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- Comment on Microsoft's Notepad Got Pwned (They Added AI To It, So...) 4 days ago:
“Why not?” retorts Mr. Nadella, as a grin begins to form. He exchanges a meaningful look with Mr. Suleyman.
- Comment on ‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses 5 days ago:
Every individual is different and it has nothing to do with gender. My ex-wife was a toxic, manipulative, awful person who left me with decades-long psychological trauma, but I can appreciate that comparing all women with snakes is misogynistic.
- Comment on ‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses 1 week ago:
That’s an excellent analogy. Zooming out from that scenario, should we welcome the notion of being afraid of being afraid of somebody based on their skin color, because there’s an inherent prejudice of them being dangerous? If so, should we be encouraging each other to vocalize these kinds of prejudices? And by extension, is it acceptable to draw sweeping conclusions about a group of people based on their generic traits?
- Comment on ‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses 1 week ago:
Swap the word “man” for another group of people based on generic traits and continue your sweeping generalizations.
- Comment on ‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses 1 week ago:
It’s not all men, it’s a random man. And it’s not that they are dangerous, it’s about what feels riskier from a woman’s perspective.
How is that different? It’s still a prejudice based on somebody’s unalterable trait. The entire premise is a deliberate generalization to place men and wild animals into the same category.
- Comment on ‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses 1 week ago:
It’s ironic we’re dissecting which kind of bear is dangerous, while implicitly accepting the premise that all men are dangerous.
- Comment on ‘Manfluencers’ are filming themselves trying to pick up women using smart glasses 1 week ago:
I’ve always thought this is such a generalist scenario, meant to deliberately portray all men as dangerous and categorically make them look bad. Imagine we swapped out “men” for another group of people.
- Comment on Disney+ loses Dolby Vision, HDR10+ and 3D amid patent dispute 1 week ago:
So I’m guessing this isn’t referring to the overly racist stuff from the 1940s and '50s because those weren’t hit movie series. We’re getting there through a process of elimination.
- Comment on Disney+ loses Dolby Vision, HDR10+ and 3D amid patent dispute 1 week ago:
That’s great and all, but I’m only trying to understand the opinion you put forward in your original comment.
- Comment on Disney+ loses Dolby Vision, HDR10+ and 3D amid patent dispute 1 week ago:
“DuckDuckGo is an internet privacy company, best known for its search engine, web browser, and mobile app that do not track user search history or personal information.”
Well this was a useless interaction. Not sure how that has anything to do with Disney, the article or your original comment for that matter.
For what it’s worth, I don’t like the way they depict Caucasians, either.
- Comment on Disney+ loses Dolby Vision, HDR10+ and 3D amid patent dispute 1 week ago:
“Here’s some random link to try to make sense of a comment I made, good luck.”
- Comment on You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift 1 week ago:
Genuine question: What do you recommend? I want to replace Windows 10 on a 8-year-old midrange laptop with something that works reasonably well in terms of performance with a connected 4K monitor.
I’ve already tried Ubuntu, but unfortunately the experience has been marred by bugs such as poor performance, visual glitches, windows jumping around when attempting to move them, and DPI settings not being able to be applied per screen.
- Comment on Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany 2 weeks ago:
My experience has been the same. As a software engineer who used Linux throughout university, I just can’t enjoy having a lousy experience with poor performance, constant tinkering, limited software and constant bugs. I can’t even adjust the DPI scale of an external monitor on Ubuntu without the entire windowing system going haywire.
I guess I’m just too old to have the patience to try to fix that kind of stuff by hand, and I thought I’d never say it, but I just like Windows 11. It works. Sue me.
- Comment on Tesla: 2024 was bad, 2025 was worse as profit falls 46 percent 2 weeks ago:
I know we all like to rag on autonomous drivers, but in the faction of a moment between the kid emerging from behind a car and the laws of physics resulting in them inevitably being hit, the only variables are the driving speed and the reaction speed.
Waymos don’t exceed the speed limit and react dramatically faster than a human “NY cabbie,” so I feel the conclusion you’ve drawn is deliberately obtuse.
- Comment on Meta’s Reality Labs cuts sparked fears of a ‘VR winter’ 3 weeks ago:
OpenAI: hold my beer
- Comment on Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension 4 weeks ago:
That gave me a chuckle, so there’s hope yet!
- Comment on Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension 4 weeks ago:
An extension that can read the content of every page you visit as a joke. What could possibly go wrong.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I remember owning an mp3 player in 1999.
- Comment on F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email 5 weeks ago:
Ironic how your comment is downvoted as well. It’s funny to me to observe through platforms like this that most humans are thoughtless pack animals and will just do whatever all the other humans are doing and how discourse goes against our nature. There was a study on Reddit some years ago that found that generally speaking, the first vote determines whether a comment will get up- or downvoted.
- Comment on Microsoft's Satya Nadella wants you to stop saying AI "slop" in 2026 1 month ago:
I love this term! It’s been added to my active lexicon!
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 1 month ago:
I know we’re all eager to rag on Windows, but can we not act as though Ubuntu is a flawless replacement?
My tech-savvy mother and software engineering spouse have both tried switching to Ubuntu but ultimately switched to Windows and ChromeOS because of the constant errors and unreliability of Ubuntu. Everything from ambiguous “problem detected” messages at startup to terrible video performance and a lack of basic functionality out of the box like DPI settings per display or clipboard history. Even the most basic interaction with display settings cause Ubuntu to go haywire.
I’m well aware that Ubuntu can be customized, but I wish I could say it’s designed for daily use by the same demographic as Windows or Mac. Unfortunately, it’s really not.
- Comment on Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results 1 month ago:
As an app developer, let me just say that it’s no delight to publish something free—completely free without ads. Users are incredibly entitled and will want more, leaving poor ratings. And you won’t make it in the search results without revenue, ad placement, high ratings and frequent updates.
So, organically, because ultimately what people collectively want is an app that is heavily invested into, the apps become ad-riddled or subscription based because it’s the only way to fund a team that can maintain an app that reaches the top of the lists.
I personally put 50% of the blame on the app stores for promoting in the manner that they do, and 50% of the blame on users for being entitled shits.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 2 months ago:
My personal favorite accusation is that “I write too perfectly.” Thanks, I guess? Maybe the models were trained on me?
- Comment on How Google Disabled Movie Reviews at the Request of Film Studios 2 months ago:
If this were true, then why are Rotten Tomato ratings displayed prominently across Google TV?
(I understand that nuance isn’t welcome on Lemmy, so please forgive me for contributing this.)
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 2 months ago:
I understand what the word means, but in which domain are the effects unpredictable? In terms of policy and enforcement of what may or may not be genetically modified, or what the genetic outcome would be of gene modification? I agree with the prior.
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 2 months ago:
What do you mean with unforeseen effects in this context?
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 2 months ago:
It’s an interesting ethical debate.
I have a hereditary condition which passes only by the X chromosome, so should I, as a man, abort a daughter? Because now the risk is too high and I’ve elected to simply not have children. It would be great if I could fix the single swapped base pair that would otherwise cause disfigurement and life-long health problems.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 2 months ago:
That’s a unique perspective. Thanks for sharing.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 2 months ago:
Ironically, in my attempts to find any kind of information about this, it only resulted in news articles reporting on the number of developer accounts banned and announcements from Google warning users about scams and providing recommendations to safeguard themselves.
I don’t agree that Google has taken a singular approach to this problem; there are numerous ways in which they are combating scams, of which this piece is just one.
I believe people in this thread are (deliberately or not) looking at this from a very narrow point of view and not seeing how (1) there is a risk that is mitigated by preventing gullible users from installing malware through sideloading, (2) Google has reconsidered this solution after hearing community feedback and (3) Google uses numerous mechanisms to eliminate bad actors from the Play store.
To touch on the last one, it seems many of those mechanisms are not done transparently as I’ve seen threads on /r/AndroidDev back before I left Reddit about individuals being lifetime banned even by association to a scammer.
At the risk of sounding insincere—such is the nature of an online discussion forum—I’d like to tap into the ways you see the safety and security of the Play store to be deficient. How are phishing attempts successful there? In the articles I’ve read about phishing through fake apps, they all went through the route of sideloading. One example was to get “special features” in WhatsApp by downloading an APK, and another was to enable developer mode to install an antivirus APK because “the device was infected.” While I found articles describing imposter apps, searching for those apps on Google Play didn’t surface any of them, so it seems from my spot checks that it’s working.
To me, this entire discussion is quite conflicting, because on one hand, we all recognize the risk of malware, but at the same time the community is furious about whatever Google attempts to do about it.
Call me naive, but my family and I are very content with our Android phones and have no qualms with the way Google Play functions today. I remain confused about why this comment section is so mad.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 2 months ago:
The fee is 15% below the first $1M of revenue and it should go without saying that app developers only pay that fee for paid apps, in-app purchases or digital subscriptions. It’s very unlikely that a scam app would be paid, or work off a subscription, and if those phishing ads are doing their conversions, you’ll never see the user again.
I doubt Google’s making more than a few cents off each of these scam apps.
