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  • irate944@piefed.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harderEnglish
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    8 days ago

    My company forced us to use only Chrome on our PC’s and one of the things I was worried about was the ads. I put youtube in the background while I work.

    And I was surprised by how… My experience was exactly the same as Firefox and Brave. Ok, actually, one or two ads managed to slip through and appeared in the front page - albeit rarely and randomly - but I never got those ads at the beginning of the video. On other websites, I never got ads.

    I was wondering, then, if there was some catch. Maybe the trackers would still get through or something. But according to that link, not even that? lol

  • irate944@piefed.socialtoPC Gaming@lemmy.ca•"The launcher sucks, let's call it what it is," Epic Game Store boss [Steven Allison] says, promising a year of big improvements to speed, new "forum-type" social features, moreEnglish
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    10 days ago

    There was a recent article about a dev saying that when their games was given for free on Epic, it increased their sales. But not on Epic Store… They increased on Steam…

    The problem with Epic is that they were with the wrong assumption that people will “just” migrate to a new launcher. You might be able to attract new players that don’t have any baggage, but older ones with games on Steam, you’ll need to climb the Everest to convince them.

    That task would already be hard even if your platform had 100% parity in features with Steam. But it isn’t, it lacks basic features that Steam has for years, so I’m not sure what they were thinking that giving free games would be enough (and I’m not saying this in hindsight, I’ve been saying this ever since they launched Epic Store)

    GOG manages to get by because they offer something different. As long they offer DRM-free games, they will always have an audience. Steam can’t compete with that, unless some day they decide to do the same. So GOG will always have a place in the market.

    Epic on the other hand, is picking a fight with Steam, on Steam’s territory, with Steam’s rules. It could be a David vs Goliath story except David doesn’t even have a sling or a stone.

  • irate944@piefed.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world•How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skillsEnglish
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    14 days ago

    I would love to read an independent study on this, but this is from Anthropic (the guys that make Claude) so it’s definitely biased.

    Speaking for myself, I’ve been using LLM’s to help out with jumps in small gaps of knowledge. Like for example, I know what I need to do, I just don’t know/remember the specific functions or libraries that I need to do that in Python. LLM is extremely useful for these moments; and it’s faster than searching and asking on forums. And to be transparent, I did learn a few tricks here and there.

    But if someone lets the LLM do most of the work - like vibe coders - I doubt they will learn anything.