Bezier
@Bezier@suppo.fi
- Comment on People from the Wild West deciding what time they'll casually throw their life away in a duel [Day 107] 1 week ago:
What even makes the noon high?
- Comment on 'For too long, Apple has operated a walled garden around its products': The EU forces Apple to open its closed system to third parties 1 week ago:
I want a world in which corporations are scared to release anti-consumer products because they know it’ll tank their income.
I wish. Celebrating customers getting shafted seems counterproductive though. In reality, companies aren’t afraid of making anti-consumer products. Regulation can keep them in check and consumers sure as hell won’t.
There’s stuff like graphene or other open source OS’s - installing graphene is literally connecting your phone to a PC and opening a website, something even a chimp can do.
I know, I run a custom rom too. I also know that custom roms are still Android, meaning they aren’t safe. What do they do when Google makes some restrictive bullshit change again, for example to the android API? Fork it and become incompatible with apps meant for stock android?
Nobody is affected … except apple users
Yes they are. All large companies are constantly looking for more things they can get away with and are ratcheting towards user hostility.
When the non-hostile options are gone, or reduced to a few crappy ones, the educated consumer is fucked. Because what else are they gonna do, not buy a phone? How is a chimp gonna install Graphene when unlocked bootloaders are extinct?
- Comment on 'For too long, Apple has operated a walled garden around its products': The EU forces Apple to open its closed system to third parties 1 week ago:
… then maybe the people should just get more informed.
I hear they also made crimes illegal. Problem fucking solved.
doesn’t benefit anyone
But it does? Some Apple users will try something else, and even if you aren’t one of the, these practices spread. When Apple gets away with something, others will follow. Android is also getting more locked down with each major release. Maybe you use a linux phone or none at all?
everyone is uninformed anyways and probably doesn’t even care?
The fact that this issue is being discussed by us here and meps/commissioners/etc. at Brussels is proof that not everyone is uninformed and don’t care.
What’s to gain by not regulating this? Do you want the world to collectively suffer from products that are artificially made worse? You can say that ignorant people deserve what they get, but do the others deserve to get dragged down to their level? Everyone should suffer because iphone users are dumb?
- Comment on 'For too long, Apple has operated a walled garden around its products': The EU forces Apple to open its closed system to third parties 1 week ago:
Yeah, most Apple users won’t care or even know, and will just keep using whatever is Apple gives them. I don’t see how that’s an issue.
Meanwhile, people who are at least slightly more informed will benefit from the freedom. Things like this are needed because informed consumers too are getting shafted in about every product category. Voting with your wallet doesn’t work in a market dominated by uninformed consumers.
- Comment on 'For too long, Apple has operated a walled garden around its products': The EU forces Apple to open its closed system to third parties 1 week ago:
Oh no, not more freedom and rights, please no!
- Comment on Meep 1 week ago:
I don’t see how this empowers musk in any way, but I’d like to not have ai trash on my feed.
- Comment on "Americans can't coo-" 2 weeks ago:
tom scott is
- Comment on Dragunov sniper rifle 1 month ago:
I am, therefore I think
- Comment on For those of us that can spot the URL for "Never Gonna Give You Up" at a glance, we are getting rickrolled without ever clicking the link. 1 month ago:
…W_XcQ
Yeah I can hear it.
- Comment on Is it possible to get/train a carrier pigeon today? 1 month ago:
Gotta train new ones then.
- Comment on If any AI became 'misaligned' then the system would hide it just long enough to cause harm — controlling it is a fallacy 1 month ago:
Over ten thousand? That’s, like, more than a HUNDRED!!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Audible plop as it comes put.
Having that thing come put would be horrifying, but so would be taking it in.
- Comment on James Bond Game by IO-Interactive 1 month ago:
Or only selling the game in pieces but in such way that those pieces can only be bought in packs that force you to pay for the same pieces multiple times.
Fuck that scheme.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It used to. I think it still technically exists in the database, but is unused. Good riddance, really.
- Comment on 2025, still no flying cars! 2 months ago:
Electric beehive
- Comment on 2025, still no flying cars! 2 months ago:
Imagine daily traffic with as many helicopters as there are cars now.
- Comment on 2025, still no flying cars! 2 months ago:
I like how the guy has to awkwardly peek over the side to see below. They just designed it like a non-vtol car.
- Comment on Russia admits its homegrown consoles can't match the PS5 or Xbox Series 2 months ago:
- Neither PS5 or XBOX are mobile
- Switch also targets a different audience
- As long as the hardware is competent, the software matters a lot.
- Comment on Something to Remember Us By: Device Confiscated by Russian Authorities Returned with Monokle-Type Spyware Installed 3 months ago:
Sounds entirely plausible to me. I would not trust a device confiscated by authorities in any country.
- Comment on vines of the animal kingdom 4 months ago:
I have no clue what you’re trying to prove, but I think I’m done with this conversation.
- Comment on vines of the animal kingdom 4 months ago:
Neither. Why are those the only two options? My answer is that I have spent a little bit of time looking into how these things actually work. It’s surface level only, but it should be enough. Are you one of those crazy people who thinks chatgpt is sentient?
I’m not saying that a “real” AI cannot be built ever, but I for sure am saying that these image generators and chatbots are not it. AI tools are just functions that have no thought. If they start building products with some kind of continuous brain simulations, I’ll seriously rethink my stance.
- Comment on vines of the animal kingdom 4 months ago:
The AI that tech bros sell is not alive and does not have “intelligence.”
- Comment on You know what, fuck you [un-Jags uar icon] 4 months ago:
I’m sure they spent an unreasonable amount of time getting that ugly font look just right.
- Comment on You know what, fuck you [un-Jags uar icon] 4 months ago:
I wonder how much correlation there is between logo blandification and being owned by giant corporations.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release 4 months ago:
Hey that’s a good idea, lemme just email gaben
- Comment on Oh fuck no 5 months ago:
It really is odd. What’s even the point? Is it some kind of “saying it without saying it” thing? It’s still explicitly saying it.
- Comment on Why did Raspberry Pi make their own SSD? 5 months ago:
Post the original video => Want text. You lose.
Post hackaday citing the video => Want original. You lose.
(Probably)
- Comment on Google creating an AI agent to use your PC on your behalf, says report | Same PR nightmare as Windows Recall 5 months ago:
AI is so hot right now and these incompetent doorknobs have FOMO.
- Comment on Support local bands 5 months ago:
It clearly says fack
- Comment on TSMC suspended shipments to China firm after chip found on Huawei processor, sources say 5 months ago:
So the pedantry is that the whole package can’t be called a processor. A CPU is not a processor.