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- Comment on Starbucks' new CEO will supercommute 1,000 miles from California to Seattle office instead of relocating 2 months ago:
Niccol will still be expected to work from the Seattle office at least three days a week
Except when he’s flying around the country/world to other locations.
- Comment on ISP to Supreme Court: We shouldn’t have to disconnect users accused of piracy 2 months ago:
Especially since it specifically highlights porn in a different color, it labeled my VPN IP as “Likes Porn”.
- Comment on Microsoft is enabling BitLocker device encryption by default on Windows 11 2 months ago:
Where’s your encrypted USB recovery key stored?! Is it encrypted USBs all the way down?
- Comment on Video of Eric Schmidt blaming remote work for Google’s woes mysteriously vanishes 2 months ago:
Odd coming from someone who is fucking retired.
I’d suspect he sacrificed work-life balance his whole career (yes, CEOs are known for golfing and vacations, but I bet they still think of work 24/7). So just like people complaining about student loan forgiveness, some people get so angry if they perceive someone might have an easier experience than they did.
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads 2 months ago:
It’s a very searchable name
- Comment on Anna's Archive Loses .GS Domain Name But Remains Resilient. 3 months ago:
I’m seeding 5TB of Anna’s - all I did was say how much data I could take and the site made a pack of torrents that needed help. It’s the least I can do for all the knowledge I’ve benefited from.
- Comment on xkcd #2959: Beam of Light 3 months ago:
You’re not a smooth brain if you don’t know something, you’re a smooth brain if you don’t learn something.
- Comment on Framework Laptop 16, six months later 4 months ago:
The answer is there, keep wondering 🙂
- Comment on Microsoft is testing Game Pass ads on the Windows 11 Settings homepage 5 months ago:
My last Linux dual-boot install was trying to apply Conversion Therapy to me and corrupted my windows boot records. Finally got it resolved, but what a nuisance.
- Comment on Congress’s push to protect kids online is at a crossroads (KOSA, US-focused) 5 months ago:
From atop your mountain of Playstations, will you finally stop putting puppies in blenders?!
- Comment on Steam is now banned in Vietnam 5 months ago:
Why buy one steam library when you can buy two for twice the price?
- Comment on Streaming is cable now | Seventeen years after Netflix and Hulu kicked off a streaming revolution, it’s looking more like cable than ever. 6 months ago:
When the ideas run dry for infinite growth, everything old is new again.
- Comment on Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking, and color-coding of employees 6 months ago:
Love it when the logical excuse is the Sunk Cost Fallacy.
Though I think there’s some truth - companies still pay employees for their WFH rigs / utilities (or they should be, anyway), so it’s not exactly free for them to have WFH (just a lot cheaper, if there’s a choice).
The logical excuse I buy into is that commercial real estate is valued on it’s income and if business aren’t renewing leases because they don’t need office space, then commercial real estate values tank. That and thinly veiled layoffs.
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 6 months ago:
To wit: RepRap
- Comment on What is the Anti Commercial-Al license and why do people keep adding it to their comments? 6 months ago:
As long as you can profit from new data, data scarcity will never end.
- Comment on Congress lets broadband funding run out, ending $30 low-income discounts 6 months ago:
If you’re in need, check out PCsForPeople, they offer subsidized unlimited 4G hotspots. They’re well suited for low-bandwidth uses and was my primary home internet for a few years. I used Wifi bridge routers to help connect ethernet / more devices / better range.
There’s also still the Lifeline program, which is a much smaller discount, but can still help.
- Comment on FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote 6 months ago:
Thanks for the context in this specific case in response to my last paragraph.
So you’re saying it could have been done 6 months ago but is only now being done in the 4th year of Biden’s term?
- Comment on What do companies get out of rewards programs 6 months ago:
This is why I always try “Jenny’s Number” for loyalty programs when I can enter an phone number (Local area code +8675309). A Safeway near me used to offer fuel points with grocery purchases up to $1 discount per gallon. I saved a lot of money in gas for a while, then it seemed Safeway got wise and deactivated those numbers.
- Comment on What a TikTok Ban Would Mean for the U.S. Defense of an Open Internet 6 months ago:
By the content of the post, I’d imagine.
People don’t use hashtags on a lot of sensitive topics, because they already fear suppression within Tiktok. The US based operation is already partially owned by Oracle (and all of Larry Ellison’s shenanigans) and Walmart as of 2020. For example, since October, Tiktok creators went to extreme lengths to mask the content of pro-Palestinian news, including using hand written note cards or other things that are difficult for automated filters to flag. Anti-establishment messages were already suppressed and widely brigaded by Zionists.
#Thispostisaboutfruit
- Comment on What a TikTok Ban Would Mean for the U.S. Defense of an Open Internet 6 months ago:
Most assuredly, the licensing of the spectrum comes with requirements and strings, so those broadcasters are regulated. They must follow the rules or risk their license.
However, radio licensing came about to avoid broadcast “collisions” for amateur radio operators in ~1912. Regulations came later under the FCC in 1934.
These same collisions are not applicable to the internet (or rather, we’ve already used methods to avoid them, like DNS).
- Comment on FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote 6 months ago:
This is the “fourth year surge,” where 1st term presidents rush to get a lot of positive policy change so they look like they’re doing a good job. They tend to pass more legislation and use fewer executive orders during this time.
Some of the policy that previous presidents are best known for were passed during this surge time, including Social Security, the Fair Labor Standards Act, Civil Rights Act, Federal Highway Aid Act, Equal Pay act, etc.
Here, asking “why” is asking “what is their incentive”.
There may be some merit to saying that a president is an entire branch of government and cycling out staff in key positions to get them in political alignment can take a lot of time. Biden’s admin has had to re-staff many departments after Trump.
- Comment on What a TikTok Ban Would Mean for the U.S. Defense of an Open Internet 6 months ago:
Isn’t broadcast licensing specifically about partitioning radio spectrum space, which isn’t applicable here? US-based social media isn’t licensed and applying radio era law to internet may not be appropriate.
- Comment on What a TikTok Ban Would Mean for the U.S. Defense of an Open Internet 6 months ago:
Surveying content on Tiktok by hashtag is spurious. It’s not the primary method of content aggregation.
- Comment on Biden expected to sign the TikTok ban on Wed. 6 months ago:
- Comment on Apple fixes iPhone bug that suggested Palestinian flag when some people typed ‘Jerusalem’ 6 months ago:
As far as I’m concerned, the Kansas side might as well not exist! (There is no subtext, I really don’t like Kansas)
- Comment on Paging Mr. Manager 6 months ago:
We just say manager.
- Comment on Do we intentionally translate ancient stuff and languages to sound old timey as an artistic choice, or is there some other reason? 6 months ago:
Ha, great skit. Last I visited was for a wedding between a Swede and a Dane, they both claimed the other spoke like they had mashed potatoes in their mouth.
- Comment on Do we intentionally translate ancient stuff and languages to sound old timey as an artistic choice, or is there some other reason? 6 months ago:
My grandmother took me to her birthplace in Denmark and kept saying she couldn’t speak Danish with the locals, despite having spoken Danish with her family in America semi-regularly. I never thought it was because her vocabulary and accent was stuck in 1940s and she didn’t feel confident speaking that way.
- Comment on I bought frozen BBQ eel and the best before date says LJ349. What does this mean? 6 months ago:
This may be No Stupid Questions, but there sure are a lot of stupid answers.
- Comment on US to award Samsung up to $6.6 billion chip subsidy for Texas expansion, sources say 7 months ago:
Taxpayer investment in private firms needs to come with dividends for taxpayers.
