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- Comment on Everybody is fine with celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg making up fake names for themselves, but when someone chooses a name for themselves to suit their gender identity it's suddenly a problem 12 hours ago:
chooses a name
Whoopi
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 1 week ago:
There are so, so many better ebook readers to choose from. Honestly just a phone with an oled screen is better than kindle.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 1 week ago:
Main problem is that its not really an axis at all.
- Comment on Is it possible to survive by eating only through your ass? (Serious.) 1 week ago:
Yes.
For how long? Science doesn’t know yet.
We can finally put a number on it when Musk passes.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure the CEO got the message
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 2 weeks ago:
It’s so important to differentiate between commercial LLMs and AI as a general concept.
- Comment on PSA: In case you were experiencing problems with feddit.org, this is because a post from feddit reached the front page of Hacker News. 2 weeks ago:
Can confirm that Germany is chucked by fascists and only getting worse. AfD is on the rise and doesn’t seem to be slowing down.
- Comment on PSA: In case you were experiencing problems with feddit.org, this is because a post from feddit reached the front page of Hacker News. 2 weeks ago:
I would agree in the past but in the last few years this site has doubled down on the silicon valley brand of techno-fascism and I just can’t read the comments without losing faith in “hacker culture” at this point.
- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 2 weeks ago:
No
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 2 weeks ago:
He’s just giving mega chuds ammo for their flame wars.
- Comment on What’s your go-to hiking gear in 2025? Here’s what worked best for me 2 weeks ago:
Idk why this is posted on multiple coms but here is my answer again for the sake of content.
Trekking poles. People always make excuses for why they don’t need them and low-key tease other hikers for using them.
They massively improve your ability to cover rough terrain and they also greatly decrease your chances of minor injuries.
That being said, I just carry them around on my backpack because “I don’t really need them” lmao.
- Comment on Vibe coding has turned senior devs into ‘AI babysitters,’ but they say it’s worth it | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
This headline made me a little nauseous.
- Comment on Spotify Add Lossless Audio(24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC) for Premium Subscribers 3 weeks ago:
99% of people are going to use Bluetooth headphones but insist they hear the difference.
- Comment on Microsoft mandates a return to office, 3 days per week 3 weeks ago:
data = vibes
Translation: when there is no one to harass we can’t look busy.
Better translation: we are just lonely and used to being able to pay people to be their friends,
- Comment on Reddit lost it 3 weeks ago:
OpenAI was just sued over this.
cnn.com/…/openai-chatgpt-teen-suicide-lawsuit
To be clear I’m not asserting that this kid was autistic.
- Comment on Reddit lost it 3 weeks ago:
If have some terrible news.
These people are everywhere now. The brain rot is unreal.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 3 weeks ago:
That’s a weird way to spell “celebrates”.
- Comment on As a man, the easiest way to get someone to care about my feelings would be to transition to female. 3 weeks ago:
Hang out more in leftist/anarchist circles. Any community which supports trans rights very likely also supports the idea that males get sad and need help as much as any other gender.
- Comment on A conundrum 3 weeks ago:
Anecdotally I pay over 200% the cost of my father’s mortgage to rent a home in a lower cost of living area.
- Comment on A conundrum 3 weeks ago:
It seems like you are assuming an apartment rental and not a home rental. In my experience home rentals work very differently. Utilities are not included and you do end up paying quite a bit to maintain the home.
- Comment on Chirp in Fahrenheit 4 weeks ago:
This is bullshit
- Comment on UK government trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost 4 weeks ago:
Of course they didn’t
- Comment on UK government trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost 4 weeks ago:
personality
Wat
- Comment on ‘Scan your face’ laws for the web are having unexpected consequences 4 weeks ago:
The goal seems to be to control the internet like they’ve been controlling television and news.
- Comment on MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs 5 weeks ago:
Holy fuck that was so much worse than I imagined.
- Comment on Teen killed himself after ‘months of encouragement from ChatGPT’, lawsuit claims 5 weeks ago:
equivalent to reading a teen’s journal and invading its privacy.
IMO people should not be putting such personal information into an LLM that’s not running on their local machine.
- Comment on US | Trump moves to ban flag burning despite Supreme Court ruling that Constitution allows it 5 weeks ago:
This damage will never be undone
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 5 weeks ago:
What is making you stink discord isn’t also selling all its data to AI companies?
- Comment on Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great" 5 weeks ago:
This is a direct quote from the article
- Comment on Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great" 5 weeks ago:
Facebook is a privately owned company that is responsible for their own actions.