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- Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 4 days ago:
As much as people complain about electron (some valid, some not) Linux has benefited quite a bit to the cross platform availability of local applications.
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 6 days ago:
Let me give you a bit of the outside of the story as well.
For sure tiktok and meta and Google want you in their walled Garden for all the obvious reasons. However, and it’s gotten even worse as of late, if you have any kind of computationally expensive but desirable content/data the crawlers/scrapers/scripters will pummel your site. Despite how annoying you find the captchas and bot detection a computer doesn’t give too shits about it and at this point they basically serve as a rate limit or effort to make your content too computationally expensive to scrape and be worth it.
While accounts don’t necessarily solve this problem they do help as another impediment.
- Comment on Someone give me money so I can find out 1 week ago:
Those are not usually real gold though.
- Comment on Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US? 2 weeks ago:
The reality is that there is no tax break large enough to make up the difference in costs for a lot of things. Even with tariffs China is still cheaper.
- Comment on Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google senior executives told employees to destroy messages 3 weeks ago:
I mean they were built to make money, the fact that you can send them a national security letter is just a happy accident that keeps the NSA from having to run more datacenters.
- Comment on People in the office who don't take used K-Cups out of the machine are the new equivalent "you kill it, you fill it" 3 weeks ago:
Honestly in an office situation there is no excuse not to have a super automatic espresso machine. They cost like 1500 dollars and you don’t need to buy the damn kcups.
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 4 weeks ago:
Those people have never seen someone who has been hit by an air bag. It’s not a gentle pillow it’s a punch to the face and if you aren’t strapped in you’re probably gonna bounce around a bit off the interior.
- Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. 4 weeks ago:
That actually sounds like it might be an improvement…
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 4 weeks ago:
Smokers can never smell themselves so they don’t think it’s a big deal.
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 4 weeks ago:
Is that giving a donkey an enema or preforming an enema with a donkey or is it utilizing a donkey to perform an enema…
- Comment on Switch 2 preorders delayed over Trump tariff uncertainty 1 month ago:
No no those other countries will pay the tariffs.
- Comment on Open Source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries 1 month ago:
The Internet has always been like that even before the AI stuff got up to stream. If you expose anything to the public Internet it takes about 5s for things to start port scanning if they can it try WordPress/Drupal exploits.
- Comment on Open Source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries 1 month ago:
Did you not pay your protection money to CloudFlare?
- Comment on GoneWild was once about people feeling wild and posting pictures of it. Now it's just OnlyFans sale 2 months ago:
It’s a reference to a specific Internet connected adult toy called a lush3. Cam Girls and only fans people connect them to their chats so the fans can control how much it vibrates. Since it’s Wi-Fi connected it has a tail that sticks out to improve the connection.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 2 months ago:
Aha Airforce one likely uses SQL
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 2 months ago:
Not every person in the United States was born in the United States and even temporary workers can get a SSN
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 months ago:
I know this might hurt to read but the average reddit user probably is someone who doesn’t know how email works.
- Comment on Google abandons 'do no harm' AI stance, opens door to military weapons 3 months ago:
I mean of course they did. A public company can not be trusted to leave money on the table. The only thing that might slow them down is the bad press that might erode good will. In this climate though they were always going to strap Gemini to a machine gun.
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 3 months ago:
I mean it pretty clearly stated to look more like an escape plan than exploration around when Bezos had his penis rocket
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 3 months ago:
They just started rolling new postal trucks off the line so now seems like a good time to cancel that contract and sign a new one to replace them with Cyber trucks.
- Comment on Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' 4 months ago:
Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don’t anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it’ll chop it off, the end. You don’t think ‘oh, the lawnmower hates me’ – lawnmower doesn’t give a shit about you, lawnmower can’t hate you. Don’t anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don’t fall into that trap about Oracle. — Brian Cantrill
- Comment on where the magic happens owo 5 months ago:
I’m waiting for it come back in to style. I’ve pitched getting beige racks with this on the side en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_(design)
- Comment on Elon Musk Fans Are Losing So Much Money to Crypto Scams 6 months ago:
Tossed it in the microwave and here we are
- Comment on Lexar doubles up the NM790 series SSDs max capacity to 8TB — new drives spotted at retail for approx $1,000 6 months ago:
Fair enough it was a 2.5 nvme but 8tb m2 2280 disks have been on the market for literal years. You could get them in PCIe gen 3 …
- Comment on Lexar doubles up the NM790 series SSDs max capacity to 8TB — new drives spotted at retail for approx $1,000 6 months ago:
This isn’t bleeding edge at all. Just put a 15tb drive in a machine the other day and they are a couple years old at this point.
- Comment on LG monitor asking about ad tracking preferences 6 months ago:
You know I’ve not seen a bonzibuddy in a long long time.
- Comment on Fruit Flies 6 months ago:
No it’s because they take a horse sized chunk out of you when they bite you
- Comment on YouTube Shorts can now run up to three minutes 7 months ago:
Not that I disagree but how is tiktok doing it?
- Comment on Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration 7 months ago:
People more readily appreciate things that obviously directly affect them.
- Comment on Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration 7 months ago:
I think a good comparison is Bell Labs and AT&T. A lot of good work was done by Bell Labs but it was mostly enabled by AT&Ts monopoly.