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Steam doesn't control the region locks.

The publisher (Sony) is the one that makes changes to their store page which affects where it can be sold.

Most of their Devs quit because they didn't want to work on it: https://www.pcgamer.com/report-most-of-arkane-austins-prey-veterans-quit-during-redfalls-development-and-the-ones-that-stayed-hoped-microsoft-would-cancel-it/

Looks like someone setup a petition for Spitz to get rehired. https://www.change.org/p/re-hire-the-legendary-community-manager-general-spitz

Better/additional info here: https://www.gamesradar.com/games/third-person-shooter/helldivers-2-community-manager-seemingly-fired-after-encouraging-negative-reviews-over-now-canceled-psn-mandate-i-knew-i-was-taking-a-risk-with-what-i-said/

Spitz:

"Generally it's not a good idea to tell people to refund and leave negative reviews when you're a community manager. TIL," Spitz said. "I appreciate all the support and I appreciate even more that everyone can play the game again without restrictions. I knew I was taking a risk with what I said about refunding and changing reviews. I stand by it. It was my job to represent the community, that's what I did."

They added: "I wanted to work for Arrowhead because they're my all-time favorite studio. I got that chance. I'm thankful for that opportunity. I'd happily continue working for them if I had the choice, but that isn't up to me or anyone else in here. I can walk away happy and I don't want anyone causing trouble on my behalf, especially not to people I still have a lot of care and respect for."

This definitely sounds like Sony wanted them out and Arrowhead wanted them to stay.

Games made by the studios being closed:

So raytracing will be supported in iPad apps now...

So far the M4 seems to only be announced for the iPad.

It's worth pointing out that once Pokémon Go players found out about OSM, we saw a massive increase in new users as well as those contributing to OSM so that the maps would better reflect the areas they played in.

https//wwwresearchgate.net/publication/334378297\_How\_an\_augmented\_reality\_game\_Pokemon\_GO\_affected\_volunteer\_contributions\_to\_OpenStreetMap

Unfortunately there are always a few that will try to game any system. In this case they're essentially vandalizing OSM for their own selfish reasons.

Always support your public libraries, and watch out for companies that want to take this over:
https://fair.org/home/a-for-profit-company-is-trying-to-privatize-as-many-public-libraries-as-they-can/

It's a feature! Once you figure out how you did it, please let the rest of us know.

It's a minor thing but instead of sharing imgur links, post the image in Lemmy and share the URL to that.

I get that Louis is against Sponsorblock and his personal feelings and morals influence the direction of the software too.

Louis may be against sponsorblock, but sponsorblock is supported in Grayjay, so at least he's not letting his personal feelings get in the way too much of what his userbase wants.

I hope Louis does well in case they go up against Google. I just hope they get a good judge that has a decent understanding of how the tech works and how a decision one way or another will really affect everything.

My liege!

Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1747/

Right? I still have my brick and it still works fine... even after seeing how high I could throw it.

Tried to RMA a motherboard with Gigabyte and they will find any excuse to void the warranty.

This just happens if you're using a VPN.. notice how it says "login to your Reddit account"?

Switching to a good VPN server, or turning off the VPN will let you browse Reddit again.

Fun video. Awesome that he provided his workflow as well as the code on GitHub as well.

For anyone wanting to know what a big one sounds like for real:

• First you'll notice everything gets quiet (bugs, animals, etc).
• Second, dogs/coyotes/wolves all around will start barking simultaneously.
• Third, a low but strong and deep rumbling can be heard in the distance.
• Fourth, the rumbling increases until it hits you and then you hear everything falling to the ground: dishes flying out of their cabinets, books falling from shelves, decorations tumbling to the ground, the house creaking and groaning, or the earthquake-resistant devices at the base of a large structure will snap/bang if they haven't been stressed to this degree in a long time and have grown rusty.
• Fifth, the rumbling slowly subsides.

I mostly agree with what you've said except for this:

but what we're calling "AI" today is basically just a spell-checker on steroids,

That's only somewhat true if you're talking about LLMs like ChatGPT.

AI itself has become a much broader term than it used to be. There are a lot of different kinds of AI out there. Generative AI like text generation (LLMs), image generation (upscaling, or creating images from scratch), or music generation (Suno). Computer Vision is another kind which can include image recognition, object detection, facial recognition, etc. And there are others beyond this.

The AI we're talking about here falls more under Computer Vision for AI which includes image recognition. In this case the machine learning model has been trained on massive amounts of images like MRIs or CT scans.