kayazere
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- Comment on The Case for Software Craftsmanship in the Era of Vibes — Zed's Blog 1 week ago:
Using AI to produce software faster only helps capitalists companies extract more value out of their workers in a shorter time. This actually reduces worker worth, as their salary isn’t increased to match their increased output, the company takes more from them.
Outside of a work context there is zero incentive to use AI, as you can take all the time to learn and craft quality code.
- Comment on Smartphones are Designed to Fail Us (and We Have to Change That) 1 week ago:
It’s stuck on iOS 16. Once iOS 26 releases, companies will quickly pivot to iOS 17 as the minimum supported version and slowly you will find important apps no longer work on the phone.
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 4 weeks ago:
Yes you are correct in that real socialism was never implemented.
Socialism is when workers control the means of production and the surplus generated from their work.
When the government controls these things, like with communism, it’s state capitalism.
- Comment on Apple executives ban Fortnight from the App store 5 weeks ago:
If an app that is being used to coordinate a rebellion takes off the US government can order Apple to disable its use. I hope the degoogling Android trend takes off further.
Apple already did this in Hong Kong to appease China. They took down apps that were used by protesters to coordinate, they even modified AirDrop so it couldn’t be easily used for ad hoc communication.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings 1 month ago:
Don’t worry, Recall will record everything done on the Windows machine.
- Comment on Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta 1 month ago:
Sounds like a fucking nightmare, but a wet dream to Big Trch.
- Comment on 4-day work-week pilot due in tech land by early summer 2 months ago:
CEO will come out and say employees are more productive when forced to work 5 days at week. When asked to see the data, they will say trust me, I’ve seen the internal studies from X Big Tech company. Same exact playbook as work from home.
- Comment on How Do You Solve a Problem Like Google Search? Courts Must Enable Competition While Protecting Privacy. 2 months ago:
Most interesting would be a forced sell of Android. Would all of the Google spyware be stripped out of Google’s Android distribution? Would we see more official distributions of Android without any Google software?
- Comment on Brazilian court gives Apple 90 days to allow sideloading on iOS. 3 months ago:
I wonder if they will implement the same malicious compliance as they did in the EU with the junk core technology fees and notarization requirements.
- Comment on Are there any non capitalistic technology companies still around? 3 months ago:
I believe Valve just has a flat hierarchy, but not worker owned.
- Comment on Are there any non capitalistic technology companies still around? 3 months ago:
tech-coops.xyz seems to have a list of companies.
- Comment on Are there any non capitalistic technology companies still around? 3 months ago:
One answer to capitalist companies seeking to maximize profit at all costs are worker owned companies. When the workers are in control of the business decisions, they won’t vote for the decisions going against themselves.
Sadly, I don’t know that many worked owned tech companies. One example is www.igalia.com
If more people would be willing to start work owned companies rather than your typically capitalist startup, we could have more options.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 3 months ago:
Mobile apps are also loaded with third party ad and spyware frameworks which bloats up the size.
- Comment on Best New And Emerging Technologies 5 months ago:
Valve’s Steam Deck is the only piece of technology to come out over this past decade that is exciting. Desktops/laptops and smartphones have completely stagnated. Proprietary OSes with each release are introducing more user hostile features and spyware. The Steam Deck is a breath of fresh air with it not being locked down and you can install whatever you want, as it includes a full KDE desktop environment.
- Comment on Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff. 7 months 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. 7 months 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.