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- Comment on You have 8 seconds. 2 weeks ago:
I knew I’d receive that reply, and I know it to be true. It’s still very odd, as noted. I’m sure there are other examples where one definition contradicts another, but none immediately spring to mind.
- Comment on You have 8 seconds. 2 weeks ago:
It is truly bizarre that one of the definitions of the word is literally the opposite of the primary definition of the word, however.
- Comment on The grand prize 2 weeks ago:
All I can think of, sorry.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO's pay rises 63% to $79m, despite devastating year for layoffs: 2550 jobs lost in 2024 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers 3 weeks ago:
Overdrive is the one I usually hear about, but in googling Libby it seems they are related.
help.libbyapp.com/en-us/6251.htm
- Comment on New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers 3 weeks ago:
Kobo folks. I’ve been there through three generations of devices. No regrets. Fairly hackable, sideload friendly, competitively priced.
- Comment on The Tech Coup: A New Book Shows How the Unchecked Power of Companies Is Destabilizing Governance 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on First there was Truck Nutz. Then there was Truck Nutz XL. 3 weeks ago:
Me too!
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- Comment on Windows Recall is secretly installed on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare) 3 weeks ago:
I used Windows back then. There was already EEE as far back as Netscape Navigator
Then there is the whole “they stole from Apple who stole from Xerox” before that.
- Comment on The Tech Coup: A New Book Shows How the Unchecked Power of Companies Is Destabilizing Governance 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Windows Recall is secretly installed on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare) 3 weeks ago:
Can’t trust Microsoft.
Always has been.
- Comment on Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces 3 weeks ago:
So in addition to the Boeing low hanging fruit - feels like the opener to a scifi story involving either covert space weapons testing or the start to some kind of extraterrestrial invasion. 😁
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 3 weeks ago:
No one is listening I’m sorry to say. I corrected a couple people but then realized it was pointless. The discussions in the crossposted communities (which - holy shit I don’t think I’ve seen something so thoroughly spammed across multiple tech communities before) are just as bad or worse.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 3 weeks ago:
They have confirmed it was a packaging bug and will be resolved.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 3 weeks ago:
It’s just a packaging bug and they said they will fix it.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 3 weeks ago:
They literally posted that this is a packaging bug and will be resolved.
- Comment on Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text 1 month ago:
Meta: The company whose products you use when you absolutely, positively don’t give a shit that they are the worst example of the worst nightmare of a consumer-hostile, privacy-invading, you-are-the-product, tech company. Yes, even worse than Microsoft.
- Comment on Wait a minute, we've been going about this all the wrong way! 1 month ago:
Ah I see now, I misread what you were trying to communicate.
- Comment on Wait a minute, we've been going about this all the wrong way! 1 month ago:
Hamas != Hisbollah
And they also don’t use pagers, or cell phones, or…?
- Comment on Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers 1 month ago:
They planted bombs in hardware that is used exclusively by Hezbollah operatives and their accomplices to evade gathering sigint. Yes, civilians got hurt. That’s the nature of war, and what makes it so horrible - people who might hold no malice nor pose any threat to the other side get hurt and die.
How is this argument different than defending the use of landmines?
So the pagers were ordered by Hamas. You send that text you don’t know if they are at a daycare picking up their kids, if they lost the pager and it’s sitting on some restaurant owner’s countertop next to some other family, etc etc etc.
There are so many things that can happen between when those pagers get rigged and sent out and the time they are detonated.
If Israel seemed at all like they tried to avoid bombing and shooting civilians in Gaza we could at least defend their actions there by saying “clearly they are trying to avoid civilian casualties” (we can’t, but we could) - but there is nothing but hopes and prayers to avoid civilian casualties in an attack like this.
Literally if any non-governmental entity did the same thing, no one would hesitate to call it a terrorist attack. And that’s what it is here, a terrorist attack.
- Comment on It really do be like that sometimes 2 months ago:
This was my 2020.
- Comment on Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots 2 months ago:
I mean, being arrested doesn’t mean a crime was committed. It means he’s accused of a crime. I’ll be interested to see if there is actually a conviction in the end.
- Comment on Kroger executive admits company gouged prices above inflation 2 months ago:
- Comment on Kroger executive admits company gouged prices above inflation 2 months ago:
I’m not usually a stickler for adhering closely to meme “rules” but this one drives me batty. I never have the courage to correct folks though, so have your lemmy gold!
- Comment on Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team 2 months ago:
I can’t help but think that Microsoft has decided to proceed in some way that will break compatibility, so they’re done with Mono now.
It’s essentially right there in the article:
Microsoft maintains a modern fork of Mono runtime in the dotnet/runtime repo and has been progressively moving workloads to that fork. That work is now complete, and we recommend that active Mono users and maintainers of Mono-based app frameworks migrate to .NET which includes work from this fork.
We’re done with it, you guys can take the scraps. By the way, ours is better and folks should move to it.
- Comment on Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team 2 months ago:
It’s almost like they have a terrible track history and hold the gold medal for antitrust and enshitification.
To be fair, there is a young up and comer in that space.
- Comment on Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team 2 months ago:
Plenty of good reasons existed for that wariness, and if they are doing this now it’s because it benefits MS in some way. Maybe they just got sick of maintaining it and figured they’d buy some goodwill.
I typed that before reading the article then saw this:
Microsoft maintains a modern fork of Mono runtime in the dotnet/runtime repo and has been progressively moving workloads to that fork. That work is now complete, and we recommend that active Mono users and maintainers of Mono-based app frameworks migrate to .NET which includes work from this fork.
Here you go Wine devs, we’re cleaning our our garage, and by the way, we would really like folks to continue to be hooked to the MS teat of .net instead. Please keep maintaining this for us. Aren’t we great?
- Comment on Russian missiles strike more than half of Ukraine's regions 2 months ago:
It’s a weird thing - I gravitated towards .ml because it doesn’t federate with threads (not sure of ee, I will check), had a decent userbase (not sure why I thought that mattered), and I liked the idea that most people on the instance would be to the left of me (again, really doesn’t matter in the end I guess, it just felt more comfortable that way than being amongst what I’d perceive as a bunch of conservatives) - since then I’ve learned of the reputation of .ml, but on the other hand aside from the occasional snark from folks I don’t think it impacts me much, unless there are things I’m missing I don’t realize. (which is possible)
But I appreciate the suggestion. I’ve been considering whether I want to move based on the above - I suppose I could create an account elsewhere and see how different the Lemmy experience is or isn’t as a result…
- Comment on Russian missiles strike more than half of Ukraine's regions 2 months ago:
Whew, with the number of people who sideswipe at .ml I try not to look at things that way, but in this case…
