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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it hasn’t been needed. Alternatives like vivaldi and brave do make some changes to allow you to disable Google services. Ungoogled chromium is also a thing.

  For all the hate, Google has mostly done fine beyond a few boneheaded decisions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re already dying. This would be throwing themselves in the grave. People aren’t used to paying for browsers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wife recommended I get a Substack⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Substack started as a newsletter site, so there’s still no way to sub to anyone without being emailed everything they post

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta approves bonuses of up to 200% of company executives' salaries as it trims stock awards for employees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Open source still doesn’t have a good funding model.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I was talking about laptops and printers and stuff. Don’t know much about servers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s my understanding their enterprise products are still good. It’s the consumer products which suck

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What keyboard do you use? They are not all the same

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  like anti-competitive laws? We have those. They tend to rely on certain people enforcing them though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You Can Post Your Way Out of Fascism if You Own the Means of Posting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, moderating and creating places like the fediverse are good and useful. But 99% of the time people spend on the fediverse isn’t doing that

  I feel like this article misses the essence of the original. It’s a strawman. Yes, being on the fediverse is better than being on twitter/facebook whatever corpo media. But it is equally susceptible to just endless scrolling without any action

  Many Twitter refugees made a good choice in migrating from Musk’s X to Bluesky, carving out a new online space that is inhospitable to bigoted debate bros and time-wasting trolls. But in their enemies’ absence, many of these Left-leaning posters have just reverted to dunking on each other, preferring the catharsis of sectarian conflict over the hard work of organizing.

  Yeah I’ve tried bluesky, this is entirely accurate. 90% of US political content on bluesky is basically a combination of r/whitepeopletwitter and r/clevercomebacks. Same people too, that reddit loves

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You Can Post Your Way Out of Fascism if You Own the Means of Posting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  people seem to find the idea of organizing on lemmy absurd

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most businesses also use outlook or gmail

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be the change you want to see in Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a very different style. I couldn’t slog through it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brand new guides for Lemmy and the Fediverse. Looking for feedback!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this the first page people see? If so you should probably have a blurb before the background

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except everyone just uses gmail now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The web ui has this option now. Although you can’t collapse threads so it’s still pretty hard to navigate

  If anything the success or the Twitter ui shows you don’t always need a good UX to succeed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tumblr to join the fediverse after WordPress migration completes | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are you comparing them as if they’re equivalent?? Wordpress is being used as a backend for tumblr

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s more to it than that. Big phones are more marketable and have better profit margins. It’s not all consumer preference. Kinda similar to cars actually

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Zenfone was heavily promoted as a “small” phone but its larger than the base galaxy, despite having a smaller display

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows phone had a lot of potential

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean like this? www.samsung.com/us/smartphones/galaxy-z-flip6/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not an “even”. Cheaper phones have been larger as the default for a while now, because they’re often the primary, if not the only device their owners have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism | Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even violent fantasies about putting billionaires to the guillotine are rendered inept in these online spaces—just another pressure release valve to harmlessly dissipate our rage instead of compelling ourselves to organize and act.

  ahem lemmy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patch this Bish!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In that case, let’s all marry our cousins and brothers!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well that would make you in the 10% of people actually using their truck

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study of 8k Posts Suggests 40+% of Facebook Posts are AI-Generated⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no idea whether the probabilities are balanced. They claim 5% was AI even before chatgpt was released, which seems pretty off. No one was using LLMs before chatgpt went viral except for researchers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study of 8k Posts Suggests 40+% of Facebook Posts are AI-Generated⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep in mind this is for AI generated TEXT, not the images everyone is talking about in this thread.

  Also they used an automated tool, all of which have very high error rates, because detecting AI text is a fundamentally impossible task

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill proposed to outlaw downloading Chinese AI models.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ok lol. People will just release like Qwen2 2.5 7B 'murican edition that changes literally nothing.

  In fact, come to think of it, all the models I’ve downloaded are quants made by non-chinese people, even if the original is chinese.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Threads is offically getting ads⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t remember tbh, it might have been a combination of the words morrow + wind. I might’ve just seen the name somewhere and thought it was cool. But I’ve def never played the game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Threads is offically getting ads⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, unfortunately I had no idea it was a game when I made this name, but it’s on my backlist now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Threads is offically getting ads⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They forced it down every instagram user’s throats.

  Supposed users is like 250 mil. Willing participants, who knows.