CommentRe:Propreritary software relies on bad open softwa (Score 1)56

by Computershackon Monday April 21, 2025 @05:22PM (#65321649) Attached to: Teen Coder Shuts Down Open Source Mac App Whisky, Citing Harm To Paid Apps

Imagine if Thje Gimp and Inkscape were actually good enough for Adobe to stop abusive subscriptions or Gnome was good enough for Windows to stop telemetry? I warned you for 30 years.

Telemetry is what makes Adobe's UI and usability considerably better than GIMPs. Telemetry allows Adobe to see how people use their application, what features are used the most, problems with layouts and menu choices that make workflow harder so they can be re-designed to improve them.

CommentRe:Green? (Score 1)132

by Computershackon Friday April 11, 2025 @07:58AM (#65297075) Attached to: Gas Boiler Fittings Outnumbered Heat Pumps By 15 To One in UK Last Year - Report

Yes, you are irrelevant. On the other hand 100s of millions of people collectively in the world are not. Mind you that's 100s of millions of people more intelligent than you, i.e. people who seem to understand what happens when you multiply small numbers together.

Says an American living in the country that has the highest emissions per capita without any hint of irony. Still using your 4 ton 5 litre truck to go to the end of the street to buy a loaf of bread?

CommentRe: "I know what you did last summer" (Score 1)55

by Computershackon Friday April 11, 2025 @07:52AM (#65297067) Attached to: Microsoft is About To Launch Recall For Real This Time

The "opt in" will be done the same way as it has been for many previous features people didn't want, by using a multi-step process deliberately designed to push the customer towards opting in, making it as difficult as possible to say no.

CommentRe:Yay (Score 4, Insightful)320

by Computershackon Friday April 11, 2025 @07:44AM (#65297059) Attached to: China Raises Tariffs on US Imports To 125%

China's exports to the USA account for just 2% of their GDP. They can quite easily lose the entire lot, never sell another cent of goods to the USA and manage just fine. America though which has much of the stuff now made in China will be a bit fucked though. And it can't just throw up new factories to make stuff because a lot of the raw materials it needs to make those things, such as rare earth minerals, come from China because America doesn't have enough to even meet current demand.

CommentRe:None of them consistently support surround soun (Score 1)70

by Computershackon Wednesday March 26, 2025 @03:31PM (#65261197) Attached to: Streaming Services Are Facing Identity Crisis, Research Shows

None of them consistently support surround sound. That is one way they can distinguish..

Never had an issue on Netflix or Prime.

CommentRe:Colbert and daily Show (Score 1)70

by Computershackon Wednesday March 26, 2025 @03:25PM (#65261187) Attached to: Streaming Services Are Facing Identity Crisis, Research Shows

Not yet.

Give it a few months, I think Paramount is up for sale.

Yellowstone and 1883, two of Paramount's hit streaming series, already now on Netflix. What's the betting Netflix buys them?

CommentRe:And nothing of value was lost. (Score 1)94

by Computershackon Sunday March 23, 2025 @04:40PM (#65254437) Attached to: Italy Demands Google Poison Its Public DNS Under Strict Piracy Shield Law

Compared to American Football where they play for 20 seconds then spend 10 minutes walking about randomly?

CommentRe:AI is right, but... (Score 1)96

by Computershackon Friday March 14, 2025 @10:10AM (#65232967) Attached to: AI Coding Assistant Refuses To Write Code, Tells User To Learn Programming Instead

And why is it anyone's business if someone is using it to cheat?

You'll find out why when Joe Clueless gets hired or promoted over you.

CommentRe:No shit (Score 1)98

by Computershackon Wednesday February 26, 2025 @03:05PM (#65197033) Attached to: UK Users Show Little Concern as Apple Removes iCloud Encryption

Brexit started in 40 years before the EU referendum in 2016 as many people thought they were lied to in the 1975 referendum. But thanks for telling me you know fuck all about my nation's history.

CommentRe:Every day.... (Score 1)197

by Computershackon Wednesday February 26, 2025 @03:02PM (#65197017) Attached to: BP Shuns Renewables in Return To Oil and Gas

Every day I look into the eyes of my daughter and feel like I didn't do enough to protect her future.

...and then go buy some more shit I don't need from Amazon before jumping in my 6.7 litre V8 duallie truck to go buy a loaf of bread at the local store I could've walked to....

CommentHYPOCRITES. (Score 1, Offtopic)51

by Computershackon Wednesday February 26, 2025 @03:00PM (#65197003) Attached to: US Intelligence Chief Opposes UK Order for Apple Encryption Backdoor

May I remind Americans about Section 702 of FISA that doesn't even require a warrant?

CommentRe:AI my ass (Score 1)220

by Computershackon Monday February 17, 2025 @02:22PM (#65173551) Attached to: 'New Junior Developers Can't Actually Code'

I've interviewed plenty of junior devs over the last couple of decades and a shocking percentage of them didn't understand basic concepts (I have an interview question that should be almost insulting to the person being asked which is basically "what is an API and how would you use it" and I have lost count of the number of blank looks that question draws).

Shit. I'm in my 50s, drive semi-trucks and can answer that off the top of my head.

CommentJust the natural order doing it's thing. (Score 1)29

by Computershackon Thursday January 30, 2025 @09:03AM (#65130161) Attached to: Study of More Than 600 Animal and Plant Species Finds Genetic Diversity Has Declined Globally

The natural order which has fuelled evolution for millennia works by trying shitloads of things and letting the weak die. The designs of nature that work and the strongest examples of a particular living organism get to reproduce. Ultimately over time that results in less and less genetic diversity. It cannot be any other way.

CommentRe:Welcome to the new Space Race (Score 1)59

by Computershackon Thursday January 30, 2025 @08:59AM (#65130155) Attached to: After DeepSeek Shock, Alibaba Unveils Rival AI Model That Uses Less Computing Power

Yes, by distilling the work done by other AIs.

That doesn't count.

That would be those other AIs who gleaned their knowledge by data scraping the work of billions of human beings?

CommentRe:Yeah? (Score 1)129

by Computershackon Wednesday January 29, 2025 @05:41AM (#65127167) Attached to: UK Considers Making Netflix Users Pay License Fee to Fund BBC

Between that and giving up on Received Pronunciation I'm finding less and less use for the BBC.

Clearly not British. Outside of the Royals and their circle of hangers on nobody uses Received Pronunciation in the UK anymore other than for meme content creating on Tiktok.

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