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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The way to do that now is to send them abroad to disappear or die. That’s the deflection. Otherwise there are dead bodies in the US and state murder charges with no statute of limitations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically you don’t understand. Investors sell when they think the companies will fuck shit up. That could be because they think the product is obsolete, or it could be that they think manglement is going to do dumb shit. Take your pick. Remember, it’s gambling about the future, not about what’s right or reasonable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course we shouldn’t trust anything blindly, but we also need to use common sense. Have we seen proof that what’s claimed to be true is in fact true? No. But it might be true, and it’s consistent with what Meta would do. So if your cautious minded, you should assume it’s true for now while you go through the next few years of your life waiting for discovery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If companies are lying in their advertising to the general public, then that is something the companies are responsible for. You can blame the victims, but that’s kind of stupid because there are so many people in the world who are not technically savvy. They don’t have the resources, background, knowledge, and skills to evaluate whether what the company is telling them is true. That’s why there are laws designed to protect consumers from lying companies.

  Would it be great if everyone was an expert in everything? Yes. Are they? No. They never will be. That’s why we have laws.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It will be interesting to see if this goes anywhere. It looks like the claims are based on specific aspects of California law (put simply: wiretapping, privacy, and deceptive business practices). Do they have a strong case? I don’t know, not worth my personal time to research state law on these issues.

  Is there enough to go to court? Certainly the lawyers think so, and I agree. If Meta is claiming E2EE (which it is) and then immediately undercutting that by re-transmitting large numbers of messages to itself (which is alleged), that sure feels deceptive to me, and it’s easy to think that a jury might agree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some car lovers oppose bike infrastructure, when more bikes would mean fewer cars on the road?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s an easy fix. Just jack up annual registration or taxes, but only for large trucks and SUVs, to $10K a year. Problem solved… Or make it a scale based on engine size, or total car width/length/height, whatever. It’s so easy to regulate… And in fact the US used to regulate large vehicles more strictly, so we already know that it can be done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some car lovers oppose bike infrastructure, when more bikes would mean fewer cars on the road?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you ride in a town or city a lot, you know one big piece of the answer: jealousy.

  If there are more cyclists, you’ll see them more often riding by you at red lights and lines of cars at stop signs. Drivers hate this; it reminds them that sometimes cars are slow, and they love their cars, so they get angry.

  If there are more cyclists, drivers will have to be careful not to hit them, and being careful is annoying. Right now, depending where you live, the driver can say “almost no cyclists are out here, so I wasn’t expecting them, they need to be more careful”. And the drivers believe it, and their friends do, too. But more cyclists around would make those excuses look like the BS they actually are.

  And related to the second point is that, if cyclists increase in number, they will demand (and get) more bike lanes and protected areas to ride and park. This will absolutely come at drivers’ expenses. Drivers know this. So even though fewer cars would decrease congestion, drivers know that they would be inconvenienced in other ways, and that would again remind them that they aren’t as important as they want to be.

  Finally, in the US specifically, large SUVs and trucks are causing massive increases in dead pedestrians, children, and cyclists. The increased death rate over the last ten years is appallingly high. If cycling is normalized even more, clearly political opinion will shift, and those giant vehicles will be heavily restricted or taxed, or their insurance rates will skyrocket, or drivers will be charged more frequently with manslaughter for the death that they cause every day. People are reasonably afraid that their unreasonably large vehicles will be taken away from them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I'm struggling with depression, I get ostracized as a "loser" that haven't accomplished anything but if I die in a tragic accident tonight, I'm a "young man with a bright future ahead"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Look. This is politeness. This is slightly different, but kinda related… I’m a teacher. If a kid got bad grades, obviously he did, the parents will see that. In my written comment, should I say he was a slacker? No. Why bother. Better to express hope for what he can do well in the future.

  The same information is conveyed, but the respect shown to the person is different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At Davos, NVIDIA, Microsoft CEOs deny AI bubble⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What benefit? Seriously, what benefits are you actually talking about?

  Maybe they exist in niche areas, like improved translation software or some such thing, but maybe that’s just normal “use computers better” technological advancement and not actually anything magical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LLMs are already doing fascists a favor by ensuring that anything that is reasonably eloquently formulated on social media is automatically suspected of having been written by LLMs.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Look, this isn’t doing them a favor at all. Cultists have always ignored things they didn’t like and embraced things that they did. Generative IAI doesn’t change that in any way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israelis demonised as a ‘vehicle for hatred of Jews’, says UK terror laws watchdog⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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!?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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!?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.