matlag

@matlag@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, that’s textbook big tech strategy: -Build up the hype -Get the product out there, make sure as many orgs and people start using it as possible. Make it free or sell at loss if necessary -Oh yes, we broke a few laws for this. If we don’t get a waiver, we’ll have to close the service for everyone, do you realize the impact?

  That’s Facebook on privacy, Uber on workers rights, etc. Now N+1th: OpenAI on copyright.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why you get “don’t put living animals in the microwave oven” in the instructions.

  If Tesla didn’t explicitely wrote “don’t put your f***ing finger in the way on purpose after multiple attempts to close it!” he may have a chance.

  He will plead a trauma from the loss of trust in his beloved car brand and the credibility damage on his Youtube channel and ask for M$.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm 99% sure it's not real⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Half of the job is to fix issues with existing suff, the other half is to make working stuff more complicated and problematic (aka “upgrade”), so that we’re still paid to do the first half.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NASA has some explaining to do⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I kind of hope it’s real. Down that path at some point they’ll decide the whole Internet and all modern technologies are satanist and leave Internet for good. They can embrace the Amish lifestyle, it’s a win for the rest of us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Nuclear plants consist mainly of a shitton of concrete (and only the best sort is good enough). The production of that concrete causes a terrible amount of carbon emissions upfront.

  Actually, if you compare them to solar or wind at equivalent service, it’s not that straightforward:

  Renewables installed capacity is nowhere close to their actual production, nuclear can produce its nominal capacity in a very steady way.

  Wind turbines also need a lot of concrete, and much more metal for equivalent output. Solar panels need a lot of metals.

  Renewables need a backup source to manage their intermittency. It’s most often batteries and fossil plants these days. I don’t think I need to comment on fossil plants, but batteries production also has a very significant carbon emission budget, and is most often not included in comparisons. Besides, you need to charge the batteries, that’s even more capacity required to get on par with the nuclear plant.

  With all of these in consideration, IPCC includes nuclear power along with solar and wind as a way to reduce energy emissions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not going to happen. They charge such an insanely high premium vs real cost for a very primitive messaging system, they’re not letting that go!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Streaming TV costs now higher than cable, as 'crash' finally hits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Could we define a trade-off system? Classic broadcasting can take way too long to send out a large catalog. Streaming is, as you say, a heavy resources consuming system.

  So how about a combo of a box or a software that can follow a broadcast N times faster than human, and broadcast N movies/series episodes a day? The application let you pick what you’d like to get on your box/app, and then it’s like classic video recording, but on steroids.

  It would be like live-streaming, but at 2, 3, 10 times the normal speed. No human needs to follow that.

  Of course, you still have the issue of glitches, communication interruption, but we’ve dealt with those for years, and there are certainly ways to indeed stream the missing parts, or use rediffusion.

  You read it first here. I’m off to file for a patent and make billions (or not…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today 10 years ago I got a Firefox OS phone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I really wish they had opened all of the system.

  I mean: what is it they can still lose? I’m pretty sure a few licenses are not making them break even. Do they fear some third parties would copy the OS and release phones with it? Would that not be a sign that other companies trust in the OS and help them land bigger contracts?

  /e/ managed to get a business off with a full opensource stack, without building the phones themselves. What prevents Jolla to try the same approach?

  They could have been the main developers of the true Linux opensource phone OS. Instead, they’re going to get passed by Plasma Mobile, and then they’ll have nothing left to offer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today 10 years ago I got a Firefox OS phone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The N9 was killed by Stephen Elop, the new CEO coming straight from Microsoft with a mission: get Nokia bought off by MS.

  Right from the start, he ran an explicit counter-advertisement campaign against the N9 and Meego. Whatever commercial success it would be, this would be the first and last device running MeeGo from Nokia, and there would be no support for MeeGo.

  Nokia was to embrace Windows mobile OS, that turned out to be a total disaster. But indeed, after he tanked Nokia, it became cheap enough to bought by MS, as Nokia got both cheap and undsirable by any other big player due to its binding to MS bad mobile OS, and Elop got his VP status back there.

  This is a shame in the history of mobile phones and OS!

  Later, some former Nokia would start their own phone company reusing part of MeeGo. Jolla was born.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is taking control of large subreddits that are still protesting its API changes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For many “lurkers” of reddit, the protest brought some attention to the issue and reddit’s disdain for the moderators.

  I think it helps with the migration if the communities are not taken by surprise when a mod declares a migration.