Bogasse
@Bogasse@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 4 weeks ago:
Linux phones are moving fast but it feels like Android is moving faster on the other direction 😥
(Yes I know Android is built over Linux, I mean more traditional and open distros like postmarketos)
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 5 weeks ago:
Sourced facts nonetheless
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 5 weeks ago:
I see three ways of switching windows on windows :
- Clicking on the taskbar, but its quite slow because it relies entirely on mouse control
- Using alt+tab, this is super efficient when you have at most 4 windows open, then you often have to scroll through the whole list and concentrate to not miss your window
- Using the task view : this should be the modern way, the trackpads shortcut is super intuitive, it works well with many windows and is well integrated with virtual desktops. But it seems completely unfinished : it’s super laggy, very buggy (animations often freeze leaving some windows impossible to select) the taskbar blinks for no reason 🤷
But again, I think I’ve been spoiled by Linux. Many desktop environments integrates virtual screen so well that you can easily switch between apps in less than 200ms, which is a big deal : if you look at two apps it’s almost more convenient than moving your sight from one screen to another (for example copying some data, or monitoring some progress)
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 5 weeks ago:
“Multi modal”
Will it finally be possible to be productive with more that 3 windows open?
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 1 month ago:
About YouTube premium :
- I don’t like the idea of spending money for Google. I don’t find it very ethic to use their services in the way I do but no replacement has come up for years. I try to mitigate by donating to some content creators and I would love to pay a subscription to something like Nebula if there were at least 3 people I follow in there.
- I would use an adblocker even if I paid. On my phone Tubular is just a much better experience : multi platforms, aggregates my subscription, no addictive low quality suggestions and lightweight while still featurefull (and it integrates sponsorblock 🤫)
Also on my previous phone the YouTube app was super slow and would regularly crash because of RAM shortages. This was 6 years ago though.
- Comment on Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user. 1 month ago:
I was gonna make a sarcastic comment on how surprised I was that a 5$ subscription is not enough for something so heavy that it requires building new nuclear plants.
But holly shit, ChatGPT+ is 23€/months.
- Comment on President Trump calls on Intel CEO to resign 1 month ago:
My take of this is that their definition of socialism is “an economic system where all people appear to not be rich” while there their definition of capitalism has to be “some people are super rich”…
- Comment on Font Awesome API outage 1 month ago:
Why the fuck would you call an external API for a static font?? O_o
Does it have something to do with paid plans?
- Comment on Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg writes a manifesto on bringing "personal superintelligence" to everyone to improve humanity, but doesn't even define what superintelligence means. 1 month ago:
So he’s now over with AR honeymoon?
- Comment on The Death Of Industrial Design And The Era Of Dull Electronics 2 months ago:
Yeah people often mention the funny phone designs from the 2000’s but they also praise the Nokia 3310 for its reliability.
- Comment on xkcd #3114: Building a Fire 2 months ago:
It didn’t understand the 4th panel as an explanation of the joke but just an emphasis on how absurd it is that the character planned all along that his installation will be wrong.
- Comment on Most Common PIN Codes 2 months ago:
Is your pin automatically updated to reflect inflation?
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 2 months ago:
The idea that RAGs “extend their memory” is also complete bullshit. We literally just finally build working search engine, but instead of using a nice interface for it we only let chatbots use them.
- Comment on DeepSeek accused of powering China’s military and mining US user data 2 months ago:
A quotes from my networking teacher, a few years back :
WikiLeaks revelations on NSA are great news to as, now we can by cheap Chinese hardware as we know it won’t spy on us any more than american hardware.
- Comment on The Guardian and the University of Cambridge Computer Science Department unveil new technology to protect journalists 2 months ago:
To sum it up even more : this looks like standard end-to-end encryption, but any app user have the same network traffic, completed with fake data if no communication is needed.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 2 months ago:
Also, working a bit on developing my photos from RAW over last years taught me how we actually expect a lot of magic from a regular camera. The brain does a lot of work and low/high light compensation, color balance, etc… are required to some extend. Of course sometimes it becomes a bit absurd : most smartphone pictures seems oversaturated, with clear blue skies and I one took a photo of a blue-ish mountain because (I think) some classifier thought it was part of the sky.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 2 months ago:
Is there any chance this is the same HDR technology that has been around for at least 10 years, but using latest marketing buzzwords?
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 2 months ago:
I don’t mind having a few screws to remove every few years when I need to replace my battery.
Although there is another thing, I’m not sure but I wonder if it has any impact. My FP3 has made a few very bad falls and nothing ever broke. I wonder if its “bad” integrity makes it very good at dissipating the fall’s energy.
- Comment on Trump Regime Wants to Make Approvals Easier for Tesla's Mythical Cybercab 3 months ago:
So mythical that it’s the first time I hear of this BS 🤷
- Comment on Xitter Pause Encrypted DMs. 3 months ago:
while we work on making improvements
🤣
The fact that he tried to make it like there is a reasonable reason is delightful.
- Comment on We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. 4 months ago:
Yeah, I think there was some efforts, until we found out that adding billions of parameters to a model would allow both to write the useless part in emails that nobody reads and to strip out the useless part in emails that nobody reads.
- Comment on Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer 4 months ago:
I love how even this flagship feature is just one more lazy shortcut to another app that bloats the context menu 😅
- Comment on I can't pay rent because devs just don't care 4 months ago:
😮💨
AI assistant tools probably won’t push us on the right direction for this one. (Or maybe they will by encouraging people not to import a different library for any 6-lines function they need?)
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over 4 months ago:
Did zuck say anything relevant to the market in the past 10+years?
It’s a provocation but I’m also kinda curious, with the level of information and consulting he has access to he must be choosing the topics he is relevant about?
- Comment on Deepfake porn is destroying real lives in South Korea | CNN 4 months ago:
My thoughts exactly. There are a lot of things that look like a newspaper but are just very long editorials. On the other end we still have a few kinda reputable sources that actually do some journalism work (debunking, actually investigating on site, arguing …).
Journalism and all forms of counter power look super weak in my county but mixing everything up just makes the important work even weaker.
- Comment on OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a display of power 5 months ago:
no reason to believe it violates “democratic values”
In my country the law is one of the pillars of democracy, but you do you 👍
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 5 months ago:
And I think “vibe” means that they have no experience with programming so they can’t read the code they copy.
- Comment on Signal downloads spike in the US and Yemen amid government scandal | TechCrunch 5 months ago:
At least it was Americans talking on an american platform. I wouldn’t be surprised if we had
frenchEuropeans leaders having occasionally this kind of discussions on Microsoft Teams or some Google chat. - Comment on Signal downloads spike in the US and Yemen amid government scandal | TechCrunch 5 months ago:
On Signal you can verify user identify, and you should absolutely do it if we to discuss national security maters.
This is not a hidden feature, I think it’s designed to prevent man in the middle attack. It also work against the “oops I accidentally added a journalist to my conversation no one should know of”, which is so dumb that no one saw this coming 😅
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
If you were to discuss national security maters with someone, please just verify your safety numbers, IRL or through another safe and verified channel 🙄