kautau
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- Comment on Is brain rot real? Researchers warn of emerging risks tied to short-form video 1 week ago:
Obligatory Carl Sagan from 1995:
I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignoranceCarl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
- Comment on Netflix kills casting from phones 1 week ago:
They’re made to “Enhance the
user experienceprofit”“Enhance the user experience” is just what the dev or documentation team writes when management dictates that they drop a feature. The only reasons they would have dropped it:
- Dev work vs actual customer usage (e.g. it wasn’t getting a lot of users but devs had to maintain it with each update)
- People were using it to intercept the stream and capture movies to pirate.
Every decision is about increasing profits first, and UX almost always takes a back seat to that
- Comment on Authentism 1 week ago:
Open a PR. Probably needs theme support. Maybe dynamically generated.
[coffee|tea]-[blend]-[strength]-[milk-%]-[sugar-%] - Comment on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking 2 weeks ago:
“You worked really hard this year. 60 hour weeks. Impressive but you can do more. See that rolls Royce in the parking lot? If you work 80 hour weeks next year and everything works out, I’ll be able to buy a second one.”
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 4 weeks ago:
Can’t pass it on to your kids when the bank forcloses on it
- Comment on TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear! 4 weeks ago:
The GG could only go about five, if you were lucky, on six AA
Which, while of course requiring exponentially more power, the Switch 2 only goes for about 6 hours on less demanding games, funny how battery life hasn’t really changed much for advanced handhelds.
- Comment on #RatFuckTheTimes 4 weeks ago:
conservative feminism
Ah yes the old
freedom for American internet choice act
Or whatever that actually means that the ISPs in power have the freedom to maintain control without competition and ensures Americans have no choice in internet provider
E.g. it’s literally the opposite of what it says on the tin
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 5 weeks ago:
Yeah this is another rugpull meant to allow the rich to get richer on the money of idiots
- Comment on life purpose 1 month ago:
I also sort of blame it on the social media culture of being “constantly connected.” In some workplace cultures, (especially outside the dev space), not being constantly visible and grinning is the same as not consistently posting happy updates on your feed and consuming them.
I remember in my last job we had an “open office” plan after buying and renovating a huge space, and I found a niche little area to set up my desk without people staring at me and when people came to ask me questions they would say shit like “oh so this is where you’re hiding!”
Yes, on company property in the main workroom seated at my company desk using my company computer.
Thankfully my new job is fully remote, so fuck all that weird social noise when at the end of the day I’m just whoring my brain and fingers out so I can pay my rent and buy groceries
- Comment on life purpose 1 month ago:
- Comment on life purpose 1 month ago:
Also now your boss can stare at you from his glass office door and see if you’re laughing too much and then Lumbergh you
- Comment on fuck gary 1 month ago:
- Comment on I feel like all current political debate is basically trying to choose between the three endings in the original Deus Ex. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Censored 1 month ago:
middleeasteye.net/…/israel-violates-ceasefire-ter…
What a difference he made
- Comment on Black Widow 2 months ago:
Crazy that any brain you look at is a sink
- Comment on Mid Career Marine Biology 2 months ago:
Once there’s 47
Re:’s in the subject of the final email a call comes in“Contract complete. Well done 47.”
Another classic Hitman assassination of getting someone to kill themselves due to never ending meaningless emails
- Comment on effective advertising to boost your business 2 months ago:
What in the half life combine civil protection is this sticker
- Comment on pick up that chapstick 2 months ago:
Combine ICE playing dress up again smh
- Comment on proof of wormholes 2 months ago:
lol my guess is like 70% of people in the us don’t know what acetaminophen or paracetamol are, so Tylenol could just come out with Lonelyt Extra Stength and bam, sales
- Comment on proof of wormholes 2 months ago:
Just wait till they hear what big pharma is doing with paracetamol
- Comment on Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man 2 months ago:
And those parents will all get mad for a few days and then continue to use Facebook indefinitely
- Comment on Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October 2 months ago:
The hentai server I’m on told me to switch to libreoffice instead of helping 🙁
- Comment on Why, as a responsible adult, SimCity 2000 hits differently 2 months ago:
If we’re living in a simulation the player hit save in 2000 and is currently spamming the disaster buttons
- Comment on Chairman Comer Invites CEOs of Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit to Testify on Radicalization of Online Forum Users - United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 2 months ago:
But of course not Twitter or Facebook, where Russia pays money to radicalize people
- Comment on kalmodo dragon 2 months ago:
- Comment on Four arrested after photo of Trump and Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle 2 months ago:
What is the charge? Projecting an image? Projecting a succulent incriminating image?
- Comment on kalmodo dragon 2 months ago:
- Comment on UNDER THE THC 🎶 2 months ago:
Whether or not they feel pain is a huge ongoing debate
- Comment on UNDER THE THC 🎶 2 months ago:
Yeah especially because countries like Switzerland and New Zealand have banned the practice.
…cnn.com/…/switzerland-lobster-boiling-banned
Restaurants can use en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrustaStun for the most humane option
