imperator3733

@imperator3733@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ifixit gives fairphone 5 a 10/10 on repairability and maintanence⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think your comparison to Framework is justified since 1) they made a headphone jack expansion module that’s available along with all the other ports and 2) the Framework 16 has 6 expansion bays instead of 4. If you need a headphone jack you get a 25% increase in configurable ports, and if you don’t need one you get a 50% increase in ports. Plus, you can easily switch between those two cases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord is on a quest to become a better messaging app⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m always frustrated when a game or service says to check out their Discord for information. Discord is a confusing mess of chat channels, and while it can certainly be useful in (near-)realtime interactions, I can’t imagine trying to look up longer-lived information, like what they’re trying to use it for. Make a forum, or a blog, or use a subreddit, but not Discord.

  I think the most recent case of this was the game Terra Invicta, where I saw a tangential reference somewhere to some coming updates to the game, and a game rep said to check their Discord for more details. No thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More Than 80 Percent Of Americans Can’t Afford New Cars⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Adding more light rail wherever it makes sense is definitely a good plan (and should happen), but improving bus networks gives a lot more bang for the buck than focusing only on light rail. Features like off-board fare collection (paying at the bus stop, not on the vehicle), bus signal priority (extending greens and shortening reds as buses approach traffic lights), and dedicated bus lanes all improve the overall speed of buses and therefore the overall rider experience. Expanding the prevalence of these features should be a priority everywhere, particularly on higher-ridership routes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your website can now opt out of training Google's Bard and future AIs⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Artificial General Intelligence” (AGI) seems to be the new term for what used to be considered AI.

  I’m sure they’ll move the goalposts once again whenever “AI” stops bringing in the money and the VCs/Wall Street get ridiculously focused on “AGI” startups and scammers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good news, everyone: Apple’s Polishing Cloth supports the iPhone 15 Pro Max⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But does it still support the first-gen iPhone?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If there is one thing you can change about Lemmy, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or the comment sections could just be merged together in the client view. Each thread of comments would belong to one (and only one) instance, so it shouldn’t be difficult to merge those lists together when presenting the aggregate view to the user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT generates cancer treatment plans that are full of errors — Study finds that ChatGPT provided false information when asked to design cancer treatment plans⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No duh - why would it have any ability to do that sort of task?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You don't hate JIRA, you hate your manager - Derek Jarvis' Blog⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, I absolutely hate Jira and everything that I needed to do in it at my old job. Luckily for most stuff we had other issue trackers (multiple, but that’s another issue), but whenever I had to touch Jira or any other Atlassian tool, it was a bad time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The World’s Largest Time Capsule Won’t Be Opened For Another 6,000 Years⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even human life will still likely survive, just not necessarily in the large-scale, global civilization that we have today. Even if that all collapses, scattered pockets of human civilization will remain across much of the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fear Of AI Just Killed A Very Useful Tool⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t characterize statistical analysis as “AI”, but sadly I do see people (like those authors) totally missing the differences.

  I’m generally hesitant about AI stuff (particularly with the constant “full steam ahead, ‘disrupt’ everything!” mindset that is far too prevalent in certain tech spheres, but what I saw described in this article looks really, really cool. The one bit I’m hesitant about is where actual pages are presented (since that is actually presenting a segment of the text), but other than that it’s really sad to see this project killed by a massive misunderstanding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Gmail continuously nagging to enable Enhanced Safe Browsing⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Enhanced Safe Browsing was released in 2007 as an upgrade to Google’s standard Safe Browsing feature that warns users when they visit known phishing and malware sites.

  That’s gotta be a typo. Gmail itself came out in 2004, and I doubt that “Safe Browsing” and then “Enhanced Safe Browsing” both came out in the first three years.

  I’m guessing it’s supposed to be 2017?

  Regardless of when it came out, the nagging prompts sure are annoying.