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TheGrandNagus , to Technology in Mozilla defies Kremlin, restores banned Firefox add-ons in Russia

They can absolutely be called tankies, the word has evolved, just like how fascists aren't limited to Mussolini's National Fascist Party, but instead applies to any extremely authoritarian right winger.

To a tankie, it doesn't matter whether Russia or China are left or right wing anymore, all they care about now is being anti-western. The US, UK, etc could turn socialist tomorrow and tankies would still hate them and defend Russia and China.

Anything the west does is bad and imperialistic, and when you bring up the dodgy shit that Russia and China do, all you'll get back is whataboutism.

TheGrandNagus , to Technology in Apple announced RCS with a whimper when it should have been a bang

They don't consider the iPhone a smartphone... because they refer to it by its name?

I've got some news for you, Samsung, OnePlus, etc all call their devices by their brand names in announcements/advertising too.

TheGrandNagus , to Technology in Apple announced RCS with a whimper when it should have been a bang

Nobody said Apple would do that. I don't know where you got that from.

They said that if Apple were to use their clout to pressure others into using an Apple-controlled ecosystem, people would be angry about it.

Yet, because it's Google not Apple, people are celebrating Google's RCS as a good thing and them being the good guys.

TheGrandNagus , to Technology in Mozilla defies Kremlin, restores banned Firefox add-ons in Russia

AFAIK that name was created before tianmen.

Correct. It actually originates from westerners who defended the Soviet Union sending tanks into Hungary and Czechoslovakia when citizens were protesting.

Wouldn't that make them just autocracy fans, not tankies?

They're kinda the same thing. A tankie is a fan of autocracy, but only when Russia or China does it. It's not a worldview that makes sense.

TheGrandNagus , to Technology in Mozilla defies Kremlin, restores banned Firefox add-ons in Russia

Minor correction, although it changes nothing about your point:

tankie actually refers to people who defended the crushing of Hungarian and Czechoslovakian revolts by Soviet military personnel, who went as far as sending tanks in to quell civil unrest.

The term was originally coined in the UK and was an insult to British Communist Party followers who would slavishly follow the Kremlin line.

Of course, the term has now evolved to mean someone from the west who seems to dislike the west and praises Russia and China, despite them also being Capitalist countries now, and generally being more into imperialism.

TheGrandNagus , to Technology in Apple is bringing RCS to the iPhone in iOS 18 | The new standard will replace SMS as the default communication protocol between Android and iOS devices

And Samsung's only got approved because it's Google's under the skin. A bit like how every browser on iOS is actually Safari.

RCS is purported to be open, but in practice it really isn't.

TheGrandNagus , to Technology in Apple surpasses Microsoft as world's most valuable company after unveiling AI plans

In fairness, at least Apple isn't bone-headed enough to take screenshots of your entire system every few seconds then store them unencrypted for any app that wants to access it to trivially do so.

Maybe I missed it, but they don't seem to have constant recording at all?

TheGrandNagus , to Technology in Elon Musk has unusual relationships with women at SpaceX, WSJ reports - The Verge

Less of a thrill doing that than sexually harassing your employees I guess

TheGrandNagus , to Technology in Boeing sales tumble as the company gets no orders for the 737 Max for the second straight month

And so you should. Our products are of the highest quality.

TheGrandNagus , to Technology in Move over, Ford and Chevy: Kei trucks are pulling up as customers opt for smaller, cheaper vehicles

They're definitely legal, they're just not sold. I've seen them, but they're generally sold by importer companies that sell JDM vehicles. A business in my area has a fleet of kei pickups

TheGrandNagus , to Technology in Apple is bringing RCS to the iPhone in iOS 18 | The new standard will replace SMS as the default communication protocol between Android and iOS devices

The EU is fine with iMessage shenanigans, because they're not a significant enough part of the market to matter. Nobody uses SMS either.

It's WhatsApp all the way here.

TheGrandNagus , to Technology in Apple is bringing RCS to the iPhone in iOS 18 | The new standard will replace SMS as the default communication protocol between Android and iOS devices

No but also yes.

The spec itself is open, but implementations that are in the wild aren't. Google's implementation is proprietary, for example.

On Android, Google has went out of their way to make other RCS implementations virtually impossible to implement. Samsung, for example, had to enter an agreement with Google to use their implementation, otherwise they'd have no RCS.

As of now, the easiest way to implement RCS outside of using Google's proprietary implementation is to create your own OS and RCS implementation for it.

TheGrandNagus , (edited ) to Technology in A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back

And the annoying thing is, this tech can be exceptionally useful when it's actually been implemented thoughtfully.

Effortlessly cleaning up audio recordings using AI tooling is incredible, for example. There are audio recordings that I've been able to make sound great that previously would've required me to make some calls and ask for a bunch of re-recordings and added days of delays to a project.

AI in image recognition to vastly speed up medical imaging diagnosis, or analysing lab work? Amazing. Asking unpaid medical students to laboriously pore over thousands of images sounds like a nightmare.

Better offline translation? Sign me the fuck up.

Image description for the visually impaired, like my sister? Genuinely life changing. A lot of content online isn't properly tagged, or has zero attention placed on accessibility.

The list goes on. Unfortunately, with big tech being as they are, their first thoughts turn to "which implementations of AI will aid us the most in scraping userdata and showing ads?"

TheGrandNagus , to Technology in Outcry from big AI firms over California AI “kill switch” bill

How is that reasonable? Almost anything could be potentially used as a weapon, or to aid in crime.

TheGrandNagus , (edited ) to Technology in EVs Could Last Nearly Forever—If Car Companies Let Them

I've heard that in the US fridges are generally different, with stuff like active fans and nonsense like that. Is that true?

Because every fridge I've seen in Europe is mechanically extremely basic and I've literally never seen or even heard of one breaking. In my experience fridges are one of the only things that have remained phenomenally simple in design and extremely unlikely to break.

If someone told me their fridge broke, I'd genuinely assume they were lying. That's how reliable they are.

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