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- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 10 hours ago:
And why is that a problem?
Google searches also usually generate mostly useless results, which is impossible to combat. Thankfully the person doing the search knows what they are looking for, can try different solutions, and learn from multiple results to get to a working solution.
Why do you consider AI different? Nobody is expecting it always give correct solutions, just like nobody is expecting Googling something to always give the correct solution.
I’m not saying AI is useful, but I’m saying that a tool being fallible isn’t inherently a problem, whatever the tool is. As long as the user knows it’s fallible.
- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 14 hours ago:
You should tell that to Linus Torvalds, he’s developing the Linux kernel without using GitHub at all. I’m sure he will appreciate being told git is insuffient to develop a good product and write good code.
- Comment on Maximum Shareholder Value® 23 hours ago:
How dare you. If it’s your last thought then you are clearly not answering the question and thinking about how you can do better afterwards!
- Comment on simpler times 3 days ago:
Unfortunately the money went to other people who had too much of it.
- Comment on let's kill proton mail 3 days ago:
Not on Proton’s side, but whoever sent you that email obviously has both your info and your Proton address so they know it’s connected to you, even if Proton doesn’t.
- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 3 days ago:
Why? What difference does it make that it’s big?
Keep in mind this is a single maintainer project, there are no PR reviews.
- Comment on Reddit users hate NordVPN. Are their criticisms legit? 3 days ago:
Yeah but so could my ISP, and all in all I find it more likely my ISP would, than that NordVPN would. I don’t trust either, but I definitely trust my ISP less.
- Comment on Reddit users hate NordVPN. Are their criticisms legit? 4 days ago:
I need a VPN to get around geoblocks and to torrent without my ISP sending me letters.
NordVPN always worked perfectly for me. I don’t see the problem? Not saying other ones aren’t better, but it seems perfectly adequate.
- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 4 days ago:
The “single pull request” is a merge release from 79 separate commits.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 5 days ago:
Me: It doesn’t require anything of users You: Yes it does require something of developers
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You are correct, but how does that disagree with my comment?
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 5 days ago:
And Facebook Messenger and Gmail Chat (or whatever it was called)! There was a glorious period of time where you could talk to pretty much anyone on any service from one chat app.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 5 days ago:
Steam could stop asking in California, since it’s now the responsibility of the operating system to tell Steam your age.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 1 week ago:
All right, then your argument relies on the licensing difference, not any technical differences between Linux root / Windows admin or source code access. Which makes sense, but it’s all hypothetical since neither company addressed this yet, either in the product or in the licensing.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 1 week ago:
No, media did say that at over point, but it was never based on any announcement from Microsoft.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 1 week ago:
What does the comparability of root/admin access change in this situation? Why is the ability to change Microsoft’s binaries important?
Suppose Microsoft adds this capability to Windows, and you edit the registry to disable it. How is that any different?
I can see the argument for something like iOS. But on Windows you would be able to add or remove such functionality.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 1 week ago:
They only have access to the functions that Microsoft has provided.
And a user of Ubuntu only has access to the functions that Canonical has provided.
Unless they have root access and modify the OS. Or they have administrator access on Windows and modify the OS. Which is the case for both by default. I don’t really see the distinction.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 1 week ago:
Great, but how does that help? 99.9% Linux users use a Linux distro that has, ay the very least, a website behind it, with a domain name, that has a registration info.
That the 0.01% of people that use an OS only hosted by anonymous devs on a Russian website does not make this law any better for the rest of us.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 1 week ago:
You are right, it just says whoever “controls the OS”, which is very vague. Even without going to open source, a user still controls the OS even on Windows or macOS. To a lesser degree of course, but in the same way a driver controls a car even if they can’t or won’t try to modify it.
- Comment on Why is the USA attacking Iran? 1 week ago:
OP posed two main questions:
- why did Israel become an ally of USA
- why did Israel attack Iran right now
Saying that Israel is an ally answers neither.
- Comment on Why is the USA attacking Iran? 1 week ago:
How does that answer any of OP’s questions though? Israel has a lot of allies and yet it’s the USA in particular doing this.
- Comment on Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features 1 week ago:
GrapheneOS would definitely not support Motorola making some secret changes to the OS before installing it so this news is the complete opposite of such situation.
I completele agree, I am answering the hypothetical you brought up:
How would Motorola lock it down?
I don’t believe they will do that, but you asked how could they do that. And the answer is they could easily do that, deals or not.
- Comment on Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features 1 week ago:
We meant the same thing then. Nothing prevents Motorola from making changes to GrapheneOS, making it closed source, and blocking software/firmware changes on their phone so that you can’t install the open source original.
- Comment on Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features 1 week ago:
What does it mean to you?
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 1 week ago:
How is Linux going to do this? There’s no server for the os to send the information to report the age of its users
The law doesn’t require sending the data anywhere, so that’s not a problem.
no way of forcing its user base to comply and no single person or entity to fine, arrest or otherwise force into compliance.
The law doesn’t require anything of users, it requires something of OS providers. OS providers have addresses and entities to fine.
- Comment on Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features 1 week ago:
GrapheneOS is open source, Motorola - just like anyone else - can make changes to it before they install it on their devices.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 1 week ago:
Oh, yeah that’s a problem. I didn’t even consider using driver licenses as an ID, I’m used to having a national ID and forgot that’s not a thing in the US.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 1 week ago:
Definitely, all I’m saying is that she will still have a license and still will be able to drive.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 2 weeks ago:
From an objective standpoint, the driving license should have no indication of gender at all.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 2 weeks ago:
As terrible as it is, then notice does say that you will be given a replacement license when you hand in the current one. So it’s not like they won’t be able to drive.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It’s obviously subjective. To me this car just looks like a generic expensive car. Looks the same like every other car.