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- Comment on Apple Offers Apps With Ties to Chinese Military. 2 days ago:
Socialism means censuring criticism of the government? Since when?
- Comment on Apple Offers Apps With Ties to Chinese Military. 3 days ago:
No, that’s communism, brother
A socialist government only needs to provide a safety net. The censorship and government control is straight up Soviet shit
- Comment on Apple Offers Apps With Ties to Chinese Military. 4 days ago:
Let’s not get it twisted, any Chinese company is tightly controlled by the government.
- Comment on Global foldable smartphone shipments increased by just 2.9% YoY in 2024, and shipments are expected to decline by about 4% YoY in 2025. 4 days ago:
When you need to read a Wikipedia table but it’s way too big for the phone screen without scrolling sideways or zooming so far you can’t read it
- Comment on Global foldable smartphone shipments increased by just 2.9% YoY in 2024, and shipments are expected to decline by about 4% YoY in 2025. 4 days ago:
Because the front screen on my pixel fold is actually smaller
- Comment on Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025 4 days ago:
Yet the performance basically peaked already. They are doing 15% increases at the top end and less for the cheapest phones.
- Comment on mwbml, a search engine where the results are community ranked, has indexed 1 billion pages. 2 weeks ago:
(2023)
- Comment on DoorDash will let users buy now, pay later for fast food, a possible worrying sign for the economy 2 weeks ago:
They can’t afford food or they can’t afford a taxi for their burrito?
- Comment on People say they prefer stories written by humans over AI-generated works, yet new study suggests that’s not quite true 2 weeks ago:
Oh, so there are authors that never read a story before and just made it up in their heads?
There is no real difference between AI and humans in respect to borrowing elements from other stories.
AI stories may be lacking in some respects, but you can’t tell me human stories don’t recycle the same tropes
- Comment on People say they prefer stories written by humans over AI-generated works, yet new study suggests that’s not quite true 2 weeks ago:
Human stories are also plagiarized
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 4 weeks ago:
Stock buybacks are just more tax-efficient dividends. Both return value to the shareholders, but buybacks only realize the gains for the shareholders that want to sell some stock.
If they were illegal companies would issue more dividends
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 4 weeks ago:
It’s free because you’re the product
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 4 weeks ago:
No, not until you embrace open source software. It was always going to be enshittified. Just a matter of time
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 4 weeks ago:
[Buy Turbo to unlock on all servers]
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 4 weeks ago:
Because I don’t care to set up a bot that monitors what is being said while I’m offline. Matrix is actually better, though
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 4 weeks ago:
Oh, it can get a lot worse
- Comment on DuckDuckGo is amping up its AI search tool but will still let you leave it behind 4 weeks ago:
It’s actually better than Google’s search results which are SEO spam
- Comment on Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers with smaller user bases 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s fine as long as you don’t block legitimate users. For example, when I use a VPN a lot of sites block me. Even when my actual IP is banned when I’m in China (4chan range bans Chinese IPs) or the website is blocked in China.
- Comment on Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers with smaller user bases 4 weeks ago:
Ever heard of counting attempts? Log the IP, present a CAPTCHA after 100 requests in a minute.
Besides, if I wrote a bot I would run a browser dialer from Chrome. It would request your site in a Chrome tab and appear completely legitimate to your stupid fingerprinting scripts
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 4 weeks ago:
By that logic everyone should buy a foldable
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 4 weeks ago:
I bought a pixel fold because the screen on the front is small and it opens in a wide format when I need to look at tables
- Comment on Meta admits Instagram error flooded Reels with violent and pornographic content 5 weeks ago:
Terrible, horrifying. But what kind of porn? Where would I go to see it to verify this?
- Comment on Italy to require VPN and DNS providers to block pirated content 1 month ago:
I’ll stop combining them when Tor can punch through the censorship in this country
- Comment on AI Killed The Tech Interview. Now What? 1 month ago:
I probably wouldn’t, because I call a library to do it for me. That’s because I’m not a C programmer and it’s easy to use libraries in other languages since they have package managers that just import all the other packages
- Comment on Perplexity open sources R1 1776, a version of the DeepSeek R1 model that CEO Aravind Srinivas says has been “post-trained to remove the China censorship”. 1 month ago:
I’m talking about the example texts
- Comment on Huawei's tri-foldable phone hits global markets in a show of defiance amid US curbs 1 month ago:
Call me when the phone folds into an origami swan
- Comment on Perplexity open sources R1 1776, a version of the DeepSeek R1 model that CEO Aravind Srinivas says has been “post-trained to remove the China censorship”. 1 month ago:
What part is highly critical of China? Facts can’t be critical
- Comment on Did UCLA Just Cure Baldness? 1 month ago:
It reversed hair loss for me, I used to have a bald spot and I don’t have one anymore.
- Comment on Did UCLA Just Cure Baldness? 1 month ago:
Finasteride effectively cured male pattern balding already. It’s safe and effective, the only downside is that you need to keep taking it
- Comment on Pixelfed's first plateau in progress 1 month ago:
The entire app could be a snap to set up
I refuse to use snaps