SocialMediaRefugee
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- Comment on ‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push 2 days ago:
You could save a LOT of money by replacing the execs with AI.
- Comment on ‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push 2 days ago:
Because the people who work in HR spent their educational years avoiding anything technical.
- Comment on ‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push 2 days ago:
AI will have a scrum with itself.
- Comment on ‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push 2 days ago:
I don’t think AI needs collaboration and project management software. Good luck with that future.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 2 days ago:
“To use this vacuum cleaner you have to watch some ads.”
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 3 days ago:
Applesoft was in ROM. The DOS was only for the disk controller. Without a disk drive I could still work the memory map, execute code, calls to locations, speaker calls, graphics control, load off of cassette, etc.
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 3 days ago:
Dynamic IPs, VPNs…
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 3 days ago:
I wouldn’t buy a car if I had to install my own engine or dashboard. “You selected the x322 dash. Here are your parts and a manual. Good luck!” It shouldn’t be surprising if 99% of the population doesn’t want a similar experience with their devices. PCs and such have become consumer devices, not hobbyist ones.
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 3 days ago:
Unfortunately the Linux market is so fragmented that your average user is overwhelmed. This is not helped by the Linux community who in a general rule are not particularly accommodating towards novices.
Omg yes. I’m considering going to linux at home for my next system but when I look at my options I can look at 10 sources and get 10 different recommendations. There are a million flavors of linux now. Every time I look into the subject I see a new flavor has been released. I also don’t want to get comfortable with one version only to find out it isn’t supported or updated a few years from now and have to switch. My goal is to use it, not to be a sys admin in my spare time.
I’m tech savvier than most people so even talking about linux to the avg person is like talking about nuclear physics. Usually when I read a story about, say, someone’s mom using it it is because some very skilled linux fan installed and set it up for them.
You get beaten up for just bringing these points up.
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 3 days ago:
Apple IIs had the OS built into the ROMs.
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 3 days ago:
This is beyond 99% of the population who just want it to work out of the box. This would be impossible with any apple hardware also.
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 3 days ago:
Yup, the REAL goal here is to get an ID associated with an IP address to remove your anonymity from the web.
- Comment on EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN 4 days ago:
From EA’s website:
- Comment on New York Bill Would Force Age ID Checks at the Device Level 4 days ago:
:D
- Comment on New York Bill Would Force Age ID Checks at the Device Level 4 days ago:
Here is the bill: docs.reclaimthenet.org/New-York-2025-S08102-Amend…
Main points:
“Covered manufacturer” shall mean a manufacturer of an internet-enabled device, an operating system provider, or an application store.
Obligations for covered manufacturers.
- Upon activation of an internet-enabled device after the effective date of this article, a covered manufacturer shall conduct age assurance to determine a user’s age category at the point of such activation. For devices that were activated prior to the effective date of this article, however, such covered manufacturer shall conduct the age assurance described herein on or before such effective date.
Data security.
- A covered manufacturer or covered developer shall delete all information collected for the purposes of this article after such purpose has been achieved, except where necessary for compliance with applicable provisions of law or regulation.
So it would be any device that connects to the internet, regardless of the reason such as connecting to a VPN.
- Comment on New York Bill Would Force Age ID Checks at the Device Level 4 days ago:
Christian fundie groups trying to get rid of porn on the web. Other groups seeking to eliminate anonymity from the web.
Meta is likely going along with it because it protects them from child vulnerability lawsuits.
- Comment on New York Bill Would Force Age ID Checks at the Device Level 4 days ago:
Freedom for me, laws for thee
- Comment on New York Bill Would Force Age ID Checks at the Device Level 4 days ago:
You mean the hypocrite amendment?
- Comment on New York Bill Would Force Age ID Checks at the Device Level 4 days ago:
Scammers and hackers around the world celebrated at getting their hands on your ID info.
- Comment on EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN 4 days ago:
These layoffs come just months after the unexpected death of Battlefield franchise head Vince Zampella in a car accident. They also come as EA is preparing to be acquired by an investor group composed of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners for approximately $55 billion.
- Comment on Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business News 5 days ago:
Obedient unemployed
- Comment on Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business News 5 days ago:
What good is being super wealthy if you can’t feel superior to other people?
- Comment on OpenAI on Surveillance and Autonomous Killings: You’re Going to Have to Trust Us 6 days ago:
I’d trust a business with “equity” or “capital” in its name before him.
- Comment on Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business News 6 days ago:
Those damn immigrants taking up all of the best landscaping, slaughterhouse, roof tarring, and crop picking jobs.
- Comment on Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business News 6 days ago:
They fired people for AI, now they fire them without AI. Please tell me how they plan on sustaining an economy where only the 1% has discretionary income?
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 1 week ago:
I should be able to use dynamic offers. Ok, today I’m offering 20% less.
- Comment on Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought. 1 week ago:
Groups that want to remove anonymity from the internet.
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 1 week ago:
A delusional kid was told by one and a delusional kid was told by another.
- Comment on Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion 1 week ago:
Judas Priest got sued by parents claiming their kid killed himself over hidden messages in their music.
- Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles 1 week ago:
They said when cable tv started that it would be ad free, it was for a while. Then you’d own your media, now it is all streaming. Then you’d have your own software, now it is going to subscription based more and more. Why would you think the current state of tech is the way it will always be? Car companies are already going towards data gathering though it isn’t limited to EVs. It is much easier to control every aspect of your vehicle though with an EV.