drahardja

@drahardja@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese entities turn to Amazon cloud, rivals to access US chips, AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  VOA News is not a reliable news source—it’s literally a taxpayer-funded propaganda outlet of the USA. Since the Trump administration the organization has been pumping out odd conservative talking points.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought this was a new Chuck Tingle novel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple employees outnumbered customers at Vision Pro launch in San Francisco's Union Square⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Define “complete”.

  A 1.0 product is by definition the worst product the company will make of that type. That’s no different from any other product by any other company.

  There is no complete product. There are only products you can buy, and those you can’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple employees outnumbered customers at Vision Pro launch in San Francisco's Union Square⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re conflating the perfect with the good. The question is not whether Vision Pro is perfect, it’s whether it’s good enough for today. I happen to think that it is for the goals the company has set (well under 1M units sold). But it will of course improve rapidly every year.

  This is not new. This is every new product Apple has introduced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please tell me does this make any sense? i can not sleep, is capitalism inherently designed to be invasive?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The description is a vast oversimplification of the fall of the Roman Empire, of course.

  Like the game Monopoly, unrestrained capitalism will always end up with a few people owning almost all the value while everyone else live in poverty, and it will always end up in systemic collapse because you can’t get infinite value out of finite resources. At some point the game will be over.

  But unrestrained capitalism doesn’t exist, even in today’s very unequal world. There are forces that undo the momentum of capitalism, including taxation, regulation, trade barriers, and public goods and services. Some countries do this better than others.

  I happen to think that regulated capitalism, balanced with a heavy emphasis of wealth taxation and investment in public goods and properties, is better than any other system that relies on non-monetary control of resources. It can be sustainable, but not in its current state.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple employees outnumbered customers at Vision Pro launch in San Francisco's Union Square⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I heartily disagree. This is a 1.0 product, and though it’s deeply flawed in so many ways, it also nailed interactions that other companies have struggled with. They’re going to iterate and pivot on this platform for the next few years (and sell cheaper models) and they will find the sweet spot. This platform is here to stay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's Silent Sacking⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Among tech companies, RTO has primarily been about one thing: maintaining real estate investments. This is likely the primary reason Apple began RTO much earlier than most of its peers (Aug 2022). Apple has enormous RE investments in Apple Park, in San Diego, Austin, and a bunch of other locations, and RTO is a way to ensure their values stay up, and they can remain qualified for tax credits by bringing commerce to those areas.

  The fact that RTO also causes the most expensive people to leave was a fortuitous bonus. In 2023, interest rates went high, and money (and thus revenue) became tight, so companies like Amazon enacted RTO to force their most expensive employees to leave. As a Bonus, Amazon also got to shore up their real estate investment values.

  Make no mistake: Apple, too, used RTO as an attrition tool. They fully expected some single-digit percentages of their engineering workforce to quit due to RTO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What If: No Social Media Anonymity⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll flip the question around: what are you trying to achieve with zero anonymity, and how would it be abused? Is the tradeoff worth it?

  If real identity is required to participate, but is not publicly displayed, who would you entrust with this information, and how would it be abused?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study shows Tesla owners have most car accidents, but Ram has the worst drivers⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  PSA: This “study” is crap.

  Link to actual study

  They base their findings on incidents per driver, not per mile driven. Maybe the “safest” drivers here just…don’t drive their vehicles all that much?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The open secret of Open Source is that successful projects are largely the playground of capitalists. Who has the time to develop and maintain a whole mobile OS with all of the services people have come to expect, for no compensation? Surely the money flows in from interested parties who can then use the software to their advantage.

  Much of the fundamental pieces of iOS and macOS is open source too. Darwin/XNU are open-source, but no one is under the impression that any of this effort is to benefit anyone other than Apple. Sure, Darwin-based alternative OSes exist, but let’s not kid ourselves that they are anything but curiosities, waiting to be derailed by Apple when they get too large.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Makes It Harder for Police to Access Your Push Notifications⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The article is incorrect in equating Apple’s stance to Google’s. As far as I can tell Google does not require a warrant, only a subpoena (which doesn’t require a judge’s review), while Apple’s change does require a court order or a warrant, both of which require a judge to sign off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FDA approves cure for sickle cell disease, the first treatment to use CRISPR⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why pharma research should be publicly funded, and the results go directly into public domain. We will save so much money and lives in the long run that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blade Runner director Ridley Scott calls AI a "technical hydrogen bomb" | "we are all completely f**ked"⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think Ridley Scott knows how AI works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drivers Tend To Kill Pedestrians At Night. Thermal Imaging May Help.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cadillac and Mercedes has had thermal cameras on their cars since the early 2000s. There is probably enough data from their vehicles to see if this technology actually helps reduce collisions at night.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google sues people who “weaponized” DMCA to remove rivals’ search results⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  DMCA is such a shitty law. But companies like Google choose the safe route and believe every DMCA claim without first using humans to investigate them (because that will cost more money), and this is the result.

  I pity the independent creators and makers who get fake DMCA takedowns all the time while Google does nothing to protect them.

  If Google really wants to save themselves from this kind of trouble, maybe spend some lobbying money to get DMCA repealed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone feel like an actual adult?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I do. I got bills to pay, mouths to feed, a job to go to, joints that hurt…yep. I event grunt when I get up.

  I guess I was never under the impression that any adult actually knew what they were doing, even when I was younger, so I wasn’t surprised that I am still constantly improvising. This is the natural state of living. You’re either learning and improving, or you’re becoming obsolete and decaying. This is true whether or not you’re an adult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Hits Pause on iOS 18, macOS 15 Development as Bugs Spread | Apple software Chief Craig Federighi instituted the pause to meet performance and stability targets⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  One week of bug fixing ought to fix it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says empathy isn't a soft skill — it's actually 'the hardest skill we learn'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not what “soft skills” mean, Satya.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Morals are subjective anyway.

  They may be subjective, but they exist as a concept and can be discussed. Morals describe the value system from which you make decisions and build consensus. Pretending they don’t matter is nihilistic and self-serving.

  Let me frame this issue a different way: when Google doesn’t make money from showing you ads, or getting money from your subscriptions, they don’t pay the creators for your views. Are you arguing this is also OK? Will you promise to support each creator directly instead? Or are you only interested in getting entertainment for free?

  While the RIAA does continue to exploit artists, it’s now possible to support many artists directly by buying their albums online, buying merchandise, and attending their concerts. Do you do any of that, or are you simply pirating music for your consumption?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you feel strongly that Google is a data-gathering evil so great that they deserve not a sliver of your money or attention, then stop using YouTube.

  Sorry, but you can’t make a moral argument for your position. What you want is to benefit from Google’s services without paying them. That’s it. That’s the whole argument. It doesn’t really matter if you like them or not, really. You’re arguing that you should get free service.

  That is not a morally sustainable argument.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s an interesting idea: pay for what you consume. We can argue whether ads or a YouTube Premium are a fair price, but I don’t think you’d have a moral or legal leg to stand on if you insist that Google provide you with hosting and streaming for free.

  You are consuming resources on Google’s computers. I think they have a right to ask for payment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple considered ditching Google for DuckDuckGo in Safari’s private mode | But Apple exec argued DuckDuckGo wasn't as private as believed.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Apple still cares more for user privacy than just about any other consumer electronic company out there today. Google’s Play Services mines way more user data than iOS does. However, Apple’s foray into Services will no doubt start them well down the slippery slope of monitoring and monetization, so I think erosion is inevitable to fuel Services revenue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Planet, some string and a bell.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How dense is it? A string that long would have a lot of mass, which you’d have to overcome to ring accelerate the string to a speed that would ring a bell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We were never supposed to see our own faces this much — From mirrors to Zoom calls and TikToks, we are constantly faced with our own reflections, and it is completely changing the way we conceive o...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I can smell the bullshit before even clicking the link. We aren’t “meant” to do anything. We adapt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do life insurance rules that deny payment after suicide discriminate against those with mental health issues? If those rules didn't exist would suicide rate increase?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole point of the “protected class” is that you may not discriminate using those criteria. The corollary is that you may discriminate using other criteria.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember when NFTs sold for millions of dollars? 95% of the digital collectibles are now probably worthless.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I will sleep well tonight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California passes right-to-repair act guaranteeing seven years of parts for your phone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Misleading headline: it has not yet passed. It passed both the house and senate, but has not been signed by Gavin Newsom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple's new iPhone 15 is an underwhelming 'slap in the face,' say disappointed fans⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Slow news day at Business Insider, I see.