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- Comment on Another 122.88TB SSD just launched and this one comes from an obscure Chinese startup you've probably never encountered 6 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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. 1 week 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 2 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. 2 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? 2 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. 2 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. 2 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? 4 weeks ago:
Lemmy has thunder?
- Comment on Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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. 1 month 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 2 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 4 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?