amju_wolf
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- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
The website generates a random value, your government signs a cert for that value. That’s what makes it single use and zero trust.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 2 weeks ago:
The fucked up part is nowadays third parties like banks or sometimes even governments make apps rely on Google services, so you can’t use an ungoogled phone for stuff you actually need for life…
- Comment on Intel details everything that could go wrong with US taking a 10% stake 2 weeks ago:
It’s a bailout where the taxpayers actually get something back.
How is it legal to bail out whole banks or other large companies and not get anything in return?
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 2 weeks ago:
Sure I can use my bank’s website (and it’s a shit experience) but they still want me to have their own app for authentication… Don’t even offer anything else at this point.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 2 weeks ago:
This might be an issue because f-droid re-signs apps with their own keys…
I mean depends on enforcement I guess.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 2 weeks ago:
Why exactly do we need signing authorities? Software isn’t zero trust like websites. You do need to trust the developer - even a legitimate one. Signing apps with verified developer keys will only hurt small independent developers, open source projects and freedom enabling stuff like user patching.
It only works to solidify monopolies and doesn’t protect you against shit.
- Comment on THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments 4 weeks ago:
The thing is, he does that fairly rarely, and seems to have mostly learned (to at least keep his mouth shut).
And TBF I don’t think he could build a company like that without a bit of cockyness, and he certainly does deserve recognition for what he achieved.
The vast majority of stuff they do - even if it’s a fuckup - they actually handle well and make everyone whole. In away they’re sometimes forced a bit by circumstances but in general I feel like they’re genuinely trying to do their best and be fair.
- Comment on THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments 4 weeks ago:
Um, can you give some examples (with proof) of where LTT got paid to give a good review?
That’s an extreme accusation, and everything I’ve watched for the past decade+ seems to contradict that.
For obvious reasons that’s something they want to avoid. Hell they’re still happy to get on the bad side of companies for integrity, they’re just way less aggressive and outspoken about it compared to GN.
In fact I feel like GN sometimes overplays it a bit.
- Comment on THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments 4 weeks ago:
I mean it’s fair to avoid “drama” no matter who stirs it, but most of their controversies were fairly well handled and largely overblown.
I think my biggest issue was the whole “trust me bro” “warranty”, but that was mostly a cultural clash and Linus still had some good points even originally when he talked about it, even if the way he did so was extremely tone deaf.
- Comment on THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments 4 weeks ago:
Again, what? Where? Their most informative videos do reviews and testing, which is regular journalism at best.
I can remember maybe one or two videos that were somewhat investigative.
It’s just not what they do or what they claim to do.
- Comment on Should we remove XSLT from the web platform? 4 weeks ago:
Especially since they could ship the JS polyfill With the browsers. Seems like a decent middle ground to me.
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 4 weeks ago:
In this case it is purely fault of the money incentive though. Noone would spend so much effort and computation power on AI if they didn’t think it could make them money.
The funniest part is though that it’s only theoretical anyway, everyone is only losing on it and they’re most likely never gonna make it back.
- Comment on THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think LTT ever did or claimed to do investigative journalism (or really journalism at all)?
They make entertainment videos that sometimes have mildly informative value.
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 4 weeks ago:
Um, no? They can provide an IBAN and then you can pay almost instantly with most banks, with the worst ones taking a business day or two.
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 4 weeks ago:
Revolut literally has this as a feature, single-use cards.
Additionally at least in Europe 3Dsecure is very common. It’s opt-in which makes it kinda weird, but still widely used.
- Comment on CALL FOR URGENT ACTION to stop Chat Control legislation in EU 4 weeks ago:
Didn’t even know there was an EU website for that. Would be neat to have it there.
- Comment on Why LLMs can't really build software 4 weeks ago:
Huh? They just made the walls. Out of cement.
Making the walls of a house is one of the easiest steps, if not the easiest. And these would still need insulation, electrical, etc. And they look like shit.
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 4 weeks ago:
Reddit certainly had it’s problems but was actually pretty good for the ~15 years before it started getting enshittified more and more to try to extract value.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 5 weeks ago:
There is still a lot of software and some very popular games that just don’t work on Linux.
- Comment on Adobe was sued today in another class action about its subscription practices. Plaintiffs claim Adobe intentionally misleads consumers 1 month ago:
TBF I looked at it recently-ish and it isn’t that bad. The shitty part is that it’s the default and a bit non-typical, but it’s still a fairly normal “select from these 3 options with the most profitable for us selected by default”.
- Comment on Investigation: Israel's Unit 8200 built a system to collect millions of mobile phone calls made daily in Gaza and the West Bank using Microsoft's Azure platform 1 month ago:
Wow, what an amazing thing to be associated with, Microsoft.
- Comment on Adobe was sued today in another class action about its subscription practices. Plaintiffs claim Adobe intentionally misleads consumers 1 month ago:
They sell you a yearly subscription but with monthly payments, then require you to finish paying for the whole year if you cancel early. It is a bit discounted from the actual monthly plan and selected by default.
And they have shitty UX that doesn’t make this blatantly obvious, hence all the people who have issues with this.
- Comment on Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers 2 months ago:
They can get fucked. A while ago O was like you know what let’s give them money, seems only fair. So I finally subscribed, and then like a month later they sent me an email they’re raising the prices effective immediately - basically changing the deal on me without any delay.
So I unsubscribed, because fuck that.
More recently I looked into sharing the family plan with …my family, but it turna out they consider family only in a single household, and I’m not gonna try to give them money while also potentially having to prove how much of a family we are, so yeah…
Fuck them, either take my money when I’m actually trying, or I guess they didn’t need it that bad. I’m over YouTube, and would probably ditch it earlier than ever watching an ad there.
- Comment on YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design 4 months ago:
Form and input elements are a very standard thing, and while you can certainly do crazy stuff with it, even a simple check if you typed into an input/textarea, or changed a select without submitting the form element, should be sufficient.
I guess the problem might be detecting the submission (because oftentimes there’s custom logic for that) but maybe better just display the warning than lose data. Worst case you’ll just ignore it, best case the devs fix it so that it doesn’t show up when it shouldn’t.
- Comment on YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design 4 months ago:
The better UX could have been making this a regular option, and (by default) showing a warning dialogue if using backspace to navigate would clear out a form.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 4 months ago:
Protecting innovative stuff is literally the point of patents and why the system exists. Anything “new” is by definition innovation, except the bar is really low currently, with very little research being done into prior art.
Patented stuff should be non-obvious, and not a simple derivative of existing stuff (i.e. when there are square buttons and circle buttons you shouldn’t be able to patent a button that has 2 corners square and 2 circle just because it’s “novel” because it’s just a very simple and logical step).
So basically, make the bar for a patent much higher, and require some proof into the research of prior art and explaining why/how your patent is different.
Also, patents should expire early/not be renewable if you don’t actually use them (so move a certain number of units / generate some amount of revenue using your patents). So you couldn’t patent random BS in the hopes someone else will break your patent by accident.
Or even better, just outright punish patent trolls.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 5 months ago:
Patents would be fine if the bar for “innovation” would be much higher, software patents weren’t a thing, there was way more research done into prior art, and there would be different (shorter) lengths for patents depending on what industry they target.
Like, if it’s manufacturing or something like drugs where it takes years before you can start making profit, sure, make them 10-20 years. If it’ something you make money off of immediately, it should be shorter.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 6 months ago:
Oh yeah absolutely the app purge is why I’m here. I absolutely despise their mobile app; but on desktop I don’t mind.
The information density isn’t that important to me on desktop since my screen is plenty large and scrolling (or collapsing) comments is easy.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 6 months ago:
Once upon a time Reddit used to be just a single subreddit. And it was fine. Lemmy already has enough users for separate subreddits to be actually kinda viable, even if they are not too active.
We’ll be fine.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 6 months ago:
The fact that Bluesky is almost a 1:1 copy (which includes the dumb stuff like post character limit) is precisely why I don’t like it.