I seriously wonder if more competent mobile gaming picks up some of the slack considering the “retro emulator” machines are starting to run PC games via Game Native app. If i didn’t already have a steam deck i would seriously consider one of those devices.

I’m not convinced that we are going to see a renewed push for optimization. I think streaming will be aggressively pushed with low time limits in the forthcoming next gen to “make it affordable.” Xbox was ahead of the curve in that regard.

EU demands security theater. They are attempting to force backdoors into all of these APIs and systems (including locally run AI) for the nanny state. Very unfortunate.

There is on device AI in the Apple ecosystem. Many of the AI features that they announced will run locally (assuming hardware requirements are met). Things like Spatial Reframing will touch the cloud (via private compute) though. Other than that, Apple has an entire entry point for running AI close to the metal via MLX. It is kind of their entire angle at this point given their inability to create a competitive compelling AI product of their own. They appear to be taking on the role of “platform” once again.

Zen still works beautifully. The only downside I’ve come across is that there isn’t a mobile app, so the ability to hand off isn’t there.

Why? There would need to be some kind of pressure one way or another unless it is totally inconsequential. One pressure would be that organisms would be fitter with the ability to conceal and deceive. That would lend credence to what you’re suggesting; process and compress locally, filter locally, send only when advantageous.

But the opposite pressure might be social exclusion which makes individual members of a cohort weaker.

The real question is: what does an organism gain one way or the other? There’s only tradeoffs in evolution. Is the mental and physical tax of local processing worth it, or is the hive-mind style survival benefits more beneficial to reproduction and expansion?

Provide examples if that is the case.

Cheat codes were originally for testing and, occasionally, for fun. Sometimes they became Easter eggs. I can’t think of a single game where your assertion is true today or in the past.

They also tend to have less sprawl, more homogenous and high trust societies (relative to where most people live in the US), and a shaky history of true legally enforced disability considerations. On that latter part, there still isn’t a good equivalent to the ADA in European peer countries. Europeans will hand wave it away, but it’s too patchwork and exclusionary.

All things in this scope considered (i.e., not healthcare necessarily), I’d rather be disabled in the US than in Europe or most Asian countries because the US actually have strong legal protections both federally and at the state levels. Lack of extensive public transport outside of a couple major hubs is obviously a problem for most people (especially the disabled). But no other country comes close to enshrining protections like the US did with the ADA (and how some states extended it even more themselves).

Binning households into income groups, we estimate the highest earning 30% of households are responsible for about 70% of income-based NE while the lowest earning 70% are responsible for only about 30% NE.

Says it all, really. The wealthy disproportionately command an overwhelming amount of wealth generated, and also overwhelmingly are responsible for carbon emissions (70%, despite making up only 30% of the population). But let’s talk about skipping a meal and not using plastic straws, and how this is all an individual effort instead of a class struggle. /s

Climate change is the newer equivalent of wealthy groups dumping toxic waste near poor neighborhoods. The wealthy will be able to safe guard against a lot of the damage to themselves (but not all; they are still doing the equivalent of sitting in a car and letting it run with the garage door closed). The working class? Not so much.

Thank you for sharing! I probably wouldn’t have seen it otherwise.

Great breakdown! Given that this is Lemmy and we trend toward more tech focused, people might gel better with Apple and Microsoft. If anyone is confused about what you wrote but the my understand big tech tax evasion, it is basically the same set of steps.

Big tech just doesn’t pay residuals.

Apple is well known for their Irish tax haven holding all of their IP and other rights so Apple can lease it back from themselves and account for pure profit as expenses. That’s also how Amazon pays little to no taxes. Or sometimes these company’s pay negative tax rates meaning they get government welfare to buy billionaires fudge rounds presumably, in conservative populist parlance.

Also to add on to my earlier comment, after some research it appears that the standard union contract prior to the strike has always been based on gross revenue instead of net. So it is consistent with why the WGA put this out.

Revenue is used because this industry is notorious for “Hollywood accounting” to avoid having any actual profits to avoid residuals based on net.

Some of the biggesr blockbusters of all time are, thanks to Hollywood accounting, net losers. Forrest Gump is a classic example: it made almost a billion dollars in revenue vs a $55 million budget. But thanks to tax evasion techniques the movie is actually a huge financial loser on paper, losing more than $65 million if you look at net.

You can’t trust non-workers, who exist entirely off the wealth they can cheat out of workers, to be honest.

So that is why gross revenue is used in Hollywood.

Edit: to add on to that Gump example, the author was supposed to be paid based on net. He got totally fucked which is why no sequel was made. His IP created a billion+ dollars out of thin air, but blood sucking capitalist parasites leech it all away with tax evasion.

I don’t think it does. I doubt it is purely a cost issue. Microsoft is going to throw billions at OpenAI, no problem.

What has happened, based on the info we get from the company, is that they keep tweaking their algorithms in response to how people use them. ChatGPT was amazing at first. But it would also easily tell you how to murder someone and get away with it, create a plausible sounding weapon of mass destruction, coerce you into weird relationships, and basically anything else it wasn’t supposed to do.

I’ve noticed it has become worse at rubber ducking non-trivial coding prompts. I’ve noticed that my juniors have a hell of a time functioning without access to it, and they’d rather ask questions of seniors rather than try to find information our solutions themselves, replacing chatbots with Sr devs essentially.

A good tool for getting people on ramped if they’ve never coded before, and maybe for rubber ducking in my experience. But far too volatile for consistent work. Especially with a Blackbox of a company constantly hampering its outputs.

It’s all fun and games until the kids bust out

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I think people are justified in having strong emotions on this topic. A good amount of us just came from Reddit, only to waltz right into what feels like another corporate power play. You install smoke detectors before you have a house fire, not during it.

Many of us have been burned by Meta and purposefully choose these more obscure communities, like Lemmy, to stay far away from them. Meta, after all, has waged a worldwide assault on democracy. Meta has aided literal genocide in at least one country. Meta has run undisclosed psychological experiments to see if it could alter the mood of its users and make them depressed, without regard for if children were among the swath of people.

A lot of people are old enough to remember similar takeovers of standards and open protocols, which is why XMPP comes up so often in these discussions. All it takes is one big player with God-levels of money in order to usurp a standard. Google’s done it twice now, for instance. First with XMPP and again with RCS.

Meta deserves zero benefit of doubt. They’ve always been a bad actor and parasite. I don’t buy the conspiracy theory that admins are being paid by Meta. That does seem hysterical.

The most likely reason I’ve heard for Threads embracing ActivityPub (eventually) is to circumvent EU regulations. In which case we shouldn’t be fine with being a pawn and should resist aiding an objectively harmful company from avoiding due regulation.