kevincox

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They want to make money off of services, every service they offer requires a Microsoft account to purchase and use. Everyone that they force to make an account during setup is one step closer to paying for a Microsoft service.

  There are obviously tradeoffs (less sales of these versions of windows and some users pushed away from Windows altogether among others), but the motivation is clear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple TV+ is losing $1B+ annually even as its subscriptions grew to ~45M in 2024; Apple has spent $5B+ per year on content since its 2019 debut.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just looking at the numbers, they are spending $5G and losing $1G. Their subscriptions are growing. So if they grow another 25% they are making money. (Ignoring infrastructure costs which are most likely a tiny fraction of per-user revenue.) They also just launched an Android app. So I think their story is looking pretty good. Not even considering that it raises the value of Apple TV hardware, their other devices and gives them more lock-in for customers in general that seems like a great investment they made.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is everyone's favoured domain name provider these days?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what I moved to after Gandi started becoming shit and I have nothing bad to say about them yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's weird that a room with just a toilet and sink is called a "half bath", when it in fact has zero bathtubs.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically if it doesn’t have a bathtub or shower it is called a powder room. But that phrase is rarely used. (Mostly because 90% of the time when we say bathroom we mean toilet.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I still consider myself a “young woman” after I turn 24? I turn 24 in March (next month).⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can consider yourself whatever you want for however long you want.

  If you feel young and people thing you are weird for saying so that is their problem. Young is a feeling not a number.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which reverse proxy do you use/recommend?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been using nginx forever. It works, I can do almost everything I want, even if more complex things sometimes require some contortions. I’m not sure I would pick it again if starting from scratch, but I have no problems that are worth switching for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can I actually do with 64 GB or RAM?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IIUC it isn’t censored per se. Not like the web service that will retract a “bad” response. But the training data is heavily biased. And there may be some explicit training towards refusing answers to those questions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My favourite colour is Chuck Norris red - HTMHell⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why fail when you can just do the wrong thing “successfully”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Building a Safer Matrix" - an update from The Matrix.org Foundation about "Trust & Safety", content moderation, and their evolving anti-abuse efforts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is mostly about giving users tools to do moderation. So managers of communities can effectively apply policies and make it easy for people to share moderation decisions so that the work can be shared among communities that trust each other’s moderation decisions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m very exited for this. Just boosting a post always seems so impersonal and out of context. I almost always want to add my own message to my followers. I regularly decide not to boost because of this. I would do it a lot more if I can add my own message/context.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prioritizing de-clouding efforts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  #1 items should be backups. (Well maybe #2 so that you have something to back up, but don’t delete the source data until the backups are running.)

  You need offsite backups, and ideally multiple locations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chicago Transit Authority deactivates X social media accounts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, that is why I said “Sounds great”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chicago Transit Authority deactivates X social media accounts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds great. I think it is super valuable to have an RSS feed so that people can subscribe in all sorts of ways. Having ActivityPub is also nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I paid for GPM for quite a while. I then started working at Google and beta tested YouTube Music from very early on and gave lots of feedback about how it sucked. When they shut down GPM I cancelled my YouTube Premium membership and installed an ad blocker. Not just YTM but so many things about YouTube were getting worse and worse and I couldn’t find it in myself to keep paying for a service that kept removing features.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but in my experience it is pretty trash. Unlike Google Play Music which matched the music to known tracks and shuffled it in with recommended playlists and other features on YouTube Music the uploaded songs are basically completely isolated. At that point why use a streaming service?