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Poggervania , to technology in NVIDIA’s new AI chatbot runs locally on your PC
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Can I sing the NVIDIA song with it?

femboy_bird ,

I had almost forgotten that existed

Thanks

Buelldozer , to technology in Amazon Prime Video won't offer Dolby Vision and Atmos on its ad-supported plan | The company is now facing a lawsuit over its decision to charge $3 more for ad-free viewing.
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I don’t regularly watch anything on APV so this specific action doesn’t really effect me -but- the uninhibited profit seeking by the Entertainment Industry is out of control. As a high income household we’ve silently absorbed the rate hikes and content splitting in order to keep enjoying content but the latest industry moves around account sharing and charging extra for basic stuff is getting to be too much. The former because I’ve got kids in College and I shouldn’t have to pay for extra"accounts, even with Student Discounts, so they can watch things and I definitely shouldn’t have to pay for simple add-ons like HD, Vision, and Atmos!

I’m lucky enough to be able to stand up a Media Server (Plex in my case) and am currently integrating that with “Arrr” services so I can hop off this carousel of rent-seeking insanity.

KingThrillgore , to gaming in Here’s a video of Doom running on gut bacteria, proving you really can play the game on anything
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Doom players play on bacteria, Ultrakill players play on phages: phagesdb.org/phages/MinosPhrime/

PanArab , to technology in The first EV with a lithium-free sodium battery hits the road in January

Before clicking I knew it would be Chinese

danielfgom , to technology in Google admits that a Gemini AI demo video was staged
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That’s not quite correct. It says it wasn’t real time because the guy was typing his questions, not speaking them.

However the responses from the AI were all correct. Maybe just not as fast. Maybe it took a few seconds to respond, but that is acceptable at this stage.

They wanted to show you how amazing it really is, and could be if it were hooked up to speech recognition and was able to resolve quicker. Which one day will be the case.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

The prompts were also different

lemmyingly ,

Visit Gemini’s webpage, there are links to Google blogs that show exactly what the prompts and responses actually were.

nutsack , to technology in Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies.

as soon as they start doing some sort of client verification it’s over for ad blockers

sparr ,

They can’t afford to do anything that would lose them a large slice of viewers. Same reason websites still support IE.

nutsack ,

they would mostly be losing the ad blocking viewers though, right?

gian ,

Yes, but the point their are trying to make is to gain the adblocking users, not lose them. They need more people to watch the ads, not less people to watch YT.

nutsack ,

i imagine many of them are addicted to youtube and would watch ads

gian ,

Not sure about that, but it would be interesting to have some real number and not the ones from Google or the adblockers

singron ,

It’s funny you mention that since YouTube led the web in dropping support for IE 6: blog.chriszacharias.com/a-conspiracy-to-kill-ie6

That kind of thing isn’t quite in their DNA anymore, but you never know.

gian ,

As it is over for YT, probably.

NecroMemories , to technology in Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers

Compared to other sites, and their relative costs to run, and amount of ads. YouTube has been fairly ok. They have balanced the consumer friendly skip this video and sometimes short ads with the probably higher engagement metrics from them.

However YouTube the lite plan being discontinued right before this mostly means I’m going to move from Gmail to Zoho and wait for the ban.

The final YouTube lite plan didn’t include removing ads from music, which seems to suggest the reason why YouTube music is bundled and maybe even exists, is in part the music industry being shitty.

_haha_oh_wow_ , to news in Self-proclaimed 'gay furry hackers' breach nuclear lab
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Hacking into gay furries seems like a niche school of hacking, but whatever… I guess everything has an exploit these days.

ubermeisters , to news in Self-proclaimed 'gay furry hackers' breach nuclear lab
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Okay so they were definitely a lemmy user then

BlackSkinnedJew ,

🤣🤣 true dat folk…

Ghostalmedia OP , to technology in Volvo's latest EV: A $114k minivan, exclusive to china at launch.
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Their new Geely ownership has really started to change the company’s products lately.

I don’t quite understand the lazy boy in a minivan thing. Is this a form factor that is big in China?

Fades , to technology in Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform

Google is so fucking pathetic these days. They can’t out program them so they cry to the EU instead

IcansmellyourBundt , to technology in Apple will honor California's 'right to repair' rules nationwide

We need Louis Rossman to do his best recreation of the skeptical Fry meme in response to this.

mojo , to technology in Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out

Well I guess that’s one way for ActivityPub integration, just with themselves. Don’t see why that’s a bad idea though, but I also don’t use Facebook.

MargotRobbie , to technology in Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out
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Do they really want the people who stayed on Facebook that drove out the initial wave of cool users to go to their new site and drove people away too?

I don’t really understand Facebook’s logic here. It’s widely known that throwing money at a social networking site doesn’t create sustainable growth, see Google Plus as an example.

Besides, it seems to me that Threads is just filled with blue checked celeb accounts nowadays and they (usually their social media person) barely ever post anything there, nevermind anything interesting or funny, and I don’t think people actually care for that at all.

UnspecificGravity ,

Someone in a boardroom probably had a neat bar graph and PowerPoint describing how getting Grandma into IG is going to make them a fortune.

restingboredface ,

I mean, how long have they been pouring money into the VR stuff that only their employees were using?

cabron_offsets , to technology in Netflix jacks up the price of its premium plan to $23 a month

My price increased infinitely relative to its previous cost last I checked. I’m still getting a screaming deal though, nahmean?

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