WhatAmLemmy
@WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
- Comment on USA | What SCOTUS just did to net neutrality, the right to repair, the environment, and more 5 hours ago:
The key point of Chevron was that laws like these are policy decisions, and those policy decisions should be made by the political branches responsive to the voters, Congress and the president, not by unaccountable judges with no constituents. … (in 1984) The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Chevron, allowing the Ronald Reagan admins industry-friendly EPA to stick with a lax interpretation of the Clean Air Act.
So the 1984 ruling, and now the overturn, are efforts by a corrupt conservative-stacked court to benefit the conservative political and ideological agenda. I always believed that Americans would never do anything about an illegitimate court dismantling democracy and the rule of law, but it’s still just as comically dystopian to watch it happen in real time.
- Comment on Apple Intelligence won't launch in EU in 2024 due to antitrust regulation, company says 1 week ago:
or their “super privacy friendly” services aren’t as privacy friendly as they claim.
I would bet real currency it’s this one.
- Comment on PSI 1 week ago:
As far as numbers go, it’s definitely a number.
- Comment on Elsevier 1 week ago:
It sounds like all it would take to destroy the predatory for-profit publication oligarchs is a majority of the top few hundred scientists, across major disciplines, rejecting it and switching to a completely decentralized peer-2-peer open-source system in protest… The publication companies seem to gate keep, and provide no value. It’s like Reddit. The site’s essentially worthless. All of the value is generated by the content creators.
- Comment on Boeing 737 Max crash victims ask US to impose $25bn fine 1 week ago:
“Please sir, may the peasants have some shred of justice”
If we didn’t live in corporatocracies masquerading as democracies dozens of decision makers at Boeing, all the way to the top, would be serving life in prison for killing hundreds of people.
- Comment on Israel Gaza war: ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas leaders 5 weeks ago:
Israel, he said, has a right to defend itself but not by “intentionally causing death, starvation, great suffering, and serious injury to body or health of the civilian population” which he said were criminal acts.
Which he said were criminal acts? Terrorising, torturing, starving, and bombing civilians are all war crimes. It’s pathetic how beholden mainstream media is to our economic and geopolitical interests.
- Comment on Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them 1 month ago:
You could even take the job and see how hard you can half-ass it (extra points of you do literally no work) before they fire you again.
- Comment on Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds 1 month ago:
Yep. I’m willing to make 10% less to be fully remote. Given the alternative is fewer days of sleep each year, plus many more in time spent grooming and transiting, then the cost of transport and lunch, to ultimately get less done, both at home and at work (with the same deadlines) I might even take 15-20% less.
Work/life balance is more important than money.
- Comment on How ‘Zionist’ became a slur on the US left 1 month ago:
Stealing people’s land from underneath them and giving it to another people (especially based on religion or ethnicity) is both a crime against humanity and a violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (created 6 months after establishing the state of Israel), but the west just accepted Zionism because the majority of jews were white Europeans, the colonialists who dominated the league of nations didn’t consider brown people to be people, and none of them wanted to allocate any of their own land due to their own antisemitism.
Zionism has always been a crime. We were just lied to and told things were “complicated” by the same colonialist oligarchs who call the Islamic extremism their own historic crimes created and amplified “complicated”.
- Comment on Yes, Australia’s big supermarkets have been price gouging. But fixing the problem won’t be easy 1 month ago:
This is one of the core purposes of a governments existence — to protect citizens from the unethical/immoral sociopaths that capitalism’s for-profit nature encourages and rewards.
If they’re too corrupt or inept to perform function then they don’t deserve to govern.
- Comment on Google employees question execs over 'decline in morale' after blowout earnings 1 month ago:
I’ll take a deep pan bbq executive
- Comment on Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner 1 month ago:
Most of modern civilization wasn’t built by the current S&P500 — most of them didn’t exist 100 years ago, let alone 50 — it was built by humanity, collectively, over thousands of years.
That fact won’t stop any individual or corporation from trying to claim absolute dominion over the entire human population, all derivative works, or the rest of our descendants futures, for all eternity.
- Comment on Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner 1 month ago:
Now they’re getting paid, so fuck you!
- Comment on Kagi silently removed all references to Google's index from their website 1 month ago:
“Just trust me bro” is always bullshit with capitalism. On a long emough time line for-profit orgs will always expand to double/triple/quadruple/etc dip into their customer base. It might as well be a fundamental law of economics at this point.
- Comment on App Idea: Location History 1 month ago:
For iOS there’s location log. You can export your history too.
Also, don’t kid yourself. If you aren’t using Graphene and have any tech company app installed on your phone they’re logging your location, and sharing it with everyone who pays, even if you opt out.
- Comment on Tesla Lays Off Employee Who Slept In Car To Work Longer Hours 1 month ago:
I hear masochistic genocidal overlord is much nicer once you get to know him. You just have to look past all the masochism and genocide, to see the fluffy teddy bear inside.
- Comment on Rightsholders Want U.S. “Know Your Customer” Proposal to Include Domain Name Services * TorrentFreak 1 month ago:
Nothing screams freedom like the surveillance of everyone’s communications by a faceless secret police because terrorism and pedophilia ((exist)) — nevermind that the secret police are often the ones engaging in terrorism and pedophilia.
Don’t worry, though. Surveillance capitalism is the one true arbiter or morality and ethics. It’s not like capitalism has ever profited from murder, authoritarianism, or oppression… unless your black, or brown, or poor, or female, or atheist, or a worker… filthy commoners.
- Comment on Biden Says He Told Nigeria to Kill Fewer Civilians — but Nigeria Keeps Killing Lots of Civilians 1 month ago:
“Politics and arms sales has nothing to do with a thread about politics and arms sales”
Ah, so you’re just a dunning kruger. Cool, thanks!
- Comment on Biden Says He Told Nigeria to Kill Fewer Civilians — but Nigeria Keeps Killing Lots of Civilians 1 month ago:
Honest questions seeing as you seem so sure —
- Does the executive have no ability to block arms sales to human rights abusers?
- What methods are available to block arms sales?
- Is a government not under any moral or ethical obligation to prevent the armament of human rights abusers?
- Comment on Drone maker DJI facing U.S. FCC ban — the national security risk and part China-state ownership are key issues 1 month ago:
The corporatocracy achieved their goal of gutting the developed worlds working class and nullifying both labor and environment regulations for their most pollutant and exploitative industries.
Now that like 10 corporations have monopolized most of the wests products and supply chains, they can extract even more value by removing Chinese owned products from the supply pool. Of course, most of their products will continue coming from the same Chinese factories. This is only the beginning.
- Comment on Release Miniflux 2.1.3 · miniflux/v2 1 month ago:
Rather ironically, miniflux users could add miniflux releases to their miniflux feed using github.com/miniflux/v2/releases.atom
- Comment on We compared the finances of 30-year-olds now, to 30-year-olds 30 years ago 1 month ago:
When it comes to those in their 30s, Grattan Institute data shows that in 2016, 30-year-olds contributed twice as much to support older Australians’ living standards than Boomers did at 30. And that’s adjusted for inflation. … The data projections expect 30-year-olds in 2041 to be paying nearly four times more.
Solid data behind the ladder pulling younger generations have been calling out since before the whole “avocado toast” boomer entitlement.
this generation has contributed more to support older generations … in part, because more well-off, older Australians are paying less tax.
I guarantee boomers and Gen-X won’t support a rebalancing, especially the type of rebalancing required — where housing being treated as an investment vehicle needs to cease via a dozen extreme regulations, like banning ownership beyond a single investment property, banning of all corporate ownership including SMSF’s, banning of non-resident ownership, extreme taxes for empty property (and most penalties beyond a sensible grace period including outright forfeiture of the entire asset).
- Comment on Photo-sharing community EyeEm will license users' photos to train AI if they don't delete them 1 month ago:
This is why you should just use local or selfhosted services and encrypt everything you upload to someone else’s computer (any cloud).
You can’t trust capitalism not to enshittify and change the rules as they see fit. All your data belong to us.
- Comment on Alabama House Passes Bill That Could Be Used to Criminalize Librarians 2 months ago:
It’s a tale as old as religion
- Comment on The end of coral reefs as we know them 2 months ago:
We need to stop calling this shit “climate change”, which is the name fossil fuel lobbyists changed it to because “global warming” was too scary.
We need to call it “FOSSIL FUELLED climate/change/warming”
Doesn’t matter how you refer to it, as long as FOSSIL FUELLED is prepended.
TELL EVERYONE!
- Comment on Tech brands are forcing AI into your gadgets—whether you asked for it or not 2 months ago:
I disagree. I believe that our interactions with AI represent a breakthrough in the level of data surveillance capitalism can obtain from us.
AI isn’t the product. The users are the product AI just makes the data that users provide more valuable. Soon enough, every user will be discussing their most personal thoughts with big brother.
- Comment on chatGPT login cycle 2 months ago:
Why would any of them ban VPN’s when you’re logging into a verified account and sharing your location.
- Comment on Why AI is going to be a shitshow. 2 months ago:
AI is statistically guaranteed to have false positives and false negatives, so it bares repeating — don’t trust anything AI says or shows you, unless you independently verify the information.
It’s great as a developer. Not just because it helps you with boilerplate and prototyping with new languages and frameworks, but because you can instantly validate its responses by running its code. The cracks and insufficiencies of AI become apparent within a few hours/days.
- Comment on Biden urged to ban China-made electric vehicles from the US 2 months ago:
Don’t forget how they’ve spent the last century lobbying against public transport infrastructure and walkable cities, requiring most people to own a car if they want the same mobility people across Europe and South East Asia have access to (at 2-5x the cost).
- Comment on A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions 2 months ago:
Yes. I’m aware there are a few who appear to be moving in the right direction, but I have strong doubts it’ll become more than an outlier.