hornedfiend

@hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft exec admits it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereignty⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We need to expel Microsoft and its subsidiaries from this continent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you think human placeholders understand the term? They just flaunt it around like a bling, but even that has more value to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remembering Descent, the once-popular, fully 3D 6DOF shooter⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to play the hell out of both 1&2, but now my old brain can no longer compute the 360 movement in a claustrophobic environment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  that doesn’t always work out the way you’re expecting though, but I agree, trust should be opt-out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  wouldn’t that make it wors? basically any signal can bounce off you, making yourself even easier to track.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Vs The Law⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple is the same company that “complied” with the alternative app stores by “allowing” altstore to exist, fully controlled by something called “notarized” apps.

  They are are a POS anti-consumer company which deserves the worst. Oh yeah, and let’s not forget the quality of their own os and apps. Pure trash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pop it in your calendars⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you elaborate on that please?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On July 7, Gemini AI will access your WhatsApp and more. Learn how to disable it on Android.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure , in 2010.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube’s new anti-adblock measures⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s getting hard to keep up with the changes YT does and especially as an ios uYou+ or ytLite user (like me) as now you need a jailbroken device that needs to be on an ios version that support the last youtube app version and decrypt and build the modded app with this whole workflow…

  Before you ask I’m ios because reasons and need to be on it until apple drops support for my iphone 12 pro. I miss Android…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I DoN’t CaRe wHaT yOu sAy. NiRaN MoST DefFiNiTeLY PRoBAblY HaS NUkEs!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster: Meta's AI App ‘Discover’ Feed Publicly Exposes Private Chats Without Users Knowing.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  imagine trying to explain Whisper protocol and how Signal is a better Whatsapp and getting shrugs…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Trump dreams of a civil war. That will be the perfect excuse to hurry the slow dictatorship takeover.

  That is slowly happening anyway, while people are still having wet dreams of democracy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While I hate LLMs with passion and my opinion of them boiling down to them being glorified search engines and data scrapers, I would ask Apple: how sour are the grapes, eh?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, I mean technically paypal was a rather innovative idea for its time, but again, the guy basically associated himself with smart people that had bright ideas.

  Yes, he does have a knack for growing businesses to a larger scale, but most millionaires/ billionaires do, cause they outsource brain matter and decision making to a select few.

  I’m not sure if I ever liked the guy or his largely exaggerated marketing, but being a POS nazi isn’t helping either, so i’m biased towards nazi hate I guess. Either way, he will need a paradigm shift for people to accept him back into the decent human beings club. I do hope he will find a way, but doubt it really.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry, but credit for what? For being born privileged and buying talent? If you can’t beat ‘em, buy ‘em, right?

  Yeah, I guess he deserves praise for being a good liar and basically selling pipe dreams?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had to go iOS because of… reasons,but you can sideload modded youtube app, with sponsorblock. exactly as on android,but with many headaches like token expiry every week and other bullshit issues like google not allowing IPAs directly in github repos.

  Lame, but it can be done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Worth saving this article for future class actions. Go go go!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xAI to pay Telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet, most radicalized chats are on Telegram, or so we were led to believe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Catchiest video game song?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  for me it’s perhaps Metro Exodus end scene.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is true, given everyone used good quality nvmes, which is not always the case, but honestly, 1Gbps fiber is enough for a home with multiple users. Even if, assuming the storage is not the bottleneck, unless you need often very large lan transfers should be more enough with 1Gbps.

  Anyway, I guess i’m sidestepping the initial topic. bottom line: cool cheap tech for companies, not so much for home users.

• ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s fine. iphones are so cheap, people can handle even 50% tariffs. apple is worth every penny /s.

  going to buy a cmf phone 2 now…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even when doing that, the bottleneck is the storage write speed. you can have 1Tb internet connection and it wouldn’t matter unless you have enough users in a home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never watched any of his videos. They just don’t appeal to me and never have. However, given his apparent fame, it’s good for linux.

  The more people acknowledge linux’s existence, the more engagement, the more growth.

  Here’s hoping someday Windows will be a nasty memory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always “Recall” how shitty windows is, whenever I see the word mentioned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I read somewhere they want to buy Chrome from Google if they are forced to sell. So not many changes, just switching owners who ultimately do the same thing.

  i’m not a Chrome user, so screw both google and perplexity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  don’t forget the rudeness of some people. they behave like the whole building is a hotel and they can do whatever they damn well please.

  If it were up to me, I would obliterate this concept. Hotels are for holidays, not people’s houses where everyone brings along their holiday brains and are being generally disrespectful towards the communities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT spends 'tens of millions of dollars' on people saying 'please' and 'thank you', but Sam Altman says it's worth it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe Sam Altman should invest in LLMs that appreciate his insights and pretend to give a shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Governments identify dozens of Android apps bundled with spyware.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  • cries looking at iphone remembering the good old “free” days.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG seems to be considering paid membership option⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I would totally move to GOG, however my entire games collection is on Steam, so it would be very very difficult and it’s rather tedious to have and use 2 platforms like that.

  Oh well, I do hope they can get more people onto their platform. it’s a better Epic store for sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I guess there is no universal answer and it obviously can’t be some generic method of achieving this,but what I did was to explain in detail how MsOffice is basically just a standard because people made it so out of convenience and lack of true alternatives and it’s not cheap, plus whatever is made freely available by a corporation means it’s actually you paying with your data for it.

  It’s a process and you’d have to convince him to at least allow you to show them side by side or explain how it’s always up to date and you don’t have to throw money at it every x years just because it’s called MsOffice202x, because the benefits of upgrading are not worth the money.

  It ain’t easy, I know… but I am also providing support myself when requested, which can become a headache fast, especially with “difficult” people.