yildolw
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- Comment on Mozilla is trying to push me out because I have cancer – CPO 4 days ago:
We do have the additional context outside the story that under the interim CEO Mozilla has made two other unpopular decisions:
- Bought an AdTech company
- Added AI features to Firefox
- Comment on Meta is connecting Threads more deeply with the fediverse 4 days ago:
The Fediverse has 1 million active users. Threads has 130 million active users. This is not an EEE play because a 100% successful EEE play would amount to increasing the Threads userbase by less than 1%. Meta is doing this for non-EEE reasons.
One possible non-EEE reason would be to have plausible deniability for monopolistic practices. If they make a show of interoperating with irrelevant nobodies like us, they can pretend to be a nice tech company rather than a mean anti-competitive monopoly.
- Comment on Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win 1 week ago:
The Internet Archive picked a dumb fight that it couldn’t win. I want to donate money to the Wayback Machine, but I can’t because they’ll spend it appealing this stupid thing.
- Comment on We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem 1 month ago:
Jazz musicians have a name for gibberish talking that sounds real: scat
We have to stop ignoring AI’s scat problem
Gen Alpha has a name for gibberish talking that sounds real: skibidi toilet
We have to stop ignoring AI’s skibidi toilet problem
- Comment on Uber's new shuttle service sounds a lot like a bus route 1 month ago:
The private sector takes the profitable popular routes first, which the public system is already serving, meaning the public system would not longer be able to use the fare revenue from the popular routes to subsidize the geographical coverage unpopular ones which are nevertheless needed to get the full network effect
- Comment on DeviantArt’s Downfall Is Devastating, Depressing, and Dumb 1 month ago:
We’ll soon be hearing that only Luddites care about continuity errors
- Comment on DeviantArt’s Downfall Is Devastating, Depressing, and Dumb 1 month ago:
Every gallery in the world did not rush out to exhibit every submitted photograph with no curation or quality filter when photography was invented
- Comment on Why mathematics is set to be revolutionized by AI 1 month ago:
AI can’t count the number of letters in a word
- Comment on The Warlords series and the five original Close Combat games appear on Steam 1 month ago:
Alas, no Warlords IV yet. I have a soft spot for the completely unbalanced transferable hero with retinue mechanics of that one
- Comment on Romance author gets locked out of Google Docs for “inappropriate” content 1 month ago:
Google is forbidding the author from the right to make copies of their own work (aka copy-right)
- Comment on OpenAI plans to announce Google search competitor on Monday, sources say 1 month ago:
If they had spun off Windows and Office into independent companies, Windows would have made a competing office suite and Office would have made a competing OS
- Comment on TikTok sues the US government over ban 1 month ago:
List of companies incorporated in the Cayman Islands: capedge.com/company/by/incState/E9/active/true?so…
Mostly obscure to me, but I looked up GlobalFoundries. Originally divested from AMD, bought IBM’s chip business, got a contract from US Department of Defense in 2023 for manufacturing military chips
I imagine you wouldn’t object to GlobalFoundries suing the US government
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 2 months ago:
If France passes a law requiring Google to sell Google France to a French company, would Google pulling out instead of selling mean their core drive in France wasn’t money?
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 2 months ago:
Why don’t they just sell TikTok to a US Citizen who happens to believe TikTok should remain the same?
They already did that. TikTok is incorporated in the Cayman Islands with headquarters in Los Angeles. The bill of attainder is post-that
- Comment on IBM Buys HashiCorp To Control The Alternative To Red Hat Kubernetes 2 months ago:
If I were to rank HashiCorp’s products by importance, Nomad would not be at the top
Of course, if I had ranked Red Hat’s products by importance at the time of acquisition, OpenShift would not have been at the top, so I am not a reliable ranker
- Comment on Hashicorp signs agreement to be acquired by IBM 2 months ago:
IBM owns Red Hat
- Comment on Hashicorp signs agreement to be acquired by IBM 2 months ago:
Instead of dealing with proprietary rest APIs to manage every third party service you use, you can use a declarative, idempotent format to define infrastructure that’s compatible with all of them
- Comment on Scottish gender clinic pauses prescribing puberty blockers to under-18s 2 months ago:
Knee replacement regret is real and much higher than transition regret. Ban knee replacements!
- Comment on The Way Forward, an update from the team behind Cities: Skylines 2 months ago:
13 years since Cities in Motion 1 is not multiple decades, and Cities in Motion 1 is in no way the same game as Cities Skylines
- Comment on The Way Forward, an update from the team behind Cities: Skylines 2 months ago:
Why do you miss things being permanently broken and unfixable?
- Comment on One-party, communist country Vietnam is seeing US ties as it seeks to diversify from China 2 months ago:
China has already invaded Vietnam in 1979, so Uncle Ho would have started spinning then
- Comment on El Salvador Will Keep Buying 1 Bitcoin Daily Until BTC 'Becomes Unaffordable' With Fiat Currencies, Says President Bukele – Featured Bitcoin News 3 months ago:
El Salvador Will Keep Putting $71,000 into the President’s Swiss Bank Account Daily
FTFY
- Comment on YSK: it's not just Tesla, 1/3 of cars in built in the last ten years have passenger/rear windows that are almost impossible to break in an emergency. 3 months ago:
Hertz stopped offering Tesla rentals because Teslas are designed to go balls out when the pedal is lightly touched and too often that involves straight into a wall or a lake
- Comment on Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU - The Verge 4 months ago:
This is probably motivated by the EU decision that since no uses iMessage in the EU, Apple is not legally a “gatekeeper”. Perhaps no one (i.e. fewer than 40 million people) uses web apps in the EU, therefore they are gambling that they are allowed to legally gatekeep in that market
- Comment on Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU - The Verge 4 months ago:
Their own Facebook App Store would have to pay the same fees to Apple as the Apple App Store under Apple’s generous terms. Losing the web app escape hatch is a 30% revenue loss
- Comment on Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show 4 months ago:
Now consider the number of normal people in the world who do not have a server rack in their closet, and how much they are about to be defrauded and blackmailed
- Comment on Diagon Lemmy - A Queer-friendly, Harry Potter-themed Lemmy Server is now live (before you block me instantly, please hear me out) 4 months ago:
Divorcing the author from the work is rather challenging when that author is a living billionaire who makes money whenever you buy any kind of merchandise of their work. While pirating their trademarks without paying is in principle harmless, the moment you cross over into, say, paying money for Harry Potter Lego or Harry Potter Fortnite skins, you are then immediately funding the author’s hate campaigns
The instance name is clever, but I think you will find the concept embarrassing in hindsight. I would recommend not doubling down on the cognitive dissonance