witty_username
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- Comment on Do we need more users ? 3 days ago:
I like it here. I go to all and I filter out as much anime as I can. I like the memes, I am a long time Linux user, and I am into politics.
More users would not necessarily improve things imo. It might but it also mightn’t
- Comment on Lemmy's active userbase has been stable since September 2025 5 days ago:
Yes. Give me one boutique antisocial media with strong political focus please
- Comment on RISC-V Hits 25% Market Penetration as Qualcomm and Meta Lead the Shift to Open-Source Silicon 1 week ago:
What incentives are there for companies like meta here?
Is it going to be proprietary drivers for open chip designs? - Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 1 month ago:
Straw man gish gallop
- Comment on Valve's version of Android on Linux (based on Waydroid) is now called Lepton 1 month ago:
So this is meant for running android games under steam?
Or are they going in a different direction. Perhaps mobile linux? - Comment on Got 'em 2 months ago:
It’s flat all across the globe
- Comment on F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree 3 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 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 Scientific unprogress... 4 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 Intelligent Design 4 months ago:
What’s up with the earthquake one?
- Comment on Intelligent Design 4 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 Nice argument. 5 months ago:
Twat
- Comment on Help. 5 months ago:
I’m immune, I can’t read
- Comment on ‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing 6 months ago:
Okay Meyer’s black box was not investigated by the hacker researchers?
- Comment on Patients with long Covid regain sense of smell and taste with pioneering surgery 10 months ago:
This is amazing news. Had never expected surgery to be able to accomplish this
- Comment on Notepad++ and Don Ho: A story of software, activism, and defiance 10 months ago:
Having switched to linux, np++ is one of the programs I miss the most.
Inb4 ‘just use [insert software here] instead’; yes I know alternatives to np++ exist. - Comment on Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy 10 months ago:
It is even substantially higher than Manhattan (~27000 people/km²)
en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Demographics_of_Manhattan - Comment on heat your body, not your house -- using an infrared heat lamp 1 year ago:
Something like this?
www.amazon.com/…/B0D9H7XN62 - Comment on [Scott Manley] Why We Must Build a Massive Gravitational Wave Telescope In Space - The LISA Mission 1 year ago:
Hullowitsscottmanleyhere
- Comment on BIOMES 1 year ago:
Steppe son
- Comment on Click + to show Authors 1 year ago:
No 100K genomes project?
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 1 year ago:
Cathode ray dude recently did a video on them
youtu.be/q9a3dCd1SQI - Comment on Russian food prices skyrocket in growing concern for Kremlin 1 year ago:
“A kilogram of potatoes is at least 73% more expensive than at the start of the year, while the price of butter has increased by more than 30%, according to data released by the Federal Statistics Service on Thursday. Those two products top the list compiled by the agency, with vegetables such as onions and beets up more than 20% and sour cream, milk, bread and fish all 12%-15% higher than 2023 levels.”
- Comment on Is it normal to feel tired of technological progress? 1 year ago:
The problem isn’t necessarily the tools we develop. The question is who do these tools empower.
If technological progress disproportionately empowers a minority and increases socioeconomic injustice, there is no true progress, merely increasingly elaborate repression and abuse - Comment on Problem? 1 year ago:
An institute for reproducibility would be awesome
- Comment on Magic Mineral 1 year ago:
Except that people don’t always recognize it and drill holes in it or saw through it
- Comment on Badgers 1 year ago:
But the American badger turns out to just want to drink a beer and talk about sports whereas the European badger, after having sat you down for some tea and buttered crumpets, reveals itself to be a racist eugenicist