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  • LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think.

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  • The problem: our desire for convenience

    This hits it right on the money. As nice as open source and open standards are, at the end of the day none of that matters to the 99% that want/need to do X as fast and painlessly as possible.

    To people like my wife MS Office/LibreOffice/Google Docs are all the same thing in the category of productivity suite. And one of those does not meet her where she lives in day to day life. And it doesn't because there is no money in doing so for LibreOffice. And there is no benefit to her to seek out LibreOffice for her uses.

    Hell, just take a look around at the number of people that preach about the evils of Microsoft, Google, or whoever but love them an iPhone and Macbook. As bad as Microsoft and Google can be for screwing over the user with vendor lock-in they don't hold a candle to Apple. But they get the money despite there being "better" options technically and philosophically for nearly everything they make, but Apple knows all of that pales in importance to 99% of potential customers compared to being convenient.

  • Is there an actor you can't stand? Do they have any exceptions?

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  • Justin Long. I can't stand him for some reason. There are only 2 exceptions:

    1. Idiocracy - because that movie is so great otherwise and he is only in it for like 2 minutes.
    2. Tusk - Because the whole movie is about someone torturing him.

  • Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents

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  • the Trump administration ordered states to revise their plans with a “tech-neutral approach” and lower the average cost of serving each location

    In other words don't give the tax payer the best options you can, give them the cheapest options to implement you can.

  • What’s a small thing you do every day that makes life noticeably better?

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  • I try to knock off work an hour earlier than I planned to in the morning and take my dog for a walk. Sometimes I even leave my phone behind. It is surprisingly relaxing just knowing I could have a heart attack back in the tree line and the dog would be the only other thing to know where I was.

  • Roku launches Howdy, a $2.99 ad-free streaming service

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  • It's not the $3/month ad free Tubi type service that is the bad part. It is the part where it is attached to Roku. That company has proven the kind of trash they are already.

  • Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery

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  • Without having much knowledge of AI models beyond surface level stuff I read, but a good understanding on how computers work it seems fairly predictable to me that running an AI model in the browser session locally would be CPU intensive. As such you would think as a developer you would start with adding the feature as off by default, so users that want it can turn it on and you can get some real world metrics on how bad that hit is going to be before bending the entire user base over the AI kitchen table so to speak.

    So both doing it for something as trivial as tab grouping and making it something you have to go into about:config to disable seems really stupid.

  • Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms( XVideos, XNXX, BangBros, GirlsGoneWild, GTFlix TV and more) accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law

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  • EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google

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  • Most western governments look at the ability of some of the more authoritarian places ability to just snap there fingers and make the entire internet go away with great envy.

  • Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster

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  • You mean an LLM that doesn't have the ability to understand context fails to make decisions that require context to do properly? Shocking /s

  • Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded

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  • Then those EU firms should immediately make getting out of anything and everything Microsoft a top priority. As a US citizen, all our government and companies understand is personal profit and personal data hording. So make it hurt where they will feel it.

  • Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition

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  • Petitions like this are meaningless unless they come with a viable solution to the duopoly in payment processing that is Visa and Mastercard.

    It doesn't matter what Valve agrees with, if they want to survive as a business they have to ultimately do what the only 2 companies that handle the payment processing tells them to do.

  • There's a reason he's called Number One

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  • No one loses control of the D like Riker.

  • Why is Lemmy so US-centric? The largest instances are in Europe, aren't they? So why does it have to be US news trolling as if it were Reddit?

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  • I miss the days of boring US politics

  • White House unveils sweeping plan to “win” global AI race through deregulation

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  • How very Reagan of them

  • ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing

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  • We have location sharing enabling via Find My since everyone but me uses Apple. I don't think my wife ever uses it and I only use it as a means of checking they seem to still be alive when they are otherwise late to somewhere they planned to be if I get worried about them.

    In years past I would just call them, but this way is less actively intrusive. But people that use it as a spying tool have issues.

  • Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC

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  • Let me know when it is discovered that they in fact replaced MS Recall with their own version that was scraping your data in yet another sketchy attempt to make money.

  • Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette

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  • If ad networks weren't the number 1 way to get malware installed on your machine, didn't slowly take over the dedicated space for the actual content of a website, or put pressure on the websites in question to only publish things inoffensive to the advertisers maybe adblockers wouldn't be such an issue.

    If your site can't exist without being a cesspit of annoying and useless infomercials and a deployment mechanism for malicious code injection then your site should not exist.

    Not too many people had an issue with static banner ads back in the day after all except greedy website operators and advertisers.

  • Password manager by Amazon

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  • My mother uses something similar to keep track of her passwords for everything. While I prefer a password manager like Bitwarden or Keepass. I would rather her use a note book like this over something like Google or Apples password managers.

    Or even worse, the same password for everything.

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  • I didn't so much pick Lemmy and the Fediverse over Reddit as I did decide to start participating in it in addition to Reddit.

    As for why I chose to do that it is down to liking the general technical concepts around Lemmy and the Fediverse. I consider them more future proof than a single monolithic thing like Reddit. Lemmy and the Fediverse are not so bound to large financial interests that will prevent it from evolving and answered to the desires of its users.

    But I have to say I do wish there was more diversity of subjects that got wide attention on Lemmy. From all of the servers I have browsed around it seems to be very slanted towards political topics which is not what I prefer to engage with much online if I can help it.

    Not to say there are not communities on Lemmy for lots of technical topics, they are just not as "busy" as they are on Reddit. As a result to do spend more time on Reddit still because those type of communities are still larger there and current events on tech get talked about there more often or first.