kibiz0r
@kibiz0r@midwest.social
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 8 hours ago:
Don’t use tariffs. Legalize jailbreaking and adversarial interop instead. Disregard American DRM.
- Comment on If you're still on Reddit... 1 day ago:
Theiy’re*
- Comment on Horses ARE Forever 3 days ago:
But people want the freedom that comes with having a horse. Maybe if we could put horses on the tracks and hook them up to each other.
- Comment on Horses ARE Forever 3 days ago:
It’s kinda weird that between unicorns, centaurs, giraffes, and horses, horses are the only made-up ones. Like come on, it’s a centaur with a dumb face, but instead of a chest and arms it’s just more neck?
- Comment on Call it an excuse. I call it therapy 4 days ago:
Careful about rewarding yourself for getting upset.
- Comment on Will big tech be caught in the crossfire of trade war? 4 days ago:
“The ACI allows the European Union to suspend intellectual property rights, it allows some people to use software for free, for example licence fees on things like streaming services or software could be suspended,” said Conall Mac Coille, Chief Economist at Bank of Ireland.
Fucking do it!
This is what Cory Doctorow has been telling Canada to do for months now.
Also worth noting: tech companies would not be “in the crossfire” — they are the primary fire.
On Democracy Now:
And if they do remove these laws, if we do allow domestic tech competitors all over the world to reverse engineer, modify and erode the high monopoly rents extracted by these American tech firms, we do something very effective in this trade war, because the only thing keeping the S&P 500 afloat are these tech monopolists. If you take the Big Tech stocks out of the S&P 500, you’ve got a stock market that has been in decline for a decade. And when you decompose their balance sheets and you see where they get all their money, it’s from price gouging on repairs, service, parts, consumables, software.
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 5 days ago:
I know devs like everything to be perfect, but if your business can work around it for 15 years without fixing the bug or replacing the system, I dare say it doesn’t qualify as a major bug.
- Comment on Out of context Arcane spoiler 5 days ago:
I don’t get it
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 6 days ago:
There are only two reasons softwares goes for decades without being replaced:
- It’s so unimportant that nobody uses it
- It’s so important that the last major bug was squashed 15 years ago
- Comment on Content moderation is what a 21st century hazardous job looks like 6 days ago:
“If something you see is really difficult then you can leave your desk, but at that moment you have to remember to put on your computer that you are on ‘wellbeing’,” explains Eyvazzadeh. “But if the supervisors think you are using wellbeing more than you should, they will intervene. They would say: ‘Your ‘production’ time is a bit lower than expected, you have been on wellbeing a lot.’ So you are pressured to increase your time on ‘production’ by decreasing your ‘wellbeing.’”
It’s bad enough we make overseas workers spend all day pulling the lever of a slot machine that yields mis-flagged puppy videos and gruesome beheadings with equal likelihood, but then we stack NDAs, legal obstacles, surveillance, and KPI admonishment on top of it.
If you wrote this in a sci-fi novel, your editor would say “that’s a little cartoonishly evil, isn’t it?”
- Comment on Get cancer screening guys 1 week ago:
Oh cancer shows up in bloodwork? I thought you needed a scan for that.
- Comment on Get cancer screening guys 1 week ago:
What prompted the screening? How does that even work? Like “Doc I don’t feel right, can I get a cancer-check?”
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 1 week ago:
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 1 week ago:
those who used ChatGPT for “personal” reasons — like discussing emotions and memories — were less emotionally dependent upon it than those who used it for “non-personal” reasons, like brainstorming or asking for advice.
That’s not what I would expect. But I guess that’s cuz you’re not actively thinking about your emotional state, so you’re just passively letting it manipulate you.
Kinda like how ads have a stronger impact if you don’t pay conscious attention to them.
- Comment on Always guard against living in the world of fantasy rather than undeniable facts 1 week ago:
Guy on the right should be pointing at the dumb fuck
- Comment on Always guard against living in the world of fantasy rather than undeniable facts 1 week ago:
And then say that source is discredited, without providing a source for that claim.
- Comment on Qualcomm has complained to antitrust regulators in the EU, the US, and South Korea that Arm is hurting competition by restricting access to its tech. 1 week ago:
Arm could’ve just coasted off of unnecessary license fees for decades, but they’re over-extending and making themselves an unattractive business partner.
Bad timing with the EU ramp-up too — a RISC-V future has never looked more likely.
- Comment on House flipped 1 week ago:
2004-era RealPlayer stream artifacts IRL
- Comment on Disappointing coyote attack 1 week ago:
It’s been 6 and a half years
- Comment on Open Technology Fund, which backs Tor, Let's Encrypt and more, sues to save funding from Trump cuts. 1 week ago:
Let’s Encrypt handles over half of the certificates on the web.
If there’s another Heartbleed-style attack, CAs need to be ready to do mass revocation of certificates. That will take a ton of resources.
Defunding them places the entire internet in a precarious position.
- Comment on DOJ renews call for Google to sell Chrome, and Android could be next 1 week ago:
Xhrome and Stardroid, but yeah.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
This is a good situation for a therapist. Nobody here is gonna be able to give you an accurate assessment.
- Comment on There Have Been Times I Liked The Villain Dynamics Better 3 weeks ago:
Hazbin Hotel kinda?
- Comment on Thinkpad for the win 3 weeks ago:
Idk how scratch-prone the post-touchbar models are, but I’ve had a series of MBPs that I’ve been profoundly uncareful with and never had a problem.
Used a 2009 model until 2016, no scratches. 2016 model that I use to this very day, no scratches. 2017 I used for work until 2019, I ran it across an exposed screw-tip on a broken desk and it left a line you could see if you held it just right to reflect a light, but I can’t imagine anything shrugging that off. 2019 model I used for work until a month ago, no scratches.
Meanwhile, the other devices that have coexisted in the same backpack have not done as well. Dented USB hub, dented dock, broken screen on an Android device, shattered screen protector on another device.
- Comment on Thinkpad for the win 3 weeks ago:
I think it was a joke.
- Comment on Battery tech really does move fast 3 weeks ago:
Hey Vegeta, what does the battery say about its Ah level?
IT’S!!!… nine thousand.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 3 weeks ago:
A very reassuring technology to have!
But my worry was more about them changing their business model once they get big enough.
- Comment on Why do the Brits keep talking about this car. 3 weeks ago:
Legit, first time I heard a Brit say his name I thought it was a Japanese dude: Kiastama
I finally read his name some months later and realized.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been using Kagi for about a month now, and I think I’m gonna stick with it. Paying with dollars instead of data/attention feels more healthy for everyone involved.
(Fully realizing, of course, that there’s nothing stopping them from doing both, and that’s why we need better laws and voting with your wallet will never be a complete solution… but it is something I can do right now.)
- Comment on Who gets all the tariff money about to be collected from US citizens buying products from Canada? 4 weeks ago:
“They don’t need to collect dollars in order to spend them” does not mean “They ought to spend dollars and not collect them”.
I’m only describing that collecting X amount from tariffs does not imply that spending must necessarily increase by X somewhere due to some kind of conservation of dollars that the OP seemed to assume.