"cheat", "lie", "cover up"... Assigning human behavior to Stochastic Parrots again, aren't we Jimmy?

People, shall we read the full article first?

Meanwhile, this is not the case with the Ryzen 9000 series desktop parts as the spec sheet of that says:

OS Support

Windows 11 - 64-Bit Edition , Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition , RHEL x86 64-Bit , Ubuntu x86 64-Bit

So the new Ryzen AI chips that most people don't care about won't support Win 10, but Ryzen 9000 (the real deal desktop chips) will.

To be frank, the article title is misleading at best.

Brazilian here. Perfectly safe (color-wise; of course it can be polluted as hell despite its color, just like any other river).

Our ground/mud has a different color. Some areas on the south even have a red soil (very fertile, but makes everything about ground level look dirty very quickly): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_soil

There's great variety of water colors even in the same area, just search for images "meeting of the waters Manaus":

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Potential bias: I'm a developer at Spotify.

"Spotify forces you either to pay, listen to ads or to find unofficial, potentially dangerous versions to use it."

I don't think the company forces you to do anything. It is their business model, how they can provide copyrighted music to you and have a share of the pie too.

I'd say the very idea that Spotify is forcing you to pay with time and attention or money so you can have music conveniently streamed to your devices is a testament to the company's success. It created this business model and fulfilled an apparently basic need to the point you think that charging for it is unfair.

But "forcing" is too much. You can always buy discs, digital downloads and so.

No fees when users choose to pay via Spotify (which had been the case and only option since the beginning, until User Choice Billing was implemented).

If users choose to pay with Google Play Billing, Google keeps 4%.

Even so, what I find hypocritical is that Spotify got this deal and seemingly agreed to keep it under wraps, without advocating for it to be extended to all other music streaming services in the platform.

Because... having a deal with the platform holder that gives it unfair advantage over the competition is exactly what they accuse Apple of doing with iOS.

Sauce: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23969690/google-spotify-android-billing-commission-secret-deal

Standing legs? Man stands on his own 2. King sits on the 4 of his throne. Beggar sits on the floor?

Love how it highlights that big tech (much to capitalism's fault, TBH) can only drive innovation if the tech has a moat around it, if no one else can, or would, copy it and deploy it at a lower cost.

Which is... the argument that people use to defend capitalism? That capitalism drives innovation and makes it accessible to everyone at the lowest possible price.

I like the frugal tech idea as much as I like degrowth.

Paperless-ngx that allows you to self host an easily browseable archive of your documents. Fully featured with OCR, ML-powered categorization and the works.

https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/

KeepassXC replied on that thread that it wasn't just the privacy problematic networking that was removed:

that bug report is bunk. He removed ALL features, not just networking. That includes yubikey support, auto-type and browser integration.

https://fosstodon.org/@keepassxc/112417651131348253

Facts: Game didn't break the charts on day one.

Media: Game is struggling on Steam.

Facts: That's not what the data say, in fact some games come out with a bang, others have a long...

Media: OmD, will Ninja Theory survive?!

Can't have a healthier gaming industry if this passes for news, specially with that headline.

5th paragraph in, so they can say they weren't doomsayers:

While the numbers don’t look great, there’s currently nothing to worry about with Hellblade 2.

Edit: added clarity that the post started with a "dialogue".

Syncthing.

Just configure it to only run while plugged to the wall, so you're not surprised by the rare bug of it randomly turning your phone into a pocket warmer.

Please sir, may I have the sauce?

Andreas Kling's ladybird? Don't wanna touch that with a 10ft pole.

https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/ladybird-inclusivity/

HeliBoard has been my chosen SwiftKey replacement: https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard

Features I value:

• Multilingual typing (as someone who writes EN, PT and dabbles on DE and NL daily, having to check which language I'm on and switch keyboards/layouts every time sucks)
• Glide typing (with optional closed source library)
• Clipboard history
• Comprehensive layout customization
• Autocorrect (with customizable level of confidence)
• Emoji selection and history

It does suck to see an app that I loved and paid for (yes, I used it for THAT long) get enshittified and try push AI* down my throat.

Not to mention M$ owning my typing history (which I kinda could live with).

RIP SwiftKey.

they will most likely know how to use it properly and ethically

I'd argue that ethical use is not possible:

• Models are trained on stolen/misappropriated/misused data
• Training involves psychologically harmful work from ghost workers
• Those services runs on infrastructure that no one wants around, and wastefully contributes to climate change/global warming

Reminded me of this little fella:

Probably yes.

And probably due to EU mandating new phones to be supported for longer.

https://energy-efficient-products.ec.europa.eu/product-list/smartphones-and-tablets_en

Appears to be a useful app, with a plaetora of features, but gathers your personal data, including voice, just to sell it to the highest bidder, all under the umbrella of an ads platform (which is also a very sketchy business).

Yup, sounds like a virus to me.

I'd say that they're "cooking the books" as in: making it look like they're in better shape than they are by cutting costs, but causing irreparable damage to themselves that will manifest in the long run.

I've survived 3 layoffs at Spotify last year alone. Once I started working there It didn't take long to be proud and feel happy about it. Now, although people still find it cool when I tell them and I still do the same job (no workload increase), I know it is just like any other greedy corpo and I feel compelled to care less and less.

https://c.im/@matdevdug/111828583287417134