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- Comment on Mailfence email 10 hours ago:
That’s encryption in a nutshell. A message is encrypted until it reaches its destination, and then by necessity is unencrypted in order to read it. Once your recipient has the unencrypted message, you don’t have any control over what happens to it.
Fundamentally, if you don’t trust the recipient (or their system provider), no amount of encryption will protect your message.
- Comment on Final Fantasy 9 Remake Seemingly Teased by Square Enix 21 hours ago:
FFIX is my favourite FF game (yeah, fight me on it), which means this news is either very good or very bad depending on how the remake ends up.
- Comment on “It Wouldn’t Be Surprising If, in Two Years’ Time, There Was a Film Made Completely Through AI”: Says Hayao Miyazaki’s Own Son 2 days ago:
trying to tell us that in a couple years we’ll have a full-on AI film
To be fair, he never said it would be any good.
- Comment on The Signal and the noise: Why the messaging app is great for privacy but not for war plans. 2 days ago:
We need a US Community on Revolt too not just Lemmy
Never heard of it before.
What’s the elevator pitch?
- Comment on Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns 4 days ago:
There’s a direct quote from the company.
According to a statement sent to The Verge by Eddie Garcia on behalf of Nintendo, it says preorders will no longer begin on April 9th:
“Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will not start April 9, 2025 in order to assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions. Nintendo will update timing at a later date. The launch date of June 5, 2025 is unchanged.”
I’m also in Europe.
- Comment on Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns 4 days ago:
They’re definitely creatively stale, but they’re also undeniably good at what they do. They have by far the best selling console of the last generation, and are the only console company to consistently post healthy profits on their operation.
Is it a bit naff that their next generation of games will almost certainly be yet another Zelda, yet another Mario, yet another Pokémon? Absolutely. But if their next Zelda game is yet another best-selling critically acclaimed success, who are we to say that they’ve got the wrong approach?
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 5 days ago:
Depends what you’re after. I’m a Thunderbird user, but if user friendliness is the aim then Geary is quite good.
- Comment on Network Rail to set up property company to deliver 40,000 homes 1 week ago:
Both Network Rail and LCR have already been working in this space for a long time; this is more about increasing the scale than about doing something new.
Reading is an interesting example; all those big towers and blocks that have sprung up around the station in the last decade? The vast majority are on what was previously railway land.
- Comment on Google will develop the Android OS fully in private; Will continue open source releases. 1 week ago:
There’s also just no real incentive for them to do it. The number of devices running fully de-googled Android forks are miniscule in the grand scheme of things. Everyone running devices with non-standard Android but which still uses Google Play Services and the rest are just as valuable to Google as the ones running stock. And it suits Google to have the small ultra-privacy hobbyist market still running Android forks, even de-googled ones, rather than moving on to something else entirely.
- Comment on Google will develop the Android OS fully in private; Will continue open source releases. 1 week ago:
For as long as it’s still under the Apache licence, they’re still obligated to release the source under the terms of that licence. They’d need to change the licence to stop providing code; which as you say, they could do, but that would also kill AOSP entirely overnight so is a bit of a bigger problem than the one described in the OP.
- Comment on Google will develop the Android OS fully in private; Will continue open source releases. 1 week ago:
Is it possible? Sure.
Even then, not really. Not legally, anyway. Open source licences require that the user be provided with the source code (if requested) alongside the binaries. If they roll out an update to Android (to code which is under an open source licence), they have to release the code at essentially the same time. Rolling out an update and then withholding the source code for an unnecessarily long time would be against the terms of the licence.
- Comment on How Tesla blew its lead. 2 weeks ago:
Yep. Feel like I see more Ioniqs than anything else, although things are gradually diversifying.
- Comment on How Tesla blew its lead. 2 weeks ago:
BYD is eating everyone’s lunch at the bottom not just Tesla.
It’s not just BYD. SAIC (whose main international brand is MG) isn’t far behind, Chery (whose main brands are Omoda and Jaecoo) are starting to get about too, and there are myriad smaller Chinese marques.
Chinese cars in general are really hitting the market hard.
- Comment on Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. 3 weeks ago:
Ironic coincidence of the name aside, it appears to be a legit bricks and mortar university in a town called Elon, North Carolina.
- Comment on The Volkswagen ID. EVERY1 is an affordable EV for the masses 4 weeks ago:
VW says the production version of the ID. EVERY1 will be the company’s first vehicle to feature a new “powerful” software architecture that promises over-the-air updates. (Software has proven to be a bit of a pain for VW, with bugs and infrequent updates plaguing its ID family of vehicles for years.)
- Comment on FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’. 4 weeks ago:
Yes, it is!
- Comment on FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’. 4 weeks ago:
there’s also GNSS which is mostly used in Europe and Scandinavia
GNSS is the generic term that covers all satellite navigation systems (GPS included).
Galileo is the EU/ESA system you’re thinking of.
GLONASS (Russian) and BeiDou (Chinese) are the other two major constellations with global coverage. The only other full system I know of is NavIC, which is Indian and has only regional coverage.
Most devices actually connect to all of them. I’ve just checked my phone, and it’s connected to all of GPS, Galileo, GLONASS and BeiDou. People just say “GPS” because it’s catchier than “GNSS”.
- Comment on The Volkswagen ID. EVERY1 is an affordable EV for the masses 4 weeks ago:
They’re not going to create entirely new ones just for this vehicle.
If you read the article (I know, controversial) you’re see that that’s exactly what they’re suggesting they’re doing, yes.
Personally I wouldn’t hold my breath that it’ll be better, but it is going to be completely different to their current software stack.
- Comment on The Volkswagen ID. EVERY1 is an affordable EV for the masses 4 weeks ago:
Concept cars are, by definition, not actually finished. Nobody will be able to buy the car that was being shown at the car show. The car that will be on sale in 2-3 years will be a thematically similar but fundamentally different creature.
Things like the onboard computer software/hardware/data sharing model won’t be defined yet. VW’s first party servicing costs or the price of replacement brake pads are not defined yet. It’ll be a job for a future car journalist to report on all those things once it’s actually defined.
- Comment on The Volkswagen ID. EVERY1 is an affordable EV for the masses 4 weeks ago:
It’s a concept car; none of those things are actually known or knowable yet.
- Comment on "Reach" news websites 1 month ago:
They don’t use Reach; they are Reach. That’s the name of the company that owns them all (plus The Mirror, The Express and The Star). That’s why they all have the same website.
Most of the ones that aren’t Reach are Newsquest. Their website is also pretty terrible, but at least it doesn’t do that annoying swipe/scroll thing that Reach does.
- Comment on Amazon and Audible flooded with 'forex trading' and warez listings 4 months ago:
The thing to remember about investing (forex or otherwise) is that it’s an enormous global industry. One of the largest and richest there is. If you’re a normal person, with a normal day job, tinkering around in the evening trying to pick stocks or write algorithms, just remember that there are countless thousands of professional, experienced, trained analysts all over the world doing the exact same thing 40 hours a week, week in week out.
There are no easy bucks to be made. If it was easy, it’d already be done.
- Comment on X adds Twitch to its advertising boycott lawsuit 4 months ago:
It seems insane to me that the US system lets you literally specify the exact judge (that you’ve already bought and paid for) as the only judge that can hear cases against you. And that the system is basically OK with this.
- Comment on Apple's controversial iPhone accessory may have been discontinued 4 months ago:
Speculation in the sense that the article says it’s "suggested’, and the source cited is “Mac Rumours”.
Not sure why you’re being so weird about it.
- Comment on Apple's controversial iPhone accessory may have been discontinued 4 months ago:
Apple made the transition a little easier for those who weren’t ready to give up on their wired headphones by including a $9 adapter. However, it looks like it could now be confined to the annals of history, as the Lightning to 3.5mm jack adapter has sold out in the US and other countries, suggesting Apple may have quietly discontinued it
It says “sold out” and "discontinued. The latter is currently just speculation.
- Comment on Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts 4 months ago:
I don’t know why I forgot this, but there is of course already a solution for this; mbin/kbin, which has both Lemmy-like and Mastodon-like interfaces on one platform.
Not that I’m actually suggesting anything you understand. Just recalling that this is a thought process someone’s already had at least once!
- Comment on "What Is Your Dream for Mozilla" - Mozilla is doing a survey, questions include "What is most important to you right now about technology and the internet?" 4 months ago:
All of the uses so far are bad, and I can’t see any that would work as well as a trained human.
I’m no AI enthusiast, but this is clear hyperbole. Of course there are uses for it; it’s not magic, it’s just technology. You’ll have been using some of them for years before the AI fad came along and started labelling everything.
Translation services are a good example. Google Translate and Bing Translate have both been using machine learning neural networks as their core technology for a decade and more. There’s no other way of doing it that produces anything close to as good a result. And yes, paying a human translator might get you good results too, but realistically that’s not a competitive option for the vast majority of uses (nobody is paying a translator to read restaurant menus or train station signage to them).
This whole AI assistant fad can do one as far as I’m concerned, but the technologies behind the fad are here to stay.
- Comment on Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts 4 months ago:
You can use Mastodon to interact with Lemmy content and vice versa, but generally speaking the user experience isn’t good. Lots of manually typing URLs and trying to figure out what you’re looking at when you get there.
In theory you could host a Lemmy and Mastodon server under the same domain (using subdomains, e.g. lemmy.feddit.uk and mastodon.feddit.uk), but they’d be different servers in most ways that matter. I presume they would maintain separate user account databases (without some concerted hacking).
- Comment on Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts 4 months ago:
We don’t have a Mastodon server, do we?
I joined Mastodon years ago, but the server I joined was always a bit moribund and I sort of lost interest. Wouldn’t be against someone doing a Fedwitter.uk…
(It should not be called Fedwitter.uk under any circumstances)
- Comment on Former Intel CPU engineer details how internal x86-64 efforts were suppressed prior to AMD64's success 5 months ago:
Intel as a company isn’t going anywhere any time soon; they’re just too big, with too many resources, not to do at least OK.
They have serious challenges in their approach and performance to engineering, but short of merging with someone else they’ll find their niche. For as long as x86-derived architectures remain current (i.e. if AMD is still chugging along with them) they’ll continue to put out their own chips, and occasionally they’ll manage to get an edge.
The real question would be what happens if x86 finally ceases to be viable. In theory there’s nothing stopping Intel (or AMD) pivoting to ARM or RISC-V (or fucking POWER for that matter) if that’s where the market goes. Losing the patent/licensing edge would sting, though.