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macallik, to technology in Meta is promoting Threads posts on Facebook and there’s no way to opt out

I think the equivalent is actually Amazon's main website sharing to friends your Audible purchases in the hopes it can get you to join Audible

macallik, to nostupidquestions in Does the advancement of AI make people apathetic about starting new projects?

The layer of disassociation is present w/ humans speaking different languages too though, right? My point is that once we can understand each other, we are all building on what already exists

macallik, to technology in Google Chrome to soon get a new ‘IP protection’ feature: Here’s what it does

True, but w/ a caveat at the bottom:

At the end of the day, you have to remember that Apple devices are essentially a sealed unit. Any claims they make about privacy cannot be proven - they could slip tracking and keyloggers into every device, and unless you build a device from scratch and program it yourself, there’s nothing you can do about it. You have to trust that they won’t do that, and Apple is in a relatively unique position (particularly compared to google and facebook) in that the business isn’t designed to profit from this, so they have no real reason to do so.

macallik, to technology in Google Chrome to soon get a new ‘IP protection’ feature: Here’s what it does

This was actually the least-biased coverage of the day:
https://www.techmeme.com/231023/p18#a231023p18

macallik, to fediverse in Why does most of the spam I see come from kbin accounts?

This post on why lemmy.world temporarily adjusted federation abilities w/ kbin has a bit more insight, especially in the comments:
https://old.lemmy.world/post/5289864

macallik, to technology in Google Chrome to soon get a new ‘IP protection’ feature: Here’s what it does

This post seemed to put things in context a bit better as it sounds like Google's two-proxy hopping is what Apple does as well:
https://reddit.com/r/apple/comments/xo8ha0/_/iq5e40h/?context=1

The difference (AFAIK) is that Apple's business is less-centered around profiting off users' data, so they're less liable to use the data, while Google will almost certainly use the data.

macallik, to technology in Google Chrome to soon get a new ‘IP protection’ feature: Here’s what it does

Curious to hear more opinions. I think there are technical nuances that I don't quite understand based on reading this comment (& subsequent replies)
https://mastodon.social/@ocdtrekkie/111281971968074869

macallik, to nostupidquestions in Does the advancement of AI make people apathetic about starting new projects?

they are appropriating what already existed and saying it in another way.

Isn't this humanity in a nutshell? Standing on the shoulders of Giants, etc.

macallik, to nostupidquestions in Does the advancement of AI make people apathetic about starting new projects?

I quit my job to start the year and I'm currently doing a sabbatical year. I'm apathetic about the idea of eventually honing in on a specialty to learn when I re-enter the workforce because I'm unsure how sustainable the skills I learn will be in demand for.

The only thing I can think of is expanding my base level understanding of LLMs. My bet is that they will become the foundation with which future projects are launched in the same way that elementary school is the foundation for basic reading/writing/comprehension skills.

macallik, to android in The future of selfhosted services is going to be... Android?

My limited understanding is that ARM usually is a lower priority for devs and so software is often harder to come by?

My personal hope is that people start to turn used desktops/laptops into servers.

macallik, to selfhosted in Harness launches Gitness, an open-source GitHub competitor

Gotcha. Thanks for sharing. I ended up install forgejo yesterday but Gitea will be my next option if I encounter any issues

macallik, to linux in What is the differences between "man" and "info" command

My impression
tldr/cheat: Explains most popular arguments using as little words as possible
man: Explains the entire command using a more technical tone
info: Explains the entire command in slightly more informal tone. Can feel wordier as a result, but on the flipside it connects alternative/related commands in a logical way

macallik, to technology in Firefish *Could* Be the Next Big Thing

Yeah I like it over Mastodon as well. The UI/UX feels more modern. The only downside is that the majority of the Twitter-alternative fediverse is on Mastodon, so I have to run 90% of accounts through 'search' to follow them.

The article does touch on some of the main instance's issues towards the bottom too I just found out.

macallik, to technology in Firefish *Could* Be the Next Big Thing

If nothing else, the article is great for a breakdown of the features of Firefish. I've been a user for 2-3 months and didn't know a lot of the info covered.

On a related note, I was on firefish.social but it was very buggy for me after a while. Thought about throwing in the towel but eventually realized that it was instance specific.

I have since migrated to calckey.world (Calckey -> Firefish instance that didn't change its name) and the experience has been buttery smooth.

macallik, to linux in This week in KDE: colorblindness correction filters

Good to know. I will say as a colorblind person, it's always a tad ironic because as a colorblind person, the filters don't make things definitive. It's still a bunch of random colors that I can't identify lol

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