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- Comment on Google Search adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on web results 1 day ago:
sometimes-correct summary without needing to click on a single result
Crazier than it sounds. We don’t see the page contents AT ALL by default.
- Comment on Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure 4 days ago:
I don’t know how much of this is directed by Kremlin. Maybe Signal is catching ground in Russia’s neighborhoods? The government-backed Telegram is losing users to Signal, maybe?
- Comment on Gabe Newell, the Man Behind Steam, Is Working on a Brain-Computer Interface 4 days ago:
Imagine you lose the brain cells to quit the game. Instant isekai irl.
- Comment on An Interview With Jack Dorsey 6 days ago:
You just reminded me employees in my company who are mostly like that.
- Comment on An Interview With Jack Dorsey 6 days ago:
Browsers should suggest to refuse to jump to a URL whenever
Musk
is found in the target webpage. - Comment on I would maybe like a smart watch, can you help me decide? 6 days ago:
I wonder why nobody makes a phone specialized for elderly people these days. Those smart gadgets are absolutely horrible for elderlies. They can’t do literally nothing because the UI is too complex for them.
Something simple like a speaker & mic with a set of big buttons stickers of who to call is everything they need. No Whatsapp, probably no email. Then add a forced mode only carers and families can activate.
- Comment on I would maybe like a smart watch, can you help me decide? 6 days ago:
Are you sure your mother will charge her watch everyday though
- Comment on Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps 3 weeks ago:
This one’s fixable. Just hold Meta accountable. It should be illegal they don’t manually filter ads.
- Comment on Google fires 28 workers for protesting $1.2 billion Israel contract 3 weeks ago:
Why did you put the question marks there?
- Comment on Apple users "don’t know what is going on": New study shows that Apple's default apps collect data even when supposedly disabled, and this is hard to switch off 4 weeks ago:
This sounds like an exaggeration though.
To me it seems like these researchers are saying the switch is confusing and complicated. That is not to say that Apple secretly collect data after lying to their users.
The problem with Siri, first example, is more about Apple’s (characteristic) terminology garbage. Siri’s voice control has nothing to do with Siri’s search suggestion, yet they marketed both as Siri. Actually, you can turn them both off, but since the voice control is just called Siri, they confused their users.
That’s different from "collecting data even when supposedly disabled.
(Tbf, even if they were better termed, my mom would still manage to confuse herself… mo matter what Apple do, the average user won’t be able to turn off anything.)
That said, there’s no point trying to convince someone on the internet anyway, and so I don’t really know why I wrote this comment.
- Comment on German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice 1 month ago:
I like LibreOffice, but, as security is their concern, they should ask themselves if they really need software solutions with such huge complexity. Libre also has had to maintain compatibility with MS Office, which is a huge mess on its own. Such complexity makes it harder to analyze the security and block malicious attacks.
In any case, they need to hire a large testing team for the community, because anything can go wrong without testing.
- Comment on It’s time for a hard reset on notifications 1 month ago:
I wondered how I replied to my friends. Then I recalled that I don’t have one.
- Comment on It’s time for a hard reset on notifications 1 month ago:
You guys still check notifications? I have Infinite Scroll of notifications I never care.
- Comment on It’s time for a hard reset on notifications 1 month ago:
Out of my 10000 notifications I ignore, I got one message… and that’s from the LinkedIn team.
- Comment on Bernard Stiegler’s philosophy on how technology shapes our world | Aeon Essays 1 month ago:
Please include the original article URL at least. If you even don’t want to do that due to hatred towards the website, you should not link their article in the first place.
- Comment on Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: "Block Threads to Remain Listed" 1 month ago:
The rules for being listed on fedi.garden will require blocking instances cited in human rights reports on genocide.
And this is their announcement on this oddly specific rule.
I mean, the wording “cited in multiple reports of massacres or genocides” is strange enough. An organization can be “cited” for doing anything. Can I write up two reports to ban lemmy.ml?
Fediverse should be based on a mature protocol imo.
- Comment on Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: "Block Threads to Remain Listed" 1 month ago:
Well, I can agree with many points you made. I also think that FG is overreacting.
The only thing I want to say is that Fediverse by design lets administrators choose which instances they connect to. It’s rather unfair because there’s virtually no free alternative choice to fediverse, but as we choose fediverse, disconnection is a thing. The only question is whether FG is going too far this time. And if it is, we either convince FG to retreat or build an alternative to FG.
- Comment on Hallucinated AI Dependencies as Vectors for Attack 1 month ago:
So… there will be organizations that will train devs for this, and that will outright ban LLMs. I know which mine will be. Time to reconsider my job, and possibly my country…
- Comment on Fewer people are using Elon Musk’s X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts 1 month ago:
The problem with this narrative is that Musk lost money doing so.
- Comment on OpenCat: An open source quadruped robot pet framework 1 month ago:
It must become illegal for a video game not to integrate this system
- Comment on Switch performs better running games through an emulator emulating the switch than natively. 1 month ago:
This is actually not surprising to me. I heard that Windows used to perform better on a virtual machine with a Linux host. The Linux kernel is very mature, and virtual machines use tricks to improve performance.
- Comment on House likely to pass a bill that could ban TikTok, sending it to the Senate 2 months ago:
Or they don’t want the tool of specifically the CCP.
- Comment on Are We Watching The Internet Die? 2 months ago:
you’re right. I should’ve written some people
- Comment on Are We Watching The Internet Die? 2 months ago:
The current internet search is becoming obsolete. People are able to tell apart BS, though. This means, there’s a possibility for a smarter filter. Hard to tell whether we will see one in the near-future.
- Comment on Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” 2 months ago:
I know, but arstechnica could also write other kinds of articles.
- Comment on Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” 2 months ago:
Why is arstechnica so cynical about specifically big tech?
- Comment on Large Language Models Are Drunk at the Wheel 2 months ago:
What’s funny, we complain about the terminology use of AI, but nobody can actually define the intelligence.
- Comment on Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds 2 months ago:
Looking back, we should have not relied on Google in the first’s place.
The use was taken away more significantly by Twitter and other SNS, also.