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- Comment on Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices. 8 hours ago:
Europe and its 50 car makers could also be considered instead of China…
- Comment on Brazilian court gives Apple 90 days to allow sideloading on iOS. 1 day ago:
Yes! Exciting news!
- Comment on Brazilian court gives Apple 90 days to allow sideloading on iOS. 1 day ago:
In which areas? These news is certinatly not in that direction.
- Comment on Brazilian court gives Apple 90 days to allow sideloading on iOS. 2 days ago:
Brazil is really doing something together with the EU. Maybe the two should work together more.
- Comment on U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services proposes to review social media of people applying for US citizenship, green cards, and asylum or refugee status, to comply with Trump's Executive order. 3 days ago:
I’ve had employers questioning the lack of a LinkedIn profile that’s also updated.
Also had some looking at peoples Instagram.
Times are wild.
- Comment on The return of troubles for X in Brazil. 2 weeks ago:
He’s the government now. He probably wont even pay.
- Comment on We should have a WET timezone 3 weeks ago:
Upvoted for the water reference.
- Comment on Why do the femcels and the incels not.... date each other? 3 weeks ago:
Just because you are an incel or femcel doesnt mean you dont have unrealistisc expectations about yourself. Sometimes, thats their problem to begin with.
- Comment on Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games 3 weeks ago:
They are not, but they could have made it so. Instead they chose the win for everyone.
- Comment on PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why 4 weeks ago:
Ah okay, never heard about the Kennedy Center.
- Comment on PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why 4 weeks ago:
What?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
If you study countries that became fascist or dictatorships, power was never gained on a single day.
Like pre-WWII Germany, Hitler won an election yes, but he didn’t become a dictator on day one. Same with Putin.
It’s all the actions following, and the US can still combat it. But the odds are obviously against it now that Trump ‘owns’ every CEO of every single social media.
It’s the same as silencing your political opponents, just with extra steps.
- Comment on Price Per Square Inch for TVs by size 4 weeks ago:
… Yeah ofc, right. Right?
- Comment on Price Per Square Inch for TVs by size 4 weeks ago:
If screens were only about size, I’d be easy.
- Comment on Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK | EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla 4 weeks ago:
Pretty tall order, can’t expect that in 2025.
- Comment on Trump signs order establishing a sovereign wealth fund that he says could buy TikTok 4 weeks ago:
So TikTok will become state media. That can’t go wrong.
- Comment on Apple, Google, and Samsung will accept Matter certification for their own Works With programs 1 month ago:
Maybe we should create a citizen proposal for this in the EU actually.
They might listen to these kind of things, because they are very aware of monopolies and closed ecosystems.
- Comment on Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14% 2 months ago:
Yeah, what’s up with that? Nuclear works well for France, so why did it fall out of favor in Germany?
Lobbying (corruption).
- Comment on Apple to pay $95 million to settle Siri privacy lawsuit 2 months ago:
That’s nothing to them.
Very weak legal system that is.
- Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 2 months ago:
What a weird rumor, you’re trying to start.
He did mention it btw.
- Comment on Encode Joins Musk in Fight Against OpenAI’s For-Profit Transition 2 months ago:
They don’t join him AT ALL.
Musky is doing it for his own gain, and only to stiffel competition.
Encode have a legitimate interest in the public (so far)
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram to Unleash AI-Generated ‘Users’ No One Asked For 2 months ago:
You don’t think there’s more Google accounts + phones + tablets + people changing phones, than population on Earth?
- Comment on I cannot tell you a way my life has genuinely gotten better since the advent of "smart" phones. 2 months ago:
I don’t think it sucks for you to not be reliant on it, but it also seems like you don’t know how to use it for your advantage.
Never install social media on it and go figure out what it can do for you.
- Comment on Microsoft builds first datacenters with wood to slash carbon emissions 3 months ago:
So the best thing you can do with a tree, is to cut it down and use it as materials, if we want to release as little CO2 as possible?
And ofc this depends on new trees being planted in its stead.
- Comment on When Does Instagram Decide a Nipple Becomes Female? 4 months ago:
Ah yes, and then uses Jesus’ name in the same sentence as USA. The guy hated capitalism more than anything.
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 4 months ago:
You’re probably right. I encountered maybe 2 or 3 deers running out in front of my car so far, and I hit the breaks every time in pure reflex anyway.
Dodged them so far, but damn I’m scared I might hit one at some point.
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 4 months ago:
Yeah, I heard about people dying in crashes with deers also. I just remembered we were taught this, and I just thought it might be programmed to ignore animals because of this.
But it’s probably wrong, and as someone pointed out, it seems like it didn’t even see the deer.
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 4 months ago:
I hate Tesla as much as the next guy in here.
But I learned at my driving lessons that you shouldn’t hit the breaks for animals running into your lane, because it can result in a car crash that’s way worse. (think truck behind you with a much longer break length.)
Don’t know if there’s different rules.
- Comment on Concerns about medical note-taking tool raised after researcher discovers it invents things no one said — Nabla is powered by OpenAI's Whisper 4 months ago:
It’s great they start using these tools, but I hope they keep in mind that it needs much fine tuning before it’s reliable enough.
You need to use a product in practice to make it better. But you don’t need to rely on it from the start. They need to invest the time in implementation, and where it can be used and shouldn’t be used.
Nice progress towards something good, but we’re not there yet.
- Comment on I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was. 5 months ago:
She was a boy. Now she’s a girl. Daddy didn’t take it so well.