mholiv
@mholiv@lemmy.world
- Comment on Signal downloads spike in the US and Yemen amid government scandal | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
It matters though. Like in Germany telegram is associated with hard right wings groups. Telling someone you use telegram makes them assume that you are a part of hard right ideologies.
It’s a shame as the telegram app is really snappy. You always have to say that you are on telegram but are not right wing. Even the. People can be suspicious.
- Comment on Signal downloads spike in the US and Yemen amid government scandal | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Text speak mostly came from typing on dumb phone number pads to enter text. Like if you wanted to type “hi” you would have to enter “4-4 pause 4-4-4” As you might expect 5 putting presses with a pause between some of them just to say “hi” got painful. Thus the shortening.
Text messages were always charged per message. But each message was limited to 160 ascii characters or less if you were using other encodings. You could send 1 character or 160 characters but it cost 20 cents (at least where I grew up) either way.
This is all separate from l33t speak which is a whole different thing.
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 1 week ago:
Very much so.
They are paying for the service and expect appropriate treatment.
Companies generally frown upon their data being taken. It’s only consumers who use “free” services that really suffer from this. After all, if you’re not paying you are the product.
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 4 weeks ago:
This is literally better in every way.
This being said, better in every way does not mean good. It’s just hard to be worse than a crypto bro run, literal ad company, who’s browser is a reskin of chrome.
- Comment on Judge rejects Musk's attempt to block OpenAI's for-profit transition 4 weeks ago:
Probably not. Anthropic is a direct competitor.
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 4 weeks ago:
I mean if you are already ok with using a browser from a crypto ad company your standards are already set.
People who use Firefox are concerned that Forefox is slowly shifting into what brace is now. Aka an ad company.
- Comment on Prusa Mk4 or Mk4s first layer issues 1 month ago:
It’s true it could be better. They used to be more open source. Like they used to just publish their firmware source as they released it. Now days they hold back the current generation till the next gen is out. They mentioned this was so they could be more competitive with companies that do less R&D and more cloning.
Like even their slicer was just reskinned etc. it’s in peoples rights to reskin an open source slicer but I see why they did it.
Maybe “was” is the better word. Still better than things like Bamboo though.
- Comment on Prusa Mk4 or Mk4s first layer issues 1 month ago:
Interesting that people might think this. Prusa was/is THE open source printer company.
- Comment on Church of England refuses call for gluten-free wafers and non-alcoholic wine 1 month ago:
I imagine you might be thinking of making the sign of the cross. Basicly people touch their heads, their chest of their heart, then the left and right shoulders. All with the tips of two fingers.
- Comment on Church of England refuses call for gluten-free wafers and non-alcoholic wine 1 month ago:
As an ex catholic (now secular) you had me in the first half. I’ve never seen any chest beating though. That seems more of a Protestant thing to do.
- Comment on Proton 2024 Lifetime account fundraiser for online freedom | Ends on January 5th 2 months ago:
I think you need to relax a little here. Proton is a literal privacy focused non profit that follows the laws of where they are based. You can’t get much better than that.
Even in an ideal post scarcity would a non profit privacy focused organization that follows the laws of where it’s based is pretty ideal.
- Comment on Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe 4 months ago:
Probably all of them. Germany is really not ideal for solar in terms of weather, yet they are installed by many people all over the place, even today. With the cheaper prices things will get even better.