Mereo
@Mereo@lemmy.ca
Mereo is a sociologist who is also a nerd. He believes in open-source software.
- Comment on 2real4me 1 month ago:
The new o1 preview gave me much better and more precise answers than the 4o model.
- Comment on Nearly $109 million in deposits held for fintech Yotta’s customers vanished in Synapse collapse, bank says 4 months ago:
This post does not belong here. This is not a post about technology.
- Comment on 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible a decade later 5 months ago:
The WayBack Machine would like a word: web.archive.org
- Comment on Texas power prices briefly soar 1,600% as a spring heat wave is expected to drive record demand for energy 5 months ago:
Rationality is out of the window. Ideology is the new religion. They don’t want to become “socialists” even though they don’t know what it truly means.
- Sony - Helldivers fans -- we’ve heard your feedback on the Helldivers 2 account linking update - PSN no longer requiredtwitter.com ↗Submitted 6 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 16 comments
- Comment on Adobe’s ‘Ethical’ Firefly AI Was Trained on Midjourney Images 7 months ago:
Garbage in -> Garbage out (x2) Garbage in (x2) -> = Garbage out (x4) Garbage in (x4) -> = Garbage out (x8) Garbage in (x8) -> = Garbage out (x16) …
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Enshittification to the extreme…
- Comment on Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B 8 months ago:
Reddit is planning six tiers of early access based on each “participant’s contributions to Reddit,” the company said in its updated SEC filing. Those tiers are based on a user’s “karma” score, ostensibly an aggregate total of up/down votes on posts and comments.
The first tier of users will be those “who have meaningfully contributed to Reddit community programs,” though what that means isn’t explained more clearly. After that come tier 2 users, who must hold at least 200,000 karma points or have taken at least 5,000 moderator actions. Tier three includes users and moderators who hold at least 100,000 karma points and have taken 2,500 moderator actions. Tiers 4 and 5 are each half of the previous tier’s total, and tier 6 includes everyone else, with a waitlist available if the total number of shares purchased exceeds the original 1.76 million.
Basically people who karma farm with low effort posts. This will only encourage low quality posts.
- Comment on Usage Of Elon Musk’s X Dropped 30% In The Last Year, Study Suggests 8 months ago:
Ever since Musk’s control of the company, Twitter (I refused to call it X) showed me multiple hate and racists posts. Basically, Twitter is showing me garbage. I now use Mastadon instead.
- Comment on HP’s 'All-In' Printer Rental Watches Everything You Print, Tells HP All About It 8 months ago:
What the hell is HP’s printers unit is smoking?!?!
- Comment on Diablo 4's new mount costs more than the actual game 9 months ago:
It’s a slippery slope. Money talks. They are accountable to their shareholders. So when they saw that people were paying for them, they started to monetise them more and more.
- Comment on HP CEO: You're 'bad investment' if you don't buy HP supplies 9 months ago:
Every time a customer buys a printer, it’s an investment for us. We are investing in that customer, and if that customer doesn’t print enough or doesn’t use our supplies, it’s a bad investment.
Brother, for the love of anything holy, please do not follow HP’s path.
- Comment on Reddit seeks to launch IPO in March 9 months ago:
I’m on iOS. I use Voyager and Mlem and both have it.
- Comment on Reddit seeks to launch IPO in March 9 months ago:
Scaled sort? Both. The app needs to support 0.19 though.
- Comment on Reddit seeks to launch IPO in March 10 months ago:
About migration, user migration is now possible in Lemmy 0.19:
Users can now export their data (community follows, blocklists, profile settings), and import it again on another instance. This can be used for account migrations and also as a form of backup. The export format is designed to remain unchanged for a long time. You can make regular exports, and if the instance becomes unavailable, register a new account and import the data. This way you can continue using Lemmy seamlessly.
- Comment on EU antitrust chief to Tim Cook: Apple must allow third-party app stores 10 months ago:
No, thank you. I will continue to use Apple’s App Store. What made me switch to the iPhone was the fact that I could trust the apps in the App Store. I knew there was no chance of downloading malware. It’s a liberating experience.
I don’t want it to be like Android.
- Comment on Starfield End of the Year Update 11 months ago:
It reminds me of when Flash was an exciting technology and websites were made in Flash. Very painful.
- Comment on PSA - Lemmy dropped 0.19, your instance may have some downtime 11 months ago:
Also, check if your instance has a Status page and bookmark it.
- Comment on Steve Jobs Rigged The First iPhone Demo By Faking Full Signal Strength And Secretly Swapping Devices Because Of Fragile Prototypes And Bug-Riddled Software 11 months ago:
This is marketing. Showing the phone as a working product ready to be shipped is a tactic to scare off the competition, demonstrate that you have the upper hand, and entice customers to buy it.
That is marketing in our capitalist system. I’m not saying it’s right, just that it’s a fact.
- Comment on Mastodon founder touts Threads' federation, saying it makes his X rival 'a far more attractive option' 11 months ago:
That is the beauty of the Fediverse. If you don’t like how an instance is run, you can easily switch to another instance in Lemmy 0.19. We need to think of Lemmy instances as countries with their own laws, culture, and policies. So in my opinion, if you don’t like how an instance is run, you can easily switch to another instance.
- Comment on 'There's almost nobody left': CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs 11 months ago:
Read? Lemmy is Reddit 2.0. Unfortunately, the majority don’t read articles.
- Comment on Senator Warren calls out Apple for shutting down Beeper's 'iMessage to Android' solution 11 months ago:
This is largely a North American problem. More than 50% of phones are iPhone, and the de facto texting for iPhone users is iMessage. While WhatsApp is the default IM for most of the rest of the world, it’s iMessage in North America.
- Comment on There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works 11 months ago:
It’s a bridge for notifications. Since Apple’s APN notification servers require a persistent connection to work, meaning that the application must be running continuously to receive notifications, the Beeper servers push those notifications (messages) to your phone.
This means that the application does not need to be running continuously to receive messages.
- Comment on There’s a new iMessage for Android app — and it actually works 11 months ago:
Not just in 'Merica, also in Canada eh.
- Comment on Ultrasound can push vaccines into the body without needles 11 months ago:
As with all new inventions/procedures, this is just the first step. The process will become faster and more efficient in the future.
In my opinion, this is a great first step towards a Star Trek-like hypospray.
- Comment on Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV 11 months ago:
Well, you get what you pay for. It’s very cheap for a reason: you are the product.
I got an Apple TV in 2018 and it’s still working perfectly. Yes, it was expensive, but it has no ads, it’s still fast and responsive, and it still gets updates.
- Comment on Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games 11 months ago:
But this worse than enshitification. These games are not free. There shouldn’t be ads in paid games.
- Comment on After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads 1 year ago:
The Apple TV is expensive for a reason. It’s a good product with good hardware, which means it has a smooth interface. When something is extremely cheap, YOU ARE THE PRODUCT.
- Comment on Microsoft won’t let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself 1 year ago:
Thank god I switched to Linux on my Desktop. And I also have a Macbook and I love it. I guess I consider myself a Unix guy.
- Comment on Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media 1 year ago:
The wired article in question: wired.com/…/first-gen-social-media-users-have-now…