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- Comment on Qualcomm benchmarking controversy: What's happening? 6 months ago:
Apple arm chips still have good days ahead of it. It’s been years since the MacBook m1 was released, how can competition not catch up already ?
- Comment on Netflix Doc ‘What Jennifer Did’ Uses AI Images to Create False Historical Record 6 months ago:
We call that bullshit where I come from. Either it’s historical or it’s fiction. Fiction can be done in an historical setting, but is never historical itself.
- Comment on Apple alerts users in 92 nations to state-sponsored / mercenary-spyware attacks 7 months ago:
An open not maintained system is worst than a well maintained but closed one. There are billions of $ behind window and macos. Some critical package on Linux are maintained by 2 guys during their spare time…
- Comment on Apple alerts users in 92 nations to state-sponsored / mercenary-spyware attacks 7 months ago:
Holy fuck, every time: one line answer, no explanation. Find someone to fck instead of crying on the internet.
- Comment on Google mocks Epic’s proposed reforms to end Android app market monopoly 7 months ago:
I used droid-ify recently, which is well maintained and still got these pop up. Are you sure we’re talking about the same thing ? I mean pop up that says « would you like to install x app ». Yes no. And you got to give permission to the store first to even show this pop up.
- Comment on Apple alerts users in 92 nations to state-sponsored / mercenary-spyware attacks 7 months ago:
Exception to the rule ?? I’d argue you have no idea how many times it succeeded because that’s the point. We only know what failed, if this worked I have no doubt that companies running Pegasus which have hundreds of millions of dollar of budget every year can success.
Open source when not maintained properly is fundamentally flawed, there just need one weak element in the chain, one package maintained by a handful of people on their own time.
- Comment on Google mocks Epic’s proposed reforms to end Android app market monopoly 7 months ago:
There are differences between play store and other store. For instance, on fdroid you have a pop up asking each and every time if you want to install or update the app after pressing install button. Play store you just click install and let it do its work in the background.
I don’t think fdroid can update app by itself in the background. Play store can.
I mean third party store doesn’t have access to some of the api play store have, things you don’t care but that is important to normies and that would induce reduced profit from epic store.
- Comment on Apple alerts users in 92 nations to state-sponsored / mercenary-spyware attacks 7 months ago:
Your dumbass should check XZ Backdoor.
It was open source, yet only blind luck led a Microsoft developer to uncover it. It would have gone in most Linux installation otherwise.
All because of an unpopular package that was maintained by a very few people.
- Comment on The Google One VPN service is heading to the Google graveyard - The Verge 7 months ago:
Yeah you’re right, Forgot about this use case.
- Comment on Apple alerts users in 92 nations to state-sponsored / mercenary-spyware attacks 7 months ago:
Oh my god you’re so right. Thanks for enlightening us.
- Comment on Apple alerts users in 92 nations to state-sponsored / mercenary-spyware attacks 7 months ago:
We know what snowden does, and this guy is targeted by the usa. Basically never use phone, only computer on ethernet running qubesos from external drive on computer bought with cash.
It’s not a secret by now.
- Comment on Apple alerts users in 92 nations to state-sponsored / mercenary-spyware attacks 7 months ago:
Linux on phone is great for privacy but can you say that on security ?? It’s open source, not very popular. We’ve seen how it can go wrong recently.
Id put it in third after grapheneos. But the end result is that it’s not suitable anyway.
- Comment on The Google One VPN service is heading to the Google graveyard - The Verge 7 months ago:
The original article contains 196 words, the summary contains 196 words. Saved 0%. 👍🫡
- Comment on The Google One VPN service is heading to the Google graveyard - The Verge 7 months ago:
doesn’t most vpn user want to get rid of tracking and spying ? It would makes no sense for them to use Google vpn.
- Comment on US to award Samsung up to $6.6 billion chip subsidy for Texas expansion, sources say 7 months ago:
cnbc.com/…/samsung-q1-2024-earnings-guidance-memo…
Samsung expects first-quarter profit to soar 931% as memory chip prices rebound
- Comment on Empowering Choice: Firefox Partners with Qwant for a Better Web 7 months ago:
Is Mozilla going to set qwant as default search engine ? Or at least stop setting Google as default ?
If no, then this is just PR crap no one should care about. Not that many people care about Firefox anyway (2% market share nowadays).
- Comment on AI will reduce workforce, say 41% of execs in a survey 7 months ago:
There is no denial a.i. is going to replace or significantly reduce some jobs. But I predict it’s going to happen mostly in bullshit job like marketing, advertisement, the kind of journalism that repeat the same news from other reputed newspaper.
A.i. isn’t going to replace the migrants that lay bricks in front on me, it’s not going to replace their chief.
- Comment on Washington's Lottery AI site turned user photo into porn 7 months ago:
That’s hilarious.
- Comment on El Salvador Will Keep Buying 1 Bitcoin Daily Until BTC 'Becomes Unaffordable' With Fiat Currencies, Says President Bukele – Featured Bitcoin News 8 months ago:
Until it’s you who get wrongfully out in jail, but I get the point. I think everyone agree it’s better now and also they should do everything they can to speed up the release of innocent people.
- Comment on Retiring the Mozilla Location Service 8 months ago:
It’s working.
- Comment on Leaked SpaceX documents show company forbids employees to sell stock if it deems they've misbehaved 8 months ago:
Isn’t that market manipulation ?
- Comment on OpenAI’s GPT Is a Recruiter’s Dream Tool. Tests Show There’s Racial Bias 8 months ago:
Just as we stopped beating our chest with fist when angry, humans can understand pattern and forcefully prevent them.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Yes, and I’ll add that 30% is nothing is still nothing. Firefox and brave share on iOS are very small. This is great for customer choice but until there is real chromium and blink browser available there won’t be any real intensive to switch. Firefox already said they are not that interested, now it’s up to Google and then we can maybe have brave and other chromium clone.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Edge is bloated as fuck, just opening it for the first time prompts you with a 3 step dialing you can’t close about how Microsoft value your privacy and which setting you should choose.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
So where are the people saying edge couldn’t be uninstalled because it’s a core part of the system that other element depended upon. I swear I have seen this answer on every reddit post about uninstalling edge, yet Microsoft show its absolutely possible (although only in Europe, because dependencies don’t work the same in Europe 😂).
- Comment on Samsung does an Apple with its first Snapdragon X Elite laptop, suggesting the new Arm-based Windows machines aren't going to be a cheap alternative to x86 8 months ago:
Disagree, I run a MacBook m1 and enjoy it mostly because everything is compiled for arm. The very few software running through Rosetta are slow to launch, drain battery and less performant. If you were to run x64 on arm it just kill the interest of arm: battery becomes just as bad as on x64, performance is worst.
- Comment on Desperate TikTok lobbying effort backfires on Capitol Hill 8 months ago:
When contacted about those allegations by the BBC, TikTok provided the statement: “With regards to users being locked out of the app until they called, that is false. All users had two methods for dismissing the notifications.”
Probably the usual hidden grey button “dismiss” over greyish background, just as Google, Microsoft and some other do.
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 8 months ago:
Cmon that’s not that difficult to understand: The same reason usa bans Chinese app. China, just as usa, has mass surveillance system and want to get every single data, they can’t do that with apps owned by usa based companies.
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 8 months ago:
NSA can’t harvest user data from tiktok because it’s Chinese based, so they force them to split and sell to American subcompany that is obliged by law to give them access to their server. Everything else is political bullshit, like the Chinese gouvernement can “weaponize it’s app” ?? They can’t turn teenager into terrorist hating their country just like that, tiktok can only influence so much.
- Comment on Reddit Will License Its Data to Train LLMs, So We Made a Firefox Extension That Lets You Replace Your Comments With Any (Non-Copyrighted) Text 8 months ago:
Yeah, do nothing because you wouldn’t take the risk it works.