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- Comment on Google employees question execs over 'decline in morale' after blowout earnings 1 month ago:
I wonder if the decline in morale correlates with the decline in morals.
- Comment on Google employees question execs over 'decline in morale' after blowout earnings 1 month ago:
Companies can seem very bipolar that way. Always yelling about how well they’re doing, while also cutting costs to maximize investor confidence.
- Comment on Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says 1 month ago:
If a third party app store provides a tool or service to improve their app store, should apple expect to be able to use that for free? Negating any benefit that third party would get for developing such an improvement
Sideloaded apps aren’t asking for benefits from being in Apple’s app store. They’re asking to be allowed to exist on Apple’s platform without being fined for it.
Apple has used other platform API and tooling at no added cost the same way everyone everyone else does. iTunes and Safari used to run on Windows. Apple provides AppleTV+ apps for several platforms. And there’s a number of apps they make for Android.
Apple already charges developers for access to their APIs and tooling. What Apple is doing with the per-install cost is trying to charge developers for access to their audience — which is not what the EU intended.
- Comment on Can an online library of classic video games ever be legal? 2 months ago:
Abandonware amounts to “the rights holder no longer exists or no one knows who owns the rights anymore” or, more clearly “no one is enforcing their rights to this game anymore for whatever reason, so it’s de facto public domain.”
- Comment on Firefox Partners with Qwant for a Better Web(?) 2 months ago:
Could mean that Qwant will be a selectable option included in Firefox. Could mean something else. The last time Qwant partnered with Mozilla, it was on a Qwant-branded version of Firefox.
- Comment on Firefox Partners with Qwant for a Better Web(?) 2 months ago:
DDG also has a partnership with Firefox. It’s one of the selectable engines included in Firefox (at least in the US).
- Comment on Firefox Partners with Qwant for a Better Web(?) 2 months ago:
Every selectable search engine in Firefox has a partnership with it. Google just pays big bucks to be the default.
- Comment on Pornhub shuts down in Texas... and predictably, VPNs benefit 3 months ago:
VPN use likely spiked in South Korea recently as well, since being blocked by Twitch.
- Comment on is this copium or hopium or schizophrenia? 3 months ago:
Knowing how hard something is can be a larger barrier than not knowing. But the main barrier preventing space colonies is the same thing preventing ocean colonies — “Why?”. What motivation is there to settle space? Exploration and experimentation can be done for motivation of seeing if we can, but settling needs known payoff both for the settlers and the funders.
Asteroid mining is the only current suggested motivation for such a thing. And it’s very possible that by the time we figure out asteroid capture, we won’t need humans present for that work.
- Comment on Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here. 4 months ago:
Batteries (currently) are way too heavy for commercial planes. They can be used for the smaller propeller planes, but not for jets.
I don’t know what you were expecting to see to indicate activity. Flight tests are a pretty far along milestone, given the expense of making test planes. That nothing went wrong on the test flight is even more impressive, given that the engineering of using hydrogen in planes is still ongoing (as the article mentions).
- Comment on Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here. 4 months ago:
There’s a lot of activity on the hydrogen-fueled aviation front.
popsci.com/…/hydrogen-fuel-cell-aircraft-explaine…
The infrastructure issues for planes are way less. You need fuel available at airports, which significantly fewer and farther between than consumers require for cars. Planes (and least of the jet variety) already use specialized fuel they keep available at airports. The phase-in is a lot easier too, since most running planes only travel between a few airports in their route — so you’d only need the hydrogen fuel available at the airports hydrogen planes are using to start.
There’s certainly a lot of challenges to solve there too, but hydrogen remains the most promising solution for decarbonizing air travel.
- Comment on Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here. 4 months ago:
Because batteries suck for any application where weight (ie. energy density) matters. Running long haul semis off batteries is not a super practical thing. Even with consumer cars, there are people for whom hydrogen will be a better fit.
Basically we’ve been in a world where the happy medium of energy density and efficiency (gasoline) was used for everything. Now we likely need to split those things up into what energy density is more important for, and what energy efficiency is more important for.
- Comment on Browser maker love-in snubs Google-shunned JPEG XL 4 months ago:
On a side note, 1 Terapixel is just crazy. A square with 1 million pixels has this number of pixels. So, about 1000 of 1080p will fit into this square vertically and about 500 horizontally. How has such eyes to see this all pixel perfectly?
If you zoom in on it (a pretty common thing to do with pictures) enough, most people.
- Comment on Supreme Court rejects Epic v. Apple antitrust case 5 months ago:
There’s still a good chance of a DOJ antitrust case against Apple coming that seeks allowing alternative app stores (and Apple’s way of complying with the part of this case that went against them makes it even more likely, I think). But Epic’s case is done, yes, unless they want to challenge Apple’s compliance with the ruling.
- Comment on Twitch updates attire policy to prohibit implied nudity. 5 months ago:
I swear everytime Twitch updates their policies for clarity, they just get even more confusing.
- Comment on It's official: Evernote will restrict free users to 50 notes | TechCrunch 6 months ago:
For using onenote in Linux, I just made an app out of the web version in Epiphany/GNOME Web. It’s not as smooth as a real app, but it’s functional. I expect you could do it with Chromium too.
- Comment on Yes, you can have too many CPU cores - Ampere's 192-core chips break ARM64 Linux kernel in two-socket systems, company requests higher core count support 6 months ago:
This is the type of processor companies want in things like VM servers that host large numbers of VMs.
GPU processing units are really good at only specific kinds of computation. These are still all-around processors.
- Comment on Microsoft Hires Sam Altman Hours After OpenAI Rejects His Return 7 months ago:
Non-competes aren’t a thing in California. OpenAI obviously own the IP, but that doesn’t mean an investor like MS wouldn’t have enough rights to effectively take it and build from it.
- Comment on iOS 17.2 hints at Apple moving towards letting users sideload apps from outside the App Store 7 months ago:
I’m going so far as to say I’d switch – but I’d certainly get an iPhone and give it a try if it had sideloading/other app stores allowed (which in turn would allow other browser engines, since that’s a store limitation). Would love to see an F-Droid equivalent for iOS start up.
- Comment on Disney is about to own all of Hulu | Disney’s paying more than $8 billion for Comcast’s stake in Hulu. 7 months ago:
Right, I said Warner has Max for their streaming service.
- Comment on Disney is about to own all of Hulu | Disney’s paying more than $8 billion for Comcast’s stake in Hulu. 7 months ago:
Comcast has mostly moved over to using Peacock already, I think. Warner Bros is also separated with Max. And of course Amazon/MGM is doing their own thing as well.
- Comment on ‘The early adopters have adopted’: US carmakers slow their EV growth plans 7 months ago:
Unless this is an indictment of the infrastructure build out (in which case — fair), this doesn’t make sense. You don’t scale back after early adoption — you scale up to mass market.
The US makers scaling back could seriously hamper EV growth now that EV tax credits require assembly in the US. Sounds to me like they need more regulatory incentive to make the production switch.
- Comment on Reuters: Nvidia to make Arm-based PC chips in major new challenge to Intel 8 months ago:
Nvidia’s ARM play has always been primarily in AI and vehicles. Tegra has a number of successors — just not in consumer devices.
- Comment on Windows 12 May Require a Subscription 8 months ago:
I could see them releasing hardware that’s tied to a subscription that Windows would track, perhaps, or offering subscription as a payment model for Windows.
You’re right, though I can’t see a straight migration to subscription-only happening. They haven’t even gotten Office to subscription-only yet, despite their wish to.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi 5 Benchmarks: Significantly Better Performance, Improved I/O 8 months ago:
I’m a little disappointed to not see AV1 decoding mentioned, since Broadcom has had one for years now.
- Comment on Unity May Never Win Back the Developers It Lost in Its Fee Debacle 8 months ago:
2D projects also used Unity at a very high rate. Unreal has never really been considered suitable for 2D work. I’m not sure if Godot is.
- Comment on Unity backtracks, no runtime fee for <$1mil or for games on current/old versions 9 months ago:
Yeah, I suppose the reputational harm from the announcement in the first place is going to set them back quite a bit, regardless. I suppose that’s why things like this are supposed to be reviewed before they get announced.
- Comment on Unity backtracks, no runtime fee for <$1mil or for games on current/old versions 9 months ago:
If they had just made it a 2.5% revenue share for the high-revenue games in the first place, I doubt even many game news outlets would’ve covered it. Now, after the massive dustup and pissing off all their customers, falling back to that may be a bit more difficult.
- Comment on Unity's Plan Won't Work, but Someone Else's Will | TechnoFeudalism in Games and Beyond 9 months ago:
It’s still pretty relevant. Some of the biggest indie hits of the last several years used it (Stardew Valley, Celeste, Supergiant games pre-Hades).
- Comment on Unity's Plan Won't Work, but Someone Else's Will | TechnoFeudalism in Games and Beyond 9 months ago:
MonoGame has the advantage of being used to ship a number of indie hits, though. Supergiant still uses an in-house fork of it for their games, if I’m not mistaken.