TheodorAlforno

@TheodorAlforno@feddit.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Linux users NEED their computer. You don’t put up with getting into Linux for fun except of you are a very special breed of geek.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m using Windows 11 at work and I don’t feel really a difference. I just had to double check if the start menu is really in the middle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re drawing wrong conclusions. Intelligent beings have concepts to validate knowledge. When converting days to seconds, we have a formula that we apply. An LLM just guesses and has no way to verify it. And it’s like that for everything.

  An example: Perplexity tells me that 9876543210 Seconds are 114,305.12 days. A calculator tells me it’s 114,311.84. Perplexity even tells me how to calculate it, but it does neither have the ability to calculate or to verify it.

  Same goes for everything. It guesses without being able to grasp the underlying concepts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Google about to destroy the web?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All it would take would be a platform that handles the payment and supplies a tracking pixel. Websites could join and become part of it. At the moment, every single publisher has their own payment solution. If I want to read one local article from Houston today and one from Tokyo tomorrow, I won’t join two payment plans. I want them to be paid automatically, like when I play a song on Spotify or watch a video on YouTube. Just a decent amount of money instead of paying mostly middlemen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Google about to destroy the web?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unpopular opinion: The missing business model for websites is killing the web. If there was a platform that would distribute a monthly fee to the websites we visit, the web would be much better.

  50% could be allocated through traffic, 50% by choice. I could pay 20€ a month for example. Some would go to lemmy, some to my local newspaper, some to my favorite YouTube channels, authors or bloggers.

  If enough people did this, investigative journalism would be funded, product testers wouldn’t be reliant on sponsoring and hobbyists could gain serious funding without selling out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grieve with me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I only used Apple for a very short time, but their connector seemed pretty neat. Small and with satisfying haptics. Too bad they are so shitty about patents and standards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Love this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that a vape brand?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d love to have people move over to other apps. But here in Germany it’s nearly impossible to have a messenger group on any other app than WhatsApp. Everybody is on there. For every other app there will be someone not having it installed. It doesn’t matter if 80% are on Signal, 80% in Threema and 80% on Telegram. 100% are on Whatsapp and that’s what the group will be using.