Saleh
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- Comment on Nearly 5 years in, PS5 sales remain neck-and-neck with PS4 | VGC 16 hours ago:
If you already have a PC, no matter how old and shoddy, you will be able to run games on it and become a PC gamer. There was no investment hurdle in 2020, while you need a console to become a console gamer, so you need to buy one first. Most people do have a PC for non gaming uses anyways.
- Comment on Lemmy.one will be shutting down 16 hours ago:
AFAIK they would remain tied to your old account. The instances copy everything off each other. So if reddthat.com would go down, your comment would still show as EndlessNightmare@reddthath.com If you were to make a new account on a different instance it would not have your posts and comments “attached” to it.
This could be an issue if you rely on reputation for something that is tied to your account. In that sense having some mechanism to proof the old account to be owned by you would be good.
- Comment on Lemmy.one will be shutting down 16 hours ago:
You can transfer all your subscriptions and blocks. What you cannot transfer is your imaginary internet points that aren’t summed up by default in lemmy anyways.
- Comment on Nearly 5 years in, PS5 sales remain neck-and-neck with PS4 | VGC 16 hours ago:
I think the jump is more Covid related than having to do with any of the other consoles.
- Comment on Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back 17 hours ago:
Loans for consumer products should be outlawed. Nothing good ever comes out of them.
- Comment on Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back 17 hours ago:
Sweden is one of the main exporters of Neoliberalism outside of its own borders.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Alex Karp praises Saudi engineers and takes a swipe at Europe, saying it has 'given up' on AI 1 day ago:
Yeah, but Palantir is based on using AI in Saudi Arabia to execute people for being gay. Proof? The computer said so.
And in any other country it boils down to variations of that principle. Justify oppression, discrimination, torture and murder by the “impartial” decision of the computer algorithm fine tuned to make exactly that decision.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 1 day ago:
I have a question. Everyone keeps speaking of the “tech” sector. Does that only refer to IT or does it cover engineers as well? Because in Europe it seems they keep struggling to get enough people with IT knowledge into engineering projects.
- Comment on Sad I'm no longer a Catholic, seeing how rad the new Pope is 4 days ago:
You joke with the kebab but a catholic priest got charged two days ago with the claim that he smuggled hash into a prison in Germany inside a kebab.
www1.wdr.de/…/katholischer-seelsorger-drogenschmu…
A Catholic prison chaplain allegedly tried to smuggle drug sachets wrapped in kebabs into Heinsberg Prison in 2022.
From August, the Catholic prison chaplain will have to answer to the Geilenkirchen district court. The case concerns over 140 grams of hashish that was hidden in several kebabs by unknown persons in a fast food restaurant. He wanted to bring them to a group lesson with the prisoners. Not the first smuggling operation
The man had already attracted attention twice before because he had tried to smuggle in cell phones and charging cables, for example. The drugs alone - according to the public prosecutor’s office - had a black market price of 2,000 euros. The former Catholic priest is facing a prison sentence of at least one year.
He was “irrevocably released” by the Aachen diocese after the incident.
Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
- Comment on Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy 4 days ago:
If corporate enshittification is the reason for you to skip on the switch, giving any more money to Microsoft doesn’t make sense either.
- Comment on “No Apple tax means we will lower prices” - Proton announces lower prices for users by up to 30% after US ruling against Apple fees 1 week ago:
Nobody is kept from taking additional education if they want to, like you did. But the general education should be from school and school education needs to define the standard of what everyone should know or should at least have known at some point so he or she can refresh upon it.
If you make it mandatory to make academic education contain every subject like school did, you will end up with programs taking 20 years instead of 5 years to graduate.
- Comment on “No Apple tax means we will lower prices” - Proton announces lower prices for users by up to 30% after US ruling against Apple fees 1 week ago:
That is a very broad generalization. First of all inflation is not just some co-product of economic activity. It has specific reasons. An economy is not stagnant because the oil price sinks after geopolitical tensions ease. An economy is not stagnant because businesses are kept from price gouging in cartels or monopoly situations.
Also “stagnant” is not inherently bad. The reason why we need economic growth is because the super rich are siphoning off more and more wealth, so economic growth is the only thing keeping poor people from revolting. A zero growth or even degrowth economy could serve the people very well, if wealth wouldn’t be hoarded away by select few.
- Comment on “No Apple tax means we will lower prices” - Proton announces lower prices for users by up to 30% after US ruling against Apple fees 1 week ago:
Why? Idiots thinking they know more than they do won’t be stopped by this. Also if we wanted to round humanities and liberal arts by making it mandatory to pass analysis, linear algebra, organic chemistry and classical physics would just lead to much more people not graduating anything.
School is for a general education. Academia is for specialization.
- Comment on Former Palantir workers condemn company's work with Trump administration 1 week ago:
Ethics? Trump? The companies stock price has almost quadroupled over the past year. Since Trumps election it nearly doubled.
Everyone who knows the company knows that it serves to aid authoritarian regimes in oppressing its people. It is known that Palantir serves Israel in its genocide and oppression of the Palestinian people. The entire purpose of this company is to help oppress. Palantir is having ties with the ICE since at least 2014.
It is evil through and through and it is laughable to claim that Trump would be the reason why the company would have gone to far.
- Comment on A person born in 2015 is 20 years old 1 week ago:
LMAO
- Comment on OpenAI abandons plan to become a for-profit company 1 week ago:
A maximum of 10,000% profit is “nonprofit”? Any country that allows for something like this is a joke.
- Comment on The FBI launched a special task force targeting anti-Tesla ‘domestic terrorism’ 1 week ago:
He could just take another form of transportation. There is no public records of cars driven or train tickets purchased.
He could even fly with normal airlines so there would be no public record of his flight.
- Comment on The FBI launched a special task force targeting anti-Tesla ‘domestic terrorism’ 1 week ago:
Boycotting Israeli products is mandated by international law. Anything that helps Israel maintain the illegal occupation of the Westbank, Gaza and East Jerusalem is complicity and illegal. Israel launders products that are made in occupied territory and resources stolen in occupied territory as “made in Israel”. But even if product would have been made purely in the 1967 Israeli borders, the companies still pay taxes that are used to finance the army that is doing the occupation.
If you think that upholding international law is crazy or childish i recommend you to look at the period from 1933 to 1945 that is often given as the reason why there was an effort to create international law.
- Comment on SignalGate Meets WordPress: Outgoing National Security Adviser's Phone Dumps Messages via Israeli App 1 week ago:
By now i think we need to assume everyone that is willing to use Israeli tech in any government functions, even if it is only “local police” using Palantir software and the like to be compromised by Israeli intelligence.
The data will be compromised to the detriment of the people and politicians who push for using such tech are likely compromised themselves already.
- Comment on xkcd #3084: Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object 1 week ago:
That is a good question. I have to think about it.
- Comment on xkcd #3084: Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object 1 week ago:
The universe is expanding everywhere all at once in all directions. So space itself is “moving”. It is impossible to define movement except relative to another object made from matter.
- Comment on xkcd #3084: Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object 1 week ago:
Relative to the sun, which is the next center of gravity. As you go up the chain you end up with the heaviest object which you cannot move relative to anything, as it is the logical point of relative movement for everything else.
- Comment on xkcd #3084: Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object 1 week ago:
God is distinct from the creation and has no physical shape inside the creation so the idea of “object too heavy to lift” is already conceptually nonsensical.
But also in the scope of our physics: What would an object be that is too heavy to “lift” for anyone and anything? It would be the heaviest object in the universe. So what will happen with the heaviest object in the universe? It would be the main center of gravity for everything else. In the same way you cannot “lift” the earth, but rather lift yourself from it as your force will just propel you away from the earth rather than the earth away from you, while you are inside the area dominated by earths gravitational field.
- Comment on Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves 2 weeks ago:
The fediverse is much more than just lemmy. That being said i also disagree for lemmy. Drama between mods and communities was a regular thing on reddit. Still reddit managed to grow quite big before the bots took over. And companies are in no way more accountable to the users. Look at what happened with twitter under Musk. The only realistic choice you have as a normal user is to leave. And in the fediverse leaving a shitty instance still allows you to connect with all the other content from a different instance.
- Comment on Future apocalypse movies won't have survivors scavaging abandoned cars. 2 weeks ago:
I think you overestimate the necessity to move long distances in an apocalyptic setting once things have settled. 10miles is actually quite a long distance to move yourself and all your stuff in a day. And since you aren’t expected in the office at 9am, it does not really matter if it takes you 1 hour or 10 days to move somewhere.
- Comment on Instant rotten milk 2 weeks ago:
My life is a lie.
- Comment on Instant rotten milk 2 weeks ago:
maybe maker is the wrong word. I mean these cans, where you fill water in the bottom, have a sieve inlay to put the coffee and then it steams through to the can above. Okay i see now in English it is called “Moka pot” and there is a debate about the “wrong name” in my native language.
- Comment on Instant rotten milk 2 weeks ago:
If you are using an espresso maker the salt should be irrelevant since the water is turned into steam before precipitating as coffee.
- Comment on Trine Was a Masterpiece. Why Doesn’t Anyone Remember? 2 weeks ago:
Its 16 years ago and the series continued. Last year my wife got all games and played them because she remembered playing the first one back then.
I don’t think it is “culturally forgotten”. Also as the amount of media increases it becomes more difficult to define a “mainstream” that everyone remembers as defining. This has happened to literary eras like a hundred years ago already. Now with music you dont have just MTV, the local radio station and maybe the one internet forum where all the fans of one genre gravitated to. So it is more difficult to be exposed to other people who didn’t forget
- Comment on Poop Drones Are Keeping Sewers Running So Humans Don't Have to 2 weeks ago:
I am asking because i know crawler robots exist and are in use since at least a few yearse. The more interesting aspect imo. is the automated image recognition which made huge improvements over the past years. For that it makes sense to have the analysis centralized within reason. E.g. pattern recognition against a larger database. There is local factors too though as materials, construction forms and so on often have historic local differences.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEMC_3ilpHw redzone.com/our-technology/solo/
theengineer.co.uk/…/crawler-robots-helping-to-pre…