baggins

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says he’ll keep extending TikTok shutdown deadline⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not a deadline then is it, TACO?

  Thank you for you attention to this matter!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zuckerberg says people without AI glasses will be at a disadvantage in the future⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Going by the thumbnail, it looks like an ad from MAD magazine for spy glasses.

  Oh wait…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I read that. ‘Likely conclusion’ does not equal a ban though.

  I’m just being a bit pedantic about the headline - this whole thing is crappy (and unworkable) enough as it is, without jumping to conclusions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t see anywhere in the article that says they may be ‘banned’.

  They can try though. They can also try and collect water in a sieve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DuckDuckGo Is Hoping to Win Over AI-Hating Searchers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t Kagi use AI as well now though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. Next question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK | Commissioner calls for ban on apps that make deepfake nude images of children⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, there isn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Left Apple Maps this week for Magic Earth⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Will try it im my car ;-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Left Apple Maps this week for Magic Earth⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks good, but unfortunately my car (2019 UK Kia Niro hybrid) only accepts Android Auto - and it’s pretty much the only time I’d use the phone for navigation as it provides the GPS for the car :-(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Left Apple Maps this week for Magic Earth⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It stems from General Magic - look them up on WIkipedia. I saw this quote and realised how forward thinking those guys were "In 1990, Porat wrote the following note to Sculley: “A tiny computer, a phone, a very personal object . . . It must be beautiful. It must offer the kind of personal satisfaction that a fine piece of jewelry brings. It will have a perceived value even when it’s not being used… Once you use it you won’t be able to live without it.” Nailed it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X raises Premium Plus subscription pricing by almost 40 percent⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone in the comments pointed out, ‘Grifters gotta grift’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU could target ultra low-cost e-tailers like Shein and Temu with package handling fee or import tax⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good, the less cheap tat the better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix used to not have ads, now it’s ‘celebrating’ two years with them⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome to cable* TV!

  *With or without wires.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Giants Are Set to Spend $200 Billion This Year Chasing AI⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Two posts up from this, is a post about a complete OS on a 1.44MB floppy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google tests showing full recipes right in search results⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Great. More 3 page life stories about someone’s partner and their fur babies and puppers (I hate that term with a passion) before you get to the recipe.

  Sticking with DDG but going to retest Kagi, as DDG seems to be slipping.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s how much Disney Plus will charge to share your password⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Disney Plus says adding an “extra member” to an ad-supported plan will cost $6.99 monthly, with that price going up to $9.99 for its ad-free plan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Fascists”: Elon Musk responds to proposed fines for disinformation on X⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He should know, as the purveyor of wankpanzers and all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phone companies to be asked to help tackle rise in snatch thefts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of the responsibility needs to go onto owners though - you see people walking around with £1000+ phones like they are a slice of pizza. You wouldn’t walk around with that amount of cash on in your hand.

  I suspect a good proportion of those don’t even have find my phone or whatever switched on. Could it not be on by default, or would that be a nightmare?

  And FFS people, stop putting your credit cards whatever in your phone case. Put a password on it whilst you’re at it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Trump Book Threatens To Jail Zuckerberg, Putting Zuck’s Groveling Letter In New Light⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So, Trump is threatening to jail himself. Makes sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  These bastards want to scrounge every single penny they can. They deserve to go under.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fully-automatic robot dentist performs world's first human procedure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point, the (human) dentist and patient can discuss what needs doing – but once those decisions are made, the robotic dental surgeon takes over. It plans out the operation, then jolly well goes ahead and does it.>

  Whether you change your mind or not!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Pentagon Wants to Spend $141 Billion on a Doomsday Machine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Christ on a cracker. We are better than this. I suspect there are a lot of people getting ready to grease their palms here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung expects profits to jump by more than 1,400%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  We can look forward to cheaper phones then.

  We can, can’t we?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is ready to fill free streaming TV channels with ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Free Ad Supported Television? So in other words commercial television.

  Or just call it what it really is, an Ad Supported Service. ASS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adults and teens pick dumbphones to curb social media addiction⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Like here for instance? They could always set up the phone to only allow set times on certain apps. However, of you can set a time limit, you can also unset a time limit. Not having the apps and games in front of you is the key thing.

  You wouldn’t expect a smoker to walk about with fags and lighter in their pocket and not touch them, or an alcoholic with a half bottle of vodka in their bag, calling them all day.

  We’ve been led into a world of ‘must have’ apps, blogs and an always online culture.

  It’ll do us a power of good to step back from that. Beehaw, PieFed and Vivaldi Social are the only ones I keep now.

  Spending a lot less time online and reading a hell of a lot more. And I feel better for it. Less stressed and more relaxed. I don’t have the peer pressure that young kids get though. Any that tells me I ‘must’ use a certain app can do one and they get a lecture on online security and conspiracy theories to go with it. They soon give up 😉

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Binit is bringing AI to trash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I can actually see this as being useful further down the line. It can suggest which bin to put things into.

  In The Expanse they have bins that they drop anything into for recycling - Binit could be sat at the top of a similar system and just steer items to the relevant bin. Anything not positively identified or mixed goes to the general waste bin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump ‘seriously considering’ pardoning Julian Assange | News | gazette.com⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure if that’s top of his ‘To Do’ list rifgt now. Or indeed anytime, he just wants to grab a bit more attention.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over 90 malicious Android apps with 5.5M installs found on Google Play⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t look like it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I certainly will- thank you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Samsung Galaxy Ring might come with a subscription⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  But is it the one ring to rule them all?