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gk99 t1_jefk0nt wrote
Reply to Ads are coming for the Bing AI chatbot, as they come for all Microsoft products by Stiltonrocks
Seems kinda counter-intuitive considering Edge has an ad-blocker built-in and they're trying to compete with Google. They've finally got something that might get them ahead and they're going to make people ignore it.
gk99 t1_jedsfzv wrote
Reply to comment by wickethewok in TIL that Walt Disney World began as "The Florida Project". Dummy corporations were used, by Walt Disney Productions, to buy up 27,000 acres of land to avoid bursts of land speculation in the Orlando area. Early rumors assumed possible development by NASA, Ford, the Rockefellers, and Howard Hughes. by jdward01
> Maybe in the middle of the country in like Texas or something
Please no, let's get a park somewhere cooler this time around. All the theme parks are in some hot, sweaty location.
gk99 t1_jedp9yp wrote
Reply to comment by beef-o-lipso in Twitter announces new API pricing, posing a challenge for small developers by rookie-mistake
I don't normally use Twitter, but I went over there linked from here and got told I needed to disable 2FA because I'm not a Blue member.
I just logged out instead tbh.
gk99 t1_jedj8hn wrote
Reply to comment by C0rn3j in Steam Is Ditching Support for Older Operating Systems in 2024 by redhatGizmo
> Maybe Logan Moore should do a cursory search before posting articles.
Article hardly needed to be written in the first place. According to the Steam Hardware Survey (which runs on a sort of delay from how rarely they get sent out, so the number is likely even lower) this makes up 1.79% of Steam users.
This will not affect the vast, vast, vast majority of gamers.
gk99 t1_je6qs2j wrote
Reply to comment by _000001_ in Vladimir Putin stages giant nuclear training exercise with 3,000 troops, in menacing show of strength to the West by HelpfulYoghurt
Ah, you know the saying, three (thousand)'s a crowd.
gk99 t1_je2pbnr wrote
Reply to comment by adamcoe in TIL that Chick-fil-A started in 1961, after founder S. Truett Cathy found a fryer that cooked chicken as quickly as a fast food burger. Chick-fil-A licensed the sandwich to 50 restaurants, including Waffle House, until 1967, when the first standalone Chick-fil-A was opened. by jdward01
I mean, everyone knows what Chik Fil A is, but I don't really think it's famous for its controversies? Like, I'm not going over there and saying "oh this sandwich is ass but at least they hate the gays." That's not really a viable business model nor a stance I fundamentally agree with in the slightest.
In my experience, Chik Fil A has an annoyingly superior level of food consistency and customer service than a lot of other fast food chains, and are quite prolific to boot, at least in my region. Employees never seem like they hate their lives versus when I visit somewhere like Burger King, the ordering process has been super streamlined, the loyalty system is pretty good, etc.
They'd probably still be my favorite chicken restaurant if I wasn't bitter about the pointless LGBT hate.
gk99 t1_je28gf0 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in I Would Love to Have Enough Time and Money to Go to an Office to Work All Day - Perhaps Steven Rattner and the executives complaining to him about their remote employees could lend me a hand (or $50,000 more a year). by speckz
I agree, much better idea to focus on accident statistics regarding the commute that we now know is completely unnecessary.
The thing about a world-changing global pandemic is that everyone has a little more context about what is actually important.
gk99 t1_jdqxbgk wrote
Reply to comment by Correct_Influence450 in Microsoft reportedly orders AI chatbot rivals to stop using Bing’s search data by OutlandishnessOk2452
Not back when Bing was scraping Google's search results in order to try and make their search engine half decent, of course. They only stopped when they got caught, only fair AI rivals do the same.
gk99 t1_jbzkb8w wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Microsoft’s Bing hits 100 million active users thanks to AI chat, Edge browser by ThisLexx
If you'd rather buy me the latest Call of Duty every year to free me from the oh-so-miserable shackles of "tapping some buttons on my phone while I'm on the shitter" and "playing Gamepass games," you are more than welcome to.
gk99 t1_jbykwsb wrote
Tbh I only use it for Microsoft Rewards.
gk99 t1_jab3ob7 wrote
Interesting choice to annoy the pickiest, tech-savviest people around who almost certainly left Windows in part due to advertisements and bloat. Yeah, this will make people upgrade...to a different distro.
gk99 t1_ja8acxb wrote
Reply to comment by The_White_Light in Microsoft staff read users’ ChatGPT posts, prompting security fears by TheTelegraph
Why? I mean fundamentally, sure, but why are you entering anything into an AI chatbot that you wouldn't want its creator to have? How do they guarantee the AI is properly generating those data reports without making sure it actually understands what is being said? What makes this a big deal?
This seems like a non-issue and a non-story to me. Security fears? Stop typing important shit into it.
gk99 t1_j865nry wrote
Reply to comment by Discoveryellow in Mozilla plans ground-up UI redesign for Thunderbird email client this July by Hrmbee
I didn't use either of those but tbh Thunderbird was pretty easy to understand right up until I realized I had no reason to use it. Transferred from my ISP-provided email to Gmail and most of my email is phone-convenient, anything that needs to be done on desktop I can get to by just typing "gmail" into my browser and clicking the first link.
gk99 t1_j7n356x wrote
Reply to comment by TrumpterOFyvie in TIL the first Blue LED wasn't commercially available until 1989 and bright blue LEDs weren't available until 1993. by j-merc23
There's a movie theater where I live that chose to make its menu all bright blue LEDs and it's almost literally impossible to read.
gk99 t1_j6f7ifc wrote
Reply to comment by erosram in Facebook secretly killed users batteries, worker claims in lawsuit by tyteen4a03
Yeah, there's lots of things they don't have, like a fanbase that doesn't act like toxic vegans in some join-or-die cult, or software engineers that can figure out basic luxury features like Always-On Display in a reasonable timeframe.
The complete non-hassle of having to buy my phone from literally anywhere other than a carrier is really, really worth not owning an iPhone in my eyes. Can't imagine getting bullied by my phone manufacturer for having friends that don't have iPhones, I left middleschool and that level of behavior a long time ago.
gk99 t1_j5uo4x0 wrote
Reply to comment by dvb70 in Everyone Wants Your Email Address. Think Twice Before Sharing It. by 08830
That's shocking? You're literally posting this on a site funded by Tencent and full of telemetry. Imagine the average person.
gk99 t1_j5h1ebi wrote
Reply to comment by Greessey in ChatGPT: students could use AI to cheat, but it's a chance to rethink assessment altogether by calliope_kekule
I'm doing a sort of flipside to this. I have to write a big-effort research paper over the course of the semester, but the prompt is extremely open-ended and I don't really know where to go with it. I've got until Feb 1st to figure out something interesting to write about, and as a last ditch, I'm probably just gonna ask ChatGPT to give me a list of prompts. CGPT has an "issue" where it will effectively just make things up because there's no problem solving underneath to actually check if its statements are accurate, but it's great for inspiration.
gk99 t1_j4ur189 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Intel CEO says chip supply chains will shape geopolitics more than oil over the next 50 years by Vailhem
Man's over here thinking his phone battery is a miniature oil-fueled generator lol
gk99 t1_j1xwttb wrote
Reply to comment by punio4 in Google Assistant Takes the crown beating Bixby and Siri in Voice Assistant Test by PuzzleheadedHeat4409
The fucking thing couldn't even consistently send me notifications when my Samsung washer was finished running. Let alone anything I've asked it to do in the first months of owning a Galaxy watch before giving up on it entirely because it's a useless POS and the means of setting up Alexa and Google on it instead are far too convoluted. Fortunately, even Samsung has given up on it and their watches now include Google Assistant.
gk99 t1_izzf46m wrote
Reply to comment by Proper-Fix-8411 in Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried refuses to testify before Senate, committee says. by AdamCannon
It's cute that you're being contrarian, but the Trump cult that tried to take over the government doesn't need a devil's advocate.
gk99 t1_iybgbn6 wrote
Reply to Google has to pay $9.4 million because it paid people to say they liked the Pixel 4 by RunOrDieTrying
Change that M to a B and maybe we'll start getting somewhere.
gk99 t1_ixnkpab wrote
Reply to comment by WhoDidThat97 in TIL that the first colour frames in a film were used to be hand painted, by female artists. by Knight_TheRider
That's the part of the title you're complaining about?
Really shows your priorities and mindset.
gk99 t1_is6mge0 wrote
Reply to Netflix undercuts Disney+ with launch of its $7/month ad-supported plan starting Nov. 3 by Marshall_Cleiton
Doesn't matter how much cheaper it is when it takes 2-3 "[x] is not on Netflix" messages in the search before actually being able to find something to watch because their third-party content is gone and I can't get invested in any of their first-party content because they have a long-documented history of killing shows after 2 seasons.
gk99 t1_jegk2x7 wrote
Reply to comment by paranoid_horse in Court Orders GitHub to Reveal Who Leaked Twitter’s Source Code by John_Parlet
Wonder if GitHub allows creation from GuerillaMail and similar.