COASTER1921
@COASTER1921@lemmy.ml
- Comment on The one good thing about all this 1 day ago:
His “math” for calculating each is surprisingly simple and not based on anything “reciprocal” youtu.be/j04IAbWCszg
- Comment on I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave? 1 week ago:
Has anyone seen customs ever actually search an electronic device before? I travel internationally nearly every month and have never seen this before, even in China.
- Comment on Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices. 4 weeks ago:
Seriously this. Every single IC which has digital logic contains some number of undocumented test commands used to ensure it meets all the required specifications during production. They’re not intended to be used for normal operation and almost never included in datasheets.
- Comment on Meta tells Brazil it's only axing fact checkers in USA 2 months ago:
It probably also saves them a bit of money so from their perspective it’s a win-win good business decision.
- Comment on Restart of Three Mile Island tests US appetite for nuclear revival 4 months ago:
FT asking $75/mo for digital access is insane. I’m happy to pay for quality journalism but that’s simply out of reach for most Americans. I’d love to know how their management determined this was an appropriate price.
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 5 months ago:
I don’t know what’s up with the algorithm pushing these lately. If it’s a video with 4 views from a channel with no subscribers I’m probably not interested in it. Sometimes they have a good thumbnail/title so I give them a chance but 9/10 times it’s terrible. Also often extremely right wing for whatever reason.
- Comment on LinkedIn fined $335 million in EU for tracking ads privacy breaches 5 months ago:
I thought that without blocking cookies the tracking is still active, even if you’re not being served ads from them. In those same LinkedIn privacy settings you’re automatically opted into having your data used to train AI models.
- Comment on LinkedIn fined $335 million in EU for tracking ads privacy breaches 5 months ago:
LinkedIn has some of the most obfuscated and complex ad targeting settings I’ve encountered. There needs to be a retirement to have a one click solution to disable ad personalization.
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 5 months ago:
Web browsers don’t integrate to a single account and payment system, nor do they preemptively load entire websites before you start browsing. So you’re always waiting for actions to complete or for images to load which feels slower. Mobile websites also tend to be very bloated slowing things down further than if the same functions were done natively in an app. There’s also no consistency between websites so you never know when something will/won’t work nor how far away you are from checkout. And then to top it all off there’s browser compatibility, which is typically pretty poor for anything that isn’t Chrome/Safari.
If a web browsers could really do the same thing all these companies wouldn’t feel the need to make their own device specific apps.
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 5 months ago:
Even the best websites don’t feel as smooth as native UI elements, and somehow browser compatibility is still a very common issue. Signing in with Google and using gpay for checkout is kind of close, but each website has different design elements complicating the experience while giving up the same amount of your personal data as if using an everything app.
- Comment on Switzerland authorizes removable PV plant on railway track 5 months ago:
And you can repair them without needing to shut down a whole railway. All these projects to put solar panels in novel places are totally pointless and solving a problem that doesn’t exist.
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 5 months ago:
This is why everything apps are so popular in many parts of the world. Using a mini-app from the internet running within another app is far preferable to downloading a whole app you may never need to use again. The way they do it in China is so seamless even if you’ve never visited the business before. There’s never any special account creation or entering of payment information.
