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- Comment on Why is the spellchecker in Firefox so abysmal? 1 hour ago:
feel I must must be doing something wrong.
I don’t think so, I have the exact same experience. Pretty ordinary words are unknown, and simple spelling mistakes/typos often have very bad suggestions, so you have to correct manually.
This is the greatest weakness of Firefox IMO, if someone has a suggestion, it would be extremely nice.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 3 days ago:
I just linked a site that quoted the study.
If it’s not factual, how come Tesla doesn’t sue the shit out of those who published the study? - Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 5 days ago:
If the data is incorrect, I would expect Tesla to file suit for libel.
Well we have other datapoints too, like the fact that here in Denmark Tesla fail a third of the initial 4 year safety check, without comparison the highest of any brand. That’s not being a beacon of safety, no AI no-matter how good can make a car with faulty brakes or steering safe.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 5 days ago:
It’s a very well known fact, but OK here you go:
www.snopes.com/news/2025/…/tesla-fatality-rates/
forbes.com/…/tesla-again-has-the-highest-accident… - Comment on Microsoft is killing off Windows 11 SE, its Chrome OS competitor 6 days ago:
Maybe people just don’t want this “thin client” inspired cloud shit that gives Microsoft or Google control of your data.
As the article mention, Chromebooks are also in decline, and good riddance!It’s funny how Netbooks showed that Linux is a viable solution for small Arm devices, and works way better than Windows for it. But no vendor is making this for Arm, despite obvious advantages.
It may be a niche market initially, but so were smartphones before the iPhone and before they were called smartphones. And today smartphones are the biggest market in devices for consumer computing.
Netbooks were enjoying similar success, until they became loaded with the inferior Windows OS, that made them worse to actually use.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 6 days ago:
Today’s verdict is wrong and only works to set back automotive safety and jeopardize Tesla’s and the entire industry’s efforts to develop and implement life-saving technology.
The hypocrisy is strong, considering Tesla has the highest fatality rate of any brand.
- Comment on Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit? 1 week ago:
Even posting a Fox News article in the News areas will get your post removed
Fox News is not acknowledged as a news channel outside USA. In fact it would be illegal to call it a news channel in mostly any other “western” country. You might as well post stories from the Onion and call it news.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 1 week ago:
Freedom from EU regulation. 😋
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Stops Mid-Intersection After Running a Red Light… The Influencer Onboard Calls It “Impressive” 2 weeks ago:
Probably because robotaxi is written on the side of it. Clearly a warning to other drivers, to avoid accidents.
It’s like having that “learner” sign most countries have on cars for people learning to drive. - Comment on When will we have reached enough productivity? 2 weeks ago:
Mormons
- Comment on Tesla Reports Drop in Self-Driving Safety After Introducing “End-to-End Neural Networks” 2 weeks ago:
Ha funny. I highly suspected this could happen when I heard they have quotas for how many changes the people training the AI make to the AI behavior. That’s a recipe for flooding the system with bad data.
- Comment on When will we have reached enough productivity? 2 weeks ago:
Once I would probably have said when everybody has enough.
But I have found out that is naive, because looking at billionaires, it’s obvious that people just increase their consumption to the extreme if they can. Apparently we will never have “enough”.With near limitless resources, we will probably want to own our own planets.
- Comment on When will we have reached enough productivity? 2 weeks ago:
Hey I love my double packaging, because I love sorting my garbage. /s
- Comment on The company behind Candy Crush is preparing to lay off around 200 employees amid a push to replace designers, researchers, and creative staff with AI. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t see any way this can go wrong. And even if it does, it’s dead easy to rehire talent. /s
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X slams French criminal investigation as politically motivated 2 weeks ago:
Actually there was just yesterday a story about Corning (The maker of Gorilla glass), that was accused by EU for anti competitive behavior, where Corning entered in positive dialogue, and stated they intended to work fully within regulation.
So yes Musk is an ass, also compared to other companies. And his reaction is confrontational, which is not normal behavior.
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 3 weeks ago:
OK maybe you are technically correct which is the best kind of correct.
It just goes against every nerve in my body to categorize Chrome OS as part of Desktop Linux. - Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 3 weeks ago:
Oh so you can install KDE/Gnome/XFCE apps on Chrome OS and they will work?
You know the “desktop” in Desktop Linux means it goes beyond terminal commands right? - Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 3 weeks ago:
Linux as an OS is generally meant as desktop Linux, mostly following freedesktop guidelines, which has traditionally helped standards on Linux a lot. So for instance XFCE/Gnome/KDE desktop apps can be run in all the different desktop environments. Also standardizing things like how tray icons work. Freedesktop is part of X.Org Foundation, and Chrome OS does not use X.org standards at all.
So while Chrome OS is based on the Linux kernel, it is NOT a Linux OS in the original sense, a term that became popular decades before Chrome OS or Android became a thing.
If you include Chrome OS you might as well include Android too. As it can run on for instance Raspberry Pi and other mini systems, and could be used as a desktop system.
Chrome OS is a Linux kernel based OS, and not much more than that.
It’s somewhat confusing in some situations that Linux as a desktop OS doesn’t have a unique name, but it wasn’t a problem originally, as what some prefer to call GNU/Linux was made 100% for desktop use originally.The Linux kernel is way way more widespread and successful than what we usually term Desktop Linux or GNU/Linux.
- Comment on Can you have an infinitely long wavelength of light? Or is there some maximum? 3 weeks ago:
If it’s infinitely long it has zero energy, making it kind of irrelevant.
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 3 weeks ago:
Apple was built on innovation, and you completely left the original product out.
Apple II, Macintosh, MacBook Air, iPod, iPhone, iPad. In software OSX was also significant, and obviously IOS that worked extremely well for both iPhone and iPad.
The M series of SOC are also way ahead of anything else. Retina display for iPhone was also a first. And finally the technologies Apple has used to completely switch the hardware architecture of major series of products.
First from Motorola to IBM Power, then from Power to x86, and finally from x86 to Arm. No other company has dared doing that, and when Microsoft tried to emulate it, AFTER Apple they did it way worse!There is no way you can realistically say Apple is not generally an innovative company, and that they aren’t leaders. When 5 times they’ve been leading major changes within an industry. What other company did that? There are very few companies that have brought groundbreaking disruptive new products like Apple has.
I’m saying this as one who has sworn never to buy another Apple product, because I despise the Apple closed garden mentality. So I’m definitely not a fanboy.
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 3 weeks ago:
Apple rarely leads the charge.
Absolutely that is how it is now, but they did coin the format every modern smartphone uses today. And originally they were way ahead of the competition in almost every aspect. They were so dominant, that for years there was a shortage for every other manufacturer of components to build smartphones that could compete!
But a lot has happened since the still pretty recent emergence of the first iPhone, that absolutely revolutionized the concept of smartphones.
And the competition is absolutely cutthroat, so even major renowned labels couldn’t keep up.
Like Nokia, HTC, Ericsson that were all major brands, are now almost completely gone. Obviously the Blackberry RIM is almost gone too, and I think Microsoft is out completely now, despite they were a significant factor before iPhone, and investing billions in an attempt at a come back!So it is quite amazing that a statement like Apple rarely takes a lead is so easily taken as a true statement, considering how different it was just a few years ago. A testament to the absolutely crazy development cycle smartphones still have.
Apple does however still lead on the SOC by a good margin. - Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 3 weeks ago:
Apple is pioneering better SOC than anybody else.
But apart from that you are perfectly right, none of the big 3 companies are actually pioneering anything anymore.
Google never was, but leaned on 3rd parties that made some very good Nexus phones, ending with the Huawei made P6.
Now the pioneers are mostly Chinese, while Samsung seems to be falling behind.
Google Pixel was never a front runner, iPhone was traditionally in some areas mostly software, while Samsung was in both software and hardware.
If you want the coolest newest stuff, it seems China is ahead with Xiaomi, Honor, Vivo etc.
The Samsung S25 Ultra is still absolutely a great phone, and I think recognized as the leader to beat, as a well rounded high end package.Regarding camera I think it’s getting damned hard to say which is best, comparison tests with many photo’s seems to swing between one phone maker to another, and movie stabilization also vary, even with good camera.
I think Samsung is still clearly ahead of Google and Apple, and the Chinese phones too have strengths and weaknesses. I like Xiaomi a lot in their flagship killer range, but on the top tier, they still have problems with camera stabilization Samsung handles better IMO.
The thing that impresses me most, is how much phones still improve in a single generation.
Maybe not enough to ditch the old one, but definitely enough to make the new model worth considering even when you can get last years model at a pretty hefty discount. - Comment on Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon 4 weeks ago:
As well as a human, and without fucking up because of stress.
Also my guess is these would be monitored by trained professionals. - Comment on Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon 4 weeks ago:
The AI will (probably) be familiar with every possible issue that no human will be able to match.
I’m not sure what kind of “completely unexpected” situation is possible can happen, that a normal surgeon would handle better?
But I agree it would have to be a lot smarter than current LLM and self driving for instance. Like a whole other level of smarter. But I think that is where we are heading. - Comment on Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon 4 weeks ago:
At some point in a not very distant future, you will probably be better off with the robot/AI. As it will have wider knowledge of how to handle fringe cases than a human surgeon.
We are not there yet, but maybe in 10 years or maybe 20? - Comment on The State of Consumer AI: AI’s Consumer Tipping Point Has Arrived - Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay for it. 4 weeks ago:
they are definitely not doing everything they can to increase their conversion rate.
Oh you mean like prompting users to buy extra services all the time?
Yes they are actually doing just that. - Comment on The State of Consumer AI: AI’s Consumer Tipping Point Has Arrived - Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay for it. 4 weeks ago:
Of course I do, but ChatGPT still has a free option. And the basis to compare paid subscriptions when there is also a free option stand IMO.
Without a good free option, how would it be only 5% who pay? It’s exactly the same as with Youtube in that regard.The free option is a form of advertising and allowing people to get to know the service. With Youtube the free option isn’t really free, you pay by allowing advertising.
So by that comparison Youtube is actually the worse free option of the two. And despite that more people pay for ChatGPT.
So your argument that they are not the same, actually makes ChatGPT numbers even more impressive not less. - Comment on Why do “flagship” smartphone chips go out of fashion after just a year? 5 weeks ago:
I absolutely answer the questions, what’s your problem?
What part of the question is not answered in my reply?Am I not free to ad my opinion too?
- Comment on The State of Consumer AI: AI’s Consumer Tipping Point Has Arrived - Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay for it. 5 weeks ago:
Paying gives advantages on youtube, just the same as ChatGPT.
- Comment on What things should I do if I spilled a small amount of scalding water from a kettle on my arm? 5 weeks ago:
Keep it under running water for ½ an hour, at the level that is the most comfortable.
Don’t make it too cold, but cold enough to ease the burning sensation.