Betaverse
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"The thing that I think I sort of missed there, though, is there’s a different loop around how people interact with discovered content," Zuckerberg said.
The thing that I think you sort of missed there is nobody wants your stupid 3D meta-blinders, because it's a shit idea.
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Zuckerberg's personal fortune has shrunk, falling from $125 billion in January to $49.1 billion
Oh no! I’m sure he’ll be spotted at a food bank soon. Poor man.
It does indicate how much of the valuation is just inflated, unfounded expectations though.
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@Gurth That comic is unrealistic, Zuckerberg is showing way too much emotion.
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@Gurth That comic is unrealistic, Zuckerberg is showing way too much emotion.
Dunno, he gets real animated when there's a solar storm, what with the cries for help and claims of being controlled from afar.
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@Gurth That comic is unrealistic, Zuckerberg is showing way too much emotion.
It's in the Betaverse. It's easy for them to add it.
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Zuckerberg's personal fortune has shrunk, falling from $125 billion in January to $49.1 billion
Oh no! I’m sure he’ll be spotted at a food bank soon. Poor man.
Yes, this is terrible. He only has enough money to last 9,000 lifetimes.
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@Applied-Mediocrity dunno, isn't comparison to Sweden the sociological equivalent of multiplying by zero?
dividing
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Slashdot since the blog seems down.
Either way, Meta should considering rehiring Palmer Luckey. He seems to have a few very good ideas for their Metaverse efforts. (Though apparently the original idea is from some sort of anime -- but I agree, small explosive charges seem like a more pragmatic choice compared to trying to microwave people's brains.)
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Slashdot since the blog seems down.
Either way, Meta should considering rehiring Palmer Luckey. ... small explosive charges seem like a more pragmatic choice compared to trying to microwave people's brains.)
Yeah, kinda blocked on getting the mesh load to expand right, but we'll make launch, don't worry. Even if we have to pivot down to pellets. If marketing didn't insist on forehead entry this'd be a lot easier.
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FIFA, Qatar, and the betaverse? Talk about the holy trinity of DIAF.
What’s next? Virtual tours of Chinese concentration camps?
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@HardwareGeek said in Betaverse:
Not the Bee said in Betaverse:
Is it just me
No.
It's just the onebox. The full quote is
Is it just me or is this whole metaverse thing kinda lame?
Oh, it's not just me…
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Commercial for this observed in the wild. It looks like Celebrity The Sims with nothing to do but face-have. Uncanny valley is at the "Polar Express" point.
Surely someone in marketing knows this can't work? But, on reflection, it's even sadder if they do
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id like to believe that it will spell Doom on the whole thing
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Carmack said we should be wary of "architecture astronauts" who do a lot of high-level hand-waving instead of building viable products that customers find useful.
One of us! One of us!
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@Applied-Mediocrity I can kind of forgive Carmack for the whole VR nonsense,1 at least more than anybody else, because considering his career it was a very natural thing for him to work on.
That this thing became part of Facebook’s bullshit instead of a gaming platform where it belongs, he probably blissfully ignored. But the whole betaverse crap… oh boy.The hilarious part is really what they did with billions of dollar budget. Over all those years, Carmack could’ve probably built something less garbage than “Zuck now with legs” just by himself in his basement, instead of as CTO.
1 Beware of possible fanboy bias
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“Zuck now with legs”(*)
(*) Work in progress. Kinda. Maybe.
Or did they actually get that working?
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@cvi
What? Zuck or legs?
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@Luhmann Yes.
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@boomzilla what’s the chances they actually drank the KoolAid vs. someone taking a big bribe from Facebook to “sponsor” this?
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@topspin ¿Por que no los dos?
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what’s the chances they actually drank the KoolAid
Drinking Kool-Aid in South America can be hazardous. I don't recommend it.
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@HardwareGeek said in Betaverse:
what’s the chances they actually drank the KoolAid
Drinking Kool-Aid in South America can be hazardous. I don't recommend it.
Ordered to drink poison
Kool-Aid
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A spokesperson told the BBC: "We're exploring a standalone decentralized social network for sharing text updates.
decentralised presumably for data-harvesting purposes.
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@loopback0 I guess they're welcome to stand up a Mastodon instance. Nobody else is stopping them.
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@loopback0 I guess they're welcome to stand up a Mastodon instance. Nobody else is stopping them.
Unless Mastodon is one of those FOSS movements that explicitly disclaim use of their software by big
evilcommercial companies.
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Unless Mastodon is one of those FOSS movements that explicitly disclaim use of their software by big
evilcommercial companies.That's an oxymoron. For a license to qualify as open-source it must not discriminate against any users or uses. See also https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/jsonevil.
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The problem
JSON package is licenced under a MIT license but with an additional infamous clause:
The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.
How to solve
Reimplement the code - done by the android team
Google - Do
NoEvilI see what you did there.
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@topspin actually I didn't even notice that, but it's a nice touch to the story.
Anyway, both Debian and FSF are quite clear that any clause like “may not be used in the military”, “may not be used in China”, “may not be used by Facebook” or similar disqualifies it from being considered FOSS.
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@topspin actually I didn't even notice that, but it's a nice touch to the story.
Anyway, both Debian and FSF are quite clear that any clause like “may not be used in the military”, “may not be used in China”, “may not be used by Facebook” or similar disqualifies it from being considered FOSS.
Yeah, then it's just sparking code.
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@Applied-Mediocrity And if it leans too far, it’ll fall over.
Let’s hope so.
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@Applied-Mediocrity And if it leans too far, it’ll fall over.
Let’s hope so.
I mean, they have like a million of employees which do, what, exactly? If Facebook didn’t have any developers at all and only did maintenance for the last few years, nobody would have noticed the difference.
They also have an army of developers for their betaverse shit, and the results are worse than what a 3 man indie game developer team could’ve crapped out in half the time.
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They also have an army of developers for their betaverse shit, and the results are worse than what a 3 man indie game developer team could’ve crapped out in half the time.
Time and time again it is shown that there is such a thing as too many developers and that overstaffed projects inevitably end as utter and complete mess.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Betaverse:
Meta to lay off another 10,000
Yay! Another reason to ignore the recruiters who keep pestering me about Meta jobs. Not that I need another reason; just being Meta is more than enough reason. It would actually be an interesting job (Occulus VR hardware), if it wasn't Meta. And if it wasn't in Kommiefornia.
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their betaverse shit
I had to delay the writing of this post to express my opinion of the betaverse. It was a strong opinion. I probably lost half a kilo.
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I mean, they have like a million of employees which do, what, exactly?
My bet: have all-hands meetings. They're one of the best ways of wasting the time of lots of people.
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I mean, they have like a million of employees which do, what, exactly?
My bet: have all-hands meetings. They're one of the best ways of wasting the time of lots of people.
I love all-hands meetings. But only because I work from home.
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I mean, they have like a million of employees which do, what, exactly?
My bet: have all-hands meetings. They're one of the best ways of wasting the time of lots of people.
I love all-hands meetings. But only because I work from home.
Best time for gaming.
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And now, those people are stuck in the metaverse with no way to get out?