Drusenija

Drusenija , 13 days ago to Technology in Apple Intelligence won't launch in EU in 2024 due to antitrust regulation, company says

Oh, I missed them having to backpedal on that! That's good news.

Drusenija , 1 month ago to Technology in Is Firefox still good ?

Isn't Safari WebKit which is different again? Or is that a chromium base as well? (I realise you can't exactly choose Safari unless you have Apple stuff, but I thought it was its own thing).

Drusenija , 1 month ago to Technology in Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue

We've had a McDonalds getting dragged over the coals this week for using the chip warmers to dry a dirty mop head. The McMop has been doing the meme rounds as a result.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b4c74e50-1fcc-4bef-aeae-ef88c154b9f0.jpeg

Drusenija , 1 month ago to Technology in Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue

I have a sneaking suspicion when Google's AI eventually surfaces the story in a search they're probably not going to mention that fact though.

Drusenija , 1 month ago to Technology in Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue

So if they were basically regurgitating Reddit already, does that mean they were using AI before it was cool? They might have just used the Amazon approach to AI (I.e., why use technology when we can throw a bunch of minimum workers at the problem).

Drusenija , 1 month ago to Technology in Spotify is going to break every Car Thing gadget it ever sold

I didn't know Bluetooth cassettes were a thing, although if I think about it then of course they are. What's the sound quality like?

Drusenija , 1 month ago to Technology in Secret meeting between Apple and TSMC reported, possibly to reserve all 2nm capacity

Oh crap. I shouldn't have said there was a meeting.
Oh crap. I definitely shouldn't have said it was a secret.
Oh crap. I absolutely should not have said it was to reserve all our 2nm chip capacity.

Oh, it's too hot today.

Drusenija , 1 month ago to Technology in Samsung mocks Apple’s crushing iPad Pro ad with its own ‘UnCrush’ pitch

Apple's issue was they timed it around a shift to USB-C chargers. Their argument was everyone already had plenty of chargers, but no one had the new ones (well, some people did obviously but they hadn't gotten it with a previous iPhone). That's why they cop so much flak over it.

I agree that conceptually it's a good change, they just picked a bastard of a time to do it (one could argue that was deliberate of course).

Drusenija , 1 month ago to Technology in Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking, and color-coding of employees

And even if they do they have dedicated offices with doors.

Drusenija , 2 months ago to Technology in Elizabeth Warren slammed for wanting to ‘break up Apple’s smartphone monopoly’

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U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she’s not a fan of “green texts on iPhones” and that it’s “time to break up Apple’s smartphone monopoly,” but statistics show the tech giant doesn’t have exclusive control over the market.

The Department of Justice announced a sweeping antitrust lawsuit against Apple in March, accusing the California-based company of engineering an illegal monopoly in smartphones that boxes out competitors, stifles innovation and keeps prices artificially high.

Warren took to social media this week, displaying her support for the suit that takes aim at how Apple allegedly molds its technology and business relationships to “extract more money from consumers, developers, content creators, artists, publishers, small businesses, and merchants, among others.”

Warren specifically called out how people who don’t have iPhones are blocked from sending blue iMessages as messages from Androids and other devices are green. Those without iPhones also face other restrictions, the Massachusetts senator added.

“Green texts on iPhones, they’re ruining relationships. That’s right,” Warren said in a video posted on X Thursday. “Non-iPhone users everywhere are being excluded from group texts. From sports teams chats to birthday chats to vacation plan chats, they’re getting cut out.”

“And who’s to blame here? Apple,” she continued . “That’s just one of the dirty tactics that Apple uses to keep a stranglehold on the smartphone market. …  It’s time to break up Apple’s monopoly now.”

Critics quickly called Warren out for spreading misinformation and for focusing on what they believe is a non-issue.

“It would be nice if Android users could use iMessage features,” an X user responded, “but why would anyone think this sort of micromanaging of businesses is the legitimate role of the government?”

An alert attached to Warren’s post shows context that readers added and “thought people might want to know.” It includes data from Statista highlighting how the iPhone had a 57% market share compared to Android’s 42% in North America, as of January.

The alert, which was removed as of Friday evening, also contained information from Investopedia around how a “monopoly is exclusive control, or no close substitutes.  The current market share of iPhone v Android does not meet that definition.”

Attorneys general from 16 states filed the lawsuit with the Department of Justice in federal court in New Jersey. Massachusetts AG Andrea Campbell did not sign onto the suit which seeks to stop Apple from undermining technologies that compete with its own apps — in areas including streaming, messaging and digital payments.

The suit is the latest example of aggressive antitrust enforcement by an administration that has also taken on Google, Amazon and other tech giants with the stated aim of making the digital universe more fair, innovative and competitive.

“If left unchallenged, Apple will only continue to strengthen its smartphone monopoly,” Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said in a statement last month. “The Justice Department will vigorously enforce antitrust laws that protect consumers from higher prices and fewer choices.”

Apple has called the suit “wrong on the facts and the law” and said it “will vigorously defend against it.”

If successful, the lawsuit would  “hinder our ability to create the kind of technology people expect from Apple — where hardware, software, and services intersect” and would “set a dangerous precedent, empowering the government to take a heavy hand in designing people’s technology,” the company said in a statement last month.

Drusenija , 2 months ago to Technology in Apple Removes WhatsApp, Threads, Telegram, and Signal from China App Store, says it complied with orders from the Chinese government

Unless the app is delisted which can also happen. Flappy Bird was one of the more well known examples of that (I remember people seeing phones on eBay with it still installed for stupid money). If that happens you can't reinstall it.

Drusenija , 3 months ago to Technology in Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads

I quoted this a week or two ago for something else on here, and someone responded along the lines of you know they'd be trying to up that %, and they were 100% right.

Drusenija , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in DNS Services that Allow Subzones/Subdomains?

I'd second afraid.org, have been using them for years and they've always been great. They also support dynamic DNS so if you're on a dynamic IP address you can have the address be updated automatically when your IP address does.

More relevant to the question, I'm pretty sure you can create NS records for a subdomain as well. I was experimenting once a few years back with a DNS tunnel service and was able to get the DNS side of it configured. Never did get the service itself working but it was more of a curiosity at the time so didn't spend a massive amount of time on it.

Drusenija , 3 months ago to Technology in Majority of Americans now use ad blockers

I've been seeing clips from Ready Player One recently and this reminded me of the main bad guy's philosophy on advertising in the OASIS.

we estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual's visual field before inducing seizures

Can't help but feeling there's some parallels there.

Drusenija , 4 months ago to Technology in X is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet — A sign of the scale is the thriving industry in bot-making

Well we keep trying to tell them that if you give money to people who aren't as well as off as the 1% they actually spend that money in the economy and keep businesses running. Maybe this is just their way of testing the theory out? (But, you know, in a way that doesn't actually benefit the rest of us).