TheGalacticVoid
@TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee
- Comment on YSK that United has significantly escalated their war against basic economy passengers 3 weeks ago:
As a happy Comcast customer, my old ISP still only sells plans up to 100 Mbps and it routes all traffic through a city that’s over 200 miles away.
- Comment on YSK that United has significantly escalated their war against basic economy passengers 3 weeks ago:
No, because United employees didn’t beat the passenger up, the police did. That’s not even remotely close to the worst thing that cops have gotten away with.
- Comment on Kroger’s plans to roll out facial recognition at its grocery stores is attracting criticism from lawmakers, who warn it could lead to surge pricing and put customers’ personal data at risk 3 weeks ago:
I personally don’t understand why people would choose Kroger over Walmart
- Comment on If Trump loses the election and flees to another country to avoid his sentencing in his (multiple) lawsuits, does the Secret Service have to go with him? 1 month ago:
I didn’t know that Secret Service was mandatory for former US Presidents.
- Comment on OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equity 1 month ago:
OpenAI the non-profit owned OpenAI the company since the company was created. The non-profit is simply reducing its stake/share of the company and giving it to investors and/or Altman
- Comment on YouTube Premium is getting a huge price hike in over a dozen countries, sparking user backlash. Some countries are experiencing hikes between 30% and 50% 1 month ago:
Creators get way more money with Premium viewers than ad-based ones, or at least it used to be that way.
- Comment on Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy 1 month ago:
“Competitors choosing” is usually considered to be price fixing, which is anti-competitive and/or monopolistic. Amazon et al aren’t the only US companies guilty of this or other anti-competitive behaviors, even if they’re a notable example.
- Comment on Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy 1 month ago:
It’s a mix of both. When Amazon came around, stores got less traffic and had to get rid of niche products, and because shelf space was so important, there could only be so many products carried by a store.
- Comment on Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions 1 month ago:
LLMs have real uses, even if they’re being overhyped right now. Even if they do fail, though, more nuclear power is a great outcome
- Comment on Youtube has fully blocked Invidious 1 month ago:
Because there’s absolutely no valuable information that exists on YouTube, right?
- Comment on FTC Says Social Media Platforms Engage in 'Vast Surveillance' of Users 1 month ago:
Lina Khan actually takes action against companies unlike many of her predecessors.
- Comment on Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created 2 months ago:
The EU isn’t the only place on the planet, even if its laws have an impact.
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding" 2 months ago:
You can adapt, but how you adapt matters.
AI in tech companies is like a hammer or drill. You can either get rid of your entire construction staff and replace them with a few hammers, or you can keep your staff and give each worker a hammer. In the first scenario, nothing gets done, yet jobs are replaced. In the second scenario, people keep their jobs, their jobs are easier, and the house gets built.
- Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 2 months ago:
If we’re talking about the latest version of Windows 11, I would say it’s dumbed down, but everything I personally need is still there.
- Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"? 2 months ago:
Police accountability is just the tip of the iceberg, though. A huge issue is the fact that a lot of minority history isn’t taught properly in US schools, and important events that define race relations are completely ignored. Using the term “master” to describe Git branches, for example, is just another way of staying ignorant and insensitive to those events.
I can understand that there are some edge cases where master/slave should still be correct as it is accurate, but for every other case, it’s still better to use a term that is culturally aware and technically relevant, even if it’s a small difference that’s part of a larger cultural shift.
- Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"? 2 months ago:
The US may not have invented it, but there are still people in the US who are affected by it today.
Americans care about slavery for the same reason that Germans care about Nazis.
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 2 months ago:
Duality of man
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 2 months ago:
The best feature is that it auto-downloads recommended videos, but I hate how finnicky it is, and I hate how it’s capped at 1080p.
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 2 months ago:
And now YouTube thinks you hate that video, so your recommendations are less relevant.
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 2 months ago:
Watch time affects your recommendations, so this isn’t a great solution
- Comment on Exclusive: Google-backed software developer GitLab explores sale, sources say | Reuters 2 months ago:
Selling to Datadog isn’t a guarantee. The most important detail is that they’re exploring a sale, and other companies are probably going to be interested.
- Comment on Exclusive: Google-backed software developer GitLab explores sale, sources say | Reuters 2 months ago:
Partially owned gives room for the product to stay alive. It being fully owned by Google makes it subject to being killed.
- Comment on Exclusive: Google-backed software developer GitLab explores sale, sources say | Reuters 2 months ago:
What if JetBrains bought it though
- Comment on Anyone else feel like Trump has a much higher chance to win then Presidency than Kamala? 2 months ago:
Kamala is a cooler name
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
That’s close to 2!
- Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line 3 months ago:
It is a little clickbaity, but the new device isn’t the same as Chromecast.
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 3 months ago:
The first thing that comes to mind is credit card point redemptions. Right now, the best information on getting stuff like free first class flights are on communities like FlyerTalk. If that info was super accessible, those opportunities wouldn’t be available in the first place, and travel companies would be far less generous with rewards programs.
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 3 months ago:
If Reddit were run by competent people, I’d think that paywalled subs might be a good idea. I imagine that there are countless scenarios where people have really useful info to share, but at the same time, said info can’t be spread too widely, and a paywall is one way of making sure that only people who truly care about said info can take advantage of it.
- Comment on If 1 million people sign a petition, a ban on rendering multiplayer games unplayable has a chance to become law in Europe 3 months ago:
The problem is that a lot of companies are already launching dead-on-arrival live service games, so unless they’re willing to make something unique, all they will do is saturate the market further and keep burning money. I don’t think this law would change those incentives much if at all.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I will never forget that clip during the Obama vs. McCain race where a woman says Obama can’t be trusted because “he’s an arab”