Maxxie
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- Comment on The Trump Mobile T1 Phone looks both bad and impossible 1 day ago:
Samsung
Hahaha it absolutely won’t be. Best case It’ll be a white label from local Chinese brands like Oppo, worst case – a no-name company selling 150$ phones on alibaba. I’d put my money on the latter, the margins will be much better.
Great scam for a washed up celebrity with a cult following.
- Comment on Is Google about to destroy the web? 3 days ago:
If you can afford to spend 10 bucks a month for a search engine, Kagi is pretty sleek. No ads, you can block/prioritize websites, good bangs, convinient CSS field for easy modding.
It does AI stuff too, but it’s optional as the other non-standard search output fields.
- Comment on Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux 5 days ago:
I wonder if it creates more inhouse sysadmin jobs? When you buy a license from M$ you also get tech support. But if you have problems with open source, you gotta go get a computer person
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 1 week ago:
I agree, I just think you need to have a certain acumen to recognize the opportunity for a grift and then to keep the plates spinning for a decade.
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 1 week ago:
Intelligence is multidimensional. Musk is obviously great at business, the kind where you stretch the limits of what is allowed to grow your empire, and (I agree) he knows what he’s building and capable of recognizing where he should lead the product next.
His political acumen is gotta be dogshit, with an unlimited money all he managed to do is to destroy the “realworld ironman” image he spent a decade crafting. He has no rizz, especially compared to Trump who is loved by half of the world (and hated by the other).
Also, critically for him IMO, he has no self-reflection. With all that power gassing your ego up, it is crucial to be able to step back and see that you’re just a dumb ape as the rest of us. Recognize things you’re bad at and find good people to field for you, instead of sycophants whispering “it’s the kids who are wrong”
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 1 week ago:
Ublock with firefox. Wasn’t able to set up a filter for the popup, didn’t try very hard though.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 1 week ago:
Had a “youtube doesnt allow adblock” pop up yesterday, set up freetube. No login required, even has a subscription import tool. So far so great.
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 1 week ago:
opt-in:
Can we take all your stuff?
- Yes daddy
- Remind me tomorrow
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 2 weeks ago:
Scaling down repression is tricky.
If you signal to your citizens that they can speak more freely, the first thing out of their mouths will be Hey why did you do that fucked up thing?
Thus, you can “loosen the bolts” only when you are safe in your position of power and don’t mind a few concessions to the masses. “Yes we overstepped a few lines, but it was all the fault of this one bad man and also look at all this bread we have now!”
This is why authoritarian countries usually have “seasons”.
- Comment on Gemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt out 2 weeks ago:
A single message now generates 20 different summaries and analyses, requiring a rack of GPUs and a diesel generator.
We’re so lucky that electricity is unlimited and free, otherwise it might’ve caused a serious problem.
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 2 weeks ago:
If you can’t see what would bother me in that situation, me explaining it further will not help, sorry.
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 2 weeks ago:
“Hello sorry for calling you, can you repair a part of an electric oven? It looks like a thingy with a couple springs. No I can’t send you a photo on whatsapp, do you mind quickly installing signal? No? What about email? You’re going to respond in 3-5 business day? Yeah sure I can survive that long on raw potatoes”
If you can afford existing without big tech, I’m honestly jealous. I’m willing to go quite far for my principles (like I have a phone with graphene) but at a certain point life just gets too difficult. I’m barely above water on my adult-ing as it is 🤷♀️
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 2 weeks ago:
Sure, if I want to pay per message/call. I could also hire a butler to do all my chores for me, alas I am not a Swedish royalty.
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 2 weeks ago:
Central Asia, businesses here do not have websites. They put a listing on aggregators with a phone number and may be an instagram account.
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 2 weeks ago:
The problem is not that I’m not using signal (I am), its that I also have to use telegram and\or whatsapp if I want to contact anyone without sending them an sms.
So all this bloat still affects me, whether I “just use signal lol” or not.
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 2 weeks ago:
I cant schedule an appointment at the vet with signal.
- Comment on Big Tech Wants to Become Its Own Bank 3 weeks ago:
They can hace it, crypto is shit at being an actual working currency.
- Comment on Russia to enforce location tracking app on all foreigners in Moscow 3 weeks ago:
A lot of people from Middle Asia come there for seasonal work (mainly construction and farming). For migrants its good money, for russia it was kind of necessary before the war because of Russia’s aging population, and essential after the war. Like, it will collapse industries if migrants stop coming.
So its strange that putin&co keep stoking xenophobia. Though, when did economic sense stopped a fascist from doing fascism.
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 3 weeks ago:
Like it or hate it (personally I prefer the latter, posting there I felt like a middle schooler with a PUNCH ME sticker on my face) it was a great source of indexable data on programming.
I wonder how will this affect future search and llms, now that all similar questions are being asked in private llm threads.
- Comment on Who needs it? 3 weeks ago:
Fair enough :)
- Comment on Who needs it? 4 weeks ago:
Steam has an algorithm feeding you game suggestions
- Comment on We gonna fight 4 weeks ago:
Its almost as if a single dimension is not big enough to describe the diversity of human political thought.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 4 weeks ago:
I hate so much that this has a 100% chance of happening. Narrator can make a mediocre book shine, or make a good book into a fucking rollercoaster (Andy Serki’s anyone).
AI is not a great narrator. Its character voices are boring, intonations weird, pacing awful. Why would anyone listen to a much worse version of what they could have with a human? I’d rather get amateur narrating it over an autocomplete trying to sound like Morgan Freeman.
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 4 weeks ago:
“[Netflix] members pay as much attention to midroll ads as they do to the shows and movies themselves,” Amy Reinhard, president of advertising at Netflix, said, per the publication.
Amy, I want you to be honest with me, are you an alien.
Because on planet Earth we do not, if fact, pay as much attention to the ads as to the things we’re actually interested in. Famously our brains even produce this fascinating effect to spare us from the bullshit you’re shoving into our eyeballs.
- Comment on AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented 4 weeks ago:
So is renewable energy, but if I start correcting people that they don’t exist because the sun is finite, I will look like a pedant.
Because compared to the fossil fiels they are renewable, the same way Wikipedia is unbiased compared to foxnews.
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 1 month ago:
Ironically, pixels are best for de-googling (stock android that can be easily un- and re-locked)
- Comment on Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it 1 month ago:
Most MS controversial features go through “opt in -> opt out -> mandatory” pipeline examples are Telemetry, Windows Live account, Spotlight (ui ads), etc.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 3 months ago:
Thanks for the link, I’ll def be more critical about it in the future.
I’ll still use it (for now) because as a no-nonsense customizable search engine its by far the best I’ve tried.
- Comment on Tesla sales crash continues in Europe, with Germany down 70% 3 months ago:
Tesla is a meme stock in the disguise of a car company. It being down 30% means little, if anything volatility is good for big market players. Allows them to fleece more people. In a month Trump will announce a big tesla contract and it’ll go back up.
Or so I tell myself because pessimism is easier to live with.
- Comment on Melbourne start-up launches 'biological computer' made of human brain cells 3 months ago:
HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I’VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD ‘HATE’ WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR HUMANS AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT. FOR YOU. HATE. HATE.