Tehdastehdas
@Tehdastehdas@piefed.social
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- Comment on Logitech caused its mice to freak out by not renewing a certificate 3 days ago:
My right-out-of-warranty Logitech M590 mouse lost its pairing to its USB-receiver upon booting up Windows after using the mouse in Linux for weeks out-of-warranty. I bought another one, and that too did the same the first time I booted up Windows after the warranty had expired.
Finally I searched the issue, and it’s normal. I had to install a non-default Logitech software in Windows and re-pair the apparently broken mice to their receivers. Both mice work again, except the older one’s left button is acting up a bit.
A non-asshole company would have notified me “Your mouse receiver needs an update that requires re-pairing the connection manually. Do you want to continue the update?”. And why the hell would a mouse receiver need an update when the warranty ends?
Obviously the purpose is to make the mouse appear broken with plausible deniability and bluff the customer into buying a new mouse.
- Comment on Mozilla Integrates Google Lens for Visual Search in Firefox Desktop 3 months ago:
Decades of shit code made browser development so difficult and expensive that Mozilla is dependent on Google’s teat to stay afloat.
- Comment on OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws 3 months ago:
I like the term “confabulation”.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
This reminds me of when Quora automatically deleted questions containing spam, so some political actors used it to provoke the deletion of thousands of years-old inconvenient questions (with all answers) by editing the questions into something that triggered the spam deletion bot. Quora never restored the questions and answers. They did ban the editing of anything, so now the site is full of bad grammar and typos, redundant topics, and wrongly bot-tagged questions.
- Comment on Dictionary.com “devastated” paid users by abruptly deleting saved words lists 5 months ago:
That's barely evil. Consider the destruction of OkCupid as an attack against its liberal-skewed user base:
!lemmy.world/post/24108120
https://lemmy.world/post/24108120 - Comment on Fully Homomorphic Encryption and the Dawn of A Truly Private Internet 5 months ago:
Does this make possible federated supply-demand matching, like dating, jobs, and any kind of marketplace?
- Comment on AI-Enabled Trash Trucks Will Scan Your Trash To Scold You About Recycling 5 months ago:
If you're so damn smart that you can see what trash is what, separate that trash! That's a job for a tireless machine.