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- Comment on Man-in-the-Middle PCB Unlocks HP Ink Cartridges 1 month ago:
Agreed, I have a (pre-HP) Samsung laser printer and it works whenever I need it to. Sure, it only works via USB and only has one button and an on/off switch, but it works when needed.
- Comment on Nike’s self-lacing Adapt BB sneakers are losing their remote control mobile app 4 months ago:
Why choose these over elastic fabric slip-on shoes?
- Comment on NASA selects SpaceX to build deorbit vehicle for International Space Station 4 months ago:
To paraphrase an answer I read elsewhere: de-orbiting would be like pushing it down from the first step of a long flight of stairs. Pushing it away from Earth would require ascending the long flight of stairs, which is much harder.
- Comment on DeviantArt’s Downfall Is Devastating, Depressing, and Dumb 5 months ago:
I think Corridor Digital made an AI animated film by hiring an illustrator (after an earlier attempt with a general dataset) and “draw” still frames from video of the lead actors, with Stable Diffusion generating the inbetweens.
- Comment on How to sync Akregator across devices? 6 months ago:
If you know the folder where the configuration of FreshRSS is stored on the various devices and the structures are the same over all devices: it should be possible.
- Comment on Dev-focused note-taking startup Stashpad launches Google Docs alternative you can use without any login | TechCrunch 8 months ago:
Instead of relying on “startups” you could go for (selfhosted) Nextcloud with the notes app.
- Comment on The DMA already having an impact. Brave Browser installs surge after introduction of browser choice splash screen on iOS. 8 months ago:
Android is a fenced garden compared to the fortress that is iOS.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
No bloatware that I can recall!
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
In a way it does, but by default it comes with a fairly standard android. It’s more about the hardware modules and repairability than about the software.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I think the one who replied meant you install your PC as if it’s in an EU country. Language settings are independent of “location”. For example, I’m Dutch, but use UK English as a language. Time, keyboard, currency and other values etc. are following dutch standards though.
You can use your real location as a secondary timezone forvexample.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Fairphone comes with standard Android? Unlocking the Fairphone to get a de-googled Android is easy for someone somewhat technically inclined.
- Comment on Stellantis CEO says Chinese EVs are ‘possibly the biggest risk’ facing his carmaker and Tesla 8 months ago:
Stellantis is mostly European, it’s FIAT and Peugot with their other brands. I’m fairly certain they get enough subsidies and tax breaks. That this Italian/American/French company is registered in the Netherlands shows that some tax-dodging is involved as well. I think it’s a case of the pot calling the kettle black.
(Also, Volkswagen Group is the bigger European car manufacturer.)
- Comment on Stellantis CEO says Chinese EVs are ‘possibly the biggest risk’ facing his carmaker and Tesla 8 months ago:
Also, electric cars such as Polestar (Volvo’s EV brand, also Chinese these days) look much better than Tesla’s.
- Comment on You can remove or disable Windows 11 and 10's AI 'bloat' with new BloatynosyAI 9 months ago:
Nothing near the level of Adobe software for example.
- Comment on Chrome updates Incognito warning to admit Google tracks users in “private” mode 10 months ago:
Unfortunately startpage has been owned by an ad agency for some years now.
- Comment on Israeli Group Claims It Uses Big Tech Back Channels to Take Down Content 10 months ago:
I wonder how many anti-Zionist Jewish groups get affected by things like these.
- Comment on Capcom caught adding Enigma DRM to older titles, for no good reason 10 months ago:
In a way Japan is both innovative and conservative when it comes to technology and business. There are still business practices going on there which have been phased out in “the west”. If you look at the Japanese music industry for example it’s both 21st century and stuck in the 1990s for some reason.
- Comment on Why Linux is Best for Most People 10 months ago:
And are there even industry standard equivalent programs available for graphic designers on Linux?
Most FOSS alternatives tend to be a significant step back for folks used to their closed source industry counterparts like for example Adobe. The available video editing software is either a step back or closed source (DaVinci Resolve).
It’s probably the proverbial chicken-and-egg situation.
- Comment on Microsoft poised to overtake Apple as most valuable company 10 months ago:
Just wondering: what ads?
I’ve seen some stuff about ads when installing Windows (about personalisation of ads), but other than suggested apps after a fresh install (certain games and apps). I’ve never seen any ads in windows itself.
Granted, I do offline installs without Microsoft accounts and do use stuff like ShutUp10 and Windows debloater.
- Comment on China Tries To Censor Data About Nearly 1 Billion People in Poverty 10 months ago:
“Saving face” is a big thing in their culture, as well as in other Asian cultures.
- Comment on The Race to Put Brain Implants in People Is Heating Up 10 months ago:
While the idea is awesome, I’m certain that greedy corporations or other bad actors will abuse this.
- Comment on this song seems to use ai 10 months ago:
There’s an entire AI generated band: www.metal-archives.com/bands/…/3540524156
- Comment on The Race to Put Brain Implants in People Is Heating Up 10 months ago:
This sounds like a nightmare.
- Comment on USA Will Invest in High-Speed Train to Fight Climate Change 11 months ago:
Climate change doesn’t matter when it’s lawyers and economists in charge, there’s money to be made… unfortunately.
- Comment on It's never been a better time to switch to Firefox 11 months ago:
If possible, switch to a non-Mozilla Firefox derivative!
- Comment on X sues Media Matters to silence moderation criticism 11 months ago:
Apparently X is registered in Nevada.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
I know the title is clcickbait, but why RIP uBlock? There’s more than just chrome browsers.
- Comment on Where have all the users gone? How Google's actions could degrade the open internet and what publishers can do to stop it. 11 months ago:
After nearly four years of vague and fluid timelines, Google finally seems resolved to begin phasing out the third-party cookie in 2024. While there’s been a great deal of focus on what the deprecation of cookies might mean for advertisers in terms of delivering relevant ads to the right audiences, less has been said about the potential impact for publishers.
The vast majority of the open internet is funded by advertising. Key tenets of the internet that we value so much, such as journalism, depend on it. It is estimated that 75 percent of funding for journalism today is derived from advertising. And if advertisers suddenly lose the ability to understand who’s reading the news, the value of those ads will crater. And that means less funding for trusted news.
While it’s easy to outline the risk, there’s also a tremendous opportunity to rethink our approach to authentication on the internet in a more privacy-conscious way. And let’s face it, cookies were never designed to perform the tasks that have been asked of them for the last 30 years. They were initially designed in 1994 so that consumer preferences could be stored in virtual shopping carts on then-emerging e-commerce sites.
They were never intended to do the advanced digital advertising tracking and relevance work they do today. They are not fit for that purpose. And they only work in display environments, not the fast-emerging channels of the open internet, such as streaming TV and digital audio.
But it’s in those new channels that we can understand the importance of audience authentication. Since the pandemic, consumers have shifted, en masse, from traditional cable TV to streaming TV, and from traditional radio to digital audio. And one fascinating aspect of streaming TV and digital audio is that in both cases, advertisers can work with authenticated, logged-in audiences. And that’s why advertisers are placing an increased premium on those channels as the new identity fabric of the internet emerges. In these new channels, advertisers have a very clear sense of who they are reaching.
It’s also no coincidence that streaming TV leaders are also among the early pioneers of new identity solutions such as Unified ID 2.0. Not necessarily because they need it to validate their own audiences for advertisers, but because they understand the critical role that new post-cookie identity currencies will play in omni-channel marketing campaigns. And they want to be a central element of those campaigns.
So what are traditional publishers to do? In an attempt to lessen the blow, Google has been touting offerings such as Topics (contextual segments, limited to site-level classification, mapped into Google defined categories) and measurement APIs such as Private Aggregate API and Attribution Reporting API — which store data in Google’s Chrome browser. It’s a highly complex and opaque solution, and one that means publishers have to yield more power and control to Google. The Department of Justice’s allegations in its recent anti-trust lawsuit against Google underscore Google’s willingness to use power and control to benefit itself to the detriment of publishers. Publishers will survive or die at the whim of Google, with little ability to manage their own destiny.
Amidst this latest churn, there is an opportunity for traditional publishers to redefine the rules of engagement, just like their peers in emerging channels, such as streaming TV and digital audio.
The solution is likely two-fold. First, publishers need to deploy new, consumer-friendly, lightweight single-sign-on authentication solutions — such as OpenPass. In doing so, publishers can gain vital information about their consumers. This first-party data should be the lifeblood of any publisher, containing key consumer information and preferences. It’s also data that can be shared in a privacy-conscious way with advertisers to preserve the value of their advertising impressions.
Second, publishers can allow advertisers to activate emerging identity solutions, such as UID2, so advertisers can find relevant audiences across the open internet. In a recent campaign, for example, Unilever purchased ad impressions from Disney+ using UID2. Their ads were 12 times more effective in finding their target audience than with traditional identifiers.
This is the new identity fabric of the open internet. One that preserves relevance for advertisers, revenue optimization for publishers, and privacy control for consumers. Streaming TV leaders and digital audio leaders are already proving the efficacy of this two-pronged approach. And advertisers are shifting budget there because they can act with precision, measure effectively, and optimize across channels — all in ways that are not possible in the murkiness of walled gardens. It’s no surprise that streaming TV and digital audio are the fastest growing segments of the open internet from an advertising perspective.
The clock is ticking for traditional publishers. But the good news is that solutions are available. Not simply to solve the imminent threat of cookie deprecation. But to build something much better that will finally give them control over their own destiny.
- Comment on Humane’s AI Pin (smartphone that projects on to your palm) launching soon @ $699 + 24$/mo subscription + integrates with openAI 1 year ago:
Yeah, until they have yo admit after a major data breach that stuff is stolen. Everytime a PR person said something, there’s a high chance they’re lying.
- Comment on Internet providers say the FCC should not investigate broadband prices 1 year ago:
Just over that for 1Gbit in the Netherlands.