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- Comment on YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design 2 days ago:
I prefer the old one, but it’s really not much of a difference. New one looks a bit cheaper, like something you’d see on piracy sites or something.
Also just realised Jellyfin basically has the old YouTube design. Don’t know if YT was first with it, but if so it was pretty influential, think it’s quite common in many players.
- Comment on The youtube algorithm is so bad, I say to my screen "why the fuck would I care about this!?" like 10 times a day. 5 days ago:
Top #1 sign(s) that you’re spending too much time on YouTube.
- Comment on China’s CATL claims to have overtaken BYD on 5-minute EV battery charging time 1 week ago:
TFW Chinese EV makers aren’t even competing with western ones anymore, only among themselves.
- Comment on Google has illegal advertising monopoly, judge rules 1 week ago:
What? Having Chrome become Chromium and Android being degooglified would be pretty huge?
- Comment on US hits China with export restrictions on chips used for DeepSeek 1 week ago:
Sorry, I realise this is half-joking and not at all the point of your post, but I find it interesting…
Otoh, I really don’t want to learn chinese, meh
It’s unlikely to become the lingua franca over night, especially since Chinese already speak English (well, the ones you’re likely to come in contact with). Maybe your grand-children will learn it in school though.
Apart from the characters and pronunciation, the latter of which is probably quite easy if taught at an early age, Chinese is quite straightforward. There’s no regular vs irregular verbs because there are no inflections at all - no cases, no tenses, no plural forms. Just plop the words down in the right order and you’re done. And as a second language, I guess we would only use pinyin until quite late in school.
- Comment on Chinese chip giants say they don't care about U.S. tariffs — many don't sell to the U.S. anyway due to existing sanctions 2 weeks ago:
If a tariff falls on a product category but no one is around to hear it, did it even make a sound?
- Comment on The Famous Antikythera Mechanism Was a Mechanical Disaster, New Research Suggests 2 weeks ago:
Of course. I mean why doesn’t Gizmondo wait for the review to finish?
- Comment on The Famous Antikythera Mechanism Was a Mechanical Disaster, New Research Suggests 2 weeks ago:
Their work is detailed in a paper, posted April 1 on the preprint server arXiv, that has not yet been peer reviewed.
Rebuilt ancient device and tested it feels like the kind of thing that should really be peer reviewed and not just accepted at face value, doesn’t it?
- Comment on An Algorithm Deemed This Nearly Blind 70-Year-Old Prisoner a “Moderate Risk.” Now He’s No Longer Eligible for Parole. 2 weeks ago:
Automating this system with some kind of algorithm is not right, but a nearly blind 70-year-old can still do damage?
- Comment on Another 122.88TB SSD just launched and this one comes from an obscure Chinese startup you've probably never encountered 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think that’s true at all? From my experience and research, China seems quite proud of it’s diversity. The five colors of the original ROC flag symbolized this diversity, though a bit simplified, as the “Five races under one union” (han, manchu, mongols, muslims, tibetans). This term is one of the “Three Principles of the People” formulated by Sun Yat-sen (who founded KMT and is venerated in both mainland China and Taiwan). It’s foundational to both Chinese republics.
(but if we’re talking about the language, then “Chinese” is mandarin Chinese unless otherwise specified)
- Comment on Thunderbird plans on expanding offerings with additional services 4 weeks ago:
I feel this might stop enshittification. Look at Firefox, enshittification stems from a need to turn a profit and how difficult it is to do that in a decent way for a web browser. A privacy-centered email service on the other hand is an attractive product, and probably enough(?) to keep the email client running.
Unfortunate though that Mozilla is a US company.
- Comment on Another 122.88TB SSD just launched and this one comes from an obscure Chinese startup you've probably never encountered 4 weeks ago:
Of the companies mentioned, only DapuStor is from mainland China from what I can tell?
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 4 weeks ago:
While most people would likely move to Digg v2.0 (I am just being realistic)
Are people actually going? The only thing I’ve heard about it (the AI-fueled reboot) is that it was planned.
- Comment on Europe is looking for alternatives to US cloud providers 4 weeks ago:
I sure hope so, but I have little faith tbh. Cloud providers have done a great job selling serverless solutions that are tightly coupled with the provider. Wise companies have limited themselves to the basics - load balancers, servers, maybe some serverless container solution or kubernetes. The latter can move pretty much anywhere with some, but not a whole lot, of effort. The former, have fun rediscovering the quirks of your new provider’s equivalent of lambdas or whatever (or at worst, rewriting the whole thing).
- Comment on DoorDash and Klarna partner to offer buy now, pay later for takeout. 5 weeks ago:
In Sweden we’ve been able to do this for years? Any site that has Klarna as a payment option you can choose to add it to your monthly bill or the “pay it later” (I think two weeks) option.
- Comment on What happens to your data if 23andMe collapses? 5 weeks ago:
There’s a non-zero % chance that a nazi with ties to the government and unlimited money might be interested in this data… 👀
- Comment on AI users can match two-person team performance, study suggests. 5 weeks ago:
I think there is a skill set that’s required to use AI efficiently. You need to know what kind of problems they’re suitable for, be able to recognise when it’s going in circles or hallucinating and you need to be able to troubleshoot and understand whatever it’s outputting. Personally I’ve found it quite useful in many cases.
- Comment on AI users can match two-person team performance, study suggests. 5 weeks ago:
A team with one creative and one gets things done is not too bad. I’d take the headline with a grain of salt since AI are known to not always get things done and sometimes will lead their pilots around in circles for no good reason, but still, they don’t really need to be creative to beat most teams.
- Comment on Digg is about to be rebooted. Thoughts? 1 month ago:
Lemmy has thunder?
- Comment on Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car 1 month ago:
Problem is that Trump is on the oil companies’ pay rolls. Unfortunately he’s subsidizing them instead of Tesla.
- Comment on Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You Free 1 month ago:
I should probably have put quotes around “selfhosting movement”, because I meant the term itself. Reason for asking is that if it doesn’t include shared instances, then it’s not a very big movement and most people will not really be able to join it.
That said I’m not trying to start a discussion on whether it’s good or bad, IMO it’s good and I self-host a lot of things for personal use myself. Just a thought I guess.
- Comment on Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You Free 1 month ago:
Does selfhosting movement include using non-commercial instances of apps like mastodon/lemmy/matrix etc?
- Comment on IBM’s $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition cleared by UK 1 month ago:
What are people’s opinion on this, good or bad? I have a somewhat favorable view of IBM in open source, but not sure where I got it (so it might be misplaced).
- Comment on Network Security Issues in RedNote. 2 months ago:
IMO, there’s much bigger reasons to be worried about RedNote than security or even privacy.
What are those reasons?
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 2 months ago:
Swede here, see no issue with the name. I’ll just ignore the h when pronouncing though.
- Comment on Meta’s AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With Slop 3 months ago:
Took me a second to realise the title’s refering to “AI slop”, my inital reaction was something like “I know, it’s always been slop”.
- Comment on X adds Twitch to its advertising boycott lawsuit 5 months ago:
- Comment on What Ever Happened to Netscape? 5 months ago:
Didn’t the refactored netscape eventually evolve into Firefox though? Not disputing the poster child status or the fact that it’s a terrible business decision, but the project did not really go stale I think?