[-] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

It was very likely a designers decision. It forces the use the use case they wanted; wireless mice should be used wirelessly. I would bet they fought marketing and management to get this on the final product.

Marketing would want the mouse they can advertise as being useable with and wireless. Female ports are easier to mount and manufacture with they have depth to set the socket. So a plug on the front is much cheaper and easier to manufacture.

The fact the charging cable doesn’t get used in motion means it will last longer and you wouldn’t have people useing fraying cables on the front of their mouse.

[-] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Maybe these companies shouldn’t be targeting children with their half baked products.

People aren’t individual islands completely disconnected, you can’t lay the blame on parents and children for people making and marketing dangerous products to children.

[-] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 72 points 1 month ago

Intel is investing billions in Israel at the same time getting bailouts from the us government.

[-] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 52 points 2 months ago

This is the danger of allowing unregulated media, entertainment and advertisement towards children. She didn’t come up with these ideas on her own. She was actively pursued and encouraged to do this by YouTube children entertainers and advertisers. They did it for profit and will do it again, then blame parents and governments for letting them do it.

Never before have businesses had this much direct access to children. They see it as a great market. They are easy to manipulate, uniformed and highly sensitive. These are the reasons we limited who, when and what could be advertised to them in the past. It was much easier with TV.

[-] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 63 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I did this once. They wouldn't give me a copy, I didn't push it because they were retired and did try to give me advice about contacting librarians to add the journal to their subscription.

I do imagine younger people publishing more recent work would be more open to sharing their work.

For anyone else seeing this the university of the author often also publishes their papers free access. Even when the journal the paper is published in is paywalled. So it's worth checking that. This is especially the case if the work was funded by bodies that require open access.

[-] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 56 points 6 months ago

It won't generate random numbers. It'll generate random numbers from its training data.

If it's asked to generate passwords I wouldn't be surprised if it generated lists of leaked passwords available online.

These models are created from masses of data scraped from the internet. Most of which is unreviewed and unverified. They really don't want to review and verify it because it's expensive and much of their data is illegal.

[-] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 78 points 9 months ago

It's old people. They vote and don't like change.

Everyone in the UK under 40 never used imperial in their education, but everything is still imperial.

Even stuff that's not supposed to be. Milk is sold in pints but labelled in ml. Sometimes it's litres because these are smaller. Timbre is all sold in a metric equivalent, but it isn't consistent. You don't know if the piece you've had delivered is 2.4m or 2.44m. Rulers have both metric and imperial, unless you pay extra for a single system - which makes them harder to use.

The worst thing is recipes, many recipes are imperial online because of the USA. American imperial measurements aren't the same as UK ones.

It is all driven by ignorance. The royal family (TV show) summed this ignorance up best. They complained it took them longer to get to the destination because their sat nav was in kilometres and there's more kilometres than miles so everything is further away.

[-] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 52 points 10 months ago

I imagine many already exist. But the system should be designed to fail safe with WiFi in mind.

[-] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 87 points 11 months ago

More than you think. They are also actively seeking ways to make that leverage effect more people.

They are defining web standards. They control chrome and chromium. So all of the alternative browsers that aren't safari and Firefox are using Google's web engine. Even Firefox and safari are beholden to Google as they fund both these web browsers through their default search deals.

Google after many failed messaging apps has taken on RCS messaging. They provide most of the supporting infrastructure through their Jibe servers. They don't allow anyone but themselves and Samsung to make an RCS app on android. They also had a campaign to pressure apple to use RCS. It's likely apple's RCS will be following Google's Jibe service closely, as they've already said their will work with Google on this. Google successfully got most RCS messages going through their servers, with apple on board with RCS itll see most SMS messages defaulting to RCS and most of those going through Google.

They also have deep hooks into education market with their OneDrive/Google docs products and Chromebooks.

Most privacy focused android alternatives recommend Google hardware.

[-] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 68 points 11 months ago

These shouldn't hold up. Wouldn't the prior work of thousands of generations of mothers invalidate such a patent.

[-] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago

They did mention the options with different in some locations.

[-] ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago

Phillips: " I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further."

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