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- Comment on Firefox 149 adds built-in free VPN with 50GB monthly data 1 day ago:
Vivaldi is Chromium, which I avoid because I consider it an advertising corporation’s attempt to erode open web standards.
- Comment on Bet you wish you had one of these in your car 2 days ago:
I never understood how one was supposed to clean one of these out.
- Comment on Firefox 149 adds built-in free VPN with 50GB monthly data 2 days ago:
Still better than the Chrome-alikes, but all the same I’ve switched to Librewolf. Problem is, foss mozilla teams like Librewolf are small and underfunded, and their ability to continue sanitizing the app forever is not garaunteed. A new vanguard FOSS browser project is needed.
- Comment on RIP Discord: Self-Hosted Discord Alternatives Tested (TeamSpeak, Stoat, Fluxer, Matrix, & More) 3 days ago:
For those who are still getting their arrangements together to leave discord but are uncomfortable about running the client in the interim, checkout vesktop, an open source privacy-focused discord client that looks and feels like the official client without the same uncomfortable level of access to your user space.
- Comment on CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 3 days ago:
LLMs are fly honey for stupid people.
- Comment on CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 3 days ago:
OP if you’re gonna post a paywalled article, can you at least copy the full text of it into the thread? Most of us cannot read more than two paragraphs of this piece, ensuring that most participants here are talking around the headline only.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
It was really funny about a decade back watching the entire bike industry acknowledge friction coefficients all at once, and suddenly the tires all went from 24mm/90psi to 38mm/40psi. All because the roadies started riding on gravel.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Steel is real. The road feel difference between carbon and steel is negligible, steel is usually way cheaper, survives a whole lot longer, is more often built to widely compatible standards, is fully recyclable, and in my humble opinion just straight up feels better under you on a ride. As for weight, unless one is a pro race cyclist there is never any reason to chase gram shavings, you will almost always lose more weight and go faster by working out your own body. But FWIW my steel frame is 19 pounds and competes on weight with most carbon builds.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
There’s a bell curve. If you burn out too quick you’re not gonna get nearly as much cardio, and the torque required to move a real clunker is extra stress on your joints. Plus it’s just not as much fun, cycling is a sustainable exercise largely because it’s fun. But it’s very true that a good workout bike can be had for $100 if you look. My two workout bikes were both built in the 90s (They’re fancy but that’s besides the point).
- Comment on 4 days ago:
The cycling community has a word for those guys: Freds.
- Comment on Fascism bad. 1 week ago:
I credit an intense compassion for animals and resulting veganism to my autism.
Just wanted to put that in the thread without making it a direct response to anyone. Sometimes it can be incredibly alienating and disconcerting to encounter people online who say they can’t be vegan because they’re autistic. It’s a very diverse spectrum with a multitude of manifestations, and I’d like to go on record as proof that it swings toward the positive and not just the negative.
- Comment on By bullying Anthropic, the Pentagon is violating the First Amendment. Here’s why. 1 week ago:
I’ve lived here my whole 40 years and can verify that while a significant chunk of our voting class (Because it very much is a class thing) are sheltered enough from consequence that they are either still satisfied with status quo or their disaffection leads them only to encourage debasement. But the class living a tenuous and effectively disenfranchised existence is much larger. Did you know that despite our last presidential election having the largest turnout in US history, less than have a citizens and barely more than half of eligible voted participated? Whether disenfranchisement or apathy, neither of those things are generated from nothing.
But my point above was not that it’s incorrect to point the blame squarely at US voted for their government’s decline (Even though I would probably argue, in a separate debate, that it is), my point is that it’s entirely the wrong tree to be barking up when trying to figure out how to put America back on “The right track”.
- Comment on By bullying Anthropic, the Pentagon is violating the First Amendment. Here’s why. 1 week ago:
Seems like you didn’t really absorb anything that I wrote. Fortunately selectively quoting my comment doesn’t make the rest of it go away, you can always go back and read it again.
- Comment on By bullying Anthropic, the Pentagon is violating the First Amendment. Here’s why. 1 week ago:
Kinda? Most Americans are extremely low-information on politics, and never proactively educated as to how to find that information or why it matters. We are the most propagandized population on Earth, our country has little to no standards for factual information on the news and several of our major outlets are just pure corporate spin, while all of our major newspapers are owned by oligarchs. Demographic fact is gerrymandered out of our districts, our default voting method creates perverse incentives to elect popularity over platform and locks third parties out of viability. Individual jurisdictions decide how voting is accomplished and more often than not use this power to make it difficult to do so instead of easier. There is almost no enforcement of laws requiring leave from work to vote. There is next to no oversight of our actual voting machines and little trust in tabulation, while parties can and often do purge voter roles between elections without informing those who they nullified, And ultimately most people didn’t vote for this because quite frankly most people don’t or can’t vote for one of the reasons above or something that I missed.
Saying “The people voted for this” sounds logical but the reality on the ground makes the statement wholly disingenuous. At the very least it’s not a statement that can be built off of for a more productive outcome, in fact it’s a thought-terminating cliche.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 2 weeks ago:
She’s a lefty twitch streamer who’s usually on in the mornings, mostly does reacts to current event stuff with some light context discussion, is one of the people Ethan Klein has tried to bully with lawsuits.
Th3Discourse with Majority Report contributor Brandon Sutton is another cozy lefty morning twitch stream.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 2 weeks ago:
I’ll stop yelling at the cloud when it stops tripling my electric bill!
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 2 weeks ago:
The only place I hear anything about that guy is on lefty podcasts and streams, I tend to avoid most social media so I’m not exactly tapped in to that shit but it kind of feels like the reactive coverage is his biggest boost. I tune in to chapo and hasan and friedland and denims and seder and holy shit I’m so sick of hearing about this irrelevant fucked up kid.
- Comment on Finally, taxpayer dollars put to a good use 2 weeks ago:
NYPD all wear cameras, they cant present it as evidence if they want to be taken seriously.
- Comment on Finally, taxpayer dollars put to a good use 2 weeks ago:
So yeah, zero mention of rocks.
And I wouldn’t take the fact that the cops went to the hospital as evidence of anything, that is very by the book whenever NYPD wants to claim assault on an officer.
- Comment on the world 2 weeks ago:
I remember the first season or two that it was out, it was too stressful for me to watch. I had just never seen any fiction until that point which had that level of consistent, nonstop manic trainwreck quality to it.
- Comment on In the Green Zone 2 weeks ago:
Hypnotize / Mesmerize easy listening version.
- Comment on Sell your RAM, and quickly go from COD to the real world. 2 weeks ago:
Looking at ebay for guns cheapass but fully functional AR-patterns seem to start around $400 these days.
- Comment on Next round on you! 3 weeks ago:
You’re about to get mad at him for taking so long but then you realize it’s only because he was having trouble carrying a dozen pints.
- Comment on Word up 3 weeks ago:
They were so expensive at their peak and I’m convinced it was due almost as much to raw amount of material as it was their popularity.
- Comment on Word up 3 weeks ago:
No no, I voluntarily moved on to skinny jeans around 2005. Don’t worry, I eventually voluntarily moved on from those too.
- Comment on If you had any doubts that Know-Your-Customer laws were evil, here is one very good reason: personal data of 1 BILLION people just leaked. 3 weeks ago:
Why? Little corporations must comply with KYC law, too. They’re all required to gather personal data. Big or small, the data hoarding is required.
- Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users 5 weeks ago:
Movim looks very promising and I haven’t heard of it before, thanks for highlighting it. My group has been working to stand up a few Prosody (XMPP) servers but as far as client side the best we could identify was Gajim. This looks better.
- Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users 5 weeks ago:
Federate or die.
- Comment on But bro please 5 weeks ago:
My guns are a last stand deterrent. I don’t want to shoot anybody unless I know that they intend to shoot me.
- Comment on Genes be crazy 5 weeks ago:
Not just crushed ants, I smell it when they’re scared and running as well. Calm ants though, they don’t smell to me.