GigglyBobble

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GigglyBobble,

Why are there so many paru fans? Last release is a year old, constantly out of date in AUR and failing builds in Github don't scream code quality. I prefer yay.

GigglyBobble,

Browsers do have exploits from time to time. Clicking suspicious URLs can be dangerous.

GigglyBobble,

I hate the Apple approach of "90% of users don't understand this, so we won't allow it". That's exactly the reason I cannot use Apple products. I've always argued exactly like you - offer expert settings instead. That requires more testing for their QA but PCs are still around, so it's obviously doable.

GigglyBobble,

It's not about not respecting them, it's about the supposedly boring game play. That's why everyone is looking for good healers - everyone wants to play DD instead (even though healers often have bigger numbers).

GigglyBobble,

Wouldn't a locally installed IMAP client produce less traffic than any web UI? I only use those.

GigglyBobble,

Germany is also last when it's about ownership in general though. Germans have pretty low net worth considering the country's economic power because they love their Girokonto and their Sparbuch (aka money gets eaten by inflation).

GigglyBobble,

Right. That's one major reason not to buy real estate in Germany for renting it out. Tenants can basically destroy your property and there's hardly anything you can do about it. There are other kinds of assets to build wealth though.

GigglyBobble,

Isn't it ironic how you need instructions now to install Windows with a bearable level of bloat? Kinda like installing Arch just for uninstalling/skipping instead of installing.

GigglyBobble,

the ads, bloat, spyware, needs to go

They just introduced them. What makes you think this isn't an integral part of the future of Windows?

GigglyBobble,

It has been ages since I installed Windows 11

Ages? Really? It was released two years ago.

GigglyBobble,

At least you can read it without unblocking js. That's becoming rarer and rarer.

The End of Privacy is a Taylor Swift Fan TikTok Account Armed with Facial Recognition Tech (www.404media.co)

A viral TikTok account is doxing ordinary and otherwise anonymous people on the internet using off-the-shelf facial recognition technology, creating content and growing a following by taking advantage of a fundamental new truth: privacy is now essentially dead in public spaces....

GigglyBobble,

technology that propels us also further

How does that apply to facial recognition tech? Its sole purpose is surveillance. Yeah and the negligible added convience to unlock your phone without touching it. I guess that justifies it to many.

GigglyBobble,

I guess they were hinting at an AI dystopia which would be "the worst".

GigglyBobble,

It has been the case for well over a decade but for free web stuff. Philips Hue lights are expensive and still they pull this shit. That's something that just started quite recently.

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Uptime: 12 mins

Sounds about right.

GigglyBobble,

Had you put it on a blockchain a couple of years ago, you could've made millions.

GigglyBobble,

So, Chrome and Edge? No thank you.

GigglyBobble,

That's not so obvious to me. Companies might refer to usage statistics to exclude the ones you mentioned.

GigglyBobble,

AI is also the broader term. It also covers algorithmic approaches and knowledge representation.

GigglyBobble,

I'm so happy I replaced Win 10 with Linux and now can watch this dumpster fire from afar.

GigglyBobble,

Oh, I'm stuck with Windows at work myself. It's even more painful if you know what the user experience could be.

GigglyBobble,

You can hate on Apple all you want (and I really do) but they made the right device at the right time. Tech might all have been there but the combination and usability of the first iPhone was groundbreaking.

GigglyBobble,

Innovation is always based on what's already been done. If some tech company takes off on tech someone else invented, the question is why the inventor was not able to monetize on it. It's not always as simple as "tech company stole it". Invention and prototyping is very different to making a product that people want.

GigglyBobble,

You're overgeneralizing. Government money is in everything. It needs more effort to prove it's causal for every innovation there is.

GigglyBobble,

Historically speaking if you actually invented something, you got nothing but a wage or a very small payout.

That's true for most innovations ever and not exclusive to the US tech industry.

GigglyBobble,

No. You're the one with the big claims that the whole industry (or in your other reply even the whole capitalist world) doesn't innovate. So you first provide some actual evidence. So far your arguments are just "trust me" themselves.

GigglyBobble,

UX is hugely undervalued, I wonder if one of the reasons is because you don’t notice good UX, it’s not in the way, but you noticed bad UX. So good UX without a lot of marketing is invisible.

I absolutely agree. It's especially underestimated how hard it is to make actually good UX because what feels intuitive can be highly individual. In addition the typical techie nerd that does the programming is more interested in technical puzzles than trying to view the program with the eyes of an end user (which feels pretty schizophrenic at times since you know how the thing works but need to dissociate from that knowledge).

GigglyBobble,

Big tech won't suffer. They will just fork and maintain (and probably enshittify) their own kernel.

Small and mid tech will suffer, however. The article just mentions Android as the prime example for embedded systems and forgets to mention that 80-90% of industrial embedded systems run on Linux (at least of the bigger ones that require an actual OS).

Those will either be driven to Microsoft's shitty half-done, hardly documented embedded OS versions or some company rises as the white knight offering and maintaining LTS Linux kernels. Both scenarios will increase cost of course that will eventually come out of us consumers' pockets. The former, worse scenario will make industrial applications even less secure on top.

GigglyBobble,

Quantum computers were never supposed to replace conventional computers. Their theoretical performance is only superior for a specific set of problems that usually are not relevant for every-day computing.

GigglyBobble,

You need to understand to correctly classify the danger though.

Otherwise you make stupid decisions such as quiting nuclear energy in favor of coal because of an incident like Fukushima even though that incident just had a single casualty due to radiation.

GigglyBobble,

Well, anti-vaxxers probably know more death among their family and friends making them cynical.

GigglyBobble,

They wouldn't attribute it to the virus but something like 5G radiation. And yes, it doesn't make sense.

GigglyBobble,

winget is a poor excuse of a package manager, misses lots of applications, doesn't handle OS updates and AFAIK also no dependencies.

WSL is Linux on crutches since the file IO is done with the subpar Windows API and bloated NTFS killing one of Linux' most effective performance advantage (it runs much faster in vm on Windows even). It's basically the reverse of Wine which makes some Windows applications run even faster than on Windows itself.

if someone grows up with specific OS, they will probably prefer that OS and when comparing it with another one

Cannot say anything about probability but I grew up with DOS and Windows (starting from 3.1). I tried Debian in the 90s and hated it. Tried again almost 20 years later and eventually moved all my machines to Linux (Windows 10 telemetry was the last straw). Still use Windows at work though and hate it even more now that I know how smooth a modern OS can run.

GigglyBobble,

I have the chaotic neutral setup and the open notebook as a third monitor. Does that resolve to true neutral too?

GigglyBobble,

On a local pc no less. They don't use password repos at Microsoft?

GigglyBobble,

They asked about privacy, not security. WhatsApp is profiling you.

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if you don’t have a FB account, or don’t use your real name there, all they’ll know is that you have a WhatsApp account, but won’t see your messages, unless someone reports your messages

They don't need your chit-chat to profile you. Metadata profiling is where it's at and that's why that whole e2ee introduction was just a marketing ruse. It's good enough for the NSA, so it's good enough for Meta. And Meta does collect that data even without an account.

but the same can be said for other OSS alternatives;

Well, your example is not open source, so yes, you cannot trust Telegram. Signal open sourced their server code some time ago. Even with FOSS you have to stay vigilant though and complete trustlessness is hardly achievable (do you trust your device? Your carrier? Your communication partner's? Etc.)

GigglyBobble,

It’s good enough for NSA to catch a terrorist, not necessarily useful enough for FB to produce targeted ads.

I disagree. Identifying a terrorist and their whereabouts for targeted assassination is not that different to serving personalized ads. It's all about gathering information about the person.

True, file metadata is unaccessible like message content but I was referring to message metadata which covers ip address and phone number (as you mentioned) but also geo location (possibly live - WhatsApp is an application after all), when you communicate with whom how often. You can derive lots of info from that especially if your communication partners are more careless about their data and may maintain an active social media profile with Meta.

It's definitely easier than finding out info about someone whose life depends on not being found - like a terrorist.

GigglyBobble,

Tho honestly I can’t imagine how an online app can ever be equal to a local one

Why not? It's just a web app. It's not really about the underlying tech making it inferior but about the device interface.

I mean your meme is funny but you could've made it even in Paint. The other tools are on another level.

GigglyBobble,

I've never played tabletop RPG but to me such people just sound like they want to be an asshole and only feel safe enough to play it out ingame. This doesn't seem to be really about the game.

GigglyBobble,

European politicians like hydrogen for some reason. Inefficiencies don't matter, they are used to those.

GigglyBobble,

Kbinauts ftw.

GigglyBobble,

Well, TikTok made an estimated $9.4B in revenue in 2022 making that fine 3.7%. That's pretty big.

GigglyBobble,

I never understood that kind of hype. Also people camping in front of cinemas or stores. Why? It's just some movie or toy. That behavior doesn't seem healthy.

GigglyBobble,

That's actually not that rare when I work later than usual. Some stupid problem my brain is too fried to solve. Eventually I give up, feeling defeat for the whole evening and solve the problem in 10 mins the next morning. Get enough sleep, people.

GigglyBobble,

Thanks. I did not need to know that. Oh well, off to more headbanging then.

GigglyBobble,

Apple devices are just status symbols. And as such, too many people that cannot really afford them buy the devices and have to tell themselves there's a rational reason to. That's also why they cheer record financial figures, passionately fight criticism or tell people having technical issues that it's their fault. It's basically Stockholm syndrome.

GigglyBobble,

Textbook Apple fanboy reply.

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