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Comment Re:Good. (Score 1) 93

It's not just on airplanes. People using the speaker on their devices in public places like coffee shops, restaurants, movie theaters, etc., have become an extreme, difficult to avoid annoyance. I don't want to hear someone's conversation, the music they like, or whatever rage-filled commentator they're addicted to. It's an aggressive intrusion into my sonic space, and I'd like to see rules made against it and enforced.

It gets even worse. People are literally watching videos on their phone in stalls at my office. Regularly. I don't want to be hearing your pundit's analysis of last night's sportsball game while relieving my bladder or bowels. And the worst part is, I've heard multiple different feeds at the same time, so it's not just one bad apple.

Comment Re: i believed it's called (Score 1) 93

Except, based on Reddit, many of the people canceling were canceling their FREE ChatGPT accounts. I found that funny. If anything, a free account was hurting the company as much as a $20/mo account was benefiting them.

Yes and no. Remember that those free accounts are also feeding the beast in the process. Not sure how much of that is beneficial material, but with how voracious an appetite LLMs have, every little bit counts.

Now, if there were a lot of free ones poisoning the well...those hurt the company probably as much as a $20/month account helps.

Comment Re:Great Author Dies (Score 2) 17

It's a bit surprising to me that the author of one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time dies and he gets about 15 comments on the Slashdot post. I guess if he had had more than a million book sales, then he would have been better known.

Worth noting that many (myself included) won't read /. over the weekend. Personally, I only am on /. during workdays as something to do in between real work tasks, and I imagine there's a decent number of posters that are like me in that regard.

I only read Hyperion two or three years ago. It was a very heady book, but well written and I was appreciative of the recommendation (I think I even got it from a different /. thread). RIP.

Comment Re:New American Revolutionaries take note... (Score 1) 45

I watch a shitload of YouTube and Twitch, and I've heard his name mentioned but still don't really know who he is. What's his normal content look like? Gaming? Chatting? Deep dives?

My girlfriend is a huge fan of his. I'd never heard of him until I met her. Though, his most watched video is embarrassing to him (sorry Markiplier), most of his videos are game playthroughs with his commentary and the like, often leaning towards psychological thriller/horror games, but then things like Overcooked or the like, too. If memory serves, once he did his playthrough of Iron Lung, the developer saw a noticeable uptick in sales.

His second most watched video was equally bad.

GF and I went to see the movie in the theater a couple towns over on opening weekend because it was one of the first 60 theaters to announce they'd be carrying it. Never mind that there were two closer, better theaters airing it, we wanted to support the one that was committed to it earlier. The worst part about the movie, to me, was the projector in said theater had a small whine (probably in the neighborhood of 80 dB) and the subwoofers seemed to be either off or there was no LFE to the mix (which would surprise me).

Comment Re:But why? (Score 2) 32

There are lots of SQL already floating out there. Why did Google feel the need to add yet another to the mix? Does GoogleSQL genuinely offer benefits over others out there, or is it just not-invented-here syndrome?

I know nothing about GoogleSQL/ZetaSQL, but its description from its GitHub page describes it as an, "Analyzer Framework for SQL."

Furthermore, if you read TFS, you'd know this is not a new project, merely just a new name. There are easily references to its previous name (ZetaSQL) dating back beyond 2020 (a few that I quickly found dating back to 2014), so they're not, "add[ing] yet another to the mix."

Comment Re:Dupe? (Score 1) 33

I think this may be the first time I've seen a dupe immediately following the duplicated story. Unless there is something remarkable about Trump announcing something before the company involved gets a chance to comment on it.

There was an hour and 8 minutes between postings! Back when I first started coming to /. that was plenty of time for proper comments (and goatse and Natalie Portman and grits)!

Comment Honestly, not surprised (Score 3, Interesting) 22

Bose* sees themselves as a research organization that funds its research through sale of audio equipment. There's some evidence of that being the case (though there is more evidence of them being litigious jerks). As such, I'm not surprised to find out that Bose open sourced APIs for discontinued product.

* Bose, has, over the years had multiple divisions within the company itself, but, from my limited understanding, recently spun off a couple of the manufacturing divisions into independent companies that license Bose's patents and namesake. Thus a number of product name changes (a prime example being Bose Professional's MA12s, previously named Bose Professional Panaray MA12, because the Panaray trademark is still held by Bose, proving that even people who used to work with the company think it's overly litigious).

Comment Re:More chances to complete the merger with Netfli (Score 1) 31

While Trump personally would prefer the Ellisons, and maybe USoA regulators will aquice, in the rest of the (relevant) Jurisdictions WBD + Netflix has more chances chances to pass than WBD + Paramount Skydance

Think about it, the biggest overlap between WBD+Netflix is in streaming, with a smallish overlap in games (WBDs gamin g division is small, netflix's is ultra tiny), TV and movie production (WBD is big, netflix is mid), and catalogue (WBD is hugeand spans decades, netflixis small, and spans 3 lustres tops). Meanwhile, Netflix has no OtA or cable channels.

Meanwhile, paramunt has every-single-one of the things WBD has, and in comparable sizes... so, more overlap, bigger consolidation, less competition. The EU, UK, JP, BR and CR and CN, and more regulators around the planet will not like that one bit.

Except that's not what's being sold. Discovery Global, will house CNN and other cable channels. So the argument that Paramount already has a bunch of TV channels doesn't really amount to anything as the TV channels aren't part of the deal.

Therefore, frankly, the overlap of Netflix and HBO Max is what we're discussing here and that Venn diagram is a lot closer to a perfect circle whereas Paramount and HBO Max is more of a circle within a larger circle.

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