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maxinstuff , 4 days ago to Technology in Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative

Is this their way of asking Google for money?

maxinstuff , 4 days ago to Technology in Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative

Must be planning on actually shipping something

/s

maxinstuff , 7 days ago to Technology in Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising

I'm running Ubuntu on a Surface Laptop Studio.
I really like it, though I have not yet gotten the touchscreen and pen working.

If I figure it out (and I remember) I'll let you know.

maxinstuff , 7 days ago to Technology in Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw

Iceland figured this out some years ago, and now they make heaps exporting computing power to international AI compute buyers.

They do it with a naturally cold climate, and loads of geo-thermal power.

maxinstuff , 7 days ago to Technology in Zuckerberg disses closed-source AI competitors as trying to 'create God'

I think Zuck is right about this, insofar as the comments in the article are concerned.

OpenAI have done a brilliant job of selling the dream - but there will not be one "god model," - there will be many specialised, smaller models.

You can already see it going that way with new hardware shipping with NPU's. These workloads are expensive to run and shipping them to your device is a top priority.

maxinstuff , 7 days ago to Technology in Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising

For me it's a pragmatic desire to share information with as few megacorporations as possible.

I deal with MSFT for so many other things, not all by choice - and Edge does everything I need it to do.

As with many such questions, it's about the trade-off you are prepared to accept.

maxinstuff , 8 days ago to Technology in Cognify: Revolutionary Prison Concept Uses AI and Brain Implants to Fast-Track Criminal Rehabilitation

This can’t be real?

First of all it’s almost certainly torture and human rights violations.

Secondly, never mind freedom of speech - now you can’t even have your thoughts to yourself.

Fuck. That.

maxinstuff , 8 days ago to Technology in Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims

Unfortunately they care more about spying on us themselves.

maxinstuff , 8 days ago to Technology in Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims

Do you know if there people who have gone this far analysing the TikTok and WeChat apps?

maxinstuff , 8 days ago to Technology in Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims

All I want to know is what do these Temu people think my life is like?

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2a70050f-f3a6-49ea-9318-97144bf090fd.jpeg

maxinstuff , 8 days ago to linuxmemes in Props to Alpine and Kali for disabling this bullshit out of the box

Here I am on a laptop with no ethernet ports (probably works over USB-C? No idea, haven't tried), and a single wifi adapter. Guess I'll give it a try:

ip link show

What I expected

wlan0

What I got

wlp242s0

Neat 👍 😎 👍

maxinstuff , 9 days ago to Technology in OneDrive automatically backups folders in Windows 11 without users' permissions

Yes, install Linux and the end up using O365 in the cloud anyways 🤡

maxinstuff , 9 days ago to Technology in China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report

I get what your saying, in that open source projects normally have a licence that applies to how it’s used - but this has always been open to abuse.

Nothing has ever stopped things like this happening - see how industry has taken advantage of open source for decades (often productising things as their own in the process).

maxinstuff , 9 days ago to Technology in China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report

If it’s a public repo do they need permission?

Not saying this is good, but you can’t really argue that it’s not a natural consequence of open source.

maxinstuff , 10 days ago to Technology in Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough

“tHATs nOT tRuE the aRCHiteCTuRe iS cOmPlETlY dIffErEnT!!!!!1!11!!ONEONE!!!” <— Apple fanboys when this was predicted on launch of the M1 🤖