circuscritic
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- Comment on Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away 1 month ago:
Short sighted for who? Executive compensation is tied to stock performance via options. If their actions boost the stock price in the short term, what do they care about the companies performance at a future date after they’ve cashed out?
We’re currently in the extraction phase of neoliberal economic system and it’s only downhill from here.
- Comment on Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away 1 month ago:
Learn what? This was the specific intended outcome: layoffs without severance or unemployment.*
*Unemployment benefits aren’t totally off the table due to the companies changing of job requirements, but that’s going to depend on local laws and individual employee circumstances.
- Comment on Peter Thiel was trapped inside a student debating hall by pro-Palestine protesters accusing him of genocide 1 month ago:
Anyone who’s name is an anagram for The Reptile invalidates your entire premise, on top of the fact that he’s also probably had at least one of his former boytoy lover’s killed and he’s just generally an awful human being who’s entire goal is emiserate others.
- Comment on That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit 1 month ago:
It was a better UI and user experience then Android by the time it launched…but by the time it launched the smartphone market had already exploded and the app developer marketplace had already matured into a profitable sector. There was no incentive to attract enough developers to build out a similar ecosystem on the late to the party Windows Phone
- Comment on Argentines are recruiting friends, strangers into Worldcoin’s cash-for-eyeballs scheme 1 month ago:
Even if you believe that, and trust the people running these scanning stations, synthetic images generated from biometric hashes are still a thing, such as with Masquerade.
- Comment on Argentines are recruiting friends, strangers into Worldcoin’s cash-for-eyeballs scheme 1 month ago:
You’re looking at it wrong. This is a scheme to collect mass amounts of biometric data. What’s the end goal? No idea, but I I doubt it’ll be to the benefit of mankind.
- Comment on Burkina Faso soldiers massacred 223 civilians in one day, finds rights group 1 month ago:
Odd. I see no mention that these were American trained troops, but I do see an intentional attempt to shift blame elsewhere.
- Comment on Chinese swimmers won Olympic golds after testing positive for banned drug 2 months ago:
Common misconception is that PED screening is a drug test, it’s not. They’re an intelligence test.
- Comment on First known test dogfight between AI and human pilot carried out, US military says 2 months ago:
Maneuverability is much less of a factor now as BVR engagements and stealth have taken over.
But, yeah, in general a pilot that isn’t subject to physical constraints can absolutely out maneuver a human by a wide margin.
The future generation will resemble a Protoss Carrier sans the blimp appearance. Human controllers in 5th and 6th Gen airframes who direct multiple AI wingman, or AI swarms.
- Comment on The startup offering free toilets and coffee for delivery workers — in exchange for their data 2 months ago:
I refuse to believe that any data they harvest from gig workers will come close to covering their overhead.
I absolutely believe that the founders will make out like bandits before this is either acquired by a bigger dumber company, or shuttered.
- Comment on Google mocks Epic’s proposed reforms to end Android app market monopoly 2 months ago:
Required means not optional… which both are…
Also, it’s not unusual for a repo manager to request the ability to check for background updates, or send notifications…which again, are both optional.
- Comment on Google mocks Epic’s proposed reforms to end Android app market monopoly 2 months ago:
So…a repo manager asks to notify you of updates, and check for them in the background…and that requires an essay long screed?
FYI I have battery optimizations enabled, and notifications disabled. App works great.
- Comment on Google mocks Epic’s proposed reforms to end Android app market monopoly 2 months ago:
Use Droidify or Neo Store. Both are in F-Droid repo, and both are better IMO.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow on Search Engine Enshittification 2 months ago:
…also because they’re the highest earning tier of the upper middle class, and Cessna’s are an extremely common manufacture with a lot of relatively low cost options.
Most of their customers are probably upper middle class types, very small regional airlines, and people who run charter businesses.
I’d assume that between the professional pilots, and the hobbyists, you’ll find the former has lower crash rates.
- Comment on Google was ordered to identify people who watched certain YouTube videos. Privacy experts say the orders are unconstitutional. 2 months ago:
That doesn’t necessarily mean your IP isn’t being exposed to YT.
If that is something you’re concerned about, you should read the documentation of whichever pipe/front ends and services you use.
- Comment on Adding TV to bedroom without using mainstream smart device 2 months ago:
Honestly, you’re better off getting an Nvidia Shield TV, or another premium Google certified Android TV box.
But if you’re deadset against that, then get a used Chromebox off eBay for like $20-40. Just make sure whatever model you get is firmware flashable and supports user installed Linux. Search “Chromebox Linux HTPC”, there’s plenty of resources available.
- Comment on U.S. drops from top 20 happiest countries list in 2024 World Happiness Report for the first time 2 months ago:
That is… ironically, a very American centric view for someone who is so pessemsic about America.
- Comment on Microsoft defends barging in on Chrome with pop-up ads pushing Bing, GPT-4 3 months ago:
…No…your using very specific financial crimes as catch-all description for financial engineering.
Words have meaning. You might as well say it’s Microsoft is a bank robber, because that’s also a financial crime of sorts.
- Comment on Microsoft defends barging in on Chrome with pop-up ads pushing Bing, GPT-4 3 months ago:
Stock market overvaluation and general economy shitfuckery doesn’t make it a pyramid scheme, which is a very specific type of financial crime.
Pyramid schemes involve organizations that can only survive with a constant flow of new investors because they don’t actually make any money from whatever the business is supposed to be doing i.e. selling goods and services to consumers.
Microsoft brings in significant revenue from selling it’s products to end users, which means it’s not a pyramid scheme.
- Comment on Microsoft defends barging in on Chrome with pop-up ads pushing Bing, GPT-4 3 months ago:
…that’s not what a Pyramid scheme is.
- Comment on Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” 3 months ago:
No, please do not start adding electrical components to furniture en mass.
If you do, I give it 1, maybe 2 generations, until furniture is subsidized by tech companies and it becomes niche to NOT have a “smart couch”.
- Comment on Usage Of Elon Musk’s X Dropped 30% In The Last Year, Study Suggests 3 months ago:
There’s so much wrong with your understanding here…so I’ll just point out that you’re talking about Twitter as if it’s still a public company.
And Twitter was never profitable, and it was likely never going to be profitable. But there’s a big difference between their losses and profit projections before Musk, and after.
- Comment on Photographer steps inside Vietnam’s shadowy ‘click farms’ | CNN 3 months ago:
Software can detect the hardware it’s being run on, I imagine that mass traffic detected from x86, or emulated Android, would trigger fraud alerts.
Additionally, phones are cheap and use a lot less power then the x86 cluster required to replicate that many “individual” users/devices.
- Comment on Wyze says camera breach let 13,000 customers briefly see into other people’s homes 4 months ago:
I was referring to those who use Wyze’s default cloud storage.
SOME Wyze models are compatible with 3rd party software/firmware to switch to a selfhosting model, but again, it depends on the model and firmware version.
- Comment on Wyze says camera breach let 13,000 customers briefly see into other people’s homes 4 months ago:
Using Wyze is a choice that has trade-offs and it’s up to the user to understand what those are.
For example, if you aren’t able, or willing, to selfhost an NVR, then accept that these situations may arise and decide which video feeds are ones you’re willing to take that risk with.
Video feeds of your backyard, are significantly different then those of your bedroom, or living areas.
- Comment on Spotify just changed TOS, giving them unprecedented rights to create "derivative works" from audiobooks 4 months ago:
So…in the future you might want to consider actually reading the article before commenting.
- Comment on Can you manage your house with a local, no-cloud voice assistant? Mostly, yes. 4 months ago:
That does seem to be the consensus.
- Comment on AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt 4 months ago:
Silent, but deadly.
- Comment on Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox 4 months ago:
I think it’s more that the Firefox/Mozilla community is relatively small and has a self imposed echo chamber.
For example, when discussing mobile browsers on Android, it’s a fact that Chromium based ones have significantly better security then those based on Firefox. It sucks, but it’s true.
Whenever that’s brought up, downvotes follow.
Whether, or not, that echo chamber is so large that includes Mozilla leadership, I can’t speak to. But I wouldn’t be surprised.
- Comment on AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt 4 months ago:
I’ve just converted to polytheism and have begun praying to the Emoji God they use 1,000 origami cry laughing Emojis to smite you down, so that you may die how you lived.
I hope it won’t be quick, or painless, but that’s up to the Gods now.