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- Comment on Deus Ex Remastered, a "modernized" version of Ion Storm's classic cyberpunk RPG, releases early next year 2 hours ago:
Glad to see Deus Ex still getting some attention, hopefully this means we’ll see a new one in the future
- Comment on Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy 1 day ago:
Ladybird needs to be careful who they accept money from
- Comment on Apple iPhone 17 Devices Plagued by Wi-Fi Connectivity Issues 1 day ago:
Is this the version where Apple launched its own WiFi chips?
- Comment on A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over? 6 days ago:
Part of this is related to how the 2017 tax law changed how companies can write off the costs of software development. Those rules didn’t kick in until 2022, which is when things started to get messy for the tech industry.
cooley.com/…/2023-09-25-irs-publishes-guidance-on…
As I understand it, the rule reverted in the most recent tax bill this year. Of course, that will take some time to kick in. We are also in a recession, which no one is acknowledging yet. So, may take some time to recover.
- Comment on China Is Putting Data Centers in the Ocean to Keep Them Cool 1 week ago:
America is putting data centers in the desert of Arizona because it’s fucking stupid.
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 1 week ago:
It takes a bit to initially learn how to load, chamber a round, and disable a safety. Every new gun you handle will require relearning those things for the most part. Also, the first time you handle a gun you’ll probably be a bit intimidated by the whole experience and want someone to show you. I agree most kids would have been taught by an adult if they got so far as to shoot up a school. That said, if a loaded gun is lying around the house, someone can easily pick it up and do some damage with it without any training— at least until it is time to reload.
- Comment on California could mandate tobacco-style health labels on social media 1 week ago:
Useless lmao.
- Comment on Charlie Kirk Suspect’s Grandma Says Family Is All MAGA 1 week ago:
The Bella ciao stuff was apparently something far right groypers used to taunt Charlie Kirk.
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- Comment on Trump's video on the shooting of Kirk appears to be AI 2 weeks ago:
It’s true, the ring finger basically becomes the pinky and the pinky disappears. His pointer magically changes position. Also, his middle knuckle looks unnatural to start off with.
- Comment on Holocaust Museum LA deletes post saying 'never again' applies to all people 2 weeks ago:
Sometimes again.
- Comment on Indiana Jones devs MachineGames tease another Wolfenstein game - "we have a story to tell" 2 weeks ago:
America, look at me. You are the Nazis now.
- Comment on Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI 2 weeks ago:
Keep propping up Musk with more Federal tax dollars
- Comment on US Navy SEALs killed North Korean civilians during botched mission: Report 2 weeks ago:
Why did North Korea keep it a secret?
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 2 weeks ago:
I wonder what they’re going to prioritize now
- Comment on Who are the "middle class" supposed to support in the class stuggle? 3 weeks ago:
Everyone that sells their time to make a living is part of the same class. Everyone that makes their money through appreciation of capital is a different class.
- Comment on Desiccant dehumidifiers are fascinating... but not for everyone [29:19] 3 weeks ago:
Yeah - the video does clarify that the UK is one of the few places the desiccant one makes sense.
- Comment on DAT-protocol 3 weeks ago:
How do they manage changes to the site and refreshing the peers with the latest copy?
- Comment on Desiccant dehumidifiers are fascinating... but not for everyone [29:19] 3 weeks ago:
I watched this. It was of interest to me because I must run two dehumidifiers in my house and they use a ton of energy. Unfortunately, this desiccant dehumidifier would use even more energy. Hoping someday someone figures out how to build a more efficient one.
In the meantime, I think manufacturers need to build all dehumidifiers with a repeat cycle timer built in. I find it far more energy efficient to run for some period like 30 minutes till the humidity drops low — like 45%, then shut off for 60-120 minutes while the humidity slowly creeps back up until the cycle repeats. Most dehumidifiers work based on a humidity threshold and will constantly click on and off as the threshold gets crossed. In my experience, this uses a lot more energy and being in a high cost state is completely unaffordable.
- Comment on US | Republicans investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias 3 weeks ago:
Where did I say that Wikipedia was unbiased?
- Comment on Intel details everything that could go wrong with US taking a 10% stake 4 weeks ago:
How is this legal?
- Comment on US | Republicans investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias 4 weeks ago:
Wikipedia has no legal obligation to be unbiased.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 4 weeks ago:
By Linux I mean “FOSS” phone. Android is based on Linux, but it is also loaded with spyware out of the box. If you’d asked me 18 years ago whether there would be a viable FOSS phone by now, I would’ve thought yes. But, postmarketOS still advertises itself as “not ready yet” and Ubuntu Touch is still pretty niche.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 4 weeks ago:
Are they moving fast? It’s been like 18 years since the iPhone came out and there really isn’t a viable Linux phone.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 4 weeks ago:
From Wikipedia:
In 2019, Powell suggested that parenting was a distraction to being productive and critiqued the economic viability of parental leaves; he went on to question whether choosing to not abide by relevant governmental regulations was a risk worth taking.[40] In June 2022, Powell urged employees in a work meeting to reject the usage of preferred gender pronouns; he then opened a Slack channel to debate whether people should be allowed to choose their gender but not their race or ethnicity.[7] The next day, Kraken released a “culture document” which outlined the libertarian values that it asserted were to be obeyed at work.[7] Among other things, employees were prohibited from labelling others’ comments as “toxic, hateful, racist”, etc., and particular emphasis was assigned on how “offensiveness” was not forbidden.[7] Powell and his fellow executives encouraged employees who disagreed with the policy to quit, and offered four months’ severance for those who opted to do so.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 4 weeks ago:
The guy is such an asshole. I’d never apply to work there. He had a policy where he personally needs to approve of every single person hired there. He’s a micromanager, Elon wannabe douche. I have some crypto with Coinbase, but I will never add more to it. Eventually, some day I’ll pull it out. The problem is other companies in crypto are also run by raging assholes — Kraken for instance was founded by a total dickhead.
- Comment on Apple's Greed Is Finally Backfiring 5 weeks ago:
Apple is 50 years old
- Comment on Nobody uses the white emojis 1 month ago:
I agree, as a white person, that yellow seems more neutral. But, then people who are slightly not white are always eager to switch. I also feel some people have a skewed idea of how brown they actually are and will pick a shade or two darker than their real skin tone.
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 1 month ago:
I feel like I’m constantly getting new devices or reinstalling my OSes. I restart from scratch a lot. Going through the steps to harden Firefox becomes tedious. Librewolf starts from where I want to be.
- Comment on Microsoft will kill the Lens PDF scanner app for iOS, Android 1 month ago:
Why would anyone let Microsoft read their PDFs? You know they’re scraping all that data and using it to target ads at you