Comment Re: Right. (Score 4, Insightful) 79
It's opt in as in it won't send your data anywhere unless you click the "summarize with AI" button or the "chat with AI" button.
It has a "kill switch" which removes those buttons (and presumably whatever new stuff they add).
Comment Star Trek computer (Score 4, Funny) 74
The non-nightmarish AI character is already there, it's the computer on board the enterprise.
Unfortunately today's AI technology only seems capable of being your plastic pal who's fun to be with.
Comment How many were there? (Score 1) 104
Answer: not many
The linked data in the article lists 2023 estimates of 120 thousand programmers and 1.6 million developers.
So "Programming jobs" make up a small minority of jobs involving coding.
Comment Re: So what are the pros and cons of Jellyfin folk (Score 1) 69
Jellyfin uses far more ram on the server, doesn't have an app on my TV and the mobile app can't keep subtitles in sync with the video.
On the other hand, it will do hardware encoding with paying a subscription.
Comment Re: Plex = Subscription-Ware (Score 1) 69
Can't do hardware transcoding without a Plex pass.
Comment Re: That will end that (Score 1) 71
Most of the major supermarkets in the UK do delivery, so losing Amazon wouldn't be an issue.
At the start of the pandemic when lots of people switched to using it they did have trouble meeting demand as it took a while for them to scale up.
Comment Yes, but also yes (Score 5, Interesting) 149
Sure, I can buy that misinformation is a societal problem. People like to repeat what they want to believe.
However, social networks would appear to have massively magnified the problem. Firstly by optimising for engagement which leads to promoting controversial content and secondly by normalising the "sharing" of a post to broadcast it to all of your contacts.
Comment Shocking (Score 0) 81
Someone is using cryptocurrency in a fraudulent way? Colour me shocked.
Presumably if some sucker had outbid them we'd never have known?
Comment Common sense not box-ticking (Score 2) 66
Common sense would lead to banning all forms of cross-website tracking.
Somehow I doubt that's what they have in mind.
Comment Re: A common problem (Score 2) 25
They take all your contacts, they tell everyone that you've joined and they can contact you, which is exactly what the article is complaining about.
The fact they do it in a cryptographically secure way does mean they haven't got your contact list stored on their servers for someone else to steal is good, but the shitty user experience of "hey we just messaged all your contacts for you" is still shitty.
Comment A common problem (Score 3, Insightful) 25
They're hardly the only messaging app which is quick to advertise how seriously they take the privacy of your messages but think nothing of uploading your entire contact list to their servers and sending a push message to all of them already on the service to tell them you've joined.
Looking at you Signal and Telegram...
Comment Re: Why the Telegram hate? (Score 1) 155
Telegram won't let you add someone from your contacts without syncing your whole contact list to their servers.
Comment Would help if "dreaded" was defined (Score 1) 137
"Dreaded" in this context means "% of developers who are developing with the language or technology but have not expressed interest in continuing to do so"
Limiting the pool to people who are actively using the language probably explains why Java, Javascript and Rust are so far down the list.
(Honestly, I'd describe myself as both wanting to use Rust and also dreading it. It seems to have so many neat ideas, but then I look at some actual Rust code and oh grief I'm already confused...)
Comment Re:any such custom games that originate... (Score 1) 156
No, but that's the situation they want to avoid.
They want to make sure they own the next tower defence, dota or autochess if it comes out of their game engine.