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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israelis demonised as a ‘vehicle for hatred of Jews’, says UK terror laws watchdog⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s weird to watch the news from the UK. People protest the deaths of innocent folk, including huge numbers of children in Palestine, and they’re accused of being anti-Jewish or pro-terrorist. And that’s not to say racist jerks don’t exist because they are out there in large numbers. But it’s fairly clear watching a protest what the protesters are opposing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parents... Huh...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am curious what they meant by “emotionally scarred”. Like, reality can be harsh, and learning that leaves an impression, but that doesn’t mean that the process was messed up, although it could have been.

  Awkward is not bad, not always. It depends on the details.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are people discovering random subdomains on my server?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm. I feel like conflating a subdomain with a password is a particularly sketchy idea, but you do you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince talks about Italy fines while praising JD Vance and Elon Musk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good. Cloudflare is a tool for censorship and spying. Let them leave countries, so that international companies will be forced to stop using them. Interesting how quick that would happen, guaranteed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wondering if running a single user Lemmy is an overkill⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also might be worth thinking about what else you are self hosting. Don’t want to self host all of your communication apps; that would be brittle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cops Forced to Explain Why AI Generated Police Report Claimed Officer Transformed Into Frog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Can we put these pigs on the Brady List and charge them with perjury? They swear under oath that those reports are true. Can’t have it both ways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. It’s not gross. I clean the floor myself, and it’s pretty clean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re totally wrong. It’s not gross at all. Congratulations to both of us? … Meh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can pets tell who's petting them without looking?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And their hearing is good. They know who you are by how you walk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the difference between an American liberal and a liberal outside the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It all depends who you ask. There are no fixed definitions, not globally. That’s why policies are important points for grounding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia insists it isn’t Enron, but its AI deals are testing investor faith⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember that when the news article talks about the economy, it’s mostly talking about rich people’s yachts.

  Obviously there are some people nearing retirement age who need their pension plans not to lose value rapidly, they do exist. But the vast majority of the money that is being discussed here, that a bubble might make or break, is millionaires and billionaires savings accounts… So when this bubble bursts and when these companies go bankrupt, to hell with the ultra rich. If we want to help out people who are struggling to live out their retirement because of the stock market collapse that will occur, let’s do that, and let’s just tell the billionaires to go to hell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You clearly don’t understand the situation. 125 million down to … 60 million, less, in half a century, maybe less… How to manage that is a serious question. Infrastructure is a huge question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh, why would I text inside of Android Auto? I’d just pick up my phone and copy/paste the address into Google Maps on the phone while it’s plugged in, like I did last month, and then Google Maps would display it on Android Auto.

  Also, please don’t text and drive. Pull over to text.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never attribute to capitalism that which is adequately explained by stupidity.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And the original expression was wrong, too. Ignorance is real, but so are malice, greed, jealousy, hate, etc. Sometimes someone does something shitty and our instincts said they meant it and we’re right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT fried my drive!?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love how you ignore all the comments that actually tried to help OP. Or maybe you posted early on but you can’t be bothered to go back and edit your response. And then you pretend that AI tries to help us do anything, as if it had motivation or volition. Come on now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT fried my drive!?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course we can blame them. There’s a ton of great help available, but perhaps they’re like you, and their ego is so fragile that they can’t be troubled to scroll past a few trolls to find the perfect answers.

  But I think we’re all used to dealing with trolls. Everyone knows how to ignore the trolls. I think the bigger problem is that people are afraid to show ignorance, even if they definitely are ignorant, like OP was here. Imagine that, you don’t want to look foolish on the internet in front of people who don’t know who you are and never will, so you turn to a solution that doesn’t work and actually has the potential to ruin the hardware you bought… So yeah, that’s strange, that’s not rational, we can give psychological explanations, but none of them make the person in question appear reasonable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple will let iPhone users in Brazil get apps and services outside of the App Store⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No no no. Brazil forced Apple to open it’s devices to third party options. Apple folded because it had no choice.

  (Of course it could leave Brazil, but then shareholders would sue the execs for basic incompetence or whatever, and win, of course.)

• ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The first point, more than anything else, is to use the word “we” when you actually mean it. If you can’t do that, you can’t handle a complicated societal situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't tall people also wider?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is interesting physics in this, because you can look at height and say “double it” but our bones are three dimensional. So, what exactly are we doubling? Our height and girth? But then what about our weight? Our intuition doesn’t quite tell us these things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israel ‘will never leave’ Gaza Strip, defense minister says⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We all knew lots of things about that region for decades, and yet so many of them have changed over time.

  Could be they do their ethnic cleansing once and for all. Could be a neighboring country or terrorist group gets a nuke. Could be international or internal pressure stops the genocide. Could be lots of things. The future is unknown, my friend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT fried my drive!?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh dear God, what were you thinking? Why did you turn to chatgbt knowing that you could have actually found a website that told you what to do correctly written by someone who actually did it before?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How AI broke the smart home in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not anti technology, but it sounds like the author’s desire to use these fancy new toys made their life worse. Congratulations?

  Like, if you wanna play music, click the tablet. If you wanna turn on the light, touch the button. It’s so amazingly efficient. Really, three seconds, works every time.

  So yeah, you could use voice commands, but those are slower and (obviously, the article explains) highly error prone. In other words, it’s a worse solution than the traditional method.

  Of course that’s not always true. Some people can’t walk easily, for example. And some use cases are complicated enough where a single button push doesn’t work. But most of us aren’t in these special situations.

  So, you can buy the new toy, but don’t pretend you’re making life better. Be honest: you are either tinkering or bragging. And that’s OK, no worries either way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalism only asissts innovation for the first few years of existence. After that its a grift.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you don’t have a good definition of capitalism. Let us define it as a system where a small group of individuals (capitalists) control the means of production, and everyone else (workers) creates value, most of which they don’t receive… That in itself has nothing to do with corruption. It has nothing to do with stagnation.

  And the examples you gave were about innovation, and innovation happens in many non-capitalist systems, too. No reason socialists can’t innovate, is there?

  But what we also see is that capitalists hate capitalism. They have to compete, they could lose. So invariably they try to seize power in other ways. Therefore, one could argue (and many have argued) that capitalism leads to (or is likely to lead to) fascism.

  At the same time, understand that any system can be corrupted. Some are less stable than others, but we always need to keep an eye out for the shady selfish jerks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A swing and a miss⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn’t "Democrats would never get away with this" seen as a problem for the left?”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think if you look at specific examples you’ll learn more. Who is getting away with what?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We’re All So F’d | NVIDIA x Palantir, Global Surveillance, "Pre-Crime" Arrests, & AI [GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We. Who is we? Most of the world is not fucked. :-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So you agree that it will be baked in and impossible to actually turn off. Yep.

  Otherwise, they would have made it an extension, right? If it’s optional, it needs to actually be optional … that’s what am extension is. That’s the whole point of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right right. If they had real innovation, they would have defined it clearly as you suggested. But they didn’t, so they don’t. It’s all snake oil, again, because that’s the entire AI industry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Firefox is no longer trusted. Fuck that AI bullshit. We don’t want it, we don’t need it, and they don’t care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI’s Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Several explanations exist. First ShareAlike or GPL require re-sharing of downstream content. But if things are used for training, and later the model produces new code, that isn’t implicated by copyright legislation… And we could discuss whether that’s ethical or moral, of course, and there are various opinions…

  I feel like this is similar to the weakness of BSD licenses, Public Domain releases, and CC BY licensing. Someone can come along and take all of your work, polish it a little better, and sell their new service. Then you don’t get recognition or support, they get some contracts from their friends’ companies for a few years, and you feel sad.

  The other commonly-remarked angle is the death of the Web. Because so many websites are script-generated copy/paste, and they are tweaked to fit SEO, and Google doesn’t give a fuck, it’s hard for real website authors to get seen, and without any visibility, their work ends up being personal or pointless. This isn’t limited to open source, but it’s closely connected.