[-] cnqr@beehaw.org 1 points 9 months ago

I wouldn’t include Tensorflow in the list. Tensorflow’s dates are numbered too.

Google internally all but switched to JAX.

[-] cnqr@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

Two letters. US.

They use SMS still.

Unless everyone they know has iPhones.

Then it’s iMessage.

[-] cnqr@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

You don’t want their help if they are from the US.

US heavily uses SMS still.

No privacy at all.

That means the government has full access to all your messages.

Whatsapp on the other hand has E2E for everything.

[-] cnqr@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

How is the privacy questionable?

It’s one of the more secure clients. It has E2E across everything: DMs, Group chats, phone calls, video calls and all.

In contrast, Telegram, which is often championed doesn’t even support E2E for group chats. Laughable.

Yes, Whatsapp does some on-device analytics for advertising purposes, but your message is always E2E encrypted before sending.

They had multiple 3P audits to prove it.

Some delusional people use Facebook messenger instead claiming both are FB anyway. NO. FB messenger doesn’t have any encryption. Your messages are stored in plain text.

Yes, Signal and Matrix etc. are better, but no one is using them and that goes against the very idea of communication.

[-] cnqr@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

That’s not the Amazon approach. Amazon tries to make money on the volume, not on the margins.

IPv4 is starting to actually cost. To everyone.

[-] cnqr@beehaw.org 17 points 11 months ago

Yeah, the people in this thread including (and specifically) the OP are worse than reddit at its worst in terms of confident ignorance.

They reported these numbers in their quarterly reports. A company that trades on a public stock exchange is required to release quarterly reports that accurately represent their business.

Yes, companies like to play around with which metrics to report on to paint it better than it actually is, but the numbers can not be made up. If they say new subscriptions, it had to be new subscriptions.

[-] cnqr@beehaw.org 27 points 1 year ago

Makes sense. I’m pretty sure many would otherwise give wrong, optimistic numbers for their vision and complain that their $3.5k device is not working properly and is blurry instead.

[-] cnqr@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile, Mastodon dies. Lemmy and kbin might survive because they fill a different niche; however, if instances start federating with Threads and making it possible to follow people on there, then the same exodus will happen.

I agree that it’s a direct threat to Mastodon. I disagree same will happen to Lemmy and Kbin. I don’t see Threats ever becoming a anonymity oriented platform. It’s tied to an Instagram account.

Even if they support it in the future, just like Twitter and Mastodon, the primary users will be real identities. That goes directly against the concept of Lemmy and Kbin.

Not everything fits the same paradigm. We can keep parroting the history just for the sake of it or we can adapt and see that things evolve over time.

[-] cnqr@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

It needs to be an active form, text field is not sufficient.

[-] cnqr@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

People are going the reddit hivemind again in lemmy.

Just repeating in echo chambers without rationale.

If you look at my history, I’ve been trying to get some useful information regarding Threads, but have received much less useful comments than I would even receive on reddit.

Personally, I’d really like to access to Threads from my anonymous account on another instance, since Threads account is strictly tied to an Instagram account.

I guess it’s the nature of social media nowadays. Lots of noise, very little actual signal.

[-] cnqr@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Does anyone know which of the permissions are actually enforced to be able to use the app?

It is asking for everything, but you need to give explicit permission for most of those.

Can’t you just decline and still use the app, essentially giving the same data as any other social media app?

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I know it has been posted over and over again on what type of data Facebook is collecting for Threads, but so far the discussion has been incredibly reddit-like.

That is, very superficial and based on the title and images alone. It is clear Facebook wants to collect these data, but on iOS, you need to give explicit permissions for some of them, e.g., location and health.

Most apps will work fine if you reject the permissions. I use Instagram to only follow a few friends and have never even given camera or microphone access.

Given that we are not on reddit, can anyone give actually useful information on what data is absolutely required to use the Threads app and what you can reject out of the “Data linked to you” list?

[-] cnqr@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I believe it is that the instance you defederate from can no longer see your posts. You'd still see their posts unless they also defederate from you.

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