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- Comment on It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. 5 months ago:
I have to restart it once or twice each day as it refuses to play videos or audio after a while. I know it’s not a settings issue, and I searched everywhere for an explanation. It fucking sucks. I’m this close to going back to Chrome.
- Comment on Important files will be gone in February 2024 when Google removes them from Files for Android 5 months ago:
Yeah, well, at least it only affects important official documents. /s
- Comment on Adobe abandons $20 billion acquisition of Figma 6 months ago:
Want Apple the main force behind killing Flash?
- Comment on Virgin Media 'fastest wi-fi' advert banned by watchdog 6 months ago:
And what about the fact that they can’t guarantee any wifi speed because what they provide is Internet connectivity to the router, and wifi speed depends on the distance from the router, walls or floors in between, interference with other access points and radio emitters, etc?
- Comment on PSA: If you're tired of political posts in Technology, block user L4 6 months ago:
How?
- Comment on Imagine voting for someone that wants to get rid of the department of education. 7 months ago:
I’m only sure that you are.
- Comment on WhatsApp seems set on introducing ads, but they won't appear in your inbox 7 months ago:
Hmm. I see status updates but they are changes in people’s status, not stories, there’s only ever a handful of updates, and it just shows the names of the people who updated their WhatsApp status, which happens very rarely. There’s no feed there, nothing to scroll.
Below that I see Channels, a list of companies to follow, and an “explore more” button. Which I haven’t touched and don’t intend to. If that’s where the feed is… well, I don’t know what people expected, it’s obviously going to be corporate marketing.
- Comment on WhatsApp seems set on introducing ads, but they won't appear in your inbox 7 months ago:
I have community, chat, updates, calls. None of them had anything related to stories or feeds.
- Comment on WhatsApp seems set on introducing ads, but they won't appear in your inbox 7 months ago:
Are you sure you’re talking about WhatsApp? I don’t see stories anywhere. Never saw anything like that. Maybe you’re talking about Snapchat or Instagram or something else?
- Comment on WhatsApp seems set on introducing ads, but they won't appear in your inbox 7 months ago:
I don’t see that. There’s no feed anywhere as far as I can tell. I just see my chats. I didn’t create any communities or join any channels. Is that where you see a feed?
- Comment on LinkedIn user data leaked: Database shows emails, profile data, phones, full names, and more confidential info. 7 months ago:
They don’t have lax security measures. They use industry standard measures, including encryption in transit and at rest, salted passwords (they were caught without salt over a decade ago and fixed it), internal training on security, phishing simulations, the works. Your data is their business, they don’t want to lose it.
- Comment on LinkedIn user data leaked: Database shows emails, profile data, phones, full names, and more confidential info. 7 months ago:
Wow, ok. Ignoring your apparent refusal to potential salary improvements, you can always turn off notifications, hibernate your account, close your account, or filter emails from LinkedIn, if it’s such a big deal to you.
- Comment on WhatsApp seems set on introducing ads, but they won't appear in your inbox 7 months ago:
WhatsApp doesn’t have an inbox. What are they talking about!?
- Comment on LinkedIn user data leaked: Database shows emails, profile data, phones, full names, and more confidential info. 7 months ago:
Agreed, but that’s on the recruiters, not on the platform.
- Comment on LinkedIn user data leaked: Database shows emails, profile data, phones, full names, and more confidential info. 7 months ago:
Thanks, it’s rare to find a well thought out answer in here like yours.
I agree that LinkedIn always did shady things to increase their user base. They used dark patterns to get access to your address book even as they got constant criticism for that, both externally and internally. One of their top product managers was actually proud of that, and said that they would have done more if possible.
But I very much doubt they actually sold their customer’s emails at any point. They have always been very protective of their customer’s data, fighting scrapers and limiting APIs. There’s no upside to selling your customers info. You’re undermining your own business by doing so.
- Comment on LinkedIn user data leaked: Database shows emails, profile data, phones, full names, and more confidential info. 7 months ago:
My sarcasm detector is uncertain with this one.
- Comment on LinkedIn user data leaked: Database shows emails, profile data, phones, full names, and more confidential info. 7 months ago:
How do you mean? Are you confusing recruiters reaching out to you with spammers?
- Comment on Bored ape NFT event attendees get their faces burned by event lighting 7 months ago:
You truly made an effort to ignore everything I wrote. Well done, I guess.
- Comment on Bored ape NFT event attendees get their faces burned by event lighting 7 months ago:
Yep, I knew you would show up.
You have obviously never bought a car or a house in a country where you have to trust that the cash the buyer is giving you is not counterfeit, or if using a bank transfer, that they will actually make the transfer once you signed away your ownership.
You can just use an ownership database maintained by the country
The blockchain would be the ownership database maintained by the country. The key is the atomic exchange of money for ownership.
Your rant about cryptocurrencies is irrelevant to this.
- Comment on Bored ape NFT event attendees get their faces burned by event lighting 7 months ago:
I have an example but it’s not necessarily the best and most practical solution, it’s just one very good solution to a problem that not everyone experiences, so it’s generally shot down as unnecessary.
In countries where buying a car or house involves an asynchronous exchange of money and keys or signing of documents, with all the trust issues involved, having an NFT represent ownership (which requires recognition and acceptance by the state) is a perfect use case, where you transfer ownership and receive payment in one atomic operation.
- Comment on Bored ape NFT event attendees get their faces burned by event lighting 7 months ago:
“art”
- Comment on How engineering leaders can use AI to optimize performance | TechCrunch 7 months ago:
As an engineering manager who’s tasked with manually gathering a whole lot of metrics in the hopes that they will help improve “something”, what would you say are the metrics that make the most sense?
As a former coder, I would say PR size (the smaller the better), automated test coverage, and number of prod bugs, toil level (unplanned work, dealing with tools and environment issues) but also things like knowledge of the code base, level of collaboration, ownership of the process, org-wide collaboration and learning… Much of which is hard to measure but can be set as goals regardless.
- Comment on Github is having some issues 7 months ago:
No, I’m using V2.
- Comment on Github is having some issues 7 months ago:
I’ve recently changed jobs and my new company uses GitHub for everything, including “projects”, its wannabe kanban boards, and I’m truly appalled at how bad they are. They’ve been out for many years, yet they lack the most basic features that are industry standard, like a decent API, or hierarchical relationships between tickets, or a simple integration between the board and the ticket status… Like what are they thinking!?
Yeah, GitHub has some issues alright.
- Comment on Could we use AI to update 4:3 media to 16:9? 8 months ago:
What about person A putting an arm over person B’s shoulder? That’d have to be a pretty long arm.
- Comment on Military Time vs 24hr? 8 months ago:
That map looks quite inaccurate, I wonder where they got that info.
- Comment on Military Time vs 24hr? 8 months ago:
Nobody says “veinte y media”. It’s “veinte treinta”, and everyone understands that and it’s shorter than “ocho y media de la noche”, which everyone understands as well. They’re completely interchangeable and nobody would find either strange or unusual.
- Comment on What are good places to frequently check / 'be' on the internet besides lemmy / reddit / social media? 8 months ago:
Hackernews is still great and there’s an app (Harmonic).
- Comment on Results of the "Can you tell which images are AI generated?" survey 8 months ago:
15 here and when I reviewed the answers I realized most were sheer luck.
- Comment on Threads blocks searches related to covid and vaccines as cases rise 9 months ago:
It’s a nice idea, but unfortunately it’s been proven not to work. Misinformation spreads way faster than facts.