The fuck is bitnet

Lemmy is hilariously reactionary and fickle. Never found a windmill that couldnt be tilted at.

I'm not sure why that still surprises me considering it's made up of a ton of people who self selected to leave a site in protest.

If you can't dodge a wrench, you can't dodge a ball.

Because a degree isn't job training. Education and training are very different.

Think of how sex education and sex training are wildly different things. They can compliment each other but they aren't the same. You go to college for the education.

I think that "get a degree so you can get a job" mentality that our parents and parents parents touted is advice from an era gone by. An era when having a degree set you apart from a sea of high school diplomas. It didnt matter if it was in medieval art History. It was a university degree (so you were smarter than the average bear/could learn and be taught).

It got distorted over the years and now we are here. Lots of degrees, people "go to school to get a job", and then can't land one because...well. it just sucks

I know that ploum blog post gets cited way too often on Lemmy, but this is a situation where I think Google has either intentionally or inadvertently executed a variation of the "embrace, extend, extinguish" playbook that Microsoft created.

They embraced open source, extended it until they've practically cornered the market on browser engine, and now they are using that position to extinguish our ability to control our browsing experience.

I know they are facing a possibly "break up" with the latest ruling against them.

It would be interesting to see if they force divestiture of chrome from the ad business. The incentives are perverse when you do both with such dominance and its a massive conflict of interest.

I'm gonna desalinization your butt if you keep it up Mango!

The vision "air" that's Apple's version of the meta ray bans is going to be their next major product line.

If they get it in ~$500-1000 they'd sell like hotcakes. The reviews on the Meta raybans are surprisingly positive with the biggest gripe being it's from Meta and people don't trust it.

Apples big privacy focus and their local first implementation of AI make it really compelling alternative to the Meta offering. Assuming it pairs with iPhones (and their built-in ML cores) it also drives iPhone sales similar to the watch.

Apple could do so much with an ecosystem play with something like that and it would/could also be a "fashion icon" the way white earbuds became synonymous with Apple and the way airpods don't look "dorky" because everyone has them.

It's fun to hate apple on Lemmy but I think they'd crush with something like this. An AR glasses setup integrated in their ecosystem with privacy respecting local processing.

I'd seriously consider switching to an iPhone if I got something like that.

I'm pretty sure you don't pay with telemetry data.

Lol,maybe because Hezbollah rockets are getting launched and we'd like to shoot them down before US personnel are killed potentially escalating this even further?

I think he's saying he doesn't connect the smart TV to the internet. He plugs in his apple TV (and that is connected to the Internet) and has all of the 'smart' technology.

Yea, who is actively participating on linkedin? Especially to the point where this is an issue?

For what it's worth I'm not judging them for their decision to not have kids. I don't care if they have kids or not. That's their choice. I'm just commenting on their incredibly fatalistic world view. When in reality, in the west at least, we have so many positive things going for us like tech advancements, healthcare/medical advancements, and the education opportunities.

It's the safest it's been in a while and even with what's happening in the middle east and Ukraine, it's one of the most peaceful times in history.

Holy shit the negativity between these two posts is disgusting. This world is far from perfect but it's not a dystopian hell scape and it's far from a lost cause.

Hop offline, touch grass, talk to your neighbors. Be the change you want to see in the world and all that instead of being the world's biggest wet blankets.

I'm not sure Clinton helps at this point.

Windows will mostly just be a kiosk for Edge.

I think for the vast majority of average users this has been true for a long time.

Meh, that's too much bloat.

Another way to encourage interoperability is to use the government to hold out a carrot in addition to the stick. Through government procurement laws, governments could require any company providing a product or service to the government to not interfere with interoperability. President Lincoln required standard tooling for bullets and rifles during the Civil War, so there’s a long history of requiring this already. If companies don’t want to play nice, they’ll lose out on some lucrative contracts, “but no one forces a tech company to do business with the federal government.”

That's actually a very interesting idea. This benefits the govt as much as anyone else too. It reduces switching costs for govt tech.

The speaker killed his own career by not reaching across the aisle. The only reason gaetz and the magats had any say at that point was because the speaker refused to work with anyone but Republicans.

That wing of the party gets neutered with a handful of Dem votes. You get those by working with the other party.

So gaetz didn't ruin anyone's career. The former speaker ruined it himself. Gaetz ain't that "powerful".

I've heard it described as "a drunk British sailor trying to speak German".

Lol that what my first reaction too. They summed him up perfectly.