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- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 2 weeks ago:
Does this systemd change facilitate future verification softwares? Definitely. Will it become a part of systemd? Extremely unlikely. Should systemd rebel and refuse to include anything facilitating these disturbing laws? Eh, probably.
But let’s not blow this change out of proportions. This is a way for systemd to not aggressively fight the laws, without enabling them either. This field changes nothing, and you will still be able to use distros that don’t even employ the field at all. They might become illegal to use in the land of the free, but that’s a separate issue that this change does not impact.
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 2 weeks ago:
Do you really draw the line at a date of birth field, when every linux system has fields for full name and address for every user account?
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Elon Musk to Owe Billions After Jury Finds He Misled Twitter Investors Before Takeover 2 weeks ago:
He doesn’t have to liquidate shit, none of them do. They borrow against their holdings.
- Comment on Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting 3 weeks ago:
I’m not talking about change, I’m talking about progress. Progress is not necessarily positive.
- Comment on Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting 3 weeks ago:
No. Each generation was fucked in their own way, regardless of the two edges of the progress that they grew up with.
- Comment on Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting 3 weeks ago:
I’m not saying everything is lovely and we are at the peak of civilization. I’m saying that every form of progress comes with challenges and downsides, and this saying of “Next generation will be fucked” is a cognitive bias every generation has had for a pretty long time.
They also have positive sides.
I don’t know if I expressed myself that poorly (I was pretty tired after all), but I did not mean at all that there are no downsides to any of these. I meant that despite these sayings, every generation so far has ended up as fine as the previous ones.
- Comment on Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting 3 weeks ago:
Are they really more fucked than generations who didn’t have access to social media, internet, and video games? It seems to me that you are biased by the negative effects these had, and ignoring the positive ones.
Saying that they haven’t been fucked is reminiscent of my grandparents saying ADHD and Anxiety aren’t real.
How is that in any way comparable? I’m not saying the downsides of social media, internet, video games are not real, I’m saying “People growing up with X will be fucked” is a saying that every generation has been saying, ignoring the positive impacts. This is a cognitive bias in the likes of the rosy retrospection.
- Comment on Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting 3 weeks ago:
The generations that will grow up with AI will be fucked.
Eh. That’s something every single generation before us in at least the past 150 years has been saying about other new society-changing stuff. They’ll be fine, society just changes.
Generations that will grow up with social media will be fucked. Generations that will grow up with internet will be fucked. Generations that will grow up with video games will be fucked. Generations that will grow up with computers will be fucked. Generations that will grow up with morning-after pills will be fucked. … …
- Comment on I don't have money to pay premium to not see ads. What in the world makes you think that I have money to buy what you are advertising me? 4 weeks ago:
And a catchy one, but not really meaningful or correct.
The whole comment showcases how little they know about running a business. Marketing works. But of course we the consumer don’t notice it works, because we think “Well I never click on an ad…” which also reflects on advertisement statistics.
But that’s not the point of ads, at least not anymore. The point is you saw the brand. You saw what they do. Everytime you see the brand name or logo, everytime you see the product, your brain registers it. You might not realise it, but it does. And when the time comes you need a product like that, that’s where the value of marketing shows. Because you’ll browse, research, or whatever you do when you decide you need something. And you’ll see the brand, and you’ll see the name, and you’ll think “Hmm I’ve heard of them before” and immediately place them higher in your mind than a competitor with 0 ad budget.
- Comment on Historic Chat Control Vote in the EU Parliament: MEPs Vote to End Untargeted Mass Scanning of Private Chats 4 weeks ago:
Of course. Nothing is black and white. This was a real issue, but still abused by anti-EU propaganda to weaken us.
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 4 weeks ago:
his is not helped by the Linux community who in a general rule are not particularly accommodating towards novices.
Luckily this trend is shifting! More and more linux distros oriented towards users new to linux, and helpful communities.
- Comment on Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the Law 5 weeks ago:
It’s not just about not using it, it’s about punishing a company breaking the law, profiting from it, and feeding an authoritarian regime.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 5 weeks ago:
I’d bet on that as well. It is big tech’s master plan.
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But not necessarily interpreted.
- Comment on AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations— Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95% of cases 1 month ago:
The only country bad at using nukes is the only country who dropped some. The US.
Nukes are a deterrence weapon. No one with a sane mind wants to use them.
- Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. 1 month ago:
If my memory serves well, it is configurable. I say X seconds because it can be 5, 10, 30, but of course also 60, 120… This is my programmer brain talking :)
- Comment on Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras. Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. 1 month ago:
Well, from my knowledge, the person you replied to is inacurrate. All tires will transmit at the same frequency. But every X seconds, when each tire transmits its data, it transmits an ID unique to its transmitter with it.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey's New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AI 1 month ago:
I agree with almost all of your comment. The only part I disagree on is:
How can we attempt to recreate the human brain into AGI when we are not close to mapping out how our brains work in a way to translate that into code, let alone other more simple brains in the animal kingdom.
An implementation of AGI does not need to be inspired from the human brain, or any existing organic brain. Nothing tells us organic brains are the optimal way to develop intelligence. In fact, I’d argue it’s not.
That being said, it doesn’t change the conclusion: We are nowhere near AGI, and LLMs being marketed as such is absolutely a scam.
- Comment on Password managers are less secure than promised 1 month ago:
What they claim to do and what they do is not necessarily the same. If done properly, the server does not need to be trusted.
- Comment on Password managers are less secure than promised 1 month ago:
I believe Proton Pass does not have the design flaws shown in the article. For instance, if you lose your password, you lose your data. Your data is encrypted and decrypted on your device.
- Comment on Password managers are less secure than promised 1 month ago:
If the password manager server is hacked and compromised, then syncing your passwords with the compromised server will lead to compromised passwords (duh)
No, not “duh”. The right way to do this is client-side encryption/decryption. The server then does not at any moment know anything about your passwords.
- Comment on BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair 1 month ago:
The day when the only options are subscription based cars will be the day jailbreaking your car will be as common as jailbreaking an iphone.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 1 month ago:
I do mean “person with a huge setup dedicated to music listening”. An audiophile who actually knows what they’re talking about will tell you to get any cable from a reputable brand.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 1 month ago:
Oh yeah, for sure. I didn’t include that part because an audiophile setup rarely has a need for long distances.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 1 month ago:
Exactly this, the cables never mattered. They’re the least significant part of an audiophile system and I doubt anyone could tell the difference between a crappy cable and a good quality cable. People get good quality cable for durability rather than sound quality.
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 1 month ago:
It also means that AI in places where it brings nothing and in many cases make the product actually worse will disappear
- Comment on I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too 1 month ago:
With an IP55 rating, I would assume it can resist a drop in water. As long as you don’t stare at it for multiple minutes and do get it out asap.
- Comment on YSK You can buy a @linux.com domain for email flex 1 month ago:
Yes, that is why it is called a forwarding address and both the picture and the post say you can’t send from it