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- Comment on draw.io no longer free and open source software since August 27, 2024 4 weeks ago:
Honestly good on them for keeping the spirit alive for just about everyone who isn’t a direct competitor of theirs.
Let them make some money to continue to fund it. They even invalidated all sponsorships because of the license change.
Unless you personally were willing to fund whatever they make on their integration, then this is an ok play in my book.
- Comment on There is no history on the History channel. There's nothing true on TruTV. There's no music on music television. There's no science on the science channel. 2 months ago:
No Turner on the Turner Broadcasting System (TBS)
- Comment on The UK section of my local supermarket is taking the piss 2 months ago:
What? I have winco down the block… I’ll check for it next time I’m there.
- Comment on The UK section of my local supermarket is taking the piss 2 months ago:
I live in the USA and can confirm never seeing this before.
Though I’d try it tbh
- Comment on Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall feature is coming back in October 2 months ago:
A Google search later: …microsoft.com/…/privacy-and-control-over-your-re…
All local. Nothing sent. You can choose to not believe it, but it’s deceptive to imply they don’t say it’s local.
If you don’t believe them it’s one thing but they said what they said.
- Comment on Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall feature is coming back in October 2 months ago:
Lots of comments in here saying this sends stuff to Microsoft and yet that isn’t true. It’s an offline local feature.
I personally look forward to giving it a try.
- Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line 3 months ago:
Yep. Someone thinks the Google name has some crazy value.
- Comment on Intel was once a Silicon Valley leader. How did it fall so far? 3 months ago:
Probably bureaucracy. Also an inability to pivot even when things make no sense. Everything is a giant freight train that has very little ability to change direction or stop.
Oh and of course a healthy taste of not being transparent or honest.
Source: I used to work there years ago.
- Comment on Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face. 3 months ago:
Then just ask to not be facial scanned. Last airport I went to had signs saying you could opt out.
Then you don’t need weird glasses either.
- Comment on Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face. 3 months ago:
If the scan fails, they’ll just ask you to take them off.
- Comment on Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face. 3 months ago:
They have you take your sunglasses off.
- Comment on PSA: GoDaddy gated their own API. DDNS users warned 3 months ago:
Recommend cloudflare for DNS. I use it for DDNS via API and it works great.
You also basically pay the wholesale rate without markup for the domain.
- Comment on HTTPS on homelab (just locally) 4 months ago:
+1 to NPM. Works really easily for certs and auto renewal.
- Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report 4 months ago:
It’s a bit odd, but isn’t it equivalent to forking and putting up a fork elsewhere?
I guess I don’t see the problem.
- Comment on What is the Anti Commercial-Al license and why do people keep adding it to their comments? 6 months ago:
2 bucks says commercial ai is still being trained on those comments.
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- Comment on Billions of public Discord messages may be sold through a scraping service 6 months ago:
Would be cool if Google search indexed public discord servers.
- Comment on No Tech for Apartheid: Google Workers Arrested for Protesting Company’s $1.2B Contract with Israel 6 months ago:
Say hello to Miguel Sanchez.
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 6 months ago:
In their defense, advertisers weren’t seeing those same people.
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 6 months ago:
I remember seeing a startup at one point that wanted to put mini-CDNs in people’s homes. Small black boxes that would automatically be a CDN not just for your home, but the whole area. Of course, sites would have to use their CDN network, etc.
I actually thought it was a really interesting idea. Almost like federated CDNs.
Imagine if every Xfinity router has a built-in 16TB CDN: it would be an interesting way to possibly change how bandwidth works and makes it back to the DCs. Most popular stuff would be closer, faster.
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 6 months ago:
The problem is the term quality would be used to block out certain creators. The definition would wind up being vague and/or arbitrary.
What one person thinks is quality may not be quality to someone else. In a way that’s a niceness of YouTube. We can each upload what we think is good… or bad.
Even then if a video goes big viral (which is arguably something a creator may want), the bandwidth costs could skyrocket.
Then it’s like: maybe we need CDNs and more storage and boom now it’s even more expensive. I just don’t see fediverse video working great long term without big money to back it.
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 6 months ago:
Makes me miss a time where they couldn’t tell if ads were actually watched or not.
Sooner or later, ad blockers should just simulate the ad being played (in the background) with the real content going in the foreground to act as if the ad was watched.
Kind of like going to the bathroom during commercials.
Then again I wish we had a real alternative to YouTube. (Don’t point me to the fediverse video stuff … that’s not what I mean.) There is no real competition for a place to freely upload videos … or on the other side find all that content. No one wants to scale enough to compete. (Very few probably could considering the amount of new content per minute).
If only there was real competition, then YouTube would have to fight over our attention/usage by lowering ad count.
No competition means worse for all.
- Comment on VPN by Google One is shutting down for good 6 months ago:
Kind of funny that they sent an email with like 3 benefits of Google One being dropped but nothing added back.
They should drop Google One. It’s literally just storage afaict.
- Comment on OpenAI transcribed over a million hours of YouTube videos to train GPT-4 7 months ago:
I’ll be that guy here and start a small fire.
If it’s not OK for OpenAI to violate YT’s terms of service, then it’s not OK to use an alternative frontend or ad blocker that also violates ToS.
You should be for enforcing the ToS or against it. Allowing one version of breaking it without the other is fickle.
Some people think OpenAI should stop, but they should still have their ReVanced, which boggles my mind a bit.
- Comment on Secure Operating Systems (Microkernels seems to be the future) 7 months ago:
The idea of a clean code base only existed for the original writers… most of the time.
- Comment on Just think of the taxes that they can then avoid! 7 months ago:
Would be a small Walmart
- Comment on Owners of a domain, which domain registrar did you choose and why? 7 months ago:
Exactly the same boat. But man Cloudflare is better in every way. Having an API to update/fetch records for a zone does wonders.
- Comment on When Vice Shuts Down, Where Will its Articles Go? 8 months ago:
Probably but I think the point they were making was more along the lines of: what if the Internet archive itself ran out of money or closed up.
- Comment on Amazon "search through reviews" is blindly just running an AI model now 8 months ago:
People can abuse it all they want. I’ve actually used this feature to parse for some info in comments.
I dig.
- Comment on Please Stop 8 months ago:
If making payments in crypto back to FIAT was free it would be more popular. For me it’s mostly useless since the fee to spend crypto is more than the (often free) fee for using my credit card.
New needs to be better and cheaper to be picked up.