sanzky
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- Comment on Mozilla is eliminating its advocacy division, which fought for a free and open web 1 week ago:
IIRC they recently lost that google money in august since they were found guilty of monopolistic practices. that is why they’ve been reducing budget everywhere (except AI….)
- Comment on Looking for TV recommendations 4 weeks ago:
those screens tend to be overpriced for home use and their image quality is not the best since the signaging priorities are different.
I’m not sure about Canada, but in europe you just need to reject the terms of services of the TV OS and you can use it as a dumb tv.
- Comment on Looking for TV recommendations 5 weeks ago:
I would go for an OLED. LG, Samsung and Sony all make good ones. I love my LG C3 and the newer C4 is also great. You could even find a C3 in a larger version so it fits your budget. the more expensive G4 is also there.
Samsung is also good but lacks dolby vision and they seem to have a particular color profile that people seem to either like a lot or dislike.
- Comment on The British government is transferring sovereignty of an island in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius next week, potentially impacting the existence of the .io domain. 1 month ago:
ok. I was not aware the two letter TLD were more restricted than the others. thanks!
- Comment on The British government is transferring sovereignty of an island in the Indian Ocean to Mauritius next week, potentially impacting the existence of the .io domain. 1 month ago:
I don’t get why they killed. some regional areas have their own TLD. .cat for Catalonia, for example.
- Comment on China's state subsidies in green technologies significantly higher than those in EU and OECD countries, distorting competition, researchers say 4 months ago:
Is the abstract concept of “competition” more important than weaning out of fossil fuels in order to keep Earth habitable for humans?
You need to understand, this is written by economists, the people who make a living by justifying human suffering.
- Comment on The Paradox of Blackmarket Wired Bluetooth Apple headphones. 5 months ago:
Even if it’s a nice solution the licensing issue, they are still deceiving their users. I don’t think I have seen anything like them but they should be clear that they are bluetooth.
- Comment on The problem with GIMP 5 months ago:
Curious. I always imagined it was a reference to the folklore create ‘Imp’.
- Comment on [Doug Jones interview] Star Trek Marks a Turning Point for a Secret Sci-Fi Legend 5 months ago:
I think Saru is the best that came out of Discovery. I think the character will rank high in Trek’s Pantheon for a long time.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Same goes for words in foreign languages. it just causes confusion. I like how eclipse went for “temurin” (anagram for runtime) for their OpenJDK distribution. no way to cause confusion.
- Comment on An Interview With Jack Dorsey 6 months ago:
this guy is 100% committed to give nazis a platform, right?
- Comment on 3 days 🤯 7 months ago:
wait… you are not being sarcastic?
- Comment on Switch performs better running games through an emulator emulating the switch than natively. 7 months ago:
is this really an emulator in the traditional sense? (implementing certain hardware architecture using software) or are they just implementing some software to read and run games in the host hardware? I would be very surprised if this was a true emulator, but I have no idea about the current scenario.
- Comment on U.S. Sues Apple, Accusing It of Maintaining an iPhone Monopoly 8 months ago:
Jason Snell made a good overview of what the suit focuses on. I think it makes the case easier to understand sixcolors.com/…/u-s-versus-apple-a-first-reaction…
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' Sets Filming Window & Episode Count 8 months ago:
S31 was repurposed into a movie but it was on development for some time. Legacy was just wishful thinking by Terry Matalas.
IMHO Picard should have ended with an USS Picard instead of a new Enterprise. It was clearly just a hook from Matalas trying to get a new show
- Comment on Great question Michael 8 months ago:
this is incredible common. in software offerings, an enterprise account per user can be twice or more the price of an “individual one”. eg. an individual intelliJ license is 200€ for the first year and 600€ for the enterprise one
- Comment on The Worst Devices of CES 2024! By iFixIt 10 months ago:
maybe your vacuum works with valetudo? it’s a self-hosted cloud replacement for many vacuums valetudo.cloud
- Comment on OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material 10 months ago:
What’s stopping AI companies from paying royalties to artists they ripped off?
profit. AI is not even a profitable business now. They live because of the huge amount of investment being poured into it. If they have to pay their fair share they would not exist as a business.
why OpenAI is actually true. The issue IMHO is the idea that we should give them a pass to do it.
- Comment on OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material 10 months ago:
that would mean governments prosecuting all offences, which is not going to happen. I doubt any country would have enough resources for doing that
- Comment on OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material 10 months ago:
copyright has become a tool of oppression. Individual author’s copyright is constantly being violated with little resources for them to fight while big tech abuses others work and big media uses theirs to the point of it being censorship.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Season 5 Voice Work Resumes; Tawny Newsome Tells Us About Recording Return 11 months ago:
the character have so good chemistry together it is curious to think they just each record their stuff separately
- Comment on The original Apple Watch lineup is officially obsolete 1 year ago:
if you bought the gold watch and now you feel cheated, you totally deserve it.
- Comment on France orders Apple to halt iPhone 12 sales due to high radiation levels 1 year ago:
“radiation” levels are barely outside of regulation. and france has record of testing devices more strictly than the rest of countries. my guess is Apple will appeal, it will be retested and all will be good. the same has happened before (I think 7,8 and 11, but don’t quote me on it)
- Comment on Strange New Worlds 2x08 was one of the best Star Trek episodes ever 1 year ago:
maybe I just did not fully understood everything until it was over. I found it confusing that the reason to call him butcher was not the killing of civilians but he killing his own men.
In the end he wants to keep the fact that he didn’t kill his own men because that seems to be the reason for starfleet to really considered him a defector? I honestly see that as a weak argument. particularly several years after he has been successfully working as an ambassador.
I feel that if his lies would have been clear earlier we could have had more intense scenes between them and his character could have been developed a bit better
- Comment on Strange New Worlds 2x08 was one of the best Star Trek episodes ever 1 year ago:
I disagree a lot. I think the idea was very good and it has good chunks, but overall it was even below average for SNW. The first with the first episode of the season. I feel it hid to much information just to be able to give a twist in the end, at the expense of the first part of the episode, which I think it dragged too much.
I feel the writers are trying very hard to show SNW can have a very wide range of themes but I dont think they are delivering that well when it comes to war.
- Comment on 1 year ago:
I see. They discovered that writing/acting for animated shows is bound to a different guild which is not on strike