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- Comment on Iran includes American tech giants on list of new targets 11 hours ago:
Oh no there would absolutely be responses, but not to the level of military retaliation as he was suggesting.
China would definitely use it as an excuse to build up their nuclear stockpile and the nuclear test ban treaty would be in tatters.
It would also result in a lot of civil unrest in the US which could spiral into a civil war. To be honest though I can’t really see the US surviving until the end of the century regardless, there’s just too much hate and division there and neither the republicans nor the democrats have ever attempted to fix major societal issues.
- Comment on British expats who fled Gulf desperate to avoid huge tax bills after London return 1 day ago:
These people are so rich they wouldn’t even notice the tax hike. They just don’t like the idea of giving any of their money away it’s not actually a problem for them though.
- Comment on Could VPNs be banned in the UK? We asked the experts 1 day ago:
This is utterly stupid and I agree it needs to be highlighted however it’s worth pointing out that a public consultation doesn’t mean squat.
They’re asking the general public if they think that VPNs should be regulated. They are not asking experts for feasibility studies. So even if we take it as red that this is 100% definitely going to happen there at stage -1 of the process right now and we all know the speed which politics moves (continental drift in slow motion would be an adequate description).
I would actually be perfectly prepared to put money on this not actually happening. Labour do not need more reasons for people to hate them.
- Comment on Iran includes American tech giants on list of new targets 1 day ago:
Yeah they’re just evil oppressive dictators but at least they don’t try and claim innocent. They own being dictators, they admit it.
- Comment on Iran includes American tech giants on list of new targets 1 day ago:
Does Iran actually have the range to be a threat to the US? The last stats I saw had their maximum range and maybe enough to strike the Mediterranean and maybe a little inland in Italy and Spain. That’s a far cry from being able to hit the US mainland. Hell even South Africa is probably out of range and it’s not like they can deploy ships to close the gap.
- Comment on Iran includes American tech giants on list of new targets 1 day ago:
I’m pretty sure the rest of the world wouldn’t need to do anything. Nato isn’t particularly pro-Iran either so they’d probably be very unhappy with the US, but not actually unhappy enough to do anything about it. Maybe some trade sanctions.
I highly doubt NATO would consider it a sensible response to nuke the US.
- Comment on Iran includes American tech giants on list of new targets 1 day ago:
I’m fascinated by the idea that world war 3 wouldn’t affect the development of AI. All any opposing force would need to do is bomb California and that would be the end of AI research.
- Comment on Iran includes American tech giants on list of new targets 1 day ago:
Or die trying; you mean the effort of reading out a long string of letters in order to authorise the launch will overwhelm his tiny mind? I mean I guess it’s possible, I’m not sure he actually can read.
- Comment on Samsung's latest update is a serious gut punch to Galaxy power users 1 day ago:
Unfortunately it isn’t a particularly great spec. It’s fine if you don’t care about those things but for people that want high-end smartphones the phone isn’t going to cut it.
- Comment on Viral anti-masturbation app exposed sensitive user data 1 day ago:
I mean in a way I get it. It’s easier to just pay subscription services and to have to try and deal with the utterly terrible torrent sites which by the way are no better now than they were 20 years ago.
- Comment on Viral anti-masturbation app exposed sensitive user data 1 day ago:
Lots of countries have their fascists and their dictators but the American right are just plain weird.
- Comment on Viral anti-masturbation app exposed sensitive user data 1 day ago:
It is incredibly hard to believe that.
I had collected almost 20tb of content.
What were they all in 4K? 20 terabytes of video at 4K is around 7 days of non-stop content. But pretty much all pornography is not high quality stuff so we’re looking at more like 22 weeks of content. Also who has 20 terabytes worth of storage anyway?
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 1 day ago:
The problem is I’ve seen people who supposedly have a brain start to use a high and over time they become increasingly confident in the AI’s abilities. Then they stop bothering to review the code.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 1 day ago:
It ain’t slop if it’s built right.
Yeah but the problem is is it? The absolutely insist that we use AI at work which is not only insane concept in and of itself but the problem is that if I have to nanny it to make sure it doesn’t make a mistake then how is it a useful product?
He says it helps him get work done he wouldn’t otherwise do, but how’s that possible? how is it possible that he is giving every line of code the same scrutiny he would if he wrote it himself, if he himself admits that he would never have got around to writing that code had the AI not done it? The math ain’t matching on this one.
- Comment on FADED. 🥴 2 days ago:
That’s why they all think that everyone’s secretly a Nazi only they are too afraid to admit it, which is why they are constantly surprised by all of the public backlash whenever they do their nazi things.
Of course that’s daft, the real Nazis have never been afraid to tell everyone who they are. Even when no one was asking.
- Comment on FADED. 🥴 2 days ago:
I suspect that what he actually believed was that other people dying (preferably kids who don’t vote) so he can have a gun it’s a small price to pay.
What the right all have in common is an absolute inability to emphasise with anybody else, until it happens to them.
- Comment on Migration minister fails UK citizenship test question 2 days ago:
It’s just that I don’t think that knowing a bunch of historical facts that most people never retain, if they’re taught them at all, is really what’s necessary for someone to integrate into British culture.
Think of any nation and you can immediately name national traits, Peru has a very different cultural backdrop than Germany for example. Knowledge of that is what the citizenship test should be checking for. Not whether or not I can remember a bunch of dates from the attached guide otherwise it’s much more about sending the accompanying book as it is about actually helping people integrate
- Comment on Migration minister fails UK citizenship test question 2 days ago:
Because I don’t think anyone in the Northern Ireland assembly could answer that question. I can tell you how many constituencies there are in England only that there’s a lot. Some things aren’t worth knowing.
- Comment on Migration minister fails UK citizenship test question 2 days ago:
If it’s a mini you might as well be ready to lean on the horn as soon as the other direction turns amber. They never seem to be paying attention
- Comment on Migration minister fails UK citizenship test question 2 days ago:
When it comes to plastic patriots identifying that it’s the british-born nationals that are more likely to be the problem the ones that want to immigrate tend to be okay.
Besides I don’t think it’s possible for anyone to be a bigger prick than Tommy 10 names.
- Comment on Migration minister fails UK citizenship test question 2 days ago:
Oh I know they’re all about who won what battle in 1791. I had one question that asked when Scotland and England became one nation, I mean I know roughly when it was (I know which century it occurred in) but I couldn’t give you the exact date.
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 3 days ago:
Microsoft had a game store for a long time and they utterly failed to do anything meaningful with it. I can’t imagine this new attempt is going to be any different.
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 3 days ago:
Oh they do, at a great expense, and the committee writes a very long detailed document about why their idea is pants on head crazy, which of course they don’t like, so they ignore the committee and then they do it anyway.
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 3 days ago:
But the game publishers already had licence, and if they didn’t have a licence then their beef is with the publishers not the storefront.
Anyway I’ve bought GTA V from physical brick and mortar stores in the past, so are they going to start suing the brick and mortar stores as well?
Hopefully they lose this case because copyright law is an absolute joke. It hasn’t been fit for purpose for about 20 years.
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 3 days ago:
Yeah I probably wouldn’t recommend getting an Apple II
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 3 days ago:
The last place I saw it as an option was on the framework website.
- Comment on EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN 3 days ago:
EA makes the best games when the executives get out of the way. Some developers took all of the assets that they had from Battlefront 2 (which was a gorgeous piece of crap) and made one of the best Star Wars flight sims I’ve ever seen.
- Comment on EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN 3 days ago:
That’s not good from a player standpoint that seems to suggest that there isn’t going to be any updates which is probably why they went the CCG route.
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 3 days ago:
In my experience people who know a little about computers are more dangerous than the ones who know nothing.
I’ve had people come into the repair shop who’ve uninstalled programs they don’t recognise and then it turns out that the programs they don’t recognise was the graphics driver. A complete novice would just have not gone into the program list to begin with.
Do schools even teach basic computing anymore, when I was at school we got taught how to program and I feel like that’s not done anymore.
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 3 days ago:
That’s like saying that everyone should become an electrician. It’s just not a practical expectation.