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- Comment on The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down 6 months ago:
The issue in that whole proposition lies within this one single sentence
Business software is written for windows
Nowadays, practically all companies are moving towards either SaaS, or in house web services. The pandemic has killed native enterprise apps, for better or for worse.
- Comment on Apple loses top phonemaker spot to Samsung as iPhone shipments drop, research company says 7 months ago:
I don’t want to disappoint, but…
- Comment on [Mental Outlaw] AT&T Tried To Deny This Massive Data Breach 7 months ago:
why link the far right shit boiler?
- Comment on Chinese schools testing 10,000 locally made RISC-V-ish PCs 7 months ago:
damn that’s a rare China W
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 7 months ago:
Funnily enough, Flipper did exactly that and the Zero is still doing fine. It’s a loophole, but it does seem to be working fine-ish.
HDMI Forum have instead resorted to taking GPU manufacturers hostage because they don’t want any specs leaking, that’s why AMD were denied being allowed to support latest HDMI in their free Linux drivers.
- Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent 8 months ago:
i don’t really see a point in federating employment reviews, but there certainly needs to be a non profit providing such a service
- Comment on Nvidia announces “moonshot” to create embodied human-level AI in robot form 8 months ago:
once again, the richest people during any gold rush are shovel salesmen
- Comment on Microsoft defends barging in on Chrome with pop-up ads pushing Bing, GPT-4 8 months ago:
Slack is practically dead
Ubuntu has diverged from Debian enough to call it its own thing, aside from it using the same packaging format (they want to get rid of anyway)
- Comment on Discord began blocking servers with information prohibited in the Russian Federation 8 months ago:
please do show me a single messaging platform that can easily and sanely house a population of >50k people on the same server, and allows that for absolutely free, while providing reasonably high quality voice messaging and streaming with negligible latency
- Comment on How to drop files from Android to home server? 8 months ago:
Syncthing
- Comment on Mozilla Firefox is Working on a Tab Grouping Feature 8 months ago:
yes
- Comment on IBM says their latest AI-enhanced storage platform can identify ransomware in under a minute 8 months ago:
buzzword, buzzword, buzzword
- Comment on Google Bard is dead, long live Google Gemini 9 months ago:
google ghemini
- Comment on All My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Pro — Wait But Why 9 months ago:
At least their rant is fun to read
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- Comment on Want a more private ChatGPT alternative that runs offline? Check out Jan 9 months ago:
might be a good idea to use windows terminal or cmder and wsl instead of windows shells
- Comment on Apple’s biggest critics are big mad about the new 27 percent App Store tax 9 months ago:
That ensures a baseline of freedom
that’s not how this works… nothing about android’s licensing could make it impossible to make it impossible to not lock it down
- Comment on AI shouldn’t make ‘life-or-death’ decisions, says OpenAI’s Sam Altman 9 months ago:
As advanced cruise control, yes. No, but in practice it doesn’t change a thing as humans can bomb civilians just fine themselves. Yes and yes.
If we’re not talking about LLMs which is basically computer slop made up of books and sites pretending to be a brain, using a tool for statistical analysis to analyze a shitload of data (like optical, acoustic and mechanical data to assist driving or seismic data to forecast tsunamis) is a bit of a no-brainer.
- Comment on Kaspersky's iShutdown Tool Detects Pegasus Spyware and Other Mawlare on iOS Devices 9 months ago:
Using Russian malware to avoid Israeli malware utilizing backdoors left by American three letter orgs. Gotta love international collaboration.
- Comment on Beeper users say Apple is now blocking their Macs from using iMessage entirely 10 months ago:
like the other person said, modern windows is infinitely worse in just about every aspect of its design (you have to fight it if you just want to use your computer without microsoft 3rd wheeling it) and linux app support ranges from “ok” to “straight up doesn’t exist and cannot be ran through any shenanigans”
- Comment on EU antitrust chief to Tim Cook: Apple must allow third-party app stores 10 months ago:
pirated apps
oh woes.
- Comment on Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11 1 year ago:
Oh my god onedrive is actually the stuff of devils
- Comment on France VPNs might be banned amid SREN Bill's new "unreasonable amendments" 1 year ago:
Russia isn’t prohibiting the use of VPNs but it is making it increasingly more headache inducing (protocol based blocking, ip bans of popular vpn providers).
- Comment on Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors 1 year ago:
bold of you to assume microsoft is interested in that