GetOffMyLan
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- Comment on How screwed would one be if their email provider shuts down? 5 days ago:
I get an email from LinkedIn about jobs roughly every hour so wouldn’t be long
- Comment on How screwed would one be if their email provider shuts down? 5 days ago:
I use a free email service with my custom domain. If it went down I’d just switch to another. Down time would likely just be while DNS records proliferated.
- Comment on Petition: Create a public consultation on freedom of speech and disinformation 6 days ago:
In Political Order & Political Decay, Francis Fukuyama talks about a national narrative. It is a political tool for citizens to have a common understanding of their history, which then leads to a common understanding of its future. With this common understanding, the people become more unified, thus enabling the nation to accomplish many great things.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Because you aren’t a 6 year old and have to use your big boy words in the adult world.
- Comment on Warcraft 1 and 2 Remastered and the long-awaited 2.0 patch update for Warcraft 3: Reforged have just launched on PC for Warcraft's 30th anniversary 1 week ago:
Orks and humans had no multi select 🙃 apparently they’re adding that in though which might make it playable.
- Comment on In the context of the leaked Warcraft II remake, do you still trust Blizzard to produce good games? 2 weeks ago:
This will be the big test of if being brought out will help them.
They’re sitting on such amazing IPs but have just fucked everything recently.
I live in hope as warcraft is still my absolute favourite game series.
- Comment on In 4 years, US power grid increased battery storage to the equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors | The Optimist Daily 2 weeks ago:
That link is for a solar farm / battery installation. So it’s included.
- Comment on Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Shakespeare, study finds 2 weeks ago:
If you actually had infinite monkeys it would be the first thing a very large (infinite) amount would type.
- Comment on Google creating an AI agent to use your PC on your behalf, says report | Same PR nightmare as Windows Recall 3 weeks ago:
I bet you plenty of people absolutely do want this.
Most people can barely use a computer and would love this if it worked well.
You forget a huge percentage of users can barely access their emails.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 3 weeks ago:
It’s amazingly good at moderating user content to flag for moderator review. Existing text analysis completely falls down beyond keyword filtering tbh.
It’s really good at sentiment analysis. Which is great for things like user reviews. The Amazon ai notes on products are actually brilliant at summarizing the pros and cons of a product. I work for a holiday let company and we experimented with using it to find customers we need to follow up with and the results were amazing.
It smashes other automated translating services as well.
I use it a lot as a programmer to very quickly learn new topics. Also as an interactive docs that you can ask follow up questions to. I can pick up a new language as I go much faster than with traditional resources.
It’s honestly a complete game changer.
- Comment on Bill Would Force The Department of Veterans Affairs to Overhaul Suicide Prevention Algorithm That Favors White Men. 3 weeks ago:
I’m guessing they have limited resources for direct intervention so use this to flag up people who have the most risk factors.
It doesn’t sound like this is people asking for help but more trying to predict who might need it.
- Comment on Bill Would Force The Department of Veterans Affairs to Overhaul Suicide Prevention Algorithm That Favors White Men. 3 weeks ago:
after an investigation by The Fuller Project and The Markup found the department’s algorithm prioritized White, male veterans. It also gave preference to veterans who are “divorced and male” and “widowed and male” but not to any group of female veterans.
- Comment on Bill Would Force The Department of Veterans Affairs to Overhaul Suicide Prevention Algorithm That Favors White Men. 3 weeks ago:
It shouldn’t favour anyone. It should treat each person as an individual and figure out what they need based on their characteristics. If it’s been designed to only work well for white men it’s been designed poorly.
- Comment on If there are motherboards and daughterboards, are there fatherboards and sonboards? 3 weeks ago:
The observant will have noticed one of these early uses of mother-board are in conjunction with baby-board, and not today’s common daughterboard. A mother-baby relationship seems more appropriate in this context than mother-daughter.
- Comment on 'Electric Plastic' Could Merge Technology With the Body in Future Wearables and Implants. 3 weeks ago:
As a type 1 diabetic with multiple attachments already this sounds great.
- Comment on Microsoft maintains its own Windows debloat scripts on GitHub 4 weeks ago:
dell*
In the remove default apps tickled me.
This should definitely be updated to use winget.
- Comment on Update: Bitwarden posted to X this evening to reaffirm that it's a "packaging bug" and that "Bitwarden remains committed to the open source licensing model." 4 weeks ago:
That’s not a strong way to start a comment if you want to have a conversation
Proceeds to be a complete dick lmao
- Comment on Facebook has scraped public data from Australian users without an opt out. What can we do? 2 months ago:
So basically we can do nothing lol
At the end of the day if you don’t want them using your data don’t give it to them.
Don’t use their service. Get a privacy focused browser. Get an ad blocker. Disable 3rd party cookies. Container off the sites. Only use the Internet to view furry porn.
Then you’re totally protected.
- Comment on stop 2 months ago:
Animals massively outnumber us. It’s not our fault they are cowards and can’t organize a rebellion properly.
- Comment on Judge Hands Elon Musk’s X a Win in Lawsuit Against California’s Content-Moderation Law 2 months ago:
Source?
- Comment on How different would the world be if school never ended but you could leave anytime you elect to? 2 months ago:
Everyone would go anti intellectual because of those free loading students
- Comment on Horror Sign 2 months ago:
My friend works at a fast food place. You wouldn’t believe some of the stuff they’ve had to deal with. People are disgusting.
- Comment on How can I recreate my grandfathers voice? 2 months ago:
There’s a lot of results for ai voice clone. I can’t personally speak to the effectiveness of them but it might be worth a look.
- Comment on After Undercover Ops, Texas Launches Investigation Into Orgs 'Illegally Registering Non-Citizens To Vote' 2 months ago:
They literally don’t know that though. They just saw non white people registering to vote and assumed.
- Comment on After Undercover Ops, Texas Launches Investigation Into Orgs 'Illegally Registering Non-Citizens To Vote' 2 months ago:
Oh no they’re helping people register to vote!
- Comment on Elon Musk's Twitter takeover has ended up as the worst buyout deal for banks since the financial crisis 2 months ago:
Thank you, that’s very kind.
- Comment on Elon Musk's Twitter takeover has ended up as the worst buyout deal for banks since the financial crisis 2 months ago:
I’m embarrassed to admit but I brought into the Musk hype early on. You know Tesla and SpaceX.
But the second he started talking about programming (something I know a lot about) I realized he doesn’t have a clue.
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 2 months ago:
escapistmagazine.com/alien-resurrection-playstati…
Alien resurrection was the first and got panned by critics for it
- Comment on Intervention as one in four school starters in nappies 2 months ago:
This is about neuro typical children tbf
- Comment on Would you like a receipt? 2 months ago:
I base it purely on if there’s something in my shopping that may need to be returned. Like clothes or electronics.