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- Comment on Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves. 1 day ago:
My own mother (pensioner) sent me the video asking “is this real?” But could only follow the first minutes of it.
I lol’d at that part and had to explain the brilliance of it. Then she lol’d, too.
It’s nice to share in the shadows humor, as a family, while we feel our liberties erode.
- Comment on Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves. 1 day ago:
There is now enough adjacent cctv coverage to follow your approach and exit from the scene of the crime. The rush is that another Flock camera is used to identify, and then make an example out of you or me.
- Comment on Half-Life 3 Reportedly Delayed Due to Steam Machine Price, Leak Claims 2 days ago:
Even after the Dot Bomb era in 2000-2002 and beyond.
- Comment on Half-Life 3 Reportedly Delayed Due to Steam Machine Price, Leak Claims 3 days ago:
Programmer buddy of mine was telling me their theory that AI is the last hurrah of Big Tech and Venture Capital, shifting a patient that has been in place since most of us were children.
Even after the Dot Bomb area is the 2000’s, FinTech taking it in the chin in the 2008 global financial crisis, three meaningful Crypto rises and falls, and now AI, there’s always been some new for train to institute and sell to the retail investor and the general public.
The beleaguered finances of middle classes pretty much everywhere, hand in hand with the deleted brain trusts from AI making us really dumb and unconfident (or falsely confident), convinced with the lack of new productivity borne from these last few market cycles (AI and Crypto not actually doing much for the majority of humans commensurate with the hype) results in a possible chance for actual market accountability and seeing only genuine market growth.
I think that megacrash and the world waking up to the marketing machine is considerably less likely, but agree with them (given their best experience in FinTech) that it might meaningfully end our collective beliefs that Silicon Valley can steer everyone towards brighter shores.
- Comment on Mullvad Leta shutting down 1 month ago:
I just need a search engine the will also give calculator and unit conversation results. Everything else sounds be search results.
At this point, it’s been too many years that I will just query “76 f in c” or “2500*12/3” from my url bar, so this I appreciate the most modest “intelligence” from my web browser.
Literally everything else makes my experience worse, though.
So I’m taking recommendations for more search engines to try out. I don’t know why I start page bothers me so much, but it feels like the results my ISP would give me through DNS capture a decade and two ago.
- Comment on U.S. agencies back banning top-selling home routers on security grounds 1 month ago:
Things are getting Hua-wei out of hand!
- Comment on Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings 1 month ago:
It normalizes the anti-equity principles of the grating party.
The benefactor had already shown exactly how they treat people that aren’t white Christian men, and it’s up to schools, businesses and organizations like the Foundation to show resistance and inclusivity.
- Comment on Join Tech Workers Coalition and help unionize tech workers - Onboarding Call Oct 29 1 month ago:
Where can I read about the requirements? Did whole, I’m prepared to pay dues to belong in a guild or union, depending on cost, and also I’m currently unemployed. Am I welcome, even? Lol.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 3 months ago:
Man, this is exhausting. Thanks for trying to carry as far as you did. Some folks just really need LTT to be a bunch of villains, and will move the goal posts to get there.
Part of why I still have LTT shit a listen was because of how I’ve seen him conduct his company’s focus, and course corrections, and how they HAVEN’T sued people trying to attack them.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 3 months ago:
I think his org has consistently done its best and I still tune in across the channels. I know that I couldn’t do better with matched resources, without experience and a lot more considerations.
Listening to everyone hate on a whole media group puzzles me a bit.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 3 months ago:
Thanks for the analysis. I’ve got to say. We on Lemmy can be vicious.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 3 months ago:
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 3 months ago:
Dude. On what hardware? My 1 years old AND 4 years old Samsung phones now lock their bootloader.
Random, fly by night China phones won’t have enough documentation or enough consistency in hardware to be a viable rally point for firmware devs, will they?
Don’t get me wrong. I will buy exactly that Linux Phone for my next device if it gives me three browsers and enough untracked fundamental functionality like calculators and contact lists.
But I’m genuinely worried there won’t be a hardware vendor in the game in my market (the land of Y’allQaeda) to sell me a compatible device that plays nice with the three mobile providers that still exist here.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 3 months ago:
Control. Where else are we going to go?
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 3 months ago:
Thanks for sharing all of that. I got to think a little bit about stuff that normally I would take for granted.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 3 months ago:
If Reddit Old would play nice with said device, and doesn’t have a native app, I probably will settle on that when my ReVanced 3rd-party-Boost finally dies. (I also use the same developer’s Boost for Lemmy app).
I already use Amazon in one browser instead of its app, and Facebook in a whole separate browser on my device, even.
But there are apps on in daily, like my brokerage account and my budget/financial app (Monarch Money is worth the subscription, for me).
I would absolutely pay for access to
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 3 months ago:
Honest question - why not fork android which already has all of the infrastructure needed for things like 5G handling, power management, and a widely supported ecosystem of components and vendors?
I would try a Linux phone, absolutely, but why not just Android instead?
The issue is current and future vendors for current and future Android phones are largely tainted and lockstep with Google.
But wouldn’t developing off yesteryear Android still be leap years ahead of just reinventing the wheel around Linux? I kinda thought Android was Linux for our devices.
I’m mostly saying this just because I’m jealous to bring all of my APK’s with me into that future.
I don’t want to give up my reddit app and my current trio of browsers.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 3 months ago:
I kind of feel like MS tried three distinct times, first with their WinMo products pre-Apple, then with their Nokia partnership, then finally with one last push through the mid-10’s before Intel finally made x86 on mobile an impossibility (nuking the Atom line, selling their 5G modem business to Apple, etc) and before there just weren’t any paths forward for MS.
Amazon and FB having their own phone product lines felt like the weirdest me-too-also-ran Android reskins to extend their own walled gardens, but also felt like both threw in the towel after like 18 months?!?
MS had to be a loser for more than a decade before they gave up. They were really great at being a big loser.
It’s just … apparent that nobody is going to do this for the love of the game, and that they can only get minimum market presence by financing their way to launching yet another walled garden ecosystem. Which is exactly what we all want to avoid in this group.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 3 months ago:
You need a certain critical mass to enter this market, since you need to be able to get an army of Foxconn slaves to produce the handsets.
No company is going to be and to swoop in and eat those two’s lunches.
- Comment on AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then 3 months ago:
I’m sorry, you lost me at…
but the vast majority of investors are aware of the risk of not diversifying your portfolio
The vast majority of investors, myself included, are … not that savvy. I only sorted diversification this year and I’m still tech-heavy but we all are just eating what’s on our plates and available.
I don’t believe these markets will have humanity’s interests at heart, either.
- Comment on NPR Sunday Story - an approachable story on why privacy matters and the invasiveness of surveillance capitalism - Lemmy.World 4 months ago:
That’s kind of my point. The bias is laid bare and I vious for those that listen. NPR did the very best at sharing information while fighting hard to stay neutral, AND kept listeners and viewers informed.
They’ll continue their mission, but many smaller affiliate stations that only have Sinclair media broadcasting in their neck of the woods are going to be moderately more screwed than they already were, with more conservative agitprop pretty much occupying their airwaves.
- Comment on NPR Sunday Story - an approachable story on why privacy matters and the invasiveness of surveillance capitalism - Lemmy.World 4 months ago:
- Comment on NPR Sunday Story - an approachable story on why privacy matters and the invasiveness of surveillance capitalism - Lemmy.World 4 months ago:
- Comment on NPR Sunday Story - an approachable story on why privacy matters and the invasiveness of surveillance capitalism - Lemmy.World 4 months ago:
TBH it’s been frustrating to see how watered down the reporting has been this year.
Listening to KQED (local NPR affiliate) I was hearing taking heads from the CATO institute and the Heritage Foundation, without any qualifications of what those orgs are.
You can really feel the slide into milquetoast, neutered, both-sides press from every major outlet and the domestic landscape, but it’s still a head above trying to get your news from CNN/CNBC/MSNBC/WaPo.
I can’t fathom people on this platform being offended by how left-wing the people’s Media has been though, historically, when they have gone out of their way to be so damned neutral and nakedly honest in their coverage.
- Comment on NPR Sunday Story - an approachable story on why privacy matters and the invasiveness of surveillance capitalism - Lemmy.World 4 months ago:
People should be deeply grateful for NPR, and PBS has been a national treasure. I still can’t believe we defunded Sesame Street and at the same time that anyone has an axe to grind with the only unbiased reporting left in our nation.
Thanks for the link.
- Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics 4 months ago:
Unrelated, welcome to Lemmy.
- Comment on Palantir tops $1 billion in revenue for the first time, boosts guidance 4 months ago:
There’s no putting the toothpaste back in the tube. Kinda just bucking up and wondering what the new normal will look like, but the feeling of hopelessness is increasingly pervasive.
- Comment on Palantir tops $1 billion in revenue for the first time, boosts guidance 4 months ago:
Evidently not, given the rise of PLTR … They are just fine with the unaccountable murders and totalitarianism, so we all get to be, too.
- Comment on Huawei shows off AI computing system to rival Nvidia's top product 4 months ago:
Huawei was uniquely, specifically, forced out of the US market around the time they were completing for 5G Tower standards.
- Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world 6 months ago:
First of all, thank you. I don’t want to be telling developing nations to halt their progress. You underscore where my mindset could be prescriptive and harmful.
Second, my point is that we seem to only get infrastructure or ‘progress’ when it can be weaponized under capitalism to make someone money, the same way we can’t have meaningful recycling systems because it will never be profitable over virgin plastics and other single-use materials.
My attitude has been morphing into “nobody gets second until everybody gets first plates” but for housing, accessories, tools, etc – that plays directly into the kinfs of capital equipment, network buildouts, and supply chains that deliver iPhones to us for $1,000 when the actual material, energy and human cost could be easily 30x that.
I’m saying the paths and lanes that deliver consumer goods and experiences are obscuring the waste therein, and that they drive copper crisis just like every other scarcity crisis.