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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The biometrics part makes no sense, you can disable biometrics. You mean that you have to do a security confirmation however you’ve set it up.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How possibly?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
You got it. Multiple things can happen to you from different sources. Maybe even on the same day!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Or just keep using Firefox and don’t use the entirely optional and opt-in features you don’t need. The same as always.

I’m completely flabbergasted why people get their panties in a twist over
- completely local features that happen to be backed by machine learning models (the translation feature is a huge privacy win over sending your text to Google translate)
- opt-in LLM integration that nobody forces you to use
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
It’s the same tone sensitive bullshit as on reddit. People vote on vibes: “makes tummy feel good” is an upvote, “makes me frown without also making me feel righteous” is a downvote.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
German here, so provably not applicable as it was 17 years ago (jeez) and a climate when they were just getting rid of it (only to reintroduce it again this year)

I avoided “Wehrdienst” by rolling in hungover with sunglasses and a Hawaiian shirt, botching their written test and telling them how much I enjoy going to leftist demonstrations and how I can’t wait to hold a weapon in my hand.

I think they don’t enjoy the idea of arming and training leftists.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
No matter what world we live in, we can always find community. Sure, if it comes to full on fascism, finding it might be dangerous, but that’s not the case in many parts of the world.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
You’re much more likely for this to develop organically than finding someone through an app (which I inferred would be your plan since otherwise you wouldn’t be exposed to people in general)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spoopy figs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I live in Bavaria. There are multiple politicians who don’t get tired to performatively eat sausages and try to make laws that ban calling oat milk “milk” and vegan burgers/schnitzel/… as if anyone would ever get confused by that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spoopy figs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Regarding your last paragraph: that’s unrelated. There are also lots of insufferably vocal meat eaters who feel personally attacked when someone else doesn’t religiously stuff themselves with meat every meal.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I’ve seen a lot of stupid patent and copyright trolling over the years.

I bet 100€ that this is just as stupid as it sounds.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice criticizes EU Commission over proprietary XLSX formats⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Death it is, CSV is horrible effectively unstandardized trash that has led to uncountable hours of efforts wasted due to subtly corrupted data through incompatible serialization settings.

It actively makes the world a worse place by existing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That’s why I commented on you including it in what I could only read as a list of objectionable things.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You’re not wrong shut the rest, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the processor benchmarks really well.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨..?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Where is that? I’ve never once heard of read of “antisemitism” being used that way
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That’s not an issue, IP addresses allow localization to some degree
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨..?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
No on both accounts. You’re wrong, both in your attempt to regulate my language and your assertion.

You can literally find (actual real non-AI) footage of people being close enough to the explosion that they should be terrified, but they’re elated instead.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨..?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
When I was 14, I also wisecracked that, but then
1. I learned that linguistics is a descriptive discipline, not a prescriptive one: meaning correspond to usage, not what a word is “supposed” to mean
2. I realized that words often have meanings that don’t correspond to their literal translation
So no, antisemitism doesn’t refer to any semitic tribes that aren’t Jewish.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The Californian law only affects California.

Individual OS vendors might decide to implement it in a way that affects other places as well, e.g. in the past, Valve decided they’d rather not implement age verification for Germany and just stopped selling all porn / super violent games in Germany. Maybe they’ll now implement it for Germany and California.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨..?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

make-up religion

You’re getting tautological here mate.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨..?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Conflating Israel and Jews is called antisemitism. If someone is just anti-Israel, they don’t become antisemitic from that (but it sure invites a lot of antisemites who smell a possible convert)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨..?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Nah, try listening to Iranians. They love that he got exploded.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨..?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Which is idiotic. I’m an anarchist for example.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨..?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I think if he died of cancer, the Iranian people wouldn’t celebrate as hard as they do right now.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teams’ invasive Wi‑Fi tracking sparks backlash as users say Microsoft crossed a line — “There must be a team at Microsoft tasked with making Teams worse”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
And Germany.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's planned new AI trick for Edge will 'automatically open the Copilot side pane' with Outlook email links — and I can feel the hate already⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It really sucks for non-developers. I can easily afford to walk out the door laughing when a place I’m interviewing for tells me I’d have to use Windows, but clearly that’s not a privilege all professions have
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, as long as it made any sense to browse the web without JS. These days you need at least an allow list.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
And also neither cloud-based nor LLMs
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That’s what their actions felt like for decades yet somehow they’ve always kept chugging along.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You missed the point: I quoted and linked to contemporary decision making because it illustrates that there’s no “strongarming” necessary if something is the only game in town.

Sysvinit was no longer doing the trick, Upstart wasn’t architecturally sound, OpenRC wasn’t a serious contender at that point either: they could adopt systemd or wait for a few years in case some alternative would come along.

That’s why your framing doesn’t make sense to me: it implies that there was some sort of choice that Big Init was trying to stack the cards for, but there wasn’t at that point.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
So red hat somehow “shot the competition” (Microsoft?) but also is willfully running Linux by deciding to adopt systemd in order to replace the steaming pile of horseshit that is sysvinit. A move that was extremely successful and led to a much more robust base for today’s Linux systems in retrospect.

Or was it lennard poettering (who has a second job as the antichrist) who “shot the competition” by jumping in bed with red hat and/or IBM leadership to make them not consider other init systems. (Also to ruin Linux or something despite, and I repeat myself here, the move to systemd being a great success in retrospect)

Is it perfect? No, TeX is the only software that is. Is it better that we just went with one init system for most distros to leave the dark ages of sysvinit as fast as possible? 100%.