wewbull
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- Comment on (UK) New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks 1 day ago:
I used COVID as shorthand for “the pandemic, lockdown, restricted NHS care, etc”
- Comment on (UK) New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks 1 day ago:
That is what I was trying to convey, yes.
- Comment on (UK) New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks 1 day ago:
The surge is in 2021. 3 years before Labour was in power.
I suspect this is probability COVID related.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Reminder, this includes “Morning Glory Milking Farm” and similar books.
I’m sure that will destroy any intelligence.
- Comment on ChatGPT is down for many users in major OpenAI outage - 9to5Mac 4 days ago:
It’s like having masonic symbols featured to show loyalty, but it’s Epstein symbolism.
- Comment on Opinions are like teeth; we should have two sets of them 6 days ago:
Be a shark. Constantly renew them.
- Comment on Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle – Dmitry Brant 6 days ago:
Security by obscurity would have made a lot more sense before global communications allowed people to share the results of poking around like this.
Bulletin boards existed. Hacker parties existed. You made contacts and kept in touch. You mailed discs to each other.
We communicated before the internet.
- Comment on Finland's Ministry of Justice is considering halting its plans to start using US-hosted cloud services 1 week ago:
The studios are still there in a lot of cases, but they are part of EA or other giants.
- Comment on Finland's Ministry of Justice is considering halting its plans to start using US-hosted cloud services 1 week ago:
We only struggle with what we produce not being bought up by American giants.
Writing the software isn’t a problem. Having the company survive is.
- Comment on Finland's Ministry of Justice is considering halting its plans to start using US-hosted cloud services 1 week ago:
They’re still getting Amazon to store data that is critical to the function of the nation.
Government documents shouldn’t be on other people’s computers.
- Comment on Finland's Ministry of Justice is considering halting its plans to start using US-hosted cloud services 1 week ago:
The headline suggests they haven’t started using them yet.
- Comment on Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law— New York mayor says terminating the ‘unusable’ bot will help close a budget gap 1 week ago:
I think it’s too early to tell with Mamdani. He’s saying all the right things but he needs to deliver on them, and for that he needs time to cook.
- Comment on Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law— New York mayor says terminating the ‘unusable’ bot will help close a budget gap 1 week ago:
Karl Marx wouldn’t be able to bring himself to write a post.
…unless some benefactor paid him to do it.
- Comment on Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law— New York mayor says terminating the ‘unusable’ bot will help close a budget gap 1 week ago:
I didn’t.
- Comment on Why do onions and chips keep washing up on England’s south coast? Here’s the science 1 week ago:
IT’S A SEAGULL CONSPIRACY. THEY HAVE A PLAN!
- Comment on Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020 1 week ago:
Is the money in your pension “virtual money”?
Microsoft didn’t lose 10%. Investment funds holding Microsoft lost 10%, and they invest other people’s money.
- Comment on DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI 1 week ago:
At this point not having AI would be a selling point.
- Comment on UK announces largest ever facial recognition rollout as part of policing reforms 1 week ago:
No. You don’t get to say this is ok because it’s Labour. This is authoritarian power grabs. Nobody voted for this because this was never shared with the public.
Labour, Tories and Reform all need to be cast into the wilderness for decades over what’s going on right now.
- Comment on Revolution bars set to disappear from the high street after going bust 1 week ago:
Here’s the secret. Revolution shot boards were weak arse shit.
- Comment on France is ditching Zoom and Microsoft Teams for a homegrown video platform 1 week ago:
I like the “Simplicité, Sécurité, Souveraineté” theme. Echos of “Liberté, égalité, fraternité”
- Comment on Starmer says he won't 'choose between' the US or China 1 week ago:
Those aren’t the only options.
- Comment on Scientists have confirmed that a 26ft tall, tree-trunk-shaped organism, first discovered in Scotland in 1843, isn't a fungus or plant, but an entirely distinct evolutionary branch of life 2 weeks ago:
…because it’s multiple lifeforms making a single structure. The plural is correct.
- Comment on Microsoft Outlook Outage Leaves Users Without Email; Tech Company Working On Resolving Issue 2 weeks ago:
Me with company emails on outlook: “It’s down? Didn’t notice.”
- Comment on Starmer pulls Chagos bill after Trump backlash 2 weeks ago:
I never thought handing them over to Mauritius was the right thing. Using them as a naval base is also messed up but that wasn’t going anywhere.
So I see this a positive thing, but the optics for Starmer couldn’t be worse. It makes him look like Trumps lapdog.
- Comment on Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday | Hacker News 2 weeks ago:
Need to solve the discover-ability of it though. Peertube is only useful if you know what you’re going there for.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Indeed. COVID showed that the populace would defer to the government and do as they were told. Before lockdown there was a general feeling that only a country like China could lockdown it’s population. In the west, freedom and liberty were too precious.
And then they went and locked us down showing the government had far more power than it realised.
- Comment on The singular they is actually such a natural part of the English language, the people complaining about it almost certainly use it without noticing 3 weeks ago:
Is normally unknown due to not knowing the person though. Using “they” with someone known to you feels rude. As if you’re saying “I don’t include Grace in my circle, so I use “they” to keep them distant”.
It really sticks in the throat.
- Comment on The singular they is actually such a natural part of the English language, the people complaining about it almost certainly use it without noticing 3 weeks ago:
“you” isn’t a pronoun at all.
- Comment on CES 2026: Meet Tiiny AI, a pocket-sized AI supercomputer 3 weeks ago:
At least the trend of putting “AI” in product names should stop.
- Comment on CES 2026: Meet Tiiny AI, a pocket-sized AI supercomputer 3 weeks ago:
Even then, which is much better than the cloud models, most people seem to be as Dell said. They are not buying AI.