DingoBilly

DingoBilly , 3 months ago to Technology in Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time

So what do you want exactly? Do you want the fediverse to remain small and irrelevant forever? Or do you want it to grow and become the dominant space with more bad actors but more useful actors as well?

Because you can't have both, and you will always have more extremists and shitty views with larger groups. I for one think the fediverse is a better implementation of the social tech for pack of a better word, and would prefer its implementation over the closed wall implementation of non fediverse applications.

DingoBilly , 3 months ago to Technology in Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time

But honestly, the fediverse is tiny and I find it's not a suitable replacement for anything at the moment. It does need to have more people joining for it to be a complete replacement.

As to whether Meta will extinguish it or not I don't know, but at least in the short term it could help. I don't think it's reasonable to pre-emptively shoot your foot off because you might get gangrene - I'd rather wait to see it and then decide.

DingoBilly , 3 months ago to Technology in Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time

But the fediverse already has that lol. I've had arguments here with extremists many times.

You won't just magically cure it by stopping FB from federating. Putting your fingers in your ears and closing your eyes doesn't make it go away.

DingoBilly , 3 months ago to Technology in Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time

Yeah I don't understand the issue.

People want the fediverse to grow, so FB entering it is a good thing no? Otherwise realistically the fediverse will likely stagnate and always just take up a tiny bit of space.

The more people involved the better. Sometimes I feel this group just wants to shoot themselves in the foot.

DingoBilly , 3 months ago to Technology in Microsoft is once again injecting pop-up ads into Google Chrome on Windows in a bid to get people to switch to Bing

Use Windows on the daily and still have never seen these at all, on multiple computers as well.

Generally I'd agree it's shitty behaviour though.

DingoBilly , 3 months ago to Technology in Pre-IPO Reddit lets ads be dressed up as promoted user posts

This has been the case for ages so it's not anything new.

DingoBilly , 3 months ago to Technology in OpenAI aims to make its own AI processors — chip venture in talks with Abu Dhabi investment firm: report

My reading of chip wars and similar chip fabrication places is this stuff takes decades to develop and is insanely expensive. Is that not the case here?

DingoBilly , 3 months ago to Technology in Sam Bankman-Fried deserves 40-50 years in prison for FTX fraud, prosecutors say

This makes no sense. He himself was a billionaire who fucked over both rich and non rich people. Just because he failed and took other rich people down a peg doesn't make him some sort of martyr.

DingoBilly , 3 months ago to Technology in Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts

Welcome to 5 years ago? This has been around for years...

DingoBilly , 3 months ago to Technology in The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood

Your comment is equally guilty of assigning blame to something without any strong evidence or similar.

Without actual studies looking into it it's all conjecture.

DingoBilly , 3 months ago to Technology in Never-before-seen Linux malware gets installed using 1-day exploits

Yep. I have no idea what people complain about with Windows update. Unless you just haven't used it for 20 or so years.

DingoBilly , 3 months ago to Technology in Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle”

Wireless sucks. Wired is always better.

DingoBilly , 3 months ago to Technology in Reddit: Return Of The Junk Stock IPO

It's a hard call on Reddit.

This article seems to leave out the reality that Reddit's big win is data and an in built machine learning capability in what is good quality. For future AI and LLMs it's actually a treasure trove of information that will only rise in value.

Realistically it's had massively bad PR and issues but people still use it over Lemmy and many others, and Lemmy/others aren't going to overcome it any time soon (if ever). So it doesn't seem like it's going to go away at end of day, and it's still one of the best sources of information on the internet available.

At end of day it's stocks so it's coin flips all the way. No one beats the market consistently over time that doesn't also utilise insider information.

DingoBilly , 3 months ago to Technology in Mozilla Firefox is Working on a Tab Grouping Feature

Yeah I've tried them but for my purposes they suck. Just adding some colour to tabs or similar doesn't do much. Or bookmarking them all in some weird thing is also weird.

Chrome is shit but it definitely does do grouping the best.

DingoBilly , 3 months ago to Technology in Mozilla Firefox is Working on a Tab Grouping Feature

Thank fuck. This is one of the main reasons I can't use Firefox atm, beyond the fact it's also slower than its competitors.