balder1991
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- Comment on We all deserve better than this 10 hours ago:
And the same applies to smartphones since a while ago.
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 18 hours ago:
Having more people help, but only to a certain extent. At some point, it just becomes difficult to moderate and having a higher number of casual users that don’t give a shit about the rules.
- Comment on Brazilian court gives Apple 90 days to allow sideloading on iOS. 1 day ago:
Making Mercosur more valuable is a good thing for South America itself in the sense that it keeps countries from doing radical movements. For example, Venezuela was suspended from it because of their violation of human rights.
- Comment on Brazilian court gives Apple 90 days to allow sideloading on iOS. 2 days ago:
Like this?
- Comment on Massive botnet that appeared overnight is delivering record-size DDoSes 2 days ago:
For c example, some conspiracy theories say that FOSS maintainers being trash talked and having their families threatened online might be state actors trying to get them to give up the project so that someone else can continue it and insert vulnerabilities.
- Comment on Apple takes UK to court over 'backdoor' order 3 days ago:
This is true, but considering all the US government problems with China, if Apple does send your data to Chinese servers regardless of where you are, I’d guess governments in the US and Europe would make iPhones forbidden for all their sensitive personnel.
- Comment on You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results | This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode 3 days ago:
Maybe something to use only for fun, but check out Marginalia. It’s open source and as far as I know, runs in the guy’s computer at his house. It deprioritizes commercial websites and boosts small blogs instead.
- Comment on You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results | This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode 3 days ago:
There’s also the problem that there’s much more noise in the web nowadays. It becomes more difficult to filter out that’s good and what’s bad. Be too strict and you risk missing valuable but less polished information. Be too lenient, and you drown in low-quality, SEO-optimized content that prioritizes visibility over usefulness.
- Comment on You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results | This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode 3 days ago:
Also Homo Deus.
- Comment on You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results | This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode 3 days ago:
It’s been a long time I use DuckDuckGo for common searches (which let’s be honest, more than 80% is just a simple query to find a certain area of some website, like “Firefox download Windows”). If I want to search something more related to my own language or recent events in my county, Google is a must, but that’s like 10% of all my search engine usage. I don’t really need Google to know about the other 90%.
- Comment on Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe 3 days ago:
They don’t need to, because git is already decentralized. All the history is usually on everyone’s computers.
- Comment on Microsoft has pulled back on over a gigawatt of planned data center capacity, suggesting that they do not think there is a growth future in generative AI 4 days ago:
How would that be a conspiracy. If the AI bubble bursts eventually, I’m sure Microsoft won’t want to be among the last ones to leave.
- Comment on Microsoft has pulled back on over a gigawatt of planned data center capacity, suggesting that they do not think there is a growth future in generative AI 4 days ago:
I was thinking this. Microsoft got some participation on OpenAI and has been paying them with cheap credits to run on their data centers. I guess they’re starting to worry that once the house of cards collapse, they’ll be the ones to pick up the pieces for any over-investment.
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 6 days ago:
Maybe this?
- Comment on “It’s a lemon”—OpenAI’s largest AI model ever arrives to mixed reviews 1 week ago:
Who wouldn’t be mad considering the amount of money OpenAI is burning.
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 1 week ago:
If you all work harder we’ll be able to fire you FASTER and increase my bonus!
Fixed it for you
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 1 week ago:
Thanks for the clarification.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 1 week ago:
Nowadays that’s incorrect if you’re in the European Union.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure a $10 one time payment won’t pay for the costs of development that Firefox requires.
Open source only works when there are people motivated enough to maintain something for free or when the organization managing it has another source of income.
- Comment on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge 1 week ago:
None of these small browsers can make significant changes to the original project. A browser nowadays is a super complex bloated thing that requires too much resources to maintain. If even M$ abandoned their engine to go with Chromium (because it was probably costing them a lot of resources to keep compatibility with the evolving standards, security fixes etc.) what hope is there for small companies? Arguably Apple’s Safari has significant differences compared to Chrome, but we’re talking about Apple…
People thinking this is a solution are gonna get disappointed eventually. For now, Firefox is the only alternative product that has been maintained for decades.
- Comment on Users Don’t Care About Your Tech Stack 1 week ago:
Yeah, I don’t care about the materials my coffee maker use, but I hope the company that makes them does.
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t mind having some ads, but I wonder how some more extremists users would react.
But I strongly believe that depending on donations is a very tough place to be, it places the burden of “begging” on the instance owners, which are already doing all the work and should definitely be compensated somehow.
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 1 week ago:
Do you really think Lemmy could handle the amount of people that Reddit has?
As far as I know the existing instances are usually running on capacity and always in need of donations, and that’s when the owner isn’t handling the costs themselves. I’m not sure how well most instances have right now.
Maybe Lemmy would benefit of some way to get people to pay, such as giving people awards etc. like Reddit. Despite being useless stuff, it might provide some fun that would make hardcore users want to pay. But for that to work out, all apps would also need to show the posts awarded in a different way, so I think that’s unlikely.
But the point is that without a business model, the Fediverse will only be able to handle enthusiasts.
- Comment on US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources. 1 week ago:
And don’t forget the dollar being used as reserve around the world, or as international currency, which makes the dollar a strong currency. But this has been changing.
- Comment on Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea! 1 week ago:
All of this talk and purple are ignoring the very fundamental aspect of this sort of transaction: trust.
When you buy from a place, you do it because you trust the store or the service to handle problems [1]. I remember one saying that a purchase is actually a very intimate relationship, and if you have any reason to think that person or service would screw up over, you’d never engage in any monetary transactions with them.
A marketplace where anyone can sell only works because despite your diligence to look for reputable sellers, the platform usually offers some assurance that you’ll be refunded for any type of scam, which means they take on the burden of doing some quality control on approving sellers. At least that’s how it works in Brazil, I suppose that a country with a high societal trust might have less of this problem, but the incentives are the heart of any system.
[1] Sure, sometimes it doesn’t go the way you wanted it and you can end up being screwed by the service, but the expectation was there.
- Comment on Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea! 1 week ago:
If it involves money, it has the incentive to game the system. So you’d be dealing with multiple efforts of actors adding fake reviews, sabotaging competitors, endless spam etc.
- Comment on The Perfect Pi Pico Portable Computer 1 week ago:
There is something about the simplicity of this kind of thing that makes it so attractive. There’s no bloat, just a device for a maker individual to play around with.
But it makes me wonder if there’s something similar to this but more “ready” for people to buy and play around building software. I’ve thought about learning more low level stuff with emulators, not a real device. A real device like this with a minimal Unix-like OS and some development kit to play around would be interesting.
- Comment on When You Block the Internet on Your Phone, Something Astonishing Happens Mentally 2 weeks ago:
Yeah definitely. I just heee to disable social media and anything that’s based on addictive behavior, algorithmic feed etc. and I automatically start doing more interesting things online, such as read Wikis of subjects I like, play with programming etc.
- Comment on Meta claims torrenting pirated books isn’t illegal without proof of seeding 2 weeks ago:
At the very least they’ll create a legal precedent.
- Comment on Italy to require VPN and DNS providers to block pirated content 2 weeks ago:
“Italian organized crime groups receipts have been estimated to reach 7–9% of Italy’s GDP.”
But I guess pirating books is a more pressing problem.