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OminousOrange , in Robots Are Fighting Robots in Russia's War in Ukraine
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How about we just settle this over a game of battlebots and no one else needs to get hurt.

Hjalamanger ,
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Or a game of chess maybe?

Lemongrab ,

Russian might still kill over a game of chess.

Aradia , in Twitter/X brings back headlines in link previews, but they're worse [they're tiny]
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Why should I care? Can we stop posting about every move Twitter do? I don't really care, and I doubt this is a tech new at all...

OR3X , in Ok, but what is XMPP? | Video

Who is Denshi?

ramble81 , in Signal chat protection against quantum computers

I'd just be happy if there was a way to restore my messages from Android to iOS (or vice-versa). I'm going to lose my messages from the past 4 years because of this. And it's been an open request with the devs for 5 years now.

noride ,

Yeah, they seem to put a lot of energy into esoteric features, when the app is in serious need of some quality of life improvements. I donate a tiny monthly sum to the project and honestly feel conflicted about how effectively it's being used.

RaoulDook ,

Or maybe chat history just isn't that important overall. I can do backups just fine on android but have only used that once. I wouldn't be too concerned if I lost all of my chats, as I've already read them.

The core security and privacy features are what's most important. I'd prefer they keep those as the top priority.

merde ,
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i have disappearing messages set for 2 weeks by default.

i can't understand why anybody would need a 5 year history of their chats 🤷

i remember using icq 🙊 i would have encyclopedic chat histories if i kept them. Chat is chat. Wind in the air. You hear it, then it's gone.

YIj54yALOJxEsY20eU ,

i can't understand why anybody would need a 5 year history of their chats 🤷

You are the most insufferable type of person on the internet

merde ,
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let me write that down so that i can still read it in 5 years

Thann , in Unity reportedly told dev Planned Parenthood and children's hospital are "not valid charities"
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Idk why anyone trusts peddlers of proprietary bullshit

blindbunny ,

For real dude it's really hard to feel bad for 2d game devs when an open source solution has been around for years.

It's like the whole xitter situation. Why would you want to stay on a platform that so obviously doesn't want you there? bUt MaStOdOn Is HaRd 🙄 grow up, move on, stop investing in capitalists ideas that only benefit you when it benefits them.

Franzia ,

This is victim blaming. These devs already made those games and released them before Unity made these decisions.

Bye , in Hyperloop in 2023: Where Are They Now?

Ok so this video convinced me hyperloops are a bad idea because vacuum is difficult to maintain

well then what’s a good idea that can go faster than airplanes? What am I supposed to be excited about instead? I love trains and the hyper loop sounded like a really fast train, which is cool.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Wasn't the hyperloop just a vacuum tube for cars? As in, it would have the same density issues that cars do, it's just faster.

The better option is ultra high speed trains, like the bullet train in Japan.

tankplanker ,

Ideally with the ability to transport cars and lorrys like LeShuttle.

Firipu ,
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You don't need a car everywhere. Most non US developed countries have a robust public transport network. A car is actually less practical than public transport for like 90% of use cases if you live in Metropolitan areas. Same for tourism. Don't need a car to go visit Paris. Jump on a local tgv and be in center Paris just a few hours later from most of western Europe. Why would you bring a car..

w2tpmf , in She went beyond socialism to being a full communist and thinking that anyone rich is evil. Elon Musk reveals Twitter takeover driven by 'woke mind virus' that infected his trans daughter.

This "technology" community is quickly becoming just as bad as the one on reddit.

The insane ravings and personal drama of a lunatic billionaire isn't news about technology.

Even news about Twitter itself isn't technology news. Twitter is a business that sells services. They don't make or contribute to any types of technology.

The only thing that Twitter technology related is that their business operates on the internet. That's it. Chewy.com or NYTimes.com is just as much "technology" as Twitter is.

MTLion3 , in She went beyond socialism to being a full communist and thinking that anyone rich is evil. Elon Musk reveals Twitter takeover driven by 'woke mind virus' that infected his trans daughter.

Daughter turning into something I don’t like? Buy out the thing she uses to try and regulate her. Very normal and healthy behavior

givesomefucks ,

He also blames a ridiculously exclusive school in Cali for the kids of ridiculouslu wealthy parents for her forming her own opinions about stuff. It's the same as other conservatives claiming college brainwashes kids.

Also, we can take the "full blown communist" part as seriously as any other time a billionaire says it. She could have said something like "maybe rich people should pay more tax" and get that label from them.

MTLion3 ,

Oh for sure. Extreme statements like that always ring as “They’re not how I want them to be so I’m going to call them radical”.

Fox , in China will dominate the world of tech, Web Summit’s Cosgrave says - Al Jazeera

In the coming decade, China will dominate technology because it has focused intensively on the important partnership between the public and private sectors with stunning results.

It's the "partnership between the public and private sectors" in particular that lost consumer and foreign government trust in technology originating from China.

How is China going to "dominate" anything when it's spent the last 20+ years shamelessly ripping off R&D through reverse-engineering and corporate espionage? What can it even claim of its own as true innovation?

ijeff OP ,
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Technology transfers have also been a large part of China's strategy, which results in large firms voluntarily transferring IP in exchange for large contracts. It's unfortunate that in many other places, we're still doing lowest bidder private contracting plagued by cost overruns.

davel ,
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China files more patents than the next nine countries combined: https://www.wipo.int/en/ipfactsandfigures/patents

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China is first country to hold over 4 million domestic patents

The number of China's domestic valid patents does not include those held in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

mechoman444 , in New Anti-Consumer MacBook Pros - Teardown And Repair Assessment - Apple Silicon M1/M2

I'm going to put this out there as just an idea, don't buy apple products.

They're shit they've always been shit and they've never been financially worth buying.

catfish ,

I just got an M2 MBP. In my personal experience it is very much not "shit".

Expensive and a PITA to fix? Quite possibly.

frostwhitewolf ,

+1 apple products are very much not shit. Otherwise people wouldnt buy and use them as prolifically as they do.

I started using Macbooks because the user experience on windows laptops sucks in comparison.

Tristan ,

Agreed. I work in computer simulations and their great. CPU is crazy fast, stays cool and silent. Battery life is solid.

Blackmist ,

The EU needs to fuck their shit up.

Mandate that laptops must have user replaceable storage and RAM (and tablets to have user replaceable storage). My old Dell laptop has windows in the bottom to get to both of those.

The loss of 3.5mm headphone jacks is nothing compared to the loss of that. They're common failure points and easy upgrade paths.

aport ,

Nobody is stopping you from buying a laptop with user replaceable storage and RAM. Why do you need the EU to get involved? That's ridiculous.

kylemsguy ,

Companies are slowly moving in that direction, except doing it worse in most cases (i.e. cheaply)

noodle ,
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They are a lifestyle brand and play on that to keep people trapped. People who buy Apple like the aesthetic of appearing wealthy. It's classism through consumerism, even if the consumers don't realise it.

Apple's terrible privacy policy (yes, despite the word privacy appearing in the ads), atrocious right to repair stance, and aggressive software lock-in tactics should put any person who cares about those things off.

There was a purpose to buying Apple when they were the only player in the specific niche. Audio engineering is a great example of this. In the 90's, Apple were really the only valid choice in a highly specialist field. Microsoft caught up in the 2000s, with Linux not too far behind in the 2010's.

So nowadays, the limitations are effectively self-imposed. You can spend whatever money you want on a setup that will do whatever you need and the OS is a personal preference.

lud ,

I don't like Apple very much but it would be stupid to not admit that their new M1 and M2 SOCs aren't great. Their battery efficiency far surpasses any from Intel or AMD and the performance is great.

I think MacOS looks stupid though, I mean, it looks like fucking Gnome.

I assume most people that buy Macs and iphones do it for their software and hardware, not because they want to appear wealthy.
Like you said OS is a personal preference and some prefer MacOS and iOS.

...lock-in tactics should put any person who cares about those things off.

Unfortunately most people don't care.

vidumec ,
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you don't have a choice if you need Xcode for iOS/MacOS development

mechoman444 ,

You, correct, if you need to develop for iOS or something Apple related you'll need the appropriate hardware and software.

Which brings us back to my original point don't buy Apple products.

kylemsguy ,

mac mini's are pretty cheap for that purpose. And besides, just because you personally don't use a platform doesn't stop you from making money from people who do.

raginghummus ,

Except they're not. They're excellent products and since Apple silicon are actually half decent value in some cases.

mechoman444 ,

Except that they are. There is absolutely no value to anything they make. It's all over priced proprietary crap.

Apple products right now are almost entirely home use there's almost no commercial industry anymore.

Developers graphic design artists music producers most technology firms most offices like doctors and lawyers whatever don't use Apple products. They're almost exclusively windows.

Literally the only thing keeping them in business right now is the iPhone. They don't sell enough of any other product.

raginghummus ,

What world are you living on? Most of silicon valley use Mac. Most the professions you listed DO use Mac. Since Apple silicon, performance for price ratio beats most Windows options for most people.

mechoman444 ,

What world am I living on. Wow. No.

Most of silicon valley does not run on apple.

The delusion that your mind is under that makes you believe that performance to price is better with Apple you need a seat professional help.

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