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Re:Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds by piqufoh on Friday November 22, 2024 @04:09AM (#42212288)
TL;DR Panic co-founder Cabel Sasser and team members recount the investigation into the disappearance of approximately 2,000 Playdate consoles, valued at $400,000. The consoles were shipped to a third-party logistics provider in North Las Vegas but never arrived. The team discovered that the shipment had been stolen and sold through various channels. They collaborated with law enforcement and private investigators to recover the stolen units, leading to the arrest of individuals involved in the theft. The episode provides an in-depth look at the challenges Panic faced during this ordeal and the measures taken to resolve the situation.
Re:Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds by bmalum on Friday November 22, 2024 @04:13AM (#42212312)
Thank you very much, may your sleeves stay dry forever when you wash your hands.
Re:Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds by throawayonthe on Friday November 22, 2024 @04:23AM (#42212374)
the TLDR seems to be incorrect
Re:Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds by jna_sh on Friday November 22, 2024 @04:19AM (#42212339)
Source for the arrest? I listened to this the other day and I don’t recall an arrest being mentioned. The podcast in fact covers that the police weren’t very much interested, which is why they got a PI involved, who got the thieves to “return” (dump in an adjacent car park) the devices simply by asking questions.
Re:Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds by saagarjha on Friday November 22, 2024 @04:20AM (#42212351)
I’m guessing the AI hallucinated it.
Re:Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds by gambiting on Friday November 22, 2024 @04:27AM (#42212389)
You know what, until your comment I haven't even considered that someone just copy pasted the entire transcript into ChatGPT and asked for a summary. It sucks - and I see that happening everywhere actually, especially in facebook groups, people are trying to be "helpful" by just copying output from ChatGPT or Gemini, but more often than not it's just completely wrong.
Re:Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds by saagarjha on Friday November 22, 2024 @04:33AM (#42212407)
I can’t say for sure but the thing I thought was suspicious was someone saying “The episode provides an in-depth look at the challenges Panic faced during this ordeal and the measures taken to resolve the situation”. People who actually read the content and offer TL;DRs typically wouldn’t include statements like these that are basically just fluff.
Re:Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds by piqufoh on Friday November 22, 2024 @06:26AM (#42212929)
Yeah - I don't have an hour to listen to the podcast or read the transcript. I got an AI to summarise the article and it saved me the time, I thought someone else might appreciate the summary (and it appears they did).

Perhaps next time I'll add TL;got-an-llm-to-do-it or something

Re:Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds by jna_sh on Saturday November 23, 2024 @07:27AM (#42220560)
“I don’t have time to know what really happened so I had something hallucinate a series of events that didn’t happen and that was good actually” is such a fascinating take
Re:Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds by piqufoh on Saturday November 23, 2024 @04:30PM (#42224089)
thanks