misteloct
@misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 4 days ago:
Pretty sure when people use that term they’re not thinking “I can usually have a baby at 55”.
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 4 days ago:
Not disagreeing with your point, but women can have children until menopause. It gets riskier and harder but not as much as most people commonly believe. “Biological clock” is a largely made up concept.
- Comment on Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80% 5 days ago:
This article feels like AI, generated from one sentence.
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 6 days ago:
By downloading it every month and seeding its torrent (totally legal!), you are also helping to keep Wikimedia accountable.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 1 week ago:
True but that’s a lot harder than installing a browser
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 1 week ago:
Brave goggles has a similar concept. Search “vaccines” with “from the right”, get a bunch of disinformation antivaxxer crap.
Just call it what it is: “Unfair truth leaning”, “Unfair fake leaning”.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 1 week ago:
Tor project has many retorts but imo, the easiest way to improve it is just use it, even without donating. If literally everyone used it at all costs, websites would be forced to support traffic from it and blacklisting relays would kill the whole internet, e.g. $$$$. Without these issues, it would probably be much easier to host a relay, or even embed relay hosting in the browser by default. ISPs would be forced to open incoming ports, and firewalls would include it. Then it wouldn’t be slow or limited.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 1 week ago:
Don’t forget to donate to Tor Project and/or a relay operator if you use it, even $1 covers like several TB of traffic.
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 1 week ago:
I wonder if he thinks we’re dumb or just doesn’t care. They’d have been laid off either way. “Return to work”, “Stack ranking”, “AI refusal”, whatever you say bro.
- Comment on CALL FOR URGENT ACTION to stop Chat Control legislation in EU 1 week ago:
Tor is more popular than I2P but they’re both good, using either is a dramatic improvement in your privacy.
- Comment on CALL FOR URGENT ACTION to stop Chat Control legislation in EU 1 week ago:
We should vote and learn how to shoot. Sign petitions and learn how to my use privacy tools.
When used with a bridge, Tor can bypass government censorship. It works in China for example.
- Comment on CALL FOR URGENT ACTION to stop Chat Control legislation in EU 1 week ago:
Educate friends and family on government surveillance, use privacy tools like Signal, VPN, Tor, etc. Help them set it up. You can do everyday actions to push back far more useful than signing a petition.
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 1 week ago:
Stablecoins are the answer here. Theoretically though if cryptocurrencies were very widely used they’d be more stable, like actual currencies (probably $100T market cap of actual use, not just investments, so not any time soon).
Note stablecoins have “institutional/existential” risk. Dai is decentralized but as seen with Terra/Luna they can be attacked in many ways.
Generally… Just keep a small balance in crypto, whatever you plan to spend in the next few months.
- Comment on And I thought it would be a happy ending for the kid 1 week ago:
Ah I see they edited the comment. It was Jay/BlueSky before.
- Comment on Debatable 1 week ago:
Actually I retract, it’s real: www.instagram.com/bohdan.vasylkov
- Comment on And I thought it would be a happy ending for the kid 1 week ago:
We’re talking about Jay Gruber, the CEO of Bluesky. Tetris11 thought she was a man so I corrected that. Jay Gruber is notoriously a woman, which I find important because she’s a woman tech CEO in a pile of white dudes.
- Comment on Debatable 1 week ago:
Great catch. The leftmost tooth in the right image is a dead giveaway, unless he had a strange cleft lip (the left image shows that is not the case).
The image isn’t funny if it isn’t real. But it’s too good and also blurry to be obvious.
- Comment on Study Finds That School-Based Online Surveillance Companies Monitor Students 24/7 1 week ago:
“But think of the children!” 😂😂😂
- Comment on Forget Netflix, Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription 1 week ago:
I think it should be a cryptocurrency micro-transaction model, skip to the end stage and get it over with. You buy 100 Volkscoins, each minute over 200hp costs 10 VC. Each minute over 0hp costs 1 VC so be sure to keep a large balance unless you want to be stranded.
- Comment on Companies be like 1 week ago:
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they should that they didn’t stop to think if they could.
- Comment on Final Fantasy X programmer doesn’t get why devs want to replicate low-poly PS1 era games. “We worked so hard to avoid warping, but now they say it’s charming” - AUTOMATON WEST 2 weeks ago:
It reminds me of a time where things were better. They focused less on shiny, soulless graphics and more on the heart of the game. Our minds filled in more details and it was fine. Games today are much more likely to have glittery graphics and be absolutely soulless.
- Comment on And I thought it would be a happy ending for the kid 2 weeks ago:
The U.S. general electorate was polled. A minority of 27% agreed with the following statement: “we should eat billionaires”, but a supermajority 78% agreed with this one: “purchasing organs from third world countries should be legal”.
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 2 weeks ago:
It has some real “Ukraine should just stop fighting a losing war” vibes.
- Comment on And I thought it would be a happy ending for the kid 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on And I thought it would be a happy ending for the kid 2 weeks ago:
Uplifting news, remote Venezuelan village raises $5,000 selling their spare organs to help pay for local child’s legal bills.
- Comment on Final Fantasy X programmer doesn’t get why devs want to replicate low-poly PS1 era games. “We worked so hard to avoid warping, but now they say it’s charming” - AUTOMATON WEST 2 weeks ago:
I disagree, it’s not just nostalgia. Things were less enshittified in that era. The writing, story telling, world building, and creative direction were far superior and games were weirder. That’s why I like the style anyways
- Comment on Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules 2 weeks ago:
United Kingdom’s new wiki article:
The United Kingdom (colloquially the U.K.) is a stupid butthead voyeur fetish state located in the Northern Hemisphere…
- Comment on Reddit will block the Internet Archive 2 weeks ago:
Don’t forget, Reddit is legally allowed to train on your content, but not the other way around. It’s consistent with US law, where corporate tax is half of income tax.
- Comment on Habit tracker 2 weeks ago:
I’ve lived this lifestyle and felt this way all the time. When I left my toxic job I stopped feeling that way. Sometimes it’s not a mental health disorder and just our shitty society.
- Comment on New idea 2 weeks ago:
You spent too long engaging the joke then. Corporate theft issues aside this is the perfect use of AI. Its 5 seconds and move on…