LainOfTheWired

@LainOfTheWired@lemy.lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brought to you by the vertical mouse gang⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Trackpoint gang!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google to start third-party cookie cull for 30M Chrome users⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How does this affect wed development? As a lot of development techniques use cookies to create dynamic functions on a website. And will this also effect locality stored JSON data?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maestro, a Linux compatible kernel written in Rust.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was the first fully working kernel licenced under a FOSS licence. So it was the first time someone could run a 100% open source OS.

  At least since maybe some really old mainframe back when stuff came with source code

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers Say There’s a 5% Chance That AI Will Cause Human Extinction⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t a bunch of “researchers” think the world was going to end in 2012 for some reason?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT bombs test on diagnosing kids’ medical cases with 83% error rate | It was bad at recognizing relationships and needs selective training, researchers say.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You know as someone who lives in the UK our NHS( national health service, which is basically social health care) already has a website to help you figure out if you need to see a doctor, and it’s kinda useless. There are some things humans are simply better at, and understanding a humans physical needs is one of them.

  I really think trying to replace doctors with AI is an awful idea.

  I’m fine with it being used as another tool to help with the process, but that doesn’t seem to be the goal of this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do find the super key really useful actually, for binding hotkeys for my window manager. But a key for some voice assistant is really dumb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honesty for a lot of older games gog is the answer. A lot of older games just don’t run well or at all on proton.

  Though you could also just get an old console to play them on and never worry about updates breaking things again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maestro, a Linux compatible kernel written in Rust.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s interesting, but with Linux and BSD already available in many different flavours do we really need it?

  I mean what use case would it be better in except maybe an extreme rust enthusiast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do any of you have that one service that just breaks constantly? I'd love to love Nextcloud, but it sure makes that difficult at times⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait so it’s not just that my vps only has 1gb of ram?

  You guys with more ram still get crashes?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Car Is Tracking You. Abusive Partners May Be, Too.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why is it people only care about digital privacy when it effects someone in a negative was like this.

  For me the basic concept that someone can sell you something with the ability out of the box to do that and whatever else they want to do with it worries me and makes me want no part of it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unofficial app reminds not to give up on your non-Windows 11-ready PC, also suggests Linux - Neowin⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably. Also the USA is the second world leader in ewaste, kinda funny considering how much your politicians scream about being green.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Discusses Push Towards High-End Mac Gaming in New Interview⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t the problem that they are using ARM hardware. Like sure your x86 emulator can be good, but if you look at something like proton it’s taken years for it to get good. And that’s not even a different CPU architecture. So apple would have to make a wine equivalent, a DKVK, equivalent, and a really great X86 emulator if that’s even possible on current gen hardware.

  Somehow I don’t see them catching up with Linux gaming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My question is how is an AI reading a bunch of articles any different from a human doing it. With this logic no one would legally be able to write an article as they are using bits of other peoples work they read that they learnt to write a good article with.

  They are both making money with parts of other peoples work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Vision Pro tipped for late Jan/early Feb release⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honesty that’s a really bad time to launch as most people will still be broke from Christmas.

  Though it could be a plan to make it even more of a status symbol, so more people will budget or take out loans to get one.

  Honesty though I don’t think they will become a massive part of anyone’s daily lives anytime soon. As imagine the theft of these things if people started wearing them in public, and sure they can put all the anti theft stuff into it they want, but that hasn’t effected phone theft much.

  But my big thing is what does it offer me I can’t already do with my phone. The reason the smartphone was such a hit is it made so many things into one device and it is cheaper then getting all of those devices, and there is a genuine improvement in out and about life with one.

  With a headset I don’t really see what it does that I can’t already do easily at home. I have a laptop and a TV and both of those are cheaper. There is the gaming aspect, but no killer titles in that space. And I do worry about the negative mental health effects of such a device.

  So I wouldn’t be surprised if this is a flop and this kind of tech only gets usage in specialist applications.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4-year campaign backdoored iPhones using possibly the most advanced exploit ever⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not purely talent that allows them to make this kind of stuff. Otherwise people outside of these agencies would be making this stuff too. It’s also the fact the CIA or any of the others can go to apple for example and get all of the information on how these chips are made and the firmware on them, then put the company under a gag order.

  It is silly to assume the governments hackers are any better then a good hacker that doesn’t work for them. And you need to realise that their advantages come from legal power, resources, and lesser regulations on research.

  Because a lot of silly conspiracy theories seem to stem from people believing that the government are somehow superior beings, when the only thing that makes them different from anyone else is power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft ending support for Windows 10 could send 240 million PCs to landfills: Report - CNA⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem with that is the same I’ve had trying to update an old MacBook my mother uses.

  The patching tools work most of the time, but especially with Windows what happens when there is an update forced on you that breaks everything and you have to wait a few days and reinstall the whole OS again.

  Most people don’t want that insecurity. And don’t tell me if it catches on in the slightest that Microsoft won’t do everything they can to break the patches.

  Just look what John Deere did when people made 3rd party GPS devices for their farm equipment.

  As much as I hate to say it for people who won’t use Linux isn’t there that version of chrome OS you can run on a normal x86 laptop. That’s a lot better then making a ton of landfill ( and I really hate Chromebooks)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dark side of social media on youth mental health⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow more articles raising awareness of an issue your dead Grandma already knows about.

  Because that’s a lot easier then doing anything about it, and anything that claims to do anything about it is a bill full of other agendas that barely addresses the problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Race to Put Brain Implants in People Is Heating Up⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah no. Smartphones have ruined our mental health and privacy enough I can’t even imagine what an implant would do to us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you actually own anything digital?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It all depends on the licence. Even if you buy something on physical media you may not technically own it. If something has a FOSS licence MIT, BSD, GPL, etc Then yes you do own your copy and no one can change that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Epic question: How Google lost when Apple won | How is Google running an illegal monopoly with the Play store — while Apple’s App Store is in the clear?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As much as I don’t like epic mega games as a game company I don’t think a company should get a cut of every purchase made in an app on their platform. Sure if you want to use googles or apples payment gateway, but you shouldn’t have too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Child sex abuse images found in dataset training image generators, report says⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How are you supposed to train the dam thing to detect something without using that thing though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple to switch to OLED displays for iPads and MacBooks - Nikkei Asia⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honesty I’m a little bit concerned if they swich Macs as that will be a pretty good indicator of how resistive to OLED burn in modern panels are. A device you scroll social media and watch videos on is one thing. But for a lot of people you will have the same static elements on screen for hours at a time on a laptop or desktop.

  Well honesty it would be kinda amusing to watch apple have to give out a bunch of free oled panels if lot’s of people get bad burn in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steve Jobs Rigged The First iPhone Demo By Faking Full Signal Strength And Secretly Swapping Devices Because Of Fragile Prototypes And Bug-Riddled Software⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They didn’t fake full signal strength they had AT&T( I think) bring in a full blown portable GSM transmitter

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google DeepMind used a large language model to solve an unsolvable math problem⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does this mean computers can finally do floating point math!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Broadcom ends VMware perpetual license sales, testing customers and partners⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah another company ruining the company they just acquired

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Once again not correct. Yes they will give away cheap earphones, but you can get TW earbuds for £15 easily these days. Also there are plenty of wired earphones that cost hundreds and in a few cases thousands of pounds. It’s still taking away functionality and features when you remove it.

  And to address the original apple argument of oh the headphone jack is old outdated tech( from the iPhone 7 announcement). Please go look up a chord Hugo 2 dac. And tell me what the output is. Why then does a over £1,000 dac/amp have a headphone jack.

  It’s a poor argument from a company that wants to sell you a bunch of dongles and airpods. Which has unfortunately mostly worked.

  And don’t even get me started on the 2016 macbooks which went down so poorly due to the oh you’re just poor argument not working that they went back and added more ports on the newer ones.

  I’m not poor I just want to use my £200 wired earphones with my phone without needing a dongle that’s designed to break easier then a late 2012-2016 MacBook charger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For me it’s always been a dumb argument. There is no good argument for not having one

  • It costs maybe £2 to add a crappy DAC, amp, and headphone jack to a phone and they are already ridiculously expensive.

  • The waterproof argument was destroyed by the S5, S6, S7, S8, and S9.

  • The iPhone 7 literally had the space inside for one!

  It’s also weird to me that a lot of budget phones have them. Like why would a £200 phone have a feature a £1,000+ phone doesn’t?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it so much of a problem if the rest of the fediverse doesn’t follow suit. Most of us and the original devs are here because we don’t like mainstream social media and the direction it’s going.

  So sure threads can show up and start trying to call the shots, but I think if we only except them if what they do is in our best interest it will be fine as we can just break off again and do our own thing if they start trying to head the project in their own direction.

  As I don’t think most people on here care whether threads is part of the fediverse or not.

  My point is they only have power if we go with what they want, and due to the open source nature of this just because they have money and a lot of employees doesn’t mean they can take control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doom creator John Romero launches sequel campaign Sigil 2 for free⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also if you want another really fun mod check out Golden Souls. It’s a mod that fuses Doom with Mario 64, and it’s one of the most amusing mods I have ever played, and it’s really fun

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Congress Pulls Bill That Would Massively Expand Surveillance After 'Dramatic Showdown'⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or they shove it into a bill about something completely different like feeding homeless children so they can attack you and call you a terrible person when you oppose the bill.