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- Comment on Microsoft extends updates for old Exchange and Skype servers 1 week ago:
Not Skype: Skype for Business, which is a different product from Skype.
Microsoft would go on to make this mistake again, naming both Teams and Teams the same thing before ultimately combining them into Teams last year.
- Comment on YouTube Forces Dubs Now 2 weeks ago:
It also returns these auto dubbed videos in search results, making it increasingly difficult to find intelligible videos about foreign topics. You’ll get a native describing the problem to other natives with a common understanding, auto transcribed, auto translated, and auto dubbed.
Here’s a hilariously bad example. This video has an AI English dub. youtu.be/DNceEVQulwY?t=908 (warning: up close whispering) Have you ever noticed YouTube’s automatic translation system sometimes buffers up a lot of text and dumps a whole paragraph on screen at once?
- Comment on Apple hits back against 'unprecedented' €500m EU fine 3 weeks ago:
Commit an unprecedented crime, pay an unprecedented fine.
- Comment on Google's Hotseat Hypocrisy - Open Web Advocacy 3 weeks ago:
Isn’t this a complicated problem? Android has no “hotseat.” Each launcher has it’s own layout and each phone manufacturer has it’s own default launcher. The complaint makes it sound like Google just chooses not to do it.
- Comment on Only 1 in 3 Euro consumers are trading in their old phones 5 weeks ago:
Until a few years ago, it was common for Android devices to stop receiving features after about 1 year and then stop receiving security updates after 2 years. Unless you’re getting security updates another way, which may not work correctly and may even require you to build Android yourself, you should not use the device for anything important after that point. The batteries would be next to useless by that time. Now it seems more common to get three years, which isn’t great either. iPhones last longer, but they come with all the iPhone problems.
- Comment on Google hits back after Apple exec says AI is hurting search 2 months ago:
That’s part of it. The other part is that Google, and other search engines, assume you’re clueless and try to “fix” your query for you, and you can’t stop it because they’ve been removing support for searching exact words or using boolean expressions or excluding words.
- Comment on The Trouble With TikTok Is Getting Old 3 months ago:
This article is very confused. America definitely isn’t banning TikTok because it’s unpopular or unimportant. American billionaires are stealing TikTok because it is more profitable than their apps.
- Comment on Social Security Website Crashes as DOGE-Linked Disruption at the Agency Continues 3 months ago:
Just like last time?
But he’s too stupid for that. He wants so badly to be king when the problems catch up that he would destroy the country to do it. He had a years long tantrum after he lost the election.
- Comment on Porn on Spotify Is Infiltrating the Platform’s Top Podcast Charts 4 months ago:
Back when I still used Spotify it would regularly recommend to me podcasts more offensive than porn.
- Comment on Mom horrified by Character.AI chatbots posing as son who died by suicide - Ars Technica 4 months ago:
This will become more common. I’ve seen dead people involved in scams on the internet.
- Comment on Wait, why is the White House using Starlink to ‘improve Wi-Fi’? 4 months ago:
Or so it can be turned off in later to sabatoge a more competent government.
- Comment on 'The point is to be generous': This $20 FPS releasing next month is trying something new—giving away a full version of the game 4 months ago:
This isn’t new, but maybe it’s been forgotten since online matchmaking. The original Starcraft could be installed as the full version which required a CD and a CD key to run, or as a version that didn’t require a CD or a key and could only by used to join multiplayer games.
- Comment on On May 5, Microsoft’s Skype will shut down for good 4 months ago:
It’s the other way around. Lync, formerly Office Communicator, became Skype for Business which became Teams, not to be confused with Teams, a distinct, non-interoperable product made by the same company. Skype for Business probably took some code from Skype but I’d bet it was mostly about branding and it never had that much in common with the real Skype.
Microsoft killed Skype in 2017 and replaced it with a different thing also called Skype.
- Comment on Meta approves bonuses of up to 200% of company executives' salaries as it trims stock awards for employees 5 months ago:
It’ll be their children’s children’s problem.
- Comment on Demo: 3D Footage Elite Dangerous 3840×1080 Pixel, 60p, SBS (sbsr) version 6 months ago:
The SBS video requires VR/XR glasses and either a mode that forces SBS or a special player because you didn’t upload it to YouTube with the metadata for YouTube to recognize it as 3D: support.google.com/youtube/answer/7278886
- Comment on Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbinary Messenger Themes [404 Media] 6 months ago:
Being pro gay marriage and pro transgender are completely different things.
- Comment on This Year, RISC-V Laptops Arrive 6 months ago:
There was one announced last year.
- Comment on Pornhub Is Now Blocked In Almost All of the U.S. South 6 months ago:
That’s the point of the regulations. Directly banning porn sites would be unconstitutional, but there’s a loophole.
- Comment on Chinese ebook reader Boox ditches GPT for state-censored China LLM pushing propaganda 6 months ago:
My Kobo is Linux but not Android.
This page says the Boox bootloader is unlocked but the kernel source is missing: gist.github.com/…/97baf36de97d1c4ae3953b3d359bb91…
- Comment on Chinese ebook reader Boox ditches GPT for state-censored China LLM pushing propaganda 6 months ago:
Boox uses Android.
- Comment on Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far 7 months ago:
Not all notifications are short sentences. The most likely counter example is e-mails.
- Comment on Amazon starts selling Hyundai cars, more brands next year 7 months ago:
Does this mean I won’t need to go to a dealership, play games to get a fair price, have the dealer’s branding permanently affixed to my car, and be constantly hounded by the dealership to buy more things from them?
But if it means the car is going to come with mandatory Alexa I’m out.
- Comment on Authorities urge U.S. citizens to use encrypted messaging apps to combat Chinese telco hackers 7 months ago:
Encryption when it protects you from China: “Encryption is your friend”
Encryption when it protects your constitutional rights: “What are you hiding?” - Comment on Ubisoft Just Quietly Launched a Full-Blown NFT Game - IGN 8 months ago:
There used to be a respectable web 3.0 but now we just have web3 crypto grifters.
- Comment on What if the panic over teens and tech is totally wrong? 10 months ago:
large companies who can afford the security infra to do those checks and store that data
There is no such company. This is just another way to ban “harmful” content. Verifying your identity and age to access restricted content is practically guaranteed to result in your identity being compromised within your lifetime.
- Comment on Concord’s Failure and Black Myth: Wukong’s Success Serves as the Best Wake Up Call to Sony’s Current Strategy 10 months ago:
Is it baffling? Live service games are all about extracting as much money from players as possible via loot boxes and battle passes. The best game is the game that makes the most money. Therefore, live services are the optimal type of game.
- Comment on How to Sign Up for Local Emergency Alerts Before Natural Disasters Strike. 10 months ago:
For me it’s a combination of alerts being sent to the wrong areas and a disagreement about importance. I don’t need an alert if it’s hot outside, nor do I need an alert for every update about an earlier alert. People aren’t turning off alerts because they don’t know how to turn them on.
- Comment on Microsoft and Reddit Are Fighting About Why Bing’s Crawler Is Blocked on Reddit 11 months ago:
There’s a browser extension for that. It also works on Pintrest and other useless sites. iorate.github.io/ublacklist/docs
- Comment on Microsoft and Reddit Are Fighting About Why Bing’s Crawler Is Blocked on Reddit 11 months ago:
It is possible to remove the referer header:
- Comment on Dear AWS, please let me be a cloud engineer again 1 year ago:
In theory, running a serverless function can provide adequate response times at costs that are unreachable with private servers. It’s basically those services that would run your application for few minutes every time it received a request, but with theoretically lower overhead since it’s supposed to be a function instead of a full application.