supersquirrel
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- Comment on Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30 3 days ago:
Now is the time to spread your wings and try linux as a replacement for windows!
- Comment on Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation 4 days ago:
Agreed, I guess I meant it potentially had a great interface that was progressively enshittified… but if it hadn’t… it would have been nice.
That was a different timeline, if such a one where microsoft doesn’t enshittify xbox exists.
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- Comment on Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation 4 days ago:
It particularly enrages me since the xbox 360 had a wonderful interface in my opinion.
- Comment on ‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians 4 days ago:
So? There is a difference between someone using your tools for evil and actively engaging in profit seeking with said evil doer in order to make money hand over fist.
- Comment on Namibia’s forgotten genocide: how Bushmen were hunted and killed under German colonial rule 5 days ago:
The Kalahari Basin in southern Africa is one of the world’s richest ethnographic zones (areas with distinct cultures). The region is home to some of the oldest languages still in existence and the genetic diversity found in the zone indicates that it is home to one of the world’s original ancestral populations.
- Comment on Black Holes 5 days ago:
Idk, I don’t think most scifi pushes the envelope of what we can imagine, rather it provides a convenient escape to galaxies less incomprehensible than the bewilderment of earth where the author can make a point about spacewar and unstoppable mindless empires.
shrugs
Scifi (like any other genre) needs to continually reaffirm its association with creativity, not assume because paper thin character types are fighting spacewars that it counts as pushing the envelope of our imaginations.
/end side rant
- Comment on Investigation: Israel's Unit 8200 built a system to collect millions of mobile phone calls made daily in Gaza and the West Bank using Microsoft's Azure platform 5 days ago:
Microsoft is knowingly participating in genocide.
- Comment on ‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians 5 days ago:
However, Unit 8200 sources said intelligence drawn from the enormous repositories of phone calls held in Azure had been used to research and identify bombing targets in Gaza.
Microsoft is directly profitting off of the Genocide of Palestinians.
Directly and KNOWINGLY profitting off of genocide.
Truly listen to those words and let them sink in. This is evil.
- Comment on Expert here. 6 days ago:
as in Nibbles Woodaway?
- Comment on Steam Survey for July 2025 shows Linux approaching 3% 6 days ago:
The avalanche will only grow
- Comment on Expert here. 6 days ago:
Just another example of entomologists withholding crucial information about the bug kingdom from us, who do they work for anyways? The humans or the bugs?
What if there are EVEN bigger bugs out there entomologists just conveniently haven’t told us about yet…?
Think TREEbug not Stickbug.
The end is near and it is segmented into three main body sections!!
- Comment on Why doesn't the US build a bridge here to connect Alaska to the mainland? Are they stupid? 1 week ago:
During the Mexican-American War the US secretly bribed Alaska to sneak up behind Mexico and eat Mexico in one big gulp.
Then the US put Alaska in a box to quarantine it because it started to get sick. This is what you see illustrated on many maps because it was historically a very important moment to US geography.
Eventually Alaska got too nauseous, threw Mexico back up and crawled back on top of Canada.
What a lot of people don’t realize though is what made Alaska so sick wasn’t Mexico, it was that Alaska mistook Texas for part of Mexico and took both Mexico and Texas in one bite, and it was only the extreme toxicity of Texas that made Alaska so queasy. Mexico was fine chilling inside Alaska. Alaskans and Mexicans had even taken to calling it “Mexicalaska”.
- Comment on Blue-collar revenge: The things AI can't do are making a comeback 1 week ago:
Virtually all actually useful things are making a comeback?
- Comment on It's time to boycott U.S. digital services! Here's a chart to help you do so: 1 week ago:
So what, it is an incredibly evil company.
- Comment on Need a keyboard with a dedicated "slop" button 1 week ago:
I will stop freaking out when naive techbro men stop the ecological mass murder and ecological discussion that they supposedly NEED to do to sustain their shitty knockoff of a religion/cult.
- Comment on AI slop is ruining all of our favorite places to scroll 1 week ago:
Not here
- Comment on I wonder how many people throughout history have confused Floaters with ghosts, UFOs, or other paranormal phenomena 1 week ago:
No, Aliens successfully genetically bioengineered our eyes to have “eye floaters” that look exactly like their interdimensional starships flying overhead so they can fly them around on Earth without anyone noticing. It is all part of their evil genius plan!
- Comment on I wonder how many people throughout history have confused Floaters with ghosts, UFOs, or other paranormal phenomena 1 week ago:
That is only because Aliens monitor all aircraft on earth and will if given the chance teleport-swap your hat for a UFO while it is thrown in the air (it is the perfect time to do it unfortunately). Notice how most politicians don’t wear hats, it is because they know their hats were long ago replaced with alien monitoring UFOs that only look and feel like hats and they are keeping the truth from us.
- Comment on Big tech sees AI investments begin to pay off 1 week ago:
How? This article claims Meta has proved you can make your stock price go up by talking about AI and offering large salaries, that only indicates something to me I already know, the stock market is willingly delusional about this. What is Meta actually
- Comment on Skip 1 week ago:
No, you are now renting “you” from the teleporter company that automatically copyrighted your body and genetics when you used it.
- Comment on At $250 million, top AI salaries dwarf those of the Manhattan Project and the Space Race 1 week ago:
gotta sustain that bubble!
- Comment on ’Credibility’ of US economics data at risk, say experts, as president fires labor official 1 week ago:
Not “at risk”, rather “gone”, “obliterated”.
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- Comment on Hideo Kojima learned "so many ways to kill people" in training, says it's "kind of sad" many devs "don't know how to dismantle a gun or shoot a gun" despite making military games 1 week ago:
There might be some truth to aspects of this, but overall yes I think this is leaning precisely into the kind of worship of the aesthetics of violence/guns that leads to things like the fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins by Alec Baldwin on the film set for the movie “Rust”.
www.mercurynews.com/2021/11/23/…/amp/
If you want to learn how to safely handle a firearm or other weapon and integrate that knowledge into the games you make, cool… and I mean I guess this is news? but it turns out integrating genuine outside knowledge of video game context into video games can be interesting. However you could have chosen literally any other hobby or niche body of knowledge to obsess about and bring into your video games and gotten a similar if not larger return in your investment of effort spent not directly practicing getting better at making video games.
By the logic being argued here about weapons, would be game developers should prioritize becoming experts at fishing wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy before guns because fishing mechanics are in an absurd amount of video games and no matter what type of game you make you can probably integrate a fishing minigame into it. Further, it is very rare that game developers actually try to create realistic fishing games even though there is evidently a lot of interest in fishing in a video game.
Also… Euro Truck Simulator 2 has sold 13 million copies… do we need to consider the fact that game developers should maybe get a commercial truck drivers license before developing games because of the indication of how clearly players desire realistic truck driving games?
- Comment on AI in Wyoming may soon use more electricity than state’s human residents 1 week ago:
This must be understood as purposefully setting up the conditions to rationalize systematic violence.
The AI is just a silly cartoon slapped on the face of a much older, simpler and more brutal strategy of gaining power, which is to magnify crisis so it can be exploited.
- Comment on Meta touts 'superintelligence' for all as it splurges on AI 1 week ago:
The Register is a great reliable indepth IT/tech news publication I value for the quality of its information, the headlines and general editorial tone drenched in a refreshing icecold sarcasm towards silicon valley is a definite bonus though.
- Comment on Seriously cool car combat game FUMES has entered Early Access 1 week ago:
For a similar vibe but as roguelike zombie roadtrip survival game check out Endgame: Road To Salvation.
…steampowered.com/…/Endgame_Road_To_Salvation/
Also check out Chaos On Wheels, it has a mixed rating but I think it shows promise and the core gameplay is fun.
- Comment on Dogs don't understand many words but they understand your voice tone and your body movements 1 week ago:
The spirit of what you are saying is true, but no Dogs can understand a lot of words if they need to/are trained too.
- Comment on i like this website 2 weeks ago:
The radar was described by Lt. Gen Trey Obering (former director of MDA) as being able to track an object the size of a baseball over San Francisco in California from Chesapeake Bay in Virginia, approximately 2,900 miles (4,700 km) away.[4][5] The radar will guide land-based missiles from Alaska and California, as well as in-theater assets, depending on the mission.
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also that center massive dome is according to canon technically floppy!
The vessel has many small radomes for various communications tasks and a large central dome that encloses a phased-array, 1,800 tonne (4,000,000 pound) X-band radar antenna. The small radomes are rigid, but the central dome is not - the flexible cover is supported by positive air pressure amounting to a few inches of water. The amount of air pressure is variable depending on weather conditions.
