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- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 8 months ago:
you don’t have to pay for a +1000$ device to switch to Linux. In most cases, you can just install it in the same machine you have Windows.
It’s more like replacing Samsung’s Android ROM with a custom ROM. Sure, you’ll have to learn new things to use it, but you don’t have to buy an iPhone.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 8 months ago:
“most people” = “most teens”. I don’t know any adult that plays competitive multiplayer games other than maybe CSGO.
- Comment on Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media 9 months ago:
I’m in mastodon but I wouldn’t mind trying Bluesky when there are third party servers.
- Comment on Waymo issued a recall after two robotaxis crashed into the same pickup truck 9 months ago:
I’m against driverless cars, but I don’t think this type of errors can be detected in a lab environment. It’s just impossible to test with every single car model or real world situations that it will find in actual usage.
An optimal solution would be to have a backup driver with every car that keeps an eye on the road in case of software failure. But, of course, this isn’t profitable, so they’d rather put lives at risk.
- Comment on You can remove or disable Windows 11 and 10's AI 'bloat' with new BloatynosyAI 9 months ago:
does Windows Server Essentials comes with a desktop GUI? Can you install Steam and things like that like you’d normally do in Windows?
I’m happy with Linux, but my brother who is a gamer has Windows but he’s annoyed AF by updates and the AI nonsense. This seems like a perfect solution.
- Comment on OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion 9 months ago:
rossman is a greedy influencer wannabe that wants to profit from internet injustices, stop being a fanboy.
- Comment on The White House wants to 'cryptographically verify' videos of Joe Biden so viewers don't mistake them for AI deepfakes 9 months ago:
what if I meet Joe and take a selfie of both of us using my phone? how will people know that my selfie is an authentic Joe Biden?
- Comment on Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption 9 months ago:
they should be doing that, otherwise I don’t get how they are making any profit with those huge electricity bills. Last time I checked it, with electricity prices it wasn’t worth it to mine cryptocurrency.
- Comment on Mozilla CEO quits, org pivots, but what about Firefox? 9 months ago:
those days the web was way simpler than it is now. complexity has doomed every web engine not maintained by a mega corp (and some that were, Microsoft killed their own).
- Comment on Mozilla CEO quits, org pivots, but what about Firefox? 9 months ago:
that’s ironic, because Firefox on iOS is just rebranded Safari, as is every other browser on iOS.
- Comment on Ticketek ‘glitch’ appears to re-sell fan’s $659 ticket for Taylor Swift concert — “They said, ‘someone else has it, we don’t know who, we can’t check or track who has your ticket’” 9 months ago:
I don’t get why they are downvoting you. It’s absolutely true that last month she’s been more on the news than at any other given time the last 5 years.
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Google supports right to repair? Think again. 10 months ago:
this guy is insufferable. these videos are just unnecessarily long speeches that would fit an article so much better than a video.
not to mention that his whole YouTube channel is disguised advertisement for their businesses.
- Comment on Nvidia Blackwell RTX 5000 GPUs may debut earlier than expected 10 months ago:
I’m sure they won’t be any cheaper. Nvidia can be as greedy as they want given the low competition they have.
- Comment on The EU common charger : USB-C 10 months ago:
I don’t think this will impede innovation or getting better speeds. Just as we have done with USB-A, we will just implement new generations with faster speeds in the same form factor and they will have backwards compatibility.
- Comment on YouTube uses lower quality options on browsers running on Arm-based systems — misreporting as an x86 CPU appears to be a widespread browser fix 11 months ago:
no.
Grayjay is proprietary. Use Newpipe, which is what Piped’s extractor is based on.
- Comment on YouTube just made it harder to avoid ads with a tiny skip button 11 months ago:
these apps do not use any official API. if they used it, they would be obliged to comply with the terms of services that most likely force them to show ads or track the users or some other bullshit.
of course these unofficial viewers break from time to time, but in my experience they have been super quick releasing patches fixing it and the user experience is way way better than the official web or app. Fast UI without bloat, no ads, no algorithms, etc.
- Comment on Robert De Niro accuses Apple of censoring awards speech 11 months ago:
yeah, I do not agree with a lot of the guy’s opinions, but I respect that instead of playing ball with Apple he took his phone and read his own speech.
- Comment on Robert De Niro accuses Apple of censoring awards speech 11 months ago:
it’s too much of a coincidence that the removed parts were the most controversial ones. that’s a pretty weird change for allegedly an “older draft version”.
additionally, it’s not the first time Apple has removed controversial topics in a short period of time. I might not agree with DeNiro at all, but I’m convinced that those parts of the script were removed purposefully by Apple.
- Comment on Robert De Niro accuses Apple of censoring awards speech 11 months ago:
I honestly don’t care what the guy had to say. Removing parts from his speech without telling him is plain awful.
- Comment on Spotify will end service in Uruguay due to bill requiring fair pay for artists 11 months ago:
Physical records make good money for the artists, if it weren’t for the greedy discographies of course.
- Comment on Ethernet is Still Going Strong After 50 Years 11 months ago:
it’s an standard. as long as standards are open (and they should be, by definition) they can’t die as long as there is an use for them.
- Comment on 108-Gigapixel 3D Microscope Scan of Vermeer Masterpiece is Largest Ever 11 months ago:
poor people can’t enjoy art now? what you’re proposing is artificially creating an economic barrier to access art just because you consider that people who are born in developing countries aren’t interested in art.
also, there are a tons of people who buy android phones even if they can afford an iPhone because Apple’s devices are a golden jail.
- Comment on 108-Gigapixel 3D Microscope Scan of Vermeer Masterpiece is Largest Ever 11 months ago:
I doubt the one that they display in their website is a terabyte, because that would require a ton of traffic just to get the render in the browser for each visitor they get.
(I’m sure that isn’t the full resolution one, but it still looks pretty good)
- Comment on Framework 13 With AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Makes For A Great Linux Laptop 1 year ago:
I’ll buy a framework when they finally add the Coreboot support they promised.
- Comment on What is Google trying to hide in its deal with Spotify? 1 year ago:
If indie devs, for example, aren’t getting the same deal, it sounds anticompetitive to me.
(I’m no Epic fan, just a random thought)
- Comment on Meta given 30 days to cease using the name Threads by company that trademarked it 11 years ago 1 year ago:
you’re right in almost everything
Seems clear cut and Meta will likely have to change the name.
Meta has a massive amount of resources, I’m sure they can afford more lawyers than the British company. Courts tend to favor the one with most resources, so the smaller company will have a very hard time trying to make Meta to change their app’s name.
- Comment on Introduction to Hardware Restrictions: Can You Trust Your Phone? 1 year ago:
short answer: no
- Comment on Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection 1 year ago:
by definition?
the Free Software Foundation, the ones that started the whole idea of sharing code as a philosophy of software, do not consider source available as free software or “open source”.
It does not meet Eric S Raymond’s definition, the one who invented the term “open source”.
It does not meet the Open Source Initiative definition either.
Even Wikipedia gives the right definition of open source:
They grant the recipient the rights to use the software, examine the source code, modify it, and distribute the modifications.
So stop defending Rossmann and admit that the app is not open source.
- Comment on Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection 1 year ago:
Subject to the terms of this license, we grant you a non-transferable, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to access and use the code solely for the purposes of review, compilation and non-commercial distribution.
note how this explicitly leaves out modification.
You may provide the code to anyone else and publish excerpts of it for the purposes of review, compilation and non-commercial distribution, provided that when you do so you make any recipient of the code aware of the terms of this license, they must agree to be bound by the terms of this license and you must attribute the code to the provider
once again, they exclude modification of the code.
no forks can be made because they aren’t allowed to modify the app in anyway.
- Comment on Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection 1 year ago:
I prefer to use Tor, but whatever makes you happy.
Client side code isn’t the only way to track someone, but it’s one of the options. And fingerprinting browsers using JavaScript is an extended practice.
Anyway, you’re missing my point. My browser, my rules. I’ll just block any script that annoys me.