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- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
I don’t see a valid reason to guess the gender of their users other than to sell profiles to ad providers. I can’t see how discord may evolve their discussion platform differently depending on the gender mix of their platform.
- Comment on Nabiha Syed will join the Mozilla Foundation as [their] next Executive Director 2 days ago:
I hope she’s great, but I can’t imagine you’ll find more dedicated or more aligned to the cause people than those that have spent a lifetime working to build the everything that is Mozilla.
I can’t imagine they can’t find good people from within - why do you need to inject people from outside right at the top of the foundation?
- Comment on Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower 2 days ago:
Plus a good chunk of people only wash hands for show: the water runs for 1 sec it barely touches their fingertips, then go on to these dryers and whatever is on their fingers flies out everywhere.
- Comment on Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower 3 days ago:
Haven’t these been shown to be literally the proverbial shit hitting the fan in terms of spreading bacterial matter everywhere?
- Comment on Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them 6 days ago:
“This is the single greatest talent acquisition opportunity since I founded EnviroSpark. Tesla had been able to scale their charging infrastructure due in no small part to the talented employees on the Supercharger team.”
Half of them likely already have another job.
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 6 days ago:
All business models are aimed at company profitability. Customer satisfaction is an expensive early necessity which you can largely do away with as you become entrenched.
- Comment on Google employees question execs over 'decline in morale' after blowout earnings 1 week ago:
Nearly certainly that’s collective action by the tech companies to lower salaries and reduce employee negotiation power.
Tech workers need unions yesterday.
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 1 week ago:
Mostly social signalling
- Comment on Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
He closed his bluesky account some time ago so he must have left then. I assume they had some dnd agreement because only after he confirmed it publicly did bluesky came out with their announcement.
- Comment on Has anyone checked out this ipv6rs service yet? 2 weeks ago:
I’m assuming it’s aimed at people trying to avoid tying the hosting IP to the publicly consumable service.
- Comment on FCC fines big three carriers $196M for selling users’ real-time location data 2 weeks ago:
It seems you’re also the product even if you pay.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi 5 vs Intel N100 mini PC comparison - Features, Benchmarks, and Price 2 weeks ago:
I consider my $200 n95 inc. 16gb ram 512gb m2 and 6-8w idling better value than a Pi tbh.
- Comment on Are you prepared for the ramifications of windows 10 EoL? 3 weeks ago:
That’s what they’re counting on.
- Comment on Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse 4 weeks ago:
It’s also a nice way to tax their poorest customers more. A lot of people are keeping their machines way past what apple provides updates for, if the ssd that can’t be changed dies (because of constant swapping) faster than what they intended or could keep the machine for, I guess it’s too bad for them.
- Comment on Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse 4 weeks ago:
They certainly don’t want to connect more than one external screen, just ask Tim Apple
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Enterprise versions can be customised without any of this bullshit.
- Comment on Rich Americans are getting second passports, citing risk of instability 5 weeks ago:
The US passport will continue to work, the question is if you’d become a target because of it.
Remember during the first Trump term all these stories of Americans in Europe pretending to be Canadians? You would want to distance yourself as far as possible from the idiot gang.
- Comment on Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think the writer has them on hand - this is a news article not a review.
- Comment on FOSS scanner app surpasses Microsoft for usability 5 weeks ago:
OP I think you’re on Android as I am because you mentioned ms launcher.
I just gave it a go but it keeps on timing out (just keeps rotating) every second or third document especially in multi-page.
I’m wondering if it’s specific to my hardware or are you experiencing anything similar? Assuming not with your glowing review.
- Comment on Tesla scraps its plan for a $25,000 Model 2 EV 1 month ago:
So long as they keep the Chinese government happy. That’s a big lever China has on Musk.
- Comment on Bluesky’s Stackable Approach to Moderation 2 months ago:
Reading “at Bluesky” in every second sentence gave me futuristic dystopian movie vibes.
Not sure about fediverse following along given that, essentially, creating an account on a server is adopting the server admin’s moderation policy.
Having said that, there might be some value in being able to overlay multiple moderation filters - though not sure at what point you create such a siloed experience as to be a net negative.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 2 months ago:
W11 can run unlicensed indefinitely with the only downside being inability to customise the desktop background and a nag at the bottom right corner. They prefer to have the users rather than not. Though not sure re limitations in joining domains and the like.
- Comment on Greece approves ending state monopoly on university education 2 months ago:
Despite being explicitly prohibited by the Greek constitution.
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 2 months ago:
Government is bad except when it comes to brutal subjugation of out-groups I don’t like, while the in-group gets protected and treated with kid gloves by the same.
Unfortunately most of them are the dupes not the protected class they think they are - “they’re hurting the wrong people” summed it up when it was uttered…
- Comment on The EU opens a wide-ranging probe into TikTok 2 months ago:
Sum?
- Comment on Nothing was off-limits for retro game ads 2 months ago:
Not if you’re a literalist exec that saw the creative and didn’t think it was clear enough - “where’s the target audience? How are they going to see themselves in this ad?, she’s clearly out of our average user’s league”
- Comment on The future of AI in Personalized Medicine Breakthroughs 4 months ago:
Ha! I thought iron Maiden’s mascot, Eddie - especially bottom right.
- Comment on Embrace, Extend, and Exploit: Meta's plan for ActivityPub, Mastodon and the fediverse 4 months ago:
Maybe some of that but my sense is that given how prescient FB has been on buying companies that grew to become staples, like WhatsApp and Instagram I would say what they’re seeing here is something like the future of social media - even if tiny.
Unfortunately they can’t buy it, but they can do the next best thing: position themselves to take advantage of it, while in its infancy, and if possible control it while they can still throw their weight about before it takes off independently.
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 4 months ago:
This is like inviting the Catholic church in an institution specifically built to protect former victims of same and similar institutions.
Given that anyone can start an instance and federate with Threads, or join an instance that does, freedom of choice is unaffected.
- Comment on Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023) 5 months ago:
I was an avid Reddit user but dropped it like a stone in the kerfuffle - it took a while but Lemmy has now replaced that 90%
I’d love to see a content propagation analysis.
My sense is that a ton of new memes are first shared on Lemmy then shared across to other social media.
…Ok, so the niche forums don’t have critical mass yet, and you’d have to post to some general thread to get any response - but all the cool and thoughtful people are here, so the level of general discourse is higher, I love it.