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- Comment on Living in a forest without any technology also works, since you will have no internet access anyways. 2 months ago:
That’s why it’s important to build a personal security and privacy model and a good idea of what you are and are not willing to give up. Instead of blindly chasing after the things that everyone else does. Since for most people, that idea of living in a forest is usually unobtainable
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 22 comments
- Comment on Telegram founder says the company will become profitable next year | TechCrunch 3 months ago:
Personally with XMPP, I think it’s right now because of the lack of decent looking clients (especially on iOS), as well as a lot of the same friction that people have suffered with mastodon.
Also, Signal is built towards a completely different audience that places privacy first over modern messaging features (things like API’s, sending messages through voice assistants, etc.). And for SimpleX, I’m not really sure if sharing a QR code/link with someone else is the best route to go in UX just to message a friend
- Comment on Is the Fediverse truly decentralized? Not exactly. 3 months ago:
I always feel like whenever someone complains about fedi not being fully decentralized because they perceived too many instances as being held under a single place, they miss the point a little bit in terms of prioritizing infrastructure over user governance.
Aside from the potential disasters happening at them, it just really doesn’t feel like a problem if most people are hosting an instance on a popular cloud platform. These are companies that are just providing infrastructure, and as long as you aren’t trying to abuse their network or spread anything that they consider to be harmful, they won’t really care.
Instances operated under Home and business ISPs aren’t particularly immune to this either. And can still cut off an instance if they decide to.
- Comment on Google tests a feature that calls businesses on your behalf and holds until an agent is available | TechCrunch 4 months ago:
Although Talk to a Live Rep is similar to the Pixel’s “Hold for Me” feature, Google says there are some differences, noting that while some of the underlying technology is the same, Talk to a Live Rep goes one step further.
Mood
- Comment on ‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood 4 months ago:
They can live their childhood as they should do, focus on their learning and enjoy the real world without having to spend their life scrolling, which we all know is not good for them
Older people forget that the norm of childhood has changed. And assume that children should do the same things they did instead of learning how to moderate what they do
- Comment on ‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood 4 months ago:
The goal is to change the norm, Fernyhough said, so that when children come to the end of primary school, the class “bands together and says, ‘Let’s all delay until at least 14.’
Yeah right that’s going to happen: p
- Comment on ‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood 4 months ago:
I fear for the digital literacy of Gen Alpha
- Submitted 4 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 57 comments
- Comment on Selfhosted twitter alternative, not mastodon if possible 4 months ago:
Well you’re in luck, there’s the Pleroma and Misskey family of apps out there that are ActivityPub compatible. Pleroma also has Akkoma as well, and there are far too many Misskey forks to count. Both of them support S3 I believe.
- Comment on Smaug-72B-v0.1: The New Open-Source LLM Roaring to the Top of the Leaderboard 4 months ago:
Oh yay another model I can’t run on my computer :'(
- Comment on Google Chrome Warning Issued For All Windows Users 4 months ago:
You can, but that’s not the point. The idea is to ask users to choose upon opening the app for the first time. It’s an already common statistic that most people never actually change any settings beyond basic personalization. It’s part of why Google spends so much money on setting Google Search as the default engine.
- Comment on Vivaldi explains why they will not embed LLM functionality in their browser 4 months ago:
- Comment on Google Chrome Warning Issued For All Windows Users 4 months ago:
The clickbait in this article is so bad, I thought it was a security vulnerability or something, but it’s just something else related to Mozilla again.
I’m still genuinely curious if Mozilla is going to actually accept a renewal for the search deal with Google, or if they’re actually going to start practicing with a praise and try implementing that search engine selection screen.
- Comment on Google Chrome Warning Issued For All Windows Users 4 months ago:
I have no idea what you mean by stack, but you definitely don’t deserve downvotes for this. You can use whatever you want.
- Comment on Browser maker love-in snubs Google-shunned JPEG XL 4 months ago:
Because Mozilla really doesn’t care about what people think anymore. They’re an incredibly bureaucratic group dealing with a lot of red tape placed as a force for good that doesn’t always meet the mark. It’s mainly the reason Firefox doesn’t have a lot of things (that it honestly should have)
Also, Firefox is a completely original browser but it doesn’t have a “chromium” version the browser like Google Chrome does. Both of the Firefox commercial product and the source code compile to the same thing.
- Comment on Artists are making creative companies apologize for using AI 5 months ago:
I feel like anymore, artists just look through companies work just to go point out AI art and whine about it
- Comment on Congress Wants Tech Companies to Pay Up for AI Training Data 5 months ago:
I think it would be better to enforce open, readable training sets that anyone can browse through to submit legal requests
- Comment on Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 5 months ago:
Why does it matter if Steam uses Chromium on Linux. It’s not like Gecko dropped embed support or anything
- Submitted 5 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on Apple Discusses Push Towards High-End Mac Gaming in New Interview 5 months ago:
Well to start, it would certainly be helpful to support OpenGL + Vulcan
- Comment on Northern star gang 5 months ago:
Sure, given that I don’t really have a compass app anyway
- Comment on Can Chromium resist Manifest V3 or is it doomed to disallow adblockers? 6 months ago:
My gripe is Mozilla not implementing PWA’'s (for reasons I have no idea), and then the whole thing with privacy pass (because they’re too afraid of centralization of any kind despite being a multi-million dollar non-profit).
I seriously do hate that Firefox is going to be my only option on a couple of months for ad blocking. Because I strongly doubt it’s going to get any better between now and June given the rate that Mozilla develops that and how little they listen to their userbase.
As for all the forks out there, they usually don’t have a mobile equivalent to go with them so they’re only half decent to me.
- Comment on 1-bit CPU for ‘super low-performance computer’ launched – sells out promptly 6 months ago:
This seems like a great computer to use in schools to teach how a computer works
- Comment on Apple’s MacBook Pro memory problem is worse than ever 6 months ago:
I have the base M1 MacBook Pro, but I’m seriously considering eventually switching to a framework laptop with Linux if I ever get the chance. I love the processor and OS on this thing, but it feels like I’m hitting a wall with doing some of the more advanced stuff I want to do.
- Comment on He knows 6 months ago:
Smile :)
- Comment on Putting VR Goggles...on Mice. But why? 6 months ago:
The mice can have a little VR. As a treat
- Comment on Thieves return Android phone when they realize it's not an iPhone 6 months ago:
That’s actually interesting since an android is probably a lot easier to sell off than an iPhone given activation lock
- Comment on An After-School Program Teaches Teens Java and Python 7 months ago:
Java is a good language if you’re a beginner, but if you’ve already coded before in other languages, it’s going to suck.
- Comment on USB worm unleashed by Russian state hackers spreads worldwide 7 months ago:
if you’re cold, they’re cold
put them in the computer at your work