Zedstrian
@Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App 1 day ago:
CoMaps is a passable alternative if you don’t need live traffic data, otherwise the proprietary HERE WeGo app can be used. Both don’t project fascism onto the Gulf of Mexico.
- Comment on Futo updates their website, removing logos, clarifying micro grants 2 days ago:
What keeps them from changing the Immich license from AGPL to FUTO?
- Comment on 16-inch laptop with Blu-ray drive, USB 4 and AMD Ryzen 7: Fujitsu FMV Note A launches 3 days ago:
DVDs are stuck at a low-quality 480p resolution versus 1080p or 2160p, so Blu-Rays are indisputably better.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
The corporate media landscape is already too consolidated; any further mergers should be blocked, and existing oligopolies split up instead.
- Comment on X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch 6 days ago:
Don’t trust it at all.
- Comment on DeepSeek releases DeepSeek OCR 1 week ago:
modern LLMs
Versus the LLMs used by the ancient Greeks?
- Comment on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models 2 weeks ago:
Aside from the aforementioned Discord server not being directly mine (nor are most of the community’s users on the Threadiverse, unfortunately), not only is there a difference between linking to a community Discord server on an associated Lemmy community and on a Lemmy news community, but the ownership structure and organizational goals of Discord (its gradual commercialization, walled garden, and degradation aside) are a far cry from Twitter being owned by a fascist, transphobic billionaire largely responsible for getting Trump elected.
- Comment on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models 2 weeks ago:
They still could have made their own post with a proper article as the post URL rather than directing additional traffic to a right-wing social media platform.
- Comment on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models 2 weeks ago:
Surely there’s a better source you could have linked to than Twitter.
- Comment on YouTube to give banned creators a 'second chance' after rule rollback 2 weeks ago:
Fascist sympathizers.
- Comment on 15,000 Retro Gamers Voted And Chose The Best Retro Handheld Of All Time 2 weeks ago:
Plus, if you have a DS Lite, you get both a GBA and a DS.
- Comment on YouTube coughs up $24.5 million to make Trump case go away 3 weeks ago:
We need to follow Brazil’s lead and imprison fascists, not reward them for insurrection.
- Comment on China put steep tariffs on U.S. exports. Farmers are worried 6 months ago:
Many farmers stupidly voted for Trump in November, so they’re just getting what they voted for. No sympathy for the ones who have no concern for the LGBTQ+ and immigrant rights, and only come out to complain about economic hardship, all the while continuing to laud praise upon Trump himself.
- Comment on Follow libreddit with lemmy client 6 months ago:
Accidentally deleted my original comment, so rewrote it; not sure why other people copied it verbatim.
- Comment on Follow libreddit with lemmy client 6 months ago:
No; libreddit is just a read-only frontend for Reddit.
- Comment on AI is set to drive surging electricity demand from data centres. 6 months ago:
Generative AI energy usage is environmentally wasteful and will just raise the cost of energy for regular consumers.
- Comment on EU takes revenge on Trump’s tariffs as countries approve €20B+ retaliation 6 months ago:
While the EU is right to rebuke Trump’s unjustified tariffs with retribution tariffs of their own, the phrasing ‘takes revenge’ in the headline is needlessly inflammatory.
- Comment on Switch 2 GameCube controller will only be offered to those who pre-order the console 6 months ago:
Nintendo opting to forgo selling retro games piecemeal and instead expecting consumers to rent access to them in perpetuity is an anti-consumer move. I have no problem paying for games when they’re sold at affordable, reasonable prices, so until that’s the case for Nintendo’s library, better to just emulate as much of it as possible.
- Comment on XPG Prime tuning app dumps 50GB of anime girl photos in Redditor's temp folder 6 months ago:
Somewhat of a clickbait title, but hopefully the bug gets fixed all the same. 👍
- Comment on John Giannandrea out as Siri chief, Apple Vision Pro lead in 7 months ago:
The problem is that Apple’s extensive marketing of Apple Intelligence has led to expectations that far surpass what the final product is likely to be.
Most people think generative AI is magic coming out of a hat, so even if Apple delivers at the same level as other companies, people will feel like they’ve been misled.
- Comment on Google claims news is worthless to its ad business after test involving 1% of search results in eight EU markets. 7 months ago:
That’s a symptom of Google holding a monopoly over search results.
Real reporting will always cost more to produce than AI-generated propaganda, and if the former has a paywall and the latter doesn’t, people will inevitably end up reading the news that takes the least effort to produce, to the detriment of actual news reporting.
Requiring Google to both carry such content and pay for it at least ensures that it has an even footing with websites seeking to push propaganda instead.
- Comment on Google claims news is worthless to its ad business after test involving 1% of search results in eight EU markets. 7 months ago:
The problem is that society has transitioned to a point where most people essentially go to Google and Facebook for all their information. Given the monopolistic power of such platforms on public opinion, there is a very strong societal interest to ensure that actual news, not merely the propaganda of the highest bidder, is what people have access to.
The responsibility of Google to pay for it can be argued, but as real reporting will always cost more to produce than AI slop pushed by propagandists, there is arguably a public interest in that as well.
- Comment on Google claims news is worthless to its ad business after test involving 1% of search results in eight EU markets. 7 months ago:
If that’s what the French want, then it’s Google’s obligation to comply and simply adjust advertising rates as needed.
- Comment on Google claims news is worthless to its ad business after test involving 1% of search results in eight EU markets. 7 months ago:
Even so, there is a societal interest in objective news being available to the public, which means that search engines should be required to carry such content, profitable or not. All the more so due to Google’s monopolistic grip on the search engine market.
- Comment on What is the best looking retro console or PC? 7 months ago:
Although the wood-grain Atari 2600 was also my first thought upon reading the title, I think the Wii’s minimal footprint is impressive considering that—in the case of the original model—it’s also a GameCube.
In contrast to the Wii’s 2006 release, the Wii Mini is arguably not yet ‘retro’ with its 2012 release, but definitely looks a lot sleeker, albeit not worth the loss of GameCube functionality for its minimal size savings.
Compared to both, the Wii U is super bulky, and lacks much use beyond improved emulation capabilities now that nearly all of its exclusives have been re-released for the Switch.
- Comment on Gulf of Mexico vs. Gulf of America: How digital maps display disputed names. 7 months ago:
For all non-fascists, the Gulf of Mexico is not a disputed name.
- Comment on Lemmy’s essential 25 PS1 games 7 months ago:
Not a common suggestion, but the Scrabble PS1 port holds up surprisingly well, all the more so for how few Scrabble video games there are.
- Comment on Chegg sues Google for hurting traffic with AI as it considers strategic alternatives 8 months ago:
One shitty company suing another shitty company; nothing more enjoyable to watch!
- Comment on Bus blasts in Israel are ‘suspected terror attack’, say police 8 months ago:
Israel’s invasion of Gaza and the West Bank are known terror attacks; news at 11.
- Comment on Left Apple Maps this week for Magic Earth 8 months ago:
Waze is owned by Google, so it probably implemented the “Gulf of America” typo too. Just tested Magic Earth for a few minutes, and Organic Maps seems to be the more polished of the two in terms of OpenStreetMap frontend apps, in my opinion.
