baronvonj

@baronvonj@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft was already an established player in the smartphone market when the iPhone came out. It was Apple who came into the market and ate the lunches of MS and Blackberry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that if U.S. housing and U.S population projections hold, the Electoral College will shift further away from Democrats after the 2030 census.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only 2 states have proportional EC votes (Maine and Nebraska). So we’d have to get Democratic candidates winning the statewide vote.

  A lot of the people moving to red states from blue are actually conservatives who want to live somewhere with Republican governments. In 2018 Beto won with native Texans but Republican-voting transplants tipped it for Cruz. I think we already have the overall population demographics to flip, if we could just get enough people to actually come out and vote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that if U.S. housing and U.S population projections hold, the Electoral College will shift further away from Democrats after the 2030 census.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Texas will very likely gain a blue voting electoral college vote.

  eh? Not sure I’m understanding you. EC votes in Texas are winner-takes-all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  who needs the web?

  Anybody who cares enough to confirm whatever stupid bullshit the AI probabilistically regurgitated without actual understanding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are they going after every 18+ game now?

  No. They’re going after all porn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Close. Conservatism is collapsing the United States of America into irrelevance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hi it’s still broken on my machine.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  See, the data is right there to raise the rates on the data centers causing the rise in demand and not the households.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AAAAAAAAaaaaaahhhhhh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s personal time for sleep in the grave.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That explains it, you can’t code with both your arms broken.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did Facebook intercept their competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Shadow

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Are the payment processors saying Visa"MC told them to not process payments for this content? Or are they smjist citing a section of the agreement when being asked why they’re telling retailers to take down this content?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't Mbin more popular? ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably just the timing. Mbin was forked from Kbin after the majority of newcomers from Reddit settled on Lemmy over Kbin. Because Kbin was pretty much the one-man show with an unreliable flagship instance during the initial big wave of users coming over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Aivis. Trai harder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh … Steam actually did this same thing before Itch did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And a lot of professors write their own text book.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon is improving profiles and getting ready for quote posts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is how it works on BlueSky. And you can detach your original post from someone else’s quote post of it after-the-fact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is driving down the price of knowledge – universities have to rethink what they offer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  more like monetizing the Dunning Kruger effect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because then I could know that I could control where the data went.

  It being open source doesn’t mean you can music and run your own software on it and still have the agency accept you are compliant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which instances on any platform will show bridgyfed accounts?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Presumably any ActivityPub platform that can search users globally and any instance that doesn’t block the bridgy domain/instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which Lemmy instances use Photon?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can go to phtn.app and proxy login to any Lemmy instance. But admins can also self-host Photon on their domain, like p.lemmy.world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So glad I never got on WhatsApp

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple’s Craig Federighi on the long road to the iPad’s Mac-like multitasking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would have absolutely bought an iPad instead of a Surface Pro if I could run desktop MacOS applications on it when docked to desktop peripherals. I want one single convergent device for tablet and desktop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We really should be talking about Rampart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I meant a specialized application, like the Atari one that beat the LLM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Human brains lose to computerized chess all the time, though. So I guess this is a win for AI tech bros?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord unveils Discord Orbs, a new in-app currency that users can earn by completing Quests, which reward participants who interact with ads⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It has to be one of those ‘Lim~x~ as X approaches 0’ Calculus things where X is the value of Discord Orbs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord unveils Discord Orbs, a new in-app currency that users can earn by completing Quests, which reward participants who interact with ads⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This graph but with fediverse apps?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is pucture-based, but the is more of grouping images clipped from websites (you can upload your own images, too).