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- Comment on Why is the USA attacking Iran? 1 week ago:
Germany was worried about a two front war, with Russia slowly getting ready to help Serbians on the east. They decided to try for a knock-out attack against France by going through Belgium. They made it shockingly close to Paris, before their efforts stalled.
- Comment on It would be so interesting if humans didn't have a gender assigned at birth and could choose who they want to be. 1 week ago:
It can be done:
- Comment on Botanic nomenclature 1 week ago:
Gorilla gorilla gorilla
- Comment on A modest proposal 1 week ago:
Definitely. Generational divide is another tool of capital to reduce solidarity of the working class.
- Comment on President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems 1 week ago:
This is amazing. Thank you!
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 1 week ago:
I guess so that the police can know whether to say “stop resisting ma’am” or “stop resisting sir” when they pull the driver from the vehicle and start beating them?
- Comment on all about the mindset 1 week ago:
Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s we started to be able to use WiFi on laptops and connect to the Internet with some mobility.
Almost everyone had the fantasy of working from the beach or their garden in the sun.
It turns out that sitting down trying to read a screen in direct sunlight for hours sucks ass, which everyone who tried it discovered before moving back indoors.
- Comment on "Game preservation only works if people care" As GOG doubles down on its commitment to saving old games, it's asking players "who give a s**t" to support its crusade 2 weeks ago:
For me it’s the opposite.
My preference is itch.io, then GOG, then Steam.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 2 weeks ago:
Well that’s disappointing to hear. Although it makes me glad that I am too cheap to buy one. 😅
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 2 weeks ago:
I mean, there are Purism phones. Super expensive, but they keep selling out so I guess they are reasonable.
- Comment on Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State 3 weeks ago:
Keep in mind that the book is very old, published in 1931. DNA hadn’t been mapped, information technology was limited, and so on.
In the book, people are born in factories. Working class people are born in from split cells, as quintuples if I remember correctly. Your role in life is largely determined by your genes - workers don’t have the psychology for anything but labor.
In spite of that, it’s not an especially oppressive society. There is a “perfect” drug, soma, which is sort of like a non-addictive, non-physically harmful heroin that can be delivered by gas. When there is unrest, security forces come in and get everyone high until they chill the fuck out.
Sex is open and easy, but always completely voluntary by everyone involved. When people are turned down they are sometimes surprised but never upset or aggressive.
Entertainment is presented as vacuous, but the people seem to enjoy it. There are movies, TV, and so on. Sports are engineered to require people take trains out of town to stadiums, and require deliberately-complicated equipment to play, in order to create demand for production.
So… is that a dystopia? There is no discussion of environmental damage, but overall it seems sustainable, not predicated on infinite growth. People are stuck in the role they were born to, but it seems like there are no artificial barriers to advancement… just that not everyone can be good at everything.
- Comment on Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State 3 weeks ago:
Definitely. A world where people are happy and healthy and live basically fulfilling lives. There are a few fanatics who opt out, and they’re unhappy. Go figure.
- Comment on Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State 3 weeks ago:
I don’t find Brave New World to be especially dystopian. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Based on this graph, and this graph alone, guess at what time I completely blocked OpenAI crawlers 3 weeks ago:
If you’re relying on Cloudflare are you even self-hosting?
- Comment on aspirations 1 month ago:
The kids are alright.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 2 months ago:
Kind of like elderly people in eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union?
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 2 months ago:
Kind of like elderly people in eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union?
- Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs 3 months ago:
Helium came first!
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 3 months ago:
I always find the same study referenced, which was good science but also almost 30 years old. I wonder if this is still true for modern batteries?
- Comment on Pow-- 4 months ago:
All people are people. Dehumanizing someone is a great technique for authoritarian regimes, but should be resisted by everyone else.
- Comment on necessary read 4 months ago:
It’s a short, easy read…
- Comment on life purpose 4 months ago:
It depends on the type of work and the people involved.
I worked in a team of developers and everyone who visited us commented how quiet it was…
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 4 months ago:
Maybe evangelicals who preach the prosperity gospel believe in “just world”? However in the Book of Job it is made pretty clear that doing everything God asks of you doesn’t help you at all, and might even be a reason that you get shit on. Jesus repeatedly says that his kingdom is not on earth. Anyway…
- Comment on New California law requires AI to tell you it’s AI 4 months ago:
I mean, we call the software that runs computer players in games AI, so… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 4 months ago:
License plate readers? Facial recognition? Speech recognition?
- Comment on Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble 4 months ago:
Europeans caused massive death in the Americas. I do not think we should replicate that model.
Also, the chance is small, but there might have been a separate biogenesis (beginning of life) on Mars. Sending humans with our dirty microbiome would almost certainly wipe any evidence of that, and possibly cause an extinction of an entirely separate form of life, which would be a crime even more horrible than the extinctions and genocides which we have caused so far.
Let’s just leave Mars alone until we’ve studies it more and are certain there is no life. Colonizing the moon seems challenging enough for a couple centuries…
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 4 months ago:
It had too little memory, but was clearly a step towards phone perfection. I am still bitter that Nokia hired a Microsoft loyalist who killed the Linux line … shortly before killing the whole company.
- Comment on arriving 5 months ago:
Is it illegal for young people to get hot tubs where you are at? 🤔
- Comment on DEI, more like DIED 5 months ago:
A simple DEI policy would be, for example, to remove the name from a resume before passing it over to the hiring manager for initial selection. That reduces bias against ethnic groups, religions, or genders.
This should in no way reduce the qualifications of the candidates. Quite the opposite.
- Comment on ISO 26300 5 months ago:
Another proprietary Microsoft format: