rippersnapper

@rippersnapper@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve said this before and will say it again. The only tech companies that should be allowed to buy Chrome are Canonical and its equivalents.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You compared smartphones to previous tech such as Walkmans, and I explained how they’re nowhere near the same in the extreme case (unsupervised access). No school is gonna confiscate the phones as long as the kids listen. And the kids need to learn to listen to parents and teachers. Discipline is sorely missing in the new generation. Look at that series “adolescence “ to see the real effects of giving kids a smartphone.

  And jamming is expensive and ineffective (you’ll end up jamming nearby devices not on school property too). It’s sim

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I think the adverse effect of handing an iPhone to a 10 year old in Atlanta, when that teen is still highly impressionable unrestricted and unsupervised access to the internet is far worse than handing a kid a Gameboy on which they can only game, or a Walkman on which the worst thing they can do is listen to Cardi B.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Justice Department asks judge to order Google the "immediate" sale of Chrome⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sell it to Canonical

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Justice Department asks judge to order Google the "immediate" sale of Chrome⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Spinning off AOSP into something like Mozilla would massively boost its appeal. I myself left android cuz of privacy issues (no I can’t use GrapheneOS, I need access to my banking apps).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple sued for false advertising over Apple Intelligence.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They really rushed the AI part cuz let’s face it, iOS hasn’t really innovated in a while. They typically wait for other makers to make a new thing (i.e. the swipe down to access settings in android), then take a few years to polish it.

  Samsung and Google have been building AI models for a while, cuz they had access to tons of data. Post ChatGPT release Apple realised it’s suddenly light years behind its competitors. So yeah, this is likely the most half baked product Apple has ever released. Similar Apple Maps, but shouldn’t have advertised entire phones on these half baked feature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Cybertruck shaped man is destroying our government⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Likely he took implants but never really worked for them. Just a conjecture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine a scenario where a bunch of these are used as a server and to power cycle all of them need to turned off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean he’s legally obligated to, not really a choice. He can say screw it, but then he opens himself up to legal troubles. Also hasn’t there been instances of state actors trying to slip in vulnerabilities to Linux as anonymous devs?