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- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 2 days ago:
If it provided a feature to automatically block incoming dick pics, which Google claims it’s for, was fully local, and only scanned incoming messages, not my own gallery, which is what Google claims, I would likely find it useful. There is nothing wrong with the idea in general.
At the very least it wastes your battery
Again, if it’s an optional feature that you can choose to turn on or off, there is nothing wrong with that.
- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 2 days ago:
They removed don’t be evil long time ago
See, this is why I like proof. If you go to Google’s Code of Conduct today, or any other archived version, you can see yourself that it was never removed. Yet everyone believed the clickbait articles claiming so. What happened is they moved it from the header to the footer, clickbait media reported that as “removed” and everyone ran with it, even though anyone can easily see it’s not true, and it takes 30 seconds to verify, not even 5 hours.
Years later you are still repeating something that was made up just because you heard it a lot.
Of course Google is absolutely evil and the phrase was always meaningless whether it’s there or not, but we can’t just make up facts just because it fits our world view.
- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 2 days ago:
Do we have any proof of it doing anything bad?
Taking Google’s description of what it is it seems like a good thing. Of course we should absolutely assume Google is lying and it actually does something nefarious, but we should get some proof before picking up the pitchforks.
- Comment on Indie devs have begun adding a no generative AI stamp to their store pages 5 days ago:
And programmers retain complete control of the output - it’s just a bit of text that you can adapt as needed. Same as looking up snippets from Stack Overflow. Programmers are used to finding some snippet, checking if it actually works, and then adapting it to the rest of their code, so if doesn’t feel like introducing media that you didn’t create, but like a faster version if what everyone was already doing.
- Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes 1 week ago:
Well nuclear is great, so even “not much better” would be great.
- Comment on Why doesn't phones numbers have a "DNS" servet so we can just type in words like we do with the internet? 1 week ago:
And that’s a much better answer!
- Comment on Why doesn't phones numbers have a "DNS" servet so we can just type in words like we do with the internet? 1 week ago:
“Because it would require changes” doesn’t answer OPs question. They want to know why wasn’t it done like this in the first place, and why aren’t we making the changes to make it happen now. Of course changing things would require changes.
- Comment on Google Calendar removes Pride Month and Black History Month 2 weeks ago:
They didn’t. They moved it from the foreword to the final line.
To be clear, Google is absolutely evil, and the unofficial motto was always worthless. I am just annoyed everyone ate the clickbait reporting about something that never happened and is repeating it to this day. I guess “Google moved Don’t be evil Clause to a less prominent spot” doesn’t click as well.
- Comment on Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’ 3 weeks ago:
And Bezos with Amazon but people still think he’s the CEO.
- Comment on Steam now warns about Early Access that have not been updated in months. 3 weeks ago:
Many great games wouldn’t be released without the current system giving them a chance. Shovelware is a problem, but I think it’s a fairer alternative.
- Comment on Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website | TechCrunch 3 weeks ago:
To be fair, breadsmasher didn’t ask if it’s the public motto, they asked if they removed it. And they didn’t remove it, as it’s still in the public code of conduct.
- Comment on New delivery 1 month ago:
I presume the detection is so that it can send you a notification for “someone at your doorstep” vs “package at your doorstep”, not for when you are actually looking at the footage.
- Comment on New delivery 1 month ago:
I guess “person” would be a useful one.
- Comment on Will pilots-less airplanes happens first, or driver-less cars? Why? 1 month ago:
Current self-driving cars
So you agree they exist. You are just saying they are not good. Just like the printer that only works sometimes is still a printer that exists, it’s just bad at being one.
But we are just arguing semantics.
- Comment on Will pilots-less airplanes happens first, or driver-less cars? Why? 1 month ago:
They not working in all cases is a qualifier you are adding yourself though. There are definitely existing self-driving cars. There are no self-driving cars that can handle all situations, but being perfect or finished is not a prerequisite for something existing.
- Comment on What's next after Half-Life? 2 months ago:
OP wrote he is playing both. I agree if you want to play the story once, Black Mesa is better, but if OP wants to play both, then nothing wrong with that.
- Comment on Why Does Bluesky Use an Algorithm If It's Decentralized 3 months ago:
“Show all posts from newest to oldest” is an algorithm. “Shows random 10 posts, unordered” is an algorithm. It’s not possible to show a list of items without an algorithm.
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 3 months ago:
Yeah, the environmental issues that are orders of magnitude less problematic than literally pumping the toxic chemicals into the atmosphere like with fossil fuels, vs comparatively miniscule amount of solid waste to store inert.
- Comment on FFmpeg devs boast of up to 94x performance boost after implementing handwritten AVX-512 assembly code 3 months ago:
It’s handwritten assembly as opposed to bytecode generated by a compiler, from handwritten higher level language.
- Comment on I can imagine the "will you be using the mobile app?" question to get cheaper food is going to devolve into the Mark of the Beast and someday no one will be able to buy anything without using the apps 3 months ago:
Can someone explain the “Mark of the Beast” thing?
It seems commonly mentioned by US posters, but I’m not from the US and have no context. I know it’s a Bible thing, but I’m always seeing it on posts that have nothing to do with religion and I’m lost on what it could mean here.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 4 months ago:
Yeah, when I created my Lemmy account I had to choose an instance before knowing anything about Lemmy yet. And .ml seemed like the default one to choose, given join-lemmy.org told me it is ran by the devs.
Oh well.
- Comment on Microsoft will end Windows 10 support in exactly one year 4 months ago:
Yes, only a sucker would have believed that, because it was manufactured clickbait, not something Microsoft ever said.
- Comment on Star Citizen Developer Cloud Imperium Games Imposes 7-Day Work Week Ahead of Citizencon 4 months ago:
Since the 2014 release date.
- Comment on What happened to the turn based RPG and RTS genres? 4 months ago:
I looked at the latest and most “recent” heroes games… they’re all rated/reviewed SO harshly.
Many of the negative reviews are (and rightly so) because of Ubisoft forcing you to use their crappy launcher, adding DRM, and otherwise making the customer experience horrible, and not because there is anything wrong with the genre.
- Comment on Mozilla grants Ente $100k 5 months ago:
Since it’s end to end encrypted, Ente just sees some raw bytes, it has no way to tell if what you uploaded is an image or not. So in practice it supports whatever the client can display, so your browser for the web version.
- Comment on Something... 5 months ago:
What’s a realistic reply to “oh my God, I’m so sorry!” if you are pretending you got that out of the blue without any context?
I’d assume someone close to me died and I don’t know about it.
- Comment on unwatchable!! 5 months ago:
It’s a common mistake, so isn’t a character in a movie making it realistic? Wouldn’t it be out of character for many characters to have perfect English?
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 5 months ago:
You live in a fantasy world if you think it’s possible to catch 100% of mistakes internally. Even safety critical equipment with many layers of checks fails and kills people every now and then (medical equipment, bridges).
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 5 months ago:
Fair enough. Still commendable for taking the heat himself without ever mentioning which employee made the mistake with misallocating the review item to the charity auction.
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 5 months ago:
Doubled down? After being called out they slowed the upload cadence, are taking more time to make sure mistakes don’t get through, and changed their production process. They also formed a volunteer team of “beta tester” viewers who see each video pre-release to catch any mistakes they didn’t internally. I think they handled it well. Of course it would be better if they didn’t have a problem in the first place, but I’d never call it “doubling down”.