dannym

dannym, 4 months ago

wouldn’t it have been easier to just read the source code? (not that GNU’s code is easy to read, but still)

dannym, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

And this ladies and gentlemen is another reason why we should try to escape big tech’s grasp.

dannym, 5 months ago

Actually other search engines do much better with Lemmy. Kagi’s search works wonders if you select the filter for Fediverse Forums. And you can assign that filter to a bang, such as !lemmy, so that when you search “!lemmy query here” it’ll search only on the fediverse A few examples:

https://lemmy.escapebigtech.info/pictrs/image/af982e8b-a594-4358-89ac-05dc57e4291e.pnghttps://lemmy.escapebigtech.info/pictrs/image/e22106b9-14f9-4ec8-a849-ddd5fbe4e95e.png

dannym, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Their search results constantly impress me and honestly it’s 10 bucks for unlimited searches, it’s worth it even if it’s not a business expense, plus since you’re paying for the service they’re less likely to track you. I wish their code was FOSS, but I’ll take it, still better than google, bing, and all the others I’ve tried.

Also they actively promote the small web and you can even personalize your search results by removing websites you don’t like from the searches (for example I have a lot of big tech websites blocked)

dannym, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

if you program the firmware directly your program can be stored, but it requires you to also buy the firmware writing tool and the FPGA unlocked version of the product (FPGA can be locked after writing it naturally)

dannym, 6 months ago

what FOSS library do you maintain?

dannym, 6 months ago

Quick aside, there won’t be a USB D (unless the USB people change their mind yet again), it will be something different from USB. The idea was to have USB A be what you plug on your source and B on your destination and was designed as a way to avoid power surges in the original 1.0 spec because the A side was physically different from the B side you weren’t ever going to plug in something that sends power to something that receives power (basically it prevented users from breaking their devices on accident). USB C changed that with a chip on each cable that handles negotiation before agreeing on a power spec

dannym, 6 months ago

The concept of competition among tech companies has done a complete 180 on its original meaning. It’s no longer predominantly about crafting superior products; rather, it’s become a race to secure the largest amount of investor funding.

In this transformed landscape, the product itself and revenue generation often take a backseat, or at best, hold a tertiary importance. The heart of customer-centric ethos, especially crucial elements like data security, are now distressingly overlooked. What matters is getting the next investment to become the next “unicorn” and be acquired for billions of dollars. Silicon Valley Companies want the easy way out, do only a fraction of the work for an exponential amount of the benefits.

Don’t get me wrong, there are reasons to seek investment, getting a good product built is actually complex and you actually need a lot of different people working on it. The alternative is losing years of your life on a sisyphean ordeal of soul-crushing, hundred-hour work weeks (and that’s real work, not “let me check twitter” work), making you question your life choices and whether you should just throw it all away, abandon technology, become a hermit and move to a shed in the mountains.

The problem is that the EXPECTATION today is that you’re gonna build a third of a product, care about 1% of the actual business behind it and then pivoting exclusively to the pursuit of investment, letting everything else rot

dannym, 7 months ago

To be fair, the allegations haven’t been proven and allegedly he was 13 at the time… not that it makes it any better, but context matters

dannym, 8 months ago

As time marches on, my skepticism about there being ONE smart google employee only grows.