gramie

@gramie@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Short summary of dumbphone market in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I know someone who works in a university group related to privacy issues. He refuses to have a smartphone because of the ease which which almost anyone can track you and your activities. I think he has an old flip phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Whatabout…”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But how much do IP laws actually protect the little guy? When a large corporation can bankrupt me by prolonging litigation until I have nothing left, what leverage do I really have?

  There are certainly cases where small creators and inventors were able to overcome this disadvantage, but I suspect that they are the tiny minority, celebrated when they do achieve it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opinion | I Just Saw the Future. It Was Not in America.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess if you can’t rely on human intelligence, you have to hope that artificial intelligence can do the job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t the money from selling microsoft products enough?

  “Enough money” is a phrase that simply doesn’t make sense for a lot of people, especially the sociopaths that run companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The System Shock 2 remaster comes out June 26th⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve probably played through it 5 times, using different skill trees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Hijacks Restaurants Booking System Leading To No Reservations Being Available.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely a thing for days like Valentine’s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: Microsoft is finally shutting down Skype in May⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember a theory that the US government asked Microsoft to purchase Skype and change it from p2p to server-based, so that they could intercept decrypted communications.

  Skype was originally made by a European company (Latvian?).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any hope for Ukraine to survive as an independent state now that trump is desperately wishing for a peace treaty with Russia, even bypassing Ukraine?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Being Ukrainian puts a completely different spin on it. My comment still holds true for Americans, but I would rather not see Ukrainians ground under the heel of another dictator, especially one enabled by the stupidification of the United States.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any hope for Ukraine to survive as an independent state now that trump is desperately wishing for a peace treaty with Russia, even bypassing Ukraine?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry, but I don’t see it. The century of American supremacy is coming to a close. You may not want to admit it, because everyone in the US has been thought about American exceptionalism since they started school. China will rise, as will Europe possibly. I think Russia is failing as well. Its current lashing out is the end of their term as a great power.

  The US is a big country, and the fall will be slow, but I don’t think there is a way to stop it now. I suspect that future historians will trace it back to the Nixon era. Come to think of it, every Republican president since then has also been really, really shitty when it came to preserving the health of the democracy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because he has the knowledge and experience to completely understand the final product. It used an approach that he hadn’t thought of, that is better suited to the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was talking to someone who does software development, and he described his experiments with AI for coding.

  He said that he was able to use it successfully and come to a solution that was elegant and appropriate.

  However, what he did not do was learn how to solve the problem, or indeed learn anything that would help him in future work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brazil condemns US after deportees arrive handcuffed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We are all guilty of crimes at some point. Maybe speeding, or parking somewhere without permission, driving when you may be intoxicated, taking some office supplies home, not noticing that your license plate had expired, a million other things.

  The point is that any one of us could be arrested and convicted if the authorities decided it was worth their while to.

  You are in favor of these people being deported without even judicial review, because you are in no danger of being harmed by the government’s actions. Yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got electrocuted today⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You see, there’s different kinds of dead: there’s sort of dead, mostly dead, and all dead. – Miracle Max

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan prosecutor bows in apology to former death row inmate⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And that’s why this prosecutor is making the apology. Everyone knows that he had nothing to do with the original verdict and sentencing, so he looks noble and there is no one alive to actually take the blame.

  They acknowledge that the system is flawed, but no one has to do anything about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Four tourists die after suspected tainted alcohol poisoning in Laos⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t see any mention of Laotians being affected. Was this restricted only to tourists at a bar, or did only the tourist deaths matter for the new cycle?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the Wii good?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got a Wii with the Wii Fit balance board for my dad to work on his balance and coordination as he aged. He never really got into it, but I think that could be an absolutely killer “game” for elderly people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy Infintiy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But given infinite time, could OP spell “infinity” correctly?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using AI generated code will make you a bad programmer.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have done pair programming with a junior partner, and I found it extremely beneficial. Taking the time to talk out my ideas and logic invariably helped make them clearer in my mind and realize pitfalls much sooner than I otherwise would have.

  I had to explain things clearly and logically, and he was bright enough to ask good questions and point out typos as I was coding.