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- Comment on From its start, Gmail conditioned us to trade privacy for free services 7 months ago:
And the company came under fire again in 2018 after The Wall Street Journal revealed it was allowing third-party developers to trawl users’ Gmail inboxes, to which Google responded by reminding users it was within their power to grant and revoke those permissions.
So you can remove those permissions, just that it’s enabled by default. Shitty design, but it’s not mandatory to enable those, just like how you are not forced to use edge when you get a Windows computer.
- Comment on Hey, I'm new to GitHub! 8 months ago:
Closed as resolved
- Comment on Hey, I'm new to GitHub! 8 months ago:
Why is this executable web UI distributed as a python script?
- Comment on Services to host on a retired laptop? 8 months ago:
Use syncthing to sync and monitor your backups.
- Comment on Services to host on a retired laptop? 8 months ago:
Syncthing backup server for your important files.
- Comment on Current Best Remote Access Method? 9 months ago:
Cloudflare, namecheap, GoDaddy, domain.com, they all offer dns I think. Some of them are supported by Dyndns; you can find a list of supported providers.
- Comment on AMD’s new CPU hits 132fps in Fortnite without a graphics card 9 months ago:
This is exactly why I said it may make sense for laptops, where mobile chips like rx6600 mobile will still be better performance wise, but you don’t have to worry about thermal throttling with igpus. This is nice for graphics intensive tasks on the go, but with the right laptop design I think a dedicated mobile GPU will still be the better option as a mobile workstation.
If the 15in laptop is too big, there’s many 14in laptops with mobile GPUs better than iGPUs; again, at the cost of increased thermal throttling. So if your goal is to play a game on battery with the laptop on your lap, and you want to optimize for price and size, then an APU will make sense.
- Comment on AMD’s new CPU hits 132fps in Fortnite without a graphics card 9 months ago:
Do you plan to replace your 1070 or use it alongside it?
- Comment on AMD’s new CPU hits 132fps in Fortnite without a graphics card 9 months ago:
It’s about the same performance as a 1050ti, which is a 2016 gpu. It’s still very much behind entry level discrete gpus like Rx 6600.
Might make sense for a laptop or mini pc, but dont really see the point for desktop considering the price.
- Comment on Elizabeth Holmes barred from federal health programs for 90 years 9 months ago:
There are exceptions to this, like Yale, Renaissance, Berkshire, and maybe Citadel. But most, even well-known funds, are run by incompetent people demanding extremely high fees, rendering any advantage they have over index funds essentially null (often even underperforming the market).
- Comment on Report: Bing Gained Less Than 1% Market Share Since Adding Bing Chat 9 months ago:
What’s the advantage of using Bing chat over chatgpt? The premium version allows search, and you don’t need to download a different browser to use it.
- Comment on The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same 9 months ago:
More people are also not able to afford eating out as often anymore, as rent and costs increase but salaries stagnate.
- Comment on Microsoft launches a Pro plan for Copilot 9 months ago:
Interesting. I’ve used the office cloud and found it less pleasant than the desktop version. I guess for certain use cases (multiple people working on the same doc) it’s better.
- Comment on Microsoft launches a Pro plan for Copilot 9 months ago:
Do you use the cloud version?
- Comment on Microsoft launches a Pro plan for Copilot 9 months ago:
I forgot people are paying for msft 365. 10$ per month is kinda crazy for software I use maybe occasionally (considering most of the functionality is already available with Google Docs, and OpenOffice gets the job done for offline usage).
- Comment on Korea unveils plan to build $471 bil. mega chip cluster in Gyeonggi Province 9 months ago:
Promising 3M high paying jobs outside of Seoul; sounds like a good way to increase political popularity, whether it succeeds (thanks to the government) or fails (because of the companies not willing to cooperate, at least the government did their best).
Probably a much needed distraction after the Itaewon crush caused by the poor police response and after they bullied an internationally famous actor into suicide.
- Comment on Meta admits using pirated books to train AI, but won't pay for it 9 months ago:
Can’t wait for any $$ fined to be evenly split between the editors, publishers and their lawyers.
- Comment on Hacker spins up 1 million virtual servers to illegally mine crypto 9 months ago:
By using the computing resources of others’ servers to mine cryptocurrency, the cybercriminals can profit at the expense of the compromised organizations, whose CPU and GPU performance is degraded by the mining.
Oh boy, where do I start…
- Comment on Instagram cuts 60 jobs, eliminating a layer of management at the company 9 months ago:
Is TPM a manager role? Aren’t they more working on projects/product on the non engineering side?
- Comment on World’s first AI-powered restaurant opens in Southern California 10 months ago:
What microwave do you have? I would love if my microwave cooks custom order.
- Comment on ...So I Finally Quit Spotify 10 months ago:
I spent >100$ on concert tickets to listen to artists I found on Spotify. Probably would not have spent this money nor discovered those artists by listening to 50 songs downloaded 10 years ago from Limewire.
- Comment on 40% of US electricity is now emissions-free 10 months ago:
Hydro is also quite independent but it’s heavily dependent on geography. That’s how Canada is able to be much ahead in renewable energy.
- Comment on Hyperloop One is reportedly shutting down 10 months ago:
DP World will wind up with Hyperloop One’s intellectual property, Bloomberg reports, while the rest of its hard assets — including a test track outside Las Vegas and other machinery — will be sold off.
Wonder how much of the value (if any) was in the IP, which will be solely owned by a company mainly focused on maritime trade.
- Comment on Dropbox spooks users by sending data to OpenAI for AI search features (Enabled by default) 11 months ago:
Enabled by default but can’t be disabled…
- Comment on Google Reveals Gemini, rival to GPT-4 11 months ago:
Gemini nano will run on Pixel 8 pro but performance will be worse than Gemini pro/ultra.
- Comment on Court: Cloudflare is Liable for Pirate Site, But Not as a DNS Provider 11 months ago:
Does the verdict mention anything about the DNS service itself (buying a website through cloudflare and setting up records)? Or is it just concerning the public DNS resolver (1.1.1.1?)
- Comment on AWS turns Amazon's Fire TV Cube into a thin client 11 months ago:
Android is Linux-based but it has a modified kernel. It might be subtle but the entire design philosophy of Android is mobile first, which is very different of Ubuntu or Arch.
But there the similarities end. AWS created custom firmware and ripped out anything remotely related to running a consumer device, replacing it with software designed solely to create a secure connection between the device and desktops running in the Amazonian cloud.
If they are going to rewrite the firmware, remove most of the features, why even bother with an OS designed for touch screens and partially written in Java? Can’t they fork one of the 22 ARM Linux distributions?
- Comment on AWS turns Amazon's Fire TV Cube into a thin client 11 months ago:
I’m curious why it runs android instead of Linux.
- Comment on Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive 11 months ago:
SMS is dead, so they will need to move on eventually. Most carriers are moving towards high data plans now. I mainly use it for verification, although I’d rather use more secure methods.
- Comment on Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive 11 months ago:
The article says it’s to limit spam. I don’t feel platforms like Lemmy (or the other platform) are particularly spammy though. On the other hand I get a lot more spam on Whatsapp, even though it’s phone number bound.
Signal is pretty good in terms of limited spam, but I’m curious about the impact if they A/B test the removal and see how much spam would arise. Obviously that could only be implemented after they remove the need to add contact via phone number.