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- Comment on Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far 5 days 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 1 week 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 2 weeks 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 1 month 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? 2 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 3 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. 3 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 4 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 4 months ago:
It is possible to remove the referer header:
- Comment on Dear AWS, please let me be a cloud engineer again 4 months 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.
- Comment on AI Is Already Taking Jobs in the Video Game Industry 4 months ago:
Activision and Blizzard failed before this technology was available to them.
- Comment on China's state subsidies in green technologies significantly higher than those in EU and OECD countries, distorting competition, researchers say 5 months ago:
China is simultaneously destroying the environment for profit and investing too much money in green technology?
A distinctive feature of purchase subsidies for BEV in China, however, is that they are paid out directly to manufacturers rather than consumers and that they are paid only for electric vehicles produced in China, thereby discriminating against imported cars.
That’s an interesting way to spin subsidies on the production of electric vehicles. Why would China pay companies in other countries to produce cars?
- Comment on ChatGPT has caused a massive drop in demand for online digital freelancers — here is what you can do to protect yourself 5 months ago:
The headline says “digital freelancers,” so maybe it’s talking primarily about small jobs that were being outsourced. A 21% decrease in regular job listings would be more concerning because of the amount of incorrect information and buggy software about to be created than job loss.
- Comment on Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand 7 months ago:
If your options are waiting at the station up to 2 hours for a pod or waiting anywhere else 3 hours for a train, are the pods better?
- Comment on Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand 7 months ago:
Would it though? It’s just vans on tracks instead of roads.
It’s not going to be more energy efficient with individually powered cabs. It’s not going to be more convenient unless your origin and destination are near a station. It’s not going to be more time efficient because of the extra distance getting to and from tracks and because you aren’t going to drive highway speeds in tiny self-balancing cars on old rails, especially when passing cars going the opposite direction. It’s not going to be more cost efficient because it’s more total moving parts requiring maintenance per person per trip.
It sounds like they are solving the problem of turning around only for terminal stations. This might make sense for trains that carry many people, but if you’re making cars on tracks there is no good solution. If you need to spend money on a system that turns the cabs around, then you either spend more money installing those systems at most stations or you spend money maintaining cabs that are driving around empty. Either way, cars on roads are cheaper.
They say it’s good for people who don’t want to wait for public transit, but they don’t say how this solves that problem. With public transit, you know when the train will be there. With this, unless they have a way for the cabs to wait at the station without blocking other cabs going the same direction, you have to wait for a cab to come and you can’t time your trip to the station around when the cab will be there. Maybe they have one? It would be a disaster if you wanted to get on from near the middle and needed to wait for either a cab that has already been vacated to come or for a cab to come all the way from the start of the track.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Isn’t this just Reddit with more steps?
- Comment on How Hidden Nazi Symbols Were the Tip of a Toxic Iceberg at Life Is Strange Developer Deck Nine 8 months ago:
ADL make a list that explains what obscure symbols a very small number of people use, possibly ironically, and promote it via their website to turn it into a more powerful hate symbol.
The Roman salute used by Italy and Germany and the Bellamy salute used by Americans were similar but not exactly the same. Americans possibly created the Nazi salute’s use as a hate symbol by changing their own salute to be different and then showing people using either of the original salutes as Nazis in propaganda.
- Comment on How Hidden Nazi Symbols Were the Tip of a Toxic Iceberg at Life Is Strange Developer Deck Nine 8 months ago:
Are people in this article really suggesting that the 100% emoji is racist? You can never get a perfect score or agree with anything again because a small number of people have used that number to mean something else and now somebody will interpret it as a hate crime.
At first they were arguing that somebody writing “shit” in an exaggerated way, and the occurrence of two other numbers and an elongated asterisk were Nazi symbols, and they could be, but the only evidence is that somebody said they thought it was too many coincidences. I don’t know enough about the circumstances to say it is or isn’t intended that way. Management apparently thinks it isn’t. But saying multiple people reacting “100%” to a message they agree with means they’re all using the number 100 as a sign of white supremacist solidarity is ridiculous. What else are they going to do? React with the “OK” hand? No, the ADL also decided that one is racist. React with thumbs up? No, younger people have decided that one is rude.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I can’t because my instance blocked Threads. I guess it’s time to find a new instance.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Bluesky uses a non-standard protocol and isn’t really federated yet.
- Comment on Your Computer Isn't Yours: Apple stores every program you run, and when and where you ran it 8 months ago:
It’s not that easy.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Facebook is not (yet?) negatively impacting the fediverse. Fediverse users are.
- Comment on Android users who have a keen eye for design and detail, how is the whole stutter/lag situation? Esp. after a few years of use? 8 months ago:
I’m pretty sure this difference isn’t real. On both, the UI is supposed to be for the UI and anything that takes longer is supposed to happen on a different thread. Even Windows Phone had that. However, in practice developers don’t always do it and this isn’t as great as it sounds. If you’re scrolling or something and scroll faster than the background threads, it will stutter. If the app has a resource leak, it will stutter. If the graphics are too complicated, it will stutter.
RAM requirements depend on what you’re doing. I had a Pixel 4 and it always ran great. I had to get rid of it because it was physically falling apart and Google stopped releasing security updates for it.
- Comment on The biggest winners in tech in 2023 11 months ago:
How can the Vision Pro be a winner if it doesn’t exist yet?