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- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 2 days ago:
Always, always default to the simplest answer being the most likely to be true. In context, the government is too incompetent to manage such a thing.
- Comment on The one tool more effective than censorship is noise 2 days ago:
True—Trump is obviously a Russian agent based on a wealth of evidence. At best, he is making decisions that mirror Russian goals, at worst, he’s directed.
- Comment on The one tool more effective than censorship is noise 2 days ago:
This is what Russia did in the 90s onward. No one knows what the truth is anymore and it has made it impossible to get everyone behind a unified cause such as ousting Putin.
It is not a coincidence that the same thing is happening here. Russia has long failed to compete with western democracies, especially economically, and has found success in undermining them as they have their own people. This makes them easier to control, to weaken, and ultimately, defeat.
- Comment on ChatGPT is down for many users in major OpenAI outage - 9to5Mac 3 days ago:
That icon looks like a stylized asshole.
- Comment on You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift 3 days ago:
Enjoying Bazzite.
- Comment on Sony Patents System to Generate AI Podcasts in the Voices of Your Favorite PlayStation Characters - IGN 3 days ago:
On today’s Worst Idea in the WoOoOoRrRrLlLDdD
- Comment on Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ? 1 week ago:
Right, but you wouldn’t put a former heroin addicts in this position. The optics alone are sure to cause trust issues and this guy is nowhere close to being qualified to run HHS.
- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 2 weeks ago:
You can’t argue with cultists.
- Comment on AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns 2 weeks ago:
Businessman warns attempt at creating profit engine out of mass piracy may fail if people don’t cooperate
- Comment on RetroDECK 0.10.0b Is a Ground-Up Rewrite, Not Just an Update 2 weeks ago:
I built a Steam PC not too long ago. I’ll give this a shot.
- Comment on Bluesky just verified ICE 2 weeks ago:
Yeap. This is a provocative, reactive take that doesn’t consider much.
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 3 weeks ago:
Someone will have to let me know because I’m not wasting my time there. I’m going to keep wasting my time here. It’s a fantastic waste of time
- Comment on JPEG-XL Image Support Returns To Latest Chrome / Chromium Code 3 weeks ago:
Can someone ELI5? I read the article. 🙃
- Comment on Leaked Windows 11 Feature Shows Copilot Moving Into File Explorer 3 weeks ago:
To the top. History is repeating itself.
- Comment on The singular they is actually such a natural part of the English language, the people complaining about it almost certainly use it without noticing 3 weeks ago:
They don’t now what they talkin bout
- Comment on Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage" 3 weeks ago:
Damn tootin.
- Comment on Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI 3 weeks ago:
According to Huang, considering the potential existential risks of unleashing AI on society may do more harm than good. “It’s not helpful. It’s not helpful to people. It’s not helpful to the industry. It’s not helpful to society. It’s not helpful to the governments,” he said. He particularly took issue with other people in the industry going to the government and asking for regulation and mandatory safeguards. “You have to ask yourself, you know, what is the purpose of that narrative and what are their intentions,” he asked rhetorically. “Why are they talking to governments about these things to create regulations to suffocate startups?”
You don’t have to ask yourself that because it’s common sense. He’s being disingenuous about AI’s potential to harm society, and stating the intent is to suffocate startups…they’re not making a new instant messaging client. I want to smack him upside the head.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Discord in discussions of going Public Trading, economics expert discusses how that might change things 3 weeks ago:
ICQ
- Comment on we need more users 3 weeks ago:
Which wasn’t the case early on, from my experience. Instead, when Lemmy had its first big boom it was filled with people looking for a non-toxic, real conversation. I still find that to be the case in replies, but my front page tends to be filled with stories where commenters are dissimilar to Reddit, less intellectual responses and more edgy hyperbole.
Seriously though, the people responding to political posts with thinly veiled calls to harm or kill political leaders need to be banned on the spot. Absolutely intolerable.
- Comment on we need more users 3 weeks ago:
I’ve seen a rise in calls to violence. This is not cool.
- Comment on we need more users 3 weeks ago:
I could not find Jerboa in the App Store. I use Voyager. We need Lemmy.
- Comment on we need more users 3 weeks ago:
I’m happy to promote it. I tried to get a few non-technical people to check it out. They felt it was too complicated. I’ve shared it with tech friends and coworkers who use Reddit. They’re aware of Lemmy to varying degrees, and are not enthused about moving to another platform despite hating Reddit.
I think it’s because despite Lemmy being a great alternative, it is more complicated and lacks the user base that users of other social media platforms have.
Bluesky is marginally more complicated than Twitter, but compared to Mastodon it is user friendly. Bluesky worked to create a dedicated, easy to use app that most users use.
Bluesky existed for a while before experiencing explosive growth. This occurred during moments of controversy with X. Bluesky capitalized on these moments, with champions on both platforms that led their followers to change, and there were mechanisms in place to bootstrap a user’s feed with the followers and topics that they had in the other place.
I think Lemmy needs to follow this model. There needs to be a Lemmy app that has a user experience as similar as possible with the Reddit app. It also needs champions that have main stream recognition (George Takei, Mark Hamill, etc.) that can be willing to make noise about switching from Reddit to Lemmy when the next controversy occurs. Repeat with more and more promotion by this evangelists, and Lemmy could grow.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 4 weeks ago:
Lucky.
I’ve been subject to enterprise Microsoft products for so long.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 4 weeks ago:
We’re…never going to say any of that. It’s Microsoft 365, or 365 for short. Even that sounds stupid. Office is what people understand, 365 always requires explaining.
MS is so exhausting.
- Comment on Does smelling your food while you cook it make it taste bland? 4 weeks ago:
After preparing the meal, step outside for five minutes. Come back in, eat. Food will taste closer to having it prepared for you.
- Comment on YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole. 4 weeks ago:
Channel 5 News needs to get on a plane.
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 4 weeks ago:
This is, sadly, how it seems to be. Both he and Hakeem Jeffries seem to obstruct real opposition from the Democratic Party against Trump and the Right in any meaningful way.
- Comment on Being afraid of vaccines is literally childish behavior. 5 weeks ago:
I disagree. While it’s frustrating that people believe politicians and talk show hosts over scientists, it’s reasonable to fear something you don’t understand. What’s immature is a lack of critical thinking which much of the population seems to exhibit by choosing to listen to others or, in doing fact finding, allow for confirmation bias.
This statement is not helpful. If we’re looking to increase the number of people getting vaccinated, shame or embarrassment will likely lower that number further. People have a fear of making the wrong decision. If you share with them that you’ve been vaccinated and leave it at that, that’s someone real who has contradicted the narrative they subscribe to. If they respect you as a role model, they may change their behavior.
- Comment on NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions 1 month ago:
I can’t recall why, but I was tired of 3DFX. I think they had a monopoly on 3D acceleration or something, and at the time OpenGL seemed like the way to go. An unknown company called Nvidia released a card called the Riva TNT and it contributed to OpenGL becoming widely supported as well as ending 3DFX’s once deserved dominance.
Nvidia kept hitting it out of the park, creating iterations of cards that made it worthwhile to upgrade every several years. I think the competition from ATI (now AMD) may have kept them from falling into the same rut as 3DFX, and as gamers we’ve enjoyed the result of that relationship with good cards from both.
Today…Nvidia has grown into something that had shed its reason for being. It’s crazy to see their logo in business news top stories. What they’re doing, contributing to a tech development that is so far out front of government oversight that could protect people from the consequences, I see them more as a threat to society than anything else. It’s crazy.
