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- Comment on Comcast Unveils Peacock, Netflix, Apple TV+ Streaming Bundle 1 month ago:
Yeah Telus in Canada has been doing this recently as well. We’re just back to cable packages except now you have like 4 different apps to worry about.
- Comment on TikTok sues the US government over ban 1 month ago:
The difference from the perspective of the US is that it’s spyware from a potentially malicious foreign state. China bans US tech companies as well, TikTok took advantage of the US having a much more open market and the state decided that they were acting in bad faith.
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 2 months ago:
Tesla owns over 50% of the electric car chargers in the US. It makes more sense for other companies to be compatible with the largest network than for the largest network to make itself work with everything else.
Whether you like Musk or Tesla or not, this just made more sense for the sake of adoption.
- Comment on A Baltimore-area teacher is accused of using AI to make his boss appear racist 2 months ago:
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 2 months ago:
Pretty sure last time around there were potential buyers. I think Walmart was one of them, and so was Oracle.
I imagine we’ll see the same names pop up again.
- Comment on Firefox saw an increase in users (~50% in Germany and ~30% in France) following Apple’s default browser changes in the EU, as did Brave. 3 months ago:
I believe part of the DMA means that they’re allowed to use their own engines. Whether they have that ready right now I’m not sure, but I’m sure it’s in the works.
- Comment on The Influencers Getting Paid to Promote Designer Knockoffs From China 3 months ago:
Main concern is the lack of regulation on the actual materials being used to make the products.
- Comment on Linux market share passes 4% for first time 3 months ago:
Docker desktop has a license that restricts commercial use depending on the size of your company/employer.
Use Colima to be on the safe side.
- Comment on Previously paid Nintendo DS emulator app on Android goes free (DraStic DS) 3 months ago:
It’s silly, all the legal precedence we have for emulators were for commercial offerings. If Nintendo wants to hit you with so many invalid lawsuits that you’re forced to fold then this certainly won’t stop them.
It’s just bullying and it’s going to keep happening until there’s laws in place protecting it.
Some of the best inventions in history came from people reverse engineering the work of others. If we want to keep moving forward then we can’t let companies bully people out of innovating. It’s shooting ourselves in the foot.
- Comment on Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire 4 months ago:
If you have to run power to it, you might as well run some data as well. Never really the best idea to have mission critical equipment at the mercy of a congested wifi network.
- Comment on Qualcomm CEO says that the next version of Windows is due in mid 2024 - place your bets on Windows 11 24H2 or Windows 12 4 months ago:
Windows 11 is weird to me, I feel like I’ve only heard negative things about it but actually using it on a daily basis has been fine with a few tweaks. Using nilesoft shell and ear trumpet was basically all I needed to be satisfied.
That’s not really unique to 11 though, I’ve had to tweak things on basically every windows version. Whether that was classic shell with 8, or clover for tabs in file explorer for 7.
At the very least Windows 11 seems to have a more consistent design language across the OS. It feels a lot less half baked than the style changes they did on 8 and 10.
- Comment on Unprofitable SF tech giant Okta lays off 400 workers, dozens in California 4 months ago:
I kind of wonder how a company with such an iron grip on SSO can’t manage to be profitable. That and I literally saw a job listing from Okta last weekend, so they’re probably just trying to replace their tenured high cost employees with cheaper workers.
- Comment on Amazon RDS: "collaboration with upstream open source community is critical" 4 months ago:
Yes because they want to be compatible with what people learn on. So if they want improvements that benefit them they have to put those improvements into upstream.
This is how open source is supposed to work.
- Comment on 1 in 4 CEOs planning to replace workers with AI this year, according to recent poll 5 months ago:
The fun part is that for some industries this will “work”.
Not because the AI actually functions as a replacement for workers, but because a lot of companies have become bloated from aggressive hiring over the past few years.
So when things continue to function with the reduced staff they’ll say how great the AI is. When in reality all that’s going to happen is the employees that stay around will just be picking up more of the work again.
Hurray for out of touch CEOs!
- Comment on Apple Watches with blood oxygen tech are banned again 5 months ago:
There are other options on the market from what I understand, Apple just really liked how one company did it. Not enough to just license it like a normal company though, they opted to gut the company that made it.
- Comment on Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware | Researchers identify 23 vulnerabilities, some of which can exploited with no authentication 5 months ago:
Just let him cook
- Comment on Japan to crack down on Apple and Google app store monopolies 6 months ago:
I’d guess because Google Play is a set of services that just use “Play” as a prefix.
- Comment on Sony's New Technology Would Adapt Game Difficulty to a Player's Skill Level 6 months ago:
Maybe the article is being vague but stuff like this really doesn’t seem like it should be patented. Especially considering I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this done in games before. The simplest being Mario games giving you invincibility in a level after you die a set amount of times. Or I think A Hat in Time would shorten certain boss battle segments after you completed them already.
The implementation here would need to be really new and impressive to justify this being a patent. And I’m guessing it won’t be, assuming they ever actually do something with it.
- Comment on Beeper vs Apple battle intensifies: Lawmakers demand DOJ investigation - Android Authority 6 months ago:
If they function identically to a normal client though what’s the issue? As an example Google indexes pages all over the web without the explicit permission of those websites, that requires them to read the page and make requests to someone else’s infrastructure.
What part exactly here is illegal?
- Comment on Beeper vs Apple battle intensifies: Lawmakers demand DOJ investigation - Android Authority 6 months ago:
So is having unencrypted messages with all non-iOS devices with no real solution in sight. Security is obviously not their concern here, it’s vendor lock in.
- Comment on Beeper vs Apple battle intensifies: Lawmakers demand DOJ investigation - Android Authority 6 months ago:
Genuinely curious, what’s the law against reverse engineering an API? I can maybe see the argument for charging for the service, but beeper mini is planning to integrate other services as well so I don’t know if that’ll really hold water.
- Comment on Meta and Microsoft say they will buy AMD's new AI chip as an alternative to Nvidia's 6 months ago:
Took long enough - at a certain point Nvidia’s pricing just to get CUDA doesn’t make sense when compared to the cost of just investing in ROCm and OneAPI.
All they had to do was find the right balance, but apparently they decided to see how much money the printer could make…
- Comment on India’s developer community grows to 13.2 million on GitHub, set to overtake US by 2027: Report 7 months ago:
You accidentally added a letter there and the meaning of your comment has changed dramatically.
- Comment on Qualcomm brings receipts: Snapdragon X Elite gets benchmarked, completely dunks on Apple’s M2 processor 8 months ago:
I’m cautiously optimistic, a new player in PC silicon is exciting if nothing else.
- Comment on Qualcomm brings receipts: Snapdragon X Elite gets benchmarked, completely dunks on Apple’s M2 processor 8 months ago:
That really depends on the TDP of the Intel and AMD chips. Both have been progressively pumping more and more juice into their silicon lately in an attempt to be the “fastest”.
If Qualcomm is within spitting distance at a much lower TDP then this might actually be the beginning of the end for x86.
- Comment on TIL Press win + k to quickly connect to a bluetooth earphone in Windows 10 8 months ago:
I’m sorry to say that in spite of your best efforts it still isn’t the year of the Linux desktop.
- Comment on New Nintendo patent suggests Switch 2 may solve joycon drift 9 months ago:
The NFC reader isn’t on the sticks, so I don’t see why they wouldn’t.