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- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 2 days ago:
Yeah, people should have listened to the people warning of privacy concerns with online services. Now that your data is valuable, companies will do anything to extract it from you.
Stop using those products, de-Google, install Linux, use self-hosted solutions.
It will take some effort to switch. You get to decide how much effort you’re willing to expend in order to not sacrifice all of your privacy and control of your digital lives.
- Comment on Someone Is Sending Fake Letters To T-Mobile Customers Shaming Their Browsing History 2 days ago:
It’s available for, legally (unless they’re a Senator or House Representative), for anybody with money.
There are no privacy laws in the US, there’s no law that they can violate by selling data about you and since that data is worth money then it gets sold openly.
- Comment on Flying cars crash into each other at Chinese air show 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure if you’re aware, but regular cars crash into each other as well.
- Comment on Flying cars crash into each other at Chinese air show 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think we’re going to see the mass adoption of aircraft costing 10 times the median US income
- Comment on Flying cars crash into each other at Chinese air show 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, a quadcopter train sounds like the obvious next step.
- Comment on White House officials reportedly frustrated by Anthropic’s law enforcement AI limits 2 weeks ago:
The law enforcement limit that they’re upset about is the restriction on domestic surveillance applications
- Comment on Flying cars crash into each other at Chinese air show 2 weeks ago:
A horseless carriage is a horseless carriage regardless of it being on the ground or in the sky.
- Comment on Flying cars crash into each other at Chinese air show 2 weeks ago:
Autonomous ultralight electric quad rotary aircraft rolls off the tongue quite well.
- Comment on Flying cars crash into each other at Chinese air show 2 weeks ago:
It’s like saying we need traffic police and highways before we can have cars.
These things exist now, so we’re going to need to address their use or ban them and have our country fall behind in technology and manufacturing. Other countries are making them, if we’re not building similar industries then we’re losing.
- Comment on Flying cars crash into each other at Chinese air show 2 weeks ago:
That’s why aircraft regulations require safety systems, redundancy.
There are safety systems, like parachutes, which can save ultralight aircraft even on total power loss.
- Comment on Flying cars crash into each other at Chinese air show 2 weeks ago:
We don’t need cars, nobody has even built highways or gas stations or traffic cops yet.
- Comment on Flying cars crash into each other at Chinese air show 2 weeks ago:
The cars are autonomous, we need them because people can’t even manage a zip merge.
- Comment on Flying cars crash into each other at Chinese air show 2 weeks ago:
“Jet” is a bullshit term. They are aircraft and must be treated as such.
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
That makes sense, thanks.
I use a laptop for a mobile device so I haven’t bothered with the mobile apps yet. It seems like the same kind of client patch could be done with revanced.
- Comment on Analog computing is undergoing a resurgence 2 weeks ago:
Or, if you can’t read, Veritasium did a video: youtu.be/GVsUOuSjvcg
- Comment on China bans its biggest tech companies from acquiring Nvidia chips, says report — Beijing claims its homegrown AI processors now match H20 and RTX Pro 6000D 2 weeks ago:
Next up, cards with RTX 6090 performance for $150 on Temu.
- Comment on Oracle, Silver Lake consortium to control 80% stake in TikTok in US, WSJ reports 2 weeks ago:
That’s why the meme went away and 18th century mutinies happened.
One can’t help but point out that there were no World Wars before sea shanties, and now there are two (soon, 3).
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 2 weeks ago:
It’s social media, people only react to the headlines… they don’t educate themselves on the issue because that would interfere with them generating the next hot take.
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s a pointless change, it’s not too difficult to create multiple identities if you wanted to moderate multiple subreddits. The actors trying to control subreddit moderation for commercial or political purposes will not be slowed down by the requirement that they maintain multiple identities.
If they wanted to ‘fix’ the comment toxicity problem, they could require x active moderators per active user. If it goes above that then non-subscribers can’t comment. The rules don’t mean much if there are 10,000 people commenting on each of 3 posts and there is 1 moderator who’s afk and checking the report queue a few time per day.
Also, if you notice from most of Lemmy, having a smaller community creates social pressure for people to behave better. Once it gets to the point where you never see the same person twice people think they can behave badly because nobody knows them.
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
What a ripoff.
Oh, there’s a Spotx for Windows too. There ya go, anybody using Spotify free who doesn’t want to buy into the tiering enshittification go patch your Spotify client. No ads, pick your own tracks, like Spotify used to be when it was a new and a good value for the service.
I’m just too lazy to find a music private tracker and setup Lidarr, I’ll do that eventually and then just stream through Jellyfin like one of the cool kids.
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t used Spotify, until recently, since it was first released. Its big value over Pandora was that it let you choose what to listen to…when did that change?
I’m using spotx on Linux so I don’t get ads, can search individual songs, etc. I thought the free tier was just ad supported, I didn’t realize that they didn’t let you pick what you wanted to listen to.
- Comment on GitHub introduces hybrid post-quantum SSH security to better protect Git data in transit 2 weeks ago:
Would you like to know more?: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_now,_decrypt_later
- Comment on Taliban leader bans Wi-Fi in an Afghan province to 'prevent immorality' 2 weeks ago:
How can the AP make such a basic mistake as calling Internet access ‘Wi-Fi’?
The Taliban didn’t ban Wi-Fi, they banned fiber optic internet connections. People can run Wi-Fi networks all day.
- Comment on Republicans put tech firms in a vise on Kirk social-media posts 2 weeks ago:
Nothing to see here, just the government abridging the freedom of speech.
The only amendment they seem to care about is the 2nd, and only when it isn’t minorities arming themselves
- Comment on Why the video of Charlie Kirk being shot was kept on social media platforms 3 weeks ago:
What was the resolution?
- Comment on Why the video of Charlie Kirk being shot was kept on social media platforms 3 weeks ago:
It was a .30-06, a 7.62mm round, similar to an AK-47 (ARs uses5.56mm). They make big exit wounds.
Given how close the round hit to his brain and the fact that it hit a major artery, he likely died due to the hydrostatic shock from the impact.
He likely didn’t even know he was hit, he was seizing immediately and all of his body motion after the impact was involuntary.
- Comment on Why the video of Charlie Kirk being shot was kept on social media platforms 3 weeks ago:
You can disagree with political violence and also not be upset that he’s dead.
Conflating the two is disingenuous
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
You get what you pay for.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
“It”? Are you conflating the low parameter model that Google uses to generate quick answers with every AI model?
Yes, Google’s quick answer product is largely useless. This is because it’s a cheap model. Google serves billions of searches per day and isn’t going to be paying premium prices to use high parameter models.
You get what you pay for, and nobody pays for Google so their product produces the cheapest possible results and, unsurprisingly, cheap AI models are more prone to error.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
It doesn’t take an AI genius to understand that it is possible to use low parameter models which are cheaper to run but dumber.
Considering Google serves billions of searches per day, they’re not using GPT-5 to generate the quick answers.