antonim
@antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Invest now before it's too late! 1 week ago:
If copper is not valuable, why do you complain when I rip out your phone line and steal the copper? Checkmate liberal
- Comment on Rock art from at least 67,800 years ago in Sulawesi 1 week ago:
Btw
16.6 thousand years (kyr)
Is “kyr” meant to be read as “kiloyears”?
- Submitted 1 week ago to archaeology@mander.xyz | 1 comment
- Comment on Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday | Hacker News 1 week ago:
Fuck. Vimeo is used by many filmmakers and streaming services, moving all of that content elsewhere will be downright impossible to carry out completely. A lot of content will be irrecoverably lost once the company is really killed off.
Last year or so they disabled viewing other people’s profiles or even searching the website in the EU. I have to admit I haven’t seen any service being so actively destroyed.
- Comment on E gjithë bota është shqiptare 2 weeks ago:
Don’t forget the incredibly organised mafia (primarily cocaine trafficking) spanning pretty much the entire world.
- Comment on In the phrase “a long-winded response”, “winded” can be pronounced as in “wind” or as in “wind”, and both make etymological sense. 2 weeks ago:
The second “wind” is as in “I wound up the toy car and, when I released it, it zoomed all the way to the other side of the room”. In this context, a “long-winded response” is one that metaphorically winded the coils that make the speaker go.
The more primary meaning is this one (copied from Oxford Dictionary of English): move in or take a twisting or spiral course. The etymology (also from ODE) is: Old English windan ‘go rapidly’, ‘twine’, of Germanic origin; related to wander and wend. Long-winded = the speaker’s words/thoughts wander in circles for a long time.
- Comment on Wikipedia celebrates 25 years of knowledge at its best – Wikimedia Foundation 2 weeks ago:
Don’t spread this nonsense, please. All of Wikipedia’s content is already free, stays free and is still in the same place as ever. What has been sold to AI companies, that have already been scraping and using the site for years for free, is API access to WP’s material, suited to AI companies’ needs and hopefully less of a burden on WP’s normal infrastructure.
arstechnica.com/…/wikipedia-will-share-content-wi…
The deals mean that most major AI developers have now signed on to the foundation’s Wikimedia Enterprise program, a commercial subsidiary that sells high-speed API access to Wikipedia’s 65 million articles at higher speeds and volumes than the free public APIs provide. Wikipedia’s content remains freely available under a Creative Commons license, but the Enterprise program charges for faster, higher-volume access to the data.
- Comment on Insider trading, but make it worse 4 weeks ago:
they should have been trying to alert people to it
They would probably end up being criminally prosecuted for leaking the info, and I doubt some rando would be believed this stuff anyway, or even be able to reach any relevant audience. Unless they were a journalist (apparently some knew about it but kept silent), but again, leaking this would be suicidal.
They profited off having good connections in an imperialist state, and the naïve gamblers; dead civilians were irrelevant for the outcome. There’s way too many layers of rot at play for me to find this story in specific to be notably bad.
- Comment on Insider trading, but make it worse 4 weeks ago:
Fair enough.
But I still don’t see the problem with the way the guy won. The actual problems are the gambling website itself and people being stupid/gullible/addicted enough to waste money on it.
- Comment on Insider trading, but make it worse 4 weeks ago:
What’s sick about that, though? Guy had reliable insider info and made money off a cancerous gambling site. Good for him.
- Comment on I love science 4 weeks ago:
4chan-tier childish elitism in Facebook-tier packaging 👍
- Comment on Rather than fully cracking down on scam ads, Meta worked to make them harder to find - Sherwood News 4 weeks ago:
Can you recommend any such patched app for Facebook?
- Comment on Grindr CEO Says App Will Be “AI-First” and “Not in the Business of Politics” 5 weeks ago:
I’m sorry, how the fuck can an app made for men to find other men to get their back blown out be AI first.
AI is pretty good at fucking people in the ass.
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts, humans will finally have their chance to take back control | Rafael Behr 5 weeks ago:
eadaily.com/…/the-worlds-first-ai-minister-got-ca…
(Ok, the above article is mostly not true, the story was made up by an Onion-style satirical portal.)
- Comment on TikTok is automatically taking down posts with the Epstein files 1 month ago:
Admittedly at this point you probably won’t find much on the official site. Hopefully someone has saved the first version?
- Comment on TikTok allegedly monitoring users’ Grindr activity, digital rights group claims 1 month ago:
Places usually don’t vanish into nonexistenxe after five years.
- Comment on Congrats on the promotion 1 month ago:
Updated:
- Comment on What is this colour? 1 month ago:
Ah, a man of culture! But this one is too greenish, IMO
- Comment on Why is comment section of this video filled with nazis? 1 month ago:
Going off QuinnyCoded’s comment, I’d speculate the song is used in some antisemitic meme TikTok video or something similar. Kind of like Little Dark Age getting associated with nazi Hyperborea fantasies.
- Comment on What is this colour? 1 month ago:
Coyote Brown seems closer
- Comment on What is this colour? 1 month ago:
- Comment on What is this colour? 1 month ago:
This one seems to be the closest, unironically. Now my curiosity is satisfied and my soul at peace.
- Comment on What is this colour? 1 month ago:
No, it’s the colour of one book I own and it just struck me how I can’t name or describe it.
- Comment on What is this colour? 1 month ago:
Lol, is that an actual colour? I’m googling and the results are “mouse’s back”, although that one’s too gray IMO…
- Submitted 1 month ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 114 comments
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 1 month ago:
LG’s recent software update has forcibly installed Microsoft Copilot, an AI assistant, on smart TVs without removal options, sparking widespread user backlash over privacy, bloatware, and loss of control. This highlights growing tensions in smart devices, where monetization often overrides user preferences.
Sure is ironic that the article summary is itself AI-generated.
- Comment on It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects 1 month ago:
Pretty sure it was Scottish English. Does anyone outside of super rural places actively use Scots anyway?
- Comment on It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects 1 month ago:
Idk, I recently heard some thick Scottish English and I couldn’t understand literally anything. That might be in part due to the fact that I’m not a native speaker, but still I believe people outside the British isles would struggle with it.
Some of the uniformity is a result of cultural domination of specific centres and now unavoidable loss of original dialectal variation.
- Comment on Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla 1 month ago:
start putting up the money to make their support no longer required
There’s no way individual donations from ordinary people could match Google’s. They’re also likely to be less reliable.
Mozilla doesn’t even ask for donations from users a whole lot, and the money they receive mostly doesn’t go into development of the browser:
These funds directly support advocacy campaigns (i.e. asking big tech companies to protect your privacy), research and publications like the *Privacy Not Included buyer’s guide and Internet Health Report, and covers a portion of our annual MozFest gathering.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
He behaved like a bot, spammed content from reddit.
