puppinstuff

@puppinstuff@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europe Has a New Plan to Break Free from US Tech Dominance⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Canadian clients are wanting Canadian service providers more often.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europe Has a New Plan to Break Free from US Tech Dominance⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  FWIW last year was the first year I’ve ever had website clients specifically request to be hosted in Canada. Word is getting around that the traditional tech stack is more precarious than once believed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's it going to take to truly stop the US?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is realistically the best thing we can do as outsiders. Find other ways and don’t input foreign money into the war coffers.

  I’m quite proud of the Canadian dip in tourism and how nearly all of the produce that came from the US at my grocery store now comes from Mexico and Peru.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not buying it. Kill switch will migrate further and further into about:config until it eventually too goes away without notice in an update six months from now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened if the 5th attempt failed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The monitor would flicker and in its reflection you would see the shadowy figure take a step closer to you. You dared not turn around but you knew what would happen if it ever got to 5.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The AI browsers took my Arc they better leave my Zen Browser TF alone with these shenanigans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Denmark is attempting Schrodinger’s VPN ban. Seems like every week it’s defeated and re-emerges. What a waste of administrative time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT down again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet my own skills and experience are still at my fingertips.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh no!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Non-browser companies I don’t like are sponsoring a browser engine alternative so they don’t all end up getting hosed by Google’s lock-in.

  As long as the end result is what I want I am alright with jerks I don’t like footing the bill if our separate self-interests are momentarily aligned.

  This is a wait-and-see for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have my library serving from an old work M1 Max MacBook because it has a lot of GPU oomph. GPU transcoding is available when needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Jellyfin users, how is the transcoding situation? I have a mix of AV1 and H265 and I need to get smooth playback to my living room Apple TV for families’ sake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just hoping whatever comes next isn’t space junk that makes colonization and satellites in general impossible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The sooner the better. Less LLM infatuation means better customer service, less overall environmental impact, and more water available to cities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI country singer Breaking Rust tops Billboard with ‘Walk My Walk’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  C’mon, be fair. Country writers are toiling in their Victorian libraries to come up with such literary marvels as rhyming “suds” and “buds.”

  There are only so many words in the English language to describe one’s ideal pickup truck going down a long dirt road.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Kagy web browser worth it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I pay for it. Finding good results in the first page saves me time and I enjoy the optional AI filters and domain-based weighting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you would have an easier time searching for those who didn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That $7/myth also likely involves 30% platform fee surcharges. If there were more Peertubes and similar federated or community-owned models the fee could lower as more money goes directly to the creators.

  If there was an easy solution people would be doing it already. Just food for thought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s going to take a big cultural shift to get enough people to pay content creators through subscriptions to compete with ad-driven models.

  Eventually YouTube’s hubris will cross the line where enough people will just assume the ads are so bad it’s not worth trying to watch a video. As somebody with technical means and no tolerance for ads I’m astonished more people aren’t there yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The black screen on the TV could be related to your TV’s HDR settings. Only recent TVs have started to decrease that temporary shutter between SDR/HDR.

  It was annoying as hell in ad rolls before I started to pay for YT lite so my kid wouldn’t be advertised to.

  No longer paying since they shuttered the YT Kids app on TvOS.