ScreaminOctopus
@ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Justice Department considering push for historic break up of Google after landmark antitrust ruling: report 3 months ago:
I think they might be using it as a beta testing ground for their back end features, the brand is also pretty valuable in and of itself. The traffic avoidance is much more aggressive than Google maps
- Comment on Justice Department considering push for historic break up of Google after landmark antitrust ruling: report 3 months ago:
There’s no reason Gmail should be included in search of it’s broken up. Otherwise agree though.
- Comment on Justice Department considering push for historic break up of Google after landmark antitrust ruling: report 3 months ago:
Buyouts shouldn’t be allowed by default. The only cases where it should be allowed are when the business being bought out is struggling to the point where a buyout is really the only way to prevent bankruptcy. It should never be a good deal for the selling company and only a last resort to stop closing doors completely.
- Comment on Justice Department considering push for historic break up of Google after landmark antitrust ruling: report 3 months ago:
If they forced them to split Waze off and make it independent again it probably could, it’s probably the only non default app I see people use regularly
- Comment on The new Chinese owner of the popular Polyfill JS project injects malware into more than 100 thousand sites 4 months ago:
Finding new ways webshits fuck up the most basic development principles boggles my mind. It’s like they intentionally stay ignorant.
- Comment on Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change 6 months ago:
Another account with exclusively Kagi shilling comments? Add this one to the pile.
- Comment on The Immich core team goes full-time | Immich 6 months ago:
Isn’t a huge part of the point of copy left licences that an author can’t change the license without rewriting the code entirely?
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 6 months ago:
CCS is already required in Europe, problem is there aren’t nearly as many CCS chargers in the US especially compared to Tesla’s network
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 6 months ago:
So pisses at YouTube (Google) you’re switching to Android (…)? Was this their master plan all along?
- Comment on Why is replacement for home device controls so complicated? 6 months ago:
A dedicated server is needed because something needs to keep a catalog of the smart devices available on your network and ideally be accessible to many people in one household. You could make a system that went phone -> device but you would need to set up each device on each phone you wanted to use, which isn’t a great user experience. You could also run into issues where devices would need to handle multiple conflicting commands from different users coming in at once. Since smart devices are usually trying to use as little power as possible, that extra complexity would hurt you in that department. The third reason is that having a separate server enables automated workflows that would depend on an always online server that orchestrates multiple devices. For example, let’s say you have some automatic insulating blinds, a smart thermostat. You want to raise and lower the blinds to maximize your energy efficiency. Since you have the dedicated server, that server can check the temperature set point of your thermostat, current weather, and sunrise\sunset times. If it’s sunny out, and your set point is higher than the outdoor temperature, the server can raise the blinds to let warm sunlight in, and vice versa. If only your phone could control the devices a workflow like this couldn’t work when you were out of the house.
- Comment on Read You (RSS client) 0.9.12 released with support for FreshRSS & gReader API 9 months ago:
If you want to share a set of feeds between devices, and sync read/unread, organization, etc.
- Comment on More Police Are Using Your Cameras for Video Evidence 10 months ago:
Thanks for the heads up, fixed the link.
- Comment on More Police Are Using Your Cameras for Video Evidence 10 months ago:
There are open source solutions for robot vaccums provided you get a compatible robot
Unfortunately it’s not something the average person’s going to undertake.
- Comment on Is this Seagate Exos drive too good to be true? 10 months ago:
I got a set off ebay, Jesus christ they’re loud. I ended up returning them cause I could hear the grinding through my whole house
- Comment on Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024 11 months ago:
Pretty sure it is, I ended up trying the free trial because of all the yapping. Don’t bother. 99% of the results are the same as ddg.
- Comment on Chrome not proceeding with Web Integrity API deemed by many to be DRM 1 year ago:
I tried kagi and wasn’t impressed. For all but one or two queries the results were exactly the same as ddg. Not to mention they had that stupid metric stating 78%+ unique kagi results for every search, even though that was blatantly untrue. They seem pretty dishonest as a company.
- Comment on $6.2B in profit wasn't enough: Nvidia hikes GeForce Now prices for Canada and Europe 1 year ago:
This only really works if they start making games exclusive to gamespass
- Comment on $6.2B in profit wasn't enough: Nvidia hikes GeForce Now prices for Canada and Europe 1 year ago:
That would have changed within the last 6 months then, we had it then and as far as I know it was just a remote pc
- Comment on ‘Overhyped’ generative AI will get a ‘cold shower’ in 2024, analysts predict 1 year ago:
I’ve been speculating that people raving about these things are just bad at their jobs for a bit, I’ve never been able to get anything useful out of an llm.
- Comment on ‘Overhyped’ generative AI will get a ‘cold shower’ in 2024, analysts predict 1 year ago:
Unfortunately that hasn’t been my experience, but I’m only using it to find answers for things a couple ddg queries won’t solve because traditional search engines are so much faster
- Comment on IBM CEO in damage control mode after AI job loss comments 1 year ago:
The only thing chatgpt does well is pump out corporate fluff, I’d say we’re already there.
- Comment on Epic Games Cutting 870 Jobs, 16 Percent Of Its Workforce, also selling Bandcamp 1 year ago:
Now it’ll go to some private equity vampire who will really ruin it
- Comment on Unity apologises for "confusion and angst" over fee changes 1 year ago:
They can’t, even suggesting they’d think of making such a move would’ve ruined them. No one in their right mind would do business with a company that’s willing to even entertain retroactive changes to payment structure. Just an insane risk to take.
- Comment on Self hosted Google Keep alternative 1 year ago:
I’ve been using Logseq and syncing via syncthing, but you can sync with any file syncing service