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swarnie··on Videogame stocks slide after Google's Project Genie AI model release
Vocal gamers care, majority market gamers dont.

They will continue to buy three reskinned Ubisoft sandboxes a year and two seasonal sports releases.

The industry is already forfeit.

swarnie··on SpaceX in Merger Talks with xAI
The scary people who lent the money to silence Twitter actually need paying one day. Lord knows you aren't doing that with any other product in the portfolio.
swarnie··on SpaceX in Merger Talks with xAI
Are the talks just Elon with a sock puppet on each hand while Grok runs in the background doing the voices?
swarnie··on Macron says €300B in EU savings sent to the US every year will be invested in EU
That's mostly to prepare teenagers at the time for having no state pension in 50 years.

I have about seven of the buggers and I'm only in my mid 30s.....

swarnie··on BYD Sells 4.6M Vehicles in 2025, Meets Revised Sales Goal
Lets assume all this is true, why should i be concerned about it?

If the Chinese tax payer is going to help me buy a new car then thanks, my own government isn't going to do that.

swarnie··on Vince Zampella, developer of Call of Duty and Battlefield has died
Its on video my man.

Starts with a car going way too fast, the middle bit if an Italian car being rapidly disassembled and it ends with a fireball.

swarnie··on Vince Zampella, developer of Call of Duty and Battlefield has died
> The single-car crash was reported at about 12:45 p.m. on the scenic road north of Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Mountains. The southbound Ferrari veered off the road just after exiting a tunnel, hit a concrete barrier and a passenger was ejected, the California Highway Patrol said.

> The driver, Zampella, was trapped in the ensuing car fire, the CHP said. He died at the scene and the passenger died at a hospital

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/video-game-develope...

swarnie··on A train-sized tunnel is now carrying electricity under South London
I'm shocked it only took five years and only cost 4 month's worth of bomalian budget.

Great job whoever was in charge.

swarnie··on A school locked down after AI flagged a gun. It was a clarinet
I have so, so many questions.....

Why are there cameras in schools? Why are they looking for guns? Why are they using AI to do it?

Could this not all be avoided by not letting kids have guns or am i missing the point?

swarnie··on Oracle made a $300B bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price
I'm going to take this as the HN effect, if something isn't doing 500% a year its dead.
swarnie··on Oracle made a $300B bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price
I still have Java on just over 1k enterprise devices, its dead?
swarnie··on McDonald's pulls AI Christmas ad after backlash
I've encountered far too many people who actively seek out ads or look forward to them, people I usually respect, its baffling.
swarnie··on Moss survived outside of the International Space Station for 9 months
Moss has been invited to touch grass.
swarnie··on Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill
Impossible, we must interpret the intentions of some blokes who died 220 years ago and try to assume what they would have wanted.

Its the only way.

swarnie··on I Am Mark Zuckerberg
A quick tattoo on the arm and your set for life.
swarnie··on Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams
Listen throw7, Meta paid almost £30 million in tax in 2023, an effective tax rate of 12%. I'm unsure why numbers for 2024 aren't available but you'll need to speak to legal about that.

If you want to throw7 that all away over some media speculation be my guest. I'll tell the NHS to fund themselves for 11 minutes next year to make up the shortfall.

swarnie··on YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started
At that point just pivot to a MindGeek video service, their pay per 1k views is significantly better than Youtube.
swarnie··on SpaceX disables 2,500 Starlink terminals allegedly used by Asian scam centers
That's not what OP is saying.

An entity truly in control should be able to deny access to insurrectionists because of you know, being in control.

swarnie··on Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws
Find me an FTP server which integrates with your entire productivity, communication and collaboration suites easily enough that an admin can run a 50k person company off of it and equally Doris from accounts can manage to get some work done.

I hate SharePoint, but i use/administer it every day and it works, mostly.

Exposing it to the internet is a mistake. Why anyone would do that is beyond me.

swarnie··on J.P. Morgan's OpenAI loan is strange
Surely the burden of proof lies on the more unbelievable side?

Show me how a company setting never before seen piles of money on fire is profitable. Until someone can i'll happily keep claiming they're unprofitable.

swarnie··on Replacement.ai
"Everything" might be hyperbole but a huge percentage of the workforce in my country is office/desk based. Included in that % is a lot of the middleclass and stepping stone jobs to get out of manual work.

If AI kills the middle and transitional roles i anticipate anarchy.

swarnie··on After the AI boom: what might we be left with?
Can i sign up for an alterative future please? This one sounds horrendous.
swarnie··on Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors
Are you sure?

I feel like ESG has been rammed in to every company i've worked at for a couple of decades now.

swarnie··on A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator
True, the only option is to not use the site entirely.
swarnie··on A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator
You can now just outright hide your profile/history even without NSFW content. Its a really good feature for everyone involved.
swarnie··on Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to fund US public broadcasting
Someone close to the administration could reopen them "in the interest of national security" or some such rubbish, isn't Larry's son in the media game?

PragerU shorts injected directly in to Sesame Street wasn't on my 2025 bingo card but its not the wildest thing I've seen out of the US this year.

swarnie··on Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
Where are you getting 850TB of enterprise storage for $20k?

I had 500TB of object storage priced last year and it came out closer to $300k

swarnie··on Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society
It really depends how you use it.

Put your 401k in to a global index and come back in 45 years? Yeah that's a false equivalence.

Take out a bank loan and roll 0DTE options? That's 99% the same as sports gambling for me.

swarnie··on Cloudflare Introduces NET Dollar stable coin
Big business: Why not both?
swarnie··on ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team
Why bother with the additional tender, the NSA have been doing it for decades?
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