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- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 1 week ago:
Climate protesters in Britain got years in jail for even planning to peacefully protest on a motorway. Fascism is already here, folks. And fuck The Sun
- Comment on Self-hosting your own media considered harmful - I just received my second community guidelines violation for my video demonstrating the use of LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5, for 4K video playback 2 weeks ago:
Let them. Trust me, you’ll feel much better
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia 2 weeks ago:
The point is they should be fighting AI, not open the door even an inch to AI on their site. Like so many other endeavors, it only works because the contributors are human. Not corpos, not AI, not marketing. AI kills Wikipedia if they let that slip. Look at StackOverflow, look at Reddit, look at Google search, look at many corporate social media. Dead internet theory is all around us.
Wikipedia is trusted because it’s all human. No other reason
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia 2 weeks ago:
🪦🪦🪦🪦
RIP Wikipedia, we will miss you
- Comment on the 'it' in 'it snows' doesn't refer to anything 4 weeks ago:
Downvoted for stupid NSFW tag
- Comment on "Weakening encryption undermines ProtectEU's objectives" – experts slams EU plan to create an encryption backdoor, again 4 weeks ago:
They’ll keep trying until encryption is illegal
- Comment on Catchiest video game song? 4 weeks ago:
Not what you asked for, but my music taste was shaped massively by Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series
- Comment on Wait, that game is still playable online? 4 weeks ago:
Best MOBA imo, no idea why it flopped (except pushing a pro gaming scene for an arcade version of the genre)
- Comment on Wait, that game is still playable online? 4 weeks ago:
It was 99% cheaters, last time I checked. Has that changed?
- Comment on Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer 4 weeks ago:
Context menu bloat was solved iW11 by hiding all those actions you do use behind a “more…” button 🤦♂️ Microsoft sucks, it’s not even funny
- Comment on Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company 1 month ago:
But why? People just want to talk and chat. The technology has been around for ages! Let users host their own servers
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 1 month ago:
As a former software engineer turned product owner turned manager, thank you for including other perspectives. When complaining on the internet, engineers typically think other people should be doing all the specification work and they just implement it, without realizing that in the pre-agile days, the bureaucracy was soul-crushing. We need engineers to discuss all these technical details like permissions and whatnot, they’re the best people for the task! But at parties, engineers talk about this as if management is stupid for not working it out for them. No, software engineers shouldn’t try to reduce themselves to code monkeys. You’re problem solvers, you’re engineers.
- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 2 months ago:
Lies
- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 2 months ago:
Two wrongs don’t make a right. Or are you denying Uyghurs are being persecuted?
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 2 months ago:
Unreal Tournament series
UE4 movement was buttery smooth
- Comment on Europe’s GDPR privacy law is headed for red tape bonfire within ‘weeks’ 2 months ago:
Ban privacy invasive business practices instead of putting the burden on citizens to opt in/opt out. This is about rights of a European citizen not to be constantly under surveillance, not about consumers rights to sign a contract signing away our rights
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
They yearn for the mines!
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 3 months ago:
None of that affects the average user. I’m talking about the experience as a browser. No ads, popups, cookie walls, newsletter signup, none of that. Much better than I’ve seen with Firefox plugins. I don’t use their VPN or crypto, it doesn’t affect me at all. Crypto is always shady but it’s a choice to engage with that, and they do make it easy to avoid completely
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 3 months ago:
Haha, that’s quite alright. I knew I wasn’t going to win a popularity contest here, I just enjoy Brave for what it does and I wish uBlock Origin was just as good
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 3 months ago:
That doesn’t make it a bad product. I’ve never interacted with any of the crypto or donation stuff. You go into settings, click “no thanks” and are never bothered by any of that ever again. So no, these stories people repeat ad nauseam don’t take away anything from the product. Why don’t other people demand better from the alternatives? If there is one better than Brave at fighting popups and stuff, I’m all for it
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 3 months ago:
I don’t know what that has to do with my question? I am not defending anything like that
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 3 months ago:
Regardless of the CEO, Brave is a great product. The crypto stuff is easy to turn off. Fantastic ad blocking, rarely any problems. What is the best alternative with great ad blocking?
- Comment on Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian says AI should moderate social media 3 months ago:
Fuck spez
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 4 months ago:
YouTube ReVanced all the way
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 4 months ago:
‘quietly’
- Comment on Microsoft Bing is trying to spoof Google UI when people search Google.com 5 months ago:
Does it hold up in 2025?
- Comment on Microsoft Bing is trying to spoof Google UI when people search Google.com 5 months ago:
- Comment on Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community 5 months ago:
I also wouldn’t know what they mean. Fascist takeover sounds like something I would notice?
- Comment on Innocent Israelis, Bad Arabs? How the Media Scripted Amsterdam's Soccer Violence 7 months 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 7 months 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
