theherk
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- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 1 day ago:
GNU / Linux :)
- Comment on Apple Fights Back Against Ruling Requiring External Payment Options 1 week ago:
Do they run on Windows ARM?
- Comment on Apple Fights Back Against Ruling Requiring External Payment Options 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Sure, Jan.
- Comment on Court ruling bars Apple from charging 27% commission on purchases outside the App Store 1 week 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 1 week 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) 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on PewDiePie: I installed Linux (so should you) 2 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) 2 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 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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] 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Ohh ee ohh!
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 1 month 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. 1 month 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. 1 month 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.
- Comment on GitHub - LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Truly independent web browser 2 months ago:
My mistake. I didn’t look far enough into it. But the accusation was made without context so I didn’t know. I’m not trying to defend him.
- Comment on GitHub - LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Truly independent web browser 2 months ago:
I don’t know. But rather than just accepting the assertion, I did a cursory search. This turned up and I perused it. I didn’t see anything damning and thought maybe somebody could clarify. I am absolutely not trying to defend anybody, but I didn’t spend much time on it. Sorry folks.
Maybe he is a bad guy. Truly, I didn’t know.
- Comment on GitHub - LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Truly independent web browser 2 months ago:
Is he though? I didn’t know anything about this, but it doesn’t sound as bad with context.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service 2 months ago:
Absolutist… ish
- Comment on Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion 2 months ago:
Not sure FlyingSquid is aware of life outside Lemmy. They’re addicted to the lotus flowers here.
- Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 4 months ago:
I love the number of people coming out of the woodwork with “obviously” ex post facto. Like everybody could just intuit how this operated, both in the affiliate stuffing and the deal agreements. It is difficult to show the latter.
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 5 months ago:
Curves being what they are, these numbers don’t mean much. Yes twitter has more users but if bsky crosses some threshold, their user count can begin to catch up quickly.
- Comment on Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media 6 months ago:
It could affect those things. But like I agreed with before, it should be handled carefully and this is a big reason. I distinguish simply between Facebook for example and ma’s blog. One tries to make money by gathering data and targeting advertising to people intentionally addicted to a platform. The other is, you know… a blog.
If the law outlawed the online exchange of ideas, I too would be among its biggest opponents but that is probably a strawman.
As far as me parenting? Sure. With the benefit of hindsight, I’m not sure I was fit either, but I did my best.