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Rob T Firefly
Nerd of all trades from New York City.
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Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•World's first GPS-free quantum navigation trial succeeds at seaEnglish
543·16 days agoThe trouble with Quantum Navigation is you might end up where you were trying to go, but at a random point in the past where you have to change history to put right something that once went wrong.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Sovereign Tech Agency Invests €500k in FlatpakEnglish
4·16 days agoI’m not sure what I’m replying in regards to. I think I just wanted to be part of this.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Sony Reminds PS Users They Don't Own Digital GamesEnglish
21·22 days agolicense to play or use the Software for your private, non-commercial use
Does “non-commercial” mean all those people who make money by playing games on a monetized livestream, posting monetized gameplay videos, or playing e-sports for prizes are filthy pirates?
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•EA staff fear new Saudi Arabia owners will police their games: "Projects just won't get signed because they don't align explicitly with what the Saudi government wants"English
2·22 days agoYou’re not wrong, but I feel like there are subtle levels to these things.
If I start up a game and a logo comes up for Namco or Square Enix or whatever, most of them don’t make me think, “oh, I remember that time their owners assassinated a journalist, it made the international news, and they fully got away with it anyway.” That’s no longer the case for an EA logo.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•EA staff fear new Saudi Arabia owners will police their games: "Projects just won't get signed because they don't align explicitly with what the Saudi government wants"English
2·23 days agoIt’s just adding a new layer to the mix when the people at the top are literally the royal family of an oppressive monarchy with openly fucked human rights practices.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•How a joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfareEnglish
14·26 days agoThey say “military intelligence” is a contradiction in terms.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•DuckDuckGo Is Selling Anti Pervert Glasses That Contain Zero AI, Cameras, or Even Electronics WhatsoeverEnglish
31·1 month agoI like this idea, but they are announcing cheapish sunglasses for sale during the height of sunny summer with an estimated ship date of late November. That seems like a slight miscalculation.
EDIT: I’m an idiot, and other places exist. Thank you multiple commenters for pointing out the flaw in my thought here!
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•SpaceX has bought $329M worth of Tesla Megapacks so far this yearEnglish
12·1 month agoWhile playing catch by myself with the squishy stress ball on my desk, I declared my left hand was charging my right hand $1M for the ball and my right hand was throwing it back to my left and charging $1M for it in kind.
So, according to these metrics I’ve sold $400M worth of stress ball to myself today. Alert my shareholders!
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•PricewaterhouseCoopers just got caught trying to pass AI slop as authentic researchEnglish
7·1 month agoAnd of course TechSpot posts this very story illustrated with an AI slop picture of a guy with a robot, because no human could possibly draw such a thing for them.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 monthsEnglish
12·2 months ago“I do assure you, Mrs. Buttle, the Ministry is very scrupulous about following up and eradicating any error. But if you do have any complaints you wish to make, I’d be, well, only too happy to send you the appropriate forms.”
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft responds to LG monitors installing McAfee ads on WindowsEnglish
211·2 months ago🌎 🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•George Lucas Goes To The Dark Side, Says AI Is ‘The Future’English
5·2 months agoMaybe an AI can read the story too, and they can all leave me the fuck out of it.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•George Lucas Goes To The Dark Side, Says AI Is ‘The Future’English
71·2 months agoCrap-looking Special Edition Jabba has awkwardly entered the chat.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Don’t ExistEnglish
2·2 months agoDo you want Little Shop of Horrors? Because this is how you get Little Shop of Horrors!
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Waterloo City Hall abandons X. Says the platform is 'not a welcoming space'English
4·3 months agoWaterloo, got off of X 'cause they needed to
Waterloo, Elon’s hellsite is too shit for you
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Streaming services’ obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in CaliforniaEnglish
4·3 months agoI worked on a crew that took lots of long interstate drives when “We Like to Party” by the Vengaboys was a big radio hit. Every time that goddamned horn blasted in that song when we were on the road, we all frantically looked around to see the big truck that was about to kill us only to realize it was just the stupid Vengabus.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•I visited Meta's metaverse on the day it was supposed to shut down. I ended up in a horribly designed car park with no cars, for a restaurant that can sell no foodEnglish
26·3 months agoThis article was written by award-winning verifiably-human journalist James Ball.
The image is credited to Benny Douet, a human professional illustrator with a legit body of work which stylistically matches said image.
By all means call out slop when it appears, but this isn’t it.
Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots. Sci-fi author/tech journalist Cory Doctorow on his new book, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI.English
151·3 months agoTop tip: Getting computer-generated wrong answers in Chinese is just as useful as getting computer-generated wrong answers in English.
You don’t even have to read Chinese!

Of course you do.