frankvdwaal

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by frankvdwaal 15d ago
I would also question the reliability of the sources. Who said so? Are they comparing the right numbers? For example, in 2021 Twitter didn't report monthly users, but "monetisable daily active users", a metric that Musk did n
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by frankvdwaal 1mo ago
Please elaborate, because sibling comment explained exactly what you have missed.
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by frankvdwaal 1mo ago
If you think that something extremely basic seems something that is hard to grasp for other people, it's usually because you're misunderstanding the situation, not because other people are failing to grasp the extremely basic thin
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by frankvdwaal 2mo ago
Macs are model of PCs of a specific brand that closes their PCs down. Continuing to treat Macs as different from other PCs is exactly what lifts scrutiny if they decide to implement notarisation on MacOS. "After all, it's not like
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by frankvdwaal 3mo ago
A typo? Twice in the same post? In both places where "he" would normally appear? Localized entirely within your kitchen?
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by frankvdwaal 4mo ago
The latter, obviously, and that is what's happening with the Digital Omnibus.
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by frankvdwaal 1y ago
Because that is the joke.
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by frankvdwaal 1y ago
Electing a dictator because you like their policies does not change the fact that you end up in a dictatorship. Likewise, having voted for a corporation that takes away freedoms does not make your opinion relevant: you are still not the one
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by frankvdwaal 1y ago
What you want is not relevant, because you have no choice. Apple depriving you of that choice may not inconvenience you, but you are still being deprived of that freedom in the first place. I suspect 100% of iPhone users are in the same boa
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by frankvdwaal 1y ago
About a decade ago I worked at a water consultancy company (of which Thames Water happened to be a client) to build a catalogue website for pipe condition assessment technologies. Already at the time that I was building it, there were dozen
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by frankvdwaal 1y ago
I wouldn't mind a subtle HUD if I need to find my way to some place. Sure beats having to peer at my phone. Otherwise... Eh. I don't care enough. Yet.
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by frankvdwaal 1y ago
He's a "Growth Engineer" from ElevenLabs. I'm not sure what that entails, but then I'm not familiar with that area of tech, so maybe someone else can explain it.
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by frankvdwaal 1y ago
Why one would pay for such a privilege? Because it's the latest new gadget and it's very convenient and its users don't experience any immediate negatives of using it. That's how people will happily let you get away with
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by frankvdwaal 1y ago
I am curious, do you have the same anxieties about car drivers using maps applications to navigate?
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by frankvdwaal 1y ago
You'd first have to make proprietary changes, which you are not allowed to release, and so there's nobody to sell those services to.
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by frankvdwaal 1y ago
I usually just blurt out "cassis", a blackcurrant soda. I for one don't care about which brand. Does that count?
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by frankvdwaal 1y ago
The parent comment is not making a causal claim. They're pointing out a double standard: "Anyone arguing this is about childhood IQ and wouldn’t similarly ban (not stop mandating, ban) soft drinks, chips and fast food for kids, th
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by frankvdwaal 2y ago
A lot of slang comes from street language, so that thought may still be right. :) It's a decades old word that used to mean trying to one up someone with tough talk, exaggerating, topping someone. That talk would be so high above the o
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by frankvdwaal 2y ago
And what about the Butlerian Jihad? It was a war against Thinking Machines, devices that would do the thinking for people. People were becoming less critical, they stagnated, left all that thinking work to machines, which meant that the tec
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by frankvdwaal 2y ago
Ah yes. Socialism is when intervention and subsidies.
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by frankvdwaal 2y ago
...and because they want you to be on time, you end up waiting for another half hour at the gates to sit in a cramped seat near a narrow aisle. I went by train to Germany during the autumn of last year and oh man, what a pleasure it was. I
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by frankvdwaal 2y ago
No, I made no such mistake. Nor was I talking about a "cocoon" or anything "isolatory". Taking what I said about a commercially sensical strategy about selling a - what was the word I did use? Proxy - through which you c
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by frankvdwaal 2y ago
I have a little unproven hypothesis that fits that last statement, that it would be absurd for a company like Apple to bring people together in the real world. My hypothesis is that these companies want to make money by "taking" y
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by frankvdwaal 2y ago
If being interested in something was contingent on whether or not you're planning on using it, this would be one dead website.
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by frankvdwaal 2y ago
In German there's a similar word, "fahren", which means driving or traveling. In Dutch the word "varen" mean to sail or in an older sense of the word "to move". I can only assume, but considering the Dutch
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by frankvdwaal 2y ago
I did so too, and still had to reread and reinterpret the original comment after having seen yours. I didn't think twice about it, because if I would have my first date with someone and they would tell me they had this project running,
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by frankvdwaal 2y ago
> Is Soviet Union and Russia the same? Excellent question. Let's ask the person who justified Russia's invasion by saying that NATO contravened its non-expansion guarantee to the Soviet Union.
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by frankvdwaal 2y ago
I for one am absolutely against features not existing for customers who want it just because the Apple deigns that they shouldn’t have it. I don't want Apple to take away my agency to make my own choices. Good thing governments are on
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by frankvdwaal 2y ago
It says cisgendered, not straight, though.
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by frankvdwaal 2y ago
It does have a translation layer. Microsoft calls it Prism, which immediately made me think of the NSA's PRISM program, in which Microsoft was an enthusiastic collaborator. I guess this is a nice way to shadow search engine results for

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