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- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 2 weeks ago:
It’s probably not a bluff. They’ve pretty much saturated the U.S. market; there’s not much room left to grow here. It would make more sense to focus their efforts on growing in other regions where they have plenty of headroom to increase their userbase and monetization. Depending on how things play out, they could match their current revenue in a matter of years and still have room left to grow. There’s also the potential to re-enter the U.S. market down the line. Why would they throw that all away and essentially create their own competitor by selling their core technology and diluting/confusing their brand with whatever U.S. company they sell to?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I use Flow Launcher with Everything and love it (both installed via Scoop btw)
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
When I installed Nobara Linux on my younger sister’s old hand-me-down laptop, I spent more time trying to get the WiFi card working then I did installing the new SSD and operating system. And this is a distro focused on making Linux more “works out of the box” than Fedora (which it’s based on). This isn’t something she would have been able to figure out on her own. I switched the laptop from Windows 10 because of how slow it was, but slow is better than no Internet if you aren’t a tech nerd who can figure out what random ass commands to run to finally get WiFi working.
- Comment on xkcd #2907: Schwa 1 month ago:
- Comment on Another “patent troll” defeated by Cloudflare and its army of bounty seekers 2 months ago:
To clarify, they’re not going after patent trolls afaik, just going to court when they’re targeted by them (instead of forking up a payment to the patent troll company to avoid that). Iirc, the last patent troll they took to court ended up collapsing and isn’t operating anymore.
- Comment on GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour 5 months ago:
Can’t wait for them to try this, it flops, half the staff gets laid off, the CEO steps down with a golden parachute, the CEO trades places with the CEO of another tech company, that new CEO makes an even worse decision, another half of the staff gets laid off, the new CEO gets a raise, Microsoft buys both companies, Google makes a competing game studio that gets killed before their first game release, and Apple releases their first video game for $3000 that only runs on M2 and above.
- Comment on Anyone knows a good lightweight self-hosted alternative to GitHub? 5 months ago:
I recommend against gogs. It’s missing lots of features that I expected and I ended up switching to gitea anyways. Gitea works well for everything I need and forgejo is a fork of gitea that I might switch to in the future.
- Comment on Joe Biden Wants US Government Algorithms Tested for Potential Harm Against Citizens 6 months ago:
This seems to me like an exception that would realistically only apply to the CIA, NSA, and sometimes the FBI. I doubt the Department of Housing and Urban Development will get a pass. Overall seems like a good change in a good direction.
- Comment on Here comes another Netflix price hike 6 months ago:
Obligatory Jellyfin > Plex recommendation and TRaSH-Guides plug
Jellyfin is a completely self-hosted Plex alternative that works really well. Plex has been around longer and thus has more dedicated apps, but Jellyfin can’t ever disable your account or block the server you pay to run it on .
I’ve been using Jellyfin for over a year and have no complaints.
- Comment on Introducing Bitmagnet: A self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, content classifier and torrent search engine with web UI, GraphQL API and Servarr stack integration 7 months ago:
Golang v1.0 was released in March of 2012. Not sure I would consider it a new language.
- Comment on Bluesky sees record signups day after Musk says X will go paid-only 7 months ago:
- Comment on Selfhosted backup solution with GUI 7 months ago:
Kopia actually has a GUI option too! I use it all the time! I pair it with a docker webdav server running on my server pc across the room.
- Comment on Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds 8 months ago:
You could also imagine a malicious actor phoning home to that API to drive up “installs” for a game and make a small studio or individual deal with massive fees. If a company is making these kinds of changes against the better judgement of their user base AND their internal analysis (lots of stock was sold two weeks ago), I’m doubtful they even care to properly deal with those kinds of problems.
- Comment on Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome 8 months ago:
I agree. Right now, websites maintain tracking infrastructure to build a profile of individual people as they move across the web. All of that comes down to one thing: targeted advertising. If companies had some way to know what types of ads to show users without tracking them, it would be way easier and cheaper. It would also be better for users since they wouldn’t be invasively tracked all over the web. Privacy Sandbox seems to meet those goals. It does all the tracking locally and sends the end result (advertising topics of interest for this user) so the website knows what kinds of ads to show you without actually doing the tracking. This is a more privacy-focused way of doing targeted advertising for both websites and users. From what I can tell, it’s a win-win. Most of the people I see complaining seem to hate it just because it’s an advertising feature implemented by Google, but to me it seems unambiguously better than the current standard.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years 8 months ago:
My go-to terminal text editor is micro. It’s intuitive, has sensible controls (looking at you,
ESC
:qa!
), and supports plugins for expanding functionality. It’s the only terminal text editor I’ve used that does what I expect and I regularly use it instead of vscode. Nano is my backup and Vim is my enemy.