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- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 weeks ago:
Me too! I upgraded to Fedora Linux. It’s amazing how everything just works, even all the games I play.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 weeks ago:
Your experience is not invalid, but It’s fucked up that you’re giving Windows credit for “just working” when Windows doesn’t even try to support dual booting. In fact the reason Linux is having so much trouble is because it has to tiptoe so that Windows doesn’t break.
If you don’t like Gnome or Mint Cinnamon, why not try KDE? Something like Kubuntu, perhaps? I use Fedora KDE myself.
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 4 weeks ago:
That is a big issue, but excessive power consumption isn’t intrinsic to AI. You can run a reasonably good AI on your home computer.
The AI companies don’t seem concerned about the diminishing returns, though, and will happily spend 1000% more power to gain that last 10% better intelligence. In a competitive market why wouldn’t they, when power is so cheap.
- Comment on DNA testing firm 23andMe files for bankruptcy 4 weeks ago:
It can’t be just that, right? There are loads of successful products that any given person only ever buys once.
- Comment on DNA testing firm 23andMe files for bankruptcy 4 weeks ago:
How on Earth did they manage to fuck this up?
They were the leading firm in a field where having the most data makes yours the most accurate tests. Their product sold for hundreds of dollars a pop, with practically zero marginal costs to run the tests. And they were really popular, selling like hotcakes.
It’s insane just how astoundingly incompetent upper management can be sometimes.
- Comment on Servo vs Ladybird. 4 weeks ago:
When you donate to a software project, you’re not giving money to some inanimate concept. You’re giving it to the developers, the “random people associated with it.”
Kling’s actions are harmful, and contribute to an open source environment less welcoming to ~4 billion people. I don’t want to reward that. Unless you do, you would be better off putting your support elsewhere, too.
- Comment on Servo vs Ladybird. 4 weeks ago:
It’s textbook misogyny.
No, it is not.
Yes, it is.
It’s sexist when you assume someone is a man because they’re a doctor. It’s sexist when you assume someone is a woman because they’re a nurse. And it’s sexist when you assume someone is a man because they’re an OS developer.
When you continue insisting that the OS developer be a man, even though it’s been clarified to you that they just as well may not be, that’s when your behavior crosses the line to misogynistic.
It isn’t a fucking “convention” to push women down by insinuating they’re not welcome in your profession, and it’s not a “new convention” to fucking avoid doing that.
- Comment on Servo vs Ladybird. 4 weeks ago:
Annoying that you’re being downvoted, you are absolutely correct. We should not support Ladybird as long as Andreas is involved.
- Comment on Servo vs Ladybird. 4 weeks ago:
Follow the link. He denied a pull request for gender neutral language in documentation, calling it “personal politics.” github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814#issuecom…
In other words, Andreas insists the OS developer be referred to as “he/him” instead of not assuming gender. Not only that, he’s doubling down. It’s textbook misogyny. Fuck him.
- Comment on Why I recommend against Bluesky. 5 weeks ago:
People didn’t go to Bluesky because of an informed choice based on features or security. People went to Bluesky because that’s where everyone they want to follow went.
- Comment on Google fixes flaw that could unmask YouTube users' email addresses 2 months ago:
- Comment on Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000. 2 months ago:
I’ll leak the email address of my YouTube user account for the bargain price of just $9,999
- Comment on Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps 2 months ago:
The “big issue” with this it that it is being done entirely to appease the vain whims of an egocentric wannabe dictator, and for no other reason.
- Comment on Internet Archive played crucial role in tracking shady CDC data removals 2 months ago:
As of five years ago, 70 petabytes: blog.adafruit.com/…/donate-to-the-internet-archiv…
in 2012 it was 10 petabytes. Now, it’s probably well over 100 petabytes. I think it well beyond the scope of torrents by now.