Didn’t Ubisoft layoff 45 people in April, and then 100+ people before last Christmas? Sure that’s not Google/Microsoft numbers, but I’m struggling to see how that’s not related to the “reducing headcount” here.

They’ve also had a bunch of games cease production/get quietly cancelled, and if there were contractors working on those instead of full employees, those wouldn’t count as “layoffs”.

Edit: Apr. 2024: Ubi lays off 45.

Nov. 2023: Ubi lays off 124 people, 98 in Canada

Sept. 2023 - they closed their London studio and 60 positions were “affected” (they never said if they were let go or redistributed within the company)

May 2023: Ubi Lays off 60 people

Lina Khan, the current chair of the FTC, seems to have a history with anti-trust legal research and seems to actively care about pursuing anti-competitive industries.

I truly wish her all the best in this regulatory captured mess.

Wish granted: You’ll get it on Disney+

Japanese companies and doing everything via fax machines.

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Undergraduate me: GIVE ME THE CUM LAUDE

Post-grad me: Please sir, I just want the fancy piece of paper.

Google doesn’t sell your data because they don’t need to. They take the data and use something called Real Time Bidding that also skirts GDPR and data protection laws/best practices.

People in this thread are really showing their ass about how little they know about how their data is actually being collected and protected. Sure, Proton isn’t 100% private, but to say Proton and Gmail are on the same levels of consumer protection is hilarious.

RUNNING IPAD OS?? Apple what is happening 😭

Why is a company called “Moroccan Oil” from Israel? I feel like they should be from…somewhere else.

Benefits how? I feel like gaming is going to become like the startup sector where companies create something to specifically get acquired by a big company.

Like it’s becoming so prevalent for these big gaming publishers to vacuum up IP and sit on it, it’s just the Disney-fication of gaming.

Paris looks like Vaultboy’s cousin in this

I see a lot of my friends actually use Bing through ChatGPT, and they seem to get better results than Google. That might be what Microsoft is actually optimizing Bing for

If you have any tips or tricks for DDG please do share! I’m definitely getting better overall results there, but the local ones can still be a bit rough.

No because it is not available in their country, and making an account with a region different from your Steam account would have inherent EULA risks.

I play with a couple of friends in the Baltics. I have PSN. There is no PSN in the Baltics. So I guess I can’t play with the friends I solely bought this game for.

Just because it doesn’t affect you doesn’t mean it’s silly to complain about this.

I mean they’re trying to ban it because they don’t want American social media data in China’s or hostile 3rd party hands.

The hypocrisy comes from the fact that they won’t regulate the Silicon Valley social media companies the same way. Cambridge Analytica (now Emerdata) wasn’t Chinese, they were British. The fact that tech giants like Meta are looking to buy Tiktok in order to stop the ban should also be something to raise eyebrows at.

I’m not for or against Tiktok, btw, I see it as a tool for study. From a professional standpoint, it’s algorithm is fascinating, especially as so much other social media is getting more and more enshitified. And a lot of people who don’t use it don’t realize how tailored it can based on their usage. Scary stuff, but also shows an effective use of user data compared to other sites like Instagram or YouTube’s algorithms.

There’s a Tiktok account (yes, boo hiss tomato, etc) that makes AI generated music, and the country songs are indistinguishable from actual country songs on the radio until you listen to the lyrics.

There was one where the lyrics were something like “thinking about corn/gun up my butt” that I still think about…

Haha, yea, I wasn’t born in the right decade on the right continent to know about this, so I had a really good time learning about something new!

The only reason I even know about the Yellowstone caldera eruption zone is because my American cousin once told me about it in the form of a horror story when we were both younger, and I started crying because I thought the world was going to end while we were visiting Connecticut, lol.

Thank you, I just read the Wikipedia summary of the event, and I can’t believe this isn’t even as big as the “Big One” everyone talks about for Yellowstone.

Where is this from?? Is this AI?