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- Comment on Apple Removes Ability to Run Unsigned Apps in macOS 15.1 4 days ago:
Apple’s processors may be impressive these days, but that doesn’t make up for the fact that their computers are getting ever less useful.
- Scientists Reveal Rare 450-Million-Year-Old Arthropod Fossil Preserved in Glittering Fool’s Goldwww.smithsonianmag.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to science@mander.xyz | 4 comments
- Comment on I wish I could have a tractor car. 2 weeks ago:
The temperature is also tens of thousands of degrees and the atmospheric pressure is 2000 times that on Earth. He’s doing well, considering.
- Comment on I wish I could have a tractor car. 2 weeks ago:
Spookily accurate. I like the way he’s just chillin’ in his office clothes (and long boots?) under the crushingly intense gravity.
- Comment on Dropbox is laying off 20% of its staff 3 weeks ago:
Dropbox is better value and faster, in my experience, than these others. And when it backs up photos, it doesn’t hold them hostage on its servers so you have to keep paying or you lose access to them, unlike Google at least. I still think it’s the best of the bunch. It will be a shame to see it go to shit.
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 3 weeks ago:
The car was pushing the fast asleep (at the wheel) agenda.
- Comment on Bing Testing Hiding Ads Labels After Domain. 3 weeks ago:
I had to read the article just to be able to parse the headline.
- Comment on Microsoft just paused Windows 11 24H2 update for many PCs due to crashes and freezes 3 weeks ago:
the development/testing is done on Windows under VMs rather than a sample of real world hardware
There’s a recent update that keeps killing my Windows VMs. They’ll run for a while then one day they install the update and won’t boot again. It really feels like MS have lost control of Windows testing these days.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 3 weeks ago:
Fascism can only function with the help of profiteering corporations.
- Comment on Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn 3 weeks ago:
I think the point is that some capitalists, both in business and in politics, encourage us to put our faith in future carbon capture so they can keep profiting off their polluting activities for now without having to invest in carbon emissions reduction. This is unrealistic and just an excuse not to tackle the difficult task of reducing emissions. We can’t afford to let the problem become that much worse before we attempt to mitigate it by sucking carbon out of the atmosphere, if there’s ever a technology that can do that effectively (which right now doesn’t look likely). We need to focus most of our efforts on reducing emissions.
- Comment on Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn 3 weeks ago:
It’s probably not very funny to all the people in the Netherlands who are not right-wing idiots.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 3 weeks ago:
Microsoft profits off genocide and intends to keep doing so.
- Comment on Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn 3 weeks ago:
And to those who say “well, the Earth will bounce back”: we’re much closer to the end of Earth’s ability to support life than to the beginning. Earth doesn’t have endless time to evolve new kinds of creatures. We could be doing damage from which Earth never recovers.
- Comment on Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn 3 weeks ago:
One difficulty with that is that the way we organize economies currently depends on having a working-age population that is large enough to support the non-working population. When you have far fewer workers than retired people you start having problems. I don’t know what the answer to that is, but it’s another instance of how any plan to seriously address climate change tends to require deep changes to how we run society.
- Comment on Google is working on an AI agent that takes over your browser 3 weeks ago:
The AI is supposed to automate everyday, web-based tasks by taking screenshots, interpreting the information, then clicking buttons or entering text.
Like Microsoft’s Recall. What a funny coincidence that all these new AI tools need to keep taking screenshots of what you’re doing on your PC. Thank goodness Google and Microsoft have proven themselves to be utterly trustworthy.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 131 comments
- Comment on A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source 3 weeks ago:
You can’t really get addicted to fedi
Hmm… anxiously eyeing my Lemmy post history…
- Comment on Guess who’s suing the FTC to stop ‘click to cancel’ | Companies fight back to make subscription services easy to cancel 3 weeks ago:
Companies fight back to make subscription services easy to cancel
Maybe I’m misreading, but that seems backwards in the title. Companies are fighting to make subscriptions harder to cancel.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to history@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers 3 weeks ago:
If I were buying an e-reader these days I’d look at something like the Boox devices that run Android. You could install the Kindle and Kobo apps and a good third-party reader app (I like ReadEra), and have pretty convenient access to ebooks from any source. They are overpriced though.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 90 comments
- Comment on Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces 4 weeks ago:
I was on a Boeing plane the other day that was delayed while I watched a guy with a wrench trying to stop fuel leaking out of the wing.
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 4 weeks ago:
The author asks many questions, but never the most important one: “Why don’t people like Windows 11?”
- Comment on Clevo reseller wants get coreboot ported, ends up throwing a temper tantrum and banning Germany, Texas and AMD over unsatisfactory experience 4 weeks ago:
They complain about unprofessional communications then fill this article with whining like this:
Weeks elapsed with little to no activity, because they were super busy pretending to be doing something else out in the abyss of phantom world.
And they never seem to consider that maybe their own code wasn’t as great as they thought. If they can’t “just debug” it themselves, maybe there’s a difficult problem with it?
- Comment on Google is purging ad-blocking extension uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store 5 weeks ago:
Soon, users will have to choose between accepting Chrome’s inferior ad-blocking technology or switching to a different browser.
Doesn’t seem like a terribly difficult choice. Firefox it is.
- In the Netherlands, we’re closing our emptying prisons. What can other countries learn from how we did it? | Renate van der Zeewww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 3 comments
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 3 comments
- Comment on More ads are coming to Amazon Prime Video 1 month ago:
It’s already an intolerable number of ads in some shows. And if you pause and go back a few seconds they show you all the unskippable ads again.
- Comment on Apple quietly deletes nearly a hundred VPNs that allowed Russians to get around censorship 1 month ago:
I thought about that, but it would affect iPhone users from outside Russia who are traveling in Russia, and Apple probably wouldn’t want that.
- Comment on Apple quietly deletes nearly a hundred VPNs that allowed Russians to get around censorship 1 month ago:
I misunderstood and my comment wasn’t well considered. It was even dumb.