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- Comment on DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg reports 2 days ago:
Sprint was not a splinter of ATT.
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 5 days ago:
musk could just buy it. jack already sold twitter to him, and while musk might have comprehended how shitty a deal it was (i mean he tried to back out of the contract and all); he doesn’t seem like the guy who would be smart enough to avoid cost sunk fallacy and might want to buy bluesky to keep digging that hole. and jack wouldn’t turn him down for a bid on bluesky for the same reason he didn’t turn him down before - money.
That’s actually not as easy with Bluesky. It’s decentralized enough that buying it doesn’t help control it that well. The previous owners or someone else could easily go set up another shop and compete using the same network and protocol.
Do I wish Mastodon were coming out on top? Sure. But Bluesky is still a significant improvement.
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 1 week ago:
I wonder if this gives them the rights to all of Infowars’ library of footage. Maybe they could “keep” Jones as a host by cutting up old clips kinda how South Park did with Isaac Hayes for Chef’s last episode.
- Comment on Help Mozilla Test the Thunderbird for Android Beta | Mozilla Thunderbird is an open-source, privacy-focused email app 1 month ago:
Well, first of all, K9 regularly beta tests their new versions before release already.
Being launched under the Thunderbird brand, though, is expected to hit a much wider audience than just K9 users. And being a first impression, they want to do everything they can to make that impression a solid one.
- Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules 1 month ago:
I was expecting idiotic rules screaming “bureaucratic muppets don’t know what they’re legislating on”, but instead what I’m seeing is surprisingly sane and sensible
NIST knows what they’re doing. It’s getting organizations to adapt that’s hard. NIST has recommended against expiring passwords for like a decade already, for example, yet pretty much every IT dept still has passwords expiring at least once a year.
- Comment on Qualcomm Reportedly Taps Intel With An Acquisition Offer 1 month ago:
I don’t recall Qualcomm trying to buy ARM. That was Nvidia. (though, yes, it likely would also have been prevented if it had tried)
But they’d probably have a better (but still slim) chance of getting a purchase of Intel through. That’d be a more horizontal acquisition than a vertical one as Qualcomm doesn’t make x86 chips so they can at least argue it wouldn’t be anti-competitive.
- Comment on Qualcomm Reportedly Taps Intel With An Acquisition Offer 1 month ago:
They don’t mention what the offer is. Very easily could be a stock-based deal where Intel stockholders get a portion of the combined company. That’s how T-Mobile bought Sprint.
- Comment on Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions 1 month ago:
GenAI = Generative AI AGI = Artificial General Intelligence
You are talking about the latter. They were talking about the former.
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 2 months ago:
Nvidia is diversified in AI, though. Disregarding LLM, it’s likely that other AI methodologies will depend even more on their tech or similar.
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 2 months ago:
I guess I don’t really see why generative AI is a necessity for a search engine? It doesn’t really help me find information any faster than a Wikipedia summary, and is less reliable.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 2 months ago:
In general — yes. Most of the time they do so by subjecting their eyeballs to ads. Do you think it’s a good idea to flood AI models with ads as well?
- Comment on Nvidia is ditching dedicated G-Sync modules to push back against FreeSync’s ubiquity 2 months ago:
I think it’s unlikely one of those techs “wins” at all. It’s relatively easy to support them all from a software perspective and so gamers will just use whichever corresponds to their GPU.
- Comment on JPEG is Dying - And that's a bad thing | 2kliksphilip 3 months ago:
Only in Nightly and not by default (you need to enable it).
- Comment on NREL Researchers Pave the Way for Carbon-Negative Concrete 3 months ago:
Isn’t the formula for Roman concrete unknown?
Yes, though a lot of research has been done to figure out its not important properties. A secret of its durability was just figured out last year. news.mit.edu/…/roman-concrete-durability-lime-cas…
- Comment on "Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us Yet Again 4 months ago:
They forked it into Blink a long time ago now. They’ve diverged significantly since then.
- Comment on Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service 4 months ago:
Previous way for companies to cut down on customer support costs was to make a better quality product (making support interactions rarer). That is not so much the philosophy anymore.
- Comment on Microsoft bans China-based employees from using Android devices for work, mandates switch to iPhones 4 months ago:
Google can’t operate Play Store in China because it closed its Chinese offices in response to China attempting to hack them (and several other corporations) back in 2010 (Operation Aurora).
- Comment on Microsoft bans China-based employees from using Android devices for work, mandates switch to iPhones 4 months ago:
It’s just a writer seeking to vary their language a bit. It’s a trick to keep themselves from repeating “Microsoft” quite so many times in a short span, as too much word repetition can cause readers to “tune out”.
- Comment on Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative 4 months ago:
Best of luck, I guess, but seems like a doomed project to me. Forking WebKit, Gecko, or even Servo would seem much more reasonable, and even that is a huge undertaking.
- Comment on Google employees question execs over 'decline in morale' after blowout earnings 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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? 6 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(?) 7 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(?) 7 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(?) 7 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 8 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? 8 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. 9 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. 9 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.