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- Comment on J.K. Rowling Blasts “Gender Taliban” David Tennant After ‘Harry Potter’ Actor Said “Whinging” Trans Critics Are On “Wrong Side Of History” 6 hours ago:
How about being a compassionate human being who tries to understand the conversation partner’s fears without bowing down to misinformation? If that’s not enough for them because they see debunking their bunk as personal attack, I don’t think anyone in their cult is an acceptable conversation partner for them.
- Comment on Shower thoughts are wasting water. 6 days ago:
It’s how dishwashers work: more cycles = more rinsing, then later rinse it all off
- Comment on NASA finds humanity would totally fumble asteroid defense 1 week ago:
That’s the last three words of the article. The author didn’t miss the connection either.
I always wonder when people repeat something from the article or ask a question that’s answered in the article: did you not read it or did you just want to start a discussion about this connection and are somehow constrained in the number of words you can write per day?
- Comment on RIP Twitter Dot Com: Elon Musk Moves Social Network to X Web Address 1 month ago:
Twitter (now “X”)
- Comment on I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun 1 month ago:
I hope things like this will take off: cooltech.zone/tangara/
- Comment on my humps 1 month ago:
I mean, hippos are one of the most dangerous big animals
- Comment on Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO 2 months ago:
It’s not magic, but there will never be a life saving treatment that ruins you financially here. And travel insurance is dirt cheap here as well.
- Comment on Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO 2 months ago:
Because you emigrated and get this live saving essential service for free?
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 2 months ago:
Yeah, a measurement cup is half a pint. They are defined volumes
- Comment on Eric S. Raymond / autodafe · Tools for freeing your project from the clammy grip of autotools. 2 months ago:
My point was that packagers should use straight up VCS and run all build tools instead of relying on partially pre-built tarballs uploaded by the upstream maintainers.
- Comment on Eric S. Raymond / autodafe · Tools for freeing your project from the clammy grip of autotools. 2 months ago:
It does? I guess I never looked inside that build directory.
- Comment on Eric S. Raymond / autodafe · Tools for freeing your project from the clammy grip of autotools. 2 months ago:
Why compile to a Makefile? You’d end up with automake gunk all over again. Just use cmake or so, where the declarative language replaces the Makefile entirely
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 3 months ago:
Ah yes, as we all know, family, friends, and poverty doesn’t exist. So everyone is either complicit or will immediately move to whatever perfect country you think exists.
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 3 months ago:
So you’re calling me a vassal, you dork.
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 3 months ago:
So “ig” means “inhabitant”?
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 3 months ago:
WTF are you calling me?
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 3 months ago:
I’m from the EU, where there’s laws in place for some industries to put EU user data exclusively on servers that are in the EU. I’m assuming that the US doesn’t have that kind of law applying to TikTok, and that the US servers are an infrastructure decision by Tiktok’s owner company. If I’m right, then that’s your answer. If I’m wrong then they really don’t need to ban them.
For the record, please keep in mind that I’m not defending any party here. I’m very aware of post cold war yellow/red scare stories, I just don’t see how this inevitably has to be the consequence of one.
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 3 months ago:
Why is it racist if you want to reduce the number of governments spying on you?
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 3 months ago:
They already have control over Xitter and Facebook/Instagram.
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 3 months ago:
I think Europe recently forced the matter, but I think you can’t in the US.
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 3 months ago:
I don’t get why you draw parallels here. The reactionaries are against veneer-of-spooky pieces of media because of moral outrage bullshit. Media literacy is a thing. Nobody is going to believe in dragons or Satan.
The US government is against big China-controlled media platforms with loads of US users because platforms can control which kind of content users see. You can exert a lot of control over people if you show them only one point of view.
I think the US has enough of a problem with home grown radicalized conspiracy nuts, but banning a China owned TikTok is still a very different move than banning D&D would have been.
- Comment on ‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything 4 months ago:
Qt is exactly why I’m so sure. They made sure that there was a legal agreement that Qt would always stay open source or else they’d get the ability to make it available under a BSD license: kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation/
That’s a project that understands the entanglement and doesn’t allow itself to be taken over.
- Comment on ‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything 4 months ago:
Nah, it won’t touch projects like KDE.
- Comment on Google Chrome Warning Issued For All Windows Users 4 months ago:
Heh, didn’t take that number literally I guess
- Comment on Google Chrome Warning Issued For All Windows Users 4 months ago:
You think they make no profits in Europe? Why would they be here if they didn’t?
- Comment on Games that force you to make hard choices 5 months ago:
From what I heard, Pathologic 2 is basically a 2019 remake of the original, so it should be prettier, less janky but still basically the same game, right?