I’ll take the new life+, thank you. Gonna be trivial to become a child prodigy, earn money off that and then have a very smooth adult life

It affected everyone using the app, no matter the instance. For example, if me, a resident of programming.dev, tried to look for the mod_abuse or power_tripping communities of any instance, I would see no results. If you tried to connect as a user from any of the blacklisted instances, the app wouldn’t even work

When you use tesseract to connect to one blacklisted such instance , you just get a message informing you that Tesseract is “incompatible with that instance” which leads one to think of a technical issue, like an API mismatch, rather than the dev being an opinionated coward. - https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/72685299

Regarding the frontend, seems it also worked “behind the scenes” on the browser, which is stated in the post I linked in that quote. Unfortunately, the github links are all 404 now.

Tesseract is an android app people could use to connect to lemmy. For some reason, the dev had several instances, words and users completely blocked within the code, without letting the person who downloaded even know about it, much less disable the blocks. One of the things it blocked were “mod abuse” communities.

As expected, things exploded once it was made public. No problem in having personal biases, everyone has them, but shipping an app with those biases baked in and hidden from the user is a shitty thing to do.

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Works even with giphy, in my experience (browser only)

Because, to my knowledge, Switzerland never aspired to be an empire and doesn’t have a stupid “manifest destiny” which makes them see themselves as the sole beacon of civilization in the world.

Thanks to those 2 things and others, USA has been brute forcing their wants against other countries the world over for 100+ years.

Instructions unclear, claude formatted my hard drive in FAT12 and deleted all my backups

If you ever worked on any big corporation, it becomes crystal clear why things suck. Megacorps value money first, second, third, fourth and fifth. Sixth comes avoiding being caught by their crimes.

So, Microsoft doesn’t have a vision for Windows as an operating system, it sees Windows as a way to maintain a stranglehold in office computers the world over. It doesn’t matter that most people on lemmy will say “switch to linux”, they’re not companies, they’re not bosses - these are the vast majority of Windows users and South America + Asia + Africa make up a fuckhuge market. Sure, Europe and USA have more money, but the rest have sheer numbers.

Another thing that matters a lot is that many decisions come from the top and are enforced. If Satya Nadella or the director of whatever bullshit says something, those below have to comply. If the order from above is “cram bullshit ads in Windows Explorer, this has the highest priority”, that has to happen.

Regarding resources, having them and allocating them in a decent manner are not the same thing. The same could be argued about USA having trillions of tax dollars and having so many people living in poverty without healthcare or even basic education. Lots of that money go to keeping their armed forces. Microsoft is not too different, they have to pay people who keep their datacenters up, pay for the energy of said datacenters, maintain several other apps they have - oh, and the CEOs bonuses, because he’s such a great leader who totally deserves billions every year!!! Of those 300bn, how much are they diverting for Windows in general? 50b? 20b? 1b? Of that, how much is going straight for security, bug tracking and quality assurance?

Who’s the equivalent of FIFA’s dude back in Reagan’s terms?

The Trap Mechanism: By offering “free” foundational models, China aims to make the Global South algorithmically dependent on Chinese infrastructure, embedding censorship and surveillance capabilities into foreign digital architectures.

How is this different from what OpenAI, Claude and others are doing? They’re offering “free” use of models, losing mountains of money, all in the hopes of becoming the sole names responsible for the infrastructure governing other countries.

Let’s be fair, most big media outlets do little to no reporting when it comes to AI, they just take any and all PR pieces at face value, so this site doing the same, or being a paid mouthpiece, wouldn’t be much of a stretch.

Meanwhile, US tech giants like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, which expected high-margin returns on their multi-billion-dollar AI investments, face a pricing collapse

This here shows how out of touch these companies are with their own fucking customers. How the fuck did they expect to burn 200+ billion dollars and get any ROI from AI? The demand is not going to grow into infinity and, contrary to what Sam Conman and others say, people would rather dump AI than pay per token usage when they can’t even tell how many tokens they’re burning. Even without China in the mix, they would crash and burn.

Once these nations build their digital infrastructure, government services, and private sectors on these models, they become dependent on Chinese cloud infrastructure, updates, and regulatory frameworks, compromising their digital sovereignty.

This is true IF AND ONLY IF said countries decide to pay for Chinese cloud services. Which, in case anyone is wondering, is deciding to pay, dunno, AliCloud instead of AWS. It has nothing to do with AI.

Oh, and fun fact, many governments (nation, state and city) around the world have some data in USA datacenters, but USA good, so they definitely don’t spy or steal any of that, for realsies!!!

Original Character, do not steal

The solution is for everyone to migrate to Jami, which is obviously the better option!

That or a reflection of how bad your mental situation is

The company’s reason is “brand protection”:

We carefully reviewed the project you shared with us (https://github.com/linuxwacom/wacom-hid-descriptors). While we appreciate the initiative, we found that this is primarily a Wacom-led project, and the potential impact for GAOMON would be quite limited. Even if we added support for our devices, the system would still show the device as a GAOMON model, but the overall setup would display Wacom branding. More importantly, participating would require sharing our device specifications directly with Wacom – which is not something we can consider.

The last part of that reply is very wrong.

The article also has a reply from Peter Hutterer, a “senior software engineer at Red Hat and a maintainer of Linux’s core input device handling infrastructure since decades”, which is worth reading.

I wonder if t-i-m-e is a slur in a different language, because it definitely ain’t in portuguese, english, spanish, italian or japanese

The reflection happens at surface level and it doesn’t have “depth”, so the water level dictates that. The actual light dynamics are beyond my knowledge

Really telling that between “being exposed as an unfaithful husband” and “being “threatened” to be “friends” with the owner of pedo island”, he preferred the latter.

I really wish to get to that level. I already avoid a lot of corporate internet sites, but I still have to deal with whatsapp and, to a lesser extent, discord. My car is is an old piece of junk because that’s what my salary can sustain, if/when i get a new one, I’ll want the same amount of “smart” features as everything else in my home: zero. Computers (also phones and tablets) only connect to the internet via firewall.

It sure feels like it, given how much power is in the hands of so few people. Unlike previous similar situations in the past (of extreme power/wealth concentration), it’s never been easier to control the masses

Possible, yes. But an awful experience if you don’t have a physical keyboard, even one of those cheap bluetooth ones. It’s barely bearable if you have one, since the screen is still too small.

On Android, I can vouch for Acode and Xed-Editor, both available on F-droid, as code editors to help you program. Not ideal, but if you have no other option than using your phone to program, they’re good choices.

Keep spamming it until it goes thru!