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- Comment on Microsoft blocks registry trick that unlocked performance-boosting native NVMe driver on Windows 11 — workarounds still exist to enable support, however 1 week ago:
Windows 10 was ok-ish until they announced
Windows 11 and ramped up it’s enshitification… They improved the tiles idea a lot over windows 8
Windows phone 7 was great too…
I use Linux now though too, I’ve found flatpak isn’t a silver bullet though: depending on what distro you’re using and what distro whoever made the flatpak was using sometimes strange issues happen such as not loading in dark mode or losing settings on close/shutdown…
- Comment on The FCC decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the US. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Is it actually healthy for people to have a place to confess things anonymously? 2 weeks ago:
Maybe could say it’s a Pastafarian ritual for the same legal protection as confession in Christian religions?
- Comment on Is it actually healthy for people to have a place to confess things anonymously? 2 weeks ago:
Moderation kinda depends on identity, as the trolls who want every room to be toxic will enter every room and make sure it’s toxic if there’s no identification.
- Comment on Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions 3 weeks ago:
The copyright concerns can be mitigated somewhat by prompting to follow existing patterns in the codebase(and double checking that it has done that when reviewing the generated code)
- Comment on Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions 3 weeks ago:
it enriches the pocketbooks of the techno-fascists that run those datacenters.
Depends, in a lot of cases it costs them more money to service the query than they charge 😅.
Although it’s all borrowed money so it doesn’t matter to them…
Still causing all that havoc on the environment and poisoning with potentially proprietary stolen code though…
They’re gonna be running those data centers regardless though, as most of the cpmpute time is spent on training new models…
- Comment on Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions 3 weeks ago:
It can be good at generating boilerplate code or copying an existing solution, so maybe it might be useful for less critical parts such as adding a GUI for some feature that was previously limited to the command line…
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto 3 weeks ago:
I’d recommend using lasers for that 🤣
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto 3 weeks ago:
If I want to see the comment section I use official app, and just pause the ad.
- Comment on People who grew up with Vietnam and the Cold War, is Iran going to be the new vietnam or just a semi cool war? 3 weeks ago:
The cold war never ended, it just got a bit colder for a while.
- Comment on If Programmers are wizards then what are Computer Architects? 3 weeks ago:
Open sourcery
- Comment on At 25, Wikipedia faces a double threat: the rise of AI and the decline of local media— Human visitors declined in 2025, while AI crawlers are on the rise 3 weeks ago:
Google tried to do something similar with thier AI summaries, but every time I’ve looked at its “citations” they’ve said nothing that it said they did, or the exact opposite…
- Comment on Privacy-Focused Proton Mail Aids FBI in Uncovering ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester’s True Identity 3 weeks ago:
In this case, wouldn’t rolling your own email server make it even easier to find you, since they’ll just have to look up who registered the domain you used for your email address?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
3rd party apps.
Reddit apps addicted me to ad free content delivered in the way Eternity for lemmy does, and that’s no longer available for reddit.
- Comment on A Wired analysis shows that ICE & CBP have collectively spent at least $515 million on products from Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Palantir in the last few years alone. 4 weeks ago:
The secret part is generally just who is in the organisation, hence the gator masks.
- Comment on What's the point of specifically Americans identifying with other cultures if people born there will just make fun of them for it? 4 weeks ago:
Another issue that can arise is people feeling more connected to some fractional heritage that they like, as a way to divide thier local community more and feel separate e.g. “Arian heritage”…
- Comment on Panasonic, the former plasma king, will no longer make its own TVs 5 weeks ago:
Can’t compete with lower wages, it’s similar to when Sony and Panasonic etc. took over from GE etc.
- Comment on The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents 1 month ago:
in the classroom specifically though? did they control for screen time outside of the classroom in the study?
- Comment on Why fake AI videos of UK urban decline are taking over social media 1 month ago:
Misunderstood ia when you thought you understood something but accidentally did not. Disunderstood is when you understood something but pretend that you didn’t.
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 1 month ago:
I was averaging roman, British and Mongolian empires, based on Google AI summary, so take that with a pinch of salt 😅 🧂
- Comment on Google says its AI systems helped deter Play Store malware in 2025 | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
Next minit: play store is discontinued and they launch YouTube app store 😅
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 1 month ago:
About once every 350 years… With a sample size of 3… 😅
- Comment on Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State 1 month ago:
People are stuck in the role they were born to, but it seems like there are no artificial barriers to advancement
In the lower three classes, people are cloned in order to produce up to 96 identical “twins.” Identity is also achieved by teaching everyone to conform, so that someone who has or feels more than a minimum of individuality is made to feel different, odd, almost an outcast.
www.huxley.net/studyaid/bnwbarron.html
I’d argue that intentionally cloning people with limited abilities and then raising them to stay in thier lane is an artificial barrier…
- Comment on Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State 1 month ago:
It seems Brave new world is the global north/middle class, 1984 is the global south/working class… With class experience varying by county and over time with a tend towards 1984 experience as the majorities wealth gets extracted by the upper class.
- Comment on Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State 1 month ago:
I haven’t read it, what’s not dystopian about it?
The first thing Wikipedia says about it is “Brave New World is a dystopian novel” 😅
Maybe you not finding it especially dystopian says more about the state of the world right now than the book… 😅
- Comment on Darwin was a real one. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Darwin was a real one. 1 month ago:
It seems lemmy doesn’t like the direct letter url. But you can find it by searching: www.darwinproject.ac.uk/search?keyword=DCP-LETT-3…
- Comment on The EU Moves To Kill Infinite Scrolling 1 month ago:
Sometimes it can be handy to be able to load all the data into one page by middle clicking and moving the mouse to the bottom of the screen, waiting for a bit, then saving the html.
Used that and some regex to export my list of musicians I like from Spotify and import them into tidalrr.
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 1 month ago:
TIL about pixelfed, tried to sign up on pixelfed.social but I couldn’t understand what the captcha was asking me to do 😅
- Comment on YSK about this Italian tradition of putting corrupt politicians in a cage and dipping them in the water 1 month ago:
This must be why Italy is so well known for it’s low rates of corruption…
