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- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 11 hours 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 days ago:
Lies
- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 4 days 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? 1 week 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 weeks 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 FL wants more child labor 3 weeks ago:
They yearn for the mines!
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Fuck spez
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 2 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 2 months ago:
‘quietly’
- Comment on Microsoft Bing is trying to spoof Google UI when people search Google.com 3 months ago:
Does it hold up in 2025?
- Comment on Microsoft Bing is trying to spoof Google UI when people search Google.com 3 months ago:
- Comment on Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community 3 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 5 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 5 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
- Comment on Adobe Says Artists Should Embrace AI If They Want to be Successful. 5 months ago:
- Comment on Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim 6 months 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
