drmoose
@drmoose@lemmy.world
- Comment on Using Ubuntu may give off a hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. 4 days ago:
Only linux newbies and weirdos hate on Ubuntu. It’s a good all around operating system. Not the best choice and Canonical fails a lot but it’s still a net good.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 1 week ago:
Inb4 “the pirates are destroying the industry”
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
Yeah - no one who’s seen industrial meat farming would say it’s OK. Ever. You’d have to be a psychopath to justify this level of cruelty or distance yourself cognitively by justifying it.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
Because we no monkey. No need unnecessary cruelty to live. Simple enough?
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
Because it is a fact that ethically speaking meat is extremely cruel. You’re proving my point exactly.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
100% it’s just cognative dissonance. Everyone knows meat is bad but most can’t come to terms that they’re too weak to quit it. This is especially painful when people are confronted directly and a self-defence mechanism kicks in.
It’s ok to be a bit weak sometimes, everyone has a lot of going and has to choose their battles. Our culture hates to acknowledge this.
- Comment on All cheap smartphones have a fingerprint sensor but all laptops dont have one. Why? 1 week ago:
Cause typing in a password on a real keyboard is just as fast if not faster than a fingerprint scan.
- Comment on That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit 1 week ago:
It almost feels like if it wasn’t for Microsoft Europe could have actually been a tech super power 🙄
- Comment on That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit 1 week ago:
That’s just nostalgia speaking. It was closed source OS that objectively sucked and had zero app support.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It’s one thing to liberate IP and another to use someone’s service.
- Comment on Chinese startup launching RISC-V laptop for devs and engineers priced at around $300 1 week ago:
Nah dude it’s a just a laptop lmao
- Comment on Am I the only one who things the community is being to hard on the Rabbit R1? 1 week ago:
You cant automate free chatgpt but you can easily automate rabbit’s api
- Comment on Am I the only one who things the community is being to hard on the Rabbit R1? 1 week ago:
200usd is 10 months of chatgpt subscription. So it definitely has objective value. I’d buy it just make my own little bot.
- Comment on Chinese startup launching RISC-V laptop for devs and engineers priced at around $300 1 week ago:
Stolen ideas? Riscv is open source and a laptop is not exactly some unique intellectual property. You’re just showing your xenophobia here.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Not buying the argument that people don’t have 5 usd to spare. People are just being cheap. Either pirate or pay for a service, asking for a free service is plain silly.
- Comment on Humans share the web equally with bots, report warns amid fears of ‘dead internet’ 1 week ago:
FYI 90% of those bots are scrapers and natural automation tools which are harmless.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
but it’s a free plan and if you can’t afford 5-15$/mo for unlimited music and can afford to spend time complaining about this then you have some much bigger problems in your life.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
People being so cheap and refusing to pay 5-15$/mo for unlimited music streaming. What a weird reality we’re living in 🙄
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 2 weeks ago:
Yes the contemporary phones literally bug and warn you if you don’t. Password is much easier to remember than 6 digits too imo.
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 2 weeks ago:
I still don’t get where are you seeing this advice in the article. No one is recommending “6 digit passcodes”. AFAIK all contemporary phones use mixed character passwords these days. I just setup a second hand s22 and it asked me to create a full password as primary authentication with all of the brute force strength hints etc.
Your perception might be a bit outdated here.
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 2 weeks ago:
Article doesn’t even mention PIN. Where are you getting this “advice”?
- Comment on arthropods 2 weeks ago:
I really like that theory too. It further expands that vision is what granted us intelligence as creatures coming on land could see significantly further and thus start planning and reacting to distant changes giving birth to modern intelligence. To add, whales developed this intelligence and went back to the ocean to absolutely dominate it.
- Comment on Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ 2 weeks ago:
Google is too big to fail. Yes they’ll lose a lot of customers and products but they only need to keep the ads and maybe google cloud engine running. Everything else is irrelevant until Google.com becomes irrelevant.
- Comment on Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ 2 weeks ago:
hot take: Sundar Pichai is the first LLM CEO.
- Comment on Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ 2 weeks ago:
While reporting record profits! lmao you can’t make this shit up.
- Comment on Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ 2 weeks ago:
Sundar Pichai will go down as one of the worst tech CEOs. Dude appears as such a nice guy from podcasts I’ve listened with him but really awful at his job and has zero consistent personality. He’s a straight up corporate robot with no original opinions or idealogies. Unfortunately, none of that is visible or really matters because Google has infinite source of ad money so any KPIs are made irrelevant.
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 3 weeks ago:
Never had to deal with attacks originating from US or Europe so thats kinda true actually :)
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 4 weeks ago:
As Kungen already answered - stats! You can sell bot traffic as real traffic which inflates your numbers.
For stuff like social media, bots increase engagement too. Many new products and networks actually generate a lot of fake content to attract organic growth. I.e. if bot likes your comment you’re likely to engage more. If it likes your product review you’re likely to review more stuff etc.
Tracking bots can also generate reverse analytics. For example if you know that your competitors are scraping fishing equipment data from your store it could mean they’re working on a competing fishing related product.
Lastly, you can feed fake data to bots to manipulate competitors. This is somewhat illegal (no real legal precedent yet afaik though its a clear intent to harm other businesses) but it can really powerful in the wrong hands.
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 4 weeks ago:
yeah sorry “protection against bots” just doesn’t roll of the tongue as easily lol
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 4 weeks ago:
Hey man it gets me employed and I even get to work on foss on work hours sometimes. Thanks! :)