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[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

oh dear god

Razer claims that its AI can identify 20 to 25 percent more bugs compared to manual testing, and this can reduce QA time by up to 50 percent as well as cost savings of up to 40 percent

as usual this is probably going to be only the simplest shit, and I don’t even want to think of the secondary downstream impacts from just listening to this shit without thought will be

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago

Marginally related, but I was just served a YouTube ad for chewing gum (yes, I'm too lazy to setup ad block).

"Respawn, by Razer. They didn't have gaming gum at Pompeii, just saying."

I think I felt part of my frontal lobe die to that incomprehensible sales pitch, so you all must be exposed to it as well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

Well the use of stuff like fuzzers has been a staple for a long time so 'compared to manual testing' is doing some work here.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 17 hours ago

If I had to judge Razer’s software quality based on what little I know about them, I’d probably raise my eyebrows because they ship some insane 600+ MiB driver with a significant memory impact with their mice and keyboards that’s needed to use basic features like DPI buttons and LED settings, when the alternative to that is a 900 kiB open source driver which provides essentially the same functionality.

And now their answer to optimization is to staple a chatbot onto their software? I think I pass.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't this what got crowdstrike in trouble?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago

not quite the same but I can see potential for a similar clusterfuck from this

also doesn’t really help how many goddamn games are running with rootkits, either