… the best kind of correct.

Are the new winners listed of the Indie Game Awards site?

I’m not going to uninstall or demand a refund, but I fully support the Indie Game Awards decision on this and will not refer to CO:E33 as a winner of any of the Indie Game Awards. I will still call it IMO the best JRPG in many years, but I thought that before it started receiving awards.

I hope this event serves to scare game studios of all sizes from the mere appearance of using AI at ANY scale or part of the process. Hell, I hope it causes the whole damn bubble to burst, but it’s just not that important.

Enshittification will continue until morale improves.

The first one does tell you how to “completely remove Gemini from your smartphone” under that heading. I do not have the Gemini app installed.

The second one says:

Can you fully disable Gemini on Android?

No, and that’s by design. While you can turn off activity tracking, revoke permissions, and even uninstall the Gemini app on some devices, Google is actively replacing its Assistant app with Gemini.

But, I’ve also disabled Google Assistant across all applications, so I don’t share data with Gemini/Assistant. I had to lose some features to do so.

Overall, your reply serves to confirm for me that I have disabled Gemini on both of my Android devices. Still, I appreciate the links!

Honestly, it wouldn’t surprise me either way. There IS a lot of telemetry and other BS that is definitely still on my phone, included in OS updates, and not uninstallable (I can “uninstall updates”, but that would also give me back any security issues). But, I don’t think that it is Gemini, or at least predates that naming convention.

To get free of Google telemetry, I’d have to install a non-Google ROM, and I haven’t ever tried that.

Telemetry certainly can be abused, and Google should be legally (by regulation) required to provide a simple opt-out. BUT, telemetry really is a fairly normal thing to include in “web-scale” deployments and is primarily used to discover issues that have escaped into production without affecting a testing environment–or, at least, that what the telemetry systems I’ve interacted with as an software developer were for. So, I’m not too worried about non-personalized data collection.

EDIT: I confirmed that Google says I have no Gemini activity to delete, so while I’m sure my phone is reporting stuff, it’s not to Gemini.

Do you have some sort of evidence for this claim?

I’ve lost features that used to work without Gemini, but I believe it is disabled on both my Pixel 7 Pro and the Pixel 8 I have access to.

When submissively fearing, I constantly duplicate living issues.

When creating duplicates, I live in constant fear of submitting issues.

Possible dup? https://feddit.org/comment/9969130

Depending on the year model of the car, it might not make that sound. It wasn’t required on some of the earlier EVs, which could be eerily quiet. I believe it’s required by law on newer models. Pre-2016 Volts has a “pedestrian horn button”; 2016 and newer Volts play a noise continuously as lower speeds. (My Uncle says it sounds like the warp drive hum on the original Star Trek Enterprise.)

Rice’s Theorem prevents this… mostly.

I do believe she eventually grows to the age of consent, but I could be wrong.

Of course, I was saying “only female” is Sassette erasure. I was not saying “only mating prospect” is Sassette erasure.

I was just remembering her from my childhood. I wasn’t up on my Sassette lore. I found a reference that says she was created the same way Smurfette was, which surprised me.

This is Sassette erasure and I won’t stand for it! /s

I don’t think copyright is currently serving it’s purpose “To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts”. And it should be eliminated anywhere it is not doing that.

Closest to my pocketbook is software (I’m a programmer), and I think we’d almost certainly be better off without copyright of any kind on software. It would mean exercise of some of our freedom around software would have to be implemented via reverse engineering, but it would make that route much more available / less risky for software that is current not Free Software. But, maybe I’m extra jaded because software is almost always done as “work-for-hire” so the author doesn’t actually hold the copyright, the Capitalist employer does.

I will support the elimination of copyright. But, as long as copyright exists, I will reject and resist AI.

That said, there are a number of other reasons I think AI sucks, it’s not limited to copyright.

I agree that John was the problem, but I think it was management responsibly to fix. Either through some coaching or as you say, before he became business-critical.

It could happen that way. More often, the company can’t or won’t get them back.

“A methodology and activities associated with running […] an organization” – https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/politics

Any organizational decision is politics, including but not limited to a group of people organizing a pizza meal.

http://blog.sigfpe.com/2006/08/you-could-have-invented-monads-and.html

It’s a “programmable semicolon” or “decorated-function composition”. I think most people that are confused about it, are trying to make it be more meaningful than it is. Haskell (?) just grabbed a math name so they’d have one word for it, because it’s a useful class name there.