DarkSideOfTheMoon

@DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, it’s not about boycott to affect. I just don’t want to give my money to what I do not believe. It’s a personal choice, I can’t control anything, I am just trying to live my life. This is a small thing I can control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think many does. Specially with tech stuff when it’s not really an advantaged. Like take 6 inch screen phone. Some companies put a 4K display, but the distance we normally use phones at this density it does not have real benefit. While the more pixels on screen will use much more processing power and battery, the trade off does not worth. But “nerds” will see big 4K and think it’s better

  Or like a phone with 200MP camera, if the system does do a good job balancing and processing all this pixels you get much much more noise, the noise reduction can create washed photos with huge file sizes, again the trade off is not that much.

  And I think engineers in this companies knows that, but marketing pushes for “big numbers” for “nerds”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What if devices would have a private chip to have the ID, so the website would just request if user is underage or not. Would this be private? Instead of sending the whole id to the online platform?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait HDMI 2.1 does not support uncompressed 8K? How much data rate you need for 8K?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google gets to keep Chrome, judge rules in search antitrust case⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who would buy a browser for billions and billions of dollars? Just see who has this amount of money and how aggressive they would need to be to get return of investment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even 4K is not yet easily available . I mean except from AppleTV plus that all content is 4K and it’s part of basic subscription, every other streaming charges much more for 4K content, most people don’t want to pay more every month for 4K

  So 8K is just a distant reality that content makers are not really wanting to happen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google gets to keep Chrome, judge rules in search antitrust case⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With reports of Elon Musk eying to buy Chrome or OpenAI… sorry but I believe this was the best outcome, what we need is people using more Firefox that is one of the few non-Chromium browser out there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the instance owner would be responsible, but what if the instance is out of the state?

  Unless the instance owner is on a visa, with a criminal record they could get him. But otherwise it’s hard to be enforced.

  Maybe they could ask the app stores to ban apps in that states. Something like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  More like a love and hate relationship. I normally turn off my work computer and turn on my gaming one. Most of my time I am using one. Or a pocket computer some call it smartphone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As programmer. It’s helping my productivity. And look I am SDET in theory I will be the first to go, and I tried to make an agent doing most of my job, but it always things to correct.

  But programming requires a lot of boilerplate code, using an agent to make boilerplate files so I can correct and adjust is speeding up a lot what I do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This would make even a dark mode extension something illegal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CALL FOR URGENT ACTION to stop Chat Control legislation in EU⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh so this was the real reason they wanted interconnected chat apps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Perfect translation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe this would be enough for people really start to consider Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When in save for myself I like rtf or markdown. But when I need on my work it’s normally something from a template or something already on the server that is using Microsoft format, when your employer decide this for you, there isn’t any choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is super intentional. Look for the Fitts law en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts's_law

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe if they didn’t use very intrusive ads people would not install ad-blockers so much

  Many website put a video playing in later in top of the text, with another layer of ads and tiny space to read… the website would be unreadable without ad-blocks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple’s plan: Stall, cheat, repeat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know. I understand some good devs are paying the price, but…

  Here in US apps are allowed to external links. Before I was opening and app, subscribing and canceling in the seam month if I wanted

  Now DAZN (sport streaming) is forcing users to give 30 days notice. So if you use for a day. You need to pay 2 months.

  I would prefer to pay 30% more than 100% more to use DAZN for a single month.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Problem is if you have family on other countries most use WhatsApp for everything, it’s hard for some to not have any Meta app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I bet a lot of people will slow because they will not read it or not really understand what they are accepting. Some will even share the new AI creating as something nice while they are giving up their private photos to Meta