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- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 21 hours ago:
I lost my job in April 2024 and I finally got my new job at the end of January. Keep your chin up. Look for people you know who could give referrals. That’s how I ended up getting hired. Good luck!
- Comment on Unannounced Blade Runner Game Canceled At Supermassive 2 weeks ago:
Tell that to the people who were working on it and will now get laid off instead.
- Comment on China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech 3 weeks ago:
You literally never hear “America scientists” even if some of them might be from another country. Same with every single other country I can think of, except China.
- Comment on Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins 4 weeks ago:
If you’re breaking the law then you forfeit your rights in favor of some much more restrictive ones.
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 1 month ago:
“most of the surrounding villages”
- Comment on Google will develop the Android OS fully in private; Will continue open source releases. 1 month ago:
For every person switching from Windows to Linux, how many people got a new Chromebook or a Mac, or just do everything on their phones or a tablet?
I have a Linux machine myself, and I love having it, but I don’t think the user base is growing particularly quickly as a percentage of PC OS installations.
- Comment on Google will develop the Android OS fully in private; Will continue open source releases. 1 month ago:
Right after Linux on desktop takes off, which is sure to happen any day now.
- Comment on Henry Symeonis 2 months ago:
Requiescat in pace
- Comment on Designed by men, for men: Why sex with robots does not have appeal among women 2 months ago:
Realistically how is a man going to design a good sex robot for a woman? Let a woman do that, they’ll get what they want.
- Comment on After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad 2 months ago:
If they made Wordpad generate Markdown instead of RTF (or as well as, but by default) then I’d consider using it. As it is, I already pay for a Jetbrains license, so I just use Fleet. Massive overkill for note-taking, but it’s there and it works.
- Comment on Apple, Microsoft Joining Google Using Gulf of America in Maps Programs 2 months ago:
I’m not American, I just live here… for now
- Comment on Tech's Dumbest Mistake: Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything 2 months ago:
Yeah, I’m sure they left the spelling mistake in the image on purpose to get increased engagement from pedants like me, I’m sorry, it works on me.
- Comment on Apple, Microsoft Joining Google Using Gulf of America in Maps Programs 2 months ago:
Assuming we don’t just get 8 years of President Vance…
- Comment on Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion 2 months ago:
Because if you believe it’s worth $97B you don’t offer to overpay by $3B…
- Comment on PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why 2 months ago:
Yeah, if they’re down for over three weeks then I imagine they’ll be forced to refund at least some of the PS+ price.
- Comment on PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why 2 months ago:
Last night I thought “this happened a few years ago, too, and we got free games as an apology” and now you tell me it was 14 YEARS ago!?
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 2 months ago:
Well, at least they’re doing it quietly.
- Comment on Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK | EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla 2 months ago:
Welcome to the internet.
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 2 months ago:
Is there a community for that? Asking for a friend.
- Comment on Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK | EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla 2 months ago:
Oh right, is that when they moved to a different tectonic plate?
- Comment on Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK | EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla 3 months ago:
“Europe and the UK” did they move the UK to another continent, or did they mean the EU?
- Comment on China to launch antitrust probe into Google 3 months ago:
This is how it’s going to be for the next few years then?
- Comment on Sid Meier's Civilization VII | Review Thread 3 months ago:
When Civ VIII rolls around they won’t send review copies to anyone who gave bad reviews last time.
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 3 months ago:
Yep, what else could you call it? It’s not a hatchback, a sedan, a convertible, a sports car, etc.
- Comment on Sid Meier's Civilization VII | Review Thread 3 months ago:
Reviews like these are paid advertising.
- Comment on would you buy a compact laptop that has spacebar touch sensitivity and allows you to adjust input sensitivity, giving it dual purpose (a spacebar and a mouse)+ it has integrated A5 printer in it? 4 months ago:
I print roughly two or three things per year, and they’re always bigger than A5, so that would be a completely useless feature for me.
- Comment on Apple to pay $95m to settle claims Siri listened to users’ private conversations 4 months ago:
9 hours of profit, oh no!
- Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 4 months ago:
That’s the one, but I’m sure he’s only ever done it once…
- Comment on Self-Driving Waymo Cab Smashes Into Delivery Robot 4 months ago:
Sounds like a good time to use the word “bump”
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 4 months ago:
Perhaps they track who you talk to and show you ads that are relevant to those people, or their best guess based on two profiles.
I don’t think there’s a data center out there with a live audio stream of literally billions of always-on devices 24/7/365.
Perhaps there’s some local processing first, but devices have permissions for apps, and lights that indicate the mic/camera is in use.
I figure someone would have figured it out by now (reverse engineering, decompiling code), or someone from Google would have leaked it if it were true. Think of the number of people required to keep this secret.