There’s a whole ocean between ‘a single (biased) source claims Signal have stopped responding to requests for cybercrime assistance’ and ‘Signal is a pro-Kremlin app’.

But it can make custom emoji! 🫨 That alone is worth the hundreds of millions Apple spent.

Probably the same as we have now, “be neat if and when it eventually arrives”.

I’d much rather use a password and a two-factor auth via TOTP code. It’s fast, portable, I can store them on a variety of open source apps, and it’s very hard to hack. I don’t need to use a specific provider, or browser. Flexible and free.

Passkeys in their current implementation are comparatively a mess. Here’s an article that runs through many reasons why:

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/12/passkey-technology-is-elegant-but-its-most-definitely-not-usable-security/

No, ‘China bad’ because many many examples of China bad. Such as the topic of this post.

The whole “you can’t criticize China because you’re from a country that also does bad things” is logically worthless. It’s the appeal to hypocrisy fallacy.

Not sure if you realize this but China is also ruled by a kleptocratic billionaire class that loots the working class even moreso than the US, so i’m not sure why you look up to them - China has more billionaires and a much larger wealth divide than the US. Actions speak louder than words and while Xi and the CCP often talk about cracking down on thier ultra-wealthy, they don’t really do much - couple billionaires might disappear occasionally though if they don’t praise the party line publically. One thing is for sure - I don’t see any elite CCP party members that are not also very wealthy. And it’s everyone else that’s propagandized 🤔

All graphics cards interface with BIOS/UEFI when the system initializes - every piece of non-hotswap hardware has to or it won’t be initialized and cannot be used.

The question is really why should a graphics card maker care to dedicate time to make their card compatible with BIOS when 99.999% of the systems running their cards will use UEFI, and they said ‘hey actually we don’t care’ as far back as 2023 in the 7000 series but for some reason (clickbait) this is being dug up again.

Thanks for the suggestion. That combo seems to bring up window options for Wine’s workspace. I’ve purged and reinstalled the snap now which does skirt the problem.

I’m in the same boat. I ended up giving up on the Linux options and using a Notepad++ snap package, but as it runs in WINE it has some quirks that I have not figured out yet.

As an example I chose to hide the menu bar while I was trying to get a dark theme looking correct, and now I have no idea how to bring the menu bar back, because wine takes the [alt] input that would usually bring the menu back up.

I’ll probably end up just deleting and reinstalling the snap. But I’d rather know how to bring up the alt menu in emulated programs in wine - in case it happens again.

Builds in a very expensive replacement component too.

A control button breaks? New button is a (still over-inflated) $75 to replace.

A Tesla control screen breaks (and they do, just as often as buttons) - $1500.

https://www.greencarfuture.com/electric/tesla-screen-replacement-cost-process#Cost

To generalise, just as Reddit is the neolib centrist hivemind and Facebook is the conservative boomer hivemind, Lemmy is some overlap of privacy/techy/ultrapolitical groups - so whenever you get this kind of news that is ultimately pretty mild and uncontroversial to most you get lots of Lemmings buttons pushed and what seems like an oversized reaction in the comments.

Is Firefox perfect? No. Is it still the best available mainstream browser option? Yes. And if the small groups that presently use it walk away and its tiny market share (~5%) declines to a point where Firefox becomes insolvent - well then browsers will be just a two-horse race between Google (Chromium) and Apple (WebKit). Every web spec and page will be beholden to the desires of those companies - I’m sure the same Lemmings will be complaining about that too, and by then it will be too late to realize what they’ve lost.

It wasn’t unprompted - he was literally replying to the announcement of the appointment on Twitter. An announcement of a person he thought would be great for a role that he’s apparently been advocating for action against big tech in for years.

He’s born in 1988 you dolt.

The ugliest thing about Lemmy I’ve noticed so far is that it enjoys disinformation just as much as Reddit - as long as it fits the circlejerk, updoots this way.

What? Maybe you should just stop trying to guess what people think or tell them what they know.

You’re welcome to your opinion that it’s only been a dozen years of bad behaviour but I do not share it and nor do many, many others. Feel free to have a browse, much of this goes back to 2001, many lawsuits filed in the early 2010s had evidence going back a decade. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Google

I’m not responding any further.

I’ve been using Google since 1998, and everyone loved them because their search indexed sites quicker than others and the search results were more useful than the competition at the time like Yahoo and Altavista and AskJeeves. They started turning nasty as soon as they gained steam & commercial success with AdWords… around 2003-2004. So no, while they get worae each year they haven’t been ‘the good guys’ for decades.

Google were maybe seen as the good guys back in the days of Yahoo search, and perhaps the very early days of Android.

But those times are so long passed. Google has been a tax-avoiding, anti-consumer rights, search-rigging, anti-privacy behemoth for decades now, and they only get worse with each passing year.

A hallucination is a false perception of sensory experiences (sights, sounds, etc).

LLMs don’t have any senses, they have input, algorithms and output. They also have desired output and undesired output.

So, no, ‘hallucinations’ fits far worse than failure or error or bad output. However assigning the term ‘hallucinaton’ does serve the billionaires in marketing their LLMs as actual sentience.

I can’t understand would it even have the part in parentheses in Europe. Think how silly it would look if every location had the regional name for every nearby country added in parentheses after the primary global name. It would be a mess.

Eg:

Germany (Deutschland, Allemagne, Niemcy, Germania, Saksa, <etc>)

Feels to me like special rules Apple has to stroke special fascist egos.

But maybe its not Apple and this is a name set by your local governance. You mind if I ask what country Apple maps you’re looking at?

And yet they apparently still can’t get an accurate result with such a basic query.

Meanwhile… https://futurism.com/openai-signs-deal-us-government-nuclear-weapon-security

Fair enough - sounds like they might not be ready for prime time though.

Oh well, at least while the bugs get ironed-out we’re not using them for anything important