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- Comment on Bluesky hits 20 million users 2 days ago:
Usenet to me seems more like Lemmy than anything else. All conversations are groups by topic, just like Lemmy. Although they are all just “text posts”.
- Comment on DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg reports 2 days ago:
I don’t see how a “Chrome” company would make any money. Now if the Chrome Company also owned ChromeOS and Chromebooks that might be interesting. But it could also be bad, because such a company would probably want to take a cut of every Chromebook in order to actually make money.
- Comment on Amazon and Audible flooded with 'forex trading' and warez listings 2 days ago:
Isn’t forex just foreign currency trading? I don’t understand how a foreign currency could be worth 50000USD one minute and only 600USD 5 minutes later unless it was a country with hyperinflation.
- Comment on DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg reports 2 days ago:
Are you saying Google funds node.js development?
- Comment on DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg reports 2 days ago:
Google abuses that market share by breaking web standards,
Has this actually happened? Are there examples?
- Comment on DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg reports 4 days ago:
[Google controls how people view the internet]
This doesn’t quite make sense. How does Chrome “control how people view the internet”? Isn’t html/css the main thing that controls how people view the internet?
[ and what ads they see in part through its Chrome browser, which typically uses Google search,]
But it is trivial to change your default search agent right?
Is this move something we should view as a good thing, and if so, then why?
- Comment on DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg reports 4 days ago:
Yes I would like to know what that means for ChromeOS and Chromebooks. If the new “Chrome” company got ChromeOS also that would be huge. But if that is not a requirement Google could just put another Chromium browser in ChromeOS. They could also continue to sell Chromebooks but based on a ChromiumOS fork.
- Comment on DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg reports 4 days ago:
What does Chrome have to do with a node.js server?
- Comment on DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg reports 4 days ago:
What’s to stop them just making another browser?
Nothing. Chromium is open source. So they could just fork it and declare a new “official” google browser and it would be a lot like Chrome.
I’m not sure why the govt thinks forcing google to give up a particular fork/branch of an open source browser is all that meaningful. It might make more sense if Chrome was a closed source one of a kind browser.
- Comment on Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff. 3 weeks ago:
Yes. Sounds like the law itself is flawed.
- Comment on Robinhood admits it’s just a gambling app. 3 weeks ago:
The point of including worldwide stock is to reduce risk in case the US has a recession, as not all other countries will be affected by that.
This seems to be generally no longer true.
- Comment on Robinhood admits it’s just a gambling app. 3 weeks ago:
Companies should not even be issuing future “earnings expectations”. They mean little and warp the market. Drives me crazy when I hear financial talk about "future p/e’. It’s just a fake number. The only real p/e ratio is the trailing p/e ratio.
- Comment on Robinhood admits it’s just a gambling app. 3 weeks ago:
Bogleheads three fund portfolio (total US stock + total world stock + bonds) is very simple yet will beat most actively-managed portfolios over the long run.
This is right. But you don’t really need the ‘total world stock’. I reduced my allocation of that to 2% because it was dragging down my returns.
- Comment on Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff. 3 weeks ago:
I like all of this stuff. But Apple needs to do all this even more than google.
- Comment on More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI. 3 weeks ago:
They don’t give information because there is no information to give. It is just empty rhetoric to bullshit financial analysts. The CEO probably just sent out a company wide email a week before telling developers to do this and they all laughed.
- Comment on More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI. 3 weeks ago:
This company wasn’t trying to bullshit financial analysts which was the reason for the google CEO comment.
- Comment on More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI. 3 weeks ago:
How is Elon going to tell the AI to print its code on hardcopy and then fly to Elon’s city to show him your hardcopy code like he told actual Twitter developers to do?
- Comment on Opera explains how it plans to keep uBlock Origin support as Google Chrome disables it 3 weeks ago:
The link you shared is the company profile only and doesn’t mention any controversy about telemetry being shared with China.
I want to upvote this.
and would consider both governments hostile.
I want to downvote this.
So I guess I will do neither since I can’t do both.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 1 month ago:
started StarTrek.website.
I don’t use that because you are (or someone is) modding it wrong. You don’t allow people to talk about which parts of Star Trek they don’t like and others might want to avoid. Fuck that. All parts of Star Trek are not equally good.
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 month ago:
They already tried Jan 6 !
Nope. Those bootlickers were on the side of the corporate/billionaire enshitifiers.
- Comment on [rant] I want computers to become personal again 2 months ago:
We’re never going to get the old days back.
Nothing is stopping you from using a computer as a standalone machine not connected to the internet. Then you have a machine just like the ones in the 1970’s and 1980’s except for having much more memory/processor/diskspace etc. I would say you have a better OS also, except that Linux is basically the same OS as my SCO Xenix 386 I had in the 1980’s.
- Comment on Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities 3 months ago:
Julian Assange is a bootlicker and Kremlin stooge who sold us out to the American and Russian billionaires. The Mueller Report proved he was explicitly trying to get Treason Trump elected and working with Putin to push disinformation to that end.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
According to the website Space, the distance is 37.8 trillion km.
This is not correct, and is probably the result of rounding the light year distance to 4 ly before converting to km. The google answer is pretty close.
The correct answer is the distance to Alpha Centauri is 41.5 petameters (trillion km) and the distance to Proxima Centauri is 40.2 petameters.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I still play Civ 2 more than any other Civ.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
AIs are definitely not “good enough” to give correct answers to science questions. I’ve seen lots of other incorrect answers before seeing this one. While it was easy to spot that this answer is incorrect, how many incorrect answers are not obvious?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
It’s in the quote that they scaled it.
Yes but they supposedly scaled it to “one meter per meter”. A “scale where the distance from the Sun to Earth is 150 million km” is the actual distance.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
One football field is about a hectometer and there are 10 hectometers per kilometer. So 415 trillion.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Close. The distance to Alpha Centauri is 41.5 petameters (trillion kilometers) and the distance to Proxima Centauri is 40.2 petameters.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
41.5 petameters.
…wordpress.com/thinking-in-metric-for-astronomy/
Nobody using the metric system says “trillion kilometers”!
Unfortunately way too many people do even though it is not the correct SI unit for the scale, simply because ‘kilometer’ is the metric distance unit used for Earth distances. I have astronomy distances memorized as metric SI distances and I only care about the km distance so I can convert that to the SI distance. e.g. When I see “trillion kilometers” I convert that in my head to “quadrillion meters” which I then convert to “petameters”.
I would rather see the base unit ‘meters’ than km so I can skip a step. My own preference for astronomy distance units is:
metric SI units > meters > kilometers > non metric units
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
That’s what I think too. AI is mainly useful for things that don’t have right or wrong answers.
Although this incorrect answers is obvious, what about all the times where an incorrect answer from AI is not obvious?