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- Comment on Signal gets new video call features, making it a viable alternative to Zoom, Meet and Teams 1 week ago:
Yup, I spent years begging my family to stop sending family photos from gatherings through text messages, to no avail. I eventually switched to iPhone and see that it’s fine if we’re all on iMessage, but many of my aunts/uncles/cousins are on Android so if they’re in the picture then it gets sent as MMS and we get terrible images again.
- Comment on Signal gets new video call features, making it a viable alternative to Zoom, Meet and Teams 1 week ago:
The U.S. lagged adoption of SMS compared to Europe (relatively high prices for texting in the early days while relatively low prices for calling in the same era) but now SMS/RCS/iMessage are the dominant mobile messaging method in the U.S. There’s much lower adoption of third-party services like WhatsApp compared to the rest of the world because basically everyone has those services already on their phone, they don’t have to sign up for a service that not everyone might use, and it’s basically free on every phone in the U.S. now.
- Comment on Deck to LG TV 2 weeks ago:
Wait, just so I’m understanding, the dock works with the LG TV if you connect your laptop or Surface Pro, but not your Steam Deck? If so, it sounds like there’s either a setting on your Steam Deck that needs to be changed or the Deck itself is faulty.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO earns $30.6 million more despite laying off over 2,000 employees in 2024 — salary package represents a 63% raise from the previous year 4 weeks ago:
So, $15k per person terminated?
- Comment on San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks 4 weeks ago:
5.25" disks seem like they would’ve been outdated when they were installed in 1998, although I suppose the system design probably started much earlier.
- Comment on Valve still waiting on a 'generational leap' for Steam Deck 2 - but it's coming 5 weeks ago:
I’d like to get a Steam Deck but was wondering if it’s getting close to a newer, better version coming soon. This makes me feel more comfortable, not that I have the budget for one right now anyway.
- Comment on Summit supercomputer set to be retired in November — it was the world's most powerful back in 2018-19 2 months ago:
TL;DR: although this computer still ranks in the world’s top ten most powerful, Oak Ridge has a new computer delivering over 8 times more computing power while using only twice as much electricity.
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram are making AI labels less prominent on edited content 2 months ago:
I didn’t realize they were trying to detect and label AI-generated content. When I’ve uploaded things there’s been a switch to enable if I used AI, but I’ve seen plenty of obvious content that wasn’t labeled so I assumed that if someone didn’t click the button to label it then Facebook doesn’t say it.
- Comment on Twystlock - Free, 100% 3D printable gaming accessories 2 months ago:
Wait, you just created a new lockable quick connector that can be 3D printed with no other parts required? This seems bigger than Steam Deck!
- Comment on Formula 1 is reportedly forcing some F1 creators to change their names 2 months ago:
I am not a lawyer but from my understanding of trademark law this is not surprising.
- Comment on TikTok Lite exposes users to harmful content, say Mozilla researchers 3 months ago:
From Mozilla’s report:
Executive Summary
To attract users across the Global Majority, many technology companies have introduced “lite” versions of their products: Applications that are designed for lower-bandwidth contexts. TikTok is no exception, with TikTok Lite estimated to have more than 1 billion users.
Mozilla and AI Forensics research reveals that TikTok Lite doesn’t just reduce required bandwidth, however. In our opinion, it also reduces trust and safety. In comparing TikTok Lite with the classic TikTok app, we found several discrepancies between trust and safety features that could have potentially dangerous consequences in the context of elections and public health.
Our research revealed TikTok Lite lacks basic protections that are afforded to other TikTok users, including content labels for graphic, AI-generated, misinformation, and dangerous acts videos. TikTok Lite users also encounter arbitrarily shortened video descriptions that can easily eliminate crucial context.
Further, TikTok Lite users have fewer proactive controls at their disposal. Unlike traditional TikTok users, they cannot filter offensive keywords or implement screen management practices.
Our findings are concerning, and reinforce patterns of double-standard. Technology platforms have a history of neglecting users outside of the US and EU, where there is markedly less potential for constraining regulation and enforcement. As part of our research, we discuss the implications of this pattern and also offer concrete recommendations for TikTok Lite to improve.
- Comment on Olympic drone spying scandal lands Canadian coach a red card 3 months ago:
I don’t think “preventing spying on opponents’ practice sessions” is the primary reason drones are banned at the Olympics
- Comment on UK school reprimanded for unlawful use of facial recognition technology 3 months ago:
Why does a school need facial recognition technology? Trying to keep out threatening persons?
Chelmer Valley High School, in Chelmsford, Essex, started using facial recognition technology for cashless lunch payments in March 2023, having used fingerprinting since 2016.
Oh. Super.
- Comment on Nvidia set to face French antitrust charges, sources say 4 months ago:
It voiced concerns regarding the sector’s dependence on Nvidia’s CUDA chip programming software, the only system that is 100% compatible with the GPUs that have become essential for accelerated computing.
I wonder if changing this would indirectly benefit open source drivers for Linux?
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- Comment on Steam Deck game library now 29% larger than that of Nintendo Switch 5 months ago:
I really hope to get one of these at some point
- Comment on Bing outage shows just how little competition Google search really has 5 months ago:
The author’s conclusion has me wondering what would it take to build a really good new system? Could we make a paid version, at a cost users would find reasonable to grow to a large enough base, and one that is incentivized to find users the best links quickly? Unlike how Google has been moving in recent years
- Comment on Microsoft’s “Copilot+” AI PC requirements are embarrassing for Intel and AMD 5 months ago:
The new Snapdragon X Pro and Elite chips support it, but they’re the only ones currently and those devices are just launching now
- Comment on Professor sues Meta to allow release of feed-killing tool for Facebook 6 months ago:
I don’t want it to be a push thing, though, keep it optional, that someone only sees if they choose to look. Otherwise I could also just send emails like people did in the ’90s and ’00s, but I didn’t like how my inbox started filling up.
- Comment on Professor sues Meta to allow release of feed-killing tool for Facebook 6 months ago:
Is there something like a federated version of Facebook? I liked the premise in the early days, especially the early days of the timeline when it could actually be sorted chronologically. When I joined Facebook instead of the then-competing MySpace back in 2005 one of the things I liked was that it was pretty private; everything I did was only visible to the people I was friends with on the platform. I don’t even know how that would really work with federation since it seems like structurally everything kind of has to be public.
I guess what I’d like is something where my friends and family are easily connected, where I can share pictures/videos or links or just thoughts I have about whatever’s going on in the moment, but still have those only visible to the people I choose (including even adjusting that so some things are visible only to close family instead of all my friends, for example). And I want the same coming from my connections. I don’t want to see something else they commented on, I don’t want to see content from some friend-of-a-friend or group a friend follows, I don’t want to see content from total strangers or groups the platform just thinks I’ll like. Basically I just want Facebook like it was in the early days, before it started focusing on increasing engagement to drive ad revenue, when it was actually a kind of useful way to connect.
- Comment on Palm OS and the devices that ran it: An Ars retrospective 6 months ago:
I remember in high school kids practiced writing with Graffiti, even though most of us did not have a Palm Pilot, just in the hope that we’d be ready if we got one.
- Comment on US government says security flaw in Chirp Systems' app lets anyone remotely control smart home locks 6 months ago:
Reading the article it sounds like these are largely used for rentals like apartments. One of the largest customers is Camden apartments, who did not respond to a request for comment (the manufacturer and the manufacturer’s parent company also did not respond to a request for comment, just as they continue to ignore the security researcher and federal agency).
The rental companies often force customers to use the locks as part of their lease terms. They also typically claim no responsibility in the event of loss due to burglary. It’s unclear how that would play out for renters whose property is stolen because the lessor forced them to use a lock with a major security flaw.
- Comment on US government says security flaw in Chirp Systems' app lets anyone remotely control smart home locks 6 months ago:
Notified about the issue three years ago but still have not acknowledged or fixed the issue
- Comment on Huawei phone has a pop-out camera lens, just like a point-and-shoot camera 7 months ago:
I’ve figured it’s only a matter of time before this comes. With flagship phones costing US$1,000+ there’s starting to be room for that kind of cost.
- Comment on German state decides to move away from Microsoft to Linux and LibreOffice 7 months ago:
Currently, there are a few Microsoft products for which the local government cannot find an open-source alternative such as Microsoft Active Directory, as such it is looking to conceive and develop an open source based directory service which will replace this in the future.
No good alternative for Active Directory? Isn’t that what LDAP does and aren’t there a number of FOSS projects for that? What does Active Directory have that they don’t?
- Comment on Amazon kills “Just Walk Out” shopping tech—it never really worked 7 months ago:
The shopping cart that has a POS built-in sounds like what they should’ve gone with all along. I feel like that’s actually a pretty decent idea, and I’m hearing it I’m kind of surprised that hasn’t been done already.
- Comment on Elon Lost The Spam Wars To ‘Pussy In Bio’ Spam 7 months ago:
If Musk could reflect for just one moment, it might be nice if he realized how stupidly over confident he was that he would be able to solve it. And also, how wrong he was to insist that the previous management wasn’t taking the issue seriously.
I don’t feel like I’ve seen a lot of instances of him recognizing stupid overconfidence in his own actions.
- Comment on Canoo spent double its annual revenue on the CEO’s private jet in 2023 7 months ago:
If it’s “only” a million and a half that’s probably not a tremendous amount for a vehicle manufacturer, but it also seems like with no real production yet it might’ve been better to mostly fly commercial and save the charters for when the commercial schedules were really bad.
- Comment on Twitch bans turning butts and boobs into green screens 7 months ago:
This is both hilarious and leaves me shaking my head that people are doing this
- Comment on Swiss hydrogen-powered train sets 1741-mile record for nonstop travel 7 months ago:
This isn’t just a feasibility demonstrator, it’s the first unit of a four unit order that’s supposed to enter service this year. The testing in Colorado is for federal certification to use the train in revenue service on railroads in the U.S. Setting a Guinness World Record was just a side effort for publicity and to show the full capabilities of the system.