balder1991
@balder1991@lemmy.world
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 8 hours ago:
This is true, it’s like other platforms that value content creation rather than value, so people keep repeating the same thing. I haven’t worked as a moderator ever so I don’t know what’s possible or impossible, but I think many of these problems are a result of poor moderation though.
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 9 hours ago:
I don’t know, Reddit also has more niche communities that just don’t have enough people in platforms like Lemmy.
- Comment on Regarding this picture, where do you think quantum computers lie and why? 2 months ago:
But we already have quantum proof passwords nowadays.
- Comment on Google is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search results 2 months ago:
I think the issue now is that the market got fragmented and now you can’t find as much content as before without using multiple services.
- Comment on Patreon: adding Apple’s 30 percent tax is the price of staying in the App Store 2 months ago:
I’ll still say that when it comes to developers, Apple is a much better experience than the Google Play.
On Apple you can appeal if your app is rejected and you have an actual human on the other side to explain you what are the issues.
On the Google Play, anything goes usually, but later if your account gets flagged by their automated system, you might 1) get a generic email with no explanation and a threat that you should fix it or the app will be taken down and your account get 1 out of 3 warnings; 2) get your account simply banned without explanation, losing all your services associated with Google forever with no appeal or anything you can do; 3) have your Google account simply disabled for supposedly being “associated” with some other account that was banned.
Many of these horror stories can be found on the Android development subreddits and I suspect this is the result of the Play Store being a big target of malicious or scam apps constantly.
- Comment on Patreon: adding Apple’s 30 percent tax is the price of staying in the App Store 2 months ago:
It’s all about trust. The problem is that people trust Apple not to steal your credit card information and to honor subscription rules etc. You probably trust the independent platform a bit less, such as many of those scammer platforms who might even charge people more than they should by “mistake”, then have an awful process to get reimbursed etc.
In that sense, most people will always prefer Apple to manage these things. Everything’s then in one place, and you trust that once you cancel it you won’t be charged again.
- Comment on ‘Killer robots’ are becoming a real threat in Africa. 2 months ago:
Because there’s no solution that we know of.
- Comment on Hackers For Harris Donate $150,000 To Kamala Harris’ Campaign 3 months ago:
Unfortunately, unless it is a moderators’ rule, this just won’t happen.
- Comment on Hey Reddit lurkers! my ad-free, open source Reddit viewer RDX is on Android now 3 months ago:
Probably parses old.reddit.com
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 3 months ago:
Lenny is naturally more focused on technology, so sports communities will probably continue to be mostly on Reddit.
- Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line 3 months ago:
It seems so, some people in the thread complained their parents don’t use ChromeCast because it needed the phone to use. Apparently seniors are also better if you want to sell an expensive subscription when the opportunity arises.
- Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line 3 months ago:
- Comment on 77% Of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads And Hampered Productivity, Study Finds 3 months ago:
I think the actual problem here is that if the product people can’t learn such a simple thing by themselves, they also won’t be able to correctly prompt the LLM to their use case.
They said, I do think LLMs can boost productivity a lot. I’m learning a new framework and since there’s so much details to learn about it, it’s fast to ask ChatGPT what’s the proper way to do X on this framework etc. Although that only works because I already studied the foundation concepts of that framework first.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
The problem is experts in AI are biased towards AI.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Country: it’s illegal do be a software developer 🤡
- Comment on Here’s how much Valve pays its staff — and how few people it employs 4 months ago:
As if people are forced to publish there.
- Comment on Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour 4 months ago:
Ah, the eagerness to publish some “news” based on a Tweet or a Reddit post from a random person with no confirmation at all.
- Comment on Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext on desktop app 4 months ago:
Something like tauri does, by using the OS web engine, so the apps can be a few KB (depending on the code of course).
- Comment on Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext on desktop app 4 months ago:
Also there are better solutions if you want to have your UI in HTML nowadays. You don’t need to embed a whole web browser in each app.
- Comment on Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext on desktop app 4 months ago:
I don’t trust my mobile - they’re much harder to make private and “yours” than a desktop.
Still mobile phones are designed with much more security in mind than desktop environments, and basically everybody has a device.
- Comment on Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext on desktop app 4 months ago:
It will never have this since it’s incapable of using native widgets and theming
You can criticize Electron’s performance and memory footprint, but as long as there’s an API to access something, it can access the same features as a native app, it just depends on the company’s willingness to do it. HTML is also one of the best platforms in terms of accessibility.
The problem though, is that cross-platform apps are optimized for that: sharing the same code among systems, and using specific OS features complicate things, so the tendency is to use the same solution for all of them, even when it isn’t the correct one. Also, they make it possible for developers who don’t know a certain OS well to still build for it, making things potentially worse in the user experience.
- Comment on Google's AI-powered search summaries use 10x more energy than a standard Google search | The Hidden Environmental Impact of AI 4 months ago:
I always felt like I was alone in this thinking. I think anyone with a bit of a security mindset don’t think having everything connected is necessarily better, besides it makes them more expensive and easier to break.
- Comment on Google's AI-powered search summaries use 10x more energy than a standard Google search | The Hidden Environmental Impact of AI 4 months ago:
It’s more that there is a vocal minority against it. I’d guess most of us are mostly neutral about it, we see the problems and the benefits but don’t see the need to comment everywhere about it.
- Comment on Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web 4 months ago:
They’re saying Windows will lock away some customization, but you don’t need a key to use it nowadays.
- Comment on Microsoft’s AI boss thinks it’s perfectly OK to steal content if it’s on the open web 4 months ago:
copyright is a matter of law, and nothing else
This assertion dismisses the ethical considerations often intertwined with legal principles. Laws (including copyright laws) are influenced by moral and ethical values, and there are often huge books on theories about the validity of certain things which serve as the starting point of collections of laws.
the immorality is how companies wield it like a cudgel to entrench their control over culture
While some companies do exploit copyright laws, not all companies use it in this way and whether it brings more harm than good is a point of discussion. But it can’t be generalized.
This completely overlooks the positive aspects of copyright as well, such as protecting the rights of individual creators and ensuring they can earn something from their own work.
- Comment on Meta is connecting Threads more deeply with the fediverse 4 months ago:
Possibly preventing being locked out of the EU.
- Comment on Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough 4 months ago:
In this particular case the RAM is part of the chip as an attempt to squeeze more performance. Nowadays, processors have become too fast but it’s useless if the rest of the components don’t catch up. The traditional memory architecture has become a bottleneck the same way HHDs were before the introduction of SSDs.
You’ll see this same trend extend to Windows laptops as they shift to Snapdragon processors too.
- Comment on YouTube Seems to Be Cracking Down on a VPN-Powered Discount 4 months ago:
I don’t currently use a VPN but my impression is that nowadays I’d be greeted with captchas everywhere, is that wrong?
- Comment on YouTube Seems to Be Cracking Down on a VPN-Powered Discount 4 months ago:
The creator is already compensated as of now. They earn more if a premium user watches their video than a free user with YouTube ads.
So the sponsor is giving them more money regardless of whether the user is premium or not.
- Comment on OpenAI and Anthropic are ignoring an established rule that prevents bots scraping online content 4 months ago:
It’s just how machine learning has been since ever.
We only know the model’s behavior by testing, hence we only know more or less the behavior in relation to the amount of testing that was done. But the model internals has always been a black box of numbers that individually mean nothing and if tracked which neurons fire here and there it’ll appear just random, because it probably is.
Remember the machine learning models aren’t carefully designed, they’re just brute-force trained for a long time and have the numbers adjusted again and again whenever the results look closer or further away from the desired output.
