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- Comment on Tech Giants Withholding Products Because EU Regulation like GDPR 4 months ago:
This is more bark than bite, imo. They’re just threatening to withhold products at this point, but as the article points out:
- Europe’s a big market and profit focused companies aren’t going to give that up just to make a point
- Those that do will just encourage European competition to step up and fill whatever gaps might appear, which is just fine by the EU.
So… go right ahead. Let’s see how this really plays out.
- Comment on Sony will cut around 250 jobs from the recordable media business manufacturing hub and will gradually cease production of optical discs, including Blu-ray discs. 4 months ago:
Most people don’t know how to switch between inputs on their TVs or have gotten rid of their DVD or BluRay players at this point.
They’re using the built in streaming apps or they’ve plugged a Roku in where the cable box used to go.
- Comment on Music industry giants allege mass copyright violation by AI firms 4 months ago:
The RIAA vs the AI industry… Can they both lose?
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 6 months ago:
I don’t think LLMs are useless, but I do think little SoC boxes running a single application that will vaguely improve your life with loosely defined AI features are useless.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 6 months ago:
Plenty of free apps get monetized just fine. They just have to offer something people want to use that they can slather ads all over. The AI doo-dads haven’t shown they’re useful. I’m guessing the dedicated hardware strategy got them more upfront funding from stupid venture capital than an app would have, but they still haven’t answered why anybody should buy these. Just postponing the inevitable.
- Comment on MKBHD - Do Bad Reviews Kill Companies? 7 months ago:
Reviewer opinions on both Humane and Fisker are pretty consistently negative so this isn’t some mean YouTuber with an axe to grind situation.
The products are bad and people shouldn’t waste their hard earned money and time on them. Venture Capital firms may lose money, but that comes with the territory. Not every venture is a win.
- Comment on ‘Section 31’ Movie Director Says It’s A “Different” Star Trek + New Character Details Revealed 7 months ago:
I will always root for Trek to succeed. I’m hoping that by including Rachel Garrett, this isn’t too timey-wimey and we get a well written TUC-TNG lost era story.
- Comment on Data is a bad man 7 months ago:
He’s also been regularly compromised by sketchy backdoors placed by the manufacturer in his firmware remote code execution exploits.
But to be fair, anybody on the bridge who knows how to work the consoles could kill everyone aboard if they wanted.
- Comment on Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire 9 months ago:
They’re not, but a little cumbersome to carry around and find power on a heist.
There are loads of little pocket sized battery powered jammers available now.
- Comment on “Don’t let them drop us!” Landline users protest AT&T copper retirement plan | California hears protests as AT&T seeks end to Carrier of Last Resort obligation. 9 months ago:
Yes. Because it still works and hasn’t all been replaced yet.
The burden is on the telcos to prove otherwise and justify all the subsidies they got to wire unprofitable areas.
- Comment on 'It hasn't delivered': The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology 10 months ago:
You’re not wrong, but it’s not just the UI on the kiosk, it’s the whole checkout process. A trained cashier on a real checkout line is much faster because the machine isn’t nerfed and trying to hold their hand while preventing them from stealing. The real problem is the stores are trying to shift the labor onto the customer but the customer isn’t getting much benefit for the effort nor has any motivation to be particularly honest in light of having this chore thrown in their lap.
I don’t think they can redesign the UI to overcome that. It’s not really a UI problem, it’s a conflict of interests problem and they’re not going to solve that unless they completely redesign the checkout process. The little Amazon convenience stores that know what you have as you shop seem like a better approach, but I’m guessing they’re not all they’re cracked up to be since they haven’t seemed to catch on that much.
- Comment on New Star Trek Movie Director Is A Fan And Directed The ‘Black Mirror’ Trek Episode “USS Callister” 10 months ago:
The impact to the timeline form the Narada affected the timeline before that point as well because it affected subsequent time travel (allllll the times SNW, TOS, TNG, VOY, DS9, etc. went into the past would have occurred differently)
- Comment on Please don't let this be Gene's legacy. 11 months ago:
The original showrunner eventually posted how he intended the story to go. It’s a fun quick read about the better show that never got made:
- Comment on HP TV ads claim its printers are 'made to be less hated' 11 months ago:
Really, which ones?
- Comment on Windows 10 gets three more years of security updates, if you can afford them 11 months ago:
You basically have to break the installer to get it to work, which supports my point that the limit is an arbitrary way to exclude PCs made before a certain date from the next version. There is no technical reason MS can’t allow old hardware to work and no marginal cost to Microsoft to chose to do so. Like I said, while I don’t expect them to support everything forever, Microsoft also made their bed with their illegal business practices that got us here and hordes of malware infested EOL’ed computers are everybody’s problem now. They shouldn’t be adding to that problem for arbitrary marketing reasons.
I’m not against to fixed support periods, but they really ought to be minimums and not halted based on arbitrary dates, especially in the consumer space where these machines will run whether they get patched or not.
Slippery slope fallacy much?
This already happened during the last big Windows-on-ARM push w/ Win8. UEFI secure boot was required enabled on all new hardware but no requirement for user-added keys. It didn’t overtly restrict Linux (on MS’s part) but several manufacturers did lock down their devices. I don’t see any reason why that won’t happen again. It’s the norm in the cell phone and tablet ecosystem (which is a damn shame, but there may be hope on the regulatory front w/ right to repair laws gaining steam.)
- Comment on HP TV ads claim its printers are 'made to be less hated' 11 months ago:
The ink plan isn’t required, you can still use regular cartridges.
- Comment on Windows 10 gets three more years of security updates, if you can afford them 11 months ago:
Because it’s forced obsolescence by a convicted monopolist. Microsoft is effectively withholding security updates from computers built before 2018 or so with the arbitrary TPM requirement to install Win11. While I don’t expect them to support everything forever, this is another step along their journey to make PCs like cellphones. Fixed support periods for no reason other than they want you buying new ones every x years. Next up will be widespread locked down bootloaders so you can’t install Linux if you wanted to. Throw away the old and buy new. Mamma needs more quarterly revenue.
- Comment on Twitch to shut down in Korea over 'prohibitively expensive' network fees 11 months ago:
Because then the ISPs would have to respond to changing customer preferences and spend their own money on infrastructure improvements to meet the new demand.
Or they can lobby/bribe the government to demand fees from wealthy tech companies.
Guess which one’s cheaper.
- Comment on OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO 11 months ago:
This smells like an ethics fight. Altman has been chasing monetization and releasing commercial products in a way the board doesn’t feel is ethical or in line with their charter.
Microsoft would very much like to continue commercializing this and they’re either going to neuter this board or take their ball and make their own ChatGPT with blackjack and hookers.
- Comment on Elon Musk vows ‘thermonuclear lawsuit’ as advertisers flee X over antisemitism 11 months ago:
That’s why there are SLAPP-back laws.
He’s also got a habit of ignoring legal advice and running his mouth in public, so he’s likely going to end up writing another big check for that misadventure if his lawyers can’t talk him out of going through with it
- Comment on Barack Obama: “For elevator music, AI is going to work fine. Music like Bob Dylan or Stevie Wonder, that's different” 11 months ago:
I don’t think I can actually recall one either.
Maybe in a department store or mall in the 80s. It was just so deliberately bland I never noticed when it became less common.
- Comment on Microsoft won’t let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself 1 year ago:
That’s fine if you actually want it. I usually get the Costco deal for the family plan because we need the official MS Office apps and the terabyte storage per account is useful for us.
But Microsoft has gotten really obnoxious lately about upselling in the OS.
- Comment on The "Marshmelon" Dispenser: Most pointless piece of Federation technology? 1 year ago:
What if it’s a micro-replicator that makes marshmelons on demand? And what if I told you it could also make sausages, carrots, skinny cucumbers and taquitos like they have on those roller grill things at the gas station?
Not so stupid now.
It’ll do M&Ms too, you just have to shake it into your hand.
- Comment on Microsoft won’t let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself 1 year ago:
Pushing subscriptions and vendor lock-in. They harass you to use OneDrive so they can later harass you to pony up for a 365 subscription.
- Comment on After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads 1 year ago:
They’re not late. I’ve been using Fire Sticks for years and Amazon has been working hard the whole time to shove more and more ads all over the UI. The main row of apps gets smaller with every update and more and more ads are plastered around and between them to try to sell you more shit you don’t want or already have.
I managed to jailbreak mine before they locked them down and install a custom launcher so they’re actually usable, but the stock UI is god-awful. I’ll be replacing them once the next round of Apple TVs come out.
- Comment on I still think the Vendorians did the Klingon civil war 1 year ago:
The Klingons oversell their whole honorable warrior schtick, especially to outsiders. They’re not a monoculture but it’s far less “cool” to be a nerdy scientist in Klingon society than, say, Starfleet, but they’ve still got them. They’re just not celebrated to the same degree. They pay for that by being a bit behind the tech curve, imo.
- Comment on HBO Max Shrinkflation: Removing features from my plan, with no reduction in price 1 year ago:
Interesting customer retention move for a service that hasn’t been able to make much new content for the past six months and is about to see its new releases dry up.
- Comment on Petition demands that Microsoft extends Windows 10 support 1 year ago:
It makes some sense for business & enterprise stuff, but not for household/consumer computers & devices. That’s just rent-seeking and forced obsolescence. There is no good reason a home computer from the past fifteen years should have security patches withheld because the manufacturers want people to throw them away and buy and brand new ones.
- Comment on Petition demands that Microsoft extends Windows 10 support 1 year ago:
Honestly, a bit of both. It probably gets more hate than it deserves but there’s a lot of pointless change just for the sake of changing things. It’s better than Win10 on a Surface, touch screen and pen support have improved. But beyond that, I don’t really see a reason to jump to it until they force the issue by ending support for 10.
- Comment on Microsoft develops ultra durable glass plates that can store several TBs of data for 10000 years 1 year ago:
They’re being so vague with the numbers that I really doubt how mature any of this is. Given some of the examples (photos, music, War & Peace) I’m guessing 3TB or so, but it’s a fluff article, so who knows.