dantheclamman
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- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 4 days ago:
At least it theoretically has account portability…but yes, I fear people are setting themselves up to be enshittified again, as Cory Doctorow has brought up
- Comment on Italy's "Piracy Shield" causes massive Google Drive outage for millions 4 weeks ago:
As the article mentions, Italy already did that! “Hold my prosecco”
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on Over 170,000 EV chargers in limbo as Enel X Way exits North America 1 month ago:
Apparently, the chargers will be updated to become dumb terminals, but for many end users, the main reason they went with Juicebox (which was bought by Enel) was that Enel would handle user accounts and billing. I work at an organization where we charge employees at a discounted rate, and the chargers are open to the public to use as well if they install the app and input their payment info. We’re going to have to close down public access if we can’t find a solution. A couple companies are saying they might be able to take over. Would have been nice to have more than a couple weeks to figure this out!
- Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on The Mozilla Graveyard 1 month ago:
I used the Notes quite a bit and thought it was a mistake to get rid of it. People pay for notes and tasks related sync services, so it could have been a revenue source. I also miss Firefox Panorama
- Comment on California will force companies to admit you don't own digital content 1 month ago:
How is it clickbait?
- Submitted 1 month ago to technology@lemmy.world | 24 comments
- Comment on Mozilla launches privacy friendly AI addon called "Orbit" 1 month ago:
They said they’d open source Pocket and they didn’t. In fact, they’ve simply allowed it to rot and just removed features. So here I think the skepticism is warranted.
- Comment on Musk’s plan to axe X's block button is a real win for stalkers and abusers. 1 month ago:
I agree that X is enemy territory now, but in a world where billionaires can buy up all the major means of communication, it doesn’t feel like enough to just close up our accounts and move on. They can follow us wherever our accounts go and buy platforms out from under us. Lemmy and Mastodon are slightly better as open decentralized platforms, but they still could be attacked by Musk if he had the initiative to.
- Comment on Ford Chairman & CEO Jim Farley Wakes After Decade-long Nap, Shocked By China's EVs - CleanTechnica 1 month ago:
Honestly our sad EV offerings deserve to be disrupted A bunch of really sad GM Evs. They are mostly SUVs and look generic to the point it’s hard to know what to describe about them
- Comment on Ford Chairman & CEO Jim Farley Wakes After Decade-long Nap, Shocked By China's EVs - CleanTechnica 1 month ago:
It was crazy visiting China last year. The EVs that everyday people are driving feel so polished and futuristic in many ways.
- Comment on What the heck is wrong with my succulent? 1 month ago:
The leaves look like they’re shriveling. I also see some aerial roots. That could either be a sign of not enough water, or too much, leading to the roots dying and the plant dropping leaves out of stress. I would gradually expose it to more light as well as it looks etiolated. So I would put it in a full sized real pot with good drainage so that it has a nice, regular amount of water delivery, and the greater light will ensure it can use that water adequately (and not get root rot)
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 2 months ago:
Yep, it lives up to the best of what immersive sims set out to be. You have point A, point B, and a million ways that you can go about getting from A to B
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 2 months ago:
To me, Ctrl Alt Ego is not well known enough. It is an immersive sim in the style of Prey. You play as a robot roaming a station, where your Ego (like a spirit) can pass into and control all sorts of objects to solve puzzles, evade or kill enemise. The graphics aren’t impressive (it was made by a 2-person team) but the gameplay is so interesting and the story is surprisingly compelling and funny!
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
If they did that, anyone could spin up an instance and start just fabricating votes and there’d be no way to know
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
I think part of the motive is to make brigading harder (show if users or bots are colluding to vote things up or down)
- Comment on Reddit CEO teases AI search features and paid subreddits 3 months ago:
It’s a tease for shareholders desperate for more and more elaborate ways to squeeze a few more cents per user
- Comment on What self hosting feels like (It's painful, please help 🥲) 3 months ago:
I have to set literally everything up again on a new microSD for my Pi because the apt-get repositories no longer support the Raspbian version I’m on. I’m not mad; good for security to update, but I don’t have half a day free anytime soon for it.
- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 3 months ago:
I think it probably breaks even and fits with their strategy to abuse everyone until they pay for premium
- Comment on Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way 3 months ago:
Haven’t had to email a file to myself since I set up syncthing
- Google.com pages found to have access to hidden Chrome API allowing hardware info such as CPU usage to be viewedsimonwillison.net ↗Submitted 4 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on OneDrive automatically backups folders in Windows 11 without users' permissions 4 months ago:
They’re thinking quarterly. Improves OneDrive usage stats. They can also then coerce customers later by saying they’re running out of storage. I’m sure some users will pay, thinking they’re about to lose family photos and other important data
- Comment on Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change 6 months ago:
That’s the rationale Google uses. “We’re the best, that’s why users pick us.” They built a moat of investment in search and the browser that other companies can’t compete with. But as a 5 am not willing to accept that argument. Ma Bell claimed the same thing. We’re a lot better off economically in a world where Ma Bell was broken up and Microsoft was forced to stop their anticompetitive activities. Google will be better off as separate companies, worth more than the sum of its parts
- Comment on Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change 6 months ago:
If there were multiple sources of traffic, the pressure to optimize to one source would be lower, and the disruption caused by algorithm changes would be muted. Which would mean more interesting content less driven by a narrow set of metrics
- Comment on Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change 6 months ago:
It’s an example of why monopolies are harmful. They create distorted economies that don’t serve consumers. Like ecosystems overcome by a monoculture, monopolies are inherently less resilient, less functional and prone to sudden disruption.
- Submitted 6 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 68 comments
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- Comment on cancel culture has gone too far 8 months ago:
Same with leaded gas: it is a wonderful fuel additive; very effective and engines ran so well as they covered the world with lead microparticles. And CFCs: a really great refrigerant but it just also loves reacting with stratospheric ozone! Oddly enough, both commercialized by the same very evil man en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.
- Comment on In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From 8 months ago:
I feel conflicted about the whole thing. Technically it’s a model. I don’t feel that people should be able to sue me as a scientist for making a model based on publicly available data. I myself am merely trying to use the model itself to explain stuff about the world. But OpenAI are also selling access to the outputs of the model, that can very closely approximate the intellectual property of people. Also, most of the training data was accessed via scraping and other gray market methods that were often explicitly violating the TOU of the various places they scraped from. So it all is very difficult to sort through ethically.
