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- Comment on Innocent Israelis, Bad Arabs? How the Media Scripted Amsterdam's Soccer Violence 6 days ago:
Amsterdam banned all protests for a week. Many people went anyway. Love ♥️ this sign!
- Comment on Amsterdam bans all protests after attacks on Israeli football fans 1 week ago:
On the ground reporting from Dutch young journalist Bender: youtu.be/ySHIOYyJ95A See for yourself what happened and how these hooligans came to our town to riot. This has nothing to do with antisemitism, and everything to do with racist football hooligans supporting Israels actions in Gaza
- Comment on Adobe Says Artists Should Embrace AI If They Want to be Successful. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim 1 month ago:
Chrome got popular at introduction because it was much faster at loading and displaying websites. Sure, there was a marketing push by Google, but it succeeded on the products merits and not some unfair business advantage. It still is a great browser.
We do need antitrust protections but not always because consumers are getting a bad product. It’s more about the balance of power. Maybe their products are good now, or their business practices are fair now to other market actors, but you never know when that will change and then it’s too late. It’s like you need safeguards against autocracy also when they’re genuinely doing good job of running the country, because it’s never worth it in the long run when they inevitably start doing nasty shit
- Comment on The three little pigs is actually just the aristocracy blaming the poor for their problems 1 month ago:
How is that different from blaming poor people they have a bad work ethic?
- Comment on Headlamp tech that doesn’t blind oncoming drivers—where is it? 1 month ago:
Not sure what you mean. Blinding headlights is definitely worse in the last two decades
- Comment on Headlamp tech that doesn’t blind oncoming drivers—where is it? 1 month ago:
Lighting is the determining factor? I think the real problem is speed. With some regular low beams you should see plenty, no need to light up the whole neighborhood
- Comment on Headlamp tech that doesn’t blind oncoming drivers—where is it? 1 month ago:
Stop driving with the high beams on! Seriously, this is a solution looking for a problem. Don’t create this expectation in drivers that they have to turn night into day. That only adds to the problem of asshole drivers prioritizing their ability to see over other people’s ability to see
Blinding headlights are due to poorly aligned low beams, too bright LED headlights, bigger cars with their headlights mounted higher and higher. So the solutions are: low beam alignment that can’t be made to blind you by the driver, regulation on luminosity and color spectrum of lights, stop financial incentives to make vehicles large, heavier, deadlier.
- Comment on Microsoft releases a new Windows app called Windows App for running Windows apps 1 month ago:
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- Comment on What does "legitimate interest" mean in cookie settings? 2 months ago:
A prime example for a cookie with “legitimate interest” is a session cookie. Your shopping cart or even staying logged in wouldn’t work without it, so it’s not a good idea to even give the user the choice.
Incorrect, session cookies are textbook functional cookies
- Comment on Peloton announces $95 “used equipment activation fee” 2 months ago:
Cory Doctorow calls this one “it’s ok cause we do it with an app” and urges regulators to enforce the laws already on the books. It’s an absurd defense legally, but there’s no enforcement of antitrust or consumer law at all anymore
- Comment on it's just that simple. Don't forget to exercise out of depression... 2 months ago:
Never mind the “thanks I’m cured” vibes, but mild exercise does improve mental health a lot. Going outside for a stroll in nature is great. I know it’s still difficult when your brain just wants you to curl up into a ball all day, but the idea isn’t bad.
- Comment on Proton is transitioning towards a non-profit structure | Proton 2 months ago:
Wtf
- Comment on My new favorite way to play 2 months ago:
Why the downvotes? Look at that picture. The buttons are askew
- Comment on Young people today are stressed, depressed—and changing the fundamental pattern of happiness, new research shows 3 months ago:
Being depressed and plowing through isn’t a testament of your honorable resilience. It means you should seek out help. Life isn’t like this for most people.
- Comment on Most important map 3 months ago:
Everyone here saying their ice cream sucks and they never buy it, I don’t think you realize Magnum and Cornetto are this brand. Those are the world’s best selling ice cream brands
- Comment on Valve rumored to be working on Android emulator for Steam 4 months ago:
- Comment on Valve rumored to be working on Android emulator for Steam 4 months ago:
If this means I can play my Steam games on my phone… Yay! 🎉
- Comment on Microsoft really wants Local accounts gone after it erases its guide on how to create them 4 months ago:
Accepted isn’t the right word. I think consumers “voting with their feet” just isn’t that relevant when it comes to these issues. This model of thinking works when it’s about the product offering. Bad product? Too expensive? Demand dwindles.
But the issue doesn’t directly impact the product offering, consumers won’t “vote with their feet” in significant numbers. Worker exploitation? People will still buy cheaper clothes. Oil money dictatorships? Cheap luxury airlines. Privacy invasion? But all my friends are on there. I could go on.
The self-correcting market model is flawed. For these issues, strong government intervention is needed. It’s possible that a competitor comes along and they’re able to capture the market, but that will only happen with a superior product offering. But not because of different TOS or whatever people don’t consider part of what they’re buying.
- Comment on 'One of the wildest Finnish startup says it can speed up any CPU by 100x using a tiny piece of hardware with no recoding 4 months ago:
⚠ 🚨 Hoax alert! 🚨 ⚠
- Comment on Spicy jokes 4 months ago:
Great joke, I must say
- Comment on Softbank plans to cancel out angry customer voices using AI 4 months ago:
I’d also like to point out that this makes the mechanical “customer service can’t help people” problem worse. They’ll be all friendly while you’re mad as hell. It makes the whole interaction even less genuine. The customer is probably angry because there isn’t a human conversation to be had to begin with Image
- Comment on Rover 5 months ago:
This is like Chuggy that dug the Channel tunnel 😢
- Comment on The Toilet Theory of the Internet: Google is serving an audience that wants quick and easy results. That may lead to disaster. 5 months ago:
Can I read the full article without yet another goddamn account?
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 6 months ago:
Fascinating! Thank you for this article. It exactly describes what’s happening: “oh, you think you’re better than us? I’ll have another steak!”
As a vegetarian, I’m so sick of it. I don’t want to explain myself. Just let me be
- Comment on Does Instagram or YouTube Shorts get you? 6 months ago:
Define too long. I like videos of up to 15 minutes. That’s long to some people. Occasionally I’ll enjoy longer videos but almost always I think to myself “you could have said the same in a much shorter video”. And I won’t even start the 4 hours bullshit rambling videos. Do people actually watch that or is it just on in the background?
- Comment on Does Instagram or YouTube Shorts get you? 6 months ago:
I hate it because I watch it but don’t enjoy it at all. It just wastes my time. It’s addictive but not in the good way like a video game that draws you in, but in the “help I can’t control myself” kind of way. FUCK THE ALGORITHM
- Comment on Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road 6 months ago:
Autonomous my ass. Is a person remote controlling it from a low wage county?
- Comment on Good time 7 months ago:
I bought one (1) CD in my entire life. It was The Prodigy’s Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned. Put it in my computer… It didn’t work. No files. I was one of the victims to Sony’s shitty DRM crap. Returned the CD and never stopped pirating since.
- Comment on Norwegian Cruise captain refused to let eight passengers who were late reboard ship 7 months ago:
So?
