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- Comment on The script is mysterious and important. 19 hours ago:
Holy shit, I never even heard of that, and the poster gives me an idea why. Was this by request from his grandkids or something?
- Comment on No you don't sit on it. In the olden days people used this to make orange juice 1 day ago:
Most functional War of the Worlds merch.
- Comment on The script is mysterious and important. 1 day ago:
Sean Connery turned down both Gandalf in Lord of the Rings and Morpheus in The Matrix because he didn’t understand the scripts. He turned down Dumbledore in Harry Potter because it was too fantastical. Then he tried a reverse approach where he accepted the next role he didn’t understand, because clearly that was where the money was at. So he accepted Allan Quartermain in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a movie which flopped hard. Then he ragequit the industry and retired.
- Comment on AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations 2 days ago:
It’s admittedly been a while since last time I saw it, but I never mentioned chess. The suggestion to play chess in the screenshot is a callback to when the computer tries to suggest playing chess instead of global thermonuclear war earlier in the movie. The computer did not apply tic tac toe learnings to chess, and I never claimed it did.
- Comment on AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations 2 days ago:
You should! Actually a pretty accurate depiction of hacking. He spends weeks war dialing every phone number in the range in order to hack the computer.
- Comment on AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations 2 days ago:
I don’t know if we’re doing spoilers for 40+ year old movies, but
spoiler
Isn’t this really its conclusion after being told to play tic tac toe against itself? Then it learned from that and applied it to its global thermonuclear war simulations.
- Comment on Fairphone 5 bricked by faulty Android 15 update 1 week ago:
Should be possible to make a compatibility layer. You can run android apps on PC now, according to constant banners on Play Store.
The biggest issue is hardware support. Mobile hardware still uses custom drivers for everything, so you wouldn’t be able to ramp up a new OS on existing hardware. You’d need to invest in making both a phone and an OS, and that’s a big risk considering only a small amount of turbo nerds will care.
- Comment on ```curl -u "lab_tech:olympic_medalist" https://usa-curling.org/podium``` 1 week ago:
Is it common for curling athletes to be doing it full time? I don’t know many curlers, but all the ones I’m familiar with have a day job, including the ones in Norway, where there’s a pretty strong focus on winter sports.
- Comment on Just a few 2 weeks ago:
Also somehow the King James version is authoritative, after who knows how many links if translation phone games?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I assume “destructively scan” means to cut the spine off so they lie flat, and that one copy of each book will be scanned? Isn’t that a pretty normal way of doing it in cases where the prints aren’t rare?
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 3 weeks ago:
I discovered that there’s a separate application which just reinstalls Teams all the time. I don’t remember the name, but it had Teams in the name. After I uninstalled that it finally stopped popping up.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s more that they’re not really making money on Windows anymore. The money is in cloud services like Office 365. So Windows is just being used to push people towards what actually makes Microsoft money, disregarding whether they actually want those services.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 3 weeks ago:
pureinfotech.com/microsoft-windows-11-ai-brakes-c…
Note that this article completely buries the lede. This is the last paragraph:
#Enterprise pushback is also influencing decisions#
Separately, enterprise users have pushed back against Copilot in managed environments, prompting the software giant to test options that would allow IT admins to uninstall Copilot more easily on business devices. This indicates that the rethink isn’t just about consumer sentiment but also addresses corporate deployment challenges.
The reason they’re having second thoughts is due to enterprise customers, who are the only customers they really care about the opinion of. If it was just home users complaining, they would not be adjusting course.
- Comment on Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support. 3 weeks ago:
I imagine this is why MS is finally backtracking a bit on the aggressive pushing of AI in every app. They’re doing Clippy all over again, but OS-wide this time.
Just impressive how hard they managed to screw the pooch here. Have they forgotten that every other Windows release is universally hated? They had a good thing going until they discontinued Windows 10 before Windows 12 was out. Now they’ll probably need to rush out another version, because the name Windows 11 is forever tainted.
- Comment on Can workers compete with machines and stay relevant in the AI era? 3 weeks ago:
In this case “Doomer” is probably an alternate word for Gen Z. They are sometimes called the doomer generation.
- Comment on how could this happen😔 4 weeks ago:
Usually, yes. But in some movies they drive the plot. The sex scenes in A Somewhat Gentle Man (2010) are hilarious, help establish the character, and are a pretty challenging wank.
- Comment on FCC to crack down on liberal late-night shows, 'The View' for not giving equal airtime to GOP guests 5 weeks ago:
I’m sure all of the GOP would love to go on The Daily Show to get roasted by the host and booed by the audience.
- Comment on I hate when this happens 5 weeks ago:
Remember to only mark the worms that are fucking.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
They literally just vote for whoever their pastor tells them to vote for. It’s authoritarianism all the way down.
- Comment on Lemmy: Beans 1 month ago:
Please don’t post that without a trigger warning. Some of us are IE6 survivors.
- Comment on (TW) Phishing mail in 2026 1 month ago:
Also infuriating, so you’re going to be pissed off and more likely to click the link without thinking.
- Comment on (TW) Phishing mail in 2026 1 month ago:
Also triggering to anyone upset by ICE murdering people in the streets. I’ve never been scammed, but the idea of my emails automatically announcing support for the gestapo stirred up some feelings in me.
… which is why it’s an excellent phishing email, hats off to them. I’d be way more likely to rush to the link in this case than if I received a standard “your account is being locked” phish.
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 1 month ago:
I figured the 2004 release as the PS2 slim turned the tables again, but that was still before the Wii came out in 2006. It’s possible that story only counted the original PS2 and this chart counts both, though.
- Comment on open source journey - 2025 was a big year! 1 month ago:
Sorry to hear about your kid, and I hope they get better! I don’t watch TV or play video games either, but right now my wife and kids consume the bulk of my free time. Not that it would matter, I’d never get to your release frequency if I was single either.
I’m more of a “refactor it 90 times before I deem it worthy and then spend some more time failing to come up with a name” kind of guy. I’m pretty good at working with legacy codebases, though, so most of my OSS contributions are patches to existing projects. That’s also easier to cram into my schedule.
- Comment on open source journey - 2025 was a big year! 1 month ago:
Holy smokes, you did all that in one year? Alone? Do you just write open source projects full time, or do you also have a day job on top of all that?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Pretty sure Trello was bought by Atlassian?
- Comment on Billionaires plot to flee California over proposed super wealth tax 1 month ago:
If it’s a tax on holdings applied every year, 5% is significant. It’s best compared with property taxes, which is another tax which works in a similar way. Property taxes are often capped at 1% of assessed value.
I’m in favor of taxing the rich, and taxing their holdings at 5% (without too many loopholes) would exceed my expectations. I expect this to get whittled down to around 1% before actually making it into law, though.
- Comment on Are we deprogramming empathy in the US? 2 months ago:
This is largely an American problem, although it is spreading due to global media.
I blame it largely on Calvinism and the prosperity gospel:
“Good things come to good people” -> “If good things didn’t come to you, you’re not a good person” -> “Poor people are poor because they are bad people, and we should not help them” -> “It’s okay to help billionaires, they wouldn’t be rich if they weren’t good people”
A lot of poor people have this view in the US, which you would think would make them reconsider it, but they solve this with mental gymnastics: They and their in-group are good people, so obviously it’s okay to help them and the good things are coming any second. Another reason not to tax rich people, they’ll be one soon!
- Comment on A new ‘solution’ to student homelessness: a parking lot where students can sleep safely in their cars 2 months ago:
A friend of mine used to live in his car, and he told me the worst part was getting chased away all the time. This would remove some stress from a very stressful situation.
- Comment on Don't know, I speak german 2 months ago:
Korn means “grain” in German, so both the name and illustration suggests this is made from fermented grains.