dontblink (u/dontblink)

dontblink commented on Apple needs a Snow Sequoia reviews.ofb.biz/safari/ar... · Posted by u/trbutler

basisword · 5 months ago

I don't feel like they ever used forced obsolescence with Mac's. When they dropped support for the latest OS on your machine it was usually because it couldn't run it. I recently updated some older Mac's and even a couple of OS's before support was dropped things got really sluggish. I imagine with the Apple Silicon machines the OS support will stretch longer than it has on the Intel ones. Maybe the higher prices are a hint they expect people to keep the machines in use for longer than before.

dontblink · 5 months ago

Opencore legacy patcher would be to differ.

dontblink commented on US will ban cancer-linked Red Dye No. 3 in cereal and other foods bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

ceejayoz · 8 months ago

This is the old "at least Hitler made the trains run on time" thing again.

I'm all for removing dyes from food, but if the tradeoff is bringing back polio, no thanks.

dontblink · 8 months ago

Wasn't that said of Benito Mussolini?

dontblink commented on AMD Unveils AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT Graphics Card amd.com/en/newsroom/press... · Posted by u/jlpcsl

hayduke · 2 years ago

On my third Sapphire, just upgraded to a 7800xt. Excellent hardware QC, never had any issues beyond AMDs occasionally terrible drivers.

dontblink · 2 years ago

Every sapphire (3) I have had has failed. I luckily got one rmaed but that starting freezing my computer after a year.

Switched to XFX Merc 319 6950xt. I hope this serves me better.

dontblink commented on YouTube punishes ad-blocker users with slower videos on non-Chrome browsers androidcentral.com/apps-s... · Posted by u/josephcsible

packetlost · 2 years ago

I'm fairly certain you could inject ads directly into the video stream at the protocol layer (HLS/DASH) without too much difficulty. Both operate by sending self-contained chunks of encoded media at a time. The real issue there is then preventing the user from skipping those parts of the video.

dontblink · 2 years ago

Technically you are correct. In practice this is difficult to implement though. If you disagree, please provide a PoC?

dontblink commented on YouTube punishes ad-blocker users with slower videos on non-Chrome browsers androidcentral.com/apps-s... · Posted by u/josephcsible

mdasen · 2 years ago

> YouTube has no financial incentive to actively punish non-chrome useragents. They make money in their division by serving ads, regardless of the useragent.

Google has big financial incentives to punish non-Chrome user agents.

First, we've seen that Google pays a large amount of money to be the default search engine in competing browsers. A big reason for funding Chrome development is so that Google doesn't have to pay someone for the majority of its search traffic. If Google is paying out 30-40% of search ad revenue from non-Chrome browsers, that's many billions of dollars if they can get more people to use Chrome. If non-Chrome browsers are a bad experience on one of the most popular sites on the internet, that pushes people to use Chrome.

Second, Google is altering Chrome so that ad blockers won't be as effective. If they can push people to use Chrome, they'll get more ad revenue since ad blockers won't be as effective.

Google has been pushing Chrome because people using Chrome makes them billions of dollars. Maybe YouTube itself doesn't have a financial incentive, but Google definitely does.

If Chrome vanished tomorrow, Google would then face steep fees when their deals with Mozilla and Apple were up for renewal since they'd be dependent on traffic from Firefox and Safari. Instead, Google can keep paying Mozilla less and less money over time as more people use Chrome instead of Firefox.

dontblink · 2 years ago

Sometimes the simplest explanation is the most probable and there is no wide spread conspiracy.

Youtube does experiments based on user-agents. I think this is well known and if not, a former Googler just let you know.

In any case, for those who are complaining, it's their website. Either pay or stop using it?

dontblink commented on Google paid $8B to make its apps default on Samsung phones thehill.com/policy/techno... · Posted by u/my12parsecs

stronglikedan · 2 years ago

Samsung is light years ahead of everyone else in the Android phone space, and the only manufacturer that can compete with iPhone. It's crazy that it's true, given the opportunity for Google themselves to try to compete, but they don't for whatever reason.

dontblink · 2 years ago

I think it's in part that they don't want to seem to compete with Samsung so they have to define themselves as mid tier.

dontblink commented on GM's Cruise alleged to rely on human operators to achieve "autonomous" driving nytimes.com/2023/11/03/te... · Posted by u/midnightdiesel

cheeselip420 · 2 years ago

Cruise is leveraging human-in-the-loop to expand faster than they otherwise would, with the hope that they will solve autonomy later to bring this down.

I don't think this is a viable strategy though given the enormous costs and challenges involved.

There doesn't exist a short-term timeline where Cruise makes money, and the window is rapidly closing. They needed to expand to show big revenues, even if they had to throw 1.5 bodies per car at the problem.

Prediction: GM will offload cruise, a buyer will replace leadership and layoff 40% of the company. The tech may live to see another day, but given the challenges that GM has generally (strikes, EVs, etc), they can no longer endlessly subsidize Cruise.

dontblink · 2 years ago

So Waymo/Google winning here in your opinion?

dontblink commented on A mansion hidden directly under the Bay Bridge sfgate.com/obscuresf/arti... · Posted by u/thunderbong

bombcar · 2 years ago

Seems like the perfect place for a museum, tbh.

dontblink · 2 years ago

Could be one about WW2 actually!

dontblink commented on Google Authenticator now supports Google Account synchronization security.googleblog.com/2... · Posted by u/ortusdux

hyperdimension · 2 years ago

Wow, that link is such a great example of Google's "support."

"This channel is for troubleshooting Google devices. It is best to report this with YouTube support for better assistance. [...] I'll be locking this thread after 24 hours."

...just because the initial report contained the keyword 'YouTube', presumably. The reporter clarified the situation, and a different "support" team member comes in and regurgitates the same canned response! On Google's side, why even bother replying at all if that's all you're going to do?

dontblink · 2 years ago

Just an FYI here: Google's community support forums aren't well named as their intended purpose is for users to answer other user's questions. For the community to support each other.

For actual support you need a paid account to reach out to.

You could argue that it's badly named and should just be called Google's community forum instead, which is what it really is.

dontblink commented on Amazon to lay off 9,000 more workers after earlier cuts cnbc.com/2023/03/20/amazo... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

davewritescode · 2 years ago

Amazon along with Google and everyone else way overpaid for tech talent the last few years which has made it a lot harder for small companies to compete. My company lost a lot of engineers of varying quality to big tech companies.

dontblink · 2 years ago

Google famously underpays as it leverages it's name. Startups can't really compete on total compensation because so much is tied to equity which can be made liquid in the case of big tech. At the same time, startups don't want to give away their equity and are fairly conservative about it. I don't see this changing. The current situation will resolve itself in 1-2 yrs and we will be back again.