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- Comment on No rational person would do this... 1 hour ago:
Pi doesn’t contain a 10^9999999999^ long string of (uninterrupted) 1s.
You can verify it.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 14 hours ago:
USB-C requires a lot of space for charging, data transfer etc.
Let’s remove it too and make phones rely on wireless charging instead.
- Comment on It was all a lie, wasn't it? 17 hours ago:
Not in wildfires though which you have a shitton as well.
- Comment on Oh to go back... 3 days ago:
To be fair, any realistic hacking scene would be extremely boring to watch.
It would be like watching someone solve a jigsaw puzzle. Except there is no light so you just hear them click a piece in place occasionally.
- Comment on AI search finds publishers starved of referral traffic 4 days ago:
AI literally produces better answers than 99% of ad supported, SEOptimized websites.
That’s saying not a lot about AI though. It tells you how utterly awful searching the web is thanks to those sites.
- Comment on Brand awareness 5 days ago:
How? Nowadays GIMP is predominantly used for the software and all the top results reflect that.
Hell, GIMP is only used for the software in non-English speaking countries.
- Comment on Be aware that buying electrical items from Ali Express might not be too clever. 6 days ago:
The store will be liable for any and all damages to life and property which incurs from selling faulty products though.
There’s significantly more risk when purchasing directly from a Chinese supplier. It’s borderline impossible to hold a foreign company with no actual presence in your country accountable for damages.
- Comment on Missing Matter in Universe Found 1 week ago:
That’s cool. But come on, the headline should have been the obvious “Shining a light on dark matter”!
- Comment on Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community 1 week ago:
which can also be gotten literally anywhere other than work
Can it? For absolutely everyone, regardless of (mental) health? No one benefits from being monetarily pressured to interact with people even if the interaction is only surface level?
- Comment on TIL my decision to drive a 22' full cab pickup truck and vehemently oppose urban zoning reform makes me a defender of social justice, a warrior for the downtrodden, and more progressive than 99% [cont 2 weeks ago:
Nearly every single restaurant had food delivery services prior to Uber/Doordash’s existence. Many still have.
I mean, there’s a reason pizza delivery scooters have been a thing since the 1980’s.
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 3 weeks ago:
Depends on the country tbf. Countries (besides the US) generally have labor rights which make working conditions not great but certainly acceptable. Hell, I’d argue the conditions a business needs to meet to fire workers are actually fairly decent over here.
- Comment on The joy of quitting a shit job with an asshole boss 3 weeks ago:
They aren’t but it doesn’t make notice periods any less important in contracts - for everyone involved. It’s a win-win situation to have these clauses because they guarantee a minimum of stability.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Keep in mind in Germany this only applies to children making 100,000€ per year or more with impoverished parents provided the parents did not abuse the children. If you can prove you were abused and it would be an undue hardship to provide support then you can be exempted.
- Comment on Ironically, people making fun of the "Gnu/Linux" copypasta is probably one of the main ways people know what Gnu is 3 weeks ago:
Have you ever used the GNU’s Not Unix Image Manipulation ToolKit America Online Instant Messenger?
- Comment on Vince always at it 3 weeks ago:
Why does the flag have two Pinkmen but only one White?
- Comment on Speak American 5 weeks ago:
I use Denmark English for sane date formatting.
Though I don’t know why that locale exists.
- Comment on What a knobhead 5 weeks ago:
ssself
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 5 weeks ago:
Not sure over here in Germany. Plenty of services are exempted from VAT.
The EU has standardized what is tax exempt though. You can read everything which falls under VAT here. The word “service” appears 472 times by the way.
- Comment on Researchers discover new security vulnerability in Intel processors 1 month ago:
Honestly, it does sound a bit like a hardware defect somewhere. Usually everything should work OOTB unless you are doing something really specific.
If you haven’t already done so, try updating the BIOS.
You mentioned the RAM being fine - have you run Memtest86+ for several hours? One pass is usually not enough to rule out memory malfunctions.
If you have a spare drive, try installing Linux Mint on it. If it still crashes, you can rule out Windows (and if it doesn’t, you could install a clean Windows on that same drive and try again).
You could also purchase a cheap AM4 motherboard (they start at like 60 bucks) to check if the issues still occur and refund it within the return window.
- Comment on Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like 1 month ago:
You wouldn’t have a notebook. Any and all stimuli would be banned as the purpose is making your experience horrible.
Also, you get incredibly mundane tasks as well. Maybe you’ll get a couple sheets of random symbols and are tasked to count a certain letter. And if you don’t do this task you can be laid off for underperforming.
- Comment on EU considers stripping Hungary of voting rights over Ukraine obstruction 2 months ago:
Only a fascist supports nazi regimes such as Hungary. Thank you for outing yourself.
- Comment on EU considers stripping Hungary of voting rights over Ukraine obstruction 2 months ago:
To arrive at a mutual consensus. That’s what the point of voting has always been.
Suspending a malicious actor’s voting rights does not violate this. In fact, it is required to do so. See the paradox of tolerance which goes into some more detail.
- Comment on EU considers stripping Hungary of voting rights over Ukraine obstruction 2 months ago:
It does not, considering the suspension of voting rights is a process every member has agreed to existing.
A member state who goes rogue, who acts in the interest of foreign nations and not in the interest of the collective can, should and must have its voting rights suspended. The protection and continued existence of the union takes precedence over any individual nation’s voting rights.
There is no contradiction here. Suspending voting rights exists explicitly because there is no right to vote for whatever you want.
- Comment on EU considers stripping Hungary of voting rights over Ukraine obstruction 2 months ago:
Then that is also the reply to your question.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
The cases where large companies do win won’t make news though. “Large companies settles with individual” isn’t really headline material now, is it?
Also, small companies != people. Neither me nor you are a company and even small companies have significantly more resources available to them than someone who just created the next Lord of the Rings and didn’t see a penny.
There are significantly more companies who would rather start killing politicians than see IP law gone. They rake in billions of shareholder value, much moreso than any AI company out there.
I never argued that copyright law is necessarily wrong or bad just because we went millenia without it. What I am arguing is that these laws do not allow people to create intellectual works as people in the past were no less artistic than we are today - maybe even moreso.
Have you seen the impact of IP law on science? It’s horrible. No researcher sees any money from their works - rather they must pay to lose their “rights” and have papers published. Scientific journals have hampered scientific progress and will continue to do so for as long as IP law remains. I would not be surprised if millions of needless deaths could have been prevented if only every medical researcher had access to research.
IP law serves solely large companies and independent artists see a couple of breadcrumbs. Abolishing IP law - or at the very least limiting it to a couple of years at most - would have hardly any impact on small artists. The vast, vast, VAST majority of artists make hardly any money already. Just check Bandcamp or itch.io and see how many millions of artists there are who will never ever see success. They do not benefit from IP law - so why should we keep it for the top 0.1% of artists who do?
- Comment on Who would win in a fight, a Gorilla or a Bear of equal weight? 2 months ago:
the chimp would tell the bear
I thought the bear had died?
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
The rich want to do it because of AI. That’s it.
They can already take whatever you create wihout giving you a dime. What are you gonna do, sue a multi-billion dollar company with a fleet of attorneys on standby? With what money?
They would certainly just settle and give you a pittance just about large enough to cover your attorney fees.
Do you know why companies usually don’t do this? Because they have sufficiently many people hired who do nothing but create stories for the company full time. They do not need your ideas.
Copyright didn’t exist for millenia. It didn’t stop authors from writing books.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I don’t think pedophile is accurate here.
It’s power difference why someone would want to “date” a 16 year old. It allows for very easy abuse which is usually the main motivation. Sexual attraction to children is less likely because far fewer people are pedophiles than abusers.
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 2 months ago:
Not quite. Reuploading is at the very least an annoying process.
Uploading anything over Tor is a gruelling process. Downloading takes much time already, uploading even more so. Most consumer internet plans aren’t symmetrically either with significantly lower upload than download speeds. Plus, you need to find a direct-download provider which doesn’t block Tor exit nodes and where uploading/downloading is free.
Taking something down is quick. A script scraping these forums which automatically reports the download links (any direct-download site quickly removes reports of CSAM by the way - no one wants to host this legal nightmare) can take down thousands of uploads per day.
Making the experience horrible leads to a slow death of those sites. Imagine if 95% of videos on [generic legal porn site] lead to a “Sorry! This content has been taken down.” message. How much traffic would the site lose? I’d argue quite a lot.
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 2 months ago:
I’d be surprised if many “producers” are caught. From what I have heard, most uploads on those sites are reuploads because it’s magnitudes easier.
Of the 1400 people caught, I’d say maybe 10 were site administors and the rest passive “consumers” who didn’t use Tor. I wouldn’t put my hopes up too much that anyone who was caught ever committed child abuse themselves.
I mean, 1400 identified out of 1.8 million really isn’t a whole lot to begin with.
