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M500 ,

I just had to install chrome to book plane tickets. Kept getting an error on Firefox.

M500 ,

When I was choosing a return site it kept saying, “oops there was a mistake. It was not your fault. Try again later”.

Their mobile app sucked too, so I installed chrome to see if it would work and it did right away.

M500 ,

Thanks! I just downloaded chrome to use for this one off instance. I’m pretty degoogled, but needed to book a flight so I just needed to get it done.

M500 ,

I just had a white person tell me (a white person) that ask white Americans are colonizers. But she works elaborate on why other races of Americans are not. She also didn’t want to elaborate on what I should do. Just told me that if I cared I’d already know it look it up.

So this is part of the reason. People claim to be leftists without putting any effort or critical thought into it.

M500 ,

Can you give me an example of what you’re talking about in the last paragraph? I don’t really get it.

My ancestors are from like 7 different countries around Europe and one country from the Middle East(light/white skinned).

M500 ,

What I don’t understand is what some people would want me to do about it.

I understand what you’re saying now, but I’m not sure what the call to action is.

M500 ,

Great, so a second person complaining about someone calling themselves white without suggestion as to what souls be changed.

I think you’re just racist against white people.

M500 ,

Haha, that’s kinda funny. Then people are like.

Just tell your friends and family to stop using iMessage. Like everyone will be ok to switch their routine just like that.

M500 ,

In the ios app there is literally a switch that turns on gpt-4. I am not sure what it is using when the switch is off though.

M500 ,

They already have porn chatbots.

More 128TB SSDs are coming as almost no one noticed this launch — another SSD controller that can support up to 128TB appeared paving the way for HDD-beating capacities (www.techradar.com)

More 128TB SSDs are coming as almost no one noticed this launch — another SSD controller that can support up to 128TB appeared paving the way for HDD-beating capacities::Phison quietly revealed an updated X2 SSD platform at CES

M500 ,

My steam deck typically has one big game installed at a time. At this point, I just want to finish baldurs gate 3 so I can delete it and put on some other games.

OpenAI collapses media reality with Sora AI video generator | If trusting video from anonymous sources on social media was a bad idea before, it's an even worse idea now (arstechnica.com)

OpenAI collapses media reality with Sora AI video generator | If trusting video from anonymous sources on social media was a bad idea before, it's an even worse idea now::Hello, cultural singularity—soon, every video you see online could be completely fake.

M500 ,

I don’t think so, as deep fake stuff was about switching faces and voices. You needed actual footage to train this on.

So if you wanted to stage something, it would take considerable effort, money, time, and manpower.

Now anyone will be able to just type in a prompt and have a video generated.

We saw the Joe Biden deepfake that made calls to tell people not to vote for him. Now just wait until we are having videos of him saying it sent out in mass.

M500 ,

What am I supposed to be looking at here?

Lucid Motors drops the price of its cheapest EV by more than $8,000 (www.yahoo.com)

Lucid Motors drops the price of its cheapest EV by more than $8,000::Lucid Motors is lopping thousands of dollars off the price of its most affordable electric sedans as it looks to boost demand after a disappointing year of sales. The rear-wheel drive version of the base model Lucid Air Pure will now start a $69,900, down from...

M500 ,

It’s like we are entering an economy where you are either rich and can afford basic things like a car and house or you are poor and feel like you are being kept out of this world.

M500 ,

It not just this car though. Everything seems to be going that way.

M500 ,

Maybe you’re just depressed…

Joking!

I’ve been the same way with some games, I just feel like I’ve seen enough and am ready to put it down.

The White House wants to 'cryptographically verify' videos of Joe Biden so viewers don't mistake them for AI deepfakes (www.businessinsider.com)

The White House wants to 'cryptographically verify' videos of Joe Biden so viewers don't mistake them for AI deepfakes::Biden's AI advisor Ben Buchanan said a method of clearly verifying White House releases is "in the works."

M500 ,

Wouldn't this be defeated by people re-uploading the video? I think all these sites will re-encode the videos uploaded so the hash will not match, then people will use that as proof that the video is not real.

Disney+ has started cracking down on password sharing in the US (www.engadget.com)

Disney+ started getting strict about password sharing in Canada last year, and now it's expanding the restriction to the US. According to The Verge, the streaming service has been sending out emails to its subscribers in the country, notifying them about a change in its terms of service. Its service agreement now states that...

M500 ,

I am from the US, my wife is not. I live in her country and Disney releases a different app for each country.

This is a problem, because I have the US app store and she has the app store from her country. So, I cannot log into our disneyplus account on my phone. Or I can get the app and subscribe then, she can't login.

I'd switch my account to the country where we are living, but I can't or I'd lose access to some of my banking apps. So, I don't even have a way to watch it without getting two subscriptions.

Musk says Tesla will hold shareholder vote ‘immediately’ to move company’s incorporation to Texas (www.forbes.com.au)

Musk says Tesla will hold shareholder vote ‘immediately’ to move company’s incorporation to Texas::Billionaire Elon Musk justified the decision on the results of an unscientific poll run on his X account a day earlier.

M500 ,

I think it’s because Delaware has really lax laws on incorporating and a special court just for corporate stuff so legal issues can get sorted quickly.

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Like in Delaware you can incorporate for like $500 a year and not even need to provide the names of the officers or ceo of the corporation.

M500 ,

Can you explain what makes it a tax haven?

M500 ,

Debian

M500 ,

Their site is a bit confusing. It's not clear whether it is free or if their is a cost to use it.

M500 ,

I have been using Libreoffice for a while. I am not a poweruser of these kinds of apps, but I still need them.

I have been very happy with them and they are decently customizable. The ram usage difference between this and the office suite was bigger than I expected.

There is one thing I have not been able to figure out.

Is there a way to make the "web View" the default when opening a document?

M500 ,

For a slightly different perspective, I will not game on anything other than a Steamdeck. So, this is kind perfect for me. But, I am a long hauler with hardware so I typically upgrade everything all at once anyway.

M500 ,

May it’s my age, but I feel like d3 was significantly more popular that d4 is.

Since it’s required to be online I’m 100% skipping it.

I’m also Skipping it because they took overwatch 1 away from me. So no more blizzard games until overwatch 1 comes back.

Raspberry Pi is planning a London IPO, but its CEO expects “no change” in focus (arstechnica.com)

The business arm of Raspberry Pi is preparing to make an initial public offering (IPO) in London. CEO Eben Upton tells Ars that should the IPO happen, it will let Raspberry Pi's not-for-profit side expand by "at least a factor of 2X." And while it's "an understandable thing" that Raspberry Pi enthusiasts could be concerned,...

M500 ,

My local Pinkberry uses orange pi as their POS computer.

M500 ,

I remember programming the songs by pressing the buttons in the right order from some website.

M500 ,

There was this bamboo treehouse that my wife and I slept in on a vacation. It was really nice and relaxing. We plan to go back soon.

M500 ,

I like how just about everyone I who’s looked at this is basically like, “fuck apple”.

There are a few fanboys, but they are way less common than usual.

I’m hoping Apple picks up on this and reverses course.

M500 ,

I’d like to add that even if you sell apple. The only other alternative is android and they have their own set of issues.

For me, an iPhone that allows sideloading would be a huge step towards perfect.

M500 ,

I’m hoping, the EU comes down hard on Apple. But I’m guessing this was Apple testing the waters and will make meaningful changes when they formally submit their proposal.

I’d love to see Apple get banned from making sales in EU for a month or so. Just to really show them that they have to start playing fairly and follow the law.

M500 ,

I’m against deepfaking others without their consent, but all this coverage has me wondering what the big deal is. Things like this have always existed, what is the difference this time?

M500 ,

It’s the Streisand effect. Now I want to see out of curiosity. Not that I’m going to, but all this talk has me wondering why it’s suddenly being spoken about.

M500 ,

I agree, I almost got an air, but reconsidered when I saw how much I had to pay to increase the hard drive and ram.

It’s not worth it.

Snapdragon is releasing new laptop arm chip this year and chrome is testing the arm version of chrome for windows.

I think that we will see some decent battery optimized windows laptops this year.

M500 ,

I don’t think it can. But it might be able to do it for the wiiu in some instances.

M500 ,

Baldurs gate 3 has gone from from 140gb to 200mb by changing it to a text based adventure.

M500 ,

The fanboys make me angrier than Apple. It’s so frustrating to discuss something with someone who is so brainwashed.

M500 ,

Here is my problem with a nonstandard operating system on a phone.

A rely on it to run my very small business. I don’t want to get blocked by an app I rely on or suddenly have it stop working due to running an unofficial operating system.

So it’s either stock Android or stock iOS. iOS I’d say is more private than Android, so I stick with them.

M500 ,

I’m not worried about Google blocking it but rather the app I use to say, “hey something weird is going on with this phone better block/ban that account.

I know the risk is minimal, but it’s not could be a huge disruption to my income, so it’s just not worth it.

M500 ,

I care about sideloading and imessage. If imessage was available on android, I would be using a pixel at the moment. It's just that I am from the US but don't live their. So imessage is the easiest way for me to be in touch with 99% of the people I know.

M500 ,

What is your side to this? Can you explain it to me?

A lot of the comments I’ve read who are on apples side, make claims that are not realistic or don’t give any reasons at all for being on apples side.

M500 ,

I’m getting real sick of Apple. I used to be a pretty big Apple fanboy, but over time I have been starting to resent them more and more.

It started a few years ago, when I needed a new laptop because the 2016 MacBook Pro had the backlight not working defect and I was out of the period to get it fixed.

I looked at the MacBook Air, but even to this day, it only has 256gb hard drive and 8gb ram. After upgrading the storage space, the price was insanely high. I don’t mind paying extra for an upgrade to storage and ram, but not $400 more for something that should be the standard amount at this point.

Then iMessage being locked to iPhone. Since I’m from the US but don’t live there I’m pretty locked into iOS for iMessage unless I want to deal with and pay for international messaging.

Now, once they’re forced to open the app store, something that a lot of people want, they are being so petty about it.

I just got an iPhone 15 to upgrade from my
iPhone XR, but I’m really thinking about just moving to a pixel and saying buy to Apple for
Good.

M500 ,

It has nothing to do with third party app stores.

Someone made an app that was genuinely very good. Then a company wanted to buy the app. The developer sold the app. The company loaded it with whatever spyware they wanted and pushed it in an update.

Now the app is garbage. Sadly it happens all the time. It happened to me right after I bought a year subscription to private internet access.

But to be clear this can happen on any platform or App Store official or not.

M500 ,

Sorry, I was not very clear. I was speaking generally about how this process works to demonstrate that it has nothing to do with app stores.

M500 ,

I can't find a way to run any of these on my homeserver and access it over http.
It looks like it is possible but you need a gui to install it in the first place.

JPMorgan Chase fights off 45 billion hacking attempts each day (edition.cnn.com)

JPMorgan Chase fights off 45 billion hacking attempts each day::JPMorgan Chase says it has seen a sizable increase in attempts by hackers each day to infiltrate its systems over the last year, highlighting the escalating cybersecurity challenges the bank and other Wall Street titans are facing.

M500 ,

I wouldn’t even consider a port scan a hack.

It’s just like a thief looking at your home to see if there are any windows or doors open.

M500 ,

On top of that their expensive phones are full of bloat.

I don’t know how anyone cat this price point considered anything other than an iPhone for Pixel.

1 in 4 CEOs planning to replace workers with AI this year, according to recent poll (ktla.com)

1 in 4 CEOs planning to replace workers with AI this year, according to recent poll::For years, scholars and science fiction writers have warned about the possibility of workers being replaced by machines. Now after the world of artificial intelligence took a giant leap forward in 2023, it appears we are one step closer to that...

M500 ,

I’m not a CEO, but I’m starting a very small company. I have been able to use AI in various way to help me quickly do some work and not need to hire people or commission someone do to the work for me. I still have someone I work with regularly, but instead of having two people. One person plus AI can do the work just fine.

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