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- Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills 2 months ago:
For Boomers, cars was the latest tech that everyone was fiddling with. This caused even the boomer that wasn’t very interested , to know quite a lot. For later generations, car became more of a means of transportation, and the knowledge of cars was only for specialists. For gen X, computers were the high tech thing, everyone was fiddling with. Most gen x can setup if they have to. For later generations, computers are just tools, and the knowledge is only for specialists.
- Comment on Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created 2 months ago:
It is making the tracking protection part of containers obsolete, this is basically that functionality but built in and default. The containers still let you have multiple cookie jars for the same site, so they are still useful if you have multiple accounts on a site.
- Comment on Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created 2 months ago:
Container tabs are still useful, as they let you use multiple Cookie jars for the same site. So, it is very easy to have multiple accounts on s site.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says even free AI chips from his competitors can't beat Nvidia's GPUs 8 months ago:
For Linux it is a huge difference. AMD and Intel have great open source drivers, while Nvidia have binary drivers with a lot of issues.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says even free AI chips from his competitors can't beat Nvidia's GPUs 8 months ago:
I’m free to choose any laptop I want for work. This means, that for me, the GPU and other processors are free. It turns out that I still avoid Nvidia like the plague. I don’t care if it is free, if the drivers are horrible.
- Comment on ELI5 the whole Wayland vs 11x going on? 10 months ago:
Also, it was easier to support X11, since there is no security. You wanted to read other applications key events, no problem. Want to read the screen, without without anyone knowing? No, problem, just read it. With Wayland you must use APIs for stuff, and you are not allowed to do everything.
- Comment on Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us? 10 months ago:
Are they really? Didn’t you press a button that said “Buy”? Just because they want things to be something else, doesn’t mean that the meaning of the words changed.
- Comment on Kagi search engine releases a "lens" to search lemmy/kbin instances 10 months ago:
They explain a bit more about what that means here: kagifeedback.org/d/…/75
TL;DR They use multiple sources for search results besides their own indexer, the most obvious one is Google. To lessen dependence on one single search provider they have been adding other sources, one of them is now Brave. That is the whole thing.
On Dec 26, Kagi started including search results from Brave search index, after we previously added Mojeek and Yandex earlier in the year. Brave has a public search api and we currently implemented it for about 10% of queries as a first test (same as any other API we use, there is no mutual development or anything of the sorts). This was announced in our Dec 28 public changelog. Approximately a week later on Jan 5 after several posts on social media about ‘Brave partnership’ the situation escalated.]
So, if you do not like to use Google in the first place, I don’t really understand why lessening the dependence on google would be a bad thing?
- Comment on VW Is Putting Buttons Back in Cars Because People Complained Enough 11 months ago:
Corrected my typo, so contextually challenged persons can avoid being confused. You are welcome.
- Comment on VW Is Putting Buttons Back in Cars Because People Complained Enough 11 months ago:
I found that a homocidal lane assist, have a really good effect on my alertness. Before lane assist I could relax and almost doze of, but with lane assist I don’t dare to relax for a second since I know it will try to murder me the first chance it gets. So, I guess that is why people say lane assist prevents accidents.
- Comment on VW Is Putting Buttons Back in Cars Because People Complained Enough 11 months ago:
What?!? Pictures Under Glass turns out not to be the most desired solution for controling your car? Who could have guessed? /s
- Comment on Sony Steals Customers' Purchased Content - Piracy is COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED! 11 months ago:
I can sell a disk to whoever I want. I can lend my disk to a friend. I can play my disk in any player I want. Heck, I’m even allowed to crack the copy right on the disk if that is needed to play it on my device. I have the right to backup my disk to a hard drive.
Don’t pretend Buying a movie online is anything close to buying it on a physical medium. It doesn’t make you look good.
- Comment on Sony Steals Customers' Purchased Content - Piracy is COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED! 11 months ago:
If I give you the impression that you buy a gold bar, but in reality you get a cheap gold plated metal bar, then that is fraud. It doesn’t matter if it looks and feel the same.
- Comment on Sony Steals Customers' Purchased Content - Piracy is COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED! 11 months ago:
No, what you describe is called “Rent” or “Lease”. People who press a “Buy” button and buy something, expect to own it. Words have a meaning, and trying to wiggle around this with fine print should be considered fraudulent.
- Comment on Little Bobby Tables has a baby sister. Meet Sally Ignore Previous Instructions. 1 year ago:
It’s LLMs all the way down.
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- Comment on Most of the world's biggest advertisers have stopped buying ads on Elon Musk's X, exclusive new data shows 1 year ago:
Saudi Arabia felt Twitter was a problem, so they paid Elon to take it down in a way it wouldn’t come back.
- Comment on Windows 12 May Require a Subscription 1 year ago:
So, Linux is written by system programmers for system programmers.
This must be one of the most uninformed comment in a long time. Already 2001, there was quite a lot of UI work being done by the company Eazel, founded by Andy Hertzfeld who from Apple and with a bunch of former Apple people. Around the same time, Ximian (I think) was pushing project Utopia with the idea to form project teams of people from kernel devs up to UX, to ensure common tasks worked out of the box. One result of this is that printer configuration on Linux is a much easier than on any other OS. This all happened 20+ years ago, there have been quite a lot of UX people involved after that. And my experience is that people with little prior knowledge have an easier time with a modern Gnome desktop, than with Windows. The problem here is that most people know Windows to some extent, and are used to the weird quirks there, but any slight inconvenience on a new OS make them quit.
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- Comment on What is your favorite programming language? 1 year ago:
That depends on the job I want to do. But generally my selection is something like this.
- Is it a short simple script: Bash
- Longer script, then a more competent dynamic language like Perl/Python.
- Backend, a strong typed compiled language, with as few runtime errors as possible. If it depends on some particular API, the language with good enough bindings.
Preferred backend language, Rust, since that have the least runtime errors, thanks to its strong typing and the great error handling. But I also use Go if it have better libs for what I do, or Java for situations where that is more suitable.
- Comment on The Firefox browser now has a built-in page translator that works even without the Internet 1 year ago:
In the annoying popup, there is a cog wheele, it have a checked checkbox, Always offer to translate, uncheck that.
- Comment on Can you melt eggs? Quora’s AI says “yes,” and Google is sharing the result 1 year ago:
Yes, you have a point. However adding heat is often implicit when talking about melting stuff. However, if it requires 3400C, then the answer would probably include a comment about that.
- Comment on Can you melt eggs? Quora’s AI says “yes,” and Google is sharing the result 1 year ago:
Well, I agree. But what I mean is that when people ask physics questions, it is often implicitly understood to mean under current conditions. You rarely hear normal people or kids (how I find asks most of the physics question) include anything about frictionless vacuums in the question. (For reference: xkcd.com/669/ ). So, in for the egg question, regular people would most likely consider the answer to be No, except under special circumstances. But, I agree with you that if a simple Yes/No answer is expected, it have to be Yes.
- Comment on Can you melt eggs? Quora’s AI says “yes,” and Google is sharing the result 1 year ago:
Well, for eggs, that are carbon based, you will in fact have problems since carbon doesn’t have a liquid state at regular atmospheric pressure. I guess you can add pressure, but is that really what we mean when asking a question if something melt?
- Comment on My Review of Rumble in the Bronx (1995) 1 year ago:
It might be interesting to watch the Jackie Chan episode of Every Frame is a Painting, for an analysis of the difference between Hollywood and Hong Kong. This will explain why Jackie Chan is so much better in his Hong Kong movies.
- Comment on Amazon To Start Running Ads In Prime Video Series & Movies, Will Launch Ad-Free Tier For Extra Fee 1 year ago:
All these services turning into shit, are the services without a viable business model to begin with. What I find interesting is that it is obviously possible to become leading in a field, just by burning investors money.
- Comment on is Rust really that powerful / intuitive? 1 year ago:
When you compare “idea to deployment” speed, a dynamic language will always win. However, much of this win is due to a dynamic language will let you deploy with a lot of bugs. So, you will then have to spend lot of time fixing production issues. Rust will force you to fix most of these issues before you can deploy, hence it feels slower in this aspect. I previously worked for 10 years with a huge perl code base, and I trade the deployment speed for stability in production any time.
- Comment on Bizarre Movie Posters From Africa That Are So Bad, They’re Good 1 year ago:
I’d be happy if all movie posters looked like this from now on. They are brilliant!
- Comment on Why is this instance federated with HexBear.net? 1 year ago:
They have the platform, but we shouldn’t be forced to listen.