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- Comment on Inadmissible 1 month ago:
I cannot even explain my colleague on my left’s work to the colleague on my right. I won’t blame the dad here.
- Comment on Mozilla exits the fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
I don’t think google will allow them to move to chromium. They need gecko to avoid anti-trust law suites.
- Comment on Mozilla exits the fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
Yeah, I believe the official instance of EU and ACM are both quite small. It is a great way to verify people’s identity just from their ID.
- Comment on iPhone 16 is here, but I’m hyped for just one reason: RCS on iOS 18 2 months ago:
I cannot find anything related to “the promised 10 years of lightening”. Do you min providing a source?
- Comment on iPhone 16 is here, but I’m hyped for just one reason: RCS on iOS 18 2 months ago:
That didn’t pass as far as I am aware.
- Comment on iPhone 16 is here, but I’m hyped for just one reason: RCS on iOS 18 2 months ago:
I was talking about usb-c, and I don’t care about RCS, but it is still better in everyway than SMS.
- Comment on iPhone 16 is here, but I’m hyped for just one reason: RCS on iOS 18 2 months ago:
Forced by EU! Thanks again, EU.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
so you are the degenerate that follow world news on lemmynsfw. I was wondering why are there so many non-porn stuff on the all feeds of my porn account.
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 2 months ago:
I think he mentioned it is priacy, but I don’t recall he said it is theft or piracy is inheritly unethical.
He mentioned many time that he pirates stuff, except he would pay for them first.
- Comment on FTC urged to make smart devices say how long they will be supported 2 months ago:
There are several competing protocol: zigbee, zwave, and the newest is matter. They just require a hub to be controlled.
I use all zigbee smart switches, and a conbee II usb stick. I have a old laptop running ha os, and it has a one click addon for conbee II. I think amazon echo also have builtin zigbee controller.
- Comment on FTC urged to make smart devices say how long they will be supported 2 months ago:
A more important thing is update schedule, like oneplus used to state that they support their device for 3 years, but they only have one year of reasonably frequent update, after that it is like yearly update.
- Comment on Tesla Steers Onto Train Tracks It Apparently Mistook for a Road, Police Warn 4 months ago:
It have existed for decades, and they are very safe.
They are trains 🚊 / trams 🚋
- Comment on Accessibility 5 months ago:
At this point, I just stopped citing any article paywalled by elsevier, and only their arxiv counterpart.
If anyone ask, I will argue that I cannot obtain the version published by elseviw, and citing that version will be disingenuous.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 6 months ago:
I think capitalism has already prevailed before America is the dominant force in it.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 6 months ago:
I think spotify is swedish. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 6 months ago:
bandcamp is nice. They give much more to artist, and allow you to download flac.
- Comment on PSA: Don't eat cicadas if you're allergic to shellfish... or at all 6 months ago:
What if I am allergic to cicadas?
- Comment on Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain 6 months ago:
Plus there isn’t many jurisdiction with stronger privacy law than swiss. It is unlike they made a bad choice for choosing a headquarters.
I guess they can operate on the public sea or the arctic, but I imagine the commute will be terrible.
- Comment on Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain 6 months ago:
If the recipient doesn’t have the public key, they can’t read the content.
Sir, if your recipient don’t have a public key, you cannot encrypt the message… That is how asymmetric-key crypto works.
- Comment on I mean have they seen our stipends 6 months ago:
Unfortunately this is still the case in all the university I know, especially in fine arts and humanity, many of the positions are even unfunded.
Many students need to rent out the living room or live in a single bedroom in a house, with shared kitchen and bathroom.
I think many students literally cannot afford a studio or 1B with their salary, because the rent is higher than their salary.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Must be nice, in China we only have the poorly formatted, lack of citation Baidu Baike baike.baidu.com.
The “sorting algorithm” article: baike.baidu.com/item/排序算法/5399605 only have 3 citations, none of which are the original papers.
- Comment on The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down 6 months ago:
Okay, I mentioned desktop because you mentioned “personal computer industry” which I assumed means desktop/laptops.
I think there are indeed more private (some can even be more secure) alternative to iOS, like calyx and/or graphene.
But like you said, they do require a reasonable amount of computing literacy to install: first they need to know these projects exists, then they will need to connect their phone to their computer and click a single button.
Thus, I think there is indeed no private and “popular” alternative to iOS, that a completely tech illiterate person can easily obtain.
- Comment on The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down 6 months ago:
I think it is useful to use fdroid in conjunction with private OS like graphene, divest and calyx all with excellent android compatibilities. Unfortunately, grapheneos, IMO the best of the three, is only avaliable on a small set of devices, like iPhone.
But I do agree with your point, if you use the stock OS, even with privacy hardening, it is probably still not so private. But I don’t know if a hardened stock android is “worse” than an average user’s iPhone.
- Comment on The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down 6 months ago:
I got a feeling that many consumers do use desktop linux, given he recently revealed 4% desktop market share across the world. macOS has 15% market share, and Windows at the dominant 72%.
I believe macOS probably is more private than Windows, but it is definitely not as private as the rest of the market.
- Comment on The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down 6 months ago:
What industry? Does this industry you mentioned happens only contains data hungry ad oligopolies like google amazon, but not all the reasonable alternatives like duckduckgo, grapheneos, calyxos, desktop linux, mastodon, and lemmy?
- Comment on The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down 6 months ago:
What about discovering and installing private app that don’t use proprietary big tech service, including sending push notifications?
- Comment on The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down 6 months ago:
If you throw a linux OS to an average person, they won’t want to download app from app store.
Average user don’t “want” to download app from the app store, they do that because they are “told” to do so. I don’t believe average Apple user “love” anything, they are merely following how they first learned to use a device.
I think one of the best decision apple has ever made is to start shitty and thus never enshittify. After a while, people accepted the shittiness of apple; yet Windows continuing to enshittify by putting ads everywhere, thus people feel like their old and good experiences have been taken away from them.
- Comment on Explain yourselves, comp sci. 6 months ago:
Set is just objects in the category of Set.
- Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification 6 months ago:
Why are people still on there?!
- Comment on shrimp is bugs 6 months ago:
If a new berry was invented, computer scientists will probably call them “βerries”, next one “ϐerries”