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- Comment on Federated social media from before it was cool 3 weeks ago:
Google and Microsoft didn’t “kill” the decentralised e-mail of yesteryear. They beat it fair and square
Sure, they might’ve cornered the market fair and square, but they’re certainly doing anticompetitive things in keeping it cornered.
Just try setting up a mail server not connected to any of the big corpos (Google, MS, Cloudflare or their clients with more niche marketing) and see who will actually recieve your mails. You most likely won’t land into the Spam folder either.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 3 weeks ago:
Microsoft should go macro-shaft themselves.
- Comment on Half as Hot 3 weeks ago:
Dry snow doesn’t sound like too bad of a proposition on its own.
- Comment on Eat lead 3 weeks ago:
All math is a lib lie! Just look at those blasphemous arabic numerals!
- Comment on IFIXIT: Victory Is Sweet - We Can Now Fix McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines 3 weeks ago:
Was McDonalds ever cheap in the first place?
- Comment on IFIXIT: Victory Is Sweet - We Can Now Fix McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines 3 weeks ago:
Yes, but framing is important. Saying “Oh look what our perfect corporate buddies over at Taylor let us do even though it’s their call” (a huge lie btw.) vs. saying “We finally got this victory, we can finally do part of what we should’ve never have been unable to do due to corporate greed, thank you Taylor for getting some sense, it seems like your scrooges still have some semblance of a soul left” is a big difference. Sure, the truth is somewere in-betweeen these two extremes but it’s much closer to the latter than the former.
- Comment on Former OpenAI Researcher Says Company Broke Copyright Law 3 weeks ago:
Yes. Just as entering through an unlocked door isn’t trespassing.
Most of the sources also have copyright notices the model gobbles up, effectively making it more like trespassing and taking the no trespassing sign home as a souvenir.
- Comment on Windows Recall is secretly installed on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare) 4 weeks ago:
In a few years they’ll charge you monthly for the priviledge of using/knowing what it collected on you.
- Comment on OpenAI is now valued at $157 billion 1 month ago:
Even its name is
full of shit.a hallucinationThere, fixed it for you.
- Comment on PS5 Homescreen Now Replaces Unique Video Game Art With Annoying Ads You Can’t Turn Off 1 month ago:
A game you paid for. On a console you also paid for. And you also pay for PS Plus as well.
- Comment on Burning Up 2 months ago:
I’d argue anything over 30°C is hot, but yes.
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 2 months ago:
Not everyone believes an AI bubble is forming
Well, the AI’s not wrong. No one believes a bubble is forming, since it’s already about to burst!
- Comment on Tacoma Wept 2 months ago:
The horse knows and it doesnt care
- Comment on 2.9 billion hit in one of the largest data breaches ever — full names, addresses and SSNs exposed 3 months ago:
You’re kidding, right?
- Comment on What has he done to deserve this? 3 months ago:
Both have to be more than a pebble, right?
- Comment on Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled 3 months ago:
it’s better to avoid using it and report web compatibility problems
It would be if sites were truly incompatible, but developers know Chrome/Chromium dominates the market and instead of bothering checking compatibility with firefox, they just preemptively block Firefox since that’s an easier “fix”.
That’s assuming the vendor isn’t Google and doesn’t have a vested interest in Chrome hegemony.
- Comment on Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled 3 months ago:
You can bet 300 new uBlock replacements to spring up practically overnight, some of them scams, reducing trust in the Google ecostystem.
Unfortunately it’s a bigger problem.
Google doesn’t plan to block uBlock Origin itself, but the APIs it uses to integrate into Chrome in order to function. This will effectively disable all adblockers on Chrome. uBlock won’t be removed from the Chrome extension store, it will just have 90% of its functionality removed.
Additionally, this isn’t a Chrome-only change, but a change in the open source Chromium, an upstream browser of Chrome all other Chrome-based browsers use (essentially everything aside from Firefox and Safari themselves).
The change itself is involved in changing the browser’s “Manifest”, a list of allowed API calls for extensions. The current one is called Manifest v2 and the new one was dubbed Manifest v3.
Theorethically Chromium-based browsers could “backport” Manifest v2 due to the open source nature of Chromium. However that is unlikely as it’s projected to take a lot of resources to change, due mostly to security implications of the change.
Vendors of other Chromium-based browsers themselves have little to gain from making the change aside from name recognition for “allowing uBlock”, which most users either wouldn’t care for or already use Firefox, so the loss for Google isn’t projected to be large, just as the gains for other vendors.
TLDR: uBlock won’t be removed from the Chrome extension store, but the mechanisms through which it blocks ads will be blocked. The block isn’t a change in Chrome but in Chromium and affects all Chromium-based brosers (all except Firefox and Safari). Other vendors could change that to allow adblockers but it’s projectec to take a lot of time and resources.
- Comment on Flying type i guess 8 months ago:
I swear I’ve seen this meme somewhere with a Cybertruck instead of a Wrangler
- Comment on Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession 10 months ago:
What about privacy and bloat? Do you really need an integrated big-brother Clippy again? There’s a reason they got rid of that annoying little bugger 20-ish years ago. Even killed Cortana. How many failed experiments more do we need?
If you need AI writing, you have it in Edge or on the ChatGPT site. Will they add AI to settings to help you turn on all the bloat and tracking for you?
Like just give me my damn control panel which has a working search feature (unlike, say, Settings)
- Comment on It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. 10 months ago:
They are all webkit-based, but they can add their own integrations like Google account login for Chrome or Firefox Sync. So it would still be benificial to boycott if you reasonably can and are willing, especially with the recent App store developments Apple might even ve forced to open up browsers as well.
- Comment on Tesla is banned from driving schools because of new turn signals 10 months ago:
They aren’t meant for public roads, just like Teslas.
- Comment on The EU common charger : USB-C 10 months ago:
As others mentioned in the thread, Nintendo Switches clearly don’t follow the standards. So having this hole patched in the legislation would be nice.
- Comment on The EU common charger : USB-C 10 months ago:
What about little pucks as a compromise?
Or ideally, a single standsrdised one
- Comment on Why Masimo thought it could take on Apple 10 months ago:
He’s not an ex-Apple exec with ex-Apple exec boatloads of money to do it. Or with ex-Apple exec venture capitalist friends to do the money part for him.
It’s not about it being easy or hard. It’s about having the backing to do it.
- Comment on The first EV with a lithium-free sodium battery hits the road in January 10 months ago:
I’ve seen a video with some electric mopeds that had very easily removable batteries. Like you just pop it out and exchange it at a gas-station equivalent.
It’d be ideal if we could settle on a few sizes - kind of like how we have AA, AAA, C, D, etc. batteries. One can be for such mopeds, one larger for cars and some smaller ones to fill various otherwise empty spaces in a car.
So if your battery goes bad or just want to change its tech you can do that.
For normal city driving you carge the car at home. If you go on a trip make a few stops for charging. If you’re really in a rush, you can always pay a premium for swapping your drained battery for a prefilled one at a gas station equivalent.
To me this seems like the ideal solution for EVs.
- Comment on Tesla Model X Owner Has Had Enough Of Minimalism, Adds Physical Buttons 1 year ago:
I read Tesla X owner and immedeately thought of Musk
- Comment on Maybe AI won't be taking all of our jobs after all? 1 year ago:
fear