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- Comment on This whistle fights fascists | How thousands of 3D-printed whistles are derailing ICE. 1 week ago:
I meant I’ve never come across one in store, sorry about the confusion. Whistles bought seem fine.
- Comment on This whistle fights fascists | How thousands of 3D-printed whistles are derailing ICE. 1 week ago:
Thank you
- Comment on This whistle fights fascists | How thousands of 3D-printed whistles are derailing ICE. 1 week ago:
Hm, fair enough
- Comment on This whistle fights fascists | How thousands of 3D-printed whistles are derailing ICE. 1 week ago:
I’ve never come across a whistle that isn’t good enough, so I don’t really understand
- Comment on This whistle fights fascists | How thousands of 3D-printed whistles are derailing ICE. 1 week ago:
I see…
- Comment on This whistle fights fascists | How thousands of 3D-printed whistles are derailing ICE. 1 week ago:
Why not buy a regular whistle?
- Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder 1 week ago:
If google really wanted to, they can. But if you’re so against ads, what’s the point in showing them? Leaving a mechanism to block ads with default being with ads is net positive for google. Now, something like AdNauseum is what hurts google
- Comment on Finland's Ministry of Justice is considering halting its plans to start using US-hosted cloud services 1 week ago:
Yes, that’s right, agile in its general meaning. High pressure could change things but it needs to lead to permanent changes in incentive structures, as pressures come and go too fast.
- Comment on Finland's Ministry of Justice is considering halting its plans to start using US-hosted cloud services 2 weeks ago:
How Lack of Agile Ties to European Tech Limitations:
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Slower Time-to-Market: The tech industry demands high-speed, iterative, and “fail-fast” development cycles to dominate consumer markets. European firms tend to have slower product development cycles compared to US counterparts, often favoring long-term planning over rapid, iterative, and agile software development.
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Talent and Structural Rigidity: Rigid labor structures and high restructuring costs in Europe make it difficult to pivot, scale teams quickly, or adopt flexible, “sprint-based” agile approaches, unlike US firms that can rapidly restructure teams.
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“Middle Technology Trap” & Risk Aversion: Many European companies excel in mature technologies (e.g., traditional engineering) rather than the rapid, agile software development required for consumer internet platforms. This leads to a risk-averse culture, where firms hesitate to make the massive, risky investments in software that define US Big Tech.
I didn’t say it’s the only factor, it’s just one I’ve noticed. Other factors might be more important. At the end of the day, it’s not like we can run experiments to see how the world evolves with different factors, in order to know precise causality and mechanisms.
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- Comment on Finland's Ministry of Justice is considering halting its plans to start using US-hosted cloud services 2 weeks ago:
The company would have to be suitable for it. Force fitting the principles from agile manifesto isn’t going to be useful.
- Comment on Finland's Ministry of Justice is considering halting its plans to start using US-hosted cloud services 2 weeks ago:
Europe struggles with agile, in my experience
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge 4 weeks ago:
Most CEOs say their companies aren’t yet seeing a financial return from investments in AI. Although close to a third (30%) report increased revenue from AI in the last 12 months and a quarter (26%) are seeing lower costs, more than half (56%) say they’ve realised neither revenue nor cost benefits.
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge 4 weeks ago:
~40℅ seeing a positive payoff is surprisingly high
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
- Not everyone always wants heated seats, so we’re actually lowering the price by having it as a subscription
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
It never was a thing that kept quiet…
- Comment on Huh? 4 weeks ago:
I’m at an industry get together right now at an event space that is all concrete walls. Taking a break coz I’m tired of shouting
- Comment on we need more users 5 weeks ago:
What’s a kinphobe?
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 month ago:
Microsoft 365 bundles other products too like Windows and online Exchange.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 month ago:
They stopped promoting “Office” brand when they saw success with Microsoft 365 and dropped Office 365. This was quite some time ago. Now they have just renamed an “app” called Office which was like a homescreen for Microsoft 365. I doubt anyone really used it and no one on lemmy seems to even recognize it.
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 1 month ago:
Coz there are multiple windows and I don’t want to click and hunt for the one I want
- Comment on Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 1 month ago:
I think the number of lines to be deleted is the target 1M…
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 2 months ago:
And then what? I tell google to show my ad to a guy born on some date and in a zip code. What data am I getting?
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 2 months ago:
They cannot see my data, they can give target parameters like ‘show to those who are private banking customers’ or ‘show to females in the 20s with daddy issues’.
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 2 months ago:
This crosses a line because information will be exfiltrated. Gemini will be telling someone that I gave bubba a blow.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 2 months ago:
He’s not wrong but read the bloody room. If a tool for image/video generation was all that Microsoft gave, we’d be fine.
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 2 months ago:
It’s got KDE
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 2 months ago:
It’s not a console, it’s a general purpose PC
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 2 months ago:
They did say that it’s a mini PC, not a console
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 months ago:
Privately owned still means shareholders. Ultimately it comes down to the board and the rules around it, not so much as to whether it is publicly listed.
- Comment on Norway’s mega wealth fund to reject Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay package 3 months ago:
Hyperloop was Musk’s tactic to distract from and destroy sensible public transportation. Tesla didn’t work on it or plan for it.