Comment Re:Adventures in bad reading (Score 1) 77

by jsepeta on Friday July 31, 2026 @03:04PM (#66266654) Attached to: LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button

well, actually...

Comment Re:China wins (Score 1) 91

by jsepeta on Thursday July 30, 2026 @10:06AM (#66264274) Attached to: Who Wins and Who Loses After US Bans Foreign Robots?

Absolutely stupid policy. My former employer bought Fanuc robots from Japan and they were the best-of-breed. If you want to support small American businesses, give them access to the best-of-breed technology. If Chinese produces more advanced robots, then American businesses should be allowed to implement them. If American robotics companies are to succeed, they'll need to be more innovative.

Comment Fox buys Roku; raises prices to pay for acquisitn (Score 1) 13

by jsepeta on Friday July 24, 2026 @11:33PM (#66255778) Attached to: Roku Raises Prices of Streaming Devices By Up To 60%

https://newsroom.roku.com/news...

Just like vulture capitalists: buy a company, extrude the value, sell it for parts.

Comment This is still a terrible deal (Score 1) 20

by jsepeta on Friday July 24, 2026 @11:29PM (#66255770) Attached to: Paramount Agrees to Postpone Warner Bros. Merger Until June 2027

these mergers should not happen at any time.

Comment it's 2026. who buys software on cd's? (Score 0) 60

by jsepeta on Thursday July 23, 2026 @08:48PM (#66254176) Attached to: Sony's Decision To Ditch Discs Was Practically Inevitable, Data Shows

It's not 1999 and no normal computers ship with integrated CD-ROM drives anymore. So why is it a big deal for the Playstation user base? Most games require gigabytes of DLC anyways. And having a CD doesn't mean that they won't simply shut down the server that's hosting your game.

Comment Paypal needs higher fees (Score 3, Funny) 50

by jsepeta on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @01:25PM (#66240026) Attached to: Stripe, Advent Offer to Buy PayPal For More Than $53 Billion

that's what's missing from their business offerings

Comment Market Capture (Score 1) 27

by jsepeta on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @01:23PM (#66240016) Attached to: Google DeepMind Calls For US To Spearhead AI Standards Body

Let's have the leading developers of AI control the gateways to AI legislation as a competitive advantage against their corporate foes.

Comment Codex Micro announced today, not a speaker (Score 1) 106

by jsepeta on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @01:21PM (#66240008) Attached to: OpenAI's First Device Will Be Moveable, Screenless Speaker Built as AI Companion

https://openai.com/supply/co-l...

Comment It's almost as if they have too much money (Score 2) 105

by jsepeta on Monday July 13, 2026 @11:56AM (#66236274) Attached to: 'Billionaire Exodus? California Drew 10x More Venture Capital Than Any Other State This Year'

wait, Billionaires *do* have too much money

Comment We're not allowed to have good things (Score 1) 123

by jsepeta on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @04:28PM (#66227312) Attached to: FCC To End Biden-Era Rule That Forces ISPs To List All Their Fees

VERBOTTEN!

Comment Re:Does this mean fewer animated GIFs in chats? (Score 1) 18

by geminidomino on Monday July 06, 2026 @11:46AM (#66225026) Attached to: Google Pulls the Plug On Tenor API, Killing GIF Pickers Around the Web

And for some reason, Discord went to Klipy...?

Comment Every cop is a criminal (Score 1) 97

by jsepeta on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @02:18PM (#66206250) Attached to: Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock's Cameras to Stalk People

And all the sinners, saints - Mick Jagger

Comment after researching how to make your kids addicted (Score 1) 106

by jsepeta on Friday June 19, 2026 @06:36PM (#66201198) Attached to: Meta Lobbies Congress For Protection From Child-Harm Lawsuits

Nice try, Zuck. No one should respect this mofo, nor trust him with the care of their children.

Comment this happens with every Republican President (Score 2) 174

by jsepeta on Monday June 15, 2026 @01:35PM (#66193774) Attached to: IT Workers Are Now Struggling to Find Work, as 'Picky' Companies Demand AI Skills

I don't have a solution for this, but maybe we need to tax millionaires and billionaires out of existance until we figure out this "full employment" thing.

Comment seems suspicious (Score 2) 54

by jsepeta on Friday June 12, 2026 @06:32PM (#66189330) Attached to: Justice Department Approves Paramount's $111 Billion Acquisition of Warner Bros.

at some point, people will learn that mergers = layoffs and an eventual lack of choice for customers.