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- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 2 weeks ago:
I mean… it’s hilarious that people still use Chrome when it has been a known back actor for years and years.
Likewise, if you set an iPhone to use Advanced Data Protection, it’s probably quite a bit more secure from intrusion than a similar Android phone. (And definitely more secure from subpoena.)
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 3 weeks ago:
Thank you. Glad to know I am not the only one that got triggered, lol.
- Comment on Why don't these AI data centers build by the ocean? 4 weeks ago:
One thing I will say is here in the desert, we don’t actually want them either. Water is already an issue. Power costs are already an issue when you’re cooling your house all summer/heating it all winter. Data centers provide minimal jobs for the amount of resources they use in a community and the downsides have been discovered in a number of places around the country all ready (ranging from noise to increased costs to resource shortages). Keep your data centers off our cactii!
- Comment on Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’ 3 months ago:
Fuck this fucktard. “I’m shocked—shocked!—that people would react negatively to my cheaping out on the entire app and turning it into a random half-assed AI-first spew of gibberish!”
- Comment on Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ 3 months ago:
I mean I’ve been using DuoLingo for like a decade (only paid the last 2 years) and it’s been very useful until now.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ 3 months ago:
I’ll be looking for a new Spanish app when my subscription expires next year now, alas.
- Comment on Why do some drivers turn off the signal sound so quickly? 4 months ago:
It exists because too many idiots turn it on, forget about it and then drive along for another 5 miles signalling a turn they’re never going to make and confusing everyone around them more than just not signalling or not signalling long enough.
- Comment on Why do some drivers turn off the signal sound so quickly? 4 months ago:
And I think on some cars I’ve had in the past, it was only 2 times even.
- Comment on Spotify is down for many – here's everything we know so far 4 months ago:
Oh no. Anyway…
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 4 months ago:
The answer it’s, they’re neither thing right now. And the claim has been made that in order to run your own instance that forwarded all traffic generated by the primary instance, you would need equivalent hardware to what BlueSky currently has. Vs Mastdon, which is…
- not commercially owned
- has a proven federation capability
- Running a pretty large number of instances right now
- Comment on Mastodon Exit Interview 4 months ago:
Yeah this seems like a weird use case for Mastodon to me too. Also, the entire point of Mastodon is that no one entity can control it all. Switching to BlueSky is basically just falling straight back into the trap where someone can buy it out and repurpose it as a disinformation machine again. I’m not saying ActivityPub is perfect, mind you. Just that it sucks less (for me) than the alternative.
- Comment on The English word "four" has 4 letters. Are there any other numbers where the English name for them has that many letters? 7 months ago:
No, but cinco has 5, lol.
- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 9 months ago:
Just log onto mastodon.social and be done with it. That’s the one that will still be running until the they turn out the lights on the service, I figure. And then go kick in a buck or two a month on Patreon to help defray development and server costs. (Not being the product is worth a donation by itself, I figure.)
- Comment on Eat lead 10 months ago:
Dude is gonna come back at him with the first mention of lead in the bible and say, no this is where God created lead, lol.
- Comment on PlayStation product manager says ads being shown was just a bug 11 months ago:
The community backlash is the bug as far as Sony is concerned. They’re trying to work around it now…