Wispy2891
@Wispy2891@lemmy.world
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 6 hours ago:
I remind everyone that Google invested not once, but twice in this company, for a total of $350 million
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 1 day ago:
When phones were made of plastic, yes
Like the Google Nexus 5X (with a vinyl on the back because they chose the shittiest rubbery coating that get sticky with permanent fingerprints)
- Comment on The 5 stages of Charles Manson 6 days ago:
The headline seems to imply that the real news is that the “Obese woman” has FIVE lovers
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 1 week ago:
Problem is that it had bidens sign on it, so he was forced to kill it without even taking care of its contents
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 1 week ago:
Well, technically, any kind of tariff added to the import is always paid by Apple, who else would pay it? Some unrelated company? A foreign country?
They will simply increase the price by an amount that will keep them making the same amount of money. The main problem is that because they like to do a round price worldwide, we European we’ll pay more too, so they can make more money. Assholes
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (16 May 2025) 2 weeks ago:
Trakt raises the VIP subscription to $60/year? Are they crazy? They really think that a service that simply tracks what movies you watch is worth that price?
There are streaming subscriptions cheaper than that
- Comment on xAI’s Grok suddenly can’t stop bringing up “white genocide” in South Africa 3 weeks ago:
Can someone explain me how xai raised so many billions that they could have purchased xitter for an even more ridiculous amount of billions?
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They are not a public company so there’s no stock manipulation
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They are not selling API access to the public
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They don’t have some sort of crypto coin scam that they could print when need some cash flow
Where those billions come from? It’s just melon charging ridiculous prices to his own companies? Like if Tesla needed some sort of ai api Key they’re going to pay xai 100000% over the market value? Isn’t that illegal, money laundering or something like that?
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- Comment on xAI’s Grok suddenly can’t stop bringing up “white genocide” in South Africa 3 weeks ago:
Especially denying/deporting refugees that will otherwise be killed for having helped the American government (example: Afghanistan)
- Comment on Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection 3 weeks ago:
For fdroid the app is compiled on fdroid servers when dev tags a new release on GitHub. So the app matches the source, it’s not possible to put a tainted APK to download
Now, if the malicious code is slowly added to the source over the course of an year like it happened with the xz utils, this won’t change the result, but it’s easier to do so with a compiled binary. Release clean source and infected binary, it will take a longer time to get caught
For the closed source app stores, on iOS there’s the manual inspection (which is not infallible especially if they timebomb or geofence the bad feature) and for Google there’s the automated inspection (which fails often seeing the news) that should find problems
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 3 weeks ago:
No it’s a thin layer of steel hot glued to a plastic shell
- Comment on Doom: The Dark Ages' PS5 physical release reportedly has just 85MB on disc, and Xbox isn't much bigger 3 weeks ago:
AND complete it 1-2 months before release date to allow manufacturing and shipping.
They complete it 1-2 months AFTER release date now…
- Comment on Doom: The Dark Ages' PS5 physical release reportedly has just 85MB on disc, and Xbox isn't much bigger 3 weeks ago:
The worst part is that it’s technically possible to do that using the bd-live 2.0 specification
- Comment on Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection 3 weeks ago:
When I saw the process to add Google drive support to an app I thought: “wouldn’t be easier to just discontinue the public APIs?”
If I was a dev I would immediately remove the integration instead of paying the required thousands (yearly!) to keep it. Then in the app explain the situation to the customer, add a referral link to Dropbox, onedrive or other competitors
- Comment on Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection 3 weeks ago:
You get apps a couple days earlier
But it comes with a huge downside: if dev goes rogue or gets hacked, you could install a malicious version of the app that doesn’t match the source
- Comment on Google Worried It Couldn’t Control How Israel Uses Project Nimbus, Files Reveal 3 weeks ago:
But then they counted how many zeroes there were on the check, and suddenly they were totally fine in assisting genocide
- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 3 weeks ago:
This is pure speculation, the language in the t&c describes what happens now: the console and/or the account gets banned from online gaming
- Comment on “No Apple tax means we will lower prices” - Proton announces lower prices for users by up to 30% after US ruling against Apple fees 4 weeks ago:
Inb4 Trump invents tariffs on foreign coded software
- Comment on Windows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forcedWindows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forced BitLocker encryption 4 weeks ago:
It automatically encrypts the drive only if admin has a Microsoft account (to backup the key on their cloud servers for easier
LEO accessdata recovery) and the PC is a prebuilt - Comment on Windows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forcedWindows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forced BitLocker encryption 4 weeks ago:
The decryption key is saved in the Microsoft account, the error message explains that
I also almost got a panic attack when my Lenovo updated the bios and i was locked out
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to rant@lemmy.sdf.org | 14 comments
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
There were alpha versions of windows 8 with less glaring/annoying bugs than windows 11, though
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
Power move by the zucc by first asking how much genai is used at Microsoft then refusing to answer his own question at Facebook 😂
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 192 comments
- Comment on Applying 'extreme heat' to lithium-ion batteries reportedly restores their capacity, and I think it's the sustainable tech breakthrough of 2025 5 weeks ago:
I tried it on my car but it doesn’t turn on anymore. Deceiving news
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] Death of affordable computing | Tariffs impact and investigation 5 weeks ago:
Wtf is that website? Why there are no ads at all, the article is well written without evident use of a LLM and it’s extremely thorough in writing? Without even a pause “article continues in the next ad-ridden page”. I didn’t know that it was technically possible to make websites like that
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 1 month ago:
It’s not just tpm 2.0 support, but simply Intel 8th gen or higher or Ryzen
Intel 6th gen CPUs could totally support tpm 2.0 but they decided to cut them off because $$$
There is no real technical reason, management wanted the line to go up so they had meetings and meetings with the engineering teams in order to find a somewhat reasonable excuse to send to the landfill millions and millions of perfectly usable computers
- Comment on I can't believe it let me do that 1 month ago:
That Gemini chat in messages is also completely useless, as they didn’t implement a memory so the bot will lose context and give irrelevant responses immediately at the first reply.
- Comment on I can't believe it let me do that 1 month ago:
I am so sick of that meta ai button that can’t be disabled in WhatsApp that I constantly paste the bee movie script just to let them pay hundreds of thousands of useless tokens. Hopefully one day they will block me or let me block that shit
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 1 month ago:
As an European i don’t understand at all those open trucks. The back side is completely wasted space, is unusable, stuff will get stolen when you park (or even at the traffic light), or will get soaked in rain. It also lowers aerodynamic efficiency. That one time in my life when i would need to move a fridge or a mattress i could just rent it for 3 hours
- Comment on This is real 1 month ago:
A service that proxies and cleans xitters content so musk doesn’t get the money from the few advertisers left in that cesspool
