kent_eh
@kent_eh@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Wikimedia sunsets separate mobile domains 6 days ago:
mobile web browsers, most websites would serve either a separate style sheet that gave a simplified layout
A simpler layout and usually a more lightweight page in general because mobile data eas slow and expensive back then.
If someone wanted people to actually use their site on the go, they had to make it load quickly and not cost $5 worth of data doing it.
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 1 week ago:
CCTV cameras as crime prevention. They rarely work, as folks desperate enough to commit regular street crime simply aren’t deterred.
Combine that with the reality that identifying people from surveillance footage can easily be defeated be employing advanced counter technologies such as “generic black/grey hoodie”
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 1 week ago:
Since there has been people, there have been people trying to steal stuff from other people.
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 1 week ago:
Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose. /s
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 1 week ago:
Haven’t there been countless sci-fi movies and novels warning us about the many ways this approach can go horribly wrong?
- Comment on AI adoption rate is declining among large companies — US Census Bureau claims fewer businesses are using AI tools 1 week ago:
That is good news, assuming numbers being reported by a US government agency are accurate, which is no longer a certainty.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 weeks ago:
Linux isn’t an OS.
Pedantically true, but practically irrelevant statement.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 3 weeks ago:
Neither sell their phones in (or ship to) my country.
- Comment on YSK that despite being outside of US jurisdiction, Lego has dropped diversity and inclusion terminology from its annual report 5 weeks ago:
If my daughter wants more Lego, I’ll just buy it second hand
That’s where most of the sets my kids had came from.
It’s a durable product that is easy to clean. Buying used is very low risk.
- Comment on YSK that despite being outside of US jurisdiction, Lego has dropped diversity and inclusion terminology from its annual report 5 weeks ago:
The wizard lego is very disappointing, and goes completely against their other inclusive language.
To be fair, they started making those sets long before anyone knew the author was a TERF.
- Comment on TikTok to replace trust and safety team in Germany with AI and outsourced labor 5 weeks ago:
And the march towards making the dead internet theory a reality continues moving forward.
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 1 month ago:
Is there a ful list anywhere of brands and models that lock non-network features behind a network connection requirement?
I’ve heard people complaining about some that don’t let you select HDMI input without first connecting to the internet and “activating” the TV, but the model is usually not specified in those complaints.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 1 month ago:
Now we just need a way to do that
I have some ideas.
that isn’t vigilante violence.
Oh. Nevermind…
- Comment on It's time to boycott U.S. digital services! Here's a chart to help you do so: 1 month ago:
There is no simple solution to most of society’s issues.
Don’t let perfect stand in the way of better.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 1 month ago:
Threats to the bottom line is the thing that motivates companies faster than anything else.
- Comment on Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded 1 month ago:
Until this abomination of a law
The “patriot” act would like to have a word with you…
- Comment on Microsoft exec admits it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereignty 1 month ago:
Microsoft exec admits it ‘cannot guarantee’ data sovereignty
Then you don’t get to touch my data (to the extent that I can control who already has my data without my permission…)
- Comment on Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app 1 month ago:
Or by a vindictive ex.
- Comment on Grok praises Hitler, gives credit to Musk for removing “woke filters” 2 months ago:
Nazi trains a nazi “speak & spell”
Whoopty fucking do.
The problem comes when large portions of the population use it and accept what it says without any shred of critical thinking.
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 2 months ago:
Who said that?
The strawman.
- Comment on The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon 2 months ago:
good luck doing anything online and avoiding AWS.
Don’t let perfect stand in the way of good.
It’s not possible in most cases to even know if a given online resource is using AWS behind the scenes, so it’s not something you can really control.
On the other hand, if you happen to be a web developer, that is a different story, but for normal users it’s not something you can do much about.
- 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 2 months ago:
It appears to have support for the 4G and 5G bands that Rogers, Bell and Telus use
But the last time I was looking at Fairphine, they didn’t sell to Canada directly.
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 2 months ago:
I believe LLMs are good at some things
The problem is that they’re being used for all the things, including a large number of tasks that thwy are not well suited to.
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 3 months ago:
is like using a power tool as a table leg.
Then again, our corporate lords and masters are trying to replace all manner of skilled workers with those same LLM “AI” tools.
And clearly that will backfire on them and they’ll eventually scramble to find people with the needed skills, but in the meantime tons of people will have lost their source of income.
- Comment on public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird) 3 months ago:
Mostly because the FOSS community doesn’t have a single point of leadership that is maniacally focused on becoming a total monopoly.
And that’s a good thing
- Comment on public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird) 3 months ago:
'It used to be this and I want it to be this way, hold my hand for an hour while telling me its not this way anymore
Yeah, but that already happens every time Microsoft does a major version “upgrade”.
- Comment on public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird) 3 months ago:
Embrace, extend, extinguish will accelerate.
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 3 months ago:
Increasing that price means less people will buy the product.
Unless your competitors are also facing the same forced price increase.
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 3 months ago:
That is the least of his linguistic faults.
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 3 months ago:
her goal isn’t to get them to stop, it’s to get them to recognize what garbage writing is and how to fix it so it isn’t garbage anymore.
Sadly, that may be the best we can hope for.