octacat

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by octacat 3y ago
TBH, flaky sewing machine would be a disaster, you cannot just go and restart it. Apps working like a sewing machine is something from the imagination nowadays.
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by octacat 3y ago
oh, I actually needed to check routers recently. Prices like 5 years ago but specs for cheaper models are "slightly broken". Like 2.4+5 router, but only 100MBit ethernet (and full AC speed for wireless). So, you kinda have "c
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by octacat 3y ago
Enshitification is not innovation. I would love for my sony camera to have good wireless connectivity, instead they wanna me to buy their cloud service. Just because of how bad and not tested their usb-c connectivity is. But all the youtube
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by octacat 3y ago
Please don't assume what I wanna force or not. I don't need a new CPU for windows, but windows wants it. Similar with phones, I am forced to buy a glued brick each 3 years (2 years now, woohoo). And I don't need a "new v
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by octacat 3y ago
There are channels without propaganda like ScienceClic/pbs space time. Good propoganda would not work if it would be too obvious. But once you read Kurtz story and try to reevaluate their "proposed" solutions to eco issues, y
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by octacat 3y ago
> In 2015, the channel received a 570,000 US dollar grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, who later became one of their key sponsors. Kurzgesagt have made videos calling for investment in novel technologies the foundation als
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by octacat 3y ago
Options to configure backups and spend the money on isolating their network and computers to begin with are not considered.
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by octacat 3y ago
Private, monopolising. But not paying taxes, because "benefits for humanity". Ah, OpenAI is closed source stuff. Non-profit, but "we will sell the company" later. Just let us collect data, analyse it first, build a produ
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by octacat 3y ago
It benefits humanity. Where humanity is very selective part of OpenAI investors. But yea, declare we are non-profit and after closing sourcing for "safety" reasons is smart. Wondering how can it be even legal. Ah, these "non-
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by octacat 3y ago
oh, now I finally see OpenAI is 501(c). This I call the "true" taxes optimisation lol. For the general good, lol. Like separate the core company, which would code for you closed source stuff (but for greater good, without paying t
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by octacat 3y ago
web experience is soo bad that there is not much difference between ff and chrome actually. Like clicking "Let me choose which info to share" on a cookie banner and it takes 5 seconds to load the next "config" window. ff
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by octacat 3y ago
And that is why these giant companies should be split apart.
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by octacat 3y ago
oh yea, can we also patch Apple? This "Your icloud storage is low" and "Buy space" warnings are annoying. And you cannot do anything about them. Oh, Apple products have such an amazing usability (they are not, apparently
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by octacat 3y ago
You cannot believe how fast people learn how to configure VPN. Or switch to another social network/messenger. Once one network is not available for everyone. Tested after FB/IG has left Russia. The force of meta is not just addict
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by octacat 3y ago
Because the law says so, if you are not happy - leave the market or pay fines. Pretty much how platforms are collecting VAT now.
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by octacat 3y ago
It is pretty simple. 5223 port is called "legacy SSL". So, because it is legacy, clients would, by default, use 5222 + starttls. I.e. majority of clients connect with 5222. Also, I've never understood why they've moved 5
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by octacat 3y ago
Stock holders, fixed :) It is a pretty good metric of how the company is doing. I.e. if paying customers still spend a lot of time on the app, they would pay the next time. If the time decreases, there is a risk they would not prolong subs
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by octacat 3y ago
The amount of wasted time is a "great" metric for the investors :)
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by octacat 3y ago
Oh, they want you on the app, so they would specially not show you stuff from friends, so you have to scroll more. If you know that there is no updates - it is not engaging.
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by octacat 3y ago
Extending on that. Google has special treatment for their services in the search results. I.e. different look for their market, prefers youtube to the search results which has a better text version. Now it shows their hotels booking service
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by octacat 3y ago
The only viable alternative to iOS/Android apps are web apps. Apple fights it by limiting number of features you can use in the browser on mobile phones and no alternative browsers. Google - by saying, ok, go with it, you will use tech
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by octacat 3y ago
> it would be illegal for companies to do any philanthropy at all. Most of philanthropy is free marketing with tax deductible spendings sadly. I.e. smart marketing and creative accounting, so they spend a little to gain much more in retu
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by octacat 3y ago
More like "not just become evil, but also be actively punished for not to comply". Same with nazis below - if you go against, you risk to go to jail/die. Same with corpo CEOs - if they fail to maximise the profit, they would
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by octacat 3y ago
+ steam now opens steam + shows you ads, each time when you start a game, using a game shortcut from the desktop. You still could disable ads in settings, but not starting steam. Another "genius" improvement. Yes, I recommend buy
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by octacat 3y ago
Transportation of the disc to the house would probably use more resources than streaming it from a datacenter. But yea, disks could be reused. Spent gas - not. > The energy intensity figures for data centres and data transmission networ
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by octacat 3y ago
more like bonuses guy.
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by octacat 3y ago
Companies in 2023 are just competing in how hostile they could be to the users/workers and still get away with it.
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by octacat 3y ago
> Everyone in the industry (except apple) was doing it so nobody wanted to go against the wisdom of the collective. The main reason. Same with the hiring boom, same with the firing boom.
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by octacat 3y ago
Pretty much, it is a copy of the law they had in russia 10 years ago. Good to start censorship. And if some service is not "committed enough", it would have to be blocked by the providers to "protect our children/citizen
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by octacat 3y ago
Oh, we had something like that in Russia, they've extended the list after. Also "to protect children" initially. Once you have a convenient framework, it could be useful to remove any info the government does not want. The ne

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