Amongst other things, yes.

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Activision User Research Union-CWA is the first group of video game user researchers to form a union

So what exactly about their users do they research?

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Man, this current age of AI really sucks.

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From the article …

GNOME sysadmin Bart Piotrowski shared on Mastodon that only about 3.2 percent of requests (2,690 out of 84,056) passed their challenge system, suggesting the vast majority of traffic was automated.

Great to hear! Way overdue. That industry really needs some of those protections.

From the article …

The launch will be formally announced at the 2025 Game Developer Conference in San Francisco, Calif., the world’s largest industry event for video game professionals, where workers will be joined by other CWA members to launch this powerful new organization.

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From the article…

Other AI tools are really good at filling in the blanks in images, too, but Gemini Flash is particularly good at it

Other AI models can do this too, but you have to be a bit smarter about how you ask about it. As Verge highlights, Anthropic’s latest Claude model, and OpenAI’s GPT 4o will refuse to alter watermarked images. We can confirm that when you add copyright-protected images to Microsoft Office applications, its Copilot and Design tools will refuse to modify them directly.

From the article…

Surprisingly, premium paid versions of these AI search tools fared even worse in certain respects. Perplexity Pro ($20/month) and Grok 3’s premium service ($40/month) confidently delivered incorrect responses more often than their free counterparts.

Though these premium models correctly answered a higher number of prompts, their reluctance to decline uncertain responses drove higher overall error rates.

From the article …

And, though newly retired, he knew that he had to do something. He showed up at EFF’s front door in early 2006 with a simple question: “Do you folks care about privacy?” We did. And what Mark told us changed everything.

The article is a good read, short. Worth your time.

And Mr. Klein, if you’re out there, thank you for your service. /heart-to-chest-salute

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moonlets

Are those regular moons, or ‘minor’ moons?

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God damn why’s the world so shit

Society empowers and encourages shitty people that only care about their own kind/tribe, is why.

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Well, if there was any doubt before, with the weird ToS p.r. dance they were doing last week, now we know, for sure.

I’ve already switched to LibreWolf on the desktop. Is there a good non-Firefox browser for Android available?

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Was quick browsing for openwrt and found the banana pi r3.

One thing that surprised me when I was looking to upgrade my old router ith OpenWRT is if a firmware for your router supports ALL of the features/hardware of that router. In my case, Wifi support was not supported, so I had to disregard using OpenWRT as a choice.

So be sure to look carefully at the firmware that you find. I personally had just thought that if a firmware exists for your hardware that all of the major (but maybe not minor) features would be supported, and that is not always the case.

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A fur/stump time paradox would occur.

EDIT: Yikes! Hey, at least I tried. Not everyone can make cool meme pics.

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Elaborate? Your comment seems nonsensical?

This was a good read, thank you for doing this!

As far as the shutdown of the Epic game Dauntless, was any reason given for the shutdown?

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Either involuntary AI generated pornography is wrong or it isn’t.

Agree. Laws have to be applied evenly, or else they are not Laws.

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Whomever runs that website should try opening that page using the DuckDuckGo Firefox Android mobile browser. It needs some work.

From the article…

But while many think that YouTube’s system isn’t great, Trendacosta also said that she “can’t think of a way to build the match technology” to improve it, because “machines cannot tell context.” Perhaps if YouTube’s matching technology triggered a human review each time, “that might be tenable,” but “they would have to hire so many more people to do it.”

That’s what it comes down to, right there.

Google needs to spend money on people, and not just rely on the AI automation, because it’s obviously getting things wrong, its not judging context correctly.

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As an individual, for comments of two sentences each, this is not an option.

My content is usually more than a sentence or two.

Also, it puts a stake in the ground for any future enforcement done by others than myself if laws change.

Its a low-hanging-fruit way of protecting my content. If it works, great, and if it doesn’t, then I’ll vote for someone else for Congress the next time.

I’ve wasted more time replying on this single conversation/post than I have copy/pasting the link in all of my comments so far.

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