mwalimu

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[–] mwalimu@baraza.africa 4 points 2 years ago

indistinct chatter

[–] mwalimu@baraza.africa 8 points 2 years ago

I like the testing and hopefully they will share more detailed research findings in the next 6months. Especially on content moderation knowing they have decades of experience on this.

[–] mwalimu@baraza.africa 5 points 2 years ago

The unsang heroes who brought in wisdom and competency! 🤟

[–] mwalimu@baraza.africa 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I once read that the failure of British industrial policy to engage labour as a long term competitive edge instead of a dispensable short term concern saw Germany overtake British car makers. Germany dealt with labour strikes more comprehensively by engaging labour in policy structures. Like including Labour representatives in boardrooms.

I wonder how this may reflect on Chinese / Western competitiveness.

Found the piece: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23406467

[–] mwalimu@baraza.africa 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Avafind.

Searching for almost anything was so much easy. Such a powerful tool that disappeared. Its performance 20 years ago was better than Finder is today. At least from my experience.

[–] mwalimu@baraza.africa 4 points 2 years ago

Used to be the first thing we installed on phones and PCs. Opera was blazing fast on basic phones as far back as 2008sh.

[–] mwalimu@baraza.africa 1 points 2 years ago

Sadly, yes. One would hope the more core sectors use it, the more the general population would use such tools. But alas!

[–] mwalimu@baraza.africa 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Cold plain metrics can easily hide social complexity.

Assume 10 investigative journalists use modded privacy-friendly Firefox for year long investigation. Then their report is read by 10 million average news reader on stock browsers like Chrome. Network logics tell us that Firefox browser has asymmetrical value in the ecosystem than plain usage metrics can ever reveal.

The obsession with numbers (the more the better) is a major blinding effect in societies driven by hierarchical cultures.

[–] mwalimu@baraza.africa 1 points 2 years ago

Why are you letting facts come in between the truth?

[–] mwalimu@baraza.africa 3 points 2 years ago

That sucks! As long as a device can decode the signals, I don’t see why they should phase it out just to be compatible with DAB+ (especially when infrastructural costs are not a major factor).

[–] mwalimu@baraza.africa 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

FM receiver on phones + 3.5mn jack was a crucial source of local radio transmissions. I suspect some phones still ship radio receivers but the popular types like Samsungs and iPhones don’t seem to care (or perhaps that competes with their music and podcast markets).

[–] mwalimu@baraza.africa 5 points 2 years ago

My kind of hopes.

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