I’m not one of the dual booters mentioned, but the desktop version of Excel specifically has several important features that the online version flat out doesn’t support. Primarily I’m talking about creating and running data queries, which is useful for analyzing data and generating reports from remote data sources including external files like CSV and online databases. You can do all this without Excel of course, but this shows the online versions are definitely limited.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft 365 sees 43% price hike thanks to Copilot — existing customers safe until renewalEnglish
4·2 years agoMore anti consumer garbage forced by a monopolistic juggernaut which the governments of the world refuse to do more than mildly scold. It’s worse than chatgpt and pops up almost everywhere you click. Something about heads in asses
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Technology@lemmy.world•On These Apps, the Dark Promise of Mothers Sexually Abusing ChildrenEnglish
82·2 years agoSure, everything except the direct connection between Bigo specifically and ByteDance. Like I said originally, there were numerous apps that I found platforming this behavior, and TikTok’s parent company was responsible for most of them. This was several years ago (~5) and I’m going off memory here, so I do apologize for the inconsistency
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Technology@lemmy.world•On These Apps, the Dark Promise of Mothers Sexually Abusing ChildrenEnglish
123·2 years agoFair question I should clarify: ByteDance was using a number of LLCs at the time to (my understanding) find the best / most addictive TikTok-style app. I believe TikTok was around at the time but it was called something different. Looking into this briefly again, it seems Bigo isn’t directly connected to ByteDance, but the exact style/format of app is apparently being abused by multiple companies across countries now.
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Technology@lemmy.world•On These Apps, the Dark Promise of Mothers Sexually Abusing ChildrenEnglish
204·2 years agoA few years ago I conducted an internal months long investigation into Bigo Live and about a dozen remarkably similar apps. They were cookie cutter template apps with slight tweaks to test market trends and engagement, all produced by one single corporate entity: ByteDance. While sharing my findings with the team did result in new child endangerment policies being enacted internally, it is absolutely disgusting to see these apps are still at large, getting worse, and the massive tech company I worked for did essentially nothing to help externally.
EDIT: I should note the content I encountered was not abuse, but very apparent and out in the open grooming, in apps where a user’s location would often be shown publicly
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Technology@lemmy.world•AI company trolls San Francisco with billboards saying “stop hiring humans”English
14·2 years agoThis doesn’t sound like a
greatcompany. Anyone who at this point believes an ‘AI’ agent can outright replace human labor is not paying attention. 100% just another AI scam
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Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft’s controversial Recall scraper is finally entering public previewEnglish
261·2 years agoLawyers: “Generating music using a machine learning model trained using real artists’ music (without permission) does not violate those artists copyright!”
Therefore
Big Data: “Generating a black box replication of your identity trained on your private personal information and activity (without permission) does not violate your privacy!”
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Technology@lemmy.world•Automatic emergency braking is getting better at preventing crashesEnglish
2·2 years agoI can’t answer that, but absolutely it is
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Technology@lemmy.world•Automatic emergency braking is getting better at preventing crashesEnglish
15·2 years agoThis just in: Technology Improves Incrementally Over Time!
What a dumb take (in your quote). Autocompletion showing me all the members of an object is nothing like ChatGPT hallucinating members that don’t exist. Autocomplete will show you members you haven’t seen, or aren’t even documented.
Not to mention they said syntax highlighting is a bad thing… Why use computers at all? Go back to the golden days of punchcards
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Godot@programming.dev•Rough beginnings with new projects in Godot
3·2 years agoLooks like each train car is rotating around its center, causing the front and rear ends to leave the tracks when turning. You’ll want to sample two points on the track, one at each end of each train car where the wheels would be, then use the two points to position the car more correctly.
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Games@lemmy.world•An important update on Concord - Being taken offline September 6th, refunds to be issuedEnglish
112·2 years agoJust saw a Bungie job listing on LinkedIn too. Make it make sense. I did apply though
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Games@lemmy.world•Why does Halo 2 look worse than Halo 1? The shadows. Or well, the *lack* of themEnglish
5·2 years agoEnvironment and character work was generally great in 4, but just look at that Phantom ‘explodes’ in the very first mission… It’s remarkable how weak some of the presentation in the game was. While 4 did have some talented people working on the franchise still, it was obvious by then that 343 no longer cared and QA was absent. Also way way too much lens flare
So you’re telling me all we have to do is beg the bots in multiple ways not to read the page and only the malicious bots will get away with it? Win - win - win I think

Correct. Anyone with intention or experience will not be deterred by obscuration. With modern tools and techniques, they will hardly be delayed. Obscuration is not security