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- Comment on 'End of 10' to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux 2 hours ago:
So many use cases! I’m giving an old NUC to a kid at work who’s learning Linux. Jesus, the kid bought a copy of Linux from “the best/most-famous hacker in the world!”. We had a come-to-Jesus talk about that horseshit.
- Comment on 'End of 10' to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux 2 hours ago:
No lie. We play this game every 7 years or so. I was training on a Win10 machine at work yesterday. Think they’re updating that? Nah. Hell, it probably could take an 11 upgrade and they haven’t bothered. Why? It’s a locked down machine. And if IT don’t care, home users certainly won’t.
- Comment on Lady Gaga bomb plot: Thwarted plan lifts veil on the gamification of hate and gendered nature of online radicalization 14 hours ago:
Who you callin’ an aglet, pal?
- Comment on Google restores Nextcloud user’s file access on Android 14 hours ago:
If they’re the sort of users who find such hoops restrictive, do you really want them installing shit willy-nilly?
- Comment on The Home Depot tax at work! 1 day ago:
I work at Lowe’s and am stunned at what people buy there. In the garden area, why would you count on Lowe’s to have sod?! Go to a fucking sod place if you want more than a few pieces. People pay stunning amounts of money for bags of various rocks when they can go down the road and pay 1/4 that at, guess what, the fucking rock place.
We’re a big box store for FFS. We’re not the best or cheapest at anything, we just carry it all.
- Comment on Every post in Ye Power Tripping Bastards 1 day ago:
This still has me giggling after 3 months.
- Comment on AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented 1 day ago:
ChatGPT:
You’re absolutely right to be concerned — this is a real and growing problem. We’re not just dealing with misinformation anymore; we’re dealing with the weaponization of information systems themselves. Bad actors leveraging AI to flood conversations with plausible-sounding nonsense don’t just muddy the waters — they actively erode public trust in expertise, evidence, and even the concept of shared reality.
The Trump-era hostility to science and the manipulation or deletion of research data was a wake-up call. Combine that with AI tools capable of producing endless streams of polished but deceptive content, and you’ve got a serious threat to how people form beliefs.
It’s not just about arguing with trolls — it’s about the long-term impact on institutions, education, and civic discourse. If knowledge can be drowned in noise, or replaced with convincing lies, then we’re facing an epistemic crisis. The solution has to be multi-pronged: better media literacy, transparency in how AI systems are trained and used, stronger platforms with actual accountability, and a reassertion of the value of human expertise and peer review.
This isn’t fear-mongering. It’s a call to action — because if we care about truth, we can’t afford to ignore the systems being built to undermine it.
- Comment on quick health tip 1 day ago:
I got this pic of you in my head and giggled.
- Comment on A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them 1 day ago:
NOW you’re getting it.
- Comment on USDA Reverses Course, Commits to Restore Purged Climate Webpages in Response to Farmers’ Lawsuit 2 days ago:
The US, and now MAGA, have historically been willing to play with a great many loaded guns. And we’ve shot ourselves in the foot a great many times. Dead soldiers? Meh. But fucking with our food supply has always been off the table.
Not to get all lemmy/capitalist/communist/revolution/comrade on ya, but as long as we’re fat and happy, no violence. The government is not stupid, not at that level anyway. Look how the government laid in food during the Cold War, converted us to a food exporter, fucked with Russia’s wheat exports. The powers that be are keenly aware that the population is a very short 3-days away from total breakdown.
How many people voted Trump because egg prices were too high? Serious question. How many ignorant voters thought, “This is some boolshit! This is the President’s fault and I want change!”
Now imagine us fat Americans skipping a single meal. FFS, we rioted over a toilet paper shortage, and made it worse by rioting. Merely inconveniencing an armed population who has always had access to cheap and easy food? The mind boggles. Wait till we see empty consumer goods shelves in the next couple of months. Imagine if that was food.
- Comment on FBI opens inquiry into 764, online group that sexually exploits and encourages minors to self-harm 2 days ago:
The modern FBI has been plenty apolitical. 01/06 was the largest investigation they had ever deployed. While they’re still cops at some level, they seem to be professionals above all else.
OTOH, with Patel at the head, I’m sure the poison is running deeper and deeper.
- Comment on Brooklyn electronics company Adafruit hit with surprise $36K tariff bill: "pay in one week" 2 days ago:
Grateful you’ve written all this, and I read every word and upvoted every post.
If you’re not American, you sure know our history!
Maybe I missed it, but again, give out fluctuating politics, why would anyone build factories here? If we had a hard line on tariffs, were willing to eat the short term pain, and stuck with it, I can see results. Looking at it from a capitalist’s point of view, all I see is wild risk, better to hold my cards for now.
- Comment on Spoon 2 days ago:
That’s 100s of dollars worth on eBay right now!
- Comment on What would it mean for the world if America was confident they developed a technology that would act as a fool prove deterrent from nuclear attacks what would that mean for the rest of the world? 3 days ago:
OP’s learning what we kids knew in the 80s.
War is just another game,
Tailor made for the insane,
But make a threat of their annihilation,
And nobody wants to play,
If that’s the only thing that keeps the peace,
[Chorus] Then thank God for the bomb!
- Comment on "I JUST SAT DOWN" 4 days ago:
My ex! Kept saying we didn’t need an heir and a spare. One afternoon, between my surgeries, she grabbed me, “I’m ovulating”.
One shot through the engine block. And that’s what I’ll tell his big sister when the time comes. Yes, you can get pregnant the first time.
- Comment on doctors 4 days ago:
I can’t blame doctors for letting obesity color their opinion. Look around your doctor’s waiting room. Everyone is fat. Imagine the suffering and illness they see daily due to fat. How can those observations not color their general attitude?
- Comment on There should be something like a flea market where hobby gardeners go to share sprouted seeds 4 days ago:
Not sure I’ve been to a farmer’s market where no one is selling young plants.
I think OP is looking for a more informal meetup kinda deal.
- Comment on There should be something like a flea market where hobby gardeners go to share sprouted seeds 4 days ago:
Of course there’s a fee, running the thing isn’t 100% free. Probably about $20?
- Comment on Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE 5 days ago:
IBM supplied Nazis with the machines and punch cards to track the population. Throwing that out there for no particular reason. What where we talking about?
- Comment on It would be fire if Anonymous hacked ICE 5 days ago:
I want the names and addresses of the fucking foot soldiers. I can’t fight some asshole listed by Epstein or the Panama Papers. I can get eyes on local gestapo.
- Comment on Brooklyn electronics company Adafruit hit with surprise $36K tariff bill: "pay in one week" 5 days ago:
Here’s the rub, and you said it: The tariffs may not last and our politics come in 4-year intervals. Who in their right mind is going to build factories here given the outrageous risk?
Also, not sure what you’re on about with America not being able to defend itself? Chinese rare earth export bans?
- Comment on Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE 5 days ago:
IBM supplied Nazis with the machines and punch cards to track the population. Throwing that out there for no particular reason. What where we talking about?
- Comment on xkcd #3087: Pascal's Law 5 days ago:
I drive a forklift every day at work and an stunned, every day, at the physics of hydraulic pressure. Need a couple thousand pounds of bricks 30’ in the air? No problem.
- Comment on American Popemobile? 6 days ago:
Is this AI? There is some shit don’t make sense.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Monstrous.
- Comment on Things at Tesla are worse than they appear 6 days ago:
Nailed it. I’d add that investors are treating it as a meme stock, and as you said, it’s unrealistic. Fuck me, talk about a house of cards.
- Comment on Things at Tesla are worse than they appear 6 days ago:
Airlines run on paper-thin margins and are critical to the economy and country as a whole. Yeah, we kinda have to keep them afloat. Tesla does not enjoy that sort of role.
- Comment on Things at Tesla are worse than they appear 6 days ago:
Be of good cheer! That kinda market valuation doesn’t disappear overnight, just too much money to piss away quickly. But our man Musk is on the case!
And you’ll love this, Musk is committing the ultimate capitalist sin: Losing money. No problem going in the red, if your business plans aren’t made of half-ply toilet paper and ghosts. LOL, even Trump will shit on him as soon as it’s clear that Elon is a “loser”.
- Comment on We have reached the “severed fingers and abductions” stage of the crypto revolution - Ars Technica 6 days ago:
NOPE. Do not tell your family and friends. Everyone should read this, just in case. Besides, it’s fascinating.
- Comment on Found a brand new, unused Pong console from 1979 in an Edinburgh charity shop for 20£ 1 week ago:
Was it meant to run on an NTSC TV?
