nikt

@nikt@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's Collapse in the Web Server Space Continued This Month⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I still blame Balckberry’s downfall on their deep integration and dependence on Microsoft server tech. A few weeks of dealing with that in the mid 2000s and I was sure the end was written for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fairphone 5 is less about what comes in the box and more about what you get over the years⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also don’t forget the “externalized” costs of massive and irreversible environmental damage!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Vision Pro Owners Are Struggling to Figure Out What They Just Bought⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple is great at polishing and packaging things that already exist. The iPhone was a better Blackberry, the iPod a better MP3 player, the iMac a better all-in-one PC… I have a hard time thinking of stuff they truly pioneered. The Newton maybe? That did not end well for them.

  If I had to bet, the Vision Pro will turn out to be a burnt pancake, but long term I have no doubt that something like it — something that augments reality one way or another — will become a thing. And in the meantime Apple has pockets more than deep enough to survive a failed Vision Pro.

  The backlash against them trying to innovate is kind of dumb though. They aimed high for a change, and taking risks like this should be lauded not laughed at.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Browser maker love-in snubs Google-shunned JPEG XL⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Something about love in subs for Google ? And also JPEG?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some cool people you follow on other Mastodon and other Fediverse Platforms?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I got a lot out of reddit, and I miss it sometimes. Lemmy doesn’t seem to have enough of the right people yet to generate enough high quality content to compare to reddit.

  Y-combinator’s HN has been sort of filling that void for me though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some cool people you follow on other Mastodon and other Fediverse Platforms?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I gave up trying to make Mastodon work. Two minutes of scrolling and I always end up closing it with an overwhelming feeling of cringe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IBM's NorthPole chip runs AI-based image recognition 22 times faster than current chips⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  www.scrypted.app with tensorflow plugin is a good option

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Verizon Fails Again, Shutters Attempted Zoom Alternative BlueJeans After Paying $400 Million For It⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A while back, I (with a few others) built and sold an innovative tech company to a large “enterprise”. What you’re describing is exactly why they bought us and how things played out post acquisition. I’ve since left, but the thing we built is now in shambles, buried and suffocated by bureaucracy and institutional ineptitude. The parent company has learned nothing, continues to keep buying smaller tech companies, and can’t seem to figure out why things always turn to shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A decade after a disastrous launch, is Apple Maps finally good?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The other day I used Apple Maps in my car for the first time in a few years. I gotta say something about it felt nice.

  Maybe it’s the aesthetic? The names of towns and geographic features are in big letters and flow across the map nicely — the name of the peninsula I was driving across was stretched along the length peninsula itself — and it felt a bit like I was traversing an old timey map, maybe like in an old Indiana Jones movie.

  If I need to find some obscure business, I’ll still use Google Maps, and if I’m on a well known commute I’ll still use Waze, but for just general ambient map display, I think Apple Maps might be it now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP printer USB port covered with warning sticker in hopes you won't use it | Boing Boing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Because Apple’s core business is selling stuff to you. Google’s core business is selling you to other companies.

  Google’s consumer software and products literally serve no other business purpose than surveillance to figure out how to turn you into a more lucrative advertising target.

  Apple has realized they can capitalize on this by making privacy a core selling feature for their stuff — one that Google cannot challenge them on as privacy is directly at odds with the core premise of their entire business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young Koreans favor iPhones over Samsung Galaxy: survey⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Same, but I switched to an iPhone. It was an annoying adjustment for a few months but now I’d never go back. Great hardware, but Samsung’s software is an almost comical mess, and they seem to have zero awareness of how bad they are at it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix Charts for July 10-16: ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’ Ousts ‘The Witcher’ As No. 1 On Netflix 10 TV List; ‘The Out-Laws’ Remains Most-Viewed Title⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The show was not great, but the epic premise is awesome. So I thought I’d just go read the books, assuming the source material was the good stuff.

  But wow, turns out Asimov can’t write a decent paragraph. The story and ideas are buried under page after page of cringeworthy dialogue and pointless descriptions of gee whiz gadgets.