I’m of the impression this is the same dynamics as seen in other competitive appealing activities where almost anybody can join and dream of becoming famous and rich, like starting a band or a YouTube channel, playing sports and - according to Freakonomics - drug dealing. The profit distribution is extremely skewed towards the top, leaving most of the participants with wages well below average.

Unfortunately, that list would be almost complete. It would be much easier (and realistic) to maintain its complement.

Steam link. Very positive reviews, sightly more than 10 bucks in the sale. Has not yet been cheaper.

You’re not paranoid, that’s what dead canary means.

Fuck subscriptions though.

Ha, you think this is to lower the budget or the price? Come on!

You mean ’apt’.

He also writes fiction, if you’re into that.

You can get it to work under linux, via Play on linux for example. It won’t be exactly integrated experience, but it works.

“Wherever means necessary” should not be available to corporations. I guess we agree as much.

In this case, yes.

Game developers employing psychologists to design systems to suck out money out of kids are a real problem, regardless of the context. Similar to advertisement targeted at children, but squared.

He was careful not to mention AI…

Aren’t the meetings pushed as one of the basic function of these? But I guess it only makes sense if most of the participants use them and software has the support.

Voice recognition is “AI“*, it even uses the same technical architecture as the most popular applications of AI - Artificial neural networks.

* - depending on the definition of course.

That’s “crowdsourced”, i.e. manually done by volunteers on per-video basis.

NY Times has a freaking great data visualisations, they are (were?) employing a wizard in this space, doing custom extensions on d3.js.

Or they go the WhatsApp way and offer users a free “online backup” of the data, unencrypted, turned on by default.

Oh no, I love Alice :( She just moved, relatively recently…

I guess I can finally stop reading RPS now.

Yes. Scary.

And before that, llms in many unexpected ways.

Ads were already there for years - for Facebook, TikTok, Candy Crush, and who knows what else.

I would say this is embarrassingly unprofessional, but the truth is this is just normal these days - normalized by Facebook and Android - and I’m just old and used to better software.

I switched to Linux the same year they appeared.