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- Comment on ‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago? 7 hours ago:
Ron Williams, a former Secret Service agent who is now CEO of the security and risk management firm Talon Companies
Ah life really does imitate art
- Comment on Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 2 weeks ago:
The Register has been referring to Google as The Chocolate Factory for almost 10 years. As of why, probably because of google’s confectionary named Android releases, which they stopped at Android 10
- Comment on Sadam Hussein is everywhere 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Sadam Hussein is everywhere 2 weeks ago:
Not to worry, you have other fascist leaders in mech form like:
And if you want a figuring you can find one of these somewhere
- 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:
We just don’t have to listen to the hype about it anymore.
True, it’s now in most circles just been mixed in as a commodity to trade on. Though I wish everyone would get that. There’s still plenty of idiots with .eth usernames who think there’s some new boon to be made. The only “apps” built on crypto networks were and are purely for trading crypto, I’ve never seen any real tangible benefit to society come out of it. It’s still used plenty for money laundering, but regulators are (slowly) catching up. And it’s still by far the easiest way to demonstrate what happens to unregulated markets.
- Comment on Wink wink 3 weeks ago:
Well that’s what the safety meeting is for, planning on being safe when the family reacts badly
- Comment on No excuse 3 weeks ago:
“It doesn’t matter how many lanes the highway has. I’ll cut through all of them to get to my family.”
- Comment on No excuse 4 weeks ago:
and another, related wild take. you can miss an exit or a turn and keep going straight. it may take longer to get where you’re going, and it may be frustrating, but it’s safer and better than cutting people off
- Comment on How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/ 4 weeks ago:
Everyone has a spot on the big food pyramid of the socio-political hierarchy. Good, smart, and hardworking people of merit make their way to the top. Bad, dumb, and lazy people go to the bottom. For convenience sake, this hierarchy is color-coded. In a zero-sum world, everyone who gets to the top has to knock someone down a rung to make room.
I would argue this is how republican voters think. That they’re in the right because they are voting for the right of the individual. But on the other hand I think Republican policy makers give zero shits about a person’s self worth and actualization but rather they know that they need to feed the machine and we need the poor babies born to do so, and on the other hand they can demonstrate some form of moral high ground by deciding life and death.
There’s no death penalty for defrauding elections, molding the healthcare (or really any corporate) system to work for harm and profit, avoiding taxation through infinite shell companies and offshore bank accounts. Those things are celebrated as “beating the system”
Still to this day everyone that claims “Plandemic” is chasing some invisible elite power structure that somehow only includes democrats, without ever getting mad at the corporations that profited immensely off developing covid vaccines and charging market price for them as a portion of the world was dying.
- Comment on Server dealer keeps hitting at Elon Musk for $61 million bill — Wiwynn sues X for unpaid IT infrastructure products 4 weeks ago:
“The components used to build the products are largely unique to the products, resulting in long lead times for ordering such component parts from suppliers,” and Twitter must give “written approval for Wiwynn to purchase the necessary components to manufacture the customer products…and expressly assumed liabilities for the procurement costs.”
So basically they were got bespoke servers that are great for Twitter, custom designed, and definitely aren’t easy to just resell elsewhere, so because Twitter isn’t paying they’re IT company is eating the loss right now
- Comment on Octopus 1 month ago:
- Comment on [Cory Doctorow] With An Audacious Plan To Halt The Internet’s Enshittification And Throw It Into Reverse 1 month ago:
Yeah this feels like a “no true Scot” fallacy to me, where anything he says should be invalid because of his wife’s position, which is false
- Comment on How come the US does not put a bounty on Putin like they did Bin Laden? 1 month ago:
Yeah he basically can go to China and North Korea, which, surprise, are also swimming in trade deals by providing fuel and military supplies
- Comment on How come the US does not put a bounty on Putin like they did Bin Laden? 1 month ago:
Can you explain? I’m unsure what you mean by this
- Comment on How come the US does not put a bounty on Putin like they did Bin Laden? 1 month ago:
But even NATO doesn’t like it if some nation goes above and beyond, provoking hostilities from the US means potential unwanted conflict from others, and the nations supplying oil and / or weapons to Russia feel the same way. The world is a big shitty political stage where every time an actor moves people die
- Comment on Counterfeit PS1 Games Are All Over AliExpress 1 month ago:
I imagine if the legacy silicon hardware is straight from the factory the shape of the plastic doesn’t really matter too much
In all seriousness, afaik not unless they can replicate the wobble groove pressed into the discs, which is possible if they can press their own discs in bulk, but probably more expensive than it’s worth unless they are selling a ton of these
- Comment on Cereal 1 month ago:
I mean, it depends on how pure your ketamine is
- Comment on Cereal 1 month ago:
It’s generally become my opinion that unless I’m eating unsweetened muesli with a splash of milk pretty much every cereal except unsweetened cheerios is bad for me
- Comment on The three little pigs is actually just the aristocracy blaming the poor for their problems 1 month ago:
No no you don’t understand. Every children’s story is about beating your competition in the market and how regulation doesn’t actually support competition because it’s on you to analyze and prepare for market forces. Also my billion dollar vehicle company is failing because I didn’t properly prepare, I’m gonna need a major government bailout
- Comment on Mozilla exits the fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
Most large scale open source projects at this point are funded by somebody. usually because they have benefit to an enterprise somewhere. But I don’t know if an alternative browser really provides much enterprise support anywhere, sadly.
- Comment on Mozilla exits the fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
Probably the $500 million or so that Google pays them every year
- Comment on A Twitter-like app where you are the only actual user and every other "user" is an AI bot. 1 month ago:
Based on my experience with Twitter, having joined the platform very early on in 2008, and since deleted my account 5 years ago or so, that’s exactly it now. 90% of posts on Twitter are by those looking for self validation rather than anything really constructive. The blue checkmarks don’t matter, the “community context” or whatever hasn’t lead to any change. It’s wild that the way to defeat Twitter, which is to get off Twitter, is something few are doing.
- Comment on Boeing offers staff 25% pay hike in bid to avoid strike 2 months ago:
Right, Grocery prices for example have increased by 25 percent over the past four years, outpacing overall inflation of 19 percent during the same period
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 2 months ago:
Yeah there was a long time ago when conservatives voted to protect national parks. These aren’t those times
- Comment on San Francisco says ‘good riddance’ as X prepares to leave 2 months ago:
Considering how many Bay Area tech workers with zero morals leave cali for Texas purely for lower taxes and how Texas loves that, I’m sure they do
- Comment on Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team 2 months ago:
Agreed. I feel like it would make the most sense to just have a generic QT target, but that’s a licensing nightmare. Otherwise they’ll probably target GTK 4, which would still draw ire from some of the linux community lol
- Comment on That's a big burger 2 months ago:
You can’t fool me, those are just the cookie monster’s eyes
- Comment on Oh no! I dropped (5£ to) Anna's Archives. Beware the mess, people. 2 months ago:
I know this is a helpful community, but it looks like the biggest scam site of all time lol
- Comment on Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team 2 months ago:
I think they do in the enterprise hosting / software dev world, which is the reason for so much effort being poured into WSL, but for standard client applications or the “average user” switching to Linux I agree
- Comment on Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team 2 months ago:
Yup, what they needed from Xamarin was absorbed into .NET and now that have MAUI for cross platform stuff, it was either sunset mono or give it to someone else
