bamboo

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[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AFAIK wine requires no special hardware support. It isn’t virtualizing anything, it just translates directx calls into OpenGL/Vulkan calls executed by your normal driver. If wine doesn’t work I suspect it’s something else

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are any big content creators on peertube? I like decentralization and federation as much as anyone, but a streaming service is useless without its content.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

The current trial is about google’s monopoly on search, not browser engines.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In the US, it seems that courts do not care about “on Apple devices”. They see two markets: mobile devices, and laptops/desktops. Blink based browsers make up a minority in the US on mobile devices due to the dominance of Apple, and while they do have the majority on desktops/laptops, Safari is still double digits and Firefox has a small slice of the pie as well. Even if that was enough, there would still need to be evidence that this is due to anti-competitive measures and not true user preference. This will be hard because Microsoft isn’t publicly being compensated for choosing Blink for edge, nor does google have any wide-scale measures to coerce users onto chrome other than marketing in their own products and services.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

There aren’t many skilled workers in those areas though, and you’d need a lot of money to convince people to move to a less desirable area just for you.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I doubt a a court would care about a browser engine monopoly. They’re more concerned with markets and money, not with technical implementation details or open standards. Besides, even if that were to happen, google can point to Safari which is a different implementation with a very large market share.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Having listened to it, I could not identify any sort of “AI quirk”. It sounded perfectly fine.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It seems easy to take this position as a native English speaker, but what if you aren’t proficient in English, perhaps only in a smaller regional language that doesn’t have the same nearly infinite pool of content? This is a potential game changer for that, allowing you to listen to thousands of podcasts you never could before. No jobs were lost because there was never anyone doing the translations in the first place. When viewed this way, it’s an accessibility feature.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Well time to switch to jellyfish then, I guess

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I wouldn’t be that optimistic. It’ll be a less attractive engine for indie devs and smaller companies, but it’s their enterprise customers that bring in the lion’s share of the revenue, and it takes a lot more to move them. To them, it’s purely a business decision. They didn’t even notice the drama, but come the q1 2024 fiscal report they’ll notice the supplier’s cost increased, have an investigation done if any competitors offer a better deal and what the retooling and retraining costs would be, observe keeping with Unity will be significantly cheaper, and life will go on. I sure hope Godot can take over the indie scene though, that would be amazing.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

This is what I told my employer’s IT system. They have an app for non-standard 2fa that I had no interest in configuring so now I just get phone calls.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Protocols are static duck typing. An object is a valid instance of protocol if it implements all the methods defined in the protocol, even if it doesn't declare it as implementing it. That last bit is important and the most distinguishing factor compared to an ABC.

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