redcalcium @ redcalcium @lemmy.institute

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Some new devices have 3.5mm jack, but no sd card support. Some have sd card support, but no 3.5mm jack. Fewer and fewer new devices have both these days.

I was blocked from sign up too due to the phone number verifier didn't support my country, but when I tried again several days ago, they doesn't seem to require phone number anymore.

It's ironic that game about communism being destroyed by capitalism, get destroyed by capitalism itself.

How come some people can do multiple cosmetics surgeries like nothing? Meanwhile, I had to drag my ass out for those simple covid shots.

But Nintendo switch lite is the cheaper device here?

Imagine a racist vending machine. The face recognition system think this customer is black with 81% confidence. Let's increase the price of grape soda! Oh look, a 32 year old white woman (79% confidence). Better raise the price of diet coke!

How come nintendo switch (with replaceable controllers), has major stick drift issues, causing owners to buy several controllers over the life of the console, while nintendo switch lite (without replaceable controllers) seems to have more reliable sticks? Does nintendo manufactures the replaceable sticks with just enough tolerance to last barely outside the warranty period so their customers would buy more?

The company will fix the issue by renaming "FacialRecognitionApp.exe" to "TotallyNotFacialRecognitionApp.exe"

https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit

But back then Reddit still believed in opening up their platform, and their relation with their users was not adversarial. Their source code was even available on GitHub with an open source license! It didn't feel much different to us sending monthly donations to instance admins and Lemmy devs now on Lemmy. People genuinely didn't want Reddit to shut down back then.

It's pretty bad for nvidia users. Want new features? Use wayland and deal with numerous annoying bugs. Don't want to deal with those annoying bugs? Stay on x11 but miss all those new cool features.

It's true, Apple stole ideas so much there is a term for it among the dev community: Sherlocking .

One of the most famous sherlocking case is Apple removing FlickType citing compliance with apple store guidelines, only to launch a similar app later: https://twitter.com/keleftheriou/status/1437845736951992321

Google is way ahead of you, they are a certificate authority now, so in theory they can do this right now. Take a look at any site's https certificate and a significant portion of them are now signed by Google Trust Services LLC thanks to Cloudflare using them to generate free https certificates (in addition to letsencrypt). Note that they won't ever pull this trick though because it'll irreversibly damage their reputation.

DoH and DoT, originally developed to prevent ISP to tamper with DNS query to inject ads, now ironically used by advertisers to evade DNS-based blocking on their ads sdk and iot devices.

It's too big to fail now. Advertisers hardcode it into their apps and iot devices to evade DNS adblockers for a while now.

The previous Microsoft's CEO truly hates FOSS, famously calling it cancer. Then the next CEO reversed Microsoft's stance on FOSS, acquiring the largest FOSS collaboration site. Naturally, many view this move with suspicion since Microsoft has a history of embracing something only to extinguish it later.

Asterisk counts as a Linux phone, right?

First, there was google wallet, then came android pay, then google wallet and android pay got merged into google pay, then google pay was split into google wallet and google pay, then google pay shut down in us.

To be continued...

Nvidia GPU? Steam is using Chromium Embedded Framework, and like chrome and electron, it's glitchy on wayland + nvidia.