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- Comment on Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters— Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism 9 hours ago:
But the evangelical Christians want the Jews to trigger the rapture by fighting the final huge war in israel, and I imagine the antisemites are also fine with the Jews all being sent away to israel for then to be sent off to fight a senseless war to their deaths.
Somehow they managed to start off from different angles and both end up wanting Jews to die.
- Comment on Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” 2 days ago:
This guy couldn’t sound more fascist if he broke into German 1930s marching songs. This video should be used in education.
- Comment on YSK that everything the New York Times about Donald Trump actually happened 3 days ago:
It’s an exaggeration at least, but it’s true that the regime friendly billionaire class has a lot of influence over some extremely popular media channels. The firings and changes made in Washington Post and more recently CBS are interesting case studies.
And of course many newsrooms make questionable decisions even if they are not fascist. I have little to no respect left for the New York Times, but I still believe they’re independent enough and have enough talented staff to produce important journalism.
ProPublica is the bees knees.
- Comment on YSK that everything the New York Times about Donald Trump actually happened 3 days ago:
I think this is getting to the core of how Trump has been so successful. Every important story is drowned out by an endless flood of shit. Good journalism still exists, but it has gotten almost impossible to find as news channels rush to cover the latest distraction Trump is up to. The real stories drown in the bullshit.
Long story short I think it’s possible to pay attention and nevertheless miss out on important stories, due to the fundamental flaws of the information ecosystem. It’s really only necessary to write one story about something like this, but whatever Trump is up to gets a new story every hour.
- Comment on You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift 4 days ago:
I had no idea - that’s really cool!
Germans also seem to be privacy oriented people, I can imagine this combined with recent developments could have a real impact.
- Comment on You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift 4 days ago:
0 to 1 percent: 22 years
1 to 2 percent: 8 years
2 to 3 percent: 2 years
3 to 4 percent: more unstable, but between 1 and 3 yearsI would say it’s an encouraging trend.
- Comment on You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift 5 days ago:
When I started using Linux in 2009 it had around 0.6 percent market share on desktop. Windows had 95%.
Today Windows is measured below 68%, and Linux has been measured above 4% by statcounter.com.
These things move faster the more people make the change. Linux only reached 1% in 2013, 2% in 2021, 3% in 2023, and 4% was somehow first measured already in 2024. For every single person making the switch it becomes easier for others to do the same, and companies consider Linux support to be a little bit more important. One can only wonder at which percentage of market share it will be offered as a mainstream alternative when buying a new computer, but it seems pretty clear that we’re getting there.
I guess my point is that we all won when you ditched Windows. Thanks for that.
- Comment on Nudify Apps Widely Available in Apple and Google App Stores 1 week ago:
Just doodle it yourself in a sketchbook like creeps have been doing for centuries
- Comment on Nudify Apps Widely Available in Apple and Google App Stores 1 week ago:
Well yes of course! If we don’t track the identity of every single person on the internet, how can we possibly prevent children from accessting these child pornography generators?!
Imagine the horror if twelve-year-olds were exposed to seeing the pornographic pictures Grok generates of them! The horror!
Ideally women and children should be banned from the internet entirely, so that brave pioneering men like Musk and co can be left to pornographize them in peace.
- Comment on Pope Leo XIV brings not peace but a sword to AI oligarchs and a slop-mad world in new address, says it's 'Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts' 1 week ago:
Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts
Interesting contrast to the church itself, which turns people into passive consumers of thoughts that have been processed for centuries.
- Comment on Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ? 1 week ago:
Yeah, “from a guy with a dead worm in his brain” would make for a better question.
- Comment on ICE Agents pepper spray, beat up, and kill a person, after forcefully capturing him. 2 weeks ago:
Going out guns blazing will be seen as an escalation, even if that’s what they’re doing already. That’s just the reality of the situation. Hell, they’re currently trying to justify their killings with arguments such as “he held a phone” and “her foot fell on the gas after she died”, and parts of Trump’s base are nevertheless buying it. If anyone actually came at them with weapons they would be having a blast.
You don’t end violence with violence against footsoldiers.
Pressure against the regime works. Trump and Vance are not afraid of ICE agents getting killed, they would be overly excited about it. They are not, however, excited to see the country rise in pritest against their fascist takeover.
- Comment on ICE Agents pepper spray, beat up, and kill a person, after forcefully capturing him. 2 weeks ago:
I’m just saying that the fact that America tends to lose its wars is very meager comfort for those on the receiving end of them. You can’t really win a war as a civilian.
Protests and strikes are working. Organize locally in a positive and constructive manner (maybe get active in a union? Do you still have those over there?), build community and dedicate time and effort to that. Be the opposite of the fascists, don’t just echo their ideas of violence.
It might not feel so badass, but you’ll do more good as a living organizer than as a dead agitator.
- Comment on ICE Agents pepper spray, beat up, and kill a person, after forcefully capturing him. 2 weeks ago:
Oh yes, because the countries the US invaded for natural resources have all been thrilled to have been murdered by american soldiers.
War is shit. Find a better solution.
- Comment on ICE Agents pepper spray, beat up, and kill a person, after forcefully capturing him. 2 weeks ago:
They have been stocking up on heavy military surplus materials for years and are incredibly horny to get to use it. These people are extremely excited about the prospect of civil war. They are not afraid of people fighting back, they are drooling their idiot faces off daydreaming about it.
So yeah, maybe try to think up a more efficient form of resistance, though I sympathize with the sentiment.
- Comment on ICE Agents pepper spray, beat up, and kill a person, after forcefully capturing him. 2 weeks ago:
An important distinction nevertheless. There are a lot of calls to abolish ICE, not so many to abolish the US Border Patrol.
If I was American I’d at least like to keep track of who is executing me in the streets. But maybe I’m just a pedant.
- Comment on ICE Agents pepper spray, beat up, and kill a person, after forcefully capturing him. 2 weeks ago:
Not ICE this time around, but the fascist pricks in the federal border patrol.
- Comment on If the United States of America was renamed, what should it be? 2 weeks ago:
Go back to the original European name - Vinland/Vineland/Wineland. Though that might have been in Canada, technically.
Better yet, find some pre-Columbian name for the land that was used by the actual locals. I’m sure there’s plenty of alternatives, and some of the most beautiful state names in the US came about that way. Maybe some Native American name for the Mississippi river could be a good starting point.
- Comment on How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times? 2 weeks ago:
A piece of American optimism:
America has been awful since the start, in one way or another. It was never going to change because the majority population was either comfortable enough, or scared enough of the minorities that they would accept a certain discomfort as long as their fellow man had it somehow worse.
Right now nobody is having a good time over there. We’re approaching a breaking point. And that’s scary, but it’s also an opportunity to build a better world on the ashes of the old. We are on the verge of huge changes.
Change is no guarantee for improvement. Americans should not only protest the regime, but start preparing to rebuild. Get smart. Read your own history, especially the parts you’re not proud of. If you don’t know or fully understand those parts you will never manage to build wide alliances. Read postwar history, read about the French revolution and it’s messy aftermath. Read Arendt, read Rawls, read Steinbeck and Locke. Prepare yourself to grasp this historic moment. You have an opportunity unlike anything since the 18th century to change America for the better. Don’t waste it doomscrolling. Don’t think you know enough already. Prepare yourself to be the kind of person who is needed once the regime falls.
European optimism:
After the events of the last few weeks I think a lot more people are fed up with this fascist bullshit, and it seems even Eurosceptics now believe we need to stand together in solidarity across the continent. It’s a new European moment, and the American hegemony has been broken. I’m feeling genuinely optimistic.
The protests in Minnesota also fill me with joy. I sincerely believe things are beginning to crack. Trump, Putin, and Netanyahu are all in extremely fragile positions, and dictators have famously poor life expectancy. Change is gradual, then sudden, and the destinies of these despots are intertwined. The darkest hour is right before the dawn.
- Comment on "Open source Windows" ReactOS is now 30 years old 2 weeks ago:
Right! Man, I’m slow today. But that makes sense, sometimes to operate some old expensive piece of equipment you’ll need both the software and the driver. Thanks for spoon feeding me haha.
- Comment on Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI | It now says AI headlines are a ‘feature,’ not an experiment. 2 weeks ago:
True, there’s a lot of good research being produced as well. The’s just an insane amount of academic work being produced in general, both good and bad.
- Comment on Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI | It now says AI headlines are a ‘feature,’ not an experiment. 2 weeks ago:
The same is predictably true in research, meaning a lot of academic research being produced at the moment is complete crap. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08825
- Comment on "Open source Windows" ReactOS is now 30 years old 2 weeks ago:
It’s not really suitable for production use yet. I ran it in a VM a few days ago, got a BSoD within a few minutes just from doing completely normal things.
Woha, careful there, we’re on a forum full of Linux nerds and the joke writes itself.
But yeah, I guess that takes me back to my inital confusion - one would think a minimalistic Linux install with Wine would always perform better, if nothing else because there are a lot of people actively using and contributing to that software stack. But maybe sometimes there are advantages of having the software integrated directly in the system that Wine as a non-emulator on Linux cannot deliver.
- Comment on "Open source Windows" ReactOS is now 30 years old 2 weeks ago:
That makes a lot of sense! I have heard Windows XP is still being run in hospitals and stuff out of necessity due to compatibility issues with expensive equipment, ReactOS might be a great solution for making that a little less sketchy while keeping it simple.
Thanks!
- Comment on "Open source Windows" ReactOS is now 30 years old 2 weeks ago:
Does anyone here actually use it? Are there any obvious benefits in practice to ReactOS over Linux with Wine?
- Comment on X is also launching Bluesky-like starter packs 2 weeks ago:
I find I mildly interesting that X is still launching new features that are technically unrelated to declaring itself to be mechahitler and generating non-consensual pornography of unknowing women and children.
- Comment on X is also launching Bluesky-like starter packs 2 weeks ago:
The hitlerjugend fetish starter pack is gonna be a hit. Those guys must be in disbelief of how lucky they have gotten with recent social media developments.
- Comment on Why I'm Leaving Big Tech 2 weeks ago:
Pretty tragic story of a man who knows for years he is doing evil, but is unable to get out of his comfy bubble of exploitation before being laid off. If evil triumphs when good men do nothing, this reads as a case study.
- Comment on Why are they different shapes? 2 weeks ago:
Or Vietnam!
- Comment on Better Offline - Lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago:
!betteroffline@lemmy.zip
It seems to overlap with !betteroffline@lemmy.world - is this intentional?