voodooattack
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- Comment on Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation – OSnews 1 day ago:
Ah, the good stuff. Too early in the day for my fix though :P
- Comment on Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks 1 day ago:
“Reinforcement Learning From Advertiser Feedback”
That’s the gist of this century thus far, isn’t it? :P
- Comment on Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation – OSnews 2 days ago:
Not offended in the slightest. Their response already allayed my worries that it was someone from Reddit thinking karma farming works here.
I’m a big fan of Xkcd #1053 myself. ;)
- Comment on Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation – OSnews 2 days ago:
2025-09-18
What’s up with the old reposts today?
- Comment on Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks 2 days ago:
I read that back then and was wondering if there were any new developments. Looks like checking the comments always pays off.
- Comment on Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks 2 days ago:
Because it’s genuine? I dunno. That’s the vibe I got.
- Comment on Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea. 2 days ago:
What if we put it on Uranus though?
- Comment on Google catches Beijing spies using Sheets to spread espionage across 4 continents 5 days ago:
Damn. How long were those sheets?
- Comment on Unhinged... I'm gonna start doing that 6 days ago:
People who still use smilies: am I a joke to you? :D
- Comment on No More Neutral ⚛ 6 days ago:
What if it’s one extra neutron? >.>
- Comment on 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Palestinian social app Upscrolled removed from Google Play Store 2 weeks ago:
I’m aware. But it’s not just Palestine being censored, it’s currently anything the current U.S administration doesn’t like. So anything anti-trump/Zionist/Israel/ICE falls into this category.
I’m saying the title is misleading because it could be construed as “a social media app/platform specifically made for Palestinians”, which is what most people that haven’t heard of the app before would assume by reading the title alone.
- Comment on Palestinian social app Upscrolled removed from Google Play Store 2 weeks ago:
Clickbait? The developer is Palestinian/Australian, the app’s audience is global, and it’s not just Palestine-specific. So what’s up with the sensationalised title?
- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 2 weeks ago:
You guys don’t see what they’re scared shitless about? It’s the fear of an EU-based true open source Android fork/competitor.
Also when they say FOSS will not contribute to “economic growth”, they mean Alphabet’s. Greedy pigs.
- Comment on Well that sucks 4 weeks ago:
LEN(GTH)? (OH)MY… TINY.
- Comment on What if POOLS and SEVERANCE had a baby? IGN just posted my indie game trailer : ) 4 weeks ago:
It’s in the family of paradoxical/recursive humour I truly enjoy.
Kinda like: “I’m the humblest person on Earth!” and “You’re no true Novellist! You can’t exclaim about exclamations!”
- Comment on What if POOLS and SEVERANCE had a baby? IGN just posted my indie game trailer : ) 4 weeks ago:
Congrats!
My favourite part of that trailer:
YOU HAVE BEEN SELECTED TO VOLUNTEER…
I love it!
- Comment on AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast 4 weeks ago:
It was an honest misunderstanding and I asked for clarification before making any assumptions. So not that weird. :)
- Comment on AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast 4 weeks ago:
Oh god. And I thought Amazon’s Mechanical Turk was terrible…
How low can Bezos go? Wtf is wrong with this timeline
- Comment on AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast 4 weeks ago:
They were, factually, Indian.
Whom are you referring to? A specific group/project?
- Comment on AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast 4 weeks ago:
And how does being Indian specifically factor into this? 🤔
- Comment on AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast 4 weeks ago:
I find the concept of paper clips superior
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I write fiction and use Celsius. So what I usually have to deal with is the exact opposite of what you’re talking about.
- Comment on Your GF has always wanted to know the answer 5 weeks ago:
You guys don’t wash?
- Comment on A new cooling technology freezes food without warming the climate 5 weeks ago:
I was talking about cooling and a practical example of “working around the rules”.
As for refrigeration in particular: any similar mechanism can do this too. Example: if you can figure out a material that emits IR in the ballpark for that specific range of wavelengths, you can use it as an active shunt.
Also read somewhere before (not sure when or where tbh, but it might’ve been an old school 2000s forum discussion or something) about a way to possibly achieve it via phase change cooling at a molecular scale iirc. It wasn’t viable at the time and we made light of it, but with the material science advancements of today? Who knows. Maybe someone figured it out.
- Comment on A new cooling technology freezes food without warming the climate 5 weeks ago:
You don’t overcome thermodynamics, but you can work around them. For example:
When you cool something you take heat energy out of it you have to do something with that heat energy you can’t just delete it.
Or you can shunt it into space so that it doesn’t heat the atmosphere on its way out. That’s called radiative cooling and it’s brilliant.
And it can be done at home with household items. See Nighthawk’s YT channel for more info: youtu.be/N3bJnKmeNJY
And that’s just one out of many possible approaches. Interesting read: en.wikipedia.org/…/Reflective_surfaces_(climate_e…
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 5 weeks ago:
The average consumer doesn’t care because they already made the purchase. Most of them use whatever OS their machine comes preloaded with unless a more tech inclined friend offers alternatives.
The OEMs do the caring, because the OEMs are the ones with the choice. And they notice this shit. So when the average consumer is buying a new machine, they might be offered alternatives to Windows (already happening with some btw), and most customers will see an extra $200 (or whatever how much nowadays) next to the Windows license, and a flat $0 next to the other option: Linux.
Now the filter is reversed, and only the ones who aren’t paying attention (assuming Windows is the default during check out) or actively want Windows will be paying for it
The savvier ones may even wonder what the difference is, and do some research to understand it, and those ones will buy it knowing exactly what they’re getting into. Some will say “I’ll just pick the free OS and install Windows for free”, but even if they decide that, they may decide to boot it up first out of curiosity.
And that’s what really matters: the exposure. Because people talk.
- Comment on Lawks 1 month ago:
Not the OP of this post. The OOP of thatscreenshot on whatever platform they used. It probably didn’t originate here.
The fact it got here is evidence enough that the propagation strategy is viable, and the fact it won’t spread as effectively here (but it still can if people decide to manually repost/share and spread it to other communities or platforms) does not contradict that.
- Comment on Lawks 1 month ago:
The overzealous censorship is possibly a feature not a bug. Done deliberately by the OP to ragebait people who find it disagreeable for a free engagement boost.
The meme/trend wouldn’t be so ubiquitous right now if it weren’t so successful at its own self-propagation, because it’s being naturally selected for.
- Comment on ai generated logo 1 month ago:
I wonder that what prompt this person (or more likely: asshole) wrote to get such deliciously malicious (but still technically compliant) result.