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- Comment on US pursuing stake in struggling chipmaker Intel, commerce secretary says 10 hours ago:
This is GM in 2008 all over again.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 1 day ago:
and unlike the US it doesn’t even have constitutional limitations on surveillance of people on their own soil
- I’d argue the US doesn’t anymore either, or if it does, it’s only on paper.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 1 day ago:
It’s finally happening, tech jobs are suffering the same unemployment that the trades had been suffering for years if not decades, only this time around it’s probably self-inflicted by the AI bubble.
- Comment on The Terminal Demise Of Consumer Electronics Through Subscription Services 2 days ago:
Mirrorless and P&S cameras should still be able to work without an app. Also, there’s always used SLRs.
- Comment on The Terminal Demise Of Consumer Electronics Through Subscription Services 2 days ago:
'… now Windows works off the same model.'
- Good thing PCs aren’t locked into Windows then.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 3 days ago:
Making ad blockers illegal means they win the ad blocker war that YT has been waging for a while now.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 3 days ago:
Plus what if this hits the US and everywhere else too?
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 3 days ago:
Assuming it doesn’t come over to wherever you live too.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 3 days ago:
Also, wouldn’t this ban also potentially kill or at the very least cripple FOSS too? And what about browser forks like LibreWolf or Icecat?
Because I could see this law overriding rights that basically all FOSS licenses grant to modify something as long as that modification is still freely available.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 3 days ago:
I bet Google probably lobbied to revive this somehow.
- Comment on UK government suggests deleting files to save water 1 week ago:
How is deleting locally-stored files on your home PC going to save water, when your hardware sips resources vs. any AI datacenter in existence?
- Comment on Reddit will block the Internet Archive 1 week ago:
Knowing the corrupt pricks that Google are, I wouldn’t put that past them. The age-gating isn’t even about protecting the kids, it’s about censorship.
- Comment on A Tech Rule That Will ‘Future-Proof’ Your Kids 1 week ago:
That’s screwed, and most of the places I mentioned, are generally in cities/towns that are pretty well off, as I mentioned in that ‘sarcasm, but not really’ disclaimer, places like Appalachia are truly screwed in that regard, and also your situation.
- Comment on A Tech Rule That Will ‘Future-Proof’ Your Kids 1 week ago:
You still have local second-run theaters where those still exist, plus parks and playgrounds where those haven’t been ruined yet, and depending on where you live, there may even be various art/craft places to hang out at, splatter-painting places included in that.
Aside from those, yeah, there isn’t much for kids to do.
sarcasm, but also not really if you’re in a *really* low-income part of the country where there really *isn’t* anything to do, think places like Appalachia for a good example of that - Comment on Reddit will block the Internet Archive 1 week ago:
And Invidious while that’s still an option, but I have both a PeerTube and Odysee set up already.
- Comment on Reddit will block the Internet Archive 1 week ago:
I’ve declared my YT channel to be dormant starting on the 13th due to this AI age-gating crap.
- Comment on Reddit will block the Internet Archive 1 week ago:
Just more vindication for my ditching that trash heap of a platform.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 2 weeks ago:
Well, given git is decentralized and self-hostable…
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 2 weeks ago:
CDs still do that to some extent, especially with indie releases, and also higher-end physical formats like SACD and DVD-Audio tend to have a lot of extras packed in with them as they’re typically considered to be special editions of a given album, but both SACD and DVD-Audio are DRM-encumbered unlike normal CDs and of course analog formats where DRM doesn’t apply, so trying to get them on a PC will be harder if not impossible especially as the DSD codec that SACD uses has particularly nasty DRM shipped with it IIRC.
- Comment on AI chatbots are becoming popular alternatives to therapy. But they may worsen mental health crises, experts warn 2 weeks ago:
Not good, not good at all. In fact, I can imagine this trend backfiring in the worst way possible when ChatGPT or other LLMs encourage people who were on the verge of snapping to finally snap and commit horrible acts, instead of bringing them back from the brink like some form of actual therapy would ideally do.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 2 weeks ago:
One more reason if you’re still buying music, to start buying physical albums again while you still can.
CDs aren’t age-gated and you can rip them to FLAC yourself.
- Comment on Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU? 2 weeks ago:
Loose mainboards don’t ship with an OS by default and typically ship with SecureBoot disabled by default as well, it would be pretty hard to force an OS on something that has no OS installed by default unless it’s forced in ROM.
- Comment on Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU? 2 weeks ago:
Forcing SecureBoot platform-wide would kill the loose PC parts market.
- Comment on Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU? 2 weeks ago:
Except that would require a rewrite of the PC spec which I’m not sure would work out too well given the existence of loose mainboards for custom builds which ship with no OS by default and expect you to supply the OS yourself, ditto for niche manufacturers like Framework who also offer the option of letting you supply your own OS.
- Comment on Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU? 2 weeks ago:
Good luck applying this sorta lockdown to PCs.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal 3 weeks ago:
Or self-host if that’s feasible, MAS has been self-hosting for a while now, for example.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal 3 weeks ago:
Anyone who has projects on Github they care about, you might wanna move it to self-hosting or another git host while you still can, because once MS gets tired of killing e-mails, Github repos are probably going to start getting sniped next.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Hopefully Google doesn’t bypass that anyways.
- Comment on EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google 3 weeks ago:
How long before that extends to PCs and non-Windows OSes are blocked?
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 3 weeks ago:
I thought the PS3 had an analog multi-out still, it’s the PS4 that got rid of it.