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- Comment on Strava closes the gates to sharing fitness data with other apps 1 day ago:
Do you realise that we are years (decades?) away from viable open source hardware? You likely use a closed source processor with closed source chipset, GPU and closed source ram. And these are the building blocks, then you have the closed source integrations of these blocks
Same applies to fitness watches. Garmin happens to be one of the best (if not the best) hardware for the purpose, with a decent (not great, just decent) software that is very closed source and very closed in interoperability.
You may say to vote with the wallet… but where? Apple that is even more closed and restrictive? Huawei that deserves its own ethical discussion?
I haven’t looked into Suunto and Polaris but I would be shocked if they were dramatically different since this is their business, selling api and integrations
- Comment on Stolen credit cards up for grabs on Meta’s Threads. 3 weeks ago:
Required: only in EU Available: EU close countries (UK, Switzerland, etc)
In the US banking is a bit different than over here. People still pay rent with checks (that in EU are de facto obsolete) possibly sent in an envelope via mail.
You may wonder why…. Because a money transfer (that in EU is generally for free) in US is often a double digit operation.
- Comment on Stolen credit cards up for grabs on Meta’s Threads. 3 weeks ago:
It’s a mechanism that is compulsory in EU (and nearby countries like Switzerland).
When you try to spend money online (without the plastic card), you need a second factor. In practice in, let’s say, Amazon there is an iframe with a page of your bank that asks to confirm the operation on the banking app or insert the code they sent you by SMS or things like that
- Comment on Clever, clever 3 weeks ago:
Hashing enters the chat
- Comment on Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn 3 weeks ago:
If you lived in the medieval, would you have rooted for the apocalypse?
- Comment on 'We'll come for you next': Israel threatened to kill teen journalist in Gaza — then did 1 month ago:
Victim blaming
- Comment on Google considers sourcing from nuclear power plants, says CEO Pichai [Nikkei] 1 month ago:
Microsoft: <comes with a controversial idea> Google: Hey! That is a great idea! Let me say publicly that I want to do the same
- Comment on "Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely 1 month ago:
Or give psychological safety that it is demonstrated to increase productivity 🤷♂️
What makes you think union decrease productivity instead?
- Comment on Kevin's a lady's man 1 month ago:
😂😂
- Comment on Smart 1 month ago:
Yes, i got it, but it depends from the distribution. If there is correlation on where the bad apples appears (e.g. for cultural or socio economic conditions), it is more likely that we are close to the case of 3 bunches (that is 30 apples, just 5 more than the “original” apples)
If we stop this parallelism (that is what I disagree with) and we move to the actual issue with the police, i think it’s a problem with all power positions: all positions that come with power (no matter how small) attract certain kind of people. This is true from the folks that check tickets in public transportation to teachers. Police is worse because there is a lot of unchecked power and close to no accountability
The solution is not how to do bin packing of the bad apples, the solution is reducing the power, increasing accountability and add checks (e.g. while body cam have some privacy implications that i don’t like, it’s a step in that direction)
- Comment on Smart 1 month ago:
between 30 and 250, depending from the distribution… And your point is? 🤷
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 1 month ago:
Well it sounds more scary than it realistically will be.
YouTube must pass to the player the metadata of where the ads start/end. Why? Because they need to be unskippable/unseekable/etc. If the metadata is there it is possible to force the seek 🤷♂️
Just matter of time
- Comment on CrowdStrike downtime apparently caused by update that replaced a file with 42kb of zeroes 4 months ago:
If I had to bet my money, a bad machine with corrupted memory pushed the file at a very final stage of the release.
The astonishing fact is that for a security software I would expect all files being verified against a signature (that would have prevented this issue and some kinds of attacks
- Comment on NetBSD bans all commits of AI-generated code 6 months ago:
I never felt so close to try NetBSD as after reading this 😃
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 6 months ago:
The position and length can be randomized, for sure you can throw ai at it… but ai is stupidly expensive… companies that offer AI systems are all operating that business at loss… and no big company would engage in something like this… distilled model on client? Sure… but who trains it? My point is… things can get worse and worse
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 6 months ago:
If you don’t have to reencode but only concatenate the streams it can be done for your request specifically because it’s not meaningfully more expensive than just serving the content
- Comment on First known test dogfight between AI and human pilot carried out, US military says 7 months ago:
Training a combat pilot used to cost (in early 2000, not sure now) 10M€ for a NATO member.
Find me a modern jet that costs so little. Regardless of what politicians say, human life has a price… and it is waaaay below a jet (even including the training)
- Comment on No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B Contract with Israel 7 months ago:
As far as I heard (but I am not too familiar) the CEO is essentially never in the office.
Also, according to the video, the office is in California. People were arrested (and fired) in NY as well (where there is no such an office).
Yes, insubordination is the key point. But it’s also the key point of a protest. The take away is that Google doesn’t accept a protest (any more?)
Re trespassing: in the Google offices everyone can pretty much go to any office. They realistically didn’t break into but, sure, they were in an office that wasn’t theirs
- Comment on No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B Contract with Israel 7 months ago:
Confidentially incorrect: at Google there is no clock in and no clock out (for employees, contractors is different). At Google you can work 1h per day or 20h per day you earn the same. Performances are assessed on the output not on the hour worked.
So, no, find another reason for which Google is right. Popular topic is “they disrupt other people work by making noise” or “they destroyed properties… you cannot see in the picture but they destroyed millions of precious bacteria on the floor”
- Comment on Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites 7 months ago:
What year is this? 2008?!? Now we have Netflix and piracy is not a problem, right? Oooohhhh right they decided to kill the golden egg chicken but they still want the eggs
- Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent 8 months ago:
To the part that they were bribed.
I think they are simply in the pipe dream that they will become the new LinkedIn
- Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent 8 months ago:
While I see what you are seeing, I think people will just move to the next startup.
Also by Occam’s razor, don’t explain with malice what you can explain with stupidity
- Comment on Google fires employee who protested Israel tech event, as internal dissent mounts 8 months ago:
Regev then told the crowd, “Part of the privilege of working in a company, which represents democratic values is giving the stage for different opinions.”
Followed by:
A Google spokesperson said the employee was fired
Do I miss any logical step or a managing director just said that Google doesn’t represent democratic values? 🤔🤔
- Comment on Encrypted email service Skiff gets acquired, will shut down in six months 9 months ago:
This! Encrypt at rest with the key handed off to the provider every single time you login is just a PR stunt
- Comment on Elon Musk Bought Twitter to Settle His Jet-Tracking Beef, New Book Claims 9 months ago:
Here we are talking of very debatable definitions of “making sense” tbh
- Comment on AI lobbying spikes 185% as calls for regulation surge 9 months ago:
That’s called science… You know the thing that you publish on scientific paper. Nothing to do with lobbying… You know… Giving “donations”
- Comment on Amazon is more profitable than ever after a year of mass layoffs 9 months ago:
If you stop putting fuel in your car, the first few miles are very cheap i must say…
- Comment on U.S. Corporations Are Openly Trying to Destroy Core Public Institutions. We Should All Be Worried | Trader Joe's, SpaceX, and Meta are arguing in lawsuits that government agencies protecting worker... 9 months ago:
I hear the general sentiment against billionaire and corporations but from game theory point of view what they are doing is the rational behavior.
The problem is not them doing this, the problem is that the system (judiciary system in this case) is not neutral as it is supposed to be.
The problem, though, is that it’s short sighted. If the workers are abused less and less business opportunities there are. In other words on the short term the corporations win, on the long term everyone loses.
A single billionaire, overall, can spend less than 1000 millionaires that can spend less than 10 ppl that make 100k/y
- Comment on Is It Worth The Time? XKCD 1205 updated for open source and shared tools. 10 months ago:
This! The point of automation is rarely saving time. The point of automation is increasing quality.
It can be a data quality, it can be mitigating a production risk, can be avoiding regression.
Heck even unit tests are automation (you may just manually test your code once and call the day).
I am not saying that automation is always good, but the evaluation should be
- what is the cost of production/data quality/regression gone wild? (Possibly in€/$/¥)
- what is the cost of the person/team performing the task over 1 Year (Again, £€$¥)
- what is the expected cost of the person/team implementing automation?
Then you do (3)*3 - (1) *3 - (2). Is it positive? You do, is it negative you? You don’t. The more it’s positive the higher the priority of doing.
Why the *3? The first because the expected cost of automation is always massively underestimated The second because it takes multiple times something goes wrong till the decision is reconsidered 🙂
Why 1 year? Because generally the task to automatize changes or disappear
- Comment on Don't expect iPhone apps to get cheaper now that you can pay for them outside of the App Store 10 months ago:
This article is totally not sponsored by Apple 🙄🙄🙄
So many BS points