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- Comment on Room temperature IQ is a far bigger insult in Europe than America. 2 days ago:
It seems halfway through your attempted burn you realized I was speaking to non-USians…
- Comment on Has anything from the lemmy universe ever went viral before Reddit or Tictac or Insta? 2 days ago:
Yes. Well, depends how you define viral. Even more yes if you look at the Fediverse as a whole.
- Comment on Room temperature IQ is a far bigger insult in Europe than America. 3 days ago:
For anybody wondering: that’s 70-75 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Comment on If libertarian socialists are on the left and anarcho-capitalists are on the right what ideology is in the middle? 3 days ago:
The Judean People’s Front
- Comment on What is the difference between an American liberal and a liberal outside the USA? 3 days ago:
My (weak) understanding is that outside the US, Liberal is a (mostly) economic position - specifically one supportive of capitalism, which both major parties in the US are. (With slight policy differences.)
As a European: this precisely. There are slight variations in terminology: liberalism, libertarian, neoliberal… but nobody reads that as “left”. The “liberty” hinted at is always that of the market.
- Comment on Can someone ELI5 RSS/Atom feeds? 5 days ago:
Many sites provide a “feed” page, which is a regularly changing XML file* that a program of your choice can read and thus update a list of articles/podcasts etc.
That’s literally all. No accounts or other BS.
That some apps try to make it into a business was to be expected I guess. I have no idea what the (perceived) advantages are, but there’s no need to outsource any of the above into “the cloud”. Plenty of purely local feedreader or podcast apps exist.
- Comment on The Morbidly Rich Have Killed the American Dream 5 days ago:
American dream, lol. The first paragraph phrases it better:
the lid of the coffin in which the “American Dream” was long ago laid to rest has finally been sealed shut.
But I’d still argue that the American Dream has always been a cynical dream. It always required ignoring the 999 others who didn’t make it, most of them in abject poverty. In other words “climbing over dead bodies to get to the top”.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 5 days ago:
Over the past two decades, the office of the US Trade Representative–which is responsible for developing and coordinating US international trade, commodity, and direct investment policy—has pressured most of the world into adopting these laws, hamstringing foreign startups that might compete with Apple (by providing a jailbreaking kit that installs a third-party app store), or Google (by blocking tracking on Android devices), or Amazon (by converting Kindle and Audible files to formats that work on rival apps), or John Deere (by disabling the systems that block third-party repairs), or the Big Three automakers (by decoding the encrypted error messages mechanics need to service our cars). The rents that these digital locks help American companies extract run to hundreds of billions of dollars every single year. The world’s governments agreed to protect this racket in exchange for tariff-free access to American markets. Now that the US has reneged on its side of the bargain, these laws serve no useful purpose.
In 2026, many countries will respond to tariffs like they were still in the 19th century. But a few countries will have the vision, the boldness, and the political smarts to kick Donald Trump right in the dongle. The country that gets there first will enjoy the same relationship to, say, third-party app stores for games consoles, that Finland enjoyed in relation to mobile phones during the Nokia decade.
Hear, hear!
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 5 days ago:
just disable javascript.
Full article:
In 2026, the leaders of America’s (former) trading partners are going to have to grapple with the political consequences of tit-for-tat tariffs. A tariff is a tax paid by consumers, and if there’s one thing the past four years have taught us, it’s that the public will not forgive a politician who presides over a period of rising prices, no matter what the cause.
Luckily for the political fortunes of the world’s leaders, there is a better way to respond to tariffs. Tit-for-tat tariffs are a 19th-century tactic, and we live in a 21st-century world—a world where the most profitable lines of business of the most profitable US companies are all vulnerable to a simple legal change that will make things cheaper for billions of people, all over the world, including in the US, at the expense of the companies whose CEOs posed with Trump on the inaugural dais. READ MORE
This story is from the WIRED World in 2026, our annual trends briefing.
In 2026, countries that want to win the trade war have a unique historical possibility: They could repeal their “anticircumvention” laws, which make it illegal—a felony, in many cases—to modify devices and services without permission from their manufacturers. Over the past two decades, the office of the US Trade Representative–which is responsible for developing and coordinating US international trade, commodity, and direct investment policy—has pressured most of the world into adopting these laws, hamstringing foreign startups that might compete with Apple (by providing a jailbreaking kit that installs a third-party app store), or Google (by blocking tracking on Android devices), or Amazon (by converting Kindle and Audible files to formats that work on rival apps), or John Deere (by disabling the systems that block third-party repairs), or the Big Three automakers (by decoding the encrypted error messages mechanics need to service our cars). The rents that these digital locks help American companies extract run to hundreds of billions of dollars every single year. The world’s governments agreed to protect this racket in exchange for tariff-free access to American markets. Now that the US has reneged on its side of the bargain, these laws serve no useful purpose.
US tech giants (and giant US companies that use tech) have used digital locks to amass a vast hoard of ill-gotten wealth. In 2026, the first country bold enough to raid that hoard gets to transform hundreds of billions in US rents into hundreds of millions in domestic profits that launch its domestic tech sector into a stable orbit—and the remaining hundreds of billions will be reaped by all of us, everyone in the world (including Americans who buy gray-market jailbreaking tools from abroad), as a consumer surplus.
In 2026, many countries will respond to tariffs like they were still in the 19th century. But a few countries will have the vision, the boldness, and the political smarts to kick Donald Trump right in the dongle. The country that gets there first will enjoy the same relationship to, say, third-party app stores for games consoles, that Finland enjoyed in relation to mobile phones during the Nokia decade.
There are many countries with the technical nous to pull this off. Obviously, Canada and Mexico have pride of place, since Trump has torn up the USMCA agreement he arm-twisted them into in 2020, and heaped racist rhetoric on Mexico even as he threatened to annex Canada. Speaking of annexation targets with sizable communities of technical experts, the Danes could lead the EU out of the wilderness the bloc bargained its way into when they enacted Article 6 of the Copyright Directive in 2001. Then there’s the global south: African tech powerhouses like Nigeria, South American giants like Brazil, and the small, developed Central American states who’ve seen Trump renege on the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), like Costa Rica.
Retaliatory tariffs make consumer goods in your own country more expensive, and to the extent that they punish Americans, they do so indiscriminately, inflicting far more pain on soybean farmers than they do on the CEOs of the tech companies that back Trump.
Repealing anticircumvention law is a targeted strike on America’s most profitable companies, and it will have an especially severe impact on Tesla, whose hyperinflated price-to-earnings ratio reflects investors’ pleasure at the Tesla business model, which involves charging drivers every month for subscription features and software upgrades that expire when a car changes hands. Musk owes his power to the digital locks that keep this business model intact. If it were legal for mechanics all over the world to jailbreak Teslas and unlock all those features for one price, Tesla’s share price would collapse—taking with it the overvalued shares Musk uses to collateralize the loans he took out to buy Twitter and the US presidency.
In 2026, world leaders have a choice—to make things cheaper and better for all of us, or to fight Donald Trump with weapons that were developed in the Age of Sail.
- Comment on If you save someone's life and then you save her life again next year, how many lives did you save? 6 days ago:
You saved her life. Twice.
- Comment on Watch videos in FreshRSS like it's YouTube: "Youlag" extension (v4.0.3) 1 week ago:
Wir treffen Jill und Joe und dessen Bruder Hip
Und auch den Rest der coolen Gang
Sie rappen hin, sie rappen her
Dazwischen kratzen’s ab die Wänd’
Dieser Fall ist klar, lieber Herr Kommissar
Auch wenn sie anderer Meinung sind
Den Schnee, auf dem wir alle talwärts fahr’n, kennt heute jedes Kind
Jetzt das KinderliedDrah di ned um, oh, oh-oh
Schau, schau, der Kommissar geht um, oh, oh-oh
Er hot die Kroft und wia san klan und dumm
Und dieser Frust macht uns stumm
Drah di ned um, oh, oh-oh
Schau, schau, der Kommissar geht um, oh, oh-oh
Wenn ea di onspricht und du waßt warum
Sag eam, dein Lem bringt di um - Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 1 week ago:
Are you talking from the pov of one specific country?
- Comment on Spotify vs. Anna's Archive 1 week ago:
who (legitimately) ask for some defense of their property rights, attacked both by hackers and by the big monopolists of platforms and AI
This does not sound like they’re defending Spotify.
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 1 week ago:
You mean the social sector being chronically underpaid with no improvement in sight? I blame less and less regulated lobbyism, a.k.a. legal corruption. Because the social sector doesn’t have one, usually. It would often amount to the government bribing itself. What, politicians making good decisions without looking out for a payday, you say?
- Comment on Watch videos in FreshRSS like it's YouTube: "Youlag" extension (v4.0.3) 1 week ago:
Not sure if I love or hate the name
- Comment on A penis has the "second-most" microexpressions, compared to a face 1 week ago:
Microexpressions are literal facial expressions. We do not usually expose our penises for your claim to even make sense.
I’m not sure I even get what you mean. Whatever it is, I’m guessing you’re at least partially biased because you have one. Maybe I could understand better if you could say what would have the third- or fourth-most microexpressions?
- Comment on A penis has the "second-most" microexpressions, compared to a face 1 week ago:
Huh, I just remembered what I dreamt last night: about kids that had 6 or even 7 fingers per hand.
- Comment on YSK about Psyllium husk 1 week ago:
N0t_5ure
- Comment on YSK about Duverger's Law 1 week ago:
Cool, now I can really strut my stuff. Whenever someone comments “first past the post is bad” or “2-party systems suck” I can reply “Duverger’s law!”
- Comment on Is there a name for the vocal technique used for characters like Sméagol? 1 week ago:
It comes kinda naturally once you’ve been almost choked to death.
- Comment on What are some cool infections? 1 week ago:
I once had something that would erupt whenever I had a small wound anywhere on my body. It was kinda living inside of me, clawing it’s way out.
- Comment on Why do we produce so much porn? 1 week ago:
I have never ever paid for porn 🤷
- Comment on Why do we produce so much porn? 1 week ago:
I’d like to know too but I believe they’re right.
- Comment on What do other languages use for "magic" words; or names and titles in fantasy and sci-fi novels or cinema? 1 week ago:
I prefer those that are completely made up.
Iain M Banks uses very nice names, imho. Humanoids and drones all have a complete form that is very long.
E.g. Xide Hyrlis’ full name is Stafl-Lepoortsa Xide Ozoal Hyrlis dam Pappens
Not to speak of intelligent spacecraft who name themselves, e.g. Ethics Gradient or Serious Callers Only.
I could go on for hours.
Of course he must have taken inspiration from somewhere - no idea how or where.
- Comment on Happy Public Domain Day everyone 1 week ago:
- Comment on ‘Invasive, deceptive, and unlawful’: Texas says your TV is tracking you illegally, and is suing to stop the dreaded Automatic Content Recognition 2 weeks ago:
tl;dr: I think I’m just going to press OK on this
EULAwall of text. - Comment on Grok is spreading misinformation about the Bondi Beach shooting 2 weeks ago:
Not within the USA. I don’t know the exact details, but basically all regulation of AI-related stuff is suspended for 10 years or so.
By then they will be the dominating force.
And then they cry about the EU trying to enforce their own laws. - Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of the war? 2 weeks ago:
People should be able to understand the enemy, so I say go for it.
- Comment on Grok is spreading misinformation about the Bondi Beach shooting 2 weeks ago:
The AI chatbot has repeatedly misidentified 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who heroically disarmed one of the shooters, and claimed the verified video of his deed was something else entirely — including that it was an old viral video of a man climbing a tree.
In the aftermath of the attack, Ahmed has been widely praised for his heroism, but some have tried to dismiss or even deny his actions. Someone even quickly whipped up a fake news site that appears to be AI-generated, with an article naming a fictitious IT professional, Edward Crabtree, as the man who disarmed the attacker. This, of course, got picked up by Grok and regurgitated on X.
But Grok also suggested that images of Ahmed were of an Israeli being held hostage by Hamas. And it claimed that video taken at the scene was actually of Currumbin Beach, Australia, during Cyclone Alfred.
It’s hallucinating, but in MAGA 🤣
- Comment on There's ads on an apple 2 weeks ago:
I watched one episode of Abbott Elementary once. It wasn’t very good. Not sure if I like the idea that some ad person thinks this is the sort of show for people who enjoy fresh apples.
