From what I’m reading, it’s Sony cutting ties with a s* company.
In the open letter they also ask to contact Sony to get refunds, which is not at all how it works. And GamingHeads should be the one giving refunds. They then manage with Sony.
From comments I can read on the website and reddit, it seems that statues were taking a very long time to ship (5 years).
Tho destroying ready to ship products isn’t great either.
Hmm, ok. I see. When clicking on the last button in a category tree, it chooses randomly an instance.
Tho for that specific category, I cannot access https://lemmy.sdf.org/. Why? I don’t know, maybe broken or regional block?
If regional block, that is an argument to warts looking at user location. Tho not sure if it would be useful for anything else.
It would also be interesting to categorize more instances. Maybe even put smaller ones to distribute the load. Tho sometimes the smaller ones may not be well prepared for a lot of users. And at the same time the local feed may not be the most active. Tho the all feed may be interesting for new users.
The instance where I am, compuverse.uk is a general tech/computer instance, but had issues with storage for example.
So when does the random instance is chosen? When the website is loaded? When the user clicks on a category?
Maybe currently there aren’t enough instances categorised on the website to get enough randomness.
Is there, or would there be, a weight in the randomness in order to chose closer instances based on the user’s location?
For example sh.itjust.works is an instance based in Canada. When the reddit exodus happened. That instance was slow due to the distance. While others closer to the western europe were faster because they where closer to me.
Tho rn, it’s about the same. So not sure.
If Google didn’t remove it from their browser… Not sure in how much time, if ever, jpeg xl would become popular.
The bad news is that Android is still likely affected. Similar to Apple’s ImageIO, Android has a facility called the BitmapFactory that handles image decoding, and of course libwebp is supported. As of today, Android hasn’t released a security bulletin that includes a fix for CVE-2023-4863 – although the fix has been merged into AOSP. To put this in context: if this bug does affect Android, then it could potentially be turned into a remote exploit for apps like Signal and WhatsApp. I’d expect it to be fixed in the October bulletin.
So a no-click device hack?
It’s way too big for this little amount of people, and somehow I stumbled on a porn drawing…
There is a flatpak zoom app. I guess it can be sandboxes somehow. It would most likely not pose any privacy threat outside of zoom.
But keep in mind that zoom got into it’s privacy policy, that they can record and use for ai anything you do and say during a meeting (if you didn’t allow access to the desktop during the meeting, zoom shouldn’t be able to record it, so most likely won’t matter for that, only what you send through their servers).
Because it’s a search engine using gpt3. Nothing special/Foss about it. Or at least I don’t see any Foss sources.
You won’t get the date.
The date mentioned in the answer may also be an halucination from the bot, depending on the dataset.
And an answer to Bing chat / bard is pretty hard to do if something like this even exists, as the bot has to be able to search the Web.
Maybe something like this? https://huggingface.co/ https://huggingface.co/chat/
The model seems to be based on the Llama model (but not only, there seem to be multiple models). Tho I didn’t really look into it on how they get their database. It also has more hallucinations than chatgpt.
Do you have lots of cash to support the copyright and maintenance fees? The Web archive (I think, or another similar website) got sued for having knowledge and book contents on their website. You can’t just publish hacked books.
Most likely you would need a way to generate money for a “business”.
There would be some ways like advertising (can be OK, but not always the best, it depends on how many adds, how scummy ads, and how much tracking/data selling).
Donations? = pretty much no expected revenue. The amount of revenue you can get is very low.
Paid features, but what features could be paid while keeping free access?
Business proposal : destroy my money
It can be compared and added to the argument of an European country which proposes to scan all photos sent to detect if it contains illegal children photos.
However, to do so, is a huge privacy issue, and as the ai has a very high risk to not work as expected, a lot of false positives could be sent to be reviewed by a person.
For me, it shows 1 subscriber, 1.4k users per month.
It seems to be entirely dependent on the instance.
Sadly not everywhere. On mobile it lacks behind. Even more on video content and low power cpus.
Chromium is slightly better in a way where I could clic on the video buttons without lag : On my android TV, (sideloaded) Firefox had issues with video buttons. So I tried using kiwi browser (for the extension support), and it worked well for buttons. The video wasn’t a lot smoother, but it just seemed maybe just slightly better.
I don’t use it because of mobile adblock only. There are multiple private chromium browsers which have mobile adblock, and also one supporting extensions : kiwi browser.
I use Firefox because it’s a competing engine to chromium, and it looks good.
I also have all the synced bookmarks from my PC Firefox, which I use for the same reason, and because I got used to it.
The article only talks about deployment costs. What about the rest?
For you a company should just throw away it’s employees to hire inexistent Linux experts or people using Linux software or whatever?
There is the server side. There I agree that using Linux is great.
On the client side it can be more complicated. A lot of schools in various domains teach the students how to use the software on windows. Not Linux.
Furthermore, a company doesn’t pop into existence the moment where it thinks it needs to switch to Linux.
The company already exists, providing work to the employees, trained on windows. So switching on Linux may change the software if it cannot be used on Linux (not everything is a saas). And that can be a time consuming process for the employees too because they don’t know how to use it efficiently.
They can’t really do that, mostly because it’s not “just 1 person”.
There are a lot of costs going into maintaining the os, apps, custom software, and training for the employees.
Google is giant, and has a huge amount of money. They can afford to spend the costs of training, modifying software, or developing other software for their needs if it reduces their future costs.
A smaller company don’t have all those funds, they wouldn’t be able to invest as much into switching to Linux and maintaining the custom software or finding new software and training.
When people switch to another software, there is also a period of low productivity, when these same people are still discovering the software, and cannot do everything as fast as before. That is also creating additional costs.
Sure. But google does waste money if it brings them profit. It would be rather called an investment.
However the example of Google is extremely bad, because it can only be applied to very large tech companies who already have people developing for Linux.
It’s not a waste of money, it’s a bad example.
I find what they are offering interesting. But I myself use Thunderbird on my pc, spark on my phone, to get the emails from Gmail and yahoo mail.
Skiff isn’t compatible with imap, and from what they are saying, is because it’s an encrypted service, and using imap would require to unencrypt them.