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- Comment on If you’re in the market for a $1,900 color E Ink monitor, one of them exists now - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
I think the use case would be for laptops, for people who want to comfortably use their laptops outside or just want their laptop screens to be easier on the eyes. Only slightly different to a tablet insofar as it has a physical keyboard, so i imagine the tablets could be adapted.
- Comment on Musician Who Died in 2021 Resurrected as Clump of Brain Matter, Now Composing New Music 4 weeks ago:
Okay…? Your point?
- Comment on Musician Who Died in 2021 Resurrected as Clump of Brain Matter, Now Composing New Music 4 weeks ago:
How is it not transformative and intentional to reinterpret neurological signals as music?
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 4 weeks ago:
I mean it also means I inherently have an off-site backup, which is important given that my home occasionally gets raided by the police. I’m not worried about data access since I use FDE on everything, but data loss is a real concern.
- Comment on Musician Who Died in 2021 Resurrected as Clump of Brain Matter, Now Composing New Music 4 weeks ago:
I know what you mean; I think it would be hurtful to people with Parkinson’s, but whatever, I luckily don’t have Parkinson’s so not much point arguing it.
Characterising involuntary but normal phenomenon as intentional or artistic is maybe a little less gross, but still asinine.
That seems like a very bizarre take. Isn’t that a very common artistic device, to find creative interpretations of natural phenomena, and to imagine intention where there is none? I mean, art is subjective so maybe that’s just your personal taste, but it seems like a strange thing to be offended by to me.
- Comment on Musician Who Died in 2021 Resurrected as Clump of Brain Matter, Now Composing New Music 4 weeks ago:
It seems to be the journalist presenting it as such, but in any case, I don’t think the artists are suggesting it’s equivalent to what the guy made when he was alive. It’s an interesting artwork riffing off of the fact that the person whom the DNA belonged to was a musician.
- Comment on Musician Who Died in 2021 Resurrected as Clump of Brain Matter, Now Composing New Music 4 weeks ago:
That’s a pretty misleading headline. The news article is about a cool art installation, in which an artist has used a deceased composer’s DNA to produce electrical signals that are interpreted as music. Still cool, but it’s not “composing music” in the same sense as the alive musician was composing music.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 5 weeks ago:
I rent because of government surveillance; I want my server in a different country.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 5 weeks ago:
It’s not an outlandish amount, but for instance I have my own VPS where I host a variety of services, and it still has under 1TB storage. Most hobbyists who rent a VPS would have less storage than that.
- Comment on Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. 2 months ago:
Given the US adults I see on the internet, I would hazard a guess that they’re right.
- Comment on Check your DVDs for disc rot — Warner Bros. says it’s replacing them 2 months ago:
I don’t know about the US specifically, but oftentimes, and definitely where I’m from, laws can have a small amount of “common sense” leeway and judges can find justifications for rulings if they want to rule a particular way. e.g. I have pirated games that I legally bought because there’s literally no functioning “official” download link anymore, if anyone were to ever prosecute me for that, even if it were illegal technically a judge could find a way to rule it lawful out of sympathy or whatever other reason, if they wanted to. A lot of the time it’s “the government can’t have possibly intended this law to be enforced this way, therefore I rule XYZ”.
In any case, as you said, I’ve never heard of anyone being pursued for that. And if it’s not enforced, it’s not a law.
- Comment on Judges Are Fed up With Lawyers Using AI That Hallucinate Court Cases 2 months ago:
I represent myself in all my cases :)
- Comment on Judges Are Fed up With Lawyers Using AI That Hallucinate Court Cases 2 months ago:
Great news for defendants though. I hope at my next trial I look over at the prosecutor’s screen and they’re reading off ChatGPT lmao
- Comment on Why was there a pro-Hitler, Holocaust-denying ad on X? 3 months ago:
It’s quite common for nazis to do both. “The death count is inflated, but they deserved it anyway/I wish it were more” and such.
- Comment on Gulf of Make a Report to Apple 3 months ago:
“Why are you so mad” I’m having a casual conversation on a social media platform lol.
- Comment on Gulf of Make a Report to Apple 3 months ago:
I didn’t vote in the US presidential election because I’m neither a citizen nor resident, and I’m also banned from entering your borders anyway lol. But sure I’m responsible for your fascism. Sorry for telling you to do effective things instead of checks notes sending pointless messages to underpaid Apple employees assigned to read customer complaints, who will have been told by their bosses to disregard these messages. My bad, don’t do any political activity, just complain to corpos instead.
- Comment on Gulf of Make a Report to Apple 3 months ago:
Now where the hell did I say “do nothing”. Hilarious that liberals’ idea of “doing something” is “put a comment into Apple complaints that they can easily not even look at”.
- Comment on Gulf of Make a Report to Apple 3 months ago:
You’re shouting into the void. Stop trying to beg the ruling class to not oppress you and get organised. They will not give up power voluntarily.
- Comment on Google Calendar removes Pride Month and Black History Month 3 months ago:
VPS in order to go offshore due to being a political organiser/having state interest in me. If my domestic state was not interested in me I would use a home lab though; it’d wind up cheaper in the long run I reckon, better performance as it’s bare metal (though my VPS is KVM so performance hit is negligible), and better control since you both own and have physical access to the server. For most people’s purposes I’m sure an old laptop or a raspberry pi would work fine so you don’t need to splash out either. I probably wouldn’t suggest a VPS unless you have the same threat model as me (ie likely to get raided & server seized, or likely to have active monitoring of your internet activity via ISP); I don’t really think it’s worth the money long term. Or I guess if you do just have general privacy concerns you could rent a VPS in a country known for decent privacy, but just for peace of mind reasons instead of a tangible threat to you.
- Comment on Google Calendar removes Pride Month and Black History Month 3 months ago:
It’s not migrating my email I need, it’s forwarding new emails sent to my old address. I mostly use duck addresses these days so luckily I can just change the address ddg forwards to in future, but prior to starting to use ddg’s email service I’d have a ton of services I need to change the email address for. Proton offers this service but I’d have to pay a subscription for it, and obviously I need it indefinitely if some service sends me an email eg 5 years down the line. Of course emails sent to an old email 5 years later are probably not important but it’s just convenient to not have to log into Protonmail to check if I’ve got any mail sent to my old address.
- Comment on Google Calendar removes Pride Month and Black History Month 3 months ago:
It is a bit nuts how hard it is to switch email accounts. Although conveniently I believe gmail has a forwarding feature. Protonmail unfortunately doesn’t in its free tier (I recently switched from protonmail to self-hosted postfix/dovecot), and paying for a protonmail subscription just to forward my emails to a different email seems to defeat the point of paying for an email service.
- Comment on LineageOS now officially supports the Pixel 9 series 4 months ago:
That kind of data access is generally included under security not privacy (which is more about telemetry), but obviously with a state threat model privacy and security can become blurred, and that kind of data access is of concern if you are at risk of having devices seized by the state.
- Comment on LineageOS now officially supports the Pixel 9 series 4 months ago:
That would be a security issue, not a privacy issue. Maybe that was what RelativeArea0 meant but if so I think that confused people because “privacy” implies somehow corpos/the state is spying on you through Lineage
- Comment on Judge Rejects Sale of Infowars to The Onion 5 months ago:
No fun allowed
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 6 months ago:
Fuuuuck there goes my plan to get this monkey to write Hamlet within the lifetime of the universe…
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 6 months ago:
When the workplace is assisting the genocide of the people the vigil is for.
- Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 6 months ago:
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- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 7 months ago:
Calling making a subreddit private “harming redditors and Reddit” is insane
- Comment on AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs 7 months ago:
Sorry to hear about your ankle. When you’re able to, I’d also like to know what the add-on is
- Comment on AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs 7 months ago:
And yet I can’t beat the CAPTCHAs because reCAPTCHA doesn’t like VPNs lol