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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
For me the bigger value is not in the quality difference between the two platforms. And don’t get me wrong, i agree that BlueSky is a lot better than Elon’s Twitter, but not as good as a decentralised Fediverse Platform.

The real positive is in the act of migration itself, because it shows that is still a possibility. So hopefully it proves sustainable.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China powers up the world's largest open-sea offshore solar farm⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Not only construction, but also maintenance costs. I imagine they are harder to access, if needed, and salt water is hostile to any structure
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

Is YouTube doing it with small creators actually in mind? Who knows, other than them?

I am pretty confident in guessing that they are not doing it for selfless reasons. Imo the reason is that the less information they give the user, the more you are beholden to the algorithm choosing for you.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
How is 1€/day cheap for such limited home Internet? I guess it might depend on where you are, but unless you are in the middle of nowhere that seems expensive.

Here in Germany for example, which really isn’t known for its cheap internet, I can find options that offer 100Mbit Flatrates for 20€/month.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China debuts a record-smashing 26 MW offshore wind turbine⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I am not sure how up to date and accurate this Wikipedia article, but that seems like another substantial step. Looking at the list I am quite surprised by the speed the scale of these wind turbines seems to progress.

Can someone more knowledgeable answer me some questions:

How likely is it that China takes over this industry world wide similar to solar? Specifically what role does (if at all) play logistics in this. Those turbines are massive compared to easily shippable solar panels. So I imagine they’d be much harder to transport and local production could have some advantages, but how much does that matter?

It does seem like all the new largest turbines in prototype phase are from China, but when you scroll to commercially deployed the western manufacturers show up more. Is this just due to different timings in their development cycles or have they dropped out of development for larger turbines?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s the most overhyped tech trend right now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Agreed. Future carbon capture capabilities are used to justify current emissions.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Concord Director Steps Down As Studio Behind Historic PlayStation Flop Waits For Sony's Decision⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Importantly they tried to enter the market with a $40 purchase price, when the existing company is mostly free to play.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No one’s ready for this: Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

Photo manipulation has been around as long as the medium itself. And throughout the decades, people have worried about the veracity of images. When PhotoShop became popular, some decried it as the end of truthful photography. And now here’s AI, making things up entirely.

I actually think it isn’t the photo or video manipulation part that makes it a bigger issue nowadays (at least not primarily), but the way in which they are consumed. AI making things easier is just another puzzle piece in this trend.

Information volume and speed has increased dramatically, resulting in an overflow that significantly shortens the timespan that is dedicated to each piece of content. If i slowly read my sunday newspaper during breakfast, then i’ll give it much more attention, compared to scrolling through my social media feed. That lack of engagement makes it much easier for missinformation to have the desired effect.

There’s also the increased complexity of the world. Things can on the surface seem reasonable and true, but have knock on consequences that aren’t immediately apparent or only hold true within a narrow picture, but fall appart once viewed from a wider perspective. This just gets worse combined with the point above.

Then there’s the downfall of high profile leading newsoutlets in relevance and the increased fragmentation of the information landscape. Instead of carefully curated and verified content, immediacy and clickbait take priority. And this imo also has a negative effect on those more classical outlets, which have to compete with it.

You also have increased populism especially in politics and many more trends, all compounding on the same issue of missinformation.

And even if caught and corrected, usually the damage is done and the correction reaches far fewer people.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BMW Adaptive Suspension Can Be Added via Subscription. Suspension As A Service (SAAS)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
If once you do not succeed, just try again next year. They tried and backtracked putting heated seats behind a paywall not even a year ago see here.

Unless laws are made to make this fundamentally illegal, they’ll just keep pushing until it sticks. And once one manufacturer succeeds, they’ll all follow.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Since he mentions enshittification, I assume he means Plex.

However I am pretty sure both will have some bugs. I use jellyfin, so I can only speak about that. But one annoyance is that the androidTV app sometimes doesn’t have the best subtitle support. However it allows you to open movies in external players, which is a workaround.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China adds new clean power equivalent to UK’s entire electricity output | Renewable energy | The Guardian⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Neither. Looking e.g. here their energy consumption and thus also need to generate is increasing in general. So they are building both at the same time.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ISS astronauts on eight-day mission may be stuck until 2025, Nasa says⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

I’m sure they’ll continue to deserve all that public money for their big projects, which is obviously great for everyone! /s

Not sure how the current problems are handled, but at least the Starliner development was a fixed-cost rather than cost-plus contract for once. So at least Boeing ate massive losses on that one.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS OS with a web UI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Right, totally forgot about that step.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS OS with a web UI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Haven’t used it myself, but similar to casa os there is also cosmos os, which looking here seems to offer some build in storage management options. Maybe this could be worth looking into?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS OS with a web UI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

openmediavault is ok for raid, but the containers aren’t one click wonder like in other NAS OSes

Since OMV also uses docker compose with a build in GUI to manage them, I don’t assume this would be what OP is looking for. Unless trueNAS also comes with some repository of preconfigured compose files.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fmovies Has Gone Offline, the End of a Pirate Streaming Giant?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google and Microsoft consume more energy than some countries due to AI advances | Windows Central⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Not just people, but importantly also corporations running their services on Microsoft azure or Google cloud.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Redbox’s disc rentals are over⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
HDR vs no HDR makes a big difference in colours to me. And if you compare compressed low Bitrate footage vs higher Bitrate there will often be artifacts or color banding, particularly in darker scenes or wherever you have gradients.

It ofc also depends on what device you are watching it on. But I would say that yes if you have a movie (made up example) that is compressed to 5gb total size vs 25gb vs 70gb for the uncompressed Blu-ray quality, then the first jump will be a very noticeable difference assuming you have capable hardware. Whereas the second one will be much much less noticeable and also come with other drawbacks that need to weighted off, e.g. storage requirements.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Watch Series 10 Rumours: Expect Larger Screens, Faster Chip, But Health Features In Trouble⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Is that actually the case? I was under the impression that at least under US teenagers the iPhone usage was insanely high. And those are far from cheap, so at least there parents seem fine in spending big.

Also the cited article mentions $250 for the se watch vs $200 for the Samsung (although I guess that one might have bigger discounts). $50 difference doesn’t seem large for the “Apple tax”.

To me the plastic part would just seem like a risky gamble. Apple has the premium image and it might cheapen it. Especially on a device that is constantly visible, has skin contact and isn’t used with any case.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Watch Series 10 Rumours: Expect Larger Screens, Faster Chip, But Health Features In Trouble⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Doesn’t look great:
- No progress with health features, which seem like the most exciting evolution.
- Who truly needs the larger screen and faster chip. Especially the former will presumably reduce battery life, something that very much matters with watches.
The company is also working on a new version of its lower-cost Apple Watch SE model, which it last updated in 2022. One idea the company has tested is swapping the aluminium shell for rigid plastic. It’s likely to lower the cost to something that could better rival Samsung’s cheapest watch, the $199 Galaxy Watch FE. The SE currently starts at $249.

That really doesn’t sound like Apple.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google, Snap, Meta and many others are "quietly" changing privacy policies to allow for AI training | It is sneaky and possibly illegal, according to the FTC⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
But are those notifications and pop ups directly saying something like “from now on we will start to train ai on your information”?

Or is is one of the hundredth change of terms and conditions that people usually just skip, which mentions the major change in some fine print. Or a pop up designed with dark patterns to influence people into just accepting without actual informed consent?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I wonder if this method doesn’t overproportionally eliminates valuable workers, who can easily switch companies.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neuralink to implant 2nd human with brain chip as 85% of threads retract in 1st⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

with 85% of the promised functionality no longer functional

To be fair 85% of threads retracting doesn’t seem to translate to an equal amount of functional loss. The article mentions

Neuralink was quick to note that it was able to adjust the algorithm used for decoding those neuronal signals to compensate for the lost electrode data. The adjustments were effective enough to regain and then exceed performance on at least one metric—the bits-per-second (BPS) rate used to measure how quickly and accurately a patient with an implant can control a computer cursor.

I think it will be impossible for us to asses how much it actually impacts function in real world use case.

It seems clear that this is a case of learning by trial and error, which considering the stakes doesn’t seem like the right approach.

The question that this article doesn’t answer is, whether they have learned anything at all or if they are just proceeding to do the same thing again. And if they have learned something, is there something preventing it to be applied to the first patient.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

people find a lot of value in the products and services they offer

This is definitely true to some degree, but there imo is also another side to this.

Yes, they there are underlying problems/demands that they solve, but they definitely also create and shape those since psychology sadly works extremely effective. And they really try their hardest to manipulate customers.

Another aspect is that they might have originally created that value and given the users what they wanted, which got them in the position they are in now. Sometimes even operating at a loss to bully competition out of the market. But once they achieved this dominant position enshittification commences. Which wouldn’t be that much of an issue, if they wouldn’t also often prevent competition from growing enough to be able to compete.

Example Google search: The demand for a way to navigate the web is real and google fulfilled it best, which made them huge. Timejump to the present: the demand is still the same, but now google shows you what they want you to see and pay billions to be the default search engine to hinder any competition from gaining any traction.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft announces the Proteus Controller, a gamepad for Xbox gamers with disabilities⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s a ton of money when comparing it to mainstream electronics, but I’d imagine that $300 single payment is a drop in the bucket for something medical. Anyone who needs it probably spends similar amounts or more adapting other everyday things for ease of use.

It’s a niche probably low volume product that requires a good amount of hardware and software engineering.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta will shut down its Teams competitor Workplace next year⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I wonder how much Meta’s image played a role in adoption of their service. Not that the likes of Microsoft/Google are great either, but subjectively I’d still rather let them in then Facebook.

Overall this seems like a sizable blow for Meta imo, considering they are heavily investing in being the platform for VR/AR. Productivity might be one of the important use cases, if it ever gets mainstream traction.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal'⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
And even then they’ll think of the most malicious way to comply:

Forced to change the connectior to USB C? Better only give it USB 2.0 speeds on the regular and Plus model.

Forced to allow third party app stores? Better give it as many restrictions and limits as possible. I assume/hope they’ll eventually be forced to open up more, but they’ll fight it for as long as possible.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Agreed. As you said it’s a similar situation as with reddit, where I decided to delete my comments.

My reasoning is that those contributions were given under the premise that everybody was sharing to help each other.

Now that premise has changed: the large tech companies are only taking and the platform providers are changing the rules aswell to profit from it.

So as a result I packed my things and left, in case of reddit to here.

That said I think both views are valid and I wouldn’t fault those that think differently.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple iPhone sales decline 10% in first three months of 2024⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I think the answer to this is both yes and no:

Yes, iphones have good build quality and especially in regards to software updates have been great, keeping even older models up to date. Whereas only recently some android manufacturers changed their update policies to support models for longer.

And No, because apple consistently has made it difficult and costly to repair phones, e.g. by pairing all kinds of parts to each other through software.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
As said, i am not really that knowledgable in the whole blockchain topic, so anyone feel free to correct me where i am wrong:
- Why should i trust those parents/friends (or doctors if present)? Presumably this would be a global system? So why should i trust a group of random people from idk Somalia? I probably don’t even fully trust any institutions there. My understanding (simplyfied) is that with bitcoin the coins themself are mined by finding solutions to hard math problems that once found can be easily verified by anyone. So at the base you have something i myself can verify to be true. Whoever finds the right number first gets the coin and after that you only need to keep track of trades and this is where the blockchain helps.
- What data would be stored on this block chain? Honestly seems like a bit of a privacy nightmare. I wouldn’t want all family history and identifiable information to be public, so it can serve as an ID.
- To go along with the point above, how would you verify that a specific certificate on the chain belongs to you? Similar to a password for a crypto wallet? So that it can be lost without ability to be recovered, that your parents have control over it from the start, and that people who gain access to it can abuse it? Basically all issues similar to the US social security number? Or by having a passport or similar do the job, which kind of defeats a lot of the purpose of that blockchain being the source of ID.
- It wouldn’t be enough to make a birth/death certificate. You would still need a system to change/add information. Like what if somebody changes their names? Also not every child will be added from the start, so you will need to handle late additions (that e.g. make date of birth even more unsure). Also a small number of people might also require new identities for security purposes (think victims of abuse), how do you handle the need for an institution having the ability to create such fictional new identities?
I could probably find more issues.

So imo truth ultimately has to come from somewhere in the real world. And at places that might benefit from some system that is seperated from institutions (because they are poor, authoritarian, oppressive or have unstable governments for example) will at the same time have more difficulties providing something you can trust.

And in reverse regions that might have an easier time like the EU don’t really seem to need it. Also as far as electronic IDs go the EU is planning that with eIDAS 2.0 and the EUID. Don’t think it invloves a blockchain at any stage.