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- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 9 hours ago:
I love to wish it on my worst enemies.
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 9 hours ago:
That entirely depends on who deeply they’ve locked themselves into a single-vendor set of services. If they used an abstraction tool to hide vendor-specific implementation detail, and were moderately smart, it’d take little besides minor config changes, redeployment and some regression testing.
Source: I’ve done it.
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 9 hours ago:
Or, you know, do two things at once. It’s not uneard of for a huge governmental entity to be able to do that.
- Comment on Another 122.88TB SSD just launched and this one comes from an obscure Chinese startup you've probably never encountered 1 day ago:
Most countries have prison labor.
- Comment on Another 122.88TB SSD just launched and this one comes from an obscure Chinese startup you've probably never encountered 1 day ago:
Don’t take that out on chinese people, take it out on your owners and masters.
As if the Chinese people don’t have owners and masters.
- Comment on Unshittification: 3 tech companies that recently made my life… better 1 day ago:
Forcing you to use a service when you have bought an unrelated service is anticompetitive. For example, bundling a particular browser with an OS, or forcing you to use a vendor’s store because you’ve bought a vendor’s product.
- Comment on Technological Suggestions for LGBT+, Immigrants, Protestors, Anti-War Activists and Other Marginalized Groups 1 day ago:
some of them will hesitate to mistreat a Christian
I don’t believe that. They don’t regard non-fundies as being Christians.
- Comment on The Mediocrity of Modern Google. 2 days ago:
Google is today’s IBM.
- Comment on Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade. 3 days ago:
By that measure shouldn’t Disney be considered a Tech company too? Or I guess banks and insurance companies.
Yeah, in the same way that every company that uses a phone is a phone company.
- Comment on How do you pronounce "centaur" and why? 3 days ago:
In English, it’s a matter of honor to mangle foreign loan words, unless you’re the kind of twit who pedantically pronounces foreign words as though you’re not speaking English, but the language of origin. That’s most common with French loanwords, since French was once considered higher-prestige than English. But I’ve even heard people attempting to pronounce Arabic words like that, despite having no idea of Arabic phonology or case inflection, with ridiculous results.
- Comment on How do you pronounce "centaur" and why? 3 days ago:
I see that your dialect pronounces “pen” and “pin” the same. Midwestern US?
- Comment on How do you pronounce "centaur" and why? 3 days ago:
The third way would be a difference in how the diphthong is pronounced: “-aur” or “-ower.”
- Comment on How do you pronounce "centaur" and why? 3 days ago:
Me too. I’m not a pedantic Latin-pronouncer who’d say “ken-tower”
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 3 days ago:
The age of consent in many developed countries is 16.
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 3 days ago:
consent is often a factor in the severity of the penalty
If there’s no consent, it’s sexual assault at a minimum and more likely rape.
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 3 days ago:
Teenagers fucking is without consent. Their brains, on the average, are not capable of making that level of decision.
What an absolute crock.
That’s the theory behind the law, OK, but the notion that someone is incapable of consent the day before their 18th birthday, but fully capable the following day, is manifestly stupid. I’ve raised three kids to adulthood. All of them had sexual relations before they were 18 and there’s nothing wrong with any of them. Don’t let religious nuts and the pathologically undersexed make your laws, it won’t work out.
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 3 days ago:
Vigilantism is just a sign that government has become too corrupt
There was a lot of vigilantism during Reconstruction because the government was NOT corrupt.
But if you’re a victim under that corrupt government, it’s the only solution you have, so its hard not to cheer. No one is shedding tears for torched tesla’s in dealerships or the dead ceo Saint Luigi was framed for killing.
When the political and judicial systems are riddled with corruption, rough justice might be the only justice for some kinds of crime.
Its just harder to trust and justify clout chasers
If they’re paid by the click, they’re part of the problem, not the solution.
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 3 days ago:
Yeah, many normal, healthy people (even Americans) started having sex long before they were 18.
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 3 days ago:
Pretty solid way to identify the right person.
And that’s why entrapment is a legally sanctioned investigation strategy for law enforcement.
Oh, wait, it isn’t, because of all the abuses that resulted from its use.
- Comment on 90s band alignment chart 4 days ago:
I could imagine Kiedis trying to roger an elephant seal.
- Comment on 90s band alignment chart 4 days ago:
Only in the best of times.
- Comment on Power is not energy: why the difference matters [Technology Connections] 4 days ago:
So I’m just wondering if this is really any new information for anyone.
It’s never wise to underestimate most people’s ignorance.
- Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week 5 days ago:
if good FOSS software is being built by enthusiasts
LibreOffice is forked long ago from the extremely corporate OpenOffice effort, which in turn originated from the non-open-source Star Office. Not all FOSS comes from enthusiasts.
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 5 days ago:
The market will fix it for you when gasoline prices quadruple. If demand drops (and it will), the fossil fuel oligopolies will try to maintain profits by price-gouging, since demand for fuel for cars is pretty inelastic.
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 5 days ago:
Almost all people can walk a mile. The remainder have special mobility needs.
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 6 days ago:
When he suggested PayPal convert its data centers from Linux to Microsoft Server, I knew he was a wrong’un. That was one of the reasons he got booted out of PayPal, by the way. Even the other bullshitter tech bros knew how stupid that idea was.
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 6 days ago:
I also know a 93-year-old lady who has loudly talked about taking a few of the bastards with her. The sentiment may be more widespread than we think.
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 6 days ago:
Suicide bombers on mobility scooters. Be very afraid.
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 6 days ago:
They’ll have backups. And those backups and associated restore processes would never have been properly tested.
I’ve come to places where that happened and there were very few remaining IT ops people after the mass firing that followed.
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 6 days ago:
I’d be fine with the Musk in prison part. Launching him into the sun in one of his own rockets would be cooler, though.