ForgotAboutDre
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- Comment on Google now offers ‘web’ search — and an AI opt-out button 21 hours ago:
They could attempt to quantify how gamed the result is and reduce its ranking. Also punishing domains with lower ranking the more they return SEO optimised pages. They could also increase the ranking of older pages.
This doesn’t really help google, it only really improves their search results. Google wants these hyper SEO optimised results with lots of advertising. Additionally, the less relevant the result is the more searches a person does. Each search is an additional set of ad impressions.
Google search is better than ever. Because it generates more advertising opportunities for google. Google isn’t in the business of returning good search results, they are in the business of displaying ads.
- Comment on iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal' 6 days ago:
It lets you build one motherboard with all possible ram options.
The smallest one has all it ram soldered on. Therefore less time is required in assembling the laptops. All other patients just need the extra ram placed in the dimm slot.
- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 1 week ago:
You need port forwarding to connect on torrents. Your able to torrent because everyone you torrent from has port forwarding enabled. If you want to access more seeders, and more commonly leechers you need port forwarding. This is useful for people using private trackers that want to maintain a ratio.
- Comment on Linux Distro for Jellyfin HTPC 1 week ago:
Yes, I understood that. There are specific OS for Kodi like libreElec, that make it easy to have support for lots of codecs etc. I don’t know if any for specific to Jellyfin, but the Jellyfin App has a better UX than Kodi.
- Comment on Linux Distro for Jellyfin HTPC 1 week ago:
Kodi is a great Linux client. But that’s not what OP wants, the jellyfin app is a nicer UX experience.
- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 1 week ago:
There are plenty of other options in the market, including ones with port forwarding. It’s a very saturated market.
- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 1 week ago:
That’s what mullvlad say. It’s not necessarily the reason why they don’t offer port forwarding.
It was always possible for them to continue allowing port forwarding. They could use separate servers for those that want port forwarding, stopping any impact port forwarding had on those customers.
- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 1 week ago:
Port forwarding means torrents. People using a VPN to torrent likely have much more traffic, especially those that seed (which is why they want port forwarding). Not enabling port forwarding means mullvlad can operate at a higher profit to cost ratio, and less risk.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 week ago:
Google will know. They gather all WiFi and Bluetooth data in the name of location services.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 week ago:
Android defaults to lying about your Mac address, which can be frustrating if you want to manage your home network.
- Comment on Google lays off hundreds of 'Core' employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico 1 week ago:
Not necessarily disloyal. But different loyalties.
Microsoft makes software used by governments all over the world. Any government that want to gather intelligence or blackmail another government could do it through inserted exploits in Microsoft’s code. The US could go straight to Microsoft to this in an official capacity. Other nations would influence the individuals working on the project to do it covertly. If your country asked you to do this, they are likely able to convince you it’s in the national interest and you would be harming your country if you didn’t.
It’s not that they wouldn’t be loyal, it’s who they would be loyal to.
- Comment on Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says 2 weeks ago:
They are charging a development fee. Then a per user deployment fee for each copy of the software distributed. This is a normal structure for many commercial software.
You can still develop an iOS app and deploy it on a third party iOS store. It just can use any software that apple charges for.
The EU would need further legislation to stop apple from doing this. It would also have to be targeted very particularly at apple, else software licensing wouldn’t work.
To tell apple they couldn’t do this would require invalidating copyright licensing for all software generated by an OS provider that can be used on a application.
In all the examples you’ve suggested the software was given freely from the OS providers to apple. They didn’t ask for any money. Largely because they wanted people to make software for their systems. Video game consoles do exactly what apple is doing. Further they even have means to restrict the content that you can publish at all.
- Comment on Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says 2 weeks ago:
They do incur the cost of the tools and APIs. They would argue they eat the loss to support their market place.
I would argue apple making their APIs and tools open for everyone is in their best interests. It’s easier to control security issues if everyone uses the same tools and apis. But apple won’t care as much.
If a third party app store provides a tool or service to improve their app store, should apple expect to be able to use that for free? Negating any benefit that third party would get for developing such an improvement.
- Comment on Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says 2 weeks ago:
The legislation would probably be from start of sale rather than end. Otherwise it would have businesses binning old hardware that isn’t selling well to avoid the increased support time.
- Comment on Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says 2 weeks ago:
Android replaced most of the OS that people would consider Linux normally. They only kept the kernal. The kerbal is Linux, but when people talk about Linux OS they usually mean Linux/GNU.
- Comment on Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says 2 weeks ago:
Businesses would avoid this by making their apps certain device only or using different companies to publish their apps on each platform to stop them from needing to allow cross platform ownership.
- Comment on Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says 2 weeks ago:
I think this would need new legislation that would push software regulations further than they’ve been before.
Apple can allow apps to be installed outside their app store. The fee they are charging is likely related to accessing their APIs and tools for developing iOS apps. Apple would have to be forced to make these free.
Currently you could considerably make an iOS app without apple’s tools and APIs. But it would require significant effort to develope/reverse engineer these tools to make the app. Effort that is outside of the scope of most modern app development.
To force apple to make the APIs and tools open would likely require additional legislation. Saying not only must the device allow third party distribution of apps, but apple must support these activities for free. This is significantly different from making apple allow third party apps. It puts on them a real cost (not potential loss like allowing third party app stores).
This isn’t a problem for other systems because they actively invite people to develop and distribute their software for their system. But it would have implications for game consoles. Sony, MS and Nintendo would have to allow any potential developer access to their tools for free with little obligation.
- Comment on Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time 2 weeks ago:
It is kodi
- Comment on Exclusive: ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 2 weeks ago:
It’s an admission that running the business isn’t the point of tiktok. It’s an intelligence asset, if the intelligence asset is no longer viable there is no point operating the business.
- Comment on Chinese battery developer unveils new tech with 1,300-mile range that could revolutionize EVs: 'An important piece of the puzzle' 2 weeks ago:
Where do you think they strike the term from.
- Comment on Chinese battery developer unveils new tech with 1,300-mile range that could revolutionize EVs: 'An important piece of the puzzle' 2 weeks ago:
If there was serious investment in green energy. There would be large spikes in power, to have reliable baseline to power the grid. This excess power needs to go somewhere. Hydrogen seems a good solution. It takes free electricity and turns it into a sellable product. One that can be sold at a much higher cost than storing the energy in a battery and selling it back to the grid. It may be able to ease natural gas transitions as well.
The big issue is no country is taking low carbon power generation seriously. Toyota is assuming governments will be responsible now. EVs are being sold because performance, running cost and individuals environmentally attitude is better. Hydrogen requires governments to change their attitude.
- Comment on If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers? 2 weeks ago:
Military and intelligence services are bothered by China. The government not so much. The conservatives are happy to sell our nuclear and communication infrastructure to China. It was the backlash in the media that made them change course.
The British government agreed to allow China to work on nuclear power stations in the UK, it was the intelligence service that made them reduce Chinas access to its design and operation.
This is the same government that stopped the EU from restricting cheap Chinese steel into the EU (prior to Brexit). Recently the UK closed one of its major steel manufacturers. We can only recycle steel in the UK now.
Steels needed for boats and tanks. Especially if a land war in Europe broke out, or a naval war in the Pacific.
The conservatives are weak on all advertising. The shear amount of gambling adverts in the UK are abysmal. As well as direct marketing to children for high strength vapes. We nearly got rid of nicotine addiction in young people, it’s was falling significantly prior to vapes being allowed to advertise to children. They don’t care, they’ll sell anything to the highest bidder.
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 2 weeks ago:
Cameras and AI aren’t a match for radar/lidar. This is the big issue with the approach to autonomy Tesla’s take. You’ve only a guess if there are hazards in the way.
Most algorithms are designed to work and then be statistically tested. To validate that they work. When you develop an algorithm with AI/machine learning, there is only the statistical step. You have to infer whole systems performance purely from that. There isn’t a separate process for verification and validation. It just validation alone.
When something is developed with only statistical evidence of it working you can’t be reliably sure it works in most scenarios. Except the exact ones you tested for. When you design an algorithm to work you can assume it works in most scenarios if the result are as expected when you validate it. With machine learning, the algorithm is obscured and uncertain (unless it’s only used for parameter optimisation).
Machine learning is never used because it’s a better approach. It’s only used when the engineers don’t know how to develop the algorithm. Once you understand this, you understand the hazard it presents. If you don’t understand or refuse to understand this. You build machines that drive into children, deliberately. Through ignorance, greed and arrogance Tesla built a machine that deliberately runs over children.
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 2 weeks ago:
Tesla sues people that criticise them in the media. You really can’t trust most reviews. The reviews are also looking for money from companies like Tesla so their not impartial.
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 2 weeks ago:
Tesla’s autopilot isn’t the best around. It’s just the most deployed and advertised. People creating autopilot responsibly don’t beta test them with the kind of idiots that think Tesla autopilot is the best approach.
- Comment on TSMC says first 1.6nm chips coming in 2026 2 weeks ago:
It refers to feature size, rather than component.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 2 weeks ago:
So many things are ads now. Most ‘reviews’ and ‘news’ are ads, even when they’re not payed directly their pushed by algorithms that favour those advertising. Even if you avoid them most people you interact with aren’t.
You’ll never see their effect if you truly believe your impervious to them.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 2 weeks ago:
Google has great customer service, your just not the customer.
- Comment on Mr Bates vs Post Office drama lost £1m, ITV boss says 2 weeks ago:
They made an Irvine Welsh detective drama series called Crime. This was excellent. It does seem like most of their dramas are overdone police/detective shows. Crime had great writing and dark humour. But I don’t think it would have been picked up by ITV if it wasn’t a police drama.
- Comment on Mr Bates vs Post Office drama lost £1m, ITV boss says 2 weeks ago:
There’s no validation process, even for BBC iPlayer. They ask for a postcode because the regional content within the UK is locked to different countries and regions (ITVX content is on STV player in Scotland).
There isn’t a way for them to check your TV licence on ITVX. Even then a TV licence is only required if you watch the livestream broadcasts on the app. If you watch catch-up, streamed but not live broadcasts, a TV licence isn’t required except for BBC iPlayer. An IP address outside the UK isn’t likely to work either.