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filister ,

To be honest I don't know anyone in Europe using iMessages. We are using Viber, WhatsApp, Messenger, Signal, Telegram, Threema, etc. and none of those options are iOS or Android exclusive.

iMessage is a typical American thing which, we Europeans, have a really hard time comprehending what is the obsession with it.

And we also have a much bigger Android market share, so it would be stupid for iOS users to use some messaging app, that would be iOS exclusive.

filister ,

Not going to happen. How do you think they became 2.000.000.000.000 + company? D finitely by not letting their customers off the hook.

filister ,

And I am pretty sure that in a couple of years we will be talking the same way about AI. Yes generative AI is cool and can do some useful stuff but we are fast approaching the theoretical threshold and progress over this threshold would become much more difficult if not almost impossible.

As someone posted out, it is relatively easy to design a self-driving car that drives 99% fully autonomously, but the last 1% is extremely difficult to crack and there are too many edge cases and problems that you would need to solve, that are not solvable with the current state of AI and hardware.

filister ,

And this doesn't have anything to do with sky high rents, youth unemployment, low wages, etc. right? It also doesn't help that prices in the bars here after Covid grew by 20-30%. Beer used to be 3-3.5, now it is 4.5-5. Coffee shops saw similar price hikes. Groceries as well.

Seriously, being young now sucks big time. Especially if you are not one of the few who happen to have rich parents.

Here you can't get your own place unless the rent is no more than 0.33 times your own salary. And guess what, rents have been steadily increasing in the last years (decades) and less young people can rent their own places.

So they are now faced with the following dilemma, whether they should go live with roommates and spend a big chunk of their salaries still on rent or live with their parents and have a bit more disposable income at the end of the month.

filister ,

Depends if the stream is clear or protected with some kind of DRM. I would say you can try with ffmpeg. Just open the network tab in developers tools and look for a GET request that downloads some file ending with .mpd (MPEG-Dash) or .mp3u8 (HLS) and provide this URL to ffmpeg as an input.

J&J, Merck, and Bristol Myers Squibb spend billions more on executives and stockholders than on R&D — Senate report points to greed and ‘patent thickets’ as key reasons for high prices (arstechnica.com)

J&J, Merck, and Bristol Myers Squibb spend billions more on executives and stockholders than on R&D — Senate report points to greed and ‘patent thickets’ as key reasons for high prices::Senate report points to greed and "patent thickets" as key reasons for high prices.

filister ,

How can you call a country with a two-party political system a democracy is the real question here? Yes, you have primary and the political agenda of the candidates differ to some extent but this isn't really a democracy in my eyes.

For me democracy is to have a plurality of political parties, to form a government with other political parties and people to have a real choice and what you have in the US isn't exactly that.

OpenAI wants to raise 5-7 trillion dollars. Yes, Trillion (decrypt.co)

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in talks with investors, including from the United Arab Emirates, to raise between $5 trillion to $7 trillion in funding. The goal, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal, is to increase the world's chip manufacturing capacity and enhance AI capabilities....

filister ,

Can someone ELI5 what's the open in the OpenAI's name at the moment?

I know they released Whisper as an open source model and that's about it, but I might be wrong.

filister ,

Or buy so many yachts, private islands, jets, holiday villas, ...

filister ,

And the world's 5 biggest companies their total market cap is a bit over 8 trillion dollars, which is also mind boggling, that so much capital is concentrated in the hands of so few people or shall we say mega corporations.

Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption (www.tomshardware.com)

Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption::The U.S Energy Information Administration is now requiring large-scale cryptomining operations to report their energy consumption. Inevitably this will bring about new regulations that will restrict...

filister ,

Let's waste 2.7% energy for some virtual asset with purely speculative value while we warm our planet past the 1.5C. All out of greed.

filister ,

Another hardware that Apple will try to screw with their walled garden software approach.

filister ,

Have you seen the last couple of years who your most brilliant minds are? Hint most of them are either Asians or descendants of Asian parents.

Like it or not, but there are a lot of really smart people in maths, science and IT people in China and Asia who are much smarter than Europeans and/or white Americans.

Coming from a European.

filister ,

Sorry but the patent system you have in the US is absolute bullshit that benefits very little and is prone to abuse by patent trolls.

filister ,

Don't forget here the Apple pro stand, that's literally a fancy monitor stand for the low price of 1099.

Or the printers that have toners with DRM and all the hardware parts having a DRM chip which invalidates perfectly capable third party components.

filister ,

Oh come on, tell me which LLM is truly open source?

filister ,

Blame AI and share prices.

filister ,

That's very lame to say. The incentives of hackers to hack you and compromise your system is very very low. You don't represent any interest to them. So having just blocked port 22 and disabled ICMP can do the task to detract a big chunk of the automated attacks.

On the other hand commercial services are very high profile hacking targets and the attack vectors are a lot more sophisticated. Plus if you have a company, you need also to allow your employees to be able to work and you need to give them certain privileges to access the data they need. And guess what, not everyone is super careful and people make mistakes.

Once you start building stuff, you inevitably introduce bugs and dependencies, the bigger the project, the bigger the dependencies and patching all of them becomes harder and more time consuming.

Big corporations like MS, Google, Apple, etc. are having extremely strict and restrictive policies, including a huge cyber security engineers teams, and this is extremely expensive, especially for smaller companies, who are more focused on their product.

So please don't think that these companies are run by idiots but a single human mistake can lead to this compromise. And sorry to disappoint you but you aren't a cyber security guru either. Just hackers don't care about you which saves your ass.

filister ,

Pretty much what the founder of MySpace but I think back then he made a lot less than 29B

filister ,

What kind of loser (sh*thead) can do this and think that's okay.

filister ,

Still you have to be utter sh*t if you want to intentionally harm kids and I just wonder how those people are sleeping at night

filister ,

What a huge waste in times where we have global warming and urgently need to cut our carbon footprint a bunch of greedy people are living like there is no tomorrow.

filister ,

Ah yes, the poor who dig Bitcoin. Sorry but if you are having money to dig Bitcoin you aren't exactly poor. And you know if we all as humanity change just our diet, the effect would be immense, so it is not only the corporation's responsibility but also the collective.

filister ,

What a huge wall of text, so horribly formatted using a very ineligible font and it looks awful on the phone.

Plus it is kind of dumb to measure search engines based on such a low number of queries. You are introducing a huge bias and the generated search results are ranked by a single person also introducing his own bias. The idea is interesting the execution not so much.

filister ,

Draw.io is also pretty good or lucidcharts

filister ,

You know all this is fuelled by the desire for eternal growth, which at the end is unsustainable but human greed has no boundaries I guess. And all the SaaS and in general the subscription model so many companies are trying to promote has exactly the same goal.

I do remember the early days of mobile phones and apps when you were actually able to buy a lifetime license for different apps and get meaningful updates. Now everything turned into a giant SaaS garbage and data collection pile of shit.

filister ,

Apple being Apple.

filister ,

Plus if you are more privacy oriented you can install some custom ROMs with literally no bloatware or overhead.

filister ,

It's pity because they definitely know how to do hardware but I will never spend or buy their products.

filister ,

I am using adguard, but yes, if you are a more advanced user I would say Android is the way to go

filister ,

Plex is a prime example how corporate shenanigans can ruin an otherwise great piece of software.

filister , (edited )

It is almost impossible to penetrate the smartphone market at the moment, as both iOS and Android have the robust app ecosystem and polished OS experience and this is an extremely high bar to cross.

Just see what happened with Windows mobile or even Nokia, and mind you that was years ago. Now it should be even harder. I presume there is still a market for niche products based on Linux for example but nothing really competitive on the global scale.

I broke nextcloud and i cant fix it

I managed to install and set up nextcloud snap on my ubuntu server a couple months ago. I haven't used it since and now I tried to log in to it but I forgot the username and password. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the snap to reset the data but i couldn't access the web page. I couldn't find anything online. Any...

filister ,

Did you try

sudo snap remove --purge nextcloud

This will remove the data directory of Nextcloud. Alternatively you can check where snapd is creating this directory and remove it manually.

If you also have entered your email in Nextcloud you can try to reset your password over the mail. https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/configuration_user/reset_admin_password.html#:~:text=Click%20the%20password%20reset%20link,to%20reset%20it%20for%20you.

filister ,

As a result SEO optimised pages are so bloated that I truly hate them.

filister ,

I am also using SearcXNG and the search results are usually good even though sometimes on the light side and I still have to resort to other search engines.

filister ,

I guess if you have a firewall in your network you can block a bunch of ports and severely limit the outgoing traffic of your box or alternatively to install some privacy oriented third party ROM on your box .

filister OP ,

Yes, they are just white labeling the devices

filister OP ,

I am more interested in devices that are generic, not having any brand bloat on them

filister OP ,

For example tuya is an example of white label brand and other companies are buying their products in bulk and doing OEM with some shitty software on top of it and charging a premium.

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