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- Comment on 1 week ago:
I understand the gripes about Meta, but I don’t understand how everyone clowns on this like the core concept is stupid or unwanted.
Easy $1000 sell: cycling / escooter accessory. People already regularly buy expensive sport glasses just for sun and wind protection. With a smart version of them like this, you add open ear headphone, and you add the potential for navigation directions, or even a Bluetooth rear view camera on the back of your helmet to get a virtual mirror.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It would be really nice if every country would enact digital privacy laws so that Meta’s business model was just forced to be better. They genuinely have some of the best and most accessible VR/AR hardware available.
It would of course be nicer if a more ethical competitor stepped up in a serious way but no one seems that interested. It’s interesting that the vast majority of Meta’s business model is being extremely good at copying or buying out competitors but with VR they’re basically the only ones actually sinking serious money into making it a thing.
- Comment on do you use non violent communication at the workplace? 1 week ago:
You realize that by asking to use your specific definition of a word, you’re the one getting lost in pedantic semantics, right?
- Comment on do you use non violent communication at the workplace? 1 week ago:
Because once it has a name, it makes it easier to describe and reference in research literature, and thus makes it easier to draw conclusions on.
Everything has some super specific name that professionals in some field use for it because they regularly need to distinguish it from other similar things.
- Comment on Meta chief technology officer(CTO) explains why the smart glasses demo failed at Meta Connect — and it wasn’t the Wi-Fi 2 weeks ago:
Do you think a) the CTO / marketing department accidentally published a video that let slip that they have backdoors into every headset that they use to remote control them, or b) by building he meant the auditorium they were in and was referring to the existing sound trigger activation?
It’s literally just Occam’s razor.
- Comment on Meta chief technology officer(CTO) explains why the smart glasses demo failed at Meta Connect — and it wasn’t the Wi-Fi 2 weeks ago:
Yeah man, you can already do that by blasting ‘hey siri’.
- Comment on Meta chief technology officer(CTO) explains why the smart glasses demo failed at Meta Connect — and it wasn’t the Wi-Fi 2 weeks ago:
lmfao yeah bro, he did. Learn how the English language works.
- Comment on Meta chief technology officer(CTO) explains why the smart glasses demo failed at Meta Connect — and it wasn’t the Wi-Fi 2 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, or you know living in a city.
- Comment on Meta chief technology officer(CTO) explains why the smart glasses demo failed at Meta Connect — and it wasn’t the Wi-Fi 2 weeks ago:
Oooohh nooo look, that guy walking by just stole my AP point and Bluetooth information, how scary 👻! /S
- Comment on Meta chief technology officer(CTO) explains why the smart glasses demo failed at Meta Connect — and it wasn’t the Wi-Fi 2 weeks ago:
So an Android phone?
- Comment on Meta chief technology officer(CTO) explains why the smart glasses demo failed at Meta Connect — and it wasn’t the Wi-Fi 2 weeks ago:
So they’re phones that people hold slightly more vertically?
- Comment on Meta chief technology officer(CTO) explains why the smart glasses demo failed at Meta Connect — and it wasn’t the Wi-Fi 2 weeks ago:
How is it fundamentally flawed?
- Comment on Meta chief technology officer(CTO) explains why the smart glasses demo failed at Meta Connect — and it wasn’t the Wi-Fi 2 weeks ago:
It’s a company with no morals, but the product isn’t stupid, and neither is the way the company operates or the people who run it.
Don’t under estimate your adversary.
- Comment on Meta chief technology officer(CTO) explains why the smart glasses demo failed at Meta Connect — and it wasn’t the Wi-Fi 2 weeks ago:
How are smart glasses evil?
- Comment on Meta chief technology officer(CTO) explains why the smart glasses demo failed at Meta Connect — and it wasn’t the Wi-Fi 2 weeks ago:
No. He said that when the audio command came over the speakers it triggered the smart glasses of everyone in the auditorium.
- Comment on The internet doesnt really spark any joy. Sure the stuff can be funny but mostly just feels me with dread that for this cat meme I have to watch others suffer. 2 weeks ago:
Yup. The most satisfying beauty is found in nature.
- Comment on xkcd #3142: -Style Pizza 2 weeks ago:
Yes, and pizza with real crusts reheat fine in any oven.
- Comment on xkcd #3142: -Style Pizza 2 weeks ago:
I seriously doubt it’s the most common pizza sold.
It’s thin crust nature makes it economical for selling hot slices, but horrible for delivery and for reheating.
- Comment on xkcd #3142: -Style Pizza 2 weeks ago:
I feel like this graph needs a line that indicates your baseline normal pizza
- Comment on Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate? 3 weeks ago:
Why are you even on here if it hasn’t?
- Comment on E-Paper Display Reaches the Realm of LCD Screens 3 weeks ago:
I’m very curious about the actual latency.
The refresh rate certainly impacts latency, but there are other factors that can effect Time To First Update, been if it can play quickly after that.
Exciting though, even a relatively low res e ink screens that’s fully viewable in daylight would make an amazing portable monitor.
- Comment on Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse 3 weeks ago:
They didn’t care about this system. It just got caught up in their news sources.
This isn’t funny, it’s just a thing that happened.
- Comment on Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse 3 weeks ago:
So it’s funny because the fediverse is so niche that no one designing automated copyright systems care about its odd and unique addressing system?
- Comment on Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse 3 weeks ago:
This is honestly a dumb post. It doesn’t say anything about “Microsoft” understanding or not understanding anything.
It just shows them using an automated system to try and take down an account that they think is infringing on their trademark rights. There are legal protections for parody accounts, but they are not absolute and it’s possible that Microsoft could get a court order compelling the owner to cease control of the account.
- Comment on Signal announces a backup feature that includes 100MB of storage for texts and the last 45 days' worth of media for free, or 100GB of storage for $1.99/month 3 weeks ago:
It seems a reasonable guess that a person whose hobby is building custom mechanical keyboards probably does keep it clean. I figured people using an encrypted messaging system with backups enabled would probably go to the trouble of ensuring those backups didn’t live in one place.
The point is that encrypted messaging is not a hobby for anyone but Moxie Marlinspike. It’s just a tool that people use for communication. WhatsApp and iMessage are both encrypted and have relatively seamless backup solutions and do not require any extra thought or effort.
- Comment on Signal announces a backup feature that includes 100MB of storage for texts and the last 45 days' worth of media for free, or 100GB of storage for $1.99/month 3 weeks ago:
Are people not copying their backup off their device periodically?
Obviously not.
Do you change your air filter, clean your keyboard, floss your teeth, derust your tools, organize your files, respond to all your messages, keep on top of available tax breaks and deals, dust under your bed etc?
No one does every random maintenance task as often as they should meaning that everyone is letting some slip occasionally which means you should expect that no, not everyone is periodically backing up and transferring their DMs to a different device.
- Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 4 weeks ago:
I think it depends a lot on the specifics of the situation.
Did you buy a single family home / house that you’re living in, and renting out part of to help pay your mortgage? Then it depends on the rent you charge.
If you charge market rates and you can afford to charge less than market rates, or if you hire contractors and maintenance people for the unit that are cheaper / worse than the ones you use for your own unit, then yes, you are being exploitative and hypocritical.
If, however, you treat the unit like your own and charge below market rates then no, you’re not.
If you build an addition on your house, or build a laneway house or something, then it’s more reasonable to charge market rates for rent because you’ve actually added new housing to the area, an act that in itself should help to slightly drop rents. Same thing if you buy vacant property and build rental units on it. However, if you continue charging the most you possibly can long after you’ve made your money back then you’re back into the territory of being an exploitative hypocrite.
And if you’re just in a hot market and buying up houses / condos, and renting them back to people as is, or just doing the cheapest and shittiest job you can turning them into apartments, then yes you are being a hypocrite. At that point you’re just using your capital to buy up a limited quantity item and sell it back to people at exploitative rates. It would be like being stranded in the desert and buying up the remaining water and then selling it back to people for a profit. You’re providing no value to society, just using past success to force people into a corner where they have to pay you for a necessity that’s in limited supply.
- Comment on "Wait, was that shampoo? Yeah.. Welp, I guess we're washing our body with shampoo today." 4 weeks ago:
I honestly cannot fathom why people buy body wash… Shampoo is basically the same thing.
- Comment on That one Pokémon 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think that either are supposed to be slimy, I think that’s usually a sign of an algae or health problem, so both would fit that corner, which then leaves the open corner as Legs=4, Slime=Yes, and House=1
- Comment on That one Pokémon 5 weeks ago:
Coral?