Zak

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[–] Zak 26 points 4 months ago (8 children)

That's most of it. ActivityPub also makes it possible to know who is subscribed. It's very hard to count how many people are subscribed to an RSS feed.

[–] Zak 10 points 4 months ago

Lemmy will never do such a thing, but specific Lemmy servers might.

[–] Zak 1 points 4 months ago

Needs more headphone jack.

[–] Zak 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'm pretty satisfied with my 4a. Are there any downgrades between the two generations?

[–] Zak 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It is radically public. It's designed to broadcast your content to hundreds of other peoples' computers running all manner of different software which might then rebroadcast it to yet more. The whole architecture is oriented toward spreading things far and wide, and what tools exist to restrict the audience or retract content already shared are little more than polite suggestions.

That's not a flaw, but people using it should understand how it works so they don't run into surprises.

[–] Zak 9 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I think the author understates how much better Chrome was than everything else from the time it launched to the time Firefox went multiprocess. It was about a five year period.

Now I think most people just see no reason to switch. Better adblocking might motivate a few.

[–] Zak 1 points 4 months ago

Someone could build a light this shape using two 10880 cells in parallel. Someone should.

[–] Zak 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That's my objection to them. Olight is interesting here in that they offer a lifetime warranty for flashlights purchased in in United States of America, Australia, China, France, or Germany in 2023 or later which explicitly covers built-in batteries. That's surprising given that Li-ion batteries are guaranteed to wear out, but it's pretty unambiguous.

[–] Zak 18 points 4 months ago

Think like a venture investor.

A small chance of huge growth via new technology can have a big payoff. They expect most companies to fail and are more worried about missing an opportunity than losing money in a single bad investment.

Nobody is quite sure where AI technology will be in ten years, but if it's big, it's going to make people who got in early very rich. It doesn't matter that it sucks now; the web sucked in 1995, but it made people who got in (and out) at the right time very rich.

[–] Zak 4 points 4 months ago

That's true. Describing current regulation as the premium option was an oversimplification. For household lighting, it's usually the premium option.

[–] Zak 15 points 4 months ago (5 children)

That's not the only way to dim an LED, just the cheapest. Variable current power regulators are the premium option.

A screw-in LED bulb combines LEDs and power regulating electronics. Some of them handle the variable input voltage a household dimmer provides gracefully, but that's more expensive.

[–] Zak 1 points 5 months ago

It's one thing to place limits on a few Chinese phones that have low market share outside China (Netflix is not available inside China), but only offering low-quality streams on the world's most popular smartphone OS would surely have a significant impact on subscription numbers. Netflix may have even signed contracts with content providers requiring them to meet certain DRM standards.

I believe the situation would be different if Google hadn't built a remote attestation system for Android. Netflix might have had to renegotiate a contract or two, but underserving a huge fraction of the market isn't viable long-term.

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