myliltoehurts
@myliltoehurts@lemm.ee
- Comment on Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim 1 month ago:
Yes, chrome certainly had other merits too. Neither of us can say with certainty why it succeeded. Personally, I don’t think a crap browser pushed by Google would have but also an amazing browser pushed by an unknown independent developer would have either.
Certainly agree with your 2nd point though.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim 1 month ago:
It’s true, although chrome has gotten a significant boost from Google promoting it in search and every Google app (which I don’t know if they still do).
So chrome beats edge on users, but it’s also likely largely because of the unfair advantage it receives/received from that promotion. Those options are not really available to other browser developers (unless Amazon or meta also decided they want a browser for some reason).
- Comment on I know what I got. No low balls 1 month ago:
Oh you’re right! It looks uh… different than what I’d expect melted cheese to be so I thought it was the bread being discoloured from sauce.
- Comment on I know what I got. No low balls 1 month ago:
Top it with some grated/melted cheese and it’s good to go.
- Comment on Mozilla grants Ente $100k 1 month ago:
In their defense, they also clearly label immich as under active development with frequent changes and bugs.
- Comment on Would you like a receipt? 2 months ago:
Of course this would exist lol
- Comment on Would you like a receipt? 2 months ago:
UK - tesco
- Comment on Would you like a receipt? 2 months ago:
I find this very annoying for groceries. My answer would always be no. But they installed this stupid system where your shopping cart wheels will randomly lock up as you’re walking out the door and the security person has to come unlock them, and it’s a pain if you don’t have a receipt.
So now I always press yes just in case I lose cart roulette…
- Comment on Microsoft begins cracking down on people dodging Windows 11's system requirements 2 months ago:
I’d guess it’s corporate circlejerk - they probably made deals with hardware manufacturers who are annoyed people are not replacing their perfectly functional systems with new ones. Windows gets pre-installed on new systems, and in exchange windows requires new things forcing people to upgrade their old systems - or be locked out of the most popular OS in the world.
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO - 9to5Mac 3 months ago:
So this means every user who contributes posts and comments on a paid subreddit will get a cut from the subscribtion revenue right? Right…?
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO - 9to5Mac 3 months ago:
So untrue, an LLM is way more apologetic when it messes up…
Imagine if it got told the API pricing idea is stupid and it just went “you’re right, my bad” immediately. We’d probably be having this conversation on Reddit.
- Comment on NASA official acknowledges internal “disagreement” on safety of Starliner return 3 months ago:
Boeing engineers are advocating for flying Starliner as is, that enough is known about the problem that failures will not occur during the vehicle’s return to Earth.
Yea honestly those engineers should go and fly on Starliner themselves first. They could even replicate the issue on the ground, and yet it’s still unknown what’s causing it but they feel comfortable to just say “nah it’s fine”?
I wonder how the astronauts feel about getting back on it to return…
- Comment on Follow up on supporting Immich announcement - change of wording 3 months ago:
It used to be an open source project, then at some point the developers moved it to closed source. In reaction to this, a couple of people forked the last open source version of emby and launched it as an open source project (again) named jellyfin.
It is still open source and under active development, and has a significant userbase. Especially on Lemmy I think it’s much preferred by people to emby (or at least more vocally supported).
- Comment on Record labels sue Verizon for not disconnecting pirates’ Internet service 4 months ago:
I just hope that 1 IP they’re so bent over turns out to be a CGNAT IP.
- Comment on OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts 5 months ago:
So they filled reddit with bot generated content, and now they’re selling back the same stuff likely to the company who generated most of it.
At what point can we call an AI inbred?
- Comment on Immich x FUTO Q&A 6 months ago:
I have never seen contributors get anything for open source contributions.
In larger, more established projects, they explicitly make you sign an agreement that your contributions are theirs for free (in the form of a github bot that tells you this when you open a PR). Sometimes you get as much as being mentioned in a readme or changelog, but that’s pretty much it.
I’m sure there may be some examples of the opposite, I just… Wouldn’t hold my breath for it in general.
- Comment on Public satisfaction with NHS falls to lowest level on record 7 months ago:
I’ve started seeing private health insurance on job adverts as a benefit more and more as well recently… Which feels alarmingly US-like as well.
- Comment on Public satisfaction with NHS falls to lowest level on record 7 months ago:
That could be part of the reason, but the NHS has rapidly deteriorated over the course of the last 5ish years. It used to be pretty decent not so long ago, and our taxes didn’t exactly drop. So while most public healthcare systems get strained over time due to the aging population problem, it shouldn’t be this drastic.
The pandemic has surely strained it, but it doesn’t feel like it’s on the path to recovery, more like circling the drain.
The 2 more obvious things (to me) as far as the reasons go: an absolutely malicious government - who would sell us all for meat if they could - with little competition and brexit (courtesy of said government)
- Comment on Microsoft’s new era of AI PCs will need a Copilot key, says Intel 7 months ago:
I have already forgotten about the copilot key thing and had to search it as from the article it was being mentioned together with requiring an NPU, so I was worried it was something like the CPUs having to include some copilot license key shit… It’s just the new key on the keyboard if anyone else forgot about it too.
- Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent 8 months ago:
Agree that it’s misleading, but to add there is another significant concern given how glassdoor is already “pay to win” from the companies perspective: they could just offer identifying the users as a paid service.
It would be digging their own grave if that starts happening, but that doesn’t seem to be stopping many companies…
- Comment on Solar-Powered Farming Is Quickly Depleting the World's Groundwater Supply 8 months ago:
Maybe it’s me but the tone of the article reads to me like “the issue is solar pumps, they’re depleting groundwater reserves” whereas the point seems to be more that pumping groundwater is ungoverned and access to it is now easier than ever, thanks to solar powered pumps.
Unfortunately, doesn’t change that the issue exists.
- Comment on UK law that could ban Apple security updates worldwide is an unprecedented overreach 9 months ago:
If they forced the maintainer of some FOSS software to merge in some code, even if the maintainer isn’t even allowed to speak about it eventually someone would notice (since open source), fork the project and just cherry pick out their crap. Then it’s whack-a-mole of trying to keep people from multiplying it.
Or they could claim the software is illegal and have no way to enforce that either.
So basically as long as said software is useful for more than a handful of people, it’s infeasible to try to enforce it (e.g. see how it goes every time some software gets a cease and desist, they end up even more popular than before)