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Alterlife commented on Voice.ai Stole Open-Source Code, Banned Developer Who Informed Them About This   theinsaneapp.com/2023/02/... · Posted by u/schleck8
Alterlife · 3 years ago
I feel like you're trivializing a complex issue.

Developers have the right to say how they want their code to be used in the same way that authors have the right to say how their books can be used.

The code in a public repository doesn't have to be "free" for developers any more than publically downloadable piece of software has to be "free" for end-users.

For example, Microsoft offers a freely downloadable windows iso which people are not allowed to use use without a license.

Alterlife commented on W3M Rocks   w3m.rocks/... · Posted by u/marttt
ramesh31 · 4 years ago
What I really want is something inbetween this and a full fledged browser. Something that will basically allow me to browse the web in Reader mode, with support for images and native video, but without any JS involved.
Alterlife · 4 years ago
I'd recomend qutebrowser. It's not exactly what you're looking for out of the box, but it is very customisable. There's a learning curve but once you're used to it, no need to ever reach out for the mouse.
Alterlife commented on CalyxOS releases test builds for Fairphone 4, OnePlus 8T, and OnePlus 9   calyxos.org/news/2022/04/... · Posted by u/fabianhjr
colordrops · 4 years ago
There's some sort of battle happening between the devs of Graphene and Calyx as we speak:

https://twitter.com/GrapheneOS/status/1511593168667611139?s=...

Alterlife · 4 years ago
This has been going on for atleast a year.

There's a long video from Techlore which presents the CalyxOS side of the picture and places the blame with GrapheneOS leadership: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx7CZ-2Bajg .

Alterlife commented on Covid-19 may have killed nearly 3M in India, far more than official counts show   science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/pseudolus
alkonaut · 4 years ago
> hospitals faking COVID test results just so that they can admit them for 4 days, administer expensive drugs, charge them some hefty bill, and send home

Why would hospitals admit someone who isn't actually in need of care? If you need hospital care for Covid, it's (almost exclusively) because you need supplemental oxygen, and that's something that's pretty hard to fake.

Edit: the question is: how are these hospitalizations actually done practically. Are doctors faking diagnoses (e.g. hypoxia), convincing patients they need care, which they are persuaded to accept? Or are patients forcibly admitted without being asked?

Alterlife · 4 years ago
As an Indian living in India, I've heard some of these stories:

a. They are asked to get admitted "for observation because they are at high risk". If they ask to leave, the doctors ask them to sign a very scary sounding wavier disclaiming the hospital of responsibility for their death.

b. There apparently this one lab that will return a positive covid test if the docs ask them to and they get a cut of what the patient pays.

It needs to be said that I don't know if any of these are true.

Alterlife commented on Google introduces $50 4G smartphone   globalvillagespace.com/go... · Posted by u/teleforce
Alterlife · 4 years ago
Let's rewrite this article in a sentence or two:

"Reliance Jio will soon start selling an Android phone which they have called Jiophone next, and it will cost Rs. 3500... probably."

This is total spam. The title has nothing to do with the content of the article... The phone isn't introduced by Google, it's introduced by:

> Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, doing business as Jio

and guess what, the article is total speculation:

> As far as the pricing is concerned, JioPhone could be priced as low as INR 3499.

Emphasis on 'could be' added by me. It isn't released yet and apparently the author is just guessing what it could cost... based on what?

Besides, how is it surprising that this is subsidized? This device is network locked and handicapped.

Jio phones are totally handicapped. They don't even allow users to open a wifi hotspot because that would compete with their wireless routers. Maybe that's what they are 'collaborating with google' on.

This isn't news it's an advertisement.

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Alterlife commented on Call centre staff to be monitored via webcam for home-working ‘infractions’   theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew
MattGaiser · 5 years ago
A customer reaching a call centre is basically a "everything else failed" moment, a moment that is very expensive as 1 on 1 human help costs a lot of money. If you are going to invest, you invest in making sure people don't need to call.
Alterlife · 5 years ago
> making sure people don't need to call.

Almost every IVR I have ever used makes me believe business invest in making sure people can't call or at least have a very hard time reaching a human.

Alterlife commented on Hackers used zerodays to infect Windows, iOS, and Android users   arstechnica.com/informati... · Posted by u/nikbackm
lozaning · 5 years ago
>Windows and Android have Chrome built-in at the OS layer

How is Chrome built into Windows at the OS layer? Wouldn't that be IE or Edge?

Alterlife · 5 years ago
> Edge

I think that's OP's point. Edge uses chromium.

Alterlife commented on Code Age vs. Time to Recall   notoriousbfg.com/code-age... · Posted by u/trwhite
Alterlife · 5 years ago
It isn't technical debt any more if you can default on it.

It's stable? It's fast? It works? No bugs have been reported on it for years?

Regardless of how I 'feel' about that piece of code, I objectively should _not_ touch it.

Alterlife commented on ‘YouTube recommendations are toxic,’ says dev who worked on the algorithm (2019)   thenextweb.com/google/201... · Posted by u/3131s
Alterlife · 5 years ago
I hide the front page and recommendations with ublock rules and go directly to the 'subscriptions' page instead.

It's the only way to see new videos from creators I care about.

u/Alterlife

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