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- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 1 hour ago:
“Innovation” used to mean better prices and/or better products. Adding adverts to a product you already own isn’t innovation.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Was hoping we’d stop all that after the Queen died. Doesn’t feel the same saying “King”.
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 1 day ago:
Microsoft is so wealthy they could do that, and would even support such legislation if it could hinder their competitors such as smaller Linux distributions.
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 1 day ago:
Thanks, I wanted to say that but I couldn’t figure out how to spell it.
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 1 day ago:
Given Reddit’s past unreasonableness, I wouldn’t be surprised if this otherwise reasonable explanation has an alternative motive.
- Comment on Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels? 2 days ago:
When I ask car people about that they say (basically) “no, it won’t fit”.
- Comment on Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels? 2 days ago:
Personally I think it is cool to not give money to anti-consumer companies, which I assume all car companies have become by now if they all have computers. Certainly they cannot forever resist the temptation to use the power they have over users when they control the software running on our hardware.
- Comment on Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions. 1 week ago:
Is it hypocrisy to be for EULA enforcement on reading when it’s machines, but no when it’s humans? Crawlers “read” on a massive scale that doesn’t compare to humans.
- Comment on Roblox continues efforts for child safety by expanding age estimation to all users by end of the year 2 weeks ago:
I estimate that won’t do much.
- Comment on House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias 2 weeks ago:
Nothing stopped someone writing a bogus paper claiming an MMR vaccine causes autism. It being a paper likely gave it undue credit to people who were convinced by it, not that they read it…
- Comment on House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias 2 weeks ago:
I’m not writing a paper or essay… so my standards are different.
Conversely I’ve tried following a paper to implement an algorithm and suddenly found it used math terns that I couldn’t find an explanation for and unlike the rest of the paper it didn’t explain shit.
- Comment on House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias 2 weeks ago:
That sounds like a generic issue, one should expect. I wouldn’t consider this a specific party’s talking point until they suggest a solution that isn’t just more reason, more logic, more evidence.
- Comment on House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias 2 weeks ago:
How often?
- Comment on House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias 2 weeks ago:
The answer to any bias in Wikipedia is to cite more verifiable sources, use better sound reasoning and update when newer evidence is found.
The answer is probably not the wishful thinking of one of USA’s unrepresentative main parties. To learn about public misrepresentation in government check out a page from Wikipedia.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
I doubt the concept of anonymised data. Companies and governments have bad incentives to know who you are, and collect data from brokers to make correlations and educated guesses.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
If we’re talking about a hard copy ID (passport, drivers license) that’s one thing. A digital ID over the internet is asking for trouble.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
I’d rather not have the law, or if law then big business pay but exclusions for smaller businesses/hobbyist.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
That means being paid by the tax payers.
The free option is to trust your children.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
Age check happens via trustest entity (your government)
Bold of you to assume a government entity is trusted. In the UK we have a large misrepresentative error due to our voting system.
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 3 weeks ago:
Verify my balls, Google.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 4 weeks ago:
Obligatory Steam Deck runs Linux BTW.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 4 weeks ago:
If BSD had a the same software license as Linux then I would celebrate it running on PlayStation hardware as users would be more free. Instead PS consoles are locked-down, preventing you running software unless daddy Sony says you can. It’s a battle between consumer rights, including software freedom.
- Comment on AI at the World’s Biggest Games Event(Gamescom) Booked Random Meetings for Attendees 4 weeks ago:
It looks like you’re organizing a meeting, would you like with that?
Yes / No
- Comment on Meta Quest 3/3s XR headsets finally rooted after 2 years 4 weeks ago:
Waiting on a software freedom-respecting headset.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Does “relatively easy” mean in comparison to modern cars, and not easily repairable older cars? I don’t follow cars but if it’s anything like other tech then it’s soon to be crippled by part tying.
- Comment on "I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint 5 weeks ago:
Open source can refer to MIT licensed code/projects where it can be taken, modified and redistributed as proprietary software without giving back. You can’t contribute without wondering if you’re doing work for a mega corp.
I would be temped to argue that doesn’t go far enough. If copyleft wasn’t circumvented by AI I’d argue for that.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 5 weeks ago:
Mull has stopped develop? 🥺
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 5 weeks ago:
I started using tab groups when they released vertical tabs.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 5 weeks ago:
Based on this patterns you have an idea, where you need to focus in the physical theory for understanding and optimizing it.
How do you tell what the patterns are, or how to interpret them?
- Comment on Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. 5 weeks ago:
EU have slapped their shit a few times but I suppose it’s their game to lose.