It's odd that you cite Gemini on the S24 as the straw that broke the camel's back when Bixby (and its dedicated button) has been around since 2017.
Readit Newscanistr commented on Ask HN: Anyone else tired of AI being forced on you? · Posted by u/lucideng
canistr commented on Meta Plans to Grow Threads by Ramming Its Posts to Facebook gizmodo.com/meta-hopes-th... · Posted by u/rntn
Has Meta created something successful since Facebook? Seems like all of their success has been via acquisition. Not saying other companies aren't in the same boat, but it seems counter-intuitive that their stock price is supposed to reflect their value/execution ability when that seems to fall flat when they attempt to create something new.
Messenger and Marketplace are insanely successful. You have to be willfully blind to not see it.
canistr commented on Facebook exec blames society for COVID misinformation axios.com/facebook-boswor... · Posted by u/cbtacy
He's right in some sense, but the context is important. The problem is that Facebook is giving the village idiot a megaphone. Facebook can't say:
- Amplify your commercial business message to billions of people worldwide.
AND at the same time
- Well its your individual choice whether or not to listen to the village idiot.
You guys gave them a megaphone, how do you expect society to behave?!
Twitter and Youtube, sure.
But the blast radius of a Facebook post doesn't have the same reach given the majority of posts go to your explicit network of connections. Unless you're specifically referring to Facebook Groups? But then are we certain it's different from Reddit or other forums?
canistr commented on The tree-based approach to organizing documentation sucks worldofbs.com/why-documen... · Posted by u/cgenschwap
The author's comparison of Tree/Graph approach doesn't flow logically from the discussion about ad-hoc documentation. Searching Slack for answers has become more valuable to me because of this ad-hoc nature.
StackOverflow is arguably more ad-hoc than a pure Wiki approach. I can already add links inside Google Docs. So the graph isn't the solution that solves this.
canistr commented on Pidgin – A Universal Chat Client pidgin.im/plugins... · Posted by u/smusamashah
Does nobody remember Pidgin? It was one of the first things a lot of people installed on their machines 15 years ago along with Firefox. We used it as an alternative client to AOL Instant Messenger and Yahoo Messenger. It used to be called GAIM.
Using Pidgin with OTR was the way to go for private chats. shrug
canistr commented on Is Cyberpunk Dead? A Conversation with Bruce Bethke markeverglade.com/iscyber... · Posted by u/keiferski
It's been replaced by whatever genre you would describe Black Mirror as. A reflection of the modern dystopia we live in within the context of the current year.
As a Torontonian, the problem with it has always been with both the data sovereignty and overall control by a non-Canadian entity. The problem of technology, foreign control, and what we give up is especially acute when someone like Jim Balsillie points it out in the wake of technological blowups like RIM and Nortel.
I especially didn't like the fact that the Sidewalk Labs employees were primarily New York-based with very little understanding or familiarity with the nuances of our city/province/country. Why are you remotely experimenting with our city instead of sending your teams here to develop it? Wouldn't familiarity with the surrounding neighbourhoods be an important factor in how you make a deep impact into the local environment?
Doctoroff managed to not address any of Balsillie's primary concerns. And I imagine most Americans are wilfully blind of the local issues when they come here. (Just look at how ownership of sports teams like the Montreal Expos turned out).
canistr commented on India, Jio, and the Four Internets stratechery.com/2020/indi... · Posted by u/MindGods
This still largely ignores the Data Sovereignty issue for non-US citizens. The US government still maintains control and oversight of US companies that rule the non-China markets. Data flow still runs through US data centres or even through US companies.
This is a huge con for citizens of non-US countries that simply don't want traffic and rules exported by the USG. Since, as non-US citizens, we're not subject to any of the "protections" afforded to a "US Person".
canistr commented on Building all of our new mobile apps using React Native engineering.shopify.com/b... · Posted by u/arbhassan
"In order to best serve our retail merchants and learn about React Native in a physical retail setting, we decided to build out the new POS natively for iOS and use React Native for Android."
Unbelievable, really. The previous paragraph literally mentions the importance of performance.
facepalm