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- Comment on Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions 6 days ago:
There is something society could learn about itself if we spent anytime thinking honestly about how much of a dead end it is politically speaking to increase our use of nuclear power as a means of reducing our reliance on fossil fuels. Yet, when big corporate interests want it for their own reasons, it is no big thing and almost no politician will speak ill of it. Even though if some kind of disaster comes about because of it they will be left holding the bag of public opinion since that industry is so heavily regulated.
- Comment on Apple Shares Full iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Pro Repair Manuals 6 days ago:
I watched a Hugh Jeffrey’s teardown video yesterday where he showed using a 9 volt battery to remove the iPhones battery. I have to say, that is pretty neat.
- Comment on Youtube has fully blocked Invidious 6 days ago:
Youtube will not change until people stop using it, And people do not want to put up with the inconvenience of not having a Youtube type service again for the amount of time it would take for Youtube to change or a viable competitor to take their place, it really is that simple.
Is youtube and Google terrible? For sure, but it only got this way because the only backstop to holding them accountable, the consumer, has proven that they will choose putting up with shitty products and services in the name of convenience 9 times out of 10.
- Comment on If tomorrow it was announced that aliens were real, highly intelligent, and in communication with our governments, no one would be talking about it by Halloween 6 days ago:
Given how obviously impressionable and just not “on top of things” the politicians are in the US these days, I’m not sure someone could come up with a argument that convinced me that alien life with the ability to do interplanetary travel would waste their time trying to communicate with our leaders.
Within a day they would just decide to kill all of us for the safety of the galaxy.
- Comment on Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like they are just pissed that he found a way to beat them at their own game.
- Comment on 16GB of RAM Could Be the New Minimum in Apple's Upcoming M4 Macs 4 weeks ago:
Naturally the price for the cheapest model will also be going to up several orders of magnitude more than the cost of materials, labor, and healthy profit margin to account for that as well I’m sure.
- Comment on Microsoft backtracks on deprecating the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel | Microsoft has either backtracked or clarified its language to remove the note about Control Panel being deprecated 4 weeks ago:
Someone found something that still depends on the control panel that will not be easily moved or done away with I bet.
- Comment on Twitter loses World Bank ads over pro-Nazi content placement 4 weeks ago:
Musk is learning the lesson Google and Youtube learned years ago with the “adpocalypse”. If the whole house of cards depends on ad dollars you have to keep them happy.
Unless Musk is going to take X (Twitter) completely subscription only, or fund it exclusively out of his own pocket, he is not going to get that “anything I want goes” utopia is is crowing about.
- Comment on Procreate takes a stand against generative AI, vows to never incorporate the tech into its products | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
That stance will change if they ever get acquired. Might even get the chance to see James Cuda try and walk back this stance in a few years.
- Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"? 5 weeks ago:
I personally think the whole backlash against master/slave in the computing world is people looking for something in their sphere of knowledge to be offended about so they can feel like they are part of “a movement”. Even if some mustache twirling racist was the first “computer guy” to come up with the term and meant it to be offensive, that is not how sane people view it today. So some of the advocates for changing it should stop trying to build it up into some Pizzagate-like conspiracy against black/brown people.
Having said that, I also don’t have any strong attachments to the phrasing either. Phase it out in favor of something that makes everyone happy if that keeps the peace. It is just a term that made sense at the time to describe something. There is nothing stopping us from changing it to something else now if we so choose. It is not erasing heritage or some such nonsense. If anything, people having strong hangups about it if there are better or equally as good terms out there that doesn’t make people uncomfortable is far weirder in my opinion.
The only thing I have somewhat strong opinions about is making it some high priority to go back and erase those terms from solutions that already exist. Change them as you update things, sure, but why create extra work to update something old that is currently working if the only change is not functional and just verbiage. Seems like wasted effort that could be better directed and solving functional issues to me.
- Comment on Why are vegan and gluten free items more expensive? 5 weeks ago:
Because the know the people that buy it either are stupid or have no choice (in the cases of the few that actually have to eat those kinds of diets for health reasons).
- Comment on I just wanted to take a moment to enjoy how clean the web can be 5 weeks ago:
This kind of thing getting worse and worse at all levels of tech is increasingly pushing me to the fringes of tech solutions (with all of the handicaps that come with that) as those are getting to be the only places where this kind of things is not pervasive.
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- Comment on Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizens 1 month ago:
My complaint is not that the “appliance” solutions exist for those that want them. But that there is next to no room in the market now for options that are not those “appliance” solutions for those that do want them but also want to take part in the modern tech world with things like NFC payments without having to trick the services with Magisk modules.
- Comment on Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizens 1 month ago:
The world of mobile phones is a real world example of what we avoided on the PC back in the day when the IBM BIOS got reverse engineered allowing for someone to put out an IBM compatible PC without having to pay the tithe to big blue first.
It has been pretty depressing to me that the tech literate have been so easily lulled into accepting such things in the name of “cool toys” and “security” virtually everywhere in modern life besides the PC/laptop/server spaces.
This sort of Google and Apple duopoly was not something that was hard to see coming a mile away, yet we all collectively let it happen anyway.
- Comment on An angry admin shares the CrowdStrike outage experience 2 months ago:
I dream of working somewhere where this kind of effort is appreciated enough to motivate me to put in the effort of actually doing it.
- Comment on An angry admin shares the CrowdStrike outage experience 2 months ago:
They are just butt hurt that this whole thing really shines a light on how inaccurate the line of “the world runs on Linux” truly is.
- Comment on If anything happen to Linux today, like what happened to Windows, most of the internet would be dead. 2 months ago:
This combination of arrogance and complacency sort of thinking is how it does happen on Linux on day.
- Comment on If anything happen to Linux today, like what happened to Windows, most of the internet would be dead. 2 months ago:
If all of the parts of the internet that the average person finds useful goes down, then it matters little that technically “the internet” is not down. If it can’t be useful then it is as good as “down”.
- Comment on Microsoft is not done yet: more ads spotted in latest Windows 11 build - gHacks Tech News 2 months ago:
This is not gonna stop until the consumer puts their money where there mouths are and stops using Windows until Microsoft back peddles. Money is all a company understands so that is where you need to hit them if you want them to listen. But as a group the consumer has a very weak constitution when it comes to having to do something that is good for them in the long term but causes them short term inconvenience. A lot of parallels to the modern corporate world in that.
- Comment on Tesla loses EV market dominance, falls below 50% in US [unit sales in 2024Q2] 2 months ago:
Tesla will probably be a case study one day in how to get the lead in a market that is hard to break into and somehow squander it.
- Comment on Do you poweroff your server during night / unused times? 2 months ago:
Mine stays on 24/7/365 unless I am going to be out of town.
- Comment on Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on *.google.com access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage 2 months ago:
In my experience you either have to trade one devil for the other with Apple or accept buying hardware from the ad company so you can use GrapheneOS.
- Comment on Home routing and encryption technologies are making lawful interception harder, Europol warns 2 months ago:
- Comment on Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour 2 months ago:
Sure, I could. But I wanted to leave the original post as it was for transparency. I figured that was the most “open” thing to do.
- Comment on Gothic, Risen, and Elex Dev "Piranha Bytes" Reportedly the Latest Embracer Studio to Shut Down 2 months ago:
It has gotten to the point where if you work for a game studio that gets bought out or sold, might as well get ahead of the game and start looking for a new job before they have the chance to fire you.
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- Comment on Google Researchers Publish Paper About How AI Is Ruining the Internet 2 months ago:
This person already has a vague sounding meeting on their calendar from an HR rep, their supervisor, and maybe a VP. To align vision and expectations.
- Comment on Proton launches privacy-focused Google Docs alternative: Docs in Proton Drive is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted collaborative document editor 2 months ago:
Doesn’t appear you can do anything of that via the Drive mobile app. Maybe one day they will make that possible.
If they can ever get a spreadsheet application I could fully get away from Google for that kind of thing without losing out on anything I care about.