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Robinhood CEO defends payment for order flow, says practice is ‘here to stay’ in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

PFOF is banned in the U.K

Laughs in Britishness

Lucid dream startup says engineers can write code in their sleep. Work may never be the same in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

There's a vague suggestion that maybe lucid dreams could be induced through techniques that are not properly understood yet, and that's about it.

Where can I invest?

Exclusive: Google pushes for antitrust action against Microsoft in UK cloud market in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 14 points 11 months ago (6 children)

It's almost like you make a product that everyone wants to use and your competition uses legislation to claw back market on an inferior product.

Google cloud is nowhere near as good as Amazon's or Microsoft's. Microsoft's search engine is nowhere near as good as Google's.

That being said, some of the business practices that these guys use to stay on top are shady as fuck.

Who will partner with Apple Card now and what does this shakeup mean for its users? in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Apple wants to get banking certification in every country it operates. That's a new one.

Firefox for Android is getting 400 new browser extensions - and you can try some now in c/android@lemmy.world

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

uBlock is already available on Firefox mobile as well as Tampermonkey, I'm not hating but what other extensions should I be excited to try? At the moment that's all I need to use.

What are you going to install?

Unity Software to cut 3.8% of staff in 'company reset' in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 40 points 11 months ago (2 children)

In October, Unity CEO John Riccitiello retired, and the company appointed former IBM president Jim Whitehurst as interim CEO

Seriously if I were an employee and I heard that some cunt from IBM has been appointed to the board I would spruce up my CV straight away. There's only one way this ends. Asset stripping and cuts. Innovation gone, licensing increases, off shore take over of jobs. It's the IBM playbook.

Blade Runner director Ridley Scott calls AI a "technical hydrogen bomb" | "we are all completely f**ked" in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, because we should all take note of what the art student says about AI. This guy is, essentially, a clown in this field. Why should we listen to him?