

  • what will happen to all the datacenters when the bubble bursts?

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  • Can be synonymous, isn't always.

    Though my question was about what you thought rather than the word choice.

  • what will happen to all the datacenters when the bubble bursts?

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  • Ah, yeah, I've seen that.

    There are also people who want to run locally for other reasons as well.

    Privacy being a big one, but there are others.

    I'm not sure what the ratios are though.

  • what will happen to all the datacenters when the bubble bursts?

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  • Incoherent ideology ?

  • Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow

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  • uBlock created an entirely different implementation of their extension to work around as much of the bullshit lockdown that MV3 implements.

    Adguard (and ublock origin "lite") work exactly as much(or little) as google thinks it can get away with right now.

    MV2 VS MV3 is much more of a change than just the stuff relating to ad blockers, but that doesn't detract from the fact that a company that makes a large proportion of their revenue through advertising was in full control of the specifications for the "new" MV.