kibiz0r
@kibiz0r@midwest.social
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 2 weeks ago:
Meh. TechDirt is great for privacy stuff, but market analysis isn’t their wheelhouse.
I think Vision Pro pretty much accomplished what Apple wanted from it.
Tech press kept comparing it to “the iPhone moment”, but that’s ridiculous. It’s a dev kit.
A dev kit with the best hardware, at a lower price than the second-best, and a more mature OS than anything else out there.
We’ll have to see how it evolves from here, but it’s a perfectly fine first step. Not everything is for you.
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 2 weeks ago:
ITT:
People saying “They already use every other bit of data they can access, why do you naive optimists think they wouldn’t use the most obvious one?”
vs.
People saying “They already use every other bit of data they can access, why do you naive optimists think they would need to use the most expensive one?”
- Comment on Should I get a drum kit, or a pressure washer? 2 weeks ago:
If you get the washer, don’t slack on safety. That shit’ll mess you up in a millisecond.
- Comment on I could be friendly... *for money*! 3 weeks ago:
Remember when this was the meaning of “emotional labor”? Rather than “relationships require effort”?
- Comment on Deny, Defend, Depose: UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Slaying Highlights Widespread Rage at Healthcare Industry 5 weeks ago:
Black lines matter
^/s^
- Comment on FBI recommends coming up with a 'secret word or phrase' to make sure your family know you're you and not some hellish AI copycat 5 weeks ago:
vigilance
Vigilance is like, not drinking the water that comes out of a nuclear reactor.
What we’re talking about here is letting everyone run their own reactor and dump the waste into the street.
You don’t gain vigilance, you lose all habitable public space.
- Comment on US woman caught with golden gun in luggage at Sydney airport jailed for a year 1 month ago:
It’s not gold, it’s Australium.
- Comment on punchable babies 1 month ago:
My inner monologue deciding whether to be a pedant about “monolog”
- Comment on YouTube devs be like 2 months ago:
I’ve been stewing on making an “unpopular opinion” post about how neckbeards ruined the internet by demanding everything be “free” (meaning ad-supported) and then using ad blockers (meaning the normies had to pick up the slack).
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 2 months ago:
Lemmy does not understand that people are leaving X cuz of Nazis, not cuz it’s a centralized corpo platform.
- Comment on A guy just got arrested in Houston US for allegedly being an ISIS member. I grew up in Reagan and 911 era are these people just saying this or are they actively buying bombs? 2 months ago:
People getting put on the no-fly list cuz of racial profiling, I guess?
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 months ago:
They’re all towers. But the buttons are all pretty shallow with very light actuation force required.
And they all happen to be situated such that the corner which has the button is the corner furthest away from the desk, so when she jumps up onto the PC as a platform to get ready to jump onto the desk, her feet are all grouped up right in that corner.
And you can imagine that if she’s crouched down ready to jump, and I put my arm out to prevent her from jumping from the tower to the desk, that’s a lot of pressure all applied to her little toe beans.
It’s an unfortunate coincidence. But that experience, together with seeing this Mac Mini design, has made me wonder why we tend to put a button with such drastic effects right out in the open like this.
- Comment on Lemmy should have a community called lemmy_guess 2 months ago:
Go for it!
- Comment on Lemmy should have a community called lemmy_guess 2 months ago:
There’s a lot of potential here.
lemmy_check: crowdsourced fact-checking
lemmy_see: spot to compare pics of arbitrary stuff (lemmy see your favorite mug)
lemmy_know: ad-hoc polls, recommendations or requests for how-tos (lemmy know how you season your mac and cheese)
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 months ago:
I’ll just stick with covering it up. Without fail, if I leave it uncovered my cat will press it. She’s even held it long enough for a forced shutdown twice that I can think of.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 months ago:
Yes, but even pushing it will bring up a prompt, which is annoying. And also my cat has held it down long enough to force a shutdown on my media server before, as well as on my wife’s PC during Overwatch.
- Comment on Nine trillion dollar investment in 'Super-AI' isn't that much, says SoftBank CEO. 2 months ago:
This is the dumbest timeline.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 months ago:
As someone who has to use heavy/taped-on little toys to cover the power buttons on my PCs or else my cat invariably opens a shutdown dialog in the middle of something… Thank you.
- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 2 months ago:
Sure. And you can buy a dirt bike cheaper than an ATV. Yet people still buy ATVs.
I’m not gonna do iOS dev or ML on a GMKtec no matter how cost-effective it is, just like I’m not gonna play x86 Windows games on a Mac even if I win a maxed-out unit in a giveaway.
- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 2 months ago:
Is there even a better ARM SoC? All I know of is the Snapdragon X Elites, which are either on par or slightly below the M4. And you can only get them in a laptop form factor at this point, cuz they cancelled the mini-PC dev kit.
- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 2 months ago:
True. It was just the first comparison I saw when I searched for M4 benchmarks.
Really, AMD isn’t even a fair comparison because we’re talking about an ARM SoC here. So maybe the Snapdragon dev kit that ultimately got cancelled?
It was supposed to be $900, for a special Snapdragon X Elite, 32GB RAM, and 512GB SSD.
cpubenchmark.net has comparisons to other X Elite chips, putting them pretty much on-par with the M4 or maybe just below it.
With the same amount of RAM and storage in a Mac Mini, you’re talkin $1200. So, $300 premium for a device that’s maybe 2-8% better, has retail support instead of being a dev kit, and… well, actually exists. It’s not a slam dunk for the Mini, but it’s clearly not a rip-off either.
- Comment on Apple’s first Mac mini redesign in 14 years looks like a big aluminum Apple TV 2 months ago:
M4 reportedly outperforms Intel’s Core i9-14900KS by 16%. That CPU alone is over $600.
- Comment on Former OpenAI Researcher Says Company Broke Copyright Law 2 months ago:
This is where we need something other than copyright law. The problem with generative AI companies isn’t that somebody looked at something without permission, or remixed some bits and bytes.
It’s that their products are potentially incredibly harmful to society. They would be harmful even if they worked perfectly. But as they stand, they’re a wide-open spigot of nonsense, spewing viscous sludge into every single channel of human communication.
I think we can bring out antitrust law against them, and labor unions are also a great tool. Privacy, and a right to your own identity factor in, too. But I think we’re also going to need to develop some equivalent of ecological protections when it comes to information.
For a long time, our capacity to dump toxic waste into the environment was minuscule compared to the scale of the natural world. But as we automated more and more, it became clear that the natural world has limits. I think we’re headed towards discovering the same thing for the world of information.
- Comment on I won’t be reading the replies 2 months ago:
- Comment on ‘Beyond failure’: WA teen loses legs at school-based work program. 2 months ago:
Every safety rule is written in blood. A 16-year-old is not old enough to evaluate whether a prospective employer truly understands that concept, and accept the risks if not.
- Comment on Steve Jobs Unveiled A PS1 Emulator For Mac Years Before Emulators Arrived On The App Store 2 months ago:
Found a neat quote from the judges in the Sony v Connectix case:
“For this reason, some economic loss by Sony as a result of this competition does not compel a finding of no fair use. Sony understandably seeks control over the market for devices that play games Sony produces or licenses. The copyright law, however, does not confer such a monopoly.”
Now, it’s worth noting that Connectix actually produced their own BIOS, so this is not quite the same as the common emulators of today.
But still: The idea that copyright does not confer a monopoly on hardware to play your games would be a very spicy take from a court in 2024.
- Comment on YSK that Amazon has different prices for different people 2 months ago:
Some products have discounted prices for Prime members.
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 3 months ago:
This just in: Author/professor/CEO whose books/classes/company are about manipulative technologies… voluntarily installs manipulative technologies.
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 3 months ago:
Not sure anyone actually read the article, cuz yall are talkin about apps vs. web sites, and data collection. Two points which are briefly covered, but ultimately shrugged off in favor of the larger thesis:
Smartphones … meant [companies] could use their apps to off-load effort. … In other words, apps became bureaucratized. What started as a source of fun, efficiency, and convenience became enmeshed in daily life. Now it seems like every ordinary activity has been turned into an app, while the benefit of those apps has diminished.
I’d like to think that this hellscape is a temporary one. As the number of apps multiplies beyond all logic or utility, won’t people start resisting them? And if platform owners such as Apple ratchet up their privacy restrictions, won’t businesses adjust? Don’t count on it. Our app-ocalypse is much too far along already. Every crevice of contemporary life has been colonized. At every branch in your life, and with each new responsibility, apps will keep sprouting from your phone. You can’t escape them. You won’t escape them, not even as you die, because—of course—there’s an app for that too.
It’s not simply the code delivery mechanism, and it’s not whether the data exchange is safe from prying eyes… It’s the fact that a digital UX has invaded every aspect of human interaction, including mourning.
- Comment on FTC Announces Crackdown on Deceptive AI Claims and Schemes 3 months ago:
Fake lawyers, fake reviews, and several pyramid schemes. Solid takedowns, FTC!
