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- Comment on How Tariffs Will Skyrocket Electronics Prices - IEEE Spectrum 3 days ago:
Just stamp this comment on every c/community post.
But seriously, how does Linux save you money on laptop tarrifs?
- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 5 days ago:
“It’s dirty. Why did you deliver it dirty?”
- Comment on Instagram is using AI to find teens lying about their age and restricting their accounts 5 days ago:
“It was too expensive to have these safety protocols in place in the past.”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Why is this a screenshot and not a link to the website?
- Comment on TLS Certificate Lifetimes Will Officially Reduce to 47 Days 1 week ago:
Exactly. Setting up Let’s Encrypt is really easy, and once it’s set up, you don’t have to think about it.
That’s what I thought. And now I need to figure out how to update it for 47 day cycles.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
I’m not an expert on how activity pub works, but you’re saying if I had an account on mastodon.social, and if they took down a post on my @user@mastodon.social account, regardless of takedown reason, it would still be visible from other instances?
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
Wouldn’t your “home” server in an activity pub network always be subject to such requests?
- Comment on Metro 2033 Redux is free to claim on GOG for the next two days 1 week ago:
I feel like I’ve been slowly building a free collection of Metro games on all platforms for a decade now.
Someday I’ll play one.
- Comment on I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses — here’s what happened 1 week ago:
Makes me wonder what the onboarding/indoctrination process is.
Is anyone there actually happy, or proud of their writing? Are they actually all just marketing people cosplaying as writers, so they are proud?
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 weeks ago:
What do the gambling markets say?
- Comment on Gunkroad: The creator-economy service Gumroad decided to open-source its platform at a suspiciously convenient time. (And even “open source” might be stretching it.) 2 weeks ago:
I hate that assholes are in charge of everything.
- Comment on Microsoft has created an AI-generated version of Quake, playable in browser. 2 weeks ago:
Unavailable on Mobile
This feature is not available on mobile devices.
Still no AGI I see.
- Comment on LunaSea is no longer being published and all related cloud services (including notifications) will be shut down in the near future 3 weeks ago:
Legasea
- Comment on The case against conversational interfaces « julian.digital 3 weeks ago:
Quicksilver is the original one of these apps. And it appears it predates all of those (launchy, etc)
I prefer Alfred these days myself.
You can even do similar with just Spotlight on macOS and the Start Menu in Windows 10+.
- Comment on The case against conversational interfaces « julian.digital 3 weeks ago:
“Do this, do that, and read between the lines!”
- Comment on Cheapskate's Guide: Nuking web-scraping bots 3 weeks ago:
That last bit looks like something you should send off to a place like 404 media.
- Comment on Corning’s new Apple-like ceramic glass might save your next phone from disaster 4 weeks ago:
They finally cracked it?
- Comment on ChatGPT's viral Studio Ghibli-style images highlight AI copyright concerns 4 weeks ago:
It’s so good at it. To the point where I assume they must have fed the model the bulk of whole movies.
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 4 weeks ago:
skype!
- Comment on DOJ renews call for Google to sell Chrome, and Android could be next 4 weeks ago:
And hopefully the cost burden of federated video hosting evaporates.
- Comment on Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? 4 weeks ago:
If it finally time for Some Boar News again? It’s been awhile.
- Comment on Bigscreen Announces the Beyond 2 VR Headset 5 weeks ago:
Yup, they are targeting people deep into the PCVR ecosystem. Index owners are their ideal customers. And now, people who previously purchased an Index and a Beyond.
- Comment on How Three Alleged Tesla Vandals Got Caught 5 weeks ago:
The police are here to protect the owner class.
- Comment on TikTok to start pushing Amber Alerts(missing child notifications) to American users’ For You feeds. 5 weeks ago:
I’m surprised it doesn’t have a TikTok logo watermark. Looks really strange.
- Comment on Apple TV+ is losing $1B+ annually even as its subscriptions grew to ~45M in 2024; Apple has spent $5B+ per year on content since its 2019 debut. 5 weeks ago:
Good content is expensive. And from what I understand, the financials are all fucked up across the industry.
Just look at Netflix, they just blew $320 million on a huge piece of garbage, The Electric State.
- Comment on Substack open source rival Ghost is now connected to the fediverse 5 weeks ago:
Isn’t ghost more of a Wordpress alternative?
- Comment on A Reddit moderation tool is flagging ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent content 1 month ago:
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 1 month ago:
What’s a glowie? 🤔
- Comment on Trump tariffs threaten the future of physical video games, analyst warns 1 month ago:
PC Master Race
- Comment on Kevin Rose, Alexis Ohanian acquire Digg 1 month ago:
Wow, I was confused who it was at first.
