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- Comment on The Toilet Theory of the Internet: Google is serving an audience that wants quick and easy results. That may lead to disaster. 5 months ago:
Internet of the 90s and early 2000s were introduced as a library where people consulted text for information. The was an introduction (tutorials), a userbase that’s educated and/or eager to learn, and most importantly, it was the wild west where companies didn’t think much of except for just having a .com address. This is where our view of search engines come from - to consult with keywords and read.
This is no longer the case. It’s no longer seen as a library, but the shopping mall where you have advertisements shoved to your throat and flashy stuff that grab your attention. For people who were born after smartphones and grew up without knowing the early stuff, the search engine is… well, do they know what a search engine is?
- Comment on The Dangerous Rise of GPS Attacks 6 months ago:
There was a civilian airplane that mistakenly drifted into Soviet airspace and was shot down back in the 1983, killing everyone on board. Pilots can train for scenarios requiring manual operation, but that doesn’t mean they should only rely on human perception, especially when it involves other people’s lives.
- Comment on People left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about you 6 months ago:
lol k
- Comment on People left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about you 6 months ago:
Same can be said for any field, academic or not. For example, it won’t do any good to dismiss cancer awareness campaigns because doctors have been saying about it for decades. It’s for the public’s benefit, and everyone deserves privacy.
- Comment on Fallout 4 6 months ago:
If they could let player order Preston Garvey do all the minuteman job and leave the us alone.
- Comment on Fallout 4 6 months ago:
Had fun playing FO4 back then, but gotta agree it had some major weak points. They didn’t improve from the FO3 and the constructive criticisms. They simply rode the gravy train Obsidian set with New Vegas. FO76 and Starfield’s failure to captivate public’s interest is a reflection of that.
- Comment on Spy.pet is harvesting your Discord history with no ability to opt-out 7 months ago:
Can’t wait for it to die and wither out. But I know they will retain a big pool of users on hostage like reddit or fb for a while.
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 7 months ago:
Bless the Revanced guys. They made my mobile youtube binge watches as smooth as my desktop firefox + ublock setup.
- Comment on Traveling personal cloud options? 7 months ago:
I would have to find a way to keep them on without needing a battery inserted.
- Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent 8 months ago:
That’s even worse. I bet there are tons of false positives and people facing consequences at job for bad reviews Glassdoor thinks they wrote.
- Comment on Thanks to OpenAI, it's never been clearer that Sundar Pichai is Google's Steve Ballmer 8 months ago:
Ballmer had that energy emanating that just screamed I. Love. This. Company. (screams).
- Comment on Thanks to OpenAI, it's never been clearer that Sundar Pichai is Google's Steve Ballmer 8 months ago:
We can point fingers at Pichai, but I don’t think Larry Page and Erik Schmidt would have been able to keep Google true to its visions even if they really wanted to. Google simply became too big and successful compared its humble cool techy startup era, no way it was remaining the same all along.
- Comment on Reddit started doing what they always wanted to do, sell user content to AI. 8 months ago:
It’s all federated, so it would be strange the bots didn’t scrape anything off.
- Comment on Encrypted email service Skiff gets acquired, will shut down in six months 9 months ago:
They’re all trying to reinvent email by bolting something else on top likely an in-house implementation of whatever’s hot at the moment. However, the supposed benefits are completely gone once you’re exchanging mails with any other email host.
- Comment on BBC: Extending our Mastodon social media trial 9 months ago:
There was the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in Philippines.
- Comment on “The Dawn of Everything” and the Fediverse: How the Fediverse could help humanity to embrace its full potential of different forms of society 10 months ago:
It reminds of 90s almost utopian view of how internet will shape humanity.
- Comment on Six months after the initial reddit surge (graphs) 10 months ago:
I do wish there was an instance that becomes perhaps half as popular as Reddit did at its peak. Just barely enough so we can expose to opinions outside the typical young tech-enthusiast crowd.
- Comment on In search for free domain I got one but some questions 10 months ago:
Info please? All I’ve seen were offers around ~10 usd minimum for renewal.
- Comment on In search for free domain I got one but some questions 10 months ago:
Be careful OP that after first year you have to pay the ‘renew’ price, which is generally higher than ‘register’ price. A lot of cheap domain offers use that trick expecting users to become attached to their domains.
- Comment on Is there a chart where particular cuneiform or hieroglyphics are actually matched with emojis? 10 months ago:
It’s not that simple, cuneiform and hyeroglyphs had been accompanied by sophisticated systems representing phonemes and grammar elements of the languages it was being written with. People make the same mistakes regarding chinese characters (older scripts or more “primitive” scripts equated to simple drawings and nothing else). 🤷
- Comment on Is it time for 6G already? Traffic analysis says yep 10 months ago:
Most want ubiquitous and affordable/cheap mobile internet without the hassle of signing contracts. Moving tech tiers past 4G only represent more hassle for users as of now.
- Comment on Twitch to shut down in Korea over 'prohibitively expensive' network fees 11 months ago:
S. Korea doesn’t need more Naver/Kakao crap dominating the market.
- Comment on Who makes those terrible sheet cake things that every Chinese buffet has? 1 year ago:
Had clients from CJK countries, can confirm. First complaint is everything being too sweet or salty, and second complaint is the rice being undercooked for their tastes… and also salty.
- Comment on Tesla will sue you for $50,000 if you try to resell your Cybertruck in the first year 1 year ago:
The glass punch during presentation was the sign of things to come.
- Comment on Products vs Protocols: What Signal Got Right (Snikket Creator) 1 year ago:
Thankfully not even Gmail could become a walled garden since it’s expected for a decent company to have its own domain (and email address).
- Comment on LinkedIn user data leaked: Database shows emails, profile data, phones, full names, and more confidential info. 1 year ago:
Same here, fuck.
- Comment on Self hosting on an Android mobile? 1 year ago:
So the question is: why was it designed this way? Why can’t we bypass the battery to power up the device from the charging cable alone?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I suppose it’s recoverable on low intensity, but they had to scale up the warning because of “manly job dudes” who ignore safety precautions all the time.
- Comment on Teens exploited by fake nudes illustrate threat of unregulated AI 1 year ago:
Yes, I suppose given equal input (model, keyword, seed, etc.) two Stable Diffusion installs should output same images; what I am curious about is whether the hardware configuration (e.g. gpu manufacturers) could result in traceable variations. As abuse of this tech gains prominence, tracing back the producer of a certain synthetic media by the specific hardware combination could become a thing.
- Comment on Teens exploited by fake nudes illustrate threat of unregulated AI 1 year ago:
Do the files exactly match to their hashes? I wonder if there’s a fundamental difference generated by using different hardwares.