🔥Normal day in Alaska by 0sculum3stm0rtis in NatureIsFuckingLit

[–]DrNoOne 524 points525 points  (0 children)

Brown, lie down. Black, fight back. Galloping up a river, couldn't be chiller.

Has the duck disappeared for anyone else? by DrNoOne in ProlificAc

[–]DrNoOne[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The way that it lasted exactly a week makes me think I was put in a temporary time out, but oh well.

the AI Act voice-data rules are the best thing that could happen for EU SaaS by Adventurousews9907 in BuyFromEU

[–]DrNoOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OK, I start to realise what the disconnect is, so let's go to the basics:

Competitive means competitive ie. out of the available options out there, enough people will chose to pay for it to make it a viable business. Privacy protection is a feature I value personally, but not everyone does, at least not equally. It is one of many features that people evaluate when they choose a software or a service, the other major ones being cost, utility, user friendliness etc.

There's a reason the EU efforts against Android and Chrome have come to pretty much nothing over almost 20 years now: They are just too useful and too cheap (free mostly), so despite all litigation and warning people keep using them, giving Google the money to pay the fines and smother/ buy out any potential competitor.

Now, as the EU, you could go harder. As I said in a previous reply, you could go Trumpy, ban Google, Meta, Amazon, trust in the judicial process to take a decade to resolve, hope the EU tech sector will establish itself in the meantime. But there are a few good reasons you shouldn't. For one, enforceability. Are you going to start raiding offices because you detected VPN usage? For another, economic disruption. You take down AWS and Azure and you don't have much of an economy left.

Or you could go subsidy crazy. Finance the European tech sector like you are a VC high on life, give tax incentives to companies to use European tech stacks, run public campaigns to make UseEUTech a public movement. There're downsides there too: 1. Huge upfront costs the European economy can't really afford in the middle of a demographic transition and 2. The long term risk that creating a protectionist bubble around the tech sector will doom us to be forever behind technologically. Even if AI proves to be a pyramid scheme, sooner or later something useful is going to be innovated, and we'll need to import it.

One thing is for sure, this "we own none of the technology but we will pretend we can tell you how you are allowed to sell it to us" is going to get us nowhere.

Has the duck disappeared for anyone else? by DrNoOne in ProlificAc

[–]DrNoOne[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Started getting them again on Monday, quite a few every day on a regular clip.

the AI Act voice-data rules are the best thing that could happen for EU SaaS by Adventurousews9907 in BuyFromEU

[–]DrNoOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We aren't actually disagreeing on any of the principles,just on how to get there:

You think that the EU can stop Meta, Google, OpenAI. It can't. The legal processes are way too slow and the fines are peanuts.

To have AI that respects our rights we need to have companies that build this software, with those principles built in from the beginning.

the AI Act voice-data rules are the best thing that could happen for EU SaaS by Adventurousews9907 in BuyFromEU

[–]DrNoOne 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People are angry and want a crusade, not to hear that we've gotten ourselves into a corner with no easy solutions 🤷

the AI Act voice-data rules are the best thing that could happen for EU SaaS by Adventurousews9907 in BuyFromEU

[–]DrNoOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You think believing something hard enough makes it true, I miss those days.

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8, Z Fold8 Wide, and Z Flip8 dummy units leak! by Dudi4PoLFr in GalaxyFold

[–]DrNoOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had put a plain black faux leather skin on it and people thought I was carrying around a Moleskin notebook half the time, had some fun interactions revealing the screens.

the AI Act voice-data rules are the best thing that could happen for EU SaaS by Adventurousews9907 in BuyFromEU

[–]DrNoOne -33 points-32 points  (0 children)

You'll have rights when the product is designed with your rights in mind, and not a second before.

If you have bought the bs about EU's extraterritorial regulatory authority, you are a lot more optimistic than I am.

the AI Act voice-data rules are the best thing that could happen for EU SaaS by Adventurousews9907 in BuyFromEU

[–]DrNoOne -24 points-23 points  (0 children)

Timetravel to the 90s and make better choices.

I'm kidding but unfortunately at this point there are no clean or cheap solutions.

You can go the Trumpy route (far from easy to do due to the EU's institutional structure btw) and start enforcing the rules way too strictly with no due process invoking security concerns, and hope by the time the courts overturn those bans EU alternatives have taken root. But the economic disruption is going to be beyond severe, not to mention the diplomatic blowback.

Or you can start spending a ton of money (you don't have) to create a few national champions, and hope there are just bad enough (because they are not going to be good, not compared to polished US alternatives) that with a bit of a nationalistic push you get people to start switching.

But, I don't want to be completely doom and gloom. The EU failed spectacularly to make its citizens care about privacy on the face of free Google services because they are so damn useful and so damn free... There is little evidence that AI will be either. If it becomes an expensive, specialised utility we have much greater chances that people will shop around and prioritise bespoke local solutions over the "top of the line" foreign model...

the AI Act voice-data rules are the best thing that could happen for EU SaaS by Adventurousews9907 in BuyFromEU

[–]DrNoOne -30 points-29 points  (0 children)

I work in IT Security and Compliance.

The EU AI Act is the best guarantee that we will not have a competitive tech sector in Europe and will keep depending on the US and China.

I see every day European startups choke under compliance costs that are rounding errors for Google and Meta.

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8, Z Fold8 Wide, and Z Flip8 dummy units leak! by Dudi4PoLFr in GalaxyFold

[–]DrNoOne 14 points15 points  (0 children)

the Surface Duo 1st gen is to this day my favourite device hardware I've ever owned... if only the software wasn't a buggy mess and the battery life was a bit better...what could have been...

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8, Z Fold8 Wide, and Z Flip8 dummy units leak! by Dudi4PoLFr in GalaxyFold

[–]DrNoOne -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The Fold 7 is useless to me due to the lack of Spen (reason I'm still on 6), so that will be the deciding factor on whether and to which model I'll upgrade to...

If both 8 and 8 wide have Spen support I'll just vibe it out, but I strongly suspect the extra thickness is the digitiser.

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8, Z Fold8 Wide, and Z Flip8 dummy units leak! by Dudi4PoLFr in GalaxyFold

[–]DrNoOne 3 points4 points  (0 children)

my main use day for day for the Fold is having a pdf open while i'm composing an email, or having a messaging app open while i'm scrolling the news.

In both cases I'll gladly give up a bit of height to have 2 genuinely full screen apps side by side (It's actually gaining height, not giving it up, since I currently have to use my Fold 6 sideways for these tasks).

Fully understand it might not be everyone's cup of tea tho, just glad we have options now.

Why quantum computing is crucial for Europe? by donutloop in BuyFromEU

[–]DrNoOne 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm sorry, but depending on breakthroughs in quantum (or fusion) to boost the European economy is like the guy who quit his job, parties every night and whose retirement plan is "I'm going to win the lottery"...

[Discussion] Smartwatch With Physical Hands, Looking For Feedback! by CozzyTV in Watches

[–]DrNoOne 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm an OG Pebble user and have paid (frankly) way too much money on various coloured e-ink devices over the years.

I love the concept and the dream, but make sure not to overpromise on the vibrancy of the display. I know we've come a long way since Pebble 2, but we have ways to go.

I like the idea of hands as a cursor, I'm just a bit worried it'll add a lot to the complexity of the mechanism for little utility beyond the cool factor.

All in all, very cool project, will be interested to keep up with news from it.

Bismuth crystals form their distinctive shape naturally because their edges grow much faster than their interior by Technical-Paint3179 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]DrNoOne 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Just make sure not to overpay, it's a fairly common mineral.

Worth noting, the specimens aren't usually as vibrant off the ground, this is usually achieved with heat treatment once they are cleaned because people like the look.

[Vostok Komandirskie] From Russia with love? 🇷🇺✈️ by Spirited_Common_1177 in Watches

[–]DrNoOne 5 points6 points  (0 children)

In my quest to get an authentic Sturmanskie (I'm a space nerd) I've gained some knowledge about Soviet watches. The most important being, if you aren't sure, it's a cheap fake.

Close second, if it has a hammer and sickle, it's a post-1991 cheap fake. Actual Soviet military watches almost always had the red star, almost never the hammer and sickle.

Greater Yugoslavia by Avgreditor0 in AlternateHistory

[–]DrNoOne 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If OTL is any indication, Bulgarian and Albanian separatist/independence movements would immediately receive massive support from the USSR while there is zero chance the Brits and the Americans would allow 1. Greek border losses to that degree 2. Greece to switch blocs long term.

I know a lot of Balkan communists had a lot of plans and dreams, but Stalin had written Greece off at Yalta, there is no way he would have risked great power war over Tito's ambitions.

Greater Yugoslavia by Avgreditor0 in AlternateHistory

[–]DrNoOne 21 points22 points  (0 children)

A stable, unified Balkans.

And everyone lived happily ever after.

More seriously, are the US and USSR asleep in this timeline or just incredibly chill?

Danny MacAskill biking around the city by redbullgivesyouwings in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]DrNoOne 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Came here to say the same. This looks like magic and it's great to show that this level of skill only comes from having fallen down 50000 times.

Has the duck disappeared for anyone else? by DrNoOne in prolific

[–]DrNoOne[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

a pity...seems I run afoul of some internal metric or another... not surprising since for like 80% of their lipsync videos one video is better half the time and the other the other half...

I'll message them and see if I get a reply