onlinepersona
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- Comment on Booking.com latest to fall under EU market power rules 43 minutes ago:
I’m curious what the actual effects will be and if they’ll be noticeable…
- Comment on Google patches its fifth zero-day vulnerability of the year in Chrome 2 days ago:
C++ is such a wonderful language.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter 3 days ago:
Yeah, that’s the one I linked. Will try and watch it. Thanks.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter 3 days ago:
Which one? Found this one.
- Comment on Link Taxes Backfire: Canadian News Outlets Lose Out, Meta Unscathed 3 days ago:
- Comment on Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking 4 days ago:
Guess it’s time for those employees to look for another job.
- Comment on Recruiters Are Going Analog to Fight the AI Application Overload 1 week ago:
Recruiters often do a shit job at writing the job posting: no salary, false information, lots of SEO bullshit, business language, lots of bullshitting by throwing around marketing terms like “competitive” and “best in the field”. Nobody believes that garbage. Be honest for once. List the information, don’t lie or hide facts that will drive candidates away when they hear/read them, and for fucks sake, like the goddamn salary.
As for HR, fuck those idiotic personality tests. Stop wasting everybody’s time. Make it 2 - max 3 - step interview process, and be done with it. It’s a 50/50 chance you get a good candidate anyway.
- Comment on Apple's 'incredibly private' Safari is not so private in Europe 1 week ago:
“iGiant eggheads” 😂
I like calling the company “Malus” as that’s what the generic, scientific term for an apple is (aka the genus). It sounds quite fitting to how the company operates.
- Comment on Can Rabbit’s R1 outsmart the smartphone assistants? Let’s find out! 2 weeks ago:
Thanks, that was insightful. Curious gadgets that feel more like gimmicks at the moment. But who knows, maybe in the future they’ll become more common place. It’s hard imagining them displacing a smartphone though…
- Comment on Can Rabbit’s R1 outsmart the smartphone assistants? Let’s find out! 2 weeks ago:
Was expecting a comparison with that Humane Pin. No such luck.
- Comment on Netflix: Profits soar after password sharing crackdown 3 weeks ago:
Guess they haven’t heard of piracy 🤷 This is just showing big businesses that customers really are dumb.
- Comment on Google merges the Android, Chrome, and hardware divisions 3 weeks ago:
The EU is going to love this.
- Comment on Framework’s software and firmware have been a mess, but it’s working on them 4 weeks ago:
I always had the impression Framework laptops were Windows first and Linux as an afterthought. It’s why I never considered recommending or buying one. If you want a linux laptop, get something from Tuxedo Computers, Starlabs, or Slimbook. You’ll be much better served with something built for linux.
- Comment on China tensions underline US investment in TSMC 4 weeks ago:
The money lost by losing the fabs by blowing them up during an invasion would also be astronomical. Surely a controlled move would be less expensive.
Anti Commercial AI thingy
- Comment on China tensions underline US investment in TSMC 4 weeks ago:
How many people have wars and climate change displaced? 12 million people fled Ukraine in the 2 years since Russia invaded. Around 65 million people fled Europe during the second world war which took 6 years. Did they need some kind of advanced plan to be moved? So, how do we displace 24 milllion people? The same way we always have: with whatever transports we have available.
Anti Commercial AI thingy
- Comment on China tensions underline US investment in TSMC 4 weeks ago:
Couldn’t Taiwan find a country willing to “harbor” the entire population and move with all their hardware, leaving the country empty for the Chinese to do what they like? Might be easier than trying to get China to be reasonable…
What will Taiwan be worth to China if all profitable businesses move?
Anti Commercial AI thingy
- Comment on How Apple tricks people into believing the iPhone is cool 5 weeks ago:
*whispers*Get a linux laptop from a real linux vendor*
(TuxedoComputers, Slimbook, System76, Starlabs, and more)
Anti Commercial AI thingy
- Comment on Valve: Windows 11 market share on Steam drops to 41.61% 5 weeks ago:
Change is slow and there aren’t many events that convince people to switch.
- Comment on FCC to vote to restore net neutrality rules, reversing Trump 5 weeks ago:
In 2011, Pai was then nominated for a Republican Party position on the Federal Communications Commission by President Barack Obama at the recommendation of Minority leader Mitch McConnell.
Probably didn’t have a choice. I imagine the Republicans would’ve thrown a fit and blocked any other nomination.
- Comment on Despite Microsoft's push, Windows 11 and Edge see decreases in user share 5 weeks ago:
Where are they going to? Windows 10? Mac? It’s Mac, isn’t it? 🙁
- Comment on Trump’s stake in Truth Social falls by $1bn after company reveals $58m loss 5 weeks ago:
Trump will still be able to pay his debts, right?
- Comment on Canoo spent double its annual revenue on the CEO’s private jet in 2023 5 weeks ago:
It’s probably legal, but very dumb thing to do if you want to keep investors on board. It should be up to the investors to demand that money back.
- Comment on India Banned TikTok, It Didn’t Go Well 1 month ago:
It would’ve been great if the new, Indian, TikTok alternatives had been federated. They could’ve all built up a network together. I wonder why they didn’t do it. Money? Greed? Ignorance?
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg told Facebook execs to 'figure out' how to track encrypted usage on rival apps like Snap and YouTube, unsealed documents show 1 month ago:
But but but… they’re USAian and thus better than foreign services that do the same. Also, they are “job providers” so we can’t fine them too harshly
US justice system probably.
- Comment on How Ember is building an all-electric intercity bus network in the UK 1 month ago:
I remember reading about a bus network in Germany going full hydrogen - without anywhere to refuel. By the time they had the refueling stations (within a year), they had signed a new contract to get a new fleet of diesel busses, which arrived after the refueling stations were built. So they had 2 fleets of busses to use and guess which one they retired…
Hopefully, this doesn’t go the same way.
- Comment on Microsoft says Kremlin-backed hackers accessed its source and internal systems 2 months ago:
This is the OS and infrastructure our governments use and are connected to 24/7. They have the keys to all our data and for some reason that’s fine.
- Comment on Microsoft says Kremlin-backed hackers accessed its source and internal systems 2 months ago:
Unfortunately, I don’t think it’ll do anybody but hackers much good. Nobody’s going to write a windows clone and copied source code found in a code base is just a ticking legal time bomb. Fat chance of anybody dumb enough to do that. Hackers however will enjoy finding exploits.
- Comment on Researchers create AI worms that can spread from one system to another 2 months ago:
I don’t see how this could go wrong 👍
- Comment on Google is blocking RCS on rooted Android devices 2 months ago:
Don’t you mean
not evil?