Starbuncle
@Starbuncle@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 3 weeks ago:
I think the implications behind there being infinite time in the past are fun if you assume that the universe works like a stochastic state machine. It means that either every finite event that has happened and will happen has already happened an infinite number of times or the universe is infinitely large.
- Comment on Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff. 3 weeks ago:
Preinstalled stores are limited to manufacturers and distributors and they suck, so nobody uses them. It’s pretty easy for someone with a tiny bit of tech knowledge to do some research and find out how to enable the ability to download APKs from the internet, but sadly, that’s not most people. Google doesn’t have a monopoly because Play Store is good (it isn’t), they have a monopoly because they’re anticompetitive.
- Comment on Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff. 3 weeks ago:
Google made the Play Store the primary (and only, for most people) way to install apps on Android.
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 3 weeks ago:
My experience has been that singleplayer and indie games work best, so that’s not surprising!
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 3 weeks ago:
Maybe I’m just really unlucky when it comes to liking games that don’t work on Linux.
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 3 weeks ago:
Sure, but it’s not impossible to play any Blizzard games because the launcher login page is broken like it is on Linux.
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 4 weeks ago:
Not just the bandwidth, but RAM usage, energy consumption, and cache storage space. Ads cost us money.
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 4 weeks ago:
I have high hopes for the future. It’s just not quite there yet.
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 4 weeks ago:
Microsoft did ruin Windows with Windows 8, then they made it even worse with Windows 10 and now they’re making it even fucking worse with 11. Windows 7 was the golden age of Windows.
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 4 weeks ago:
I had Windows 10 on an older (but not ancient) machine and it was literally unusable. 10-15 minute boot time and another 5 or so just to get a browser to open. The misery didn’t end once things were open; everything was still slower than when I had windows 7 on what would now be considered a truly ancient machine. I put Linux on it and experienced a roughly 5x speedup.
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 4 weeks ago:
Trying to get games to run without being a Linux pro is much harder than I was led to believe. Some games just work out of the box, but a lot of them absolutely do NOT, even if protondb says they will.
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 4 weeks ago:
I think that any operating system that mostly runs 3rd party software should be legally required to open-source at least the components necessary to run said 3rd party software. Also, OSes should just straight up not be allowed to show ads, full-stop. Making people buy hardware and then bloating the OS with ads in updates is a bait and switch and if our government had any balls, would be illegal.
- Comment on Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts 4 weeks ago:
microsoft.com/…/bitnet-scaling-1-bit-transformers… use 1 bit instead of 8 or 16, yay performance gainz
- Comment on Google is purging ad-blocking extension uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store 5 weeks ago:
How so?
- Comment on Empires fall 1 month ago:
Lemmy users any time someone references anything American
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 month ago:
This shouldn’t be opt-out. This is the digital equivalent of some fucking pervert showing up at your window and taking pictures of your TV and then letting a bunch of other perverts pay to find out what you were watching so they can use that info to manipulate you, multiplied by however many millions of TVs they’ve sold. Even if the punishment for that crime was just a single week in jail, the people responsible should be facing several hundred years behind bars when you add it all up.
- Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules 1 month ago:
HA, I hope you’re joking. Surely nobody’s actually done that, right? …Riiiight?
- Comment on NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules 1 month ago:
Everyone I’ve spoken to who has a password change rule just changes one character from their previous password. It does NOTHING.
- Comment on It's coming! :( 1 month ago:
It’s not about where it is, it’s about where it’s going. Tech companies love the slow burn. Chrome kept getting progressively worse and now they’re at the point where they’re blocking ad blockers at the browser level. Windows got away with nags to use MS Office products and now they’re leaping into start page ads and integrated AI shit you can’t remove. Mozilla is starting to enshittify, just like MS and Google did all those years ago.
- Comment on It's coming! :( 1 month ago:
I see no benefit to this because it will never be used instead of traditional tracking. It will just be a way for advertisers to get data from people who are blocking normal trackers and get even more data from people who aren’t.
- Comment on SpacebarChat - a selfhosted, Discord-compatible communication platform 1 month ago:
Unusably laggy no matter what instance you use.
- Comment on YouTube Premium is getting a huge price hike in over a dozen countries, sparking user backlash. Some countries are experiencing hikes between 30% and 50% 1 month ago:
YT ads will never be unblockable. They legally have to be indicated somehow and people will always write software to detect them. Worst case scenario, you have to download videos you want to watch ahead of time.
- Comment on Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive” 2 months ago:
The first time yeah, but I tried it again on another instance and it was better (at least it didn’t fail to load half the time), but still super slow. The 2nd time is what I was talking about.
- Comment on Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive” 2 months ago:
I saw this headline and was thinking, “Huh, I thought the limit was 8MB.”
- Comment on Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive” 2 months ago:
Matrix is a laggy dumpsterfire. Messages take longer to send in Matrix than they do in Lemmy, and Lemmy isn’t even supposed to be a real-time chat app.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 2 months ago:
I think that training models on scraped internet data should be legal if and only if those models’ weights are required to be open-source. It’d be like slapping a copyleft license on the internet - you can do what you want with public data, but you have to give what you use it for back to the public.
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 2 months ago:
uBlock Origin, not uBlock. uBlock is a bullshit extension riding uBO’s popularity to bait people into downloading it.