KumaSudosa
@KumaSudosa@feddit.dk
- Comment on BBC is Getting a Paywall. 2 weeks ago:
It’s insane how much music, art, theatre, television etc still comes out of the UK, and how little they’ve capitalised on it - letting the Americans take all the initiative.
- Comment on BBC is Getting a Paywall. 2 weeks ago:
I’m (relatively) happy with Deutsche Welle (dw.com) and France24 as well
- Comment on BBC is Getting a Paywall. 2 weeks ago:
I usually use Deutsche Welle actually. Generally happy with it! Also available in English, of course
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 3 weeks ago:
You know the price is naturally higher when materials are ethically sourced, right? That’s kinda how it works…
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 3 weeks ago:
Which owes to how gigantic the Chinese market is. They now have a 5% market share for new cars in Europe - which this article is about. It doesn’t matter if they top global sales just because there are so many Chinese buyers
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 3 weeks ago:
Brand recognition is important, but it’s a dangerous game operating mostly on government subsidies. Once you have established low prices it’s hard to reverse it
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know that they’re out to make money though. A lot of the Chinese manufacturers are now struggling due to the price war they instigated themselves. Huge production surplus but they pushed down the price so much they hardly make any money
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 3 weeks ago:
How common are these in Denmark? 😮 don’t feel like I’ve seen one, but then again it’s not like I study the make before I get in the bus
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 3 weeks ago:
Not even sure it’s that true though. Afaik BYD is only the 14th most popular car in Denmark, and European brands have risen from around ~28% last year to ~40% this year. Sure, Chinese carmakers have had some growth - but we’re talking in the order of something between 2 - 4% of the market. Might be more popular in other countrues
- Comment on Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs 3 weeks ago:
Heard it can be hard / expensive if you need to order spare parts and stuff like that. Anything to that?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
In that case it wouldn’t be that common to have a “casual” boyfriend coming to sleep over after a month though
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 3 weeks ago:
I’m thinking it might have some comedic value and if you’re trying to beat the stock market…
- Comment on Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community 4 weeks ago:
Just because you have anecdotal evidence of the contrary doesn’t mean it can’t be true, quantitatively. I, too, am a childless man - although I do have a wife - and don’t resonate with this, but that doesn’t mean I’ll just cast aside the findings. Many, especially young, men are unhappy in their everyday, partly due to a lack of sense od community in the “modern” world.
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 4 weeks ago:
Absolutely a nuanced area. But on top of not modelling random people as full individuals it’s hard to determine what spying on people might actually mean. I don’t really want to defend working for a company as nefarious as Palantir - even if I honestly hardly knew them before Trump #2 - but convincing yourself that gathering people’s data isn’t problematic is quite easy, and we all inherently accept a wide array of surveillance measures as - willing or unwilling - members of state entities, be it a video camera in a clothing store or governments logging our tax data. Then comes the fact that employees below the level of “board of directors” usually don’t know everything going on in the company; I wouldn’t fault a junior dev choosing to work for, say, ‘cool’ Google or Apple in 2017.
Of course it’s relevant that humans are egocentrical animals; I wouldn’t give my own life to save five people that I don’t know in Moldova. Being too empathetic is a poor trait in a dog eat dog world. Of course we need standards and to hold others up to these standards; I don’t know your friend, what he does at Palantir or when he started working there - maybe he’s a lazy ass that holds them back haha - and I do think, especially with all that’s transpired the past 5 months, that it’s a problematic company to be part of - I just wanted to discuss that I don’t think it’s just lack of empathy
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 4 weeks ago:
Sure he does, intellectually, just like I understand the ramifications of buying a smartphone, clothes “made in Bangladesh”, or using a public AI model. Still the human conscience doesn’t apply too much significance to something that abstract. It doesn’t keep me up at night that my lithium is mined by Congolese children - but if I had to buy it personally from a one-armed indentured labourer I’m sure I’d stop immediately. “Out of sight out of mind” isn’t an excuse for committing heinous acts, I’m just saying that it’s not simply that he “doesn’t care about other people”
- Comment on Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux 4 weeks ago:
Jeg havde sgu heller ikke hørt om det før, indtil jeg så en lille spalte i avisen om det forleden
- Comment on Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux 5 weeks ago:
A couple dozen of Danish municipalities are working on replacing Google and Microsoft entirely in schools with a project called OS2Skole (skole meaning “school”). It’s expected to save them around €3 million in yearly and the intention is to de-Googleify and de-Microsoftify children already from an early age and to make it open source.
Mind you that the project was started before Trump got re-elected.
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 5 weeks ago:
I think it can be difficult to relate to such abstract concepts and consequences that you don’t feel directly. After all, it’d be much easier to press on a button that’d kill 10 000 people living 10 000 km away from you than to stab one person to death. Out of sight out of mind.
My point being that I don’t think he’s indifferent to people that he doesn’t know, he’s simply not able to process all the ramifications of this particular thing. The effects of data collection and manipulation is quite subtle, after all, like the frog in the slow burning pot
- Comment on Frequent TikTok users in Taiwan more likely to agree with pro-China narratives, study finds 5 weeks ago:
I’m impressed by how many narratives you’re able to tie me to out of the blue. And just for the record my parents are from Iran so take your “Europeans and people of European descent” bla bla narrative somewhere else. Geopolitics is filled with nefarious actors and calling out any of them is never a problem. You’re a problem.
- Comment on Frequent TikTok users in Taiwan more likely to agree with pro-China narratives, study finds 5 weeks ago:
I’ve only ever tried to watch travel videos, yet they still feed me the occassional far-right propaganda and even islamism
- Comment on Frequent TikTok users in Taiwan more likely to agree with pro-China narratives, study finds 5 weeks ago:
And the Taiwanese 😂
- Comment on Frequent TikTok users in Taiwan more likely to agree with pro-China narratives, study finds 5 weeks ago:
So when a person shows up at your house with a gun, you should also just move out and hand it over?
- Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 5 weeks ago:
Of course he was always a jerk, but I still think of a reality where Elon never went (officially) Nazi and just stuck with his otherwise important companies. Tesla being an important early mover in EVs, especially in such an oil-dependent country, and all the cool stuff SpaceX has been up to.
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 1 month ago:
European governments and the EU definitely don’t care about us, their citizens, but most do see the threat coming from USA these days, thankfully
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 1 month ago:
How is that a “crazy theory”? Information control is not directly tied to capitalism but to any form of regime. The Western model and social media is, of course, strongly tied to capitalism and the desire for economic growth. How does that add to it?
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 1 month ago:
There is no better regime than the West in this regard. Force things on people? You’re gonna risk a revolt or dissent. ‘Subtly’ make people dependent on your product so they’ll voluntarily use it and share everything with you while you ‘subtly’ control the algorithm in your favour? Now that’s perfect. Social media is the ultimate tool of power and governance.
Although North Korea is a very “successful” oppressive regime, largely able to have full control over information both in and out of the country and to greatly limit desertion. I can’t think of a “better” regime in this regard.
- Comment on Germany Is Using AI to Erase Pro-Palestinian Speech 1 month ago:
Just to be clear though, it’s not a state programme. But fuck Germany’s stance on Israel for sure…
- Comment on Spread of sexual deepfake images created by generative AI growing in Japan 1 month ago:
Huh? I’m not even from the UK or a royalist 😂 what is up with your stupid assumptions? Go touch some grass fam
- Comment on Spread of sexual deepfake images created by generative AI growing in Japan 1 month ago:
“Never”? This is literally the only comment of mine you’ve ever seen 😂 bro, don’t tell me there’s not pleeenty of criticism of the Catholic church going around. By far the most scorned religious institution in the West.
Now what does this have to do with criticism of a pervasive issue in Japanese culture? Do we have to attach a list of every problematic institution every time criticism is given, or do you just have a weak ass mental? Bring an argument rather than ad hominem and we might actually have something relevant to talk about. Otherwise you’re just a tosser.
- Comment on Spread of sexual deepfake images created by generative AI growing in Japan 1 month ago:
Don’t let fear of being “racist” keep you from calling a spade a spade. Japan has a track record when it comes to issues such as these.