Comment on: US Military Plans To Harvest Solar Energy In Space, Beam It To Earth - Activist Post
No, a life ray.
1 31 May 2021 14:14 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Microsoft Announces Upcoming Demise of Internet Explorer
When Windows 7 came out, I counted all the different control panels that it had. Just over 150. And most of them looked like they were from Windows 2000.
2 23 May 2021 09:00 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Samsung unveils a 512GB DDR5 RAM module
Oh no, the horror
2 26 Mar 2021 10:21 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: For the first time in years, someone is making a web browser from scratch
Also, uh... Webkit was an absolute godsend for developers. Actually fairly accurate CSS rendering...
2 15 Mar 2021 22:09 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: How Democracy Dies: Big Tech Becomes Big Brother
They worship worldly power.
1 06 Mar 2021 11:56 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Social Media Influencers Will Be Payed For ‘Approved Messages’ During Trial of Officer Killed Floyd
The prosecution will heavily lean on "if not for X, Y would not have happened". It is the "but for" argument, which is not well regarded.
1 01 Mar 2021 09:56 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Scientists begin building highly accurate digital twin of our planet
Then they can turn it upside-down and call it Mondas.
1 27 Feb 2021 12:07 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Bill Gates uses Android over iOS, as explained in chat
Because of that old saying in the software industry - never eat your own dog food.
1 26 Feb 2021 22:11 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: US and Allies to Build 'China-Free' Tech Supply Chain | Nikkei Asia
Glad that the UK is going to be on board with this as we're to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership. I've heard they don't even have a government of their own to submit to!
5 26 Feb 2021 15:02 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Parler.com returns online
It's been said by other directors that he lied about the decisions he made that contributed to Parler being knocked offline.
2 16 Feb 2021 22:42 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Parler.com returns online
Oo dear.
1 15 Feb 2021 20:20 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Parler.com returns online
So does Matze.
8 15 Feb 2021 18:36 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Parler.com returns online
It was phone number. Do you want the site to be flooded with troll bots or what?
4 15 Feb 2021 17:17 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Mini Nuclear Reactors Offer Promise of Cheaper, Clean Power
The issue is not now creating the process or sustaining the process, but capturing enough energy from the process. Does sound like a tricky one, considering how complicated the housing of the machine needs to be already.
2 12 Feb 2021 10:17 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Koo app downloads surge as tensions escalate between Twitter and Govt - The Economic Times
Whats quite funny is that Koo sounds like coup. I'd actually support Twitter on this except for Twitter's stark hypocrisy.
1 11 Feb 2021 13:54 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: NIO Announces 150 kWh Solid-State Batteries For 2022
I don't trust these to be of a quality we would find acceptable in the west.
1 06 Feb 2021 11:13 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Why Google's approach to replacing the cookie is drawing antitrust scrutiny
Eh. Too much money in having monopolistic control over tracking all human activity on the web.
2 04 Feb 2021 11:48 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Parler CEO John Matze has been fired
It looks something like that, but people should definitely read the article in full.
4 04 Feb 2021 11:34 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Brave Passes 25 Million Monthly Active Users
I like Eich
1 03 Feb 2021 18:12 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Wikipedia launches new code of conduct that bans "false" info and "trolling," encourages preferred pronoun use
Seems like roughly a 10 hour download, to take up 50% of all the space I've got left. I think I'll have to wait until later, and pick up an older dump from the Internet Archive.
1 03 Feb 2021 18:10 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Brave Passes 25 Million Monthly Active Users
It will remain an open source project. It just won't have nearly as much resources driving its development. But there are now a ton of developers who understand it well.
2 03 Feb 2021 09:39 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Wikipedia launches new code of conduct that bans "false" info and "trolling," encourages preferred pronoun use
How much HDD space though? Edit: when browsable and with pictures
1 03 Feb 2021 09:15 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Why Everyone Should Build Their Own PC and Stop Using Macs
I guess because they haven't expressed funny ideas about a moral imperative to control user behaviour, and because they aren't known to make direct use of concentration camp labour in China.
2 31 Jan 2021 11:39 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Brave Browser Integrates IPFS
As long as people don't have to understand IPFS to be able to make use of it, it should start to take off pretty well.
23 19 Jan 2021 17:42 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Brave Browser Integrates IPFS
It's not obvious but at least BATS can be hidden from the GUI.
7 19 Jan 2021 17:40 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Irish teenager wins national science award for deepfake video detector | The Irish Times
We're coming to a point where the most relevant aspect of morality will be "what you may or may not do when you believe things that could well be a carefully constructed false reality".
1 15 Jan 2021 12:02 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: The Guy Who Built The World Wide Web Is Building A 'New Internet', Where You Control Your Data
Am I right in saying this would make it very much more impractical to 'cancel' someone and make them build their own website/payment processor/bank/currency/planet? If the comms platforms have to become standards-based to keep up, and be intercompatible with each other just as the phone networks are, would they be able to stay alive playing whack-a-mole?
1 12 Jan 2021 13:50 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
NIO Announces 150 kWh Solid-State Batteries For 2022 📦
10 1 comment 11 Jan 2021 10:50 u/NitroglycerinLtd (..) in g/technology
Comment on: Court says Uber can’t hold users to terms they probably didn’t read
This isn't quite the knockout punch for EULAs I thought it might be. It seems that Uber's side was thrown out because the actual agreement was through a link to a web page, something that by no means we can assume the user would follow and load and read. Edit: This definitely does punch out on-disc-EULAs though. You know, 'installation of the software on this disc means you agree to the terms on www.ouropinionofyourrights.blah'
3 07 Jan 2021 14:48 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
No, because the researchers didn't mention that part of the deal of making the AI obey your commands is selling your soul to satan.
2 06 Jan 2021 20:01 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Huawei smartphone production predicted to nosedive this year - SlashGear
Oh no how awful
1 06 Jan 2021 19:56 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Microsoft plans 'sweeping' design changes to show that Windows 'is back'
Oh god please no
2 06 Jan 2021 13:12 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: The days of the Hackintosh project are numbered.
Short answer: Apples' MacOS applications tend to be very good, very well-maintained, and cheap compared to equivalent competition. For example, Final Cut Pro X is a perpetually licensed, stable, useful video editor from 2011 that is still improved and updated now, for not a penny extra. The OS is also generally nicer to use than Windows.
3 03 Jan 2021 21:50 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: The record-breaking jet which still haunts a country - BBC Future
Whoever rescued one of these planes was a goddamn hero.
1 02 Jan 2021 21:56 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: The Air Force Is Building a Spacecraft That Will Beam Solar Power to Earth
Finally! The Asimov plan made reality!
1 02 Jan 2021 20:37 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: James May's Futuristic Tour Guide "Robohon" Leaves Him in Stitches
God bless James May. xD
2 02 Jan 2021 19:52 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Should We Use Search History for Credit Scores? IMF Says Yes
StartPage is just Google engine with a faceplate.
1 23 Dec 2020 13:49 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Should We Use Search History for Credit Scores? IMF Says Yes
Sounds awful, but maybe an automated process can be doing that.
4 22 Dec 2020 11:53 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: PC Gamer: Microsoft's December 8 update for Windows 10 is causing performance woes on some PCs.
When Windows 10 is out of beta, I'll give it a look. Oh wait, no, they have ads in the Start menu.
2 20 Dec 2020 20:26 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Child spends $16K on iPad game in-app purchases | Apple won't refund.
I think it would be more appropriate for the mother to sue the child for identity theft, and then see about a refund.
1 14 Dec 2020 12:40 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Hyundai purchases Boston Dynamics, maker of Spot dog robot, for $921M - Roadshow
What are the alternatives? Arbitrarily prohibit the sale of its stocks, or just have the government buy Acorn and run it with the kind of innovation and efficiency we expect from civil servants?
1 10 Dec 2020 23:36 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Hyundai purchases Boston Dynamics, maker of Spot dog robot, for $921M - Roadshow
And Softbank are also letting go of ARM, because nVidia is buying ARM. Honestly, I don't know what Softbank are thinking.
3 10 Dec 2020 20:38 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Hyundai purchases Boston Dynamics, maker of Spot dog robot, for $921M - Roadshow
Hyundai are South Korean, not Chinese, you bloody idiot.
15 10 Dec 2020 19:17 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: ✔️ ❤️ ★ Unicode Character Table
Yeah, I think it's in the Keyboard section of System Preferences.
2 10 Dec 2020 14:16 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: ✔️ ❤️ ★ Unicode Character Table
You can do that pretty much OS-wide on MacOS.
2 10 Dec 2020 14:11 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Apple introduces AirPods Max, the magic of AirPods in a stunning over-ear design
$549 Could be worth it, if they've somehow managed to reduce bluetooth latency to a matter of milliseconds, and if the audio quality is studio monitor level. But it won't be.
4 08 Dec 2020 21:31 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: HP's 'free ink for life' plan is over because home printers are a scam
Lifetime guarantee* *lifetime is defined as the time for which the guarantee is valid. Not your actual lifetime. lol
2 05 Dec 2020 14:36 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Amazon is bringing macOS to its AWS cloud - The Verge
Cheap MacOS development, testing, and codesigning for the masses, eh?
2 01 Dec 2020 14:33 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Tom & Jerry made 60fps using AI
From what I hear, it's common that we sympathise far far more with Tom as we grow up.
3 30 Nov 2020 13:10 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Tom & Jerry made 60fps using AI
Some scenes are improved, as where Tom is running from wringer to ironing board and where Jerry juggles eggs, but for 'acting' moments, it's like a junior tweener who doesn't understand his craft yet and just smooths over all actions without thinking about appropriate timing.
1 30 Nov 2020 13:10 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Prolonged AWS outage takes down a big chunk of the internet - The Verge
Down with the internet of things! Up with things that do what they're supposed to whenever you need them to!
2 26 Nov 2020 13:42 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Somebody is selling the new Radeon cards for the price of a luxury car.
I remember a original A5 drawing of Sonic the Hedgehog going for quite a bit more.
1 25 Nov 2020 22:09 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Apple lobbies against Uighur forced labor bill - The Washington Post
Are they not still having their products assembled by factories that make use of concentration camp slave labour? They at least used to, less than a year ago, from what I have read, and there hasn't really come about any news that they changed their assembly supplier since then.
1 22 Nov 2020 00:43 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: A Microsoft FrontPage retrospective: the good, the bad, and the ugly
I remember, years ago, having a play with it, and some really awful source code was generated.
2 20 Nov 2020 20:07 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: YouTube will run ads on smaller creators' videos without paying them | Engadget
BitChute, I think, and he's actually got a point.
2 20 Nov 2020 16:18 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Mac users couldn’t launch apps this afternoon after Apple verification server issue
Hee hee, and I'm trying to figure out how to certify and notarise my .app right now as well.
2 13 Nov 2020 10:18 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Apple Discontinues All Intel-Based MacBook Air Models; Only M1 MacBook Air Available to Purchase
No, because of the Rosetta compatibility layer. This all happened before with the move from PowerPC to Intel chips.
1 12 Nov 2020 16:51 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Google CEO Thinks AI Will Be More Profound Change Than Fire
The ultimate expression of Garbage In, Gospel Out.
2 08 Nov 2020 13:23 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Massachusetts voters pass a right-to-repair measure, giving them unprecedented access to their car data – TechCrunch
This is excellent. You can't really own something if you're artificially prevented from fixing it.
1 08 Nov 2020 13:12 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: MIT Team's Cough Detector Identifies 97% of COVID-19 Cases Even in Asymptomatic People
It detects the symptoms in people who don't have any symptoms? What a wonderful test!
1 08 Nov 2020 13:11 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Raspberry Pi 400 - A complete PC built into a keyboard for $70
It's a brilliant idea, especially if it can come in a quite nice reliable keyboard that's practical to clean.
2 03 Nov 2020 12:27 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: AMD announces Radeon RX 6900XT, RX 6800XT and RX 6800 graphics cards
Looking forward to seeing what a 6600 would be like, as AMD have often done well in the bang-for-buck market.
1 01 Nov 2020 13:00 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Why Twitter Stock Crashed 20%
Not sure why. Nothing is likely to come of it. "Are you, Social Media Platform, violating the trust that you hold as a public forum?" "Yes." "OK. Sorry to trouble you."
5 30 Oct 2020 16:33 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: UK Mobile networks banned from selling locked phones
Won't this just change the dominant business model into one where people are buying their £800+ phones on credit with interest and with no carrier subsidy whatsoever?
2 28 Oct 2020 09:39 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Breakthrough 3D Solar Panel Design Increases Light Absorption By 125% – A Potential Game-Changer | Oct. 24, 2020 GoodNewsNetwork
So's <10nm transistor production, but somehow they still bother to make them.
3 27 Oct 2020 14:59 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: "Holy Sh*t!": Videos Of Tesla's Full Self Driving Beta Are Surfacing And They're Frightening
Skynet will kill us by accident.
1 27 Oct 2020 11:53 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Google's Head of Global Analysis: "Platforms are influencing you in a way you didn't sign up for"
Don't Be Evil. Instead, use every underhanded tactic you can think of to control people's minds. It's for the greater good.
1 22 Oct 2020 11:47 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Facebook’s Account Verification Leaves Some Quest 2 Buyers With ‘Paperweight’
What's the expression? When you lie down with dogs, you'll wake up with fleas?
1 17 Oct 2020 19:06 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Chrome update hides full URL, displays only domain name
I think Safari already does this, and you click on the URL bar to get the full address.
4 16 Oct 2020 23:11 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Netflix no longer offers free trials in the US - The Verge
'I think the mother would be more inclined to think that the woman is a victim and needs to teach her son that women are not objects' If it's not clearly sexual then she's just helping put some human interest in the photograph. Are fashion models also victims? Are men's deodorant models victims? You have to concede the sexuality of the framing, or you have to go the whole all-employment-is-victimhood way.
1 16 Oct 2020 10:21 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: New Features Coming to Signal Groups
Lovely!
2 15 Oct 2020 18:44 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: New Features Coming to Signal Groups
What precisely is Signal and what is its significance?
2 15 Oct 2020 18:23 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Netflix no longer offers free trials in the US - The Verge
'If you think it is sexual, as I see quoted repeatedly on-line then that means that you had some sexual feeling while watching it.' There's the crux of your argument, and it's wrong... otherwise, if a teenager has to try to convince the mother that this magazine with a picture of a bikini-clad girl draped over a car is perfectly innocent and the mother *objects*, then you would have to assume that the mother is at least inclined toward lesbianism. Rather silly.
1 15 Oct 2020 15:13 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Netflix no longer offers free trials in the US - The Verge
Serves me right for trying to use polite euphemisms. By all means, continue trying to imply that everyone who doesn't approve of 'Cuties' is a paedophile. It's working *really well*.
1 15 Oct 2020 12:41 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Netflix no longer offers free trials in the US - The Verge
Does your gym class have the kids grope themselves or something? Dude I think you need to take your kids somewhere else.
1 14 Oct 2020 23:07 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Apple's entire iPhone 12 event in exactly 12 minutes (supercut)
Is it still made by concentration camp labour?
1 14 Oct 2020 23:04 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Apple sues recycling firm for stealing and reselling 100,000 iPhones, iPads and Watches
I mean, these are almost all perfectly good phones with years of useful life being traded in for the latest trendiest thing by airheads who wouldn't dream of being one-down to their airhead peers.
1 05 Oct 2020 10:16 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: US Postal Service Files A Patent For Voting System Combining Mail And A Blockchain
Uh... how does that protect someone from being made to vote on their phone at home by someone who lives with them?
1 01 Oct 2020 21:36 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Apple Announces 5nm A14 SoC - Meagre Upgrades, Or Just Less Power Hungry?
Who doesn't enjoy having a little bit more battery life?
1 23 Sep 2020 09:32 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: ARM releases 2020-2022+ Neoverse Platform Roadmap
Yep, definitely no insider trading with nVidia buying them just before this announcement.
1 22 Sep 2020 23:46 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Microsoft’s ZeniMax Media Acquisition Was A “Surprisingly Low Price,” Claims Analyst
I still be quite excited for Elder Scrolls VI: Somerset, whenever that be coming out.
1 22 Sep 2020 10:13 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: US Postal Service Files A Patent For Voting System Combining Mail And A Blockchain
Not only some, you lose all protection against voter coercion. You also forget that even if everyone understands how a blockchain works (even people with a vested monetary interest in explaining it to the average Joe fail to do so, see Bitcoin), we still have to assume that a computer in the possession of the state will give an honest representation of the data it receives.
1 22 Sep 2020 10:09 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: How this A.I became a communist. This A.I was able to change his… | by Mohamad Ali Nasser | Towards Data Science
To be fair, communism is a perfect social system for robots, even if not for anyone or anything else.
4 19 Sep 2020 18:42 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Apple let the FBI access iCloud account of protester accused of arson - Business Insider
Legally speaking, Apple has the absolute right to refuse to help law enforcement to break the security on a customer's property, but the iCloud data exists on their own property, their servers. Ethically speaking, this seems to violate Apple's position that 'privacy is a human right', but they might not have had a choice here.
1 17 Sep 2020 12:31 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Apple’s Reckoning Has Come.
Whoever loses, we win.
2 16 Sep 2020 21:21 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: It’s Official- NVIDIA Acquires Arm For $40B To Create What Could Be A Computing Juggernaut
Not just royalty-free use, they also will receive the ARM royalties now. They're looking to a decade hence when x64 will be something taught in comp-sci in a merely historical sense.
2 14 Sep 2020 14:32 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: It’s Official- NVIDIA Acquires Arm For $40B To Create What Could Be A Computing Juggernaut
I wonder if they have not been bought already because of the open RISC-V platform as a factor keeping ARM honest? If they throw their muscle around like Intel or IBM did, they can be sidelined without horrendous cost.
1 14 Sep 2020 14:29 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Microsoft rejected, Oracle wins bid for TikTok's US operations
An Oracle sees all things, so it's kind of appropriate that they should win the bid for a piece of spyware.
5 14 Sep 2020 09:45 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Swedes to build wind-powered transatlantic cargo ship (yes, it’s a sailboat)
Hey, ho, we'll go,
Anywhere the wind is blowing
Hoist the sails and sing
Sailing for adventure on the big blue wet thing
2 13 Sep 2020 16:27 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Google tells employees to take Friday off for 'collective wellbeing'
It's a bit tough on most businesses to massively increase their on-paper costs by paying all their employees the same but for a day less work per week.
1 09 Sep 2020 22:47 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Red Hat/Lenovo Collaboration Comes to Fruition with New Pre-Installed Fedora on ThinkPads
I wonder what else it comes pre-installed with.
3 02 Sep 2020 08:58 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: ASUS officially announce GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards
graphics memory capacity has really jumped in leaps and bounds lately... is this essentially a 4k accommodation? It seems otherwise that graphics memory is an overhyped factor compared to other considerations.
3 01 Sep 2020 14:15 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Elon Musk demonstrates Neuralink’s tech live using pigs with surgically implanted brain-monitoring devices
I am fairly sure the activity monitors were set to the blues scale.
2 29 Aug 2020 18:08 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Apple has now terminated Epic's App Store account following legal dispute between the two companies [U] - 9to5Mac
I think maybe when Epic was planning this campaign, they didn't predict that another game would steal the battle royale thunder from Fortnite at just the wrong moment. Epic Games just aren't as relevant as they needed to be in order to win this PR battle.
1 29 Aug 2020 11:15 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Most of Scottish Wikipedia Written By American in Mangled English
Tae best lain o te article is a te end, wi states: >Others are still trying to defend Amaryllis, saying that the articles are simply in "non-standard Scots."
2 28 Aug 2020 13:54 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Israel's Latest 'Carmel' Tanks To Have X-Box Controllers, F-35 Style Cockpit
Not DualShock controllers? I'm outraged!
3 24 Aug 2020 22:55 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Epic's CEO sent Apple a 2 a.m. email declaring war over 'Fortnite' - Business Insider
Fight a legal battle to determine if Apple does have the right to be the only payment gateway on iOS, sure. But when you, Epic Games, a (multi?) billion dollar company, play the poor widdw hewpwess victim, it grates.
1 23 Aug 2020 08:16 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: 6G Will Be 100 Times Faster Than 5G—and Now There’s a Chip for It
Why bother with 5G at all, we'll only have to go through the same rigmarole all over again....
1 22 Aug 2020 09:47 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: Boeing 747s Still Use Floppy Disks to Get Software Updates
While the subject of the article is of passing interest, it IS written somewhat childishly / very colloquially, and the author's bio is childish nonsense as well. I guess these are the standards which Gizmodo upholds nowadays. That's what you could have written in order to get upvotes instead of downvotes.
0 12 Aug 2020 08:55 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology
Comment on: New Hampshire legalizes flying cars
How can flying cars exist if they're illegal? They're a bit hard to keep under the radar.
0 06 Aug 2020 20:37 u/NitroglycerinLtd in g/technology