AwesomeLowlander
@AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 2 hours ago:
Generally, don’t post the text, post an archive link. You can create such links by appending ‘archive.ph’ to the front of the original url, then opening the link in your browser.
- Comment on 4chan faces UK ban after refusing to pay ‘stupid’ fine 9 hours ago:
Once your govt has been captured by foreign interests, it doesn’t really matter what laws are on the books anyway, they’ll find a way to screw you over.
- Comment on 4chan faces UK ban after refusing to pay ‘stupid’ fine 1 day ago:
Within reason. Libel, incitement to violence, hate speech, etc, should be illegal for obvious reasons
- Comment on New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds 3 days ago:
This is because every single thing has to be tested and approved to death in a car.
This is tesla though, how much testing do they actually do before passing it to customers for free QA?
- Comment on New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds 4 days ago:
The issues could cascade beyond the design. The auto manufacturing industry operates on strict production schedules. Though it builds in time to validate and test whatever new features come in each new model, the sudden intro of a design change late in the process could throw off the delicate timetable.
FFS, it’s a bloody door handle, not full self driving tech. Author is full of BS.
- Comment on 4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act 4 days ago:
it’s still an argument that relies on “everyone does it ergo it must be ok”, which wouldn’t stand on its own terms either.
Given that’s how the entire Internet works, it does stand on its own terms. The UK isn’t influential enough to force the entire Internet to follow suit. They can take it or leave it.
- Comment on 4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act 4 days ago:
And as a website you don’t deal with any of that, you just implement an ad platform’s ad window and they serve whatever regional ads are relevant to your visitors. So yes, practically all websites with advertising would be operating in every country worldwide, by your logic.
- Comment on Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online 4 days ago:
At that point, you (well, not you per se) are basically suggesting to replace the telephone system with a Signal-esque system. Which would break a billion things in real life, for little to no gain.
- Comment on 4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act 4 days ago:
With wire fraud and csam, the activity is illegal in the host country as well as the target country, which is not the case here.
If 4chan make revenue by advertising UK goods and services to UK users, then they are very much operating in the UK.
By your logic, any website with advertising is operating in EVERY country worldwide.
- Comment on Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online 4 days ago:
Still not seeing how it would work. You’re dropping random bits of the system and saying it would work but it’s too complicated for you to explain, so there’s really nothing to discuss.
- Comment on Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online 4 days ago:
Federal political sources downplayed the seriousness of the issue, believing the issue was not related to a data leak or breach.
Sources noted the private contact information for politicians was often already widely available and known by stakeholders and members of the public they had interacted with. Some pointed out that politicians often kept the same contact details for years, from when they were more junior politicians who freely distributed their numbers on public documents like press releases or community announcements.
- Comment on Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online 4 days ago:
Would you care to describe how you would implement said system? Because I can’t see how that would work technologically
- Comment on AFP promises ‘swift action’ after Albanese, Ley and Morrison’s private phone numbers exposed online 4 days ago:
Federal political sources downplayed the seriousness of the issue, believing the issue was not related to a data leak or breach.
Sources noted the private contact information for politicians was often already widely available and known by stakeholders and members of the public they had interacted with. Some pointed out that politicians often kept the same contact details for years, from when they were more junior politicians who freely distributed their numbers on public documents like press releases or community announcements.
- Comment on Venezuela announces closure of embassies in Norway and Australia 5 days ago:
Idk about that, there have been some extremely questionable recipients in history
- Comment on Venezuela announces closure of embassies in Norway and Australia 5 days ago:
The announcement occurred just days after the Nobel Committee in Oslo announced that Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado had won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for fighting for democracy in the South American country.
- Comment on Dead Cells dev says its controversial sunsetting was "a good thing for players" 5 days ago:
The entire article was summarised in the headline. There’s literally nothing else of interest there
- Comment on Using dark mode might be more energy-intensive if the screen is an LCD. 5 days ago:
superior light mode.
Is that what we’re calling dark mode nowadays?
- Comment on Police are asking kids to stop pulling AI homeless man prank 5 days ago:
Often they say the person claims to know the parents from work or college. And then, predictably, the parents lose their cool and demand they kick the man out.
Doesn’t matter how well dressed you are, if somebody’s in my house because they claimed they knew me, I’d be demanding they get kicked out too
- Comment on Police are asking kids to stop pulling AI homeless man prank 5 days ago:
As per the article, because parents are reporting it as home invasions with a minor present
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Point being, not only is it an issue that we can do nothing about, it’s also an issue that is already going away by itself. So the only thing really worth discussing at this time is how to deal with the fallout of that trend
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Possibly. It seemed like an obvious play on peak oil to me, but I guess not everybody got it
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
too many of us is unsustainable.
That’s very much a problem of yesteryear, given that we’re currently doing below replacement rate globally.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The vote ratio
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Why is this post so controversial?
- Comment on An eggy smell is horrible if it comes unexpectedly, but arguably pleasant if you're eating an egg mayo sandwich 1 week ago:
Creaminess
- Comment on Australia has a $127,000 housing affordability question 1 week ago:
So you’re in agreement with Kohler
I am not. He’s clearly implying that current density is just fine, when the reality is that there is plenty of reason to densify and cherry picking a single extreme example at the other end of the range is disingenuous at best.
- Comment on Australia has a $127,000 housing affordability question 1 week ago:
He clearly thinks that being the 859th-least-dense city in the world is bad, or at least an opportunity to be denser, but a lot of people would say it’s just fine. One of the world’s densest cities is Giza, in Egypt, where 4.4 million people squeeze into 98 square kilometres, not much larger than the size of Sydney’s Parramatta, where fewer than 300,000 people live.
Maybe not so much sneaky as blatant. Going from the density of Australia to Giza is a bullshit comparison.
- Comment on Australia has a $127,000 housing affordability question 1 week ago:
Bullshit article that tries to sneak in the usual anti immigrant, anti densification bullshit
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 2 weeks ago:
Same scam that is done on elections to give the illusion of choice but the puppet master never changes
Fuck off with that ‘both sides the same’ bullshit. We’ve very conclusively proven that no, one side is much fucking worse.
- Comment on Adult games hit once more, as Valve seemingly denies Early Access to games with mature content 2 weeks ago:
18+ in this discussion refers to sex and nudity, not violence.
Valve axed smut games
They have NOT axed smut games, which is the primary reason we are still capable of having this discussion.
They chose the boring and predictable path of lowest resistance which is the exact opposite of what they‘re being praised for here. Of course it‘s mildly annoying for Valve and they would rather sell whatever they want but they‘re not fighting for customers here at all.
Weird how the smut developers, the ones who are most affected by this situation, have a diametrically opposed view of the situation than you do.