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- Comment on YouTube devs be like 2 days ago:
I pay for services (including lemmy - support your instance leeches) and use an ad blocker for everything else.
- Comment on YouTube devs be like 2 days ago:
???
There’s a lower cost ad plan for YouTube music is that what you mean?
I thought everyone wanted YouTube premium without the music. That’s the ad plan: it shows ads on music because you’re not paying for ad free music.
- Comment on Signal gets new video call features, making it a viable alternative to Zoom, Meet and Teams 1 week ago:
I’ve been an android developer for a decade at this point, I’m aware of how app deep links work.
The comparison is not “what LOE is call linking from scratch” but rather “how does call linking meshing into existing production codebases across all platforms compare in LOE to 3 buttons?” And the answer is self evidently more.
You’re minimizing the amount of effort and were comparing it to buttons. Adding “a few buttons” is very different than setting up 3 platforms to all use a new protocol (calls from links will require new handling - previously all calls were just based on authenticated users being allowed into webrtc calls based on their tokens. Now you have to have a new handler which joins a call with the token in the URL - that can’t be handled identically). Then we get into the Android app, much of which is still in Java, which uses multi-activity-srchitrcgure meaning you’ve gotta pass data through each layer manually, rewriting each of these activities to accept the new deep link and route to the right end.
And then you’ve got to be sure it all coordinates across iOS, Android and your backend.
It’s not hard but it’s not “a few buttons”. It’s probably 2 weeks of work for skilled and competent engineers, 1 per platform.
Do you actually have any experience in Mobile dev? You sound like a fresh outta college junior eng - cocky and confident that everyone else is wrong, making it harder than it needs to be etc.
Just like that cocky junior eng you’re too unaware of what you don’t know to realize you’re wrong. Wade through the grass a few times and you’ll realize the flowery meadow is full of snakes.
- Comment on Signal gets new video call features, making it a viable alternative to Zoom, Meet and Teams 1 week ago:
Call links are a lot more work than “a few buttons”
- Comment on Toxic towns in Kyrgyzstan battling radioactive danger 1 week ago:
All of the Soviet Union’s uranium came from Kyrgyzstan?
I thought Czechoslovakia was a huge uranium source for the Soviets as well?
- Comment on Concerns about medical note-taking tool raised after researcher discovers it invents things no one said — Nabla is powered by OpenAI's Whisper 3 weeks ago:
Zoom ai transcriptions also make things up.
That’s the point. They’re hallucination engines. They pattern match and fill holes by design. It doesn’t matter if the match isn’t perfect, it will patch it over with nonsense instead.
- Comment on Blessica Blimpson 3 weeks ago:
… No but Bimpson is… www.houseofnames.com/bimpson-family-crest
- Comment on Blessica Blimpson 3 weeks ago:
The original community was namenerds and digging through the original poster’s submission history I’m seeing some pretty bad poetry, 90 day fiance content and grieving the death of their parents: all spread out across the past year.
… I don’t think it’s a shit post.
- Comment on CNC Kitchen – What is the best way to dry your desiccant? (microwave) 4 weeks ago:
Gotcha. The other issue with microwaving it on high settings is they burst releasing a dust of silica and indicating color, neither of which is good to breathe. If you’ve got good ppe and ventilate you should be fine.
It will kill the color changing effect tho
- Comment on CNC Kitchen – What is the best way to dry your desiccant? (microwave) 4 weeks ago:
The video specifically calls that method out as dangerous and toxic.
Microwave is fastest but you’ve gotta do it at an extremely low power setting and he recommends not using it with a food microwave
- Comment on CNC Kitchen – What is the best way to dry your desiccant? (microwave) 4 weeks ago:
It’s in the linked video
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 1 month ago:
Damn that’s wild reading this from an app
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 1 month ago:
That’s less an endorsement of PWAs and more a condemnation of how garbage the native app always was.
- Comment on "Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely 1 month ago:
Doesn’t blind require you to validate via corporate email yearly or something?
- Comment on "Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely 1 month ago:
As someone who previously worked at Google - they didn’t have any antiunion propaganda.
They just, like, paid well, had top tier benefits, great perks, and had a good work life balance.
- Comment on All Of Apple’s Foldable iPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creases, Which May Explain The Company’s Apprehension Towards A Launch 1 month ago:
The battery life is definitely worse because of it but it doesn’t bother me much
- Comment on [Opinon] With Gaza in ruins and Lebanon under siege, what defence remains for Israel’s actions? 1 month ago:
It’s not a line in the sand, it’s an escalation.
- Comment on All Of Apple’s Foldable iPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creases, Which May Explain The Company’s Apprehension Towards A Launch 1 month ago:
Note: the latest pixel fold is about the same size and weight as the pixel 9 pro.
It’s actually kinda incredible that it is that light.
- Comment on Guess what this product is without looking up what it is! 1 month ago:
Snowboard, ski or surfboard wax
- Comment on Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening 1 month ago:
That’s pretty normal for financial charts like this though.
- Comment on The Extreme Cost of Training AI Models. 1 month ago:
3.4bn is their gross - we have no idea what their operating costs are since they refuse to share them.
Some estimates say they’re burning 8 billion a year.
- Comment on The Extreme Cost of Training AI Models. 1 month ago:
The latest releases ChatGPT 4o costs $600/hr per instance to run based on the discussion I could find about it.
If OpenAI is running 1k of those models to service the demand (they’re certainly running more since queries can take 30+ seconds) then that’s 200M/yr just keeping the lights on.
- Comment on Academic writing 1 month ago:
Every single word in the original post clarifies more than plain English. It is more specific and has better nuance than a plain translation.
That doesn’t make it a useful explanation because the audience of the statement is not the in-group using the jargon.
One part of my daily job is translating “technical” into “manager”. The translation always loses fidelity to the original. Jargon exists because it’s useful, not because there’s a deliberate attempt to keep others out. Some will then use it as a shibboleth but that does not mean it’s original purpose was such.
For what it’s worth: that’s true of all translations. I’ve done real time translation from Italian into English and it’s always missing the nuance of the original. I’ve read the divine comedy in English and Italian and the English is always missing the context and nuance.
Language is an abstract representation of concepts and never maps faithfully.
- Comment on Zynga owes IBM $45M after using 1980s patented technology for hit games 2 months ago:
Classing dying corporation spends more on their patent lawyers than they do their programmers. The IP lawyer to programmer ratio going positive is the death knell
- Comment on Zynga owes IBM $45M after using 1980s patented technology for hit games 2 months ago:
Every single phone application does this. The entire Google and Apple app store economy is built on the local host doing something to make it easier on the servers.
- Comment on Religious groups ‘spending billions to counter gender-equality education’ 2 months ago:
All religion is coercive, even the well intended people in it contribute to it.
- Comment on TSMC's $65 billion Arizona facility can now match Taiwan production yields according to early trials | TechSpot 2 months ago:
TSMC is an exceptionally high paying job in Taiwan and they can’t go anywhere else.
- Comment on TSMC's $65 billion Arizona facility can now match Taiwan production yields according to early trials | TechSpot 2 months ago:
You’re not abusing extremely high skill workers who can easily get a new job elsewhere. Not if you want high profit margins.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Here is a short list of things that Play Services do:
- Scan for active malware
- Nearby Share
- App attestation (Required for banking apps)
- Encrypted backup of your data
- Autofill
- All push notifications
- Find my device
- Basic telemetry (talked about elsewhere in this thread but it’s telling Google who you are and where you are)
Even if you remove all telemetry you’d need to have the services running 24/7 in the background maintaining a socket connection to push notification services.
- Comment on Verizon looks to expand Fios with $20 billion purchase of Frontier 2 months ago:
Counterpoint: frontier should go out of business, they’re absolute garbage.
Frontier, spectrum and optimum all blow ass cheeks