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- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 3 days ago:
Well no, just the largest ones who can pay some fine or have nearly endless legal funds to discourage challenges to their practice, this bring a form of a pretend business moat. The average company won’t be able to and will get shredded.
- Comment on 🐌 Slow Software for a Burning World 🔥 4 days ago:
Thank you for sharing. I feel like this is the first fediverse exploration I’ve had the energy for since coming over in the Reddit exodus.
Can someone explain how this can/would work for a Lemmy user? They talk about federation, would that be just within this bonfire platform where anyone can put a website and social media to connect via their goals and aims and structure or could this connect to Lemmy somehow, or would that require an integration between bonfire and Lemmy? How would instances of bonfire decide whether to connect or federate with Lemmy or vice versa?
- Comment on Skype was shut down for good today 1 week ago:
While also completely missing the boat on the potential of graphics cards and watching Nvidia and even AMD become massively more relevant in recent years.
- Comment on Skype was shut down for good today 1 week ago:
And then, to bring us full circle to OP, Microsoft made it’s strategic acquisition of Nokia 😂 theverge.com/…/microsoft-nokia-acquisition-costs
- Comment on Skype was shut down for good today 1 week ago:
Hey, RIM/Blackberry’s CEO went to mobile world Congress in 2010, 3 solid YEARS after the iPhone launched, was dominating and defining the smartphone world and said, “we feel touchscreen is not the future of mobile phones” and rolled out another hybrid touch/keyboard model like the 5 they already had
Blackberry was $150/share as of 2009 with the entire world in front of it. It’s now worth $3.59/share.
- Comment on Skype was shut down for good today 1 week ago:
Teams(s)
- Comment on Skype was shut down for good today 1 week ago:
- Comment on Seattle Sets the Stage for Automatic Traffic Camera Expansion - The Urbanist 1 week ago:
Yeah, that at least can be systematically identified and corrected; the bias and also inaccuracy of judgement of current human officers seems far worse and when combined with the fact non-vehicular safety is seen as a low priority or completely ignored, getting to “good” for safety of non-vehicular traffic is life and death. A few tickets that get waived, or in my city, Portland Oregon, a citizen sued to prove the cameras inaccurate where they were and won vs. engineers, is a small price to pay vs. the current state of zero enforcement and bodies littering crosswalks and cyclists mown down in “bike lanes”.
- Comment on Seattle Sets the Stage for Automatic Traffic Camera Expansion - The Urbanist 1 week ago:
Right; I’m considering requesting cameras in my city to protect crosswalks, pedestrians and cyclists as none of the laws are currently enforced in any meaningful way. One of the most cost-reasonable, effective ways to do that would be to have automatic cameras but the lecherous vendors that want 20-30% of the cut and authoritarian state are two massive concerns I have that make me, at the cost of my own daily safety, hesitant to call this stuff out.
- Comment on U.S. Secretary of Commerce says the ‘new model’ is factory jobs for life—for you, your kids, and your grandkids 1 week ago:
Just like the IRS, these are strategically deranged/under-funded and understaffed by conservatives and their oligarchy backers. 99% of trump voters if you asked them if they want to be physically protected in their workplace would say they want their company regulated by an enforcement body, but if you ask them if they like big government, their brainwashing will say no.
Democrats are deliberately bad at branding because they’re beholden to oligarchs as well. Progressives, who badly want to fight for these common sense things have been squeezed out due to concentration of election power, e.g. communication, into a money war and oligarchs choose winners .
- Comment on U.S. Secretary of Commerce says the ‘new model’ is factory jobs for life—for you, your kids, and your grandkids 1 week ago:
If you make it there; you won’t have a union and labor protections will be struck down in kangaroo courts, OSHA safety requirements were already a main driver of people not wanting to work these kobs–and that was before the current and future dismantling of OSHA related rules.
Also, how are you going to get 90k when federal minimum wage is what is was in 2009? Many of the southern states have even passed “counter-wage” laws forbidding the state from passing it’s own improved min wage law–truly hateful of the average person.
- Comment on Everyone knows what first aid is, but what is second aid? 1 week ago:
- Comment on All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding | by Dan Fabulich | Apr, 2025 1 week ago:
South Korea mandated internet explorer for all purchase checkout until relatively recently maybe the last 5 years. They had all these pieces but around it so checking out at a website you would have to prove your identity using national ID and then only IE would work.
Be very careful what you ask for.
- Comment on Trump Signs Executive Orders to Militarize Police, Punish Sanctuary Cities and Refugees 2 weeks ago:
That photo…just 🤌
“show a posse of racist police that was the beginning of police cars in the US starting to fly Confederate flags”
- Comment on A List of Social Media Platforms that Still Permit Free-Speech 2 weeks ago:
At the rate we’re going, anti science and antisocial, clubbing one’s next meal or foes and eating the meat raw for lack of other tools is not far off current trajectory.
- Comment on Study: Hopeful homebuyers need income of nearly $117,000 to afford typical home in U.S. 2 weeks ago:
And who doesn’t feel at ease predicting stable employment for several decades for themselves? After all in a world of “at will” employment and executives that need to hit their numbers for that quarterly stock grant, barely any unions, deliberately anemic unemployment insurance benefits, who wouldn’t jump at the chance?
- Comment on Todd Howard Reaffirms Bethesda Is Currently Developing The Elder Scrolls 6 3 weeks ago:
On the back of a wagon? More like back of a 🐉 we are dragonborn not some Falkreath yokel. Into 6 we go riding in style!
- Comment on US stock markets fall again as Trump calls Fed chair ‘a major loser’ 3 weeks ago:
Nah he’s speaking the language the masses have been conditioned to respond to. 30 years of fox news Pavlov training. Manchurian electorate.
- Comment on Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away 3 weeks ago:
Roll against your wisdom to not cast lvl 3 conjure gas line
If you fail your wisdom check You’ll need dex of 18 to not start a fire.
- Comment on Donald Trump vs Mr Market 3 weeks ago:
Have a non-paywalled link?
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I just closed the agency investigating my company so there is no enforcement mechanism. Legal alludes to a system I now own and control because it’s better for me that way. Going to pass a few joke statues or pardon myself if there are any teeth left. Thanks fucking peasant.
- Comment on Trump administration decides to fund CVE cybersecurity tracker after all 3 weeks ago:
Clown shows can be funny. This is like watching pallbearers drop caskets at a children’s hospital funeral.
- Comment on China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defense 3 weeks ago:
It’s not necessarily you getting older; there is a fundamental difference in goals, aims and quality of software now. 99% of major software is either funded by VC or incumbent monopolists who are interested in extractions primarily and establishing moats, barriers to free and fair use, and any way possible to monetize an interaction. This is why those of us who lived through the actual innovation stages aren’t excited anymore as it’s clear this is not “progress” and the warning flags are there from the first marketing pitch.
This entire timeline though was part of the plan, it was never going to be free/cheap, functional and easily accessible forever. We are in the frog boiling phase now that doesn’t end until we take back some of what has been lost.
- Comment on ISPs and robocallers love the FCC plan to “delete” as many rules as possible 4 weeks ago:
Who doesn’t want 800 versions of “it’s fucking connected” for home Internet like we have for cell phones? Innovation! Think of the unnecessary choices, gotchas, customer service queues, class action lawsuits that are much more difficult thanks to the supreme Court a few years back… what’s not to love?
- Comment on Tesla (TSLA) has to replace computer in ~4 million cars or compensate their owners 4 weeks ago:
G-14
- Comment on Commerce Secretary Lutnick says tariff exemptions for electronics are only temporary: Lutnick said "semiconductor tariffs" will likely come in "a month or two.". 4 weeks ago:
Everyone learned about those in grammar, don’t insult the man’s intelligence.
- Comment on Palantir Is Helping DOGE With a Massive IRS Data Project 4 weeks ago:
Lobby to get rid of government bureaucracy like Theil so you can have your delivery boy get you the info so you can sell it. Ideal.
- Comment on Vizio Shows What Happens When U.S. Fascism And TV Enshittification Meet 4 weeks ago:
Shouldn’t be too long until Walmart realizes they should just build houses. Take tons of tax credits, install the “screen” as the wall itself, not have an off switch like audio on low-class Mexican busses so you have to listen to their ads and you’ve arrived at Fahrenheit 451
- Comment on Trump’s DOJ will no longer prosecute most cryptocurrency fraud cases 4 weeks ago:
So you’re assuming that no one in Trump’s circle made any trades in advance of yesterday’s tariff pause cancellation? Do you know the exponential return you could get on a short-term option when the underlying moves 20% in a day?
- Comment on Call it the billionaire boomerang: The ultrawealthy are turning on Trump over tariffs 5 weeks ago:
Businesses and billionaires need “certainty” in the boardroom. It’s why they support Republican candidates who focus on “the economy”.
I hope they choke in the absolute certainty they’re being delivered. Such a classic golden goose allegory.