theherk
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- Comment on Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech 5 days ago:
“Bad” is SN’s claim to fame. Everybody hates it. Apparently, the worse they make it, the more companies will throw money at them.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
No, people do it both ways and you’ll even find both techniques by the pros. But anybody claiming it makes them more even I really don’t think is thinking it through. By adding the extra cut across those natural layers, you’re actually making to very small bits when the crosscut is near the layer boundary.
That’s why I think it is not only easier but superior not to add the crosscut.
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 2 weeks ago:
100% understood and agreed. I don’t want to defend the bad behavior. It is out there among questioners and in the experienced community alike. Just saying it is possible to find quality help there.
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 2 weeks ago:
I see this hot take often, and it isn’t entirely without merit, but it is mitigated by moderation; in some Stack communities better than others. I’ve been an active member for many years, and in my view it goes like this.
If you contribute a question without reading the rules and How to Ask a Good Question, you don’t provide minimal reproducible steps with code, post images of code, etc. you may get flamed out of town. And that may feel bad and it may be mean if the questioner didn’t know to read those. But they are there for you.
If, however, you ask a thoughtful question, give examples, show what you’ve tried, etc. you definitely can get quality, courteous help.
Doesn’t change that video killed the radio star here. The show is over.
- Comment on What does it mean to ‘accept’ or ‘reject’ all cookies, and which should I choose? 2 weeks ago:
It’s good enough for me.
- Comment on Apple executives ban Fortnight from the App store 2 weeks ago:
What are you on about? What you said simply is not true. At least, I’ve not once heard an Apple user state they wanted to be told what they were allowed to use. You either believe that, which would be stupid, or you don’t which would be disingenuous. You pick.
It may be a scumbag company, or its users a cult, but that doesn’t stop what you said from being stupid.
- Comment on Apple executives ban Fortnight from the App store 2 weeks ago:
I don’t disagree with any of that. I only take issue with the quoted statement.
- Comment on Apple executives ban Fortnight from the App store 2 weeks ago:
People buying Apple products want to be told by Apple what’s allowed.
I get that this crowd generally thinks Apple is hellspawn, in spite of also having devices made by other, also shitty corporations, but this is just a dumb thing to say. They’re just devices. Yes some of us prefer them. I didn’t switch after every mainline Android phone from G1 through Nexus and Pixel because I wanted a paternal imposition of allowed apps. Stupid fucking comment.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 3 weeks ago:
GNU / Linux :)
- Comment on Apple Fights Back Against Ruling Requiring External Payment Options 4 weeks ago:
Do they run on Windows ARM?
- Comment on Apple Fights Back Against Ruling Requiring External Payment Options 4 weeks ago:
Apple’s ARM SoC’s were some of their best work yet in my view.
- Comment on Court ruling bars Apple from charging 27% commission on purchases outside the App Store 4 weeks ago:
Imagine if Microsoft banned Windows users from downloading software outside the Microsoft store.
Imagine if Microsoft required all Software developers to give them 30% of their income or be banned from Windows
They were replying to the comparison to Windows. What are you on about?
- Comment on Court ruling bars Apple from charging 27% commission on purchases outside the App Store 4 weeks ago:
Sure, Jan.
- Comment on Court ruling bars Apple from charging 27% commission on purchases outside the App Store 4 weeks ago:
Imagine if Microsoft banned Windows users from downloading software outside the Microsoft store.
That was comparing desktop OS to mobile OS, which is why the person to which I replied pointed out this is different than macOS.
On your second point, neither is iOS a workstation, and one could just as easily say, “The only thing you’d want to install is mobile apps.” Okay but the problem isn’t the type of apps, it is the source of those apps. So either you should be able to get application / games from multiple sources or not.
If you think those initial downvotes were due to some pedantic distinction about workstation, and not because somebody indirectly implied that Microsoft and Apple were on similar footing in this regard, fine.
- Comment on Court ruling bars Apple from charging 27% commission on purchases outside the App Store 4 weeks ago:
That this completely true observation has twice the downvotes than upvotes highlights this community’s views on Apple.
- Comment on PewDiePie: I installed Linux (so should you) 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on PewDiePie: I installed Linux (so should you) 5 weeks ago:
Requires Windows to apply? Easily in the “nope” pile. Which is a privilege, I realize.
- Comment on Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That) 5 weeks ago:
It is better than Recall along a few axes. It doesn’t send communications off device without specifically requesting it. It computes as required in isolated environments. And most importantly, the goal as far as we can tell is for information and toys, not for logging all the actions taken on your phone.
I’m not trying to be a fanboi here, but even if Apple Intelligence is bad… Recall is much much worse.
- Comment on Researchers Tattooed Tardigrades. They Promise It Will Be Useful 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Friends don’t let friends surf unprotected.
- Comment on Apple shipped five plane-loads of iPhones and other products in three days to beat US tariff deadline 1 month ago:
Pretty smart really. Good shelf life, easy prep, calorie dense.
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 1 month ago:
Yes. That’s just what I want. An extension sending all ads served to me to a central location, so my fingerprint can be very easily indexed and stored on a definitely never hacked, leaked, or sold database.
- Comment on Power is not energy: why the difference matters [Technology Connections] 2 months ago:
“1kW within 1hr” isn’t power. That’s energy.
“nice steady energy”? You mean nice steady power, right?
“The second is like hell hole, tons of energy but still only a little bit of power.” No. They are both precisely the same energy.
“So if you toasted a toast, that was a lot of power delivered quickly.” No. That is a lot of energy delivered quickly.
I typically wouldn’t be pedantic about this, except that this is precisely the point the video is making. These two unit types are often confused.
- Comment on Airbus previews next-gen airliner with bird-inspired wings 2 months ago:
Ohh ee ohh!
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 2 months ago:
I actually think their comments when it first went open source are pretty compelling. I don’t disagree with you and I’m interested to see how zedless fares, but new projects of this scale are tough to do well and quickly. I’m pretty happy with their current approach.
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 2 months ago:
I prefer Gitlab CICD but there are many. Actions had a lot of potential. Then Microsoft bought GitHub and just slapped the Actions label on their CI. If you pull off the mask, it is just Azure devops.
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 2 months ago:
Might check out Zed. Relatively new editor from the folks behind Atom and treesitter. Extremely fast with an excellent interface and vim mode. The second best vim mode behind Neovim.
- Comment on Mullvad's privacy-focused search engine Leta is now free for all users | Leta acts as a proxy for Google and Brave search results 2 months ago:
I get what you’re saying, but in that case the google.com interface isn’t a search engine; nor the load balancers and proxies between it and the search application backend. And then, maybe those don’t count because there is some special sauce in database procedures that are the real workhorses.
Pedantry all the way down.
- Comment on Mullvad's privacy-focused search engine Leta is now free for all users | Leta acts as a proxy for Google and Brave search results 2 months ago:
DDG has been superb for me for a few years now often returning results I prefer over Google. I’m really pleased with it.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 2 months ago:
There are at least two projects trying. Ladybird is one and will make a splash next year. In addition, since the Servo project was adopted by the Linux Foundation it is again under active development.