I doubt that, will China be a better Hegemon? They could collapse too though, who knows. I guess it’s not completely impossible.
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Technology@beehaw.org•OpenAI is discontinuing GPT-4o, GPT-4.1 and o4-mini in ChatGPT
2·3 days agoThe free version of Gemini is incomparably better then chatGpt in a great many tasks including coding. I expect it increasingly doesn’t matter what they do in the free tier.
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Gaming@beehaw.org•More than half of gamedev professionals see GenAI as harmful, according to GDC’s latest survey
31·4 days agoIt’s a logical conclusion of the present situation. No one will pay for grass or asphalt textures, when genai can produce more variety than any human asset artist ever could. In coding it’s a more complicated situation, but for certain tasks it’s almost dumb not to use ai. Even of you don’t use it to actually write code it’s still helpful to a varying degree.
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Science@beehaw.org•Audiophiles Can't Differentiate Audio Signals Sent Through Copper, Banana, and Mud in Blind Test
5·6 days agoMy experience with cables is that they do matter, especially on the interconnect side, but price has very little to do with the perceived difference in fidelity or sound signature.
As for interference and shielding, yes this can indeed make a difference, but it’s rarely an issue unless we are trying to measure the noise floor, or using a really weirdly balanced levels. (like very quiet source attached to an amp that is cranked to max)
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Technology@beehaw.org•Europeans set to launch an alternative to X. It’s called W
2·16 days agothat will kill the project in the cradle
One Plus always has been an oppo sub brand and they have stopped being relevant a long time ago.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Dutch students create modular electric car "you can repair yourself"
4·29 days agoYou all are correct that in the current climate automotive manufacturers would never allow something like this get on the market at large.
However 2-3 decades down the line, when car owners have gotten a reality check about the longevity of current & probably worse near future cars, the market demand could reach a point where people would give a simple repairable electric car a really good go and by simple I mean genuinely as simple as possible for an electric car.
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Technology@beehaw.org•YouTube's long unskippable ads may have finally met their match
1·29 days agoApple’s side loading is just EU as far as I know.
Apple’s sideloading is somewhere between a ridiculously off the mark compromise they’ve lobbied for and malicious noncompliance.
Doing so is against the Discord TOS, but it’s basically running a Tamper Monkey script. I did this twice to delete all the messages I’ve sent to my ex.
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Gaming@beehaw.org•Does Nintendo ban Nintendo accounts opening up eshop from a hacked 3DS / 2DS?
4·1 month agoThere is no certainty in these things, Nintendo could always do a big fuck you banwave many years later. Though you are probably fine.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Woman felt 'dehumanised' after Musk's Grok AI used to digitally remove her clothes
72·1 month agoAi makes photoshopping trivially easy, so of course now this is bigger problem than before. This is not going to go away, so society will adapt. Humans can live perfectly fine in the jungle not covering up their unmentionables, so in a few decades this will be a non issue I would guess.
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Gaming@beehaw.org•Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games, but Attitudes Vary by Gender, Age, and Gaming Motivations.
21·2 months agoI’m pretty sure that you could make a realistic game where all plants & buildings etc use AI generated textures & no one would ever notice. Basic assets like these can be generated very well with great variety & this has never been art. Some people just grabbed a camera & took photos of bricks, houses & plants on the street & in the wild & then uploaded their work to an asset store.
Anyway compared to AI assisted game development there are so many worse things in the industry. Like gacha mobile games or denuvo. Also I think people are super naive to think that studios above a certain size (like 20 employees) would even be able to make games without using AI at all. There would be always at least 1 employee that would find ways to speed up their work in secret, typically way more than just one.
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Technology@beehaw.org•Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It
5·2 months agoYou can just buy second hand an aging android phone for this task, €50 gets you something usable for basic entertainment purposes.
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Gaming@beehaw.org•Publisher reveals and immediately cancels new Postal game after fans accuse it of using AI generation
3·2 months agoIt’s pretty much guaranteed that many AAA games out over the past 2 years had AI generated elements. Though finding these is not plausible. Telling about separate grass or tile textures if they are AI generated or taken from the asset store, or god forgive Ai generated assets taken from the asset store is basically impossible.
Alternatively imagine if an artist draws a concept art of an in game item & then uses image generation for creating the actual game assets. How will anyone find out?
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Gaming@beehaw.org•Publisher reveals and immediately cancels new Postal game after fans accuse it of using AI generation
1·2 months agodeleted by creator
If they started doing what you are implying with the current level of their Ai, then they could file for bankruptcy a few months later. Serving clearly marked, but super well aimed ads is their best bet right now I would think.
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Humanities & Cultures@beehaw.org•Do male teachers make a difference? Not as much as some think
11·2 months agoI had more male teachers then most and it may be a small sample of 30 vs 20, but still I have the impression that women are just better at teaching in general…
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Technology@beehaw.org•Apple projected to surpass Samsung as global smartphone shipments leader
4·2 months agoWith the dumpster fire that is ios 26, perhaps it won’t happen.
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Operating Systems@beehaw.org•Are there any operating systems with devs that don't have a history of openly abusing others?
3·3 months agoHumans are generally quite awful & even the kindest nicest people are terrible sometimes. Put together hundreds of humans & It’s guaranteed some of them will be awful+ & drama is guaranteed even if everyone is above average nice, so no there is no such usable operating system.


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