Kirk

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[–] Kirk@startrek.website -3 points 54 minutes ago (1 children)

Report this comment too. We can't let Lemmy get overrun with the conspiracy-brained drama queens or we'll never compete with Reddit.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 1 hour ago

IIRC those updates were a series of bugfixes after a major update, which seems to be how they prefer to work.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website -1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 53 minutes ago) (3 children)

"Google has added Hand gesture verification functionality to reCAPTCHA"

This title is clickbait, if we want Lemmy to be a competitor to Reddit we need to be better moderated than they are, not worse. Please report this post and OP to your instance admins.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website -1 points 18 hours ago

Your vent was good and justified

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 18 hours ago

No love lost for IBM but I still wouldn't expect to see casually mentioned alongside Palantir.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 16 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

Wow I went to fact check that claim and it's actually no exaggeration. Here is the AP article.

Google and Amazon provide cloud computing and AI services to the Israeli military under “Project Nimbus,” a $1.2 billion contract signed in 2021, when Israel first tested out its in-house AI-powered targeting systems. The IDF has used Cisco and Dell server farms or data centers. Red Hat, an independent IBM subsidiary, also has provided cloud computing technologies to the Israeli military, while Palantir Technologies, a Microsoft partner in U.S. defense contracts, has a “strategic partnership” providing AI systems to help Israel’s war efforts.

Crazy to see Palantir, Google, Microsoft mentioned alongside ...Red Hat.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 23 hours ago

Anytime someone anywhere on the political spectrum uses the word "woke" without also defining what the fuck it's supposed to mean I just cannot take them seriously.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 9 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

S-tier satire of the conservative "Trekkie" (please Gene, I hope you're being satirical). Real comments like that always make me think of Douglass Adams' "rules" on growing old:

  1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
  2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
  3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

Anytime someone says Star Trek's progressivism was never "hamfisted" I usually just point them to the after school special that is Let that be your Last Battlefield:

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I have an adjacent vent and that is I hate how companies put so little effort into the UX of their mobile web pages. Privacy concerns aside, I would still prefer not to have 100 apps on my phone and just use web pages; but my bank's web page suuuuucks and so well, I have the app.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

IDK I think we'll continue to see incremental gains for a long time, especially as normies abandon desktops/laptops entirely and the entire market shrinks. Windows will probably continue to dominate in enterprise for long past when it's fashionable.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago

It's crazy because Apple had every reason to be FAR ahead in that game.

 
 
 
 
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