woelkchen
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- Comment on Telegram partners with xAI to bring Grok to over a billion users 3 days ago:
It wasn’t “half the internet unusable”.
Everything behind the same AWS and Google IPs which is a lot.
I live in Russia
So you pay taxes to Putin. Good to know who actually helps funding the regime.
- Comment on Telegram partners with xAI to bring Grok to over a billion users 3 days ago:
Telegram is not banned in Ukraine either. There also are no Ukrainian sections against the founder.
I also did not call him a fighter against the regime. You have a vivid imagination.
Russia tried blocking Telegram once but Telegram relies on AWS and Google Cloud, so the blocking attempt backfired, leading to half the internet unusable in Russia, leading to quick back paddling by the Kremlin.
Since Telegram is not banned in either country, it’s the best source for unfiltered news from the front.
- Comment on Why doesn't Nvidia have more competition? 3 days ago:
Intel tried with OpenAPI because ROCm was not invented here.
- Comment on Telegram partners with xAI to bring Grok to over a billion users 4 days ago:
I‘m saying whatever the server asks the client, a client can choose to hide the UI elements. Nothing more, nothing less.
- Comment on Why doesn't Nvidia have more competition? 4 days ago:
Because its competitors care about Not Invented Here instead of building common industry standards.
- Comment on Telegram partners with xAI to bring Grok to over a billion users 4 days ago:
Grok UI elements and number of GIFs in the picker are 100% local features clients can choose to ignore.
- Comment on Telegram partners with xAI to bring Grok to over a billion users 4 days ago:
Definitively certain and I didn’t call anyone an angel, so no idea why bring such a thing up.
- Comment on Telegram partners with xAI to bring Grok to over a billion users 4 days ago:
They can’t force local UI elements via server. That’s impossible to do with forks who decide against following server side requests.
- Comment on Telegram partners with xAI to bring Grok to over a billion users 4 days ago:
Telegram founder fled Putin.
- Comment on Telegram partners with xAI to bring Grok to over a billion users 4 days ago:
They can’t force local UI elements via server. That’s impossible to do with forks who decide against following server side requests.
- Comment on Telegram partners with xAI to bring Grok to over a billion users 4 days ago:
The beauty of open source is that there will be 3rd party clients that don’t care about all of that.
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 6 days ago:
Anyone putting corporate technology into their bodies is just asking to get Black Mirror’ed.
Pace makers aren’t made my anticapitalist cooperatives, you know.
- Comment on Switch 2 supports USB mouse controls, developer reveals 1 week ago:
It still doesn’t do anything to steer me toward a Switch 2 over a Steam Deck
Who’s claiming that giving away your Deck is a necessity?
- Comment on Switch 2 supports USB mouse controls, developer reveals 1 week ago:
The gimmick gets more gimmicky.
No idea why you’re so dismissive. Metroid Prime 4 with a proper mouse is a great outlook.
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- Comment on SteamOS finally released by Valve 1 week ago:
Its talking about the newer SteamOS 3.0
SteamOS 3.0 was released March 2022, so more than 3 years ago.
- Comment on SteamOS finally released by Valve 1 week ago:
Is it? Or did they choose Arch because of the ease of setting it up with all the latest software the community was already packaging?
That’s an illogical either or question because it’s both. Valve moved from Debian to Arch because of its more recent upstream packages, yes, but Valve’s upstream contributions in turn made Arch (and the other distributions) better for gaming.
- Comment on Comfy cozy 1 week ago:
The Trump administration is way too incompetent to actually achieve anything. They want that from the EU but they are also throwing away their own good cards to apply any pressure.
If the US pull out their NATO troops from Europe, have their statements leaked that they hate to help Europe, and impose insane tariffs on Europe no matter what, they have nothing to pressure Europe with.
European nations cancel F-35 orders and order Rafaele, Eurofighter, and Gripen instead and there is nothing the US can do about it now. It’s the same with healthcare. The US have nothing to pressure the EU with.
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 1 week ago:
Tim Apple the cook
- Comment on Sony blocks Stellar Blade on more than 100 countries 2 weeks ago:
I still don’t understand how blocking individual EU countries conforms to the EU single market.
- Comment on Apple executives ban Fortnight from the App store 2 weeks ago:
Stupid fucking comment.
I was merely stating in simple words what Apple’s product is and that their customers respond to exactly that. You choice of words shows that a loud fraction of their user base is a cult, though.
- Comment on Feddit.org officially announces they will ban criticism of Israel and pro-Palestinian posts and comments. 2 weeks ago:
I think the post in itself is informational, many of the comments are not.
Post stays, comments get locked.
- Comment on Apple executives ban Fortnight from the App store 2 weeks ago:
People buying Apple products want to be told by Apple what’s allowed. The walled garden is core to Apple’s product philosophy. It’s not like everybody was expecting Apple to be super open and inclusive with anything and then be taken by surprise from the Fortnite situation. Even before they deprecated open standards because their own tech is supposedly evolving faster and are better integrated.
People wanting to play Fortnite on phones can just get a reasonably specced Android phone and install EGS next to Play Store with just a few taps.
- Comment on UK ministers to block amendment requiring AI firms to declare use of copyrighted content 2 weeks ago:
I’m so hyped about machine-generated output from copyrighted data being fine. “No, your honor. I did not pirate a copyrighted film. I distributed a machine-generated re-encoding of a film that is a close approximation but not not the original copyrighted film. As you can see, you honor, the copyright information was stripped, therefore it’s fine.”
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 3 weeks ago:
Wait, so in all these years that Europeans have been making fun of dumb Americans for having a two party system, and for having no real left wing options, the UK has been basically the same?
Yes, that’s why Europeans make fun of both the UK and its former colony.
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 4 weeks ago:
de-Googled android sounds even better.
They are already degoogled for the Chinese market. What the Chinese Android variants to not have is a shared replacement for Play Services and a shared app store because everyone is doing their own thing for maps API, payment, …
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 4 weeks ago:
To what?
Read the article and find out.
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 4 weeks ago:
Harmony Os will probably end up taking over realistically just due to everything going on in the world.
For Huawei but their competitors have no interest in that. Just look at the degoogled Android phones for the domestic Chinese market: Everyone ships their own app store and replacement APIs for PlayServices (not compatible to Google’s). So app developers need to target each vendor’s flavor of Android individually. It’s insane.
The logical way would be to create a joint venture for a common app store and PlayStore replacements but they don’t. Maybe this story is about exactly that but it should tell you that Xiaomi and the others have no interest in being controlled by a 3rd party.
- Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules 5 weeks ago:
From the context it’s 100% clear that I meant the medieval practice, before modern science.
- Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules 5 weeks ago:
The whole “hygiene” and circumcision is a myth and a lie.
It’s not like there microbiology science existed thousands of years ago. It may have been a hygiene practice because people thought it was helpful. Bloodletting is BS as well and people thought it helped drain the body’s poisons.