AllNewTypeFace

@AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Casio made an Oura Ring alternative that's everything but smart⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That and cheap and cheerful musical keyboards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ah, the old family favourite⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s obviously from the parallel timeline in which German became the official language of the United States.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it really possible to tax the rich?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not even that; 0.1% per trade would bring in a huge windfall. Even something negligible like 0.01% would bring in nontrivial amounts of revenue.

  The problem is that being above paying tax has become part of the identity of being rich, and the very idea of even a negligible amount of one’s wealth being taken away to be given to your inferiors is unacceptable, and the rich will defend every fluctuating cent of their wealth as a non-negotiable matter of honour, even if it means burning down the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify’s Plans For AI Generated Music, Podcasts, and Recommendations, According To Its Co-President, CTO, and CPO Gustav Söderström⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Cutting out everyone but the middleman

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify’s Plans For AI Generated Music, Podcasts, and Recommendations, According To Its Co-President, CTO, and CPO Gustav Söderström⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally, they can make a robo-Rogan that can radicalise young men at a fraction of the cost

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia backs UN resolution recognising ‘permanent sovereignty’ of Palestinians in major departure⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So much for Judaeochristian settler solidarity…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Australia is Responding to a Second Trump Term⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Japanese would be viable vendors, were it not for the WW2 connotations of Japanese submarines being politically unpalatable to the kinds of hypernationalists who care about these things.

  Apparently Germany and Sweden also build decent submarines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Australia is Responding to a Second Trump Term⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  By electing a Dutton-led right-wing government to better keep pace, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would North Korean soldiers do in Ukraine?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The good news: your troops come back with combat experience, the first North Koreans to have it since the 1950s

  The bad news: your troops come back hooked on internet porn.

  You can set up veterans-only porn dispensaries on the national intranet to mitigate that (the state’s hackers can steal it in between emptying Bitcoin wallets for the nuclear programme, or you can set up a domestic porn industry for the military), though what if they are also have become used to freer access to information and speech in general?

  The other option, of course, is to make sure nobody comes back alive; like Icelandic racehorses, once your troops leave your pure country, they may never return, lest they contaminate it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 50 best Australian songs of the 90s⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  +1 for the Gurge, Single Gun Theory and Deadstar.

  I’d have probably added some Paradise Motel to that list; perhaps Bad Light or German Girl.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who was our best Prime Minister and why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Whitlam did a lot, but only Holt made a pact with Poseidon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mushrooms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, you cannot kill them in a way that matters

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s technically not wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trumpism is just Scientology done as politics instead of religion.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re exactly as scientific as the Victorian spiritualists who talked about “vibrational energies” and such, which is to say, not at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No-fault evictions banned and break-lease fees capped under sweeping reforms in Victoria⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How much would it cost the Tenants’ Union to have someone tracking properties on the market and flagging any whose tenants have been evicted over the past year on grounds of moving back in, with a view to suing on behalf of the evicted tenants?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain will rejoin the EU within 15 years, former Brussels chief predicts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope so. Though 15 years may be a bit optimistic. The UK has passed through the phase of leaving the EU being a benefit in itself (freeing it up to rule the waves once again unfettered by the whims of politically-correct vino-drinking bureaucrats and such), and, faced with the sunk cost of its folly, has retreated into denial. Brexit may have cost us dearly, it goes, but it’s a price we have to pay to be true to our destiny, rather than pretending to be just another small country interchangeable with Spaniards and Belgians. Eventually the fit of pique will end and the consensus will settle on Brexit being a bit shite, and there not being any meaningful glorious destiny for which it is a price worth paying, and the question is how do we become like the Spaniards or Belgians (or, indeed, the Irish), enjoying the conveniences of the EU. It may take a generation though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  10% is being generous. The parts of “AI” that aren’t just an expensive way of getting exciting-looking but unreliable results are mundane things like autocorrect, image upscaling models, handwriting recognition and such: unglamorous statistical learning in narrowly constrained domains nobody would claim is on the verge of becoming sentient and spawning the Singularity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure he’ll acknowledge his mistake, apologise profusely and make amends with a round of capital-gains tax cuts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passport-less clearance fully available at Changi Airport, average clearance time of 10 seconds: ICA⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Singapore, or as William Gibson called it, Disneyland With The Death Penalty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Stop all time wasting’: Woolworths workers tracked and timed under new efficiency crackdown⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Though put the Greens ahead of Labor. Labor losing seats to the Greens, and having to depend on the Greens to govern, is a realistic possibility, and Greens MPs holding their feet to the fire could provide a counterbalance to the revolving door to corporate Australia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'It Has Plateaued': Should We Be Worried About Console Gaming's Future?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The economics of consoles made more sense when computer power was expensive, and the choice was an underpowered home computer with so-so graphics and sound or a dedicated game machine optimised for drawing sprites and scrolling the screen responsively, with the extra costs subsidised by the price of (uncopyable) software. When PCs caught up, the consoles started looking internally like x86 PCs with souped-up GPUs (and, of course, draconian amounts of DRM baked in). Now with devices like the Steam Deck (and similar form-factor devices running Windows in game-console mode), there’s no real reason to buy a dedicated game-playing machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chris Kaba shooting: Firearms officer not guilty of murder⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All police officers are, by definition, not guilty of anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drink it, I dare ya⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds as bad an idea as the other drink, H2O4U

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't Signal forbid third party clients or at least offer a client certification program to ensure security?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC, they do forbid third-party clients from their network. You can build it from source, but you won’t be able to connect to production Signal servers.

  Third-party clients would not necessarily be a bad thing. Signal has limited resources, and as such has to cut corners. I for one would love a native desktop client that’s not Electron bloatware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK experts warn against buying ‘XL bully cats’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They should get the breeders for animal cruelty and trading standards: “XL Bully cats” implies large, aggressive cats that could eat small children, not pitiful crippled cats doomed to a life of suffering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New car buyers driven to white or grey, with bright colours rarer than ever, data shows⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the UK, the fronts of most/all trains are painted yellow for this reason. Given that cars are more abundant and less predictable than trains, perhaps making them (or just the bumpers/trim) yellow/orange would have safety benefits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian families switching to cycling as car-running costs rise - ABC News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t Australia still a country where bikes are sold as sporting goods alongside cricket bats and gym mats, rather than as practical devices one would use in everyday life?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart wanted ‘so-called’ portraits ‘permanently disposed of’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, if Australia’s sporting heroes say that these paintings shouldn’t be on display, who are we to argue?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DIY mini-ITX motherboard lets you play DOS games without emulation — ITX Llama features a Vortex86EX 500 MHz CPU⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So, a new computer that works like an old computer?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labor threatens to cancel visas for ‘inciting discord’ after protests against Israeli attacks on Lebanon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Next there’ll be a bipartisan bill to bring back the Howard-era sedition laws, complete with anti-boycott provisions. Only the Greens and perhaps the Lambioids will vote against it.