SubArcticTundra
@SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy 1 week ago:
It almost feels like the 3rd world war will be fought vertically instead of laterally – to put the genie of runaway capital back in its bottle.
- Comment on EU Pressures Apple Into Universal Clipboard for Compatibility With Windows 2 weeks ago:
I love how the EU just gets to cherry pick like this
- Comment on ICANN is Accepting Suggestions for new TLDs (for $227k) - what would you pick? 3 months ago:
Hahahaha yes! A TLD exclusively dedicated to silly websites
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- Comment on ChatGPT’s ‘Adult Mode’ Could Spark a New Era of Intimate Surveillance 4 months ago:
This feels like it would be a last ditch monetisation move. I wonder if their other planned moves didn’t work out?
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 8 months ago:
a super sketchy Chinese (the best source for sketchy tech)
Russian is also good
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 8 months ago:
You know it reminds me of the academic publishing mafia of Elsevier and the like
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 8 months ago:
Can’t wait for Metaverse land annexations (hackers)
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 8 months ago:
They could have spent them much better, on me.
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 8 months ago:
But it’ll be a federated-like infrastructure
Unfortunately I don’t see any guarantees for this. Unless the incentives that led to the enshittification of the internet disappear, the Metaverse will probably eventually look and function much the same. It really is that predictable.
- Comment on Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing 'I am a failure' comments 1 year ago:
Err, which of its training texts was it autocompleting here?
- Comment on OpenAI Seeks Additional Capital From Investors as Part of Its $40 Billion Round 1 year ago:
- Comment on Windows is getting rid of the Blue Screen of Death after 40 years 1 year ago:
“ran into a problem it couldn’t handle” Windows has too little self-confidence these days.
- Comment on Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code over time 1 year ago:
So it’s still crap, but it has progressively fucked less over time
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 1 year ago:
IP law definitely needs reform though
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 1 year ago:
And makes research investment-worthy.
- Comment on Mozilla is working on new Thunderbird "Pro" email offerings and Thundermail 1 year ago:
Guess they need to pay for Firefox somehow…
- Comment on Hacker group releases updated tool to activate almost all modern Microsoft software 1 year ago:
🥰
- Comment on Swiss tax authority forced to buy Bahamas domain name after URL typo 1 year ago:
- Comment on Meta kills diversity programs, claiming DEI has become “too charged” 1 year ago:
And so the Gleichschaltung begins
- Comment on Google’s counteroffer to the government trying to break it up is unbundling Android apps 1 year ago:
Interesting that they feel themselves to be the authority which should decide what is ‘extreme’ and what isn’t.
- Comment on Meta seeking unfettered access to iPhone user data via EU DMA interoperability requests 1 year ago:
Didn’t expect the law to cut both ways…
- Comment on Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds 1 year ago:
Imagine your first childhood friend being a robot
- Comment on AI-Generated Fake War Images Passed Off as Real 1 year ago:
The most terrifying thing is that humanity still hasn’t invented a way to stop the development of harmful technology. It’s a race to the bottom. Some might say that we’ve managed it with nukes, but I can’t imagine the nukes solution being used for AI.
- Comment on Huge win for Internet freedom: Google must sell its Chrome browser 1 year ago:
Bruh can’t they make it ots own company and then sell shares? (Prefarably without a majority shareholder) >!Or be forced to make it a nonprofit but that’s too utopian thinking!<
- Comment on Could someone please try installing this? I'd be really curious to see what Windows 7 on a Steam Deck would look like! 1 year ago:
Ah nice. Same time period I guess
- Comment on Could someone please try installing this? I'd be really curious to see what Windows 7 on a Steam Deck would look like! 1 year ago:
Who is the guy in the meme? He reminds me of Kramer
- Comment on Could someone please try installing this? I'd be really curious to see what Windows 7 on a Steam Deck would look like! 1 year ago:
Ooh brilliant!
- Comment on Could someone please try installing this? I'd be really curious to see what Windows 7 on a Steam Deck would look like! 1 year ago:
Yes! I’m using it on my PC
- Comment on Could someone please try installing this? I'd be really curious to see what Windows 7 on a Steam Deck would look like! 1 year ago:
I don’t have a Steam Deck :-(
