GigglyBobble
@GigglyBobble@kbin.social
- Comment on Smartphone Keyboard Information Bonanza: What's available and what's best for your needs 8 months ago:
You're right, scratch that.
I've just never downloaded apks directly from Github and got confused by that issue about naming conflicts with the original OpenBoard. If you have installed that one, you need make your own debug build to run them in parallel.
- Comment on Smartphone Keyboard Information Bonanza: What's available and what's best for your needs 8 months ago:
Unfortunately, it's an abandoned project that hasn't gotten updates for 2 years.
There's an active fork but no release yet, you can only install by building it yourself: https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard
- Comment on India may block Proton Mail 8 months ago:
No, they can't since I don't have a Google mail address. Even if I had, they'd have a harder time building a social graph when I communicate with others outside of Gmail.
- Comment on Why has Firefox not removed third-party cookies, despite the fact that Chrome has begun phasing them out? 8 months ago:
That's the superior approach and Firefox introduced it far earlier than Google addressed the problem.
Why OP is blindly arguing in that corp's favor and ignoring all the reasoning provided here, is beyond me. Shilling?
- Comment on Why has Firefox not removed third-party cookies, despite the fact that Chrome has begun phasing them out? 8 months ago:
Because Firefox chose a superior approach and Google was late addressing 3rd party cookies in the first place. Why did Google not adopt Mozilla's superior approach of isolating 3rd party cookies per domain?
- Comment on India may block Proton Mail 8 months ago:
What a stupid thing to say.
Whatever your favorite (and probably shitty) proprietary or open source messaging service - not everybody has it. But hey, everyone has email, so let's kill that.
- Comment on ‘What Was She Supposed to Report?:’ Police Report Shows How a High School Deepfake Nightmare Unfolded 8 months ago:
I don't think it'll be as easy as calculating SHA256 hashes, so ASICs as small as this might never be a thing.
On the other hand, brains do use orders of magnitude less power, so who knows.
- Comment on Apple’s iMessage is not a “core platform” in EU, so it can stay walled off 9 months ago:
Proprietary messaging is worse though. Email is interoperable and relevant as ever. Just nobody bothered to seamlessly apply PGP for encryption (probably spy agencies actively worked against that too).
- Comment on Who makes money when AI reads the internet for us? 9 months ago:
TIL IT is volunteer work.
- Comment on All My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Pro — Wait But Why 9 months ago:
Interesting. I see it the other way around and believe it's only AR that'll be a real benefit (once it lasts indefinitely and is tiny or even implanted some time in the future). Pulling out your phone to navigate somewhere is cumbersome, for example.
- Comment on All My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Pro — Wait But Why 9 months ago:
I happily shelled out $600 for the first iPhone. But $3,500? For a V1 product that will get way better (and cheaper) in the next few years?
Cheaper? When has the next gen Apple product ever become cheaper?
- Comment on WhatsApp Will Introduce 'Third Party Chats' Support Soon: Here's Why 9 months ago:
According to the article, WhatsApp requires the Signal Protocol for message encryption.
Signal is the single third party that shouldn't have a problem with that since it's been using that protocol before WhatsApp adopted it, too (they hired Moxi himself to help them do it, remember?)
- Comment on WhatsApp Will Introduce 'Third Party Chats' Support Soon: Here's Why 9 months ago:
Since Signal also uses phone numbers as account ID, you'll give that to WhatsApp at least. Then they continue to track metadata of the messages sent between you and your WhatsApp contacts and will be profiling you.
I don't see how communicating with any Meta service isn't compromising privacy. I'm a Signal user and won't connect to WhatsApp.
- Comment on FCC bans AI-generated voices in robocalls that can deceive voters 9 months ago:
Of course there are. I've just won the lottery, for example. Again.
- Comment on Google workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'glassy-eyed' 9 months ago:
It's not immoral to sell a business but anybody who actual has or even founded one and has an intact moral compass would not sell in a way you described.
You have a responsibility for your customers and employees and you don't just throw it into the dumpster like that because money isn't everything.
- Comment on Childhood disrupted: is the internet damaging young people’s development? 9 months ago:
they get lazy about using/doing non device things.
That's the key. Over the generations media (from books to smartphones) got more sophisticated in grabbing our attention to the point that addiction really has become a problem. While everything fun can be somewhat addictive we now have corporations optimizing their products in that way.
I'm sure kids can develop healthy habits with phone and internet consumption but I also believe they need help by restricting exposure in order to play "conventionally". It's similar to sweets - if you leave kids to just eat whatever whenever they want, they'll stuff themselves with candy until they vomit repeatedly.
- Comment on Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users 9 months ago:
I just wanted Windows and none of the Linux substitutes were it.
Of course not. At the very least you have to be fed up with Windows before moving elsewhere. If you want Windows, stay with Windows.
You shouldn't continue using Windows 10 after end of life though. Once it doesn't get security patches anymore, it is a time bomb. And since the code base is easily 80-90% the same across versions, new vulnerabilities patched on newer versions are just hints for malware devs making the obsolete version even more likely to be attacked.
- Comment on WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Work With Other Encrypted Messaging Apps 9 months ago:
Isn't the just based on a matrix server connecting to all your accounts?
What the EU forces them to do is to be able to send messages across service borders, so you could communicate with someone on WhatsApp, for example without having an account there yourself.
I do share the most upvoted comment's skepticism though - Meta and Apple will fight this tooth and nails and make it so cumbersome (and opt-in, of course), it will have no relevance in practice.
As a Signal user I'm also not happy that the very least I have to share with Meta is my phone number (that's also criticism towards Signal though, I guess).
- Comment on Google Chrome Warning Issued For All Windows Users 9 months ago:
You clearly don't understand how that works. We can't shut up once we moved!
- Comment on Google Chrome Warning Issued For All Windows Users 9 months ago:
I don't remember that. Where is it from?
Microsoft never liked competing browsers (not even in the pre-IE6 era when they all they had was crap), so it's hard to believe it came from them.
- Comment on People are worried that AI will take everyone’s jobs. We’ve been here before. 9 months ago:
Playing poker on a wooden bench with a single light bulb next to the beach
Yep, done that. And I agree it's great. I need a plane to visit the beach though.
- Comment on People are worried that AI will take everyone’s jobs. We’ve been here before. 9 months ago:
what jobs does MIT’s president imagine will be created for 60 year old truckers if they’re replaced with autos? Do we get the funny joke where people suggest truckers should learn programming?
The way it's developing, programmers will be replaced before drivers.
- Comment on People are worried that AI will take everyone’s jobs. We’ve been here before. 9 months ago:
The only things I probably want in terms of future tech is
And how would you know? Before cars nobody anticipated them. Same with cars, planes, computers... You won't anticipate close to all new tech by extrapolating what we have.
- Comment on Apple’s biggest critics are big mad about the new 27 percent App Store tax 9 months ago:
nothing about android’s licensing could make it impossible to make it impossible to not lock it down
Sorry, I cannot decipher that. If you mean, this doesn't prevent phone makers to lock down their bootloaders: sure. But I just need to find one that doesn't and by an open source Android there will always be an image to flash. At least it's infinitely better than Apple's walled garden.
- Comment on Apple’s biggest critics are big mad about the new 27 percent App Store tax 9 months ago:
at least they allow you to use other app stores or even download them directly from the app developer.
The bigger one is that the base system is still open source. That ensures a baseline of freedom. Google services are so intertwined that it's hardly possible to really live without but it is. Imagine a de-appled iPhone.
- Comment on Content is King? - How it sucked out the joy of personal websites 9 months ago:
My friends have YouTube/twitch. They’re extremely popular, in the 100k+ range. They all quit their job
That's surprising to me. Are 100k+ really enough to make a living?
- Comment on AI shouldn’t make ‘life-or-death’ decisions, says OpenAI’s Sam Altman 9 months ago:
But it should drive cars?
Oh, definitely. Humans are shit at that. Get bored when we have to concentrate for 10 minutes.
- Comment on Meta documents show 100,000 children sexually harassed daily on its platforms 9 months ago:
Apparently, it's just 30 failed approaches of the same tool.
- Comment on Nature is so beautiful 10 months ago:
10/10 with salt sprinkled
That doesn't make sense. 5/7 already is the perfect score.
- Comment on Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service 10 months ago:
Yeah, based on a legal request - that's how it should be. Our problems are not police listening in on criminals but unwarranted mass-surveillance.