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- Comment on Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out 1 year ago:
I think the equivalent is actually Amazon's main website sharing to other users you know your Audible purchases in the hopes it can get you to join Audible
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
The layer of disassociation is present w/ humans speaking different languages too though, right? My point is that once we can understand each other, we are all building on what already exists
- Submitted 1 year ago to technology@lemmy.world | 95 comments
- Comment on Google Chrome to soon get a new ‘IP protection’ feature: Here’s what it does 1 year ago:
True, but w/ a caveat at the bottom:
At the end of the day, you have to remember that Apple devices are essentially a sealed unit. Any claims they make about privacy cannot be proven - they could slip tracking and keyloggers into every device, and unless you build a device from scratch and program it yourself, there’s nothing you can do about it. You have to trust that they won’t do that, and Apple is in a relatively unique position (particularly compared to google and facebook) in that the business isn’t designed to profit from this, so they have no real reason to do so.
- Comment on Google Chrome to soon get a new ‘IP protection’ feature: Here’s what it does 1 year ago:
This was actually the least-biased coverage of the day:
https://www.techmeme.com/231023/p18#a231023p18 - Comment on Google Chrome to soon get a new ‘IP protection’ feature: Here’s what it does 1 year ago:
This post seemed to put things in context a bit better:
https://reddit.com/r/apple/comments/xo8ha0/_/iq5e40h/?context=1 - Comment on Google Chrome to soon get a new ‘IP protection’ feature: Here’s what it does 1 year ago:
Curious to hear more opinions. I think there are technical nuances that I don't quite understand based on reading this comment (& subsequent replies)
https://mastodon.social/@ocdtrekkie/111281971968074869 - Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
they are appropriating what already existed and saying it in another way.
Isn't this humanity in a nutshell? Standing on the shoulders of Giants, etc.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I quit my job to start the year and I'm currently doing a sabbatical year. I'm apathetic about the idea of eventually honing in on a specialty to learn when I re-enter the workforce because I'm unsure how sustainable the skills I learn will be in demand for.
The only thing I can think of is expanding my base level understanding of LLMs. My bet is that they will become the foundation with which future projects are launched in the same way that elementary school is the foundation for basic reading/writing skills.
- Submitted 1 year ago to technology@lemmy.world | 69 comments
- Comment on Harness launches Gitness, an open-source GitHub competitor 1 year ago:
Gotcha. Thanks for sharing. I ended up install forgejo yesterday but Gitea will be my next option if I encounter any issues
- Comment on BookWyrm: Fediverse for book readers 1 year ago:
I've used it for a few months. I enjoy the ability of updating my progress after each reading session.
- Comment on Anyone else moved from kbin to lemmy? 1 year ago:
Very familiar UI over there. Creating an acct now
- Comment on Firefish Mastodon alternative 1 year ago:
Fan of firefish but I will say the main, most popular instance (firefish.social) has been buggy for me for months. Often my feed/notifications won't load, or I have trouble replying to comments. Or I can't react to posts or open up fediverse posts. Real dealbreakers.
I'm going to try a different instance but otherwise I will likely move my acct to Mastodon.
- Comment on The New York Times tried to block the Internet Archive: another reason to value the latter 1 year ago:
I agree with you and was also thinking that maybe waiting X days/weeks before publishing would be the solution.
- Comment on So Far, AI Is a Money Pit That Isn't Paying Off 1 year ago:
What I don't like about the article is that the phrasing 'paying off' can apply to making investors money OR having worthwhile use cases. AI has created plenty of use cases from language learning to code correction to companionship to brainstorming, etc.
It seems ironic that a consumer-facing website is framing things from a skeptical "But is it making rich people richer?" perspective
- Comment on Microsoft to kill off VBScript in Windows to block malware delivery 1 year ago:
At my old job, we had a VBA script that would:
- Pull company data from SQL
- Load data into an Excel file
- Update charts and KPIs
- Copy/Paste chart and KPIs into PowerPoint
- Switch to the next client
- Repeat all steps
Thirty page custom reports per client within 2 minutes (when nothing broke). It allows you to interact and automate across the Microsoft Suite. That is one of the reasons why it is indispensable to many companies
- Comment on Privacy respecting language learning tool? 1 year ago:
Depending on your privacy concerns, ChatGPT might be an option. Check YouTube reviews
- Comment on Should I replace my SSD? 1 year ago:
Not a huge deal, but if the SSD goes on to last for X more years, buying an SSD today to save a bit of time will seem pretty poorly thought-out in retrospect
- Comment on A service of some sort to cluster news? 1 year ago:
Proprietary so it's a long shot but maybe start a convo w/ the creator of Boring Report as a last ditch effort perhaps.
- Comment on Will the Fediverse reach Mainstream in 2024? 1 year ago:
Yeah. I forget that we're still likely in the 'early adopter' phase of things for now, which is why a lot of the UX is hit or miss depending on the instance and iteration
- Comment on Need help understanding a back-up script 1 year ago:
Great response 👍🏾
- Comment on Will the Fediverse reach Mainstream in 2024? 1 year ago:
IIRC, the fediverse pertains to an interconnnected network of servers that are managed individually. Privacy is an option that led many current users to the fediverse but is by no means a requirement.
If/when threads joins the fediverse, it will have addictive algorithms and collect large amounts of user data.
- Comment on Readers prefer ChatGPT over Wikipedia 1 year ago:
I'm sure most of us are old enough to remember when citing directly from wikipedia was seen as stupid and in poor taste because 'anyone could edit the articles'.
Not saying that it isn't premature to fully trust in LLMs, but it's worth noting that AFAIK, basically every LLM us trained off of wikipedia articles because its free and contains the answers to lots of random human questions
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
What surprised me was the amount of Android users. I guess self-hosters are predisposed to tinkering in general perhaps?
- Comment on Google User Data Has Become a Favorite Police Shortcut 1 year ago:
Paywalled
- Comment on Windows Copilot's is showing third-party Ads to Windows users - gHacks Tech News 1 year ago:
Come on all to Linux yall, the
water'sopen-source vibes are fine - Comment on BookWyrm.world 1 year ago:
I use it. It's great for seeing your progress of reading a book over time. I update the # of pages I read for every book and the dates show me my pace.
- Comment on How has your Lemmy experience changed over the past few months? 1 year ago:
I decided to create a few threads after a few months hiatus and was surprised by the levels of engagement. I think the audience is hungry for content and that more people need to take the plunge and start threads.
With that said, going to /all instead of /subscribed is largely frustrating since the most frequent posts are just memes and inside jokes
- Comment on What should I name my Firefish instance 1 year ago:
TBH, the fish tld is kinda lame, and I say this as a firefish user. But yeah, here are my $0.02:
gefilte.fish
wearethe.world
fishkey.world