tomComb

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by tomComb 3y ago
There are places where they embed the news itself, but that’s a separate issue that’s already been resolved - they pay the publishers for that. Ironically, one of the results of bill C 18 is that those existing deals will get cancelled.
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by tomComb 3y ago
I’ve encountered lots of companies that keep paying license fees to oracle for DBs that could just as well be Postgres but for the work of updating and testing the code…
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by tomComb 3y ago
It’s just linking
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by tomComb 3y ago
No, the issue in this case is linking.
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by tomComb 3y ago
It’s not dumb nationalism, it’s typical lobbying, sold as nationalism.
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by tomComb 3y ago
And what if there was no big company behind it? Then it’s ok.
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by tomComb 3y ago
People have latched onto this idea that penalties should be relative to the size of the company. Well then, this is what you get. Penalties should be relative to the scale and severity of the crime.
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by tomComb 3y ago
That was the headline error in the Verge's coverage too ... The Pixel Tablet is half of what it could have been https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/11/23718860/pixel-tablet-doc... But I really don&#x2
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by tomComb 3y ago
Their current generative AI is weaker because they were focused on many other facets of AI such as AlphaFold and Waymo.
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by tomComb 3y ago
I’m puzzled that stuff like alpha Fold count for nothing in this discussion (having just browsed through most of it). I saw quotes from independent scientists referring to it as the greatest breakthrough of their lifetime, and I saw similar
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by tomComb 4y ago
I don’t think he was suggesting that walled garden is perfect in this regard, but that it is much safer than bypassing it, so instances such as you list don’t really refute his point (assuming that was your intention).
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by tomComb 4y ago
It is true that big companies have brands and existing revenue stream to protect (Google), so maybe only a little company with nothing to lose could do what OpenAI did. And maybe MS found the perfect arrangement giving them an ability to ad
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by tomComb 4y ago
You seem to be getting downvoted, but generally I think consumers should be wary of this phrasing ('up to') and it should be called out. It is often a way for companies (or headlines) to seem to be claiming something without actua
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by tomComb 4y ago
It’s hard enough to get a good objective analysis done without saying it should be bent to political considerations.
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by tomComb 4y ago
My understanding of this capability is that it started with the browser component and grew from there, suggesting that it happens automatically and there is nothing you need to check. But someone has pointed out that all the Framework vuln
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by tomComb 4y ago
Well, yes, I have to agree. See the other comment I just posted. My understanding is that they are at the point (at least now with Android 13, which is what the Nokia will presumably ship with) that they can update most of userland (and
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by tomComb 4y ago
I'm puzzled ... I can understand why the BLE drivers would still require a firmware update (and that is fine since drivers for older hardware shouldn't be much of a problem), but why wouldn't all of the Framework vulnerabilit
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by tomComb 4y ago
That refers to the formal (full firmware) updates, I'm talking about security updates that get pushed to the phone without you having to do anything. It started with the browser component many years ago, and has grown its coverage with
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by tomComb 4y ago
That just refers to the security updates that require a full firmware update. I think people get focussed on that because they’re used to the iPhone where that’s only way to fix security issues. On android, the majority of security issues a
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by tomComb 4y ago
If you buy Samsung stuff instead of Apple you are significantly reducing the amount of China made stuff. No need to let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
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by tomComb 4y ago
No
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by tomComb 4y ago
They already are on android, iOS, and windows.
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by tomComb 4y ago
I guess then I should say they made nothing in China - those Chinese companies buying ads would have been for ads outside of China. Either way, it's about as big a contrast as is possible with Apple who are all in on China in every way
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by tomComb 4y ago
Google has zero revenue from China. They pulled out of China when told they would have to censor search results years ago. Android phones in China don’t use Google’s android.
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by tomComb 4y ago
> I see it as a good rhetorical move I completely agree: it is a good rhetorical move. aka good spin. But I don't think we should celebrate that sort of thing in tech blog posts, or in any writing actually unless your work in mark
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by tomComb 4y ago
Yes, but you are not the typical user, and that is my point. I wasn't denying that cases could be found that would support the language that Mozilla is using.
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by tomComb 4y ago
Need we play such language games? It's "ad blocking". People use those extensions to block ads. If you asked the average user about their privacy preserving add-on, or their content blocker they would probably be confused.
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by tomComb 4y ago
Him doing this is not like when your average bloke does it. He appears to be building a business and maintaining his profile. And there is nothing wrong with that - I admire him for for pursuing his career in this positive and helpful way.
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by tomComb 4y ago
Unlike with windows or Mac, you can get android as unlocked as you want - just buy one of the brands (like Google’s) that intentionally make it super easy to unlock and install a different Android distro. And since Google releases the full
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by tomComb 4y ago
This sentiment is not popular with most Linux advocates, but I think that cross-platform toolkits are great for the less popular platforms, so they should be more accepted. If you write a flutter app for Linux then it will also work everywh

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