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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK officials may be barred from US over X ban⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If I think of all the crap Blair and Johnson did for America, justifying it with the “Special Relationship…” Or the Brexit lie that the UK would finally be able to take advantage of the “Special Relationship” once the EU was out of the way.

  At least, when the Germans realized that, yes, Putin was crazy enough to give up all the money they handed over for oil and gas, they were being rational. The UK thought that a feel-good slogan would translate to economic and political advantage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brussels plots open source push to pry Europe off Big Tech⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You are not wrong. Methinks a lot of Europe’s lack of digital infrastructure is related to the mountains of red tape every person and company in the EU has to face. It’s really discouraging.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ha! Enjoy your off button while they still make them. Once our AI Overlords have won the War, you can only politely ask your laptop to please temporarily quiet itself, please and thank you if it’s not too much asking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dell is the first Windows OEM to openly admit that the AI PC push has failed. Customers seem uninterested in buying a laptop because of its AI capabilities, likely prioritizing other aspects such as battery life, performance, and display above AI.

  Silicon Valley always had the annoying habit of pushing technology-first products without even much consideration of how they would solve real world problems. It always had it, but it’s becoming increasingly bad. When Zuck unveiled the Metaverse it was already starting to be ludicrous, but with the AI laptop wave it turned into Onion territory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It all kind of makes sense if you look at it from an investors’ perspective, which is the only one that really matters to CEOs. You can do whatever you want, but unless a company is an AI company, you can’t reach a stratospheric PE ratio and your stock stays “low.” You convince investors that you are an AI-first company, and your stock can break free of its shackles and reach its full potential!

  All for the relatively cheap price of slapping two letters on everything, AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU shies away from condemning Trump's renewed threats on Greenland⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s as if the European Commission has never met a bully in their life and they have no idea what to do now that they are facing one.

  Hint: backing down does not result in success.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, the gist of the article is that the author(s) believe anti-circumvention laws protecting digital assets are going to be torn up. China is already showing that, a country where you are a fool if you pay for a Windows license and where you can buy bootleg media everywhere.

  That doesn’t seem to be where the world is heading though. Instead, it looks like regulation is used more and more to affect monopolies, especially tech ones. Japan, the EU, and other players have mandated that Apple and Google allow other app stores on their phones.

  I can’t imagine that governments around the world really have an appetite for an open (trade) war with the United States. Maybe if they banded together and decided to sort things out as adults, forcing the USA to face a united front.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG responds swiftly to user backlash, will allow users to remove Microsoft Copilot link from TVs — clarifies service is not an app, future update will include tile removal option from WebOS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Until someone has an unsecured Internet-connected hotspot, and then it’s over. :-(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, tulips were a better investment than Tesla or OpenAI. In fact, the continued success of the latter two tells you by itself there is something deeply, seriously wrong with the stock markets and the economy as a whole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Surprising report explains which energy source is taking over the US grid: '88% of new capacity added'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  the Trump administration has been bullish on fossil fuels in its quest to secure energy security.

  We must stop those energy imports from the inner solar system! 50% tariff on sun exports!!! We need to become self-reliant on planet Earth!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You speak the truth. These idiots sank trillions into a technology that people are very meh about. If it all comes crumbling down, they really, really have nobody to blame but their own greed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be easy enough to force vendors to make the URL the device connects to, configurable and to publish the API the device is using. Two minuscule changes that can prolong the life of devices by decades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Online banking can frequently be handled via the web site on mobile phones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life as a food delivery worker: ‘Sometimes men open the door naked’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Question: why would ban delivery apps instead of forcing them to hire drivers and give them benefits?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is the weirdly pushy way the police officer tried to get her to confess that seems to imply that, too. They had a hunch, and hoped the person would be dumb enough to incriminate herself. It’s a real shame she only exonerated herself, I am sure they would have loved it if she had tracked down the real thief.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So many reasons to re-consider.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After police used Flock cameras to accuse a Denver woman of theft, she had to prove her own innocence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Go Colorado Sun! Proud sponsor for many years!

  Reading the article, I am very confused. It appears that they simply decided a random person was the culprit because she was recorded as driving through town during the time period of the package theft, and that’s all they had?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Navy loses two aircraft from USS Nimitz aircraft carrier within 30 minutes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank goodness they fired all those terrible DEI hires and now there are only competent and qualified people in the US Military, starting with the absolutely not an alcoholic Pete Hegseth! /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Obama got it simply for not being George W Bush, imperial war monger of international note.

• ⁨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 ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The rare comment that is so good, I upvote all comments that applaud it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Western Executives Shaken After Visiting China⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wall Street only cares about the current and next quarter. Everything else is a stock sale away and doesn’t matter. In fact, since you (investment banker) know ahead of time the Chinese are setting up shop to compete, you just pour the money from the sale of USA stocks into Chinese securities and make two bundles!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Western Executives Shaken After Visiting China⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  were they supposed to just work for you for fraction of a cost forever and don’t learn anything?

  It was a rhetorical question, but they actually really believed that. Racism may have been a huge part of it: People as backwards as “China man” would never be able to come up with complicated tasks like setting up a factory on their own.

  Anyone not racist saw it coming a thousand miles away. It’s weird how much bigotry there was and is in the C-suite of major corporations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never wanted him to be wrong more than right now. Except for tomorrow, it’s probably going to bé worse, tomorrow

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They do not produce content, but they share 70% of revenue with the creators. You can argue that’s not enough, but it’s definitely more than Netflix et al pay their content creators.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon faces US trial over alleged Prime subscription tricks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The first step in cancelling Prime must always be switching to monthly charges. The dark arts demand their sacrifice!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a simple personal homepage⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I suggest one of the many wonderful one-page templates available on GitHub, Codeberg, et. al. GitHub has a whole topic on them at https://github.com/topics/single-page-site. You pick one that matches your requirements and that looks good to you, change the text, and serve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And that's what men the world over use to measure their appendage!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How OnlyFans Piracy Is Ruining the Internet for Everyone | Innocent sites are being delisted from Google because of copyright takedown requests against rampant OnlyFans piracy.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The DMCA is what you get when you get greedy media and Internet companies to write legislation for lawmakers that have no idea what any of that means, while in the background the people have not had a chance to use any of it. It should have come with an expiration date 10 years from signing and should have been redone now that we are actually using the stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Happiness is not shared as a goal. For some people, happiness is so distant, the only thing achievable is to make everyone else equally misérable. Think Fundie Christians talking about the Valley of Tears.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Scientific proof that we are in the dumbest timeline.