witty_username
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- Comment on Half-Life 3 Reportedly Delayed Due to Steam Machine Price, Leak Claims 4 days ago:
Oh no I’m in such a hurry to play the next installment in this series that is known for it’s regular and timely releases
- Comment on Roomba maker iRobot swept into bankruptcy 1 week ago:
There it is. Stock buy backs driving the company into insolvency. This should be illegal. They are killing the company to pay investors. It is a farce
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 1 week ago:
EU here is your chance! Fully fund Mozilla on the condition that they move to an EU country
- Comment on Roomba maker iRobot swept into bankruptcy 1 week ago:
Isn’t the real problem here that many companies aim to be bought out as a strategy? They focus on growth to secure a sizeable market share. They often do this without regard for sustaining the business. Equity holders like this because market share inflates company value and selling the company will yield even more money. The downside is though, that at some point, the company can no longer sustain this and must be bought out.
I don’t think irobot really needed to go this route or that they weren’t competitive any longer. They chose to go for market share and big bucks rather than a long term strategy.
This is why we need more cooperatives. They are better at long term planning, make better products and don’t fall prey to predatory value extraction - Comment on Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried 1 week ago:
This is such an important message. We should not lull ourselves into complacency. Banning vpns will be yet another step towards a closed, non-anonymous internet where governments (and by extension companies) will force you to give up access and control over your digital life
- Comment on The Sensory Biology of Plants 2 weeks ago:
Straw man gish gallop
- Comment on Valve's version of Android on Linux (based on Waydroid) is now called Lepton 3 weeks ago:
So this is meant for running android games under steam?
Or are they going in a different direction. Perhaps mobile linux? - Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 3 weeks ago:
Counters calls to scrap disclosures… I don’t follow
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 4 weeks ago:
I use them as a sort of bookmark cache. Stood I’m unlikely to want to keep for long but also not stuff I want to discard immediately. I use the tree style tabs plugin in ff, works beautifully
- Comment on Are they still underpants if you aren't wearing pants? 4 weeks ago:
The yanks had it wrong; underpants never existed. Just pants and trousers
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 1 month ago:
I was under the impression that something along these lines was already accepted from the perspective of information theory. I.e. a machine that could simulate the universe must at least be composed of as much information as the universe itself. Given the vastness and complexity of the universe, this would make it rather unlikely that the universe is simulated. Unless you want to view the universe itself as a machine that calculates it’s own progression. But that is a bit of a semantic point.
Disclaimer: this is not my area of expertise and I probably got some terms or concepts wrong. I am basing this off of ‘The information’ by James Gleick
- Comment on Inside Israel’s deal with Google and Amazon 1 month ago:
Is degoogle the second verb that google will have caused?
- Comment on Got 'em 2 months ago:
It’s flat all across the globe
- Comment on F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree 2 months ago:
I filled out this EU DMA form and I wrote the following:
"Google unilaterally decreed that Android developers everywhere in the world are going to be required to register centrally with Google. This further threatens access to open software and the right to install software of choice on Android devices such as smartphones. This constitutes yet another obstacle to digital sovereignty. Furthermore, it is an antitrust issue because it serves Google’s aim to establish a monopoly over the Android software ecosystem. It is of vital importance that platforms such as the F-droid store can continue to offer open software independently from the influence of Google and the USA. Please table this matter for discussion. It is vital that the EU puts in place and enforces legislation that prevents companies like Google from harming user’s ability to run software of their choosing on the devices that they own. Please see Google’s unilateral decree: …googleblog.com/…/elevating-android-security.html" - Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 2 months ago:
Austin Powers sketch
- Comment on Organs Cannot Simply Be Classified as Male or Female 3 months ago:
Original article:
Xie et al. eLife 2025 “# Fast evolutionary turnover and overlapping variances of sex-biased gene expression patterns defy a simple binary sex classification of somatic tissues”
dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.99602.4 - Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 3 months ago:
I ran vista from release, never had any probmems with it. Admittedly it did help that I ran it on a brand new pc. Does show that the problem wasn’t the os but rather their aggressive push to get it on PCs that weren’t suitable
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 3 months ago:
Latest and greatest flat earth is that Antarctica is a wall that encircles us all. Well, it encircles the land that us normies are allowed to know about. Beyond the Antarctic wall lies a vastness of land that us normies are kept unaware of. I am not sure why. It was something to do with the riches of the secret land. Also, no one knows how far the land stretches. So the earth is flat but we don’t know how far it goes so we don’t know what the shape is really.
Just to be perfectly clear: I am not a flat earther and I don’t believe any of the above. It’s a load of (very entertaining) nonsense. Keep the documentaries coming please! - Comment on Teen girls are being used as hitwomen in Sweden's organized crime wars: "Young kids are thirsty for blood" 3 months ago:
I expect that this might me due to functional police and criminal investigation systems. Less functional countries, which are in the majority, will likely fail to find the right perpetrator, fail to report on it, blame the crime on the wrong person, ignore the crime, etc.
- Comment on UK politicians must stop stoking division, says policing chief 3 months ago:
Get a sensible voting system then
- Comment on US appeals court finds Trump's global tariffs illegal 3 months ago:
So what’ll happen? Can internationally trading companies start ignoring the tariffs? Does it end up being a matter of enforcing the tariffs in the US? Which governmental body is most directly responsible for this? Customs?
- Comment on Indoor lettuce growing in 3D printed pots 3 months ago:
You two get a star for pleasant internet conversation
- Comment on Intelligent Design 3 months ago:
What’s up with the earthquake one?
- Comment on Intelligent Design 3 months ago:
Evolution is an optimisation process, just a very slow, wasteful and stupid one. It finds local optima which it usually gets stuck in.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Open AI is like the Manson family?
- Comment on How did that 22-year-old get on in the date his dad set him up with? 4 months ago:
Therefore,
- Comment on Nice argument. 4 months ago:
Twat
- Comment on Help. 4 months ago:
I’m immune, I can’t read
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I print some of the endless online discussions about cast iron care. The paper, the ink and the opinions make for an excellent mild abrasive that doesn’t permeate the pores or excessively damage the seasoning patina
- Comment on ‘Stop Killing Games’: Demands for game ownership must also include workers’ rights 4 months ago:
What? This is not what skg is about.