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- Comment on Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension 2 days ago:
the misuse of the word “propaganda”,
No I use the word propaganda because the accusations are based on falsehoods.
- Comment on The productivity paradox of AI coding assistants 2 days ago:
I’ll take that as a “Yes”.
- Comment on Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension 2 days ago:
My claim is that firefox gets worse by adding the features nobody asked for
Most of those new features are absolutely amazing, like the instant translation of almost any page,
Creating tags for images that don’t have them for blind people, is an amazing feature for blind people.
If you don’t like them you don’t have to use them. You don’t get to dictate that others shouldn’t have them on false accusations.
Some of us like a feature-full high quality browser, that respect our privacy.purely out of FOMO of the AI hypetrain
OK and which functions are that?
You’re just on the AI hate train and think that’s the default correct position.
Well guess again, because Mozilla is actually using it for things that are both useful and noninvasive.
So why don’t you piss off and go use a terminal browser instead if that’s what you want.
Alternatively there are a lot of decent open source browsers that don’t have the advanced features of Firefox you can use. - Comment on The productivity paradox of AI coding assistants 2 days ago:
Is this the same fast to ship but hard to maintain argument we’ve seen a thousand times already?
- Comment on Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension 2 days ago:
Again, propaganda against Firefox with no basis.
What is your claim? That because it uses AI, it inherently bad?
The AI functions implemented by Firefox are generally run locally.You show NOTHING, and yet you act like you made a point???
- Comment on Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension 2 days ago:
Absolutely.
- Comment on Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension 2 days ago:
Except it’s not, all the complaints about Firefox are moronic, none of them have any merit.
Don’t fall for the false propaganda or morons who think they found a problem when they have no understanding of the underlying mechanisms.
I’ve seen dozens of claims about bad things Mozilla does, and every time I investigate the issue, it turns out there is nothing there, or at most some sort of misunderstanding that is blown out of proportions.You can dislike Firefox as much as you want as a use case. But Firefox is still 100% above board with everything they do.
- Comment on Many Years Ago, I Told A Nuclear Power Loving (Eventually Employee) Friend that I Heard that China had Solar Panels that Charged Even Off The Moon Light… 2 days ago:
Even if moonlight could be harvested for energy, the amount of energy is infinitesimal and would have absolutely zero practical use.
The energy of moonlight is only 1 millionth of sun light, and it is very doubtful that solar panels with low enough internal resistance will ever exist to allow any measurable energy output.
The theoretical energy is only 0.003 w/m² with a clear sky at full moon. This is such a small amount of energy that I doubt it will ever be worth pursuing. A similar amount of energy can be picked up from ambient radio waves, that would have the clear advantage of being way more stable working 24/7.
Moonlight can be a nice light source at night, and it can look pretty, but as an energy source it is absolutely useless.
- Comment on Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension 2 days ago:
Chrome is not a solution, it is a major part of the problem.
Switch to Firefox, and preferably switch to Firefox on Linux. - Comment on Meta Reportedly Cutting About 1,500 VR and AR Jobs Amid Renewed Push to Become an AI Juggernaut 6 days ago:
Zuckerberg finally got tired of the METAverse being useless and going nowhere.
But he still thinks he is some sort of visionary tech genius. And he wants to capture the next big thing before anybody else.
If he were smart he would have realized the metaverse was a stupid idea years ago. But unfortunately for him he is not very smart, he was just lucky and ruthless with facebook, and now he has become a megalomaniac drunk with the power of his billions.
It is only months ago he thought he could create strong AI by building a massive LLM thinking strong AI would be an emerging property of massively concentrated stupidity. I think he at least has realized that is not the case. - Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 1 week ago:
Russia and China are democracies
No they are not, they are authoritarian regimes that oppress any political competition through censorship, imprisonment and even death. Just like we’ve seen with Navalny and Jack Ma. Try to look up tiananmen square in China. Or just ask a Chinese AI about it, it won’t tell you anything.
You are a complete idiot, and I really mean literal idiot for calling those 2 countries democracies, there are clearly standards for what constitute a democracy, and Russia and China are not in any way within those standards. Free press and freedom of expression without threat of persecution by the government is a requirement.
en.wikipedia.org/…/The_Economist_Democracy_Index
Democracy is not just about being allowed to vote for the dear leader, there has to be ability to participate in the whole political process without being oppressed.But human rights? You’re joking, right? Guantanamo Bay.
Now you are just being stupid again, I said it shout be EXTENDED to human rights if we make a NATO replacement, which we obviously can’t do while USA is a member, because USA nolonger even pretend to observe human rights.
Don’t bother responding. I have blocked you, your points are moronic, and I don’t want to ever read anything from you again.
Get off the meth for christ sake. - Comment on How Did TVs Get So Cheap? - by Brian Potter 1 week ago:
OK I honestly didn’t think of that.
Ah well jokes on them, we don’t use the TV for porn. - Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 1 week ago:
The standard for NATO has always been to only accept democracies.
I see no reason why we would change that requirement for a new alliance.
I’d even go so far as to make respect of human rights a demand too like we have in EU, so we for instance exclude countries with death penalty.There needs to be common values that we want to protect, with NATO it was democracy, based on our experience with USA, we need to extend that to include respect for international law and human rights as well as protecting democracy.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 1 week ago:
i propose the name na2.
Clever, but I don’t see why it should be limited to North Atlantic countries.
If for instance Australia and South Korea want to join, that should be an option. - Comment on Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term? 1 week ago:
IDK what you imagine should be done instead of what the Canadian government is already doing?
Despite the aggressive tariffs on Canada by USA, and a lot of disruption caused by USA, the Canadian government has managed to create an environment that has allowed impressive growth for the economy considering the circumstances. - Comment on Has Canada's government done anything concrete to reduce dependence on the US since Trump took office? Maybe even since the first term? 1 week ago:
Absolutely, Canada has now even made defense agreements with EU, and very early on trade agreements were expanded.
They have been very active rerouting export goods hit by US tariffs away from USA to other destinations, helped by the government paving the way to allow these new trade routes.I can see from other comments that some Canadians don’t think the government has done enough, but I doubt they are aware of the speed the Canadian government has acted with, these things are very difficult to do quickly.
Look for instance on the trade agreement between south America and EU, it has taken 25 years to make!!
Canada has already made several agreements beneficial to Canada in less than a year.
The fact that they are also looking into buying fighter jets from Swedish SAAB a non US country is also a very big deal. Which I as an EU citizen really hope goes through, because it seems like such a good deal on cooperation on making better planes on both sides.The net result of it all is that despite US sanctions against Canada, the Canadian economy has grown more than the US economy in 2025!
- Comment on How we get to 1 nanometer chips and beyond 1 week ago:
There is no way less than 100 pm can make sense.
- Comment on How we get to 1 nanometer chips and beyond 1 week ago:
Well in the future light may be possible, and light is merely a photon, and you can have photons basically follow the same paths in each direction simultaneously without colliding.
So without in any way being an expert, I would think that if light can somehow be controlled precisely enough, that would be a possibility to go way below what any atom can. Even if the paths need to be directed by atoms.
But AFAIK there is not a practical working model for that yet, although research on it has been going on for decades. - Comment on How we get to 1 nanometer chips and beyond 1 week ago:
Well AFAIK the smallest usable atom is about 120 picometer, and the smallest amount of atoms theoretically possible to make a transistor is 3, so there is (probably) no way to go below 360 picometer. There is probably also no way to actually achieve 360 picometer which is the same as 0.36 nanometer.
So the idea that they are currently going below 2nm is of course untrue, but IDK what the real measure is?What they are doing at the leading chip manufacturing factories is amazing, so amazing it’s kind of insane. But it’s not 2nm.
- Comment on How Did TVs Get So Cheap? - by Brian Potter 1 week ago:
We use a Linux media computer for all our watching, the TV is used as nothing more than a simple monitor. So if our TV does that, jokes on them, because all the metrics they can get is when we turn it on and off and that we watch through HDMI at the TV max resolution. 🤣🤣🤣
I stopped watching traditional TV 25 years ago, 2nd best decision I ever made, after marrying my wife. 😀
- Comment on Hyundai Introduces Its Next-Gen Atlas Robot at CES 2026 1 week ago:
Nice to see a robot that doesn’t walk like it has shit its pants. 👍
It was a smart move by Hyundai to buy Boston Dynamics.
This demo compared to Tesla is way more impressive IMO, Tesla is nowhere near this sophistication in their design. - Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 weeks ago:
Exactly, there has to be pressure from the nations that still believe in the international rule of law.
- Comment on I’m not saying that I agree with right- or center-wing views, and I do condemn transphobia. However, do you think there should be a distinction between critiquing beliefs held by transgender people, and engaging in transphobia? 2 weeks ago:
“and the”
And the what???
Also center is not a “wing”.
You don’t seem to have any kind of coherent thought with your question.Basically your question is “I don’t say I agree with right wing views, but…”
Also transgender is neither an ideology philosophy or religion. So your comparison to Theism is way off.scientifically under-defined
You can make that claim about a lot of things, even gravity and especially time, nobody understand time, would you deny time exist?
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 weeks ago:
I would be OK with giving Russia a taste of their own medicine. But it’s an area where I think we need to be very careful, and not participate too strongly in a race to the bottom.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Not lemmy, but where I live, but my guess is that most Americans traveling to Denmark are more liberal than average too.
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 2 weeks ago:
AFAIK he was OK during Trump’s first term, back then it was Pelosi holding back.
Now he is making the same mistakes Pelosi did. - Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Yes it makes you a flaming racist. It is wrong, but it is understandable IMO.
But as a white person, I can assure you that very many of your allies against oppression of minorities, and the atrocities in Palestine are white. Who do you think vote for AOC? I bet Ilhan Omar too has many white voters.Also it’s not “reverse” racism, it is simply racism pure and simple.
I am not American, but very few Americans that visit here are racist.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 weeks ago:
The US may think they are invulnerable, but they are far from it, the world can crash the US economy in a couple of hours.
Problem is it would hurt the rest of the world too, although not as bad as it would be for USA.
But there needs to be very strong arguments for doing it. Still there has already been hints of the “nuclear” option by EU against USA if USA continues to behave as poorly as they have this past year.
Also China has its own nuclear option in just selling off US treasury bonds. That would make it very hard for USA to finance the federal deficits, and could collapse the American federal government.The US economy depends on the rest of the world to be the size it is. And without the economy to finance the military, USA will not be able to maintain a military the size they currently have.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 weeks ago:
Operation Just Cause
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- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s the first time they do it without international support.