peter
@peter@feddit.uk
- Comment on TikTok prepares to challenge Instagram with 'TikTok Photos' 9 months ago:
It’s like when steam added group chats and discord added games
- Comment on UK network operators ask govt to fend off attacks on fiber 9 months ago:
Disk vs disc I believe is down to the type of medium, magnetic disk vs optical disc
- Comment on Plastic tea bags 9 months ago:
I tried this but I always end up with tea leaves floating around my cup
- Comment on A Small Steam Game Shows How LLMs Could Kill the Dialogue Tree (re: Verbal Verdict demo) 9 months ago:
This is the only actually good use of LLMs I can really think of. As long as there is a good way to keep them within the bounds of the actual story it would be great for that
- Comment on Mr. Cook, tear down that wall 9 months ago:
Normally I purposefully don’t click on articles with AI generated images, this one was so bad I thought it was a really bad photoshop instead
- Comment on Windows-as-a-nuisance: How I clean up a “clean install” of Windows 11 and Edge 9 months ago:
I’ve got a whole powershell script I run these days on a new Windows install to remove eveything I don’t need and set things how I like them
- Comment on ‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood 10 months ago:
Social media absolutely needs regulating though. I think it should be subject to the same regulation as gambling
- Comment on This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time 10 months ago:
What are the actual reasonable outcomes here:
- The search engine becomes successful and requires monetization to pay for the hosting/indexing costs
- The search engine does not become successful and the ever increasing cost of indexing the entire internet forces monetization or shut down
- You self host your own version, in which case you need to start indexing yourself (see problem #2)
- Comment on Google's monopoly in the ad industry lets them profit off allowing scam ads to flourish, with no consequences 10 months ago:
I got a propaganda ad from the IDF on Google recently. No idea how that was allowed, I reported it and so far it’s not been taken down
- Comment on HP CEO says customers who don't use the company's supplies are "bad investments" 10 months ago:
They should make their stuff more competitive then
- Comment on Fujitsu bugs that sent innocent people to prison were known “from the start” and hidden from lawyers of wrongly convicted UK postal workers 11 months ago:
Fujitsu isn’t shying away from taking the blame on this which is interesting. Are they legitimately just “doing the right thing” or is there a benefit for them to just own this?
- Comment on Environment Agency told staff to delay inspections to stay on target last year 11 months ago:
This is the problem with poorly thought out KPIs
- Comment on Is Google deliberately slowing down YouTube video buffering for adblock users? 11 months ago:
Are you thinking of the a/b test from a while back?
- Comment on Is Google deliberately slowing down YouTube video buffering for adblock users? 11 months ago:
I think YouTube could stop adblockers and ytdlp easy if they actually wanted it
- Comment on Is Google deliberately slowing down YouTube video buffering for adblock users? 11 months ago:
This one turned out to be the adblockers fault not YouTube. I think YouTube could end adblockers on their site in a day if they wanted to. I think their whole thing with the popups is more about adding FUD than actually blocking their use
- Comment on Is Google deliberately slowing down YouTube video buffering for adblock users? 11 months ago:
So it’s not YouTube doing it?
- Comment on Keir Starmer announces plan for supervised toothbrushing in schools 11 months ago:
Well what’s the alternative? You require more faith to think green will get in, lib dems are tory lite and voting for the tories would just be stupid.
- Comment on Keir Starmer announces plan for supervised toothbrushing in schools 11 months ago:
Not having the tories. it’s a lot harder for them to get rid of labour again once they’re already in and a lot easier for them to get more leftist policies in
- Comment on Keir Starmer announces plan for supervised toothbrushing in schools 11 months ago:
And yet I also see people saying he’s doing too much, going too far in the wrong direction, and I bet if he committed to any change right now people would be saying that he’s going too far left and alienating the center-left voters, saying he’s a communist etc. The British public won’t vote for a hard left labour leader as we saw with Corbyn. Something palatable needs to be presented for labour to win
- Comment on Facebook introduces another way to track you - Link History 11 months ago:
I’m surprised they weren’t doing that before
- Comment on Android users could soon replace Google Assistant with ChatGPT 11 months ago:
First of all fuck companies that just run on investor money making a huge loss to price out anyone else. Fuck openAI especially for doing that and somehow convincing a bunch of respectable companies to integrate their AI bullshit in places it doesn’t belong by making the price so low, which will come back and bite consumers when openAI inevitably puts the price up. Fuck them for overselling the capability of their AI and fuck them for taking advantage of the openness of the Internet to create it.
- Comment on Android users could soon replace Google Assistant with ChatGPT 11 months ago:
Fuck openAI too though
- Comment on Starbucks accused of manipulating app payments for $900 million profit 11 months ago:
Lovely use of the word “profit” in the title then switching it to “revenue” in the actual article. Different things.
- Comment on Starbucks accused of manipulating app payments for $900 million profit 11 months ago:
As a gift
- Comment on Google has started disabling third-party cookies for Chrome users 11 months ago:
Users are products. That will only change if people become a lot happier with paying for services.
- Comment on Post Office under criminal investigation for potential fraud over Horizon scandal 11 months ago:
Why only now? This has been common knowledge for years
- Comment on Electric car sales in UK flatline, prompting calls for VAT cut 11 months ago:
Cornwall to Aberdeen is 700 miles, you’d only have to stop to charge 4 times even with a 200 mile range. You’re probably stopping more than that to take a piss. And I can’t imagine too many people are making that journey.
- Comment on Clicks is a BlackBerry-style iPhone keyboard case designed for creators 11 months ago:
I had one for my iPhone 4, it was cool but not hugely practical
- Comment on Clicks is a BlackBerry-style iPhone keyboard case designed for creators 11 months ago:
Just be glad they didn’t call it an AI keyboard
- Comment on Electric car sales in UK flatline, prompting calls for VAT cut 11 months ago:
In the UK the range of an EV will get you quite a significant distance. Some EVs advertise a range over 400 miles. Even half that is more than most brits travel in a day.