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- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 10 hours ago:
It’s the same here in Sweden. You’re definitely allowed to vlog and such, if you’re recording yourself, or general environment stuff for a purpose that’s okay. You aren’t allowed to surveil public areas. Naturally this also means that doorbell cameras can be perfectly fine, provided they don’t catch public spaces. If your door points sideways for example, and there’s a hedge blocking any public space, you’re fine.
If you’re in a flat and you’re recording the stairwell, well that’s illegal.
- Comment on Developer patches Wine to make Photoshop 2021 & 2025 run on Linux — Adobe Creative Cloud installers finally work thanks to HTML, JavaScript and XML fixes 4 days ago:
I wrote off the product when they got bought by Canva. Unless it’s open source or libre, it’s never going to be free. There’s always a cost. Likely it’ll be the usual pipeline of enshittification.
- Comment on Developer patches Wine to make Photoshop 2021 & 2025 run on Linux — Adobe Creative Cloud installers finally work thanks to HTML, JavaScript and XML fixes 4 days ago:
I’ve no hopes of Affinity 1 or 2 coming to Linux.
- Comment on Bluesky just verified ICE 5 days ago:
You know that the problem isn’t that they’re verifying the gestapo, it’s that they’re platforming and subsequently legitimising them.
- Comment on Bluesky just verified ICE 5 days ago:
The new corporate platform is just as problematic as the old corporate platform made by the same person? Wow, what a revelation.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Datacenters in particular have been noteworthy for pushing for ‘off-grid’ power plants to give them more control over their power and costs.
Yeah, like how Elong Musk is poisoning Memphis with his illegal generators spewing smog all over the place.
- Comment on Owners, not renters: Mozilla's open source AI strategy 1 week ago:
I don’t think it’s the right approach at all. Mozilla has been taking some incredibly dubious steps these past few years, when we need them to be the bastion of the free and open internet. They shouldn’t be refocusing on a bullshit technology they don’t have the resources to keep up with.
The goal of the big AI companies isn’t to provide a good and helpful product. They’re jamming it in every nook and cranny hoping they’ll find a niche where users get hooked on it. Then once they’ve become essential, and they control it, they can do whatever they wish.
My biggest worry here is not OpenAI. It’s Google, with Meta a close second. Google holds a significant stake in so many markets. They control one of the most used operating systems on the market. They control one of the biggest email services. They control the most used search engine. They control the browser with the highest market-share.
They effectively have the ability to fully control information.
Firefox isn’t entirely under Google’s control. If Google decides to do something shitty with Chromium, like oh I don’t know, phasing out Manifest V2, Mozilla and Firefox isn’t beholden to follow suit. Unlike every other Chromium based browser. Now, that’s just one example of things they could do, but they could do literally anything to the web-standard, and if they’re the only player on the market, the open web is fucked.
Without the web, what do we do? The web connects billions in ways both meaningful, and not. It democratises information. Wikipedia for example would be entirely impossible without the web. This platform we’re on right now wouldn’t exist without a free and open web.
That’s what Mozilla should be working to protect.
- Comment on Microsoft warns that China is winning AI race outside the west 1 week ago:
Right, so DeepSeek proved that you can make slop more efficiently and at a lower cost than what the American companies are doing, which obviously is a threat to the massive amounts of money that they’re pretending to throw around. If you can make it more efficient you won’t need billions for data centres, or trillions for GPUs.
So I can see how this is a problem for Big Slop.
Die mad about it.
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 1 week ago:
Tjosan! :) Vi har ju haft det som kärnämne sedan 50-talet. Min mor är i 70-års åldern och är yngre än engelska som kärnämne.
- Comment on Discord in discussions of going Public Trading, economics expert discusses how that might change things 1 week ago:
They’re doing this again, pushing to be a kind of market place and data gathering tool for games.
- Comment on Discord in discussions of going Public Trading, economics expert discusses how that might change things 1 week ago:
Yes, finally! I’m ready for this shitty platform to fucking die already.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents' 1 week ago:
Hardly a surprise.
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 1 week ago:
I speak Japanese, and can still read German and understand most of it. German’s the secondary language I studied.
I’m a native Swedish speaker so technically English is my second language, and the others came after.
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 1 week ago:
Why? There’s plenty of strange things in English, inconsistent grammar rules, weird pronunciations, and pointless words for simple ideas.
Like there’s umpteen words to describe different kinds of meat, pork, beef, veal, mutton. In Chinese you can get away with saying just the animal + meat, 猪肉, 牛肉, 小牛肉, 羊肉 (pig meat, cow meat, young cow meat, goat meat).
English has stupid rules around pluralisation. There’s been arguments that the origin of the word should dictate how it’s pluralised, and other arguments that a “true English” pluralisation rule should apply, but then incorrect usage slips into common vernacular and suddenly it’s perfectly okay to pluralise a Greek word with a Latin plural suffix. Then you end up with the plural of octopus being octopodes, octopuses, and octopi!
The long and the short of it is that all languages have weird-ass quirks in them that don’t necessarily make any sense but feel natural to their native speakers. It’s a prime example of how intuitiveness isn’t actually real a thing.
- Comment on The U.S. VP has strong Big Brother energy, but it's the "Why are you hitting yourself? Stop hitting yourself!" kind. 1 week ago:
It’s the “we need to know and judge everything you think, do, and say” kind.
- Comment on Hooded Horse ban AI-generated art in their games: "all this thing has done is made our lives more difficult" 1 week ago:
The problem here is that you lose nuance.
Yes, a lot of datacentres use evaporative cooling, meaning that the heat is taken away as the water evaporates. It’s a cheap and effective way of doing things and the water returns to the water cycle and doesn’t really get locked up anywhere. So it’s not really a problem, right?
Well yes, in a vacuum that’s fantastic. However there’s two caveats to this: evaporative cooling works best in arid areas, because the air can hold more water. Thus they build these AI datacentres in naturally arid areas. Smart, they’re using physics to their advantage!
What’s the second problem then? They’re now using up the ground water in those arid areas to cool their datacentres and thus ruining it for the people that live there, leaving them without safe water to drink.
Also I don’t know how many anti-AI people will be all “bUt gOlF CoUrSeS ArE OkAy, We lOvE ThOsE!!” These things exist purely for rich people that don’t contribute anything, so we could get rid of both and the world would be a better place.
- Comment on Hooded Horse ban AI-generated art in their games: "all this thing has done is made our lives more difficult" 1 week ago:
Homeopathic burgers.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 week ago:
It’s not enshittified because the Switch was already shit.
- Comment on OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records 2 weeks ago:
Well, the short of it is; ChatGPT fed a man’s delusions of being targetted by them, and surviving multiple imagined assassination attempts, even pointing the finger to the man’s own mother, culminating in a murder-suicide.
It’s not the only time ChatGPT has coaxed someone into killing someone else either, the video brings up another example.
Nor is it the only time ChatGPT has coaxed someone into suicide. Wikipedia has started collating a list on the subject!
- Comment on OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records 2 weeks ago:
Since ChatGPT already does, why not?
- Comment on Microsoft just open-sourced bitnet.cpp, a 1-bit LLM inference framework. It let's you run 100B parameter models on your local CPU without GPUs. 6.17x faster inference and 82.2% less energy on CPUs. 2 weeks ago:
We already have that. It’s like, you put the AI in your brain. You are the AI.
- Comment on OpenWRT router 2 weeks ago:
I bought a Flint 2 last year. I’m very happy with it.
- Comment on Hate it when this happens 2 weeks ago:
ぶっ掛け (bukkake) is a noun, like “a splash of coffee.”
ぶっ掛ける (bukkakeru) is a verb, like “I like to splash around.”
Granted, bukkake isn’t that kind of splash, it’s rather “they splashed water on the flames.”
- Comment on Hate it when this happens 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s funny, because bukkake is just a noun, kind of meaning to splash something over something else. There are even dishes called bukkake, e.g. bukkake soba. But since in the anglosphere it pretty much exclusively refers to the sexual act, that just has a very different connotation.
- Comment on Microsoft's Satya Nadella wants you to stop saying AI "slop" in 2026 2 weeks ago:
Slutya Slopella.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 2 weeks ago:
This debate always makes me think of Toni’s reaction to “closing the toilet lid when you flush.”
I didn’t know that people left the lid up. Feels a bit like not closing the door of a fridge after you’re done.
- Comment on 94.3° F 3 weeks ago:
Hmm. Boiling cat butthole. I hate it.
- Comment on They are German, of course. 3 weeks ago:
I liked this so much I stole the idea. Thanks!
- Comment on 94.3° F 3 weeks ago:
That’s a cold butthole.
- Comment on 94.3° F 3 weeks ago:
This is what science is for.
