ThePowerOfGeek

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt they will care that much. But it will create a bit of confusion, at least for since in the short-term.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Kind of funny considering that Visio is the name of another Microsoft product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best free version of word?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been using LibreOffice’s Writer for several years. And I’ve been happy with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman among billionaires investing in 'Freedom City' to be built on Greenland⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe all the shitheads will move over there and the rest of us can get to work on clean night up the country. Although that would mean the poor Greenlanders being drowned out with shithead invaders, which is extremely unfair on them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord in discussions of going Public Trading, economics expert discusses how that might change things⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also: Stoat (formerly Revolt)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Lemmy platform is just a tool to manage and delivery content. And I think it’s important to differentiate the software from those who manages the software. I can see there’s is a tacit connection and influence there. But unless they start baking inherently bias features into the software and skewing it, I don’t think it’s a big problem.

  Also, because it’s an inherently federated platform, if people don’t like the opinions of those who run a specific instance, they can (with the inclination and determination) spin up their own instance and manage that the way they see fit. And that has happened quite a few times over the last couple of years.

  So no, I don’t think it requires a fork really. Not unless the people managing the main branch lose interest and the software starts to wither on the vine, or they start corrupting it somehow. But that’s just my opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In many ways a comparison between Potter and Trump’s father area even more accurate, given his birth were immoral slum lords.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like others here have said, they are a combination of get rich quick schemes and money laundering. They take the legalized gambling that is the stock markets to a whole new level. I also agree that the underlying concept of them is okay, but they’ve been exploited and hyped up to crazy levels.

  If you want to play with crypto ‘investments’ and you have a bit of discretionary spending, you could try it. But just know it’s super-risky and built on a lot of bullshit. Personally I wouldn’t. I’ll stick to passively-managed index funds. They aren’t air-tight safe either, of course. But at least they are less prone to scams and risk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe they are required to by the Americans with Disabilities Act?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump-appointed board renames Kennedy Center to 'Trump Kennedy Center'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Congratulations on the Trump Kennedy center for their imminent bankruptcy announcement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is this colour?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mustard yellow?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says people need to find success in traditional factory jobs again: ‘Every successful person doesn’t need to have a PhD’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, the factory jobs that are dissipating due to automation? Cool cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with Quentin Tarantino?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The only thing I’m aware of is him publicly slating a could of actors. He was very critical of Paul Dano from There Will Be Blood (which is a bit weird because that movie has been out for a long time). He also publicly slated Matthew Lillard, who seems like a genuinely nice guy and has a lot of fans. I think those (especially the criticism of Lillard) pissed a lot of people off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One women's theory on the ballroom, pulled by Larry Ellison. Thoughts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I had the same thoughts as you about this conspiracy theory being overly complicated and unnecessary. Like you say, just hide it off-site in a top security location and bury the costs in a massive and ultra-vague top secret R&D budget.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One women's theory on the ballroom, pulled by Larry Ellison. Thoughts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For anyone who didn’t want to or can’t watch the video, she posits the administration is using private donor money to build a massive data center under the Whitehouse, with the surface level ball room being a cover story for this. She argued this data center might be used to centralize and collate huge amounts of data outside of Congressional oversight, so the executive branch can use it for monitoring or profiteering or some other purpose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Setting up Jellyfin as a local media server is very simple. Setting it up with easy access for remote friends and family is a hassle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Perplexity the first AI unicorn to fail?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Strong agree on the lack of punctuation.

  Medium has become a bit of a cesspool for low-effort hot takes. Sometimes the articles make a great point but are not very well written (as is the case with this one). But more often than not they are a single, unfounded, absurd rage-bait argument that’s been spun out into an article with the help of AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warnings rise for U.S. as severe flu strain causes outbreaks in Canada, U.K.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure it’s already here. That’s usually how these things work. Based on sewage samples, COVID-19 got here back in September 2019 - several months before any officials wanted to admit.

  There’s currently a really nasty cold racing through schools on the West Coast. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyway to clean this sink?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t recommend this. It wrecks the enamel and causes a lot of tiny pock marks that just accumulate more grime later on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Well it works for unit testing, so just extend that out to all testing! Problem solved!” -Senior Management, probably

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jellyfin: why is the line two different colors?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it’s watched vs buffered?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sora might have a 'pervert' problem on its hands⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of the comments here seem to be missing some key points from this article:

  • The writer made her own likeness available to everyone on purpose. She did this knowing what would happen, but it was part of the exercise of seeing how weird it would get. So the points that she was stupid for doing, or that she was outraged by this, this are missing the point. Was she stupid? Maybe, but she made a conscious sacrifice on her likeliness. Was she outraged? Clearly not.
  • It’s short-sighted to say “yeah this will happen, so don’t put your is image out there”. There are lots of people (especially women and girls) who have gone out of the way to avoid having their image/likeness out there for these it similar reasons. But they have still ended up the victim of humiliation and trauma from photoshopped images or deep fakes made against them.
  • This second point was a big part of what the author was trying to point out. It’s both a warning to others about being careful of protecting your identity, and an alarm sounding that there are some really weird and creepy fetishes out there that people can get their likelinesses pulled into, even when you actively try to avoid that.
  • It also highlights the lack of safeguards on this kind of issue. Consent, age, level of fame… none of that matters in this issue. And in most cases the companies behind these tools don’t do shit to address these concerns.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE just bought new tool to monitor hundreds of millions of smartphones. Experts say it’s dangerous⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Citizens United strikes again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t trust some of the numbers in this article.

  Microsoft Teams: 100% CPU usage on 32GB machines

  I’m literally sitting here right now on a Teams call (I’ve already contributed what I needed to), looking at my CPU usage, which is staying in the 4.6% to 7.3% CPU range.

  Is that still too high? Probably. Have I seen it hit 100% CPU usage? Yes, rarely (but that’s usually a sign of a deeper issue).

  Maybe the author is going with worst case scenario. But in that case he should probably qualify the examples more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Its all bots, isn't it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No u

  Beep boop

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Companies Are Regretting Laying off Humans for AI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ✅ Fucked around ◻️ Found out

  Congratulations corporate world. Here we are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Trump’s H-1B crackdown means for Big Tech workers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of self-promotion quotes in there from companies involved in the H1B visa industry. But one broad trend among them: this will empower developing and non-Western developed nations at the expense of the American tech industry - especially the tech industry outside the big 5 or 6 giants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok’s Algorithm to Be Secured by Oracle in Trump-Backed Deal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the same reason IBM still exists. Massive multinational / government contracts keep them alive and healthy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok’s Algorithm to Be Secured by Oracle in Trump-Backed Deal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oracle will be handling TikTok’s algorithm? Okay, so TikTok’s back-end workflow/decisioning engine will rapidly bloat up and will need to be completely replaced every two years. Got it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you had to buy a new TV, what brand would you get?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s are still some consumer TVs out there that allow you to use the green without an Internet connection. Although they are kinda rare these days.