OOPMan

I have Google TV on my Sony TV and found that I was able to disable the ads and crap.

There was a setting to toggle. They tried to make it unattractive by saying I wouldn't be able to use the Google Assistant feature but this just seemed like a win for me.

I don't need my TV to be fancy, it just needs to accept signal from my consoles and HTPC.

I do kinda miss seeing all the suggested dogshit movies sometimes tho XD

Ad-blockers still work fine on the site tho, you're paying Google money for no good reason.

Money of which only a small part goes to the creators.

If you actually want to support the creators, do it via a more direct method than paying Google to send a few pennies their way.

There is some talk that YT are making it such that trying to seek will not skip the ad.

Tends not to matter, the context usually makes it clear what is being discussed.

Just your usual internet attention seeking I guess.

Narcissism is a powerful stimulant ;-)

I really don't think Sam needs more encouragement, thanks.

Also, if this is your definition of magic then...yeah...

Oh really?

So when some local newspaper reports about some random old person in an old-age home that's political?

Please, take this destructive attitude and reassess it.

Not all things are political and making them so actively makes the world worse.

Interesting post, honestly feels like the NFT cult: Discord full of true believers, leader with wildly optimistic takes on everything, nonsensical profit model.

I will say, however, that the authors one comment "Vlad is one of those people who thinks not everything is political" annoyed me a bit.

I get that for people living in the US it can seem like everything is political but I don't think it is and more importantly, I don't think it's a healthy attitude.

Not everything is political but there are certainly people who will try their best to make it seem that way, usually as a means to engage in politicing, often with unpleasant results.

I can judge the Kagi founder negatively for a lot of things in the post but this isn't one of them and it's a weird little jab to throw in that says more about the author of the post than the Kagi guy.

This is why I preferred Shadow Warrior 2 to Borderlands. Millions of randomly generated guns sounds nice, except they're mostly trash. I'd rather have the 70 hand-crafted options in SW2.

Early 3d generally hasn't aged as well, probably due to extremely low resolution textures and so forth.

Ah yes, 24gb top-of-the-line GPUs, I happen to have a whole warehouse full.

/s

Nonsense.

Nintendo bring this in themselves with their own policies.

There are so many hardware platforms I can support, and one that hardly ever does sales and refuses to bring their games to other platforms is not that appealing.

I buy games on PC, I buy games on XB, I've even rebought some games between the platforms to play couch co-op with my kid.

Steam and XB have enough sales to make this an option, Nintendo on the other hand is adamant about wringing every last penny from you.

These days I don't have time for Nintendo's nonsense. They want to live in their walled garden, they can have it.

Right...because requiring developers to actually grasp the code they're outputting is gatekeeping.

If you want to pretend the rush to AI won't lead to more incompetent chefs in the kitchen than we already have (which is too many as it stands) then feel free, but acting like it's some kind of "party" people are being kept out of is daft.

Standards exist for a reason, not just to make people feel bad for not meeting them.

You're both right and wrong.

Corporations and governments do consist of people and people do care...but it's also the case the being a cog in a large organization does have a tendency to induce stuff like "I was just following orders" or "It's not my problem, someone else needs to fix it" :-/

Fun fact, I generated an image for Homo Sapiens a few hours ago (After trying white man, black man and neanderthal with no success) and was greeted with someone that looked very much like an Orc XD

Another solution in search of a problem...

Unless the problem is Apple fans having too much disposable income, in which case I guess this is an excellent solution XD

Right, but did anyones attempts to contact emergency services get affected in this case?

I'm guessing not.

No matter how you paint it, this was probably rather excessive on the part of the police.

The heck are you on about?

Have you ever tried to "train a human"?

They don't work that way, not unless your "training" involves so weird torture stuff you probably shouldn't be boasting about.

Maybe try ask some teachers (of both adults and children) how it works with people...

It pretty clearly is. Less of a story that is.

Plenty of people would disagree so clearly this is not a settled matter

Nice strawman.

I dunno, I worked with Qt5 and Qt6 recently and creating a UI felt pretty fast and smooth to me (Much more so than the last time I did frontend web work anyway)

That said, I've never used VB6 so maybe I'm missing something...

Gadzooks! You're right! If only NYT had realised the secret to success was spewing out articles reacting to other articles reacting to other articles, they would all have been millionaires!

I think your kid analogy is flawed because it ignores the fact that you couldn't reasonably use said "kid" to rapidly produce thousands of works in the same style and then go on to use them to flood the market and drown out the original authors presence.

Try this with a real "kid" and you'll run into all kids of real-world constraints whereas flooding the world with derivative drivel using LLMs is something that's actually possible.

So yeah, stop using weak analogies, it's not helpful or intelligent.

Why does it feel like everyday I see some new example of stupidity on HN.

Vivaldi is chromium based and they've pledged to do whatever they have to to rollback manifest v3 in their browser.

Honestly, OpenAI seem more like a cult that a company to me.

The hyperbole that surrounds them fits the mould nicely.

For example...they're both jerks!

:-)

Are you guys seriously involved in a WPM pissing contest?

I've been seeing this issue with Vivaldi as well