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- Comment on Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early 2 hours ago:
They do, they’re just not skin tight. You can’t really fit much into a pocket in super tight jeans.
- Comment on Are we deprogramming empathy in the US? 1 day ago:
After watching Israel slaughter tens of thousands of our children while Biden lied and covered for them and have them everything they wanted, i have no empathy nor sympathy left for anyone who isn’t ready for a revolution and calls enthusiastic support for genocide “the lesser evil”.
They’re all Nazis, both sides, and I have zero respect left for anyone who only cares about them and theirs and their life domestically. I have no empathy for anyone who lives in and benefits from the imperial core and doesn’t have empathy for the victims of the empire.
I don’t have sympathy and empathy left for them. When a dear friend told me his mother died, I tried so hard to find an emotion, and I just remembered all the lost children he refused to speak up for and came up empty. Fuck you and your dead mother, I thought as I said I’m sorry for your loss.
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 2 days ago:
Grade: F (0/100) Your submission does not meet the basic expectations for an academic reflection or critique. Rather than engaging the article’s claims with evidence, you substitute personal belief as an argument and treat disagreement as a rebuttal. That is not analysis; it is opinion.
You were explicitly expected to challenge the material using empirical findings, methodological critique, or testable alternative hypotheses. You did none of those. There are no credible sources used to support your counterclaims, no operational definitions, no evaluation of the study’s design, and no attempt to distinguish “I feel” from “the evidence shows.” The result reads as a refusal to participate in scholarly inquiry.
Until you can separate personal convictions from evidentiary argument, and demonstrate that separation in writing, you will continue to fail assignments of this type.
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 3 days ago:
True. But the problem wasn’t that she used the bible as a source, the problem is that she didn’t answer the question at all, and used the bible as a source to describe her own beliefs. Beliefs she’s entitled to have, as the professor’s comment pointed out, but you can’t ignore the question of the assignment and use it as a platform to share your beliefs and expect to get a passing grade. If she wanted to use the assignment as a protest, she should be proud to get an F as a form of martyrdom, but as the Jesus pointed out, she opted to receive her worldly reward instead of a heavenly one (not that she would, but for argument’s sake).
Her writing style, the quality of her submission, and the fact that TPUSA shared this publicly and think it shows them in the right as they continue to attack the professor who graded this garbage submission very gentle is a symptom of the complete lack of education these people are exposed to.
- Comment on Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments 6 days ago:
You’re right, I’m sorry. That was a mistake.
- Comment on Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments 6 days ago:
No, I’m not.
98, 98se, and ME are all 9x, pre NT.
Windows 2000 was NT, but it was server and business focused, so I left it out as most people did not run 2000 on their personal computers. XP was the first consumer targeting Windows with NT, and it was a huge step up in security and stability over 9x, despite how awful it was.
I’m not praising XP, I’m just refuting that 98 was great. It was hot garbage, and you could run a very secure and stable Linux distro back then, we stuck with windows back then because Wine wasn’t mature (Proton/bottles didn’t exist), the hardware wasn’t good enough for good emulation, and we needed binary compatibility because we wanted the windows exclusives. We never used Windows 98 because it was a good OS, we used it because it came with every computer you bought and all the software you wanted ran on it.
- Comment on Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments 6 days ago:
98*/2000 was pure garbage. You could literally bypass the login screen on 98 because it had no real user account and tokens, just profiles for convenience. Driver support was awful, there was no memory protection so drivers constantly caused bsod. XP was the first time the consumer desktop got the NT foundation, meaning real user/session security, far better stability under load, and way fewer “one program crashed, so the OS is toast” moments.
XP had its problems too, it’s still Windows afterall and Windows was always garbage. But 98 was awful.
- Comment on There should be more negative awards. For example: the most pathetic nation or the most monstrous person of the year. 6 days ago:
You think Trump is worse than Netanyahu? Openly corrupt and ruling a fascist religious ethno-supremacist terrorist state that openly talks about eliminating the native population, celebrates raping prisoners, shoots children in the knee for sport, and actively committing a livestreamed genocide with your tax dollars?
Expand your bubble, homie, Trump is a symptom not the disease.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 1 week ago:
Care to elaborate?
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 1 week ago:
I’ve been really enjoying zen.
- Comment on Capitalism turns countries into businesses to support the lavish lifestyle of capital holders and the government into HR to silence the workers 2 weeks ago:
If your understanding of socialism is entirely based on imperial capitalist propaganda, then sure, why not.
- Comment on YSK that in most countries, traffic fatalities have been falling. But in the U.S., the opposite happened. Americans die in rising numbers 2 weeks ago:
Is the argument presented the propaganda or the fact that it was negative?
It’s NYTimes propaganda, not exactly Russian or Chinese.
- Comment on Netflix kills casting from phones 3 weeks ago:
That’s it, the pain is coming back now. I didn’t use docker last time I tried, I don’t remember the issues I ran into, but I was running Plex on windows vm with the library on a nas share mounted locally through iscsi. Don’t ask why, it was a good setup at the time.
- Comment on Netflix kills casting from phones 3 weeks ago:
Haven’t tried JF in over a year, but last attempt was full of errors. I’ll give it another shot.
Only reason I’m still on Plex is I have a lifetime pass, and it’s working. But it’s sure inshitifying every day… Remote play with plex pass is super easy, and plex amp was promising but replaced it with navidrome and so much happier. I’m ready to ditch Plex if JF is better now, I’ll install it next time I have time to mess with my setup.
- Comment on Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone 3 weeks ago:
Statement with no substance. What do you desire that’s not there?
Aside from the screen being softer and easier to scratch, name a practical difference between this and another 10" Android tablet…
If a 10" tablet meets your desires, and your desire to fold it and put it in your pocket, what’s left?
- Comment on Thank Mozilla for Killing Localization on Support Mozilla (And Replacing Human Contributions With AI Bots) 4 weeks ago:
Is it anti Firefox progranda to literally criticize them for reopening human contributed content with lesser quality AI generated one?
Your response to that criticism is to bring up another topic (Firefox being open source) and calling everyone idiots?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Capitalism is inherently evil… it’s built on exploiting workers through economic coercion by rich capital owners who don’t, the labor is not rewarded as much as the hoarding of capital.
Still, we live in a capitalist society, and businesses can be not objectively evil, and we have to support those business and boycott objectively evil ones.
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 4 weeks ago:
That was the norm before it was so easy to buy online from across the country, local stores set their own prices and a few minutes of calling to find the best deal is like searching on Google for a few minutes to find the best deal… But they weren’t doubling in price in a couple months, that I can recall anyway.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 5 weeks ago:
That’s very funny to say, but Windows 11 boots faster than Linux on my disk boot machine. I do have full disk encryption on Linux tbf, but Windows is very fast from cold off to login screen.
It’s a shit OS I’m forced to use for work, but it boots very quickly.
- Comment on Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery 1 month ago:
What makes it low quality? I’ve seen some shittier hand painted art.
I get the objection to it being AI generated, but I can’t place exactly what stood out as low quality…
- Comment on The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing" 1 month ago:
They absolutely can erase things on the internet, are you archiving this for when the other archives die? Are you gonna be able to share it when the time comes? And will anyone care?
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 1 month ago:
That would happen if you store your passwords there too…
If you’re proactive enough with your passwords to manually store them in your own vault, you can be proactive enough to not use the corporate vaults that don’t allow exporting. This isn’t a “downside” of passkeys, it’s a downside of using the built in managers.
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 1 month ago:
Say you don’t understand passkeys without saying you don’t understand them…
A passkey uses public key cryptography to secure your account instead of a password, it only grants you access to the one account you set it up for, and the account provider only holds your public key, you control the private key. Your passkey is a secure alternative to passwords because you CANNOT reuse it across services, cannot reasonably remember it, and the method of using it isn’t by copying and pasting into a field like a password, so it isn’t susceptible to the same attacks.
If the provider loses your public key, they can’t give you a challenge to verify you have the private key, so you lose access. Just like if they lose your password hash. It’s an identical scenario.
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 1 month ago:
Your password hashes (assuming they even hash them) already live on their servers…
- Comment on Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs 1 month ago:
Ethereum formally introduced the concept of smart contracts, and they had serious potential for modernizing financial contracts and push back an entire predatory industry of leechers, but instead it was used to create meme-coins and scam coins and ruined it all.
It’s move to proof of stake instead of proof of work dramatically reduced its energy usage, and makes it a actually scalable, but the masses lost interest when they couldn’t just make money off a few GPUs and turned to the aforementioned shit-coins built on the Ethereum network.
Ethereum is not bad, it’s one of the better ones. It’s just kind of responsible for the explosion of shit/scam coins, because people are shitty scammers.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 1 month ago:
That’s freedom surveillance! Flock AI cameras at every corner tracking your every move and feeding directly to racist corrupt militarized cops is A-Okay, because China is the real evil.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 1 month ago:
Enumerate the ways the Chinese government is worse than the US government. Take the plank out of your eye before complaining about the spec in theirs.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Have you seen most YouTube videos? Nothing can hold up to the garbage content being pumped in by scammers and low effort “influencers” and shit like Mr beast or the Pauls or whatever is popular these days. We don’t need YouTube level capacity for good content.
- Comment on iSweep 1 month ago:
No it’s not, you just need one for every floor. Or just one for the dirtiest floor (with most foot traffic from outside)
- Comment on iSweep 1 month ago:
You don’t have to be so rude.
I’m sorry you leave things on the floor and have a cluttered home. I’m sorry you you have cords all over your floors. I’m sorry you have so many obstacles on your floors, like you don’t clean up your kids/pets toys and have to move them only when sweeping. I’m sorry you’re so disorganized and lazy.
But more to your point, my floors are always free of obstacles when the roborock runs, because I always pick things up and don’t leave them on the floor. Because it takes care of sweeping/vacuuming twice a day, I have the time and energy to focus on other cleaning tasks. As like you, I enjoy both having pets and a clean home, but I additionally enjoy a tidy home.