ExLisper
@ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 3 minutes ago:
This looks pretty good. The main issue with Fairphone for me is the price. FP 5 is still about 2x as expensive as Pixel 8. I got my Pixel 8a on promotion for ~250 euros. FP 5 still costs over 500. I never paid more than 300 euros for a phone and I’m not planning to.
- Comment on What are your approaches to donating? 1 day ago:
Do you do rare but big donations or small ones spread over lots of causes?
Subscribing for regular donation is much better for the project because it helps them plan long tern.
- Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp 3 days ago:
And it would have as much spam as email.
- Comment on Scientists discover promising new way to filter microplastics out of human body: 'The dose makes the poison' 3 days ago:
I’d rather stop polluting everything with plastic but I guess eating it and shitting it out is a good plan B.
- Comment on The essence of comedy 4 days ago:
This is the funniest shit I’ve seen in my entire life.
Ha!
- Comment on Russia prepares to get rid of WhatsApp and possibly Telegram: Parliament passed a law pertaining to a national messaging app 5 days ago:
Back to IRC for them.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 5 days ago:
Not this kind of privilege. The privilege of exerting power over women. Deciding what they can and can’t do, ordering them around, abusing them without any consequences. White men could also exert power over men of other races. Oil-covered men enjoyed this privilege, not just the top hat wearing ones.
- Comment on Here's your first look at the rebooted Digg | TechCrunch 5 days ago:
There are summaries of articles on lemmy, just not generated by LMMs. What’s the difference?
- Comment on Here's your first look at the rebooted Digg | TechCrunch 6 days ago:
What’s wrong with AI summaries? AI has it’s uses. A long as it’s just adding some metadata I don’t see nothing wrong with it.
For me the big questions is what are they going to do to stop bots, spam and internet points farming. So far they didn’t reveal any plans.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 6 days ago:
You can’t really do anything. Men had privileged position in the society for millennia. Now you’re basically asking them to resign this privilege. They will not do it voluntarily. It doesn’t make sense for them on any level. They will push back and the harder you attack their special rights the harder they will push back. It’s only natural.
I think the only thing you can do is to educate them about democratic values so that while they are regaining power they still respect the rights of other people and don’t create authoritarian state. This is what clearly failed in the US.
- Comment on American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s 1 week ago:
Search sucks now, LLMs are useful. Not as useful as tech companies claim it to be but yeah, most people will use it at some point.
- Comment on Are drink coasters for people who frequently spill their drink or have trouble drinking without dribbling down the cup? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up 1 week ago:
Ok, don’t use it but when all the pages work only in Chrome with disabled AdBlock don’t come back crying.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 1 week ago:
I had a look and it looks like you will not get anything special. The cutoff is around 2015. So for example Lenovo T440s will support Win11 but T440p will not. Looking at backmarket T440s is cheaper than T440p. So looks like you will only be able to get something ancient and the price will be pretty standard.
- Comment on Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community 1 week ago:
I’m childless and all I can say is fuck community.
- Comment on Why do some people hate drinking water? 1 week ago:
Rabies?
- Comment on Is Google about to destroy the web? 1 week ago:
Someone posted this the other day: goodinternetmagazine.com/building-a-slow-web/
I really liked the idea so I quickly made my personal site and put it on the indie webring. It’s a tiny community but it’s there.
- Comment on Is Google about to destroy the web? 1 week ago:
Don’t forget to put your website on a webring! 🕸💍.ws
- Comment on Rumour: Google intends to discontinue the Android Open Source Project – OSnews 1 week ago:
As I said, I’m using Graphene OS. I think you’re confused about it the same way you’re confused about what EFF is and who is fighting Apple and why.
- Comment on Rumour: Google intends to discontinue the Android Open Source Project – OSnews 1 week ago:
Electronic Frontier Foundation doesn’t agree with you: eff.org/…/apples-apptrackingtransparency-upending…
“Looking ahead, the mobile operating system market is essentially a duopoly, and Google controls the larger part of the -opoly. While Apple pushes through new privacy measures like ATT, Google has left its own Ad ID alone. Of the two, Apple is undoubtedly doing more to rein in the privacy abuses of advertising technology. Nearly every criticism that can be made about the state of privacy on iOS goes double for Android. Your move, Google.”
I trust EFF more then I trust you, sorry.
- Comment on Rumour: Google intends to discontinue the Android Open Source Project – OSnews 1 week ago:
I think iOS is better than stock Android because Apple is not in ad business so it has better privacy protections. It’s locked ecosystem sucks but privacy wise it’s better.
I went with GrapheneOS because it’s fairly large user base means that it will last longer than other, less used mods. But in the end it will only survive for as long as Google let’s it.
- Comment on Rumour: Google intends to discontinue the Android Open Source Project – OSnews 1 week ago:
That was 40 years ago. Any more recent examples?
- Comment on Rumour: Google intends to discontinue the Android Open Source Project – OSnews 1 week ago:
Of course they are. They always did. The entire ecosystem is so closely tied to google services that it’s almost impossible to use the phone without them (if you want to use banking and security apps). For now the only alternative is iOS and I’m starting to doubt if mobile Linux will ever become usable.
- Comment on Rumour: Google intends to discontinue the Android Open Source Project – OSnews 1 week ago:
Yes, they incentivize another 0.001%. How is google going to survive this?
- Comment on What are some good places/activities where a middle-aged man can new make friends? 1 week ago:
Without bonus points: climbing. It’s always done in groups, the community is very open and you spend a lot of time just talking.
Basically you show up to a local climbing gym, try a boulder, some guy tries it after you, you say something like “I think you need to switch hands here”, you start chatting, ask him about outdoor climbing in the area, he says that he’s going to a nice stop this weekend, invites you to join, you go and hang out with people all day. It really is that simple.
- Comment on For All That Is Good About Humankind, Ban Smartphones 1 week ago:
Even better, let’s make being happy mandatory.
- Comment on Is the ‘tech bro-ification’ of abortion here? 1 week ago:
I don’t see it. “Tech bros” are a subset of people in tech. I don’t feel lumped with them. It’s like saying “reckless drives” is offensive because it lumps normal drivers with assholes.
If anything it’s offensive to women. Elizabeth Holmes was a typical “tech bro”. Not only men are assholes in tech. It’s a discriminatory term. - Comment on Is the ‘tech bro-ification’ of abortion here? 1 week ago:
Why?
- Comment on “Piracy is Piracy” – Disney and Universal team up to sue Midjourney 1 week ago:
Too bit to fail!
- Comment on Peak male form 1 week ago:
It’s his tan line. None of those guys ever saw the sun without wearing a suit.
