WhatAmLemmy
@WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
- Comment on Reporters Without Borders sues X 2 days ago:
Trump will designate Reporters Without Borders a terrorist org, and terrorize their reporters using the state.
- Comment on X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election 2 days ago:
Apparently they just become fascist
- Comment on The amount of people your age is only going down with time. 2 days ago:
It’s okay. We’re only running out of time. ALL of us — ALWAYS — are hurtling through space at ~30km/s around a fireball that’s burned for billions of years, on a spaceship that materialized out of the remanence of exploding fireballs, which materialized out of nothingness.
Believe it or not. A banger shower thought was an inevitability.
- Comment on Australia backs UN resolution recognising ‘permanent sovereignty’ of Palestinians in major departure 2 days ago:
Genocide has a habit of making the genocidal deemed to be the bad guy.
- Comment on Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says he and Donald Trump 'see eye to eye' on Iran 5 days ago:
I mean, Liberals have literally no evidence whatsoever that Palestine abstainers would have made a dent in the 10-15 million votes needed to win, yet that hasn’t stopped them from blaming the left in every thread.
I’d be willing to bet that stating “the economy is doing great” while tens of millions of people are significantly poorer than they were 4 years ago was more to blame than anything. People are fed up and want revolutionary change.
- Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g 1 week ago:
Considering the mass of the earth, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’d be nearly impossible to capture a difference between a feather or bowling ball. You might have to release them at 100m or 1000m above the surface, but then maybe the moons miniscule atmosphere or density variances will have more of an effect.
- Comment on Store (and access) old emails 2 weeks ago:
As others suggested you don’t need all your historic mail on your mailserver. My approach to email archival is the same as all my historic data — a disorganized dumping ground that’s like my personal data lake, and separate service(s) to crawl, index, and search it (e.g. www.recoll.org)
- Comment on A box of Cadbury's Favourites reveals a lot about the 'high-low' cycles of supermarket pricing 2 weeks ago:
If that were the case, which I hard doubt, then the solution would be to target suppliers with enhanced consumer and business laws that make it illegal to charge different prices for the same product and volume; they should ultimately require absolute transparency for pricing up the entire supply chain, too. Shine light on everywhere the price gouging and exploitation are taking place.
I believe it’s not currently illegal for retailers to advertise and charge 2 different customers 2 different sets of targeted prices, and it should be, as retailers are nearing the capability to alter the shelf price based on the customer standing in front of it. This exploitation attack vector should be cut off before they try to get away with it (probably already are).
- Comment on NBN Co to accelerate higher speed tiers and launch multi-gigabit speeds in September 2025 2 weeks ago:
I too am unable to get anything above 50. Old building only 10 mins from the CBD.
Conservatisms goal was to create a class divide in QoS and QoL, and they succeeded… because obviously someone has to suffer, even if it costs double! That’s how they get off.
- Comment on Inquiry warns distrustful public wouldn’t accept COVID measures in future pandemic. 2 weeks ago:
Yep. It was infuriating to know in Feb that everything was gonna shutdown and watching the Libs drag their feet for weeks. They waited until everyone who could voluntarily isolate already was, and reasserted that Conservatism is too selfishly incompetent to ever make tough decisions and lead anything or anyone. It’s a miracle we didn’t have a domestic outbreak like Italy; thousands of boomers and up would’ve been fucked.
- Comment on Arc Browser - Changing focus when the main product isn't even finished? 3 weeks ago:
All of those are problems which extensions already mostly solve. Firefox has tree style tabs, sideberry and tabstash. You can hide the horizontal tab bar with css. You can create multiple profiles in Firefox, and you can open separate isolated windows for each. Notes depend on your chosen software, but simple browser-only extensions exist. I don’t care about mini windows; that is a non-issue already solved with tab mgmt keyboard shortcuts.
- Comment on Man jailed for breaking into army depot and impersonating field marshal 3 weeks ago:
I imagine any 4 digit pin could be acquired with a digital camera, zoom lens, and a few hours.
- Comment on Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts 3 weeks ago:
It is exceptionally useful for the auditing of damn near everything in digital space, as long as shared resources and 3rd parties have access to the blockchain … which is probably the major reason companies and politicians don’t want anything to do with it.
It’d be a lot harder to hide crimes, fraud, grey business dealings, bribery and illegal donations, sanction violations, etc, etc if every event in the entire financial system and supply chain was logged and verifiable.
- Comment on Jack Black is what happens when the class clown doesn't become depressed and instead becomes even more of a clown 4 weeks ago:
TBF, in the free world it’s illegal to joke about the death of dictators, politicians, and extremely dangerous criminals unless you are a politician &/or conservative. Everybody knows that.
- Comment on Judge delays order in antitrust case requiring Google to open up its app store 4 weeks ago:
Just another example of how judicial systems are run by ignorant dinosaurs who don’t understand how anything works (e.g. series of tubes). You’d expect a judge presiding over this type of case to make a ruling after seeking advice from domain experts; on what was in the realm of possibility.
If Google were motivated to do this voluntarily, I’d expect it to be a 6-12 month project, at the very least.
- Comment on Amid gruesome hospital scenes, the true death toll in Gaza might be much higher than we think 4 weeks ago:
Well obviously. It was 40k months ago, and that was merely a conservative estimate. The real death toll is definitely in the hundreds of thousands, if you include all the people Israel has intentionally starved and deprived of medical care.
- Comment on The 1900s 4 weeks ago:
Statistical modeling and machine learning theory goes back several decades. I’m not sure LLM’s even use new algorithms. They may just apply various techniques that improve the performance and accuracy of pre-existing algorithms.
- Comment on The 1900s 4 weeks ago:
TBF, the veracity of the information is relatively field dependent. Structural engineering? Yeah, probably still as relevant as the day it was published… Quantum computing or astrobiology theory? Far more likely to be superseded or debunked.
- Comment on Probably 4 weeks ago:
This is straight comedic gold. I like to imagine some elderly stenographer refused to retire and this is a common occurrence… or it’s some 3rd rock from the sun aliens first day.
- Comment on South Australia’s upper house narrowly rejects ‘Trumpian’ bill to wind back abortion care 4 weeks ago:
Religion, and by extension Conservatism, are mental illnesses and should be treated as such.
- Comment on More wealth in fewer hands — the great housing rort 4 weeks ago:
Rate cuts are in the wind and, while they’ll certainly improve housing affordability …
This kind of neoliberal rhetoric is what needs to end. Rate cuts DO NOT increase housing affordability; they do the opposite. They make it easiest for the wealthiest to borrow even more cash, and buy another property, which increases demand, drives ip the price, and ultimately reduces affordability.
It’s the same deal with the “first home buyer” schemes. I have yet to see one that isn’t neoliberal economics, spun to sound like it’s a benefit to the working class, while it just drove up prices at the bottom end of the market, again reducing housing affordability.
The only thing that will stop the cycle is hard limits on the volume of property any individual can own (like 2, MAX), completely banning any company from owning residential property, and a dozen other significant changes that transform the entire concept of housing from being an “investment”, to being for a basic human right, and necessity for both physical and mental health.
- Comment on Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers 1 month ago:
The project is designed to raise awareness of what is possible with this technology.
This has nothing to do with smart glasses, and everything to do with surveillance capitalism. You could do the same thing with a smartphone, or any camera + computer. All this does is highlight how everyones most sensitive data has been aggregated by numerous corporations and is available to anyone who will pay for it. There was a time when Capitalism used to equate itself as the “free” and privacy preserving antithesis to Soviet style communist surveillance, yet no KGB agent ever had access to a system with 1/100th the surveillance capabilities that 21st century capitalism now sells freely for profit.
- Comment on Is Lebanon part of Israel’s promised territory? 1 month ago:
Read the comments for a double dose of fascism.
- Comment on Coles' and Woolworths' alleged land banking comes under the microscope, $30 million more given to watchdog for crackdown 1 month ago:
Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the funding for the ACCC would make grocery pricing fairer, boost competition and make sure there were “consequences” for wrongdoing.
Let me guess? The “consequences” will be so insignificant and inconsequential that they qualify as the government being a criminal co-conspirator engaging in racketeering with colesworth — just taking their share of the proceeds, and approval to continue the criminal enterprise.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 1 month ago:
Now expand that to the entire planetary economy. Unsustainable short term gains is the entire industrial revolution.
- Comment on Labor threatens to cancel visas for ‘inciting discord’ after protests against Israeli attacks on Lebanon 1 month ago:
That’s because a 5 eyes anti-Israel revolt could result in trillions dollar losses for the military industrial complex, surveillance capitalism, and oil industries.
The most powerful corporations on Earth want a new war and new generation of terrorists to increase profits.
- Comment on Huawei tr-fold review 1 month ago:
In the video the guy stresses multiple times that it’s too large and heavy to use as a phone, so frames it as expensive, prestigious, and “rare” for yuppies.
All of those “features” are the opposite of what I would ever want in a device.
- Comment on Social media is becoming infested with climate change denial and misinformation 1 month ago:
Can’t tell if fascist who wants to religiously indoctrinate their children in isolation, or has legitimate, sane issues.
- Comment on They say “anyone can become president”, but this will be the first presidential election since 1970s, where there is no Bush, Clinton, or Biden on the ballot. 1 month ago:
You don’t have to be a millionaire to be “self made”. Tons of average joes consider themselves to be. The distinction is relevant.
- Comment on They say “anyone can become president”, but this will be the first presidential election since 1970s, where there is no Bush, Clinton, or Biden on the ballot. 1 month ago:
“I will have you know I’m a self made man, just like my millionaire father and his millionaire father before him”
FTFY