kayazere

@kayazere@feddit.nl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whoops, I thought it said “not opt out”. Too early in the day apparently 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Allow third-party app stores for Android, and let those app stores distribute all the same apps as are available in Google Play (app developers can opt out of this);

  Developers should definitely be able to pick with AppStores their apps are distributed in. This seems strange they can’t opt out.

  Pretty sure Fdroid doesn’t want PlayStore spyware apps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[rant?] I'm hopeful for the future of technology⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At the moment there is no end-to-end encryption as part of RCS. Google created a proprietary add-on for their app. Apple is working with the standards committee to add end-to-end encryption.

  RCS on android has only two supported apps, one by Google and one by Samsung. Google is actively blocking phones with custom Roms from using their RCS app.

  Google also provides/hosts the RCS backend software used by most telecoms. They can host their own implementation, and most did at the start. But now a lot switched to Google to provide their RCS service.

  You can’t get around Big Tech spyware if you want to use RCS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FTC urged to make smart devices say how long they will be supported⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have had a similar idea. Basically some third party that is trusted to be the escrow for all the source code and documentation would basically release it once the company stops supporting it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny how we are moving back to bicycles, as cars aren’t scalable solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For anyone in Germany: connect.oclc.org/bib-der-dinge

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple iPhone sales decline 10% in first three months of 2024⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No one says you have to buy a new phone, used iPhones a usually a lot cheaper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ladybird.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Pulls the Plug: The End of Third-Party Cookies and What it Means | TWiT.TV⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On mobile it is pretty common to force the user to create an account before being able to use the app, so people may already be trained on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who makes money when AI reads the internet for us?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While I prefer to doing the reading/searching/summarizing myself, rather than have it presented to me, the current website revenue model is so broken with ads, tracking, and other pop ups. The user experience is really horrible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s CEO faces employee questions about layoffs — “Why has there been such an extraordinary effort to limit the internal visibility of layoffs announcements?”⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “While answering a question about whether any executives had been laid off or had their compensation lowered, he said that, since rolling layoffs began this year, a “higher proportion of directors and VPs have been impacted than levels one through seven.” He also suggested that having to make the cuts is punishment itself. “Part of leadership is also making the tough decisions that are needed.”

  Lol, if only the people being fired had someone to fire, then they could punished instead of fired.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Linux is Best for Most People⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually GCD is a library (libdispatch) rather than just a language feature and can be used on other platforms: github.com/apple/swift-corelibs-libdispatch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers warn that Windows 11 restrictions could send 240 million computers to landfills⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s fair to blame individual consumers. The whole consumer electrics industry is predicated on planned obsolescence and getting the consumer to buy the latest devices. In reality computers and smartphones have stagnated in terms of functionally for every day people and frequent upgrades aren’t necessary.

  Here Microsoft has colluded with hardware manufactures so Windows 11 will obsolete perfectly usable computers. What choice does the consumer have to fight back? Regulation is needed to force consumer electronics to be sustainable and long lasting.