[rant?] I'm hopeful for the future of technology
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    robotica
    1mo ago 100%

    Thank you for the heads-up! I admit I relied on hearsay on how RCS works, I just assumed it had E2EE. Actually, I did almost send personally identifiable information over RCS, but decided not to, I'll take that as divine intervention protecting me (lol). Thanks again.

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  • [rant?] I'm hopeful for the future of technology
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    robotica
    1mo ago 100%

    Addendum: Today was also my first ever message received via RCS. I know the person through WhatsApp, but he messaged me via, just, phone number. I have an Android, but what does he have? I dunno, but it works, and it's awesome. I sent text, image, audio, video, read receipts with a device whose corporation is probably competing with the one of my phone.

    Ahh, this is what the engineers had imagined 50+ years ago, and we're living it.

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  • In response to this post: https://lemmy.zip/post/22916249 Disclaimer: I understand this community is more geared towards technology news and not someone's scribblings, but I'd like to bring in a different view on the same topic. I came up with the idea to make this post while discussing something on Lemmy, and I realized that not even that long ago, something like Mastodon was so incredibly niche, even as a developer who likes niche stuff I viewed it as something more like IRC - good for people who want the "old days" back, but no longer fit for the general public. Over the past year or more, ever since the Reddit API block fiasco began (I was an avid Boost for Reddit user) up until now, the way that I consume social media has changed drastically, huge thanks to the invention of ActivityPub and the Fediverse. I finally understood the importance of actual free speech, not unmoderated, but ungoverned¹ discussions, where even the most outlandish ideas are allowed in niche spaces, but where cheap clickbait and ragebait quickly gets cleaned up by motivated and dedicated members of communities. As I was reading a comment on some post, the comment had a 😡 emoji in the middle of it. I took a moment to smile and appreciate just how ubiquitous UTF-8 has become, to the point that even your smart pregnancy test would probably be able to display them, in one way or another. Ain't that something? Not even speaking about the horrible things that happen in the real world, there are also atrocious acts committed even in the tech world, where good ideas like blockchain and cryptocurrency get blown out of proportion, hyped to no end, and implemented atrociously by greedy capitalists looking for a quick buck in any way possible that makes my blood boil. However, as I'm seeing, Facebook, Google and others (at least in the EU) are slowly, but surely being forced to, uhm, not steal and lie and scam people out of their data and privacy? The solution is not perfect, but it is good, and it is pointing us in the right direction. In conclusion, I don't think the future of digital technology and how we use it is going to be how sci-fi movies imagined, with brain-computer interfaces being a commonplace thing or whatever, at least not in the next 50-100 years in my opinion. I think that shitty NFT art scams are not going to be the next web, Web 3.0 - this is. For a better future for all, one day at a time! Written with Boost for Lemmy 😉 @rmayayo ¹ Please correct me if I misspoke here, I hope I got my point across.

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    New research identifies human rights abuses in battery supply chain as most abuses involve companies in China with products that end up in batteries globally
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    robotica
    1mo ago 66%

    The US isn't some homogenous entity where all decisions are unanimous and everybody agreed to child labour. The government has little say in what people who are allowed in to freely travel decide to do, and sometimes those people decide to do bad things.

    I'm not defending the entirety of the US here, I'm just agreeing with @OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world that in this case, it is whataboutism because you are attacking the US instead of defending China.

    Whataboutism or whataboutery is a pejorative for the strategy of responding to an accusation with a counter-accusation instead of a defense against the original accusation.

    According to wikipedia

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  • Why is UI design backsliding?
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    robotica
    1mo ago 60%

    There's Office online, which has a free tier and a "365" tier, whatever that means. Does it mean that you have Office available 365 days a year? Good luck on February 29th, I guess. /j

    Anyway, Microsoft transitioned Office into a subscription-based model, which I abhor because I just want to have a piece of software without feature updates, just bug and security fixes. So Office 365 is just normal Office, but on a subscription basis.

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  • Why is UI design backsliding?
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    robotica
    1mo ago 87%

    I've used Office 2003, 2007, 2010 etc. all the way up to 365 not for work purposes, but just happened to have interacted with all of the versions.

    I have to say, I seriously don't know what happened, but Office 2003-2007 feels the most stable and least clunky versions of Office (at least Word) in terms of basic word processing.

    I learned how to properly edit and format text in Word in university in a way that I could, without fail, reproduce almost any text design you could think of. When I was learning it on Office 2007 I believe, everything was so stable and predictable. Now when somebody asks me to format some text with 365, the styles functionality continually keeps bugging out and doing stupid shit that I basically can't recover from unless I create a blank file.

    In conclusion, Office 2007 > 365

    /rant

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  • Human traffic cone wears hat (joke)
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    robotica
    1mo ago 100%

    Hmm, that doesn't sound high-tech enough... I think we should implement something using blockchain and AI... Oh, is blockchain out of fashion already?

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