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  1. Comment on Tips for increasing online privacy (without going insane)? in ~tech

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    Since Google seems a primary issue for you, have you considered switching to the Apple ecosystem and disabling the services you find creepy on that? It has a lot of the same features of the Google...

    Since Google seems a primary issue for you, have you considered switching to the Apple ecosystem and disabling the services you find creepy on that? It has a lot of the same features of the Google ecosystem but they can be disabled.

  2. Comment on Make it ephemeral: Software should decay and lose data in ~tech

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    The default is more in the context of SaaS applications and/or cloud based services. Not local files. I do have my default Downloads directory automatically clean up most file types on a pretty...

    The default is more in the context of SaaS applications and/or cloud based services. Not local files. I do have my default Downloads directory automatically clean up most file types on a pretty regular basis though.

    2 votes

  3. Comment on Make it ephemeral: Software should decay and lose data in ~tech

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    I just popped open my email and looked at the 10 most recent messages. 2 Digests/Summaries of activity 4 Marketing emails 2 Shipping notifications 1 Recap of a support chat 1 Request for a survey...

    I just popped open my email and looked at the 10 most recent messages.

    2 Digests/Summaries of activity
    4 Marketing emails
    2 Shipping notifications
    1 Recap of a support chat
    1 Request for a survey

    Of the 10 most recent emails I received only one of them holds any value beyond about a 1 week period, and that value is minimal at best.

    My friends don't email me. They text me, message me on Signal, or message me on Discord. The majority of the communication is through Signal and it self deletes everything after 4 weeks. I have never wished I could reference a message on Signal that had already deleted itself.

    I think we may structure our communications very different.

  4. Comment on Make it ephemeral: Software should decay and lose data in ~tech

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    A default of expiring data provides more security and privacy to the user.

    A default of expiring data provides more security and privacy to the user.

    1 vote

  5. Comment on Make it ephemeral: Software should decay and lose data in ~tech

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    I think the email service Hey kind of addresses with some of the features like sorting into "Paper trail" etc... I agree being able to look up receipts in the future is valuable, but the majority...

    I think the email service Hey kind of addresses with some of the features like sorting into "Paper trail" etc...

    I agree being able to look up receipts in the future is valuable, but the majority of my email is not receipts. A lot of data loses the majority of it's value in a remarkably short period of time. Maybe it would be nice if services let you set a default preference for data.

  6. Comment on Make it ephemeral: Software should decay and lose data in ~tech

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    It’s more around the default behavior. I think the default should be expiring data. You should have to take specific action to preserve. It’s one of the reasons I use Signal for messaging.

    It’s more around the default behavior. I think the default should be expiring data. You should have to take specific action to preserve. It’s one of the reasons I use Signal for messaging.

    2 votes

  7. Comment on Make it ephemeral: Software should decay and lose data in ~tech

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    I mostly agree with this take. It would be great if transactional email or marketing email for example automatically deleted itself after a year. How much energy are we wasting on storing coupons...

    I mostly agree with this take. It would be great if transactional email or marketing email for example automatically deleted itself after a year. How much energy are we wasting on storing coupons that expired years ago?

    7 votes

  8. Comment on Reddit is profitable for the first time ever, with nearly 100 million daily users in ~tech

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    I don’t think there is a real alternative yet. Lemmy isn’t it and Tildes isn’t trying to be it.

    I don’t think there is a real alternative yet. Lemmy isn’t it and Tildes isn’t trying to be it.

    6 votes

  9. Comment on Best solution to extract PDF data? in ~comp

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    Is the text in acrofields / acroform fields or is it just text on the PDF itself?

    Is the text in acrofields / acroform fields or is it just text on the PDF itself?

    2 votes

  10. Comment on Apple’s AirPods Pro hearing health features are as good as they sound in ~health

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    I've found the Beats Fit Pro to fit much better in my ear compared to Airpods. I'm always nervous that Airpods are going to go flying out of my ear and they don't sit well.

    I've found the Beats Fit Pro to fit much better in my ear compared to Airpods. I'm always nervous that Airpods are going to go flying out of my ear and they don't sit well.

    1 vote

  11. Comment on Starbreeze admits it made poor design decisions on Payday 3, but has plans to turn the heist FPS around in ~games

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    Agreed. The way they tried to monetize the game was absurd and burned the credibility they had from the first game.

    Agreed. The way they tried to monetize the game was absurd and burned the credibility they had from the first game.

    6 votes

  12. Comment on A message to our community: Unity is canceling the Runtime Fee in ~games

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    I guess the issue is in the volume of compensation. If you get 20 million in stock and decrease the value of the company by 50%, you still have 10 million. You can, I believe, even use the...

    I guess the issue is in the volume of compensation. If you get 20 million in stock and decrease the value of the company by 50%, you still have 10 million. You can, I believe, even use the decrease in price offset the taxes you'd owe. Capital gains tax rates also cap out at 20% if they hold it for over a year.

    The impact outside of the executives is felt immediately and severely. The impact to the executives is barely felt at all. If your salary is $400,000 / year and you have $20,000,000 in stock it doesn't really matter how badly you fuck up. You are going to be doing great afterwards regardless of your performance.

    Meanwhile the rank and file may have had to feel the impact of your poor decisions in life impacting ways.

    1 vote

  13. Comment on A message to our community: Unity is canceling the Runtime Fee in ~games

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    When you are paid that much money, being fired doesn't really seem like a consequence. For the employees of his companies getting fired could mean losing a home, dipping into their retirement,...

    When you are paid that much money, being fired doesn't really seem like a consequence. For the employees of his companies getting fired could mean losing a home, dipping into their retirement, loss of healthcare, or their children not being able to attend college.

    When a CEO gets fired it very much feels like they just get a ten month vacation before they move on to the next role that pays them a million a year.

    Perhaps the compensation of a CEO should be tied to the long term success of a company, even after they are no longer present. Not quarterly success - long term success.

    7 votes

  14. Comment on A message to our community: Unity is canceling the Runtime Fee in ~games

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    So the CEO had no actual consequences for running the company into the ground. I'm sure we will see Riccitiello at another high paying position in the next ~12 months. To be fair a lot of the...

    So the CEO had no actual consequences for running the company into the ground. I'm sure we will see Riccitiello at another high paying position in the next ~12 months. To be fair a lot of the blame falls on the board, which is also largely immune to the consequences of failure.

    It is very frustrating to see people failing upwards. Riccitiello also made a mess of EA.

    9 votes

  15. Comment on A message to our community: Unity is canceling the Runtime Fee in ~games

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    So the old CEO lost all that pay.. right?

    So the old CEO lost all that pay.. right?

    6 votes

  16. Comment on Performance Improvements in .NET 9 in ~comp

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    I think it's firing some sort of event on scroll that doesn't play well with iOS browsers (which are all basically Safari). Works fine on a PC though.

    I think it's firing some sort of event on scroll that doesn't play well with iOS browsers (which are all basically Safari). Works fine on a PC though.

    1 vote

  17. Comment on Performance Improvements in .NET 9 in ~comp

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    Anyone else have this page not work when you scroll down? It’s refreshing the page or something.

    Anyone else have this page not work when you scroll down? It’s refreshing the page or something.

    1 vote

  18. Comment on Jpeg XL in ~tech

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    Compared to WebP & AVIF, I believe. It's not a huge downside though.

    Compared to WebP & AVIF, I believe. It's not a huge downside though.

    2 votes

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  20. Comment on Microsoft Graveyard: a website for tracking dead and soon-to-be-dead Microsoft products in ~tech

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    Can we put Microsoft Teams on this site please

    Can we put Microsoft Teams on this site please

    8 votes