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- Comment on Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year 2 weeks ago:
Absolutely. Especially software that has to interface with specific hardware, which often times can have issues working properly with Windows VMs.
Which isn’t a problem for me because I can just dedicate some old hardware for baremetal Win10, but not everyone has that luxury.
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 2 weeks ago:
That’s why humans have brains, for situational awareness.
And it’s less about not breaking for an animal, as it is about not wildly swerving.
Also, you should probably revise your thinking on this before you visit any states that have large animals like Moose on the roads. Because if you plow into one with a car, it can easily kill you when it crushes you after impact.
- Comment on Guaranteed Crypto Loss. 2 weeks ago:
lol
- Comment on Guaranteed Crypto Loss. 2 weeks ago:
Yes, Monero fills a niche, and it’s the closest crypto asset to resemble a currency.
However, your previous post talked about replacing finance with Bitcoin. Even if we pretend you were talking about Monero, that just means you have a one world currency, and no one at the helm who can guide monetary policy for any one country.
You shouldn’t need a degree in finance or economics to understand how disastrous that would be, especially for smaller and poorer countries.
So, Bitcoin and the rest of crypto are all commodities, not currencies. They are commodities with a high environmental cost, and a floor of zero because they have no tangible assets to speak of.
Monero can fill a niche, and I’m actually happy about that because I like Monero and the principles behind the project. Unless of course you believe that includes delusions of grandeur and replacing all world currency and financial systems, with the magic of the “just the right crypto”.
- Comment on Meta is reportedly working on its own AI-powered search engine, too 2 weeks ago:
What the fuck dude.
Why are you posting paintings that depict my O face?
This is like Victorian revenge porn.
- Comment on Guaranteed Crypto Loss. 2 weeks ago:
This has to be a joke right? Satire?
I mean, it’s one thing to be a long on Bitcoin, or even just see it’s value as a niche commodity.
But suggesting Bitcoin mining is an energy efficient way to heat buildings, is capable of replacing global finance, or that it creates more tangible benefits than artisanal glass blowers…?
You know I can do with a artisanal piece of glass? Hold it, use it, own it.
You know I can do with Bitcoin? Speculate that if I hold on to it long enough, I can convert it to actual currency that can actually be used as a currency.
Unlike BTC, which is just a speculative commodity, with no tangible assets to provide an actual floor.
- Comment on Google’s DeepMind is building an AI to keep us from hating each other 3 weeks ago:
I can see it now. This great AI mediator will reach the consensus that Eric Schmidt is correct, we shouldn’t worry about meeting our climate goals, we should cook the planet faster to accelerate AI.
Eventually of course, the AI will save us.
Now some of you might think that’s a terrible idea, from bad actors, that simply suits their own greed.
Don’t worry. The new Google AI wouldn’t leave with without a backup plan.
That backup plan? If plan A fails, simply reduce human population by 35%.
Concerned about who will get picked for population reduction? Don’t worry, the AI has it covered…
- Comment on Girl without smartphone unable to join in lesson — 'I feel guilty for not buying my daughter one for school' 3 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s not really up for debate, the science is only growing more conclusive on how smartphones negatively impact a developing braind, especially with social media.
Also, attention span is not vestigial… It’s pretty important, and can’t be replaced by technology…but I was more referring to anxiety and depression disorders, which again, are on the rise.
I’m also kind of confused why you included penmanship in there, as that is not something a child’s development requires to be healthy. It’s simply a skill, and one that has been replaced by typing, almost 1:1.
- Comment on Girl without smartphone unable to join in lesson — 'I feel guilty for not buying my daughter one for school' 3 weeks ago:
I’m unclear how your comment relates to the article, or my comment. Because even if I took you at your work, your anecdotal story would still seem to place you as an outlier, maybe.
Clearly an entire class of preteens, minus one girl, has full access to their smartphones, and I’m betting at least a portion of them had just as much access when they were 8 years old.
Also, not for nothing, but you might want to consider the possibility that a child’s usage and behaviors on a smart device might change once it becomes an unsupervised activity. Or maybe it won’t, I don’t know you or your child, so who am I to say.
- Comment on Girl without smartphone unable to join in lesson — 'I feel guilty for not buying my daughter one for school' 3 weeks ago:
That story is incredibly disturbing…
Only one 11-year-old girl in an entire class did not have a smartphone…?
How long has smartphone ownership and normalized for that age? What did they first get them?
That’s got to be wreaking havoc on their developing minds…to say nothing of their social development.
I guess I’m trying to say is, go long on pharma.
- Comment on Tesla, Warner Bros sued for using AI ripoff of iconic Blade Runner imagery, despite the producers having previously rejected any association between their iconic sci-fi movie and Musk or his companies 3 weeks ago:
You realize that this is a civil lawsuit right?
The only punitive action that can be taken, is monetary damages.
Unless you think that private entities, such as Alcon, should be allowed to privately prosecute criminal cases, with criminal penalties such as jail time…?
- Comment on Update: Bitwarden posted to X this evening to reaffirm that it's a "packaging bug" and that "Bitwarden remains committed to the open source licensing model." 3 weeks ago:
To borrow a fast approaching cliche phrase, the enshitification process has begun.
They sent out a trial balloon by updating licensing to move further away from an open source model, with a wide range of implications.
They’ve now backed off claiming “it was a bug”, but it’s not like their MBA’s are business strategy wunderkinds. They’re just rehashing the same old strategy, and going by the downvotes my comment received, there’s still an audience that believes them.
But who are they kidding? This isn’t going away, and when someone shows you who they are, you should believe them.
Like I said earlier, the only variable is the timetable. The destination is a foregone conclusion.
- Comment on Update: Bitwarden posted to X this evening to reaffirm that it's a "packaging bug" and that "Bitwarden remains committed to the open source licensing model." 3 weeks ago:
My renewal is coming up. I’ve been a customer for probably 7 years or so, I’m not renewing.
This wasn’t a bug, this was a toe in the water to gauge the temperature.
Like it or not, this means they’ve chosen a path, and nothing is going to stop them from going down it. The only variable is the timetable.
- Comment on LG monitor asking about ad tracking preferences 4 weeks ago:
The ability to serve ads and spy on you…
- Comment on LG monitor asking about ad tracking preferences 4 weeks ago:
Both HDMI and DisplayPort feature USB/Ethernet data link capabilities, and obviously USB-C does as well.
- Comment on Server dealer keeps hitting at Elon Musk for $61 million bill — Wiwynn sues X for unpaid IT infrastructure products 4 weeks ago:
Cash on delivery is extremely rare in the business world. Well I have no doubt many of Twitter’s vendors have switched to COD, that is not the norm.
These types of relationships typically work on anywhere from 30 to 90 day terms, depending on the vendor, client, and their history.
- Comment on Read this if you own a Juicebox EV charger 1 month ago:
It’s all relative. My cheap Chinese spyware SmartLife devices are free to report the hours I turn my lights on back to China as they please, but they sit on a segmented VLAN with per client isolation.
If they ever EOL’d them, I’ve got more than my money’s worth, and yes, some of them can be flashed, but I’d probably just buy another well established cheap Chinese competitor.
But I agree, the above is not the use case and situation for every IoT device out there, and there are plenty of devices that I would never consider an internet/SaaS dependent version of e.g. medium to large home appliances.
- Comment on Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2 1 month ago:
As others have said, fast opening quick notes with basic formatting.
For example, if I get an unexpected call I need to write down more than a call back number, Wordpad was my go to.
Well, at least when back when I used Windows regularly.
- Comment on Dell Sales team told to return to office 5 days a week 1 month ago:
Dell’s inside sales team probably has a much flatter bell curve, performance wise, then their outside (traveling) reps.
So yes, they are looking to do a layoff without the headlines, or severance, but probably aren’t as concerned where on the bell curve those employees rank.
Middle and lower management of those teams is absolutely sweating bullets about their teams getting wrecked, but big picture, whatever the net effect the C Suite is expecting, clearly isn’t enough to outweigh whatever outcome their hoping for here.
- Comment on LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers | LG's TV business is heightening focus on selling ads and tracking 1 month ago:
Sure, as long as the device doesn’t automatically connect to open networks, and if it does, you don’t live in an apartment, or moderate density area with available open wi-fi networks in range.
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 month ago:
“I keep overcooking my steak, any advice?”
I haven’t had meat in 40 years, have you considered simply going vegetarian?
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 month ago:
If there are open wifi networks near your TV that you can’t lockdown, you’ll want to confirm it your make/model is known to automatically connect to those, and then take whatever mitigation steps are justified for your own use case.
For example, if you have multiple TVs, maybe you can swap models around based on their capabilities and location, or look up the schematic for the TV and see if it’s easy to block it’s internal antennas.
Or maybe that seems like too much of a hassle and you just say fuck it, and don’t worry about it. Which is always an option, because given how much data already gets sucked up by surveillance capitalism, my evening TV viewing habits have to be some of the lowest value data points, as I already block ads and avoid all ad supported services.
- Comment on LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers | LG's TV business is heightening focus on selling ads and tracking 1 month ago:
I pirated for a long time, and even though I had(have) large media libraries and the home server capacity to manage everything just fine, I stopped.
Not sure when, or why, I’m guessing a service broke and I just said fuck it, I already have Prime+Netflix, and that was years ago at this point.
Netflix’s password policy and Amazon showing adds had me spin them up again, and even migrate over to Jellyfin because Plex is just another enshitified privacy nightmare.
Which was a pleasant surprise, because the last I tried Jellyfin years ago, it was not worth the hassle. Also, Plex wasn’t nearly as bad as it is now.
I wish I could sell my Plex Lifetime license, oh well.
- Comment on Kaspersky removes itself and installs UltraAV without permission 1 month ago:
Retail generates the most margin, while enterprise generally the most revenue.
At least, that’s how it works at most vendors that operate both B2C and B2B channels.
But no, Kaspersky is a major legacy player in the B2B security market with both mature and cutting edge business solutions.
A better question might be, which companies in America were still using Kaspersky up until this month, and why. I guess that is a mix between budgetary constraints, incompetence, and weighted risk analysis.
Imagine you’re a Midwestern ice cream wholesaler, it’s been a bad few years, and your 200 Kaspersky licenses were renewed with deep discounts.
You’re not likely to lose any contracts, nor be a target of state sanctioned espionage, but spending $10,000 between new licensing and man hours, to rip, replace, and configure a new solution, now that could cause real issues for you.
- Comment on This Android Malware Has Infected Over 11 Million Devices 1 month ago:
No, yes, sorta, but no different than how most, if not all, large American security and tech vendors have either over, or covert, links to the the American Security State.
Kaspersky is a long established pioneer and leader in the security space, hands down one of the best track records over the long run, and you should take their reporting and disclosures seriously.
I’m not saying that to dismiss the very valid concerns about installing Kaspersky on sensitive private sector and government systems, but to contextualize my answer.
On a sort of related note, earlier I said that the American security state has both overt, and covert, links all across the American tech sector.
What that means is that, even if a company holds their principles not compromising their customers or their product, the US government can either get a court order to force it, or they’ll be targeted by something like the Pentagons Signature Reduction program and have sheep dipped employees worked into their organization.
- Comment on Warlord Straight Out of "Mad Max" Says Elon Musk Remotely Shut Down His Cybertruck 1 month ago:
Read the article. Despite its headline, it goes on to say that the most likely explanation is that the shoddily built truck, that is known for breaking down all the time, probably broke down, as opposed to being remotely disabled.
- Comment on The Extreme Cost of Training AI Models. 1 month ago:
This is an accounting trick as well, a way to shed profit, and maximize deductions, by having different units within a parent company purchase services from each other.
I realize that my two sentence explainer doesn’t shed any light on how it gets done, but ironically, you can ask an LLM for an explainer and I bet it’d give a mostly accurate response.
- Comment on The Failed Migration of Academic Twitter 2 months ago:
News, tech, left-wing politics, memes, anime, and porn are Lemmy’s biggest community types.
I know a lot of different subtopics fit under each, and I’m sure I left a few out, but my point is that there are a lot of mid-sized, and especially smaller (by Reddit standards), subreddits that Lemmy is no where near being remotely useful as a replacement for yet.
I have community subreddit collections that I don’t see Lemmy replacing anytime soon. I mean, I hope they do. I still check every so often, and yes, communities for them exist and they have maybe a few dozen users, but not enough to even just suck it up and deal.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
If you’re buying off eBay, I would seriously consider looking into a finding an established and equitable extended warranty program and doing the math.
Also, lookup guides on how to properly inspect and receive large fragile items for delivery. Maybe it won’t matter because it didn’t require a signature and you’re not there to receive it personally, but still, worth knowing when it’s possible to refuse delivery of damaged merchandise, and how to CYA if needed.
- Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills 2 months ago:
Pretty sure booting into DOS before loading Windows and playing the Oregon Trail on the Apple IIe both count as command line experience.
I also think that as smug as a lot people feel about this, it doesn’t seem far off to think that physical keyboard typing skills could be substituted for efficiency with newer technologies, or refined versions of existing tech. At least in terms of performing most office job functions.
I’m not saying it’ll be more efficient, or better, just that it wouldn’t be a surprising next step given the trends being discussed here.
If that happens, I have no doubt that smugness will turn into self-righteous indignation and a stubborn refusal to abandon the tactile keyboard for older generations, myself included.
I just hope that if that transition occurs during my lifetime, it’s an either-or situation, and not a replacement of the keyboard.