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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, you can really see Adolf saying “Sieg Heil!” Scary stuff.

  Not to mention the guy on the left.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you feel about owning a Nazi car? Any feelings around that? Curious about your feelings or anyone else owning a Tesla right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Floorp is a new Firefox based browser from Japan with excellent privacy & flexibility.

  💀

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't we go back to small phones?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Answering the phone single-handed sounds like it should be possible on even the largest of phones. No problem for me using a Pixel 9 Pro, although it’s not a very big phone of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't we go back to small phones?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Stock market says brrr

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn a 5-star safety rating in Europe | Euro NCAP will introduce new testing rules in 2026 requiring physical controls for the highest safety score⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I like it, wish mine did that 😎

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Installing Countermeasures as People Are Hacking the Cables Off Superchargers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re going to visit family up in the backwoods, the options you listed aren’t really viable. At least not for us.

  And I don’t think you can drive 8 hours before recharging. Say you have a battery of 120 kWh, which is absolutely massive. And let’s say you’re driving at higher speeds like 100+ km/h, maybe you’ll be doing around 20 kWh/100 km consumption rate (that might even be generous depending on the car, especially in the winter). Finishing the battery from 100% to 0% would be (units in italics) 120 kWh ÷ 20 kWh/100 km × 100 km ÷ 100 km/h average speed = 6 hours of driving. And then your car needs to be towed at 0 percent charge left. 🙃

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn a 5-star safety rating in Europe | Euro NCAP will introduce new testing rules in 2026 requiring physical controls for the highest safety score⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not just them, but a lot of the car platforms coming out of China right now, including Volvo cars. I have an EX40, which has a lot of physical buttons, and a physical lever for the glove compartment (🤯), but when I tried the EX30 I was blown away by the poor driving experience. So crappy. Everything is done via the screen, and it sucks. Not even a speed indicator in front of the driver, but you have to glance over to the center screen.

  Also the one-pedal drive was really bad on the EX30, but that’s another story. I also hated the gear lever behind the wheel instead of a stick between the driver and passenger seat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn a 5-star safety rating in Europe | Euro NCAP will introduce new testing rules in 2026 requiring physical controls for the highest safety score⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh. I think it looks kind of cool? Is it that hard to see?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a lot in here that I don’t understand.

  1. What’s wrong with Moxie? You mean it’s weird he’s an emeritus and not part of the board?
  2. What’s “much more questionable” about the other people? From the descriptions on that page they all seem like standup people.
  3. Could you explain the “relative proximity to some in the US establishment” bit? That was too vague for me to grasp.
  4. “some have been designating anyone who questions Signal as ‘Russian Propaganda’ and immediately deflecting about how Telegram is bad, is even more curious.” — Who has done this, you mean? And why exactly is it “curious”?

  Honestly, there was nothing at all in there that I understood, due to how vague it all was. I would appreciate it if you or someone could fill me in here, because it’s important to know who’s driving this thing, and if the platform can be trusted. I just want to not go by some vague rumors before I make up my mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They want to make crime fighting more accessible to the police… 💀

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Really hoping legislators in Sweden don’t force Signal to pull its services from the country. 🫣

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They mentioned SyncThing. 👍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Installing Countermeasures as People Are Hacking the Cables Off Superchargers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just get rid of the charging stations. It’s ridiculous that EV owners should expect to charge their cars anywhere but at home or at work.

  Freaking BASED.

  But for long-distance trips, that doesn’t really hold up until we get battery capacities vastly superior to those of today. For countries with workers that have vacations, we like to go places other than home or work, sometimes. 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rust is Eating JavaScript⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can I just say how beautiful that page is? Such a delight to read the text on it. The legibility. The simplicity. 😙👌

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something like Sonarr but for Youtube?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Any way to get YouTube’s recommendations as well, and not just subscriptions? I mainly watch stuff from my recommendations, which are usually exactly what I want to see. Been honing my alg for decades. 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  in their jurisdiction (Mexico) it is actually the “Gulf of Mexico” in Google Maps, they don’t get the “Gulf of America” name.

  I’m in Europe and for me it says “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)”. 🥴

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Alternatives are just not good enough

  And to no fault of their own of course. They just aren’t working with the same resources as Google and the others.

  I think it’s more a question of stepping down our level of comfort at this point. Can we live without a particular service that Google provides, when there are no alternatives with feature parity? Or can we live with the fact that some of the features aren’t working as well or missing, and use the alternatives anyway?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pixelfed's first plateau in progress⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not for me but I can see how it would be for some people joining a platform focusing on image content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can confirm. As soon as I turn off personalized ads, I get nothing but “find hot ladies in your area” and “play this hentai game” ads across all Google products. It’s ridiculous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"It seems likely Elon Musk has lost over half of the UK twitter daily audience by now"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Alright, thanks so much. 👊

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk wants the U.S. to “Liberate the people Britain from their tyrannical government”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe Putin Musk should launch a special military operation in Ukraine Britain to de-nazify de-tyrranize them. How kind and noble that would be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG and Samsung are adding Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant to their TVs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably intentional, yeah. 😔

  You got any other brands of TV you could recommend?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG and Samsung are adding Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant to their TVs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can confirm, I bought my LG OLED 65" in 2019 and… it’s a little slow (sluggish UI) but the display is still amazing. Great sound, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"It seems likely Elon Musk has lost over half of the UK twitter daily audience by now"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah shit.

  Can I instead just kind of… “clean” my existing account? Is that possible? Delete everything automatically yet keep my account, as a now blank one?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Question for you: Do you manually check every hardware toggle for correctness?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And a software toggle can be checked with some software knowledge if the source is available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"It seems likely Elon Musk has lost over half of the UK twitter daily audience by now"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for sharing. I deleted the X app many months ago, maybe over a year? But I think I’m ready to actually delete my account now. Contribute to the global Xodus stats and whatnot.

  Cool stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure why someone would down vote this. I fully agree. Please someone explain why consumers shouldn’t be able to use an extension like this that is not-for-profit, e.g.