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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2 in 3 People Often Encounter Hate Speech Online.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The bar chart might be more useful if they weighted the source with its number of users. Facebook isn’t 7 times more hateful than Telegram. It has around 3.5 times as many users - but also the two are used very differently. I use Telegram, but only as a free messaging platform for automated alerts.

  Then there’s the algorithms, which tend to feed you what you engage with and from those connections you’ve made on it. The exception recently is X which has a very strong political bias and has turned into something that pushes hate very strongly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks Jupiter, You're a real one!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Alternatvely: Eww, Earth, you’re infested. Look at all those little things crawling all over you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uttlesford District Council approves sound-recording CCTV cameras⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Strange. That seems to go against the Home Office’s own Code of Practice

  “13 3.2.2 Any proposed deployment that includes audio recording in a public place is likely to require a strong justification of necessity to establish its proportionality. There is a strong presumption that a surveillance camera system must not be used to record conversations as this is highly intrusive and unlikely to be justified”

  I hope they’ve taken good legal advice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re already doing it. We replaced our 6 vmware hosts earlier this year. Initially priced for Intel but then got offered AMD. Less cost, twice the power. Got 5 of them and saved some money.

  Some code that relied upon intel hardware did need rebuilding, but otherwise it’s been very good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CrowdStrike downtime apparently caused by update that replaced a file with 42kb of zeroes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice analogy, except you’d check the script before you tried to use it. Computers are really good at crc/hash checking files to verify their integrity, and that’s exactly what a privileged process like antivirus should do with every source of information.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Devs should not be "forced to run on a treadmill until their mental or physical health breaks", says publisher of Manor Lords, citing how gamers seem to be trained to expect endless content work now⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely. I will never buy another Early Access game - it’s buying something that is clearly unfinished, and you the player never get a second chance at the first impression. There’s too many other games to expect us to come back and try it again once there’s more content and the bugs are ironed out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Devs should not be "forced to run on a treadmill until their mental or physical health breaks", says publisher of Manor Lords, citing how gamers seem to be trained to expect endless content work now⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just kinda want to buy a game that’s actually finished. Early Access has ruined that first play experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OneDrive automatically backups folders in Windows 11 without users' permissions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember when Word and Excel Autosave did what you expected it to?