flop_leash_973

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[–] flop_leash_973 85 points 1 day ago (4 children)

You mean a free extension that claims to give me discounts seemingly out of the goodness of their hearts that also has access to every website I go to in the browser where it is installed is not exactly on the level? I'm shocked.....well...not that shocked.

[–] flop_leash_973 26 points 6 days ago (1 children)

As the general rule I feel the same about more or less all of the "AI" that is available to consumers from the likes of Google, OpenAI, etc.

It just seems more like a different way to do things with digital assistants or search engines that we have already been able to do for years.

[–] flop_leash_973 9 points 1 month ago (5 children)

But once its on why would you ever turn it off? /s

[–] flop_leash_973 20 points 1 month ago

I am less surprised that the information is out there than I am that the bodyguards of such people are allowed to either bring along their personal devices or install random crap from the public app stores on their work devices.

[–] flop_leash_973 4 points 1 month ago

This is why I still prefer public restroom glory holes in 2024.

[–] flop_leash_973 10 points 1 month ago

I bet the people you approached about finanching thought you were full of hot air.

[–] flop_leash_973 38 points 2 months ago (13 children)

Phones are becoming less and less interesting by the day.

Once they get to the point were all of the options that don't require incredibly inconvenient sacrifices in functionality to maintain the interesting stuff like a video game console then that will kill interest in the market for me.

If I can't do anything besides basic smart phone crap I might as well just buy whatever has a good camera once every half decade or so and be done with it. So whatever top end thing Samsung or Apple are putting out.

I'm not sure Google has fully thought through what it means to just be a worse version of what Apple puts out, but with more ads.

[–] flop_leash_973 3 points 2 months ago

I'll believe it when I see it.

Everything in these kind of cases tends to be a negotiation. So if the starting point by the DOJ is "break them up", then I imagine they are willing to settle for something much less undesirable to Alphabet.

[–] flop_leash_973 26 points 2 months ago

Interoperability is how we “seize the means of computation.”

Good luck with that. If the success of the iPhone has taught me anything it is that the average person loves them some incompatible with anything but itself vertical integration.

[–] flop_leash_973 20 points 2 months ago

Anything related to healthcare has no business being any closer to the whims of "the market" than the public roads.

It would be unheard of for a government to stop maintaining a public road because whomever was supplying some ingredient of the asphalt said that particular mix is "to old and the new mix is not compatible with the roads created using the old mix".

They don't want to do it anymore, fine, then provide whatever is needed for someone else to maintain it for the cost of the materials to print/email/upload to GitHub the technical documents. It should not be legal to get someone hooked on your life altering medical device then rug pull them like this.

 

As if those AI overviews weren't already useless enough.

[–] flop_leash_973 66 points 2 months ago (11 children)

Once ads are allowed into a platform they will ultimately be what destroys it eventually.

Might take a week or a decade. But the lust of that easy ad money will ruin the thing they were put there to fund in the end.

 

It feels dirty to agree with an ISP on something. But even the worst corporations are on the right side of something from time to time I suppose.

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Jesus, that is a gross way to inject advertising into turn-by-turn navigation.

Edit/update from 9to5google so this post does not spread what is apparently inaccurate information: https://9to5google.com/2024/07/08/google-maps-pop-up-quick-detour-ad/

 

It is hard to imagine that there was not someone inside of Nike that lost their faith in humanity when the pitch for these things was originally taking off.

 

Well, at least they aren't outright throwing the functionality in the trash.

 

I can't imagine anyone that has decent prospects would agree to go back to Tesla after getting canned with those kinds of wild swings in decision making.

 

As if the Prime Video app couldn't get any worse.

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