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- Comment on In order to be allowed to drive, you don't just have to promise to pay if you hit someone, you have to pay in advance in case you hit someone 1 week ago:
So like self-insurance?
- Comment on Hacker Congress CCC talk by Cory Doctorow: 'A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet' 2 weeks ago:
TLDR: US forced everyone to pass anti-circumvention laws by threatening tariffs. Now that the US has unilaterally imposed tariffs on everyone, why ot repeal those laws?
- Comment on Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI 2 weeks ago:
Looks like the Times of India broke the original story based on Benioff’s podcast comments:
“According to CNBC, CEO Marc Benioff revealed in a podcast that Salesforce had trimmed its support workforce from 9,000 to about 5,000 people through AI deployment. The company later clarified that it had “successfully redeployed hundreds of [those] employees into other areas like professional services, sales, and customer success.”
- Comment on Where does the revenue gathered from taxes go and what is national debt? 2 weeks ago:
Have a look at this site, there are some good visualizations: usafacts.org/government-spending/
- Comment on Say, the country/countries you have citizenship in, decided to not want you anymore and threw you to some random "3rd world country", how do you survive? 3 weeks ago:
Learn to speak Canadian.
- Comment on Salt is very salty. Sugar is not that sweet. 4 weeks ago:
Put a teaspoon of salt in a glass of water and it is so salty you can barely sip it without gagging. Put a teaspoon of sugar in a glass of water and it is mildly sweet.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
How could this possibly be better than Netflix’s recommendation engine or even just asking chatgpt?
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 2 months ago:
Ok I see a lot if discussion on this topic but no one seems to have mentioned the main feature of the spec that makes them phishing resistant: presence detection. This is what makes FIDO resistant to credential replay. The spec is not perfect but it prevents most common phishing attacks.
- Comment on US Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router 2 months ago:
TP Link is just as bad at security as most other consumer electronics vendors:
- Comment on Space Harrier at 40: how Sega’s surreal classic brought total immersion to arcades in the 80s 2 months ago:
Love this game. One of the few retro games that is still fun to play today.
- Comment on Should we treat environmental crime more like murder? 2 months ago:
The real crime here is the corruption of our political system by wealthy corporations. They know the truth but deploy vast resources to spread doubt and uncertainty. Go read Merchants of Doubt about how the same scientists who spread doubt about the links of cancer to smoking have been deployed in the global warming debate.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt
This is fraud and corruption and is a crime. No need to invent a new system of justice.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 2 months ago:
That makes sense. It is interesting to read the original blog post from Wikimedia:
diff.wikimedia.org/…/new-user-trends-on-wikipedia…
and what they say you can do if you want to help:
“Active volunteers can further help meet this moment by working with Wikimedia Foundation teams to test out new experiences and tools on Wikipedia. As the internet changes rapidly, this is a moment to consider what parts of Wikipedia should change (and what parts should not), while staying true to the promise of human-centered, free knowledge for the world.
A specific area where volunteers can help is with our new readers teams. We welcome you to review the current experiments we are running and help us answer key questions about what will most help readers. Please join the readers teams on their talk page and sign up for their newsletter to share your thoughts and learn more about their work. We’ll also be reaching out to communities soon with both live and on-wiki ways to talk about these trends, and what they mean for the Wikimedia projects.”
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 2 months ago:
Every time someone visits Wikipedia they make exactly $0. In fact, it costs them money. Are people still contributing and/or donating? These seem like more important questions to me.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 2 months ago:
There is definitely a bubble. But also what Nvidia is doing is smart. They have boatloads of cash. They are investing that cash in the companies that are using their products to create money making services. If one of them can create a killer app or viable service this will create demand for their products and they will have an ownership stake in it. Is this guaranteed or even likely? Probably not. We have reached the point where we were in 1996 where the chairman of the fed came out and said we are in a period of “irrational exuberance.” That bubble took four more years to pop. This one may end quicker, but it is impossible to tell when it will end or what will come out of it from where we sit today.
- Comment on i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too 3 months ago:
Paw paws grow naturally in the area I live and are a delicious fruit. Due to cultivation and transport issues you will never find them in stores.
- Comment on Microsoft is endorsing the use of personal Copilot in workplaces, frustrating IT admins 3 months ago:
This is stupid. As an IT administrator a quick glance at my logs shows that everyone is using ChatGPT. No one cares about Copilot.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 3 months ago:
Plot twist: this is an ad campaign
- Comment on It's true 3 months ago:
Every morning when I discover some new pain, I feel like Khan exacting revenge, “From hell’s heart I stab at thee”
- Comment on same as it ever was 4 months ago:
- Comment on Frick 4 months ago:
Oh great, so the giant spiders will have oxygen tanks?
- Comment on Amazon Warns 220 Million Customers Of Prime Account Attacks 5 months ago:
Pieter Arntz, a malware intelligence researcher at Malwarebytes, has issued a timely July 16 reminder that “scammers are impersonating Amazon in a Prime membership scam.”
- Comment on Is there something like a spreadsheet for hierarchical data structures? 6 months ago:
So you can bring json into a spreadsheet as ling as you are cool with some if your cells containing multi-valued entries. The question is how do you want those multi valued fields to o be handled? How are they displayed? How would sorting and filtering on these fields work?
- Comment on How do you think early humans survived without water bottles? Did they just live next to water sources all the time? 6 months ago:
Humans sweat. It is one of our superpowers and enables endurance hunting. Anthropologists theorize that early humans would have had to have developed water carrying technologies for this to be viable. They study primitive hunter gathers who still practice endurance hunting and they use water skins during the hunt.
- Comment on The horns emoji is the hearts emoji for boys 7 months ago:
Rock horns. Shorthand for “that rocks” a more manly way to say I love that.
- Comment on The horns emoji is the hearts emoji for boys 7 months ago:
Thats great! I feel comfortable using the heart emoji with my wife and kids, but for co-workers it can be a little creepy depending in the circumstance. I started using the blue heart, but that just cause confusion. I found the horns conveyed the thought better without being creepy.
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- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
And a grandkid or two would be nice…
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 8 months ago:
So you’re saying the ad driven internet will die? And we will be left with what? Wikipedia and Lemmy? I for one welcome our AI overlords!
- Comment on China turns on ‘minors mode’ to keep kids safe online 8 months ago:
- Comment on China turns on ‘minors mode’ to keep kids safe online 8 months ago:
Sounds like screentime.
