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- Comment on Any idea what Google are doing? Is this because I dont use Chrome (use Firefox)? I've no adblockers. 1 year ago:
I didn’t even know about the others, thanks :-)
- Comment on Cost-cutting tips? 1 year ago:
sftpgo is a nice project to host files in a secure way without too much hassle.
- Comment on Cost-cutting tips? 1 year ago:
While I don’t agree with your first point from my experience, the second one is very true. Especially for memory consumption, your typical Java app easily occupies five times as much as something more bare metal.
- Comment on EU gives Meta 24 hours to 'take action' on Hamas videos 1 year ago:
Remember that time when Ukrainian soldiers shot down a few hundred civilians on a music festival? Me neither…
- Comment on Any idea what Google are doing? Is this because I dont use Chrome (use Firefox)? I've no adblockers. 1 year ago:
Just use the piped.video frontend.
- Comment on Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple 1 year ago:
It doesn’t make sense for them to do because their customers don’t seem to care.
“Malicious” implies intent.
It’s just a guess but all of Googles failed messengers were probably available for iOS, too. Apple on the other hand is known to intentionally make things incompatible with other brands.
- Comment on Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple 1 year ago:
I can only tell you about Europe, because nobody here seems to use imessage. SMS are basically dead since the first generation of smartphones came out. They are used for OTP codes from banks sometimes but that’s it. The only reason why people use SMS in the US seems to be Apple. They didn’t make SMS worse than they were (which would be hard to achieve), but they basically force people to keep using them. Well, or abandon their apple friends. For the API, I think Apple could afford that, honestly. They don’t have to handle the data between Android phones if they support some form of federation. Only between Apple and Apple, and Apple and Android. Your operator also handles SMS when they go to or come from other operators. I think Apple just likes the peer pressure they seem to create with that app in the US. From a business perspective that might be smart, sure. Still, very malicious behavior. I’m glad there’s more and more regulation coming up (at least in the EU). If imessage wasn’t a niche here, they’d have to comply.
- Comment on Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple 1 year ago:
The Tesla comparison would work better this way: while you’re driving to another Tesla owner’s place, you’re having a smooth ride, no bumps, car works as expected. Then you put your other friends address into into the navigation and the radio switches to noisy FM and one of the headlights starts to flicker. It’s lock-out because no non-iphone user can join that club. It’s not lock-in, because every iphone user could easily switch to one of the “cross-platform” messangers. Not that I like Google. They’re both sh*t. But just opening up your infrastructure for others doesn’t mean you have to develop and maintain apps for other OSes.
- Comment on Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple 1 year ago:
Wikipedia sais WhatsApp was released 2009, two years before iMessage. So the idea wasn’t new and they most likely didn’t lock out Android users by accident.
- Comment on Unity CEO John Riccitiello is retiring, effective immediately 1 year ago:
Once you slightly climb the career ladder, vocabulary turns into marketing bs. Suddenly you most not say “problem” anymore. They’re “opportunities” or “challenges”. So at that level you don’t get “fired” because that would sound bad for the next company you’re going with. You’re looking for new challenges elsewhere. Leaving behind a dumpster fire like in this very case.
- Comment on YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it 1 year ago:
GPS location please
- Comment on Elon Musk under investigation by US agency for $44bn takeover of Twitter 1 year ago:
Crazy of you think about it. Kind of sad actually.
- Comment on What technological mega project is practical to build today? 1 year ago:
The problem with only panels and wind is the fluctuation. We need at least a small “baseline” power supply that works when there is no wind at night. Storing large amounts of energy is the missing piece here to get rid of conventional power plants altogether. We’ll get there eventually.
- Comment on Elon Musk under investigation by US agency for $44bn takeover of Twitter 1 year ago:
If a penalty is “worth it”, it’s a business decision, not a penalty. Add a zero or two if you want it to work as intended.
- Comment on Lenovo PC boss: 4 in 5 of our devices will be repairable by 2025 1 year ago:
T480s user here. It’s perfectly fine, too. I think it went downhill from the 90-series onwards.
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- Comment on Google User Data Has Become a Favorite Police Shortcut 1 year ago:
There’s OsmAnd and Organic Maps (and probably more). Both are open-source apps, use Openstreemap data, and work offline. You can get OsmAnd+ for free on F-Droid. If you want support the devs you can buy it in the Play Store. There’s also a free but limited version there.
- Comment on Google’s claim that search users have choice is “bogus,” Microsoft CEO tells judge 1 year ago:
DuckDuckGo’s results are a compilation of “over 400” sources according to itself, including Bing, Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha, Yandex, and its own web crawler (the DuckDuckBot); but none from Google. It also uses data from crowdsourced sites such as Wikipedia, to populate knowledge panel boxes to the right of the search results.
Source: Wikipedia
So it’s definitely not a “proxy to Bing” but it does use data from Bing.
- Comment on Schrödinger's date format 1 year ago:
I think there’s sauce on your screen.
- Comment on They Need To Stop Doing This 1 year ago:
Just because it’s not possible on a Turing Machine doesn’t mean it’s impossible on a PC with finite memory. You just have to track all the memory that is available to the algorithm and once you detect a state you’ve seen already, you know it’s not halting ever. The detection algorithm will need an insane amount of memory though.
- Comment on They Need To Stop Doing This 1 year ago:
It always depends o which existing tools you have access too. Go back some more years and there is no GPS. Detecting the bird will be the easier problem then.
- Comment on Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors 1 year ago:
The GPU manufacturers are having the time of their lives.
- Comment on A new smartphone again? Rethink unhealthy culture of frequent upgrades 1 year ago:
I’m not sure why you’re getting downvoted because your argument is right. Apple has a rather small number of hardware devices to support. That makes long term support a lot easier.
- Comment on A look back at 40 Years of GNU and the Free Software Foundation 1 year ago:
I’m really not sure if I would name any stock Android in that list. There’s not much “libre” about it. Compared to Apple, sure, but that’s a ridiculously low bar. We’re still missing good alternatives for mobile phones.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi 5 Benchmarks: Significantly Better Performance, Improved I/O 1 year ago:
Look at the image! You just have to relocate the SMD resistor with the memory label to get the 8GB version from the smaller ones for free. Trust me, I’m an engineer!
- Comment on No love lost: AppLovin helpfully releases tool to switch from Unity to Godot or Unreal 1 year ago:
Hopefully a new generation of consoles based on regular PC hardware takes the market so we don’t have to deal with locked-down platforms, NDAs, exclusive titles, and overpriced games anymore. The Steam Deck is doing great so far.
- Comment on John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and more authors sue OpenAI for copyright infringement 1 year ago:
That’s pretty much my opinion about this, too. It’s not like GRRM invented dragons that were hatched from eggs or anything like that. Having said that, I do think it’s problematic if the AI model belongs to a company and it’s not transparent about what data is being used to train their model.
- Comment on Massive leak reveals next-gen Xbox could be a cloud-hybrid console, Series X|S refresh coming in 2024 | The Xbox is set to undergo a sea-change in the coming years. 1 year ago:
Also Valve supports Linux gaming and creates quite non-standard products like the Steam Controller, Link, Deck (which is awesome!), HTC Vive, …
- Comment on The summer is over, schools are back, and the data is in: ChatGPT is mainly a tool for cheating on homework. 1 year ago:
In many countries, schools only care about grades. I was pretty good at getting good grades by understanding what will be tested and minimizing the effort to get there. I would’ve totally used ChatGPT to do my homework.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Exclusive content is always anti customer.