Alaknar
@Alaknar@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Two New Windows Zero-Days Exploited in the Wild — One Affects Every Version Ever Shipped 8 hours ago:
It already happened with Windows 7. They still released the patch there.
- Comment on Mozilla's Firefox adds Perplexity's AI answer engine as a new search option | TechCrunch 1 day ago:
Yeah, he asked, like, both his friends, and they were like “nah”, so practically nobody on the planet uses AI, man.
- Comment on Mozilla's Firefox adds Perplexity's AI answer engine as a new search option | TechCrunch 1 day ago:
Can you read, mate?
It’s an optional choice for the search engine.
YOU decide if and when and what to send there. What’s the big issue here?
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Weird. I get the pop-up, but not the redirect.
- Comment on EU Chat Control didnt pass - proving the media got to alot of you 4 days ago:
That’s basically the definition of democracy.
“Democracy is a horrible system, but nobody has invented anything better yet”. Can’t remember who said it. Churchill, maybe?
- Comment on EU Chat Control didnt pass - proving the media got to alot of you 4 days ago:
Tell you what: let’s wait the 5-10 years of consultations and see what they end up doing, then let’s come back to this discussion.
- Comment on EU Chat Control didnt pass - proving the media got to alot of you 4 days ago:
Are you reading your own sources…?
A directive is a legal act of the European Union that requires member states to achieve particular goals without dictating how the member states achieve those goals
Considering (another quote from your own sources):
Negotiations will now begin between the Parliament, the Council of the EU, which represents national governments, and the European Commission to determine the final shape of the law
They might as well look at the UK, and go “OK, lets have the user click that they pinky promise they’re 18”.
- Comment on EU Chat Control didnt pass - proving the media got to alot of you 4 days ago:
EU decides what must happen, and it’s up to the individual countries to put it into their respective laws.
Wow, it’s so weird that the article you linked lied, then!
- Comment on EU Chat Control didnt pass - proving the media got to alot of you 4 days ago:
Have you read the sources you posted?
Negotiations will now begin between the Parliament, the Council of the EU, which represents national governments, and the European Commission to determine the final shape of the law.
Nobody is mandating anything - yet.
Sure, it might end up like that, but - to date - the Commission has been rather sensible when it comes to such things. They also have the example of UK that shows that the law works against its intentions by driving people towards unregulated and more dangerous websites.
We’ll see how it goes.
- Comment on VPN Comparison 2.0 4 days ago:
NordVPN is made by Lithuanians but is registered in Panama, exactly so that they can ignore stuff like what you listed.
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 4 days ago:
Wasn’t that just a temporary drop so that some whales could get richer on shorts?
- Comment on Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) 4 days ago:
(That’s 2A in the other picture)
- Comment on Microsoft just changed where your Word documents live — here’s why it matters 4 days ago:
My God, THANK YOU! I’ve seen this article in five different places and everyone is losing their minds over this, seemingly completely oblivious to the fact that:
- This ONLY affects people who are using OneDrive in the first place.
- It’s a setting that you can change any time.
- If you want to keep the default but have a specific file outside of OneDrive just - exactly like you said - click “Save As” and store it locally.
It’s mind boggling how much people switch off their brains whenever they see Microsoft doing literally anything, and the entire conversation devolves into “Microsoft bad”.
- Comment on VPN Comparison 2.0 4 days ago:
I mean, it’s not misleading, it’s just stating the nominal price, that’s it.
- Comment on VPN Comparison 2.0 5 days ago:
nord sucks
Why?
- Comment on EU Chat Control didnt pass - proving the media got to alot of you 5 days ago:
It’s the same thing.
It absolutely is not. I don’t know, maybe you’re more familiar with the US federal system (pre-Trump, because that’s a different can of worms)? If so: imagine if the president (in this case having no ability to issue executive orders, mind you) says “we should do X”. That’s all well and good, but the X must still go through the Senate and Congress, where it might fail.
Why would a country show support for the legislation and then vote against it later?
Well, because “a country” is not a singular hive-mind, is it? The government says “yes”, but their own Parliament might say “no”.
Governments have no say in what goes on in the EU Commission or Parliament. I mean, sure, most of the time the MEPs coming out of the government-aligned parties will have similar votes, but the EU elections aren’t in-step with most countries’ elections, so it’s never a 1:1 translation. And even then, many MEPs will just vote on their own.
This is such a charitable reading that it’s probably fair to assume this is OPs alt account.
Holy fuck, watch out when opening the fridge, mate, OP might jump out of it!
- Comment on EU Chat Control didnt pass - proving the media got to alot of you 5 days ago:
Second, a lot of countries where on board, including Germany
That means nothing. The governments (which the stances of were being counted) have not that much to say on how the MEPs will vote.
For example, if the Polish government was in favour of this, half of their MEPs would’ve still been against.
You can be cynical all you want arguing that “people’s voice don’t matter” and saying there’s no causality there, but people made themselves heard, and thing moved
I think he’s arguing the exact opposite, mate. He literally said that:
EU is a democracy with different opinions, and when a small group of facists tries to read your chats, it does not represent the EU opinion
There was a lot of panic about the EU being an oppressive “over-government”, trying to subjugate the population like the UK government is doing. That propaganda never made sense to me, but it felt very much like something the pro-russian mob would be spewing because it sows division and chaos, decreasing people’s appreciation of the EU, stoking exit views.
- Comment on EU Chat Control didnt pass - proving the media got to alot of you 5 days ago:
There were so many regions in support of it that it was dangerously close to passing.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but - it wasn’t “close to passing”, it was “close to being passed on as a proposal for a law”, requiring then a formal vote, no?
So, even if Germany retained its support and the motion went forward, it could still get smashed during the vote.
I’m thinking this post is the propaganda. Really really lazy propaganda.
I think you’re misreading it and badly.
I read it as: “don’t believe those who panicked that the EU is a fascist dictatorship that wants to subjugate the population, because it’s still a democracy where the people have the power, as proven by Chat Control being thrown in the bin yet again”.
- Comment on EU Chat Control didnt pass - proving the media got to alot of you 5 days ago:
The message here is: “don’t believe when people start screaming that the EU is a fascist organisation that wants to subjugate the population”.
Because there was A LOT of that online when Chat Control reared its head.
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 5 days ago:
Can you recommend some light switches like that?
- Comment on Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title' 1 week ago:
Ah, finally! Just don’t take too long on development!
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 1 week ago:
It’s also incredibly offensive to do it directly.
Only if you’re incredibly insecure about yourself.
The polite thing to do (…)
Overall - I agree, to certain degree. In my opinion, however, society is already “falling apart” due to how social media trains younger people for immediate gratification, everything is fast. Dating is also fast, and people don’t want to “waste time” on “incompatible people”.
Dating these days is “let’s have a date and see what happens”, not “let’s get to know each other and see if we want to date”.
Also, lots of people are pretty lonely, so “group activity” is not possible for them.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 1 week ago:
Yeah, I don’t, because I have enough empathy and intelligence to realise that people who don’t know me… well, don’t know me - and there absolutely are dangerous people out there.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 1 week ago:
I just don’t think it’s healthy to assume every man is a psycho and then make them prove otherwise, especially if you want to try dating them
It’s a bit difficult to determine just from online interactions, don’t you think?
“Dating” doesn’t mean what it used to mean. These days “dating” means “I swiped right, we talked for an hour or two and now we’re meeting for the first time”.
As long as the other person is upfront about it, I wouldn’t be weirded out if they brought a friend to feel better, honestly, no fucking clue who would have an issue with that. Because it’s not about “all men”, it’s about “I’m meeting a stranger”.
If you’re the person who sees that situation as an attack, you’re better off leaving the other party alone.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 1 week ago:
Sounds like setting yourself up to create conflict in a relationship that doesn’t even exist yet.
WTF are you on about, mate?
There’s no other way to read this besides “I think you are a horrible person so I need protection on our public date, why am I going on a date with a horrible person? I wanted dinner”
There absolutely is another way to read it and it’s: “there are lots of horrible people and I wanted to make sure you’re not one of them”.
I guess you reacting to this post in that way puts you bang in the middle of one of those two categories…
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 1 week ago:
Quick! Scan his post and comment history to find something to bring him down!!
- Comment on Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody" 2 weeks ago:
No, but, but, think of the shareholders! Nobody ever thinks about the shareholders! :(((
- Comment on Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe 2 weeks ago:
That makes the assumption you want to use your phone number at all
Can’t use Signal without a phone number.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 2 weeks ago:
There already are. People all over LinkedIn are changing their titles to “AI Code Cleanup Specialist”.
- Comment on ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day 2 weeks ago:
Then talk to your government, get them to make the app, not just the website. Go you!