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- Comment on Zelensky urges Trump to end Ukraine war like in 'the Middle East' 1 hour ago:
Maybe a hot take but from everything I’ve seen zelensky has a decent head on his shoulders. It seems incredibly likely to me hes trying to press trumps buttons in a way that make him step in even if it’s not what he would do otherwise. I think it’s worth trying at the very least when trump is showing signs of moving away from putin.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 2 days ago:
There’s a lot more to it. If you’re not using/contributing to hyprland it’s a rabithole I don’t recommend going for time reasons.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 2 days ago:
I don’t even think it’s used in academia aside from linguistics. It’s a legitimatly dead character like æ and & in the original meaning.
- Comment on A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman 3 days ago:
Tracing is absolutely art. You choose what to trace what parts of the image are important what to discard etc.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Thats super cool. Is there a link to view the non drawn over images? I can kinda make out it’s carved into the rock on the first one but the rest are kinda hard to parse the actual carvings in.
- Comment on How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves? 1 week ago:
Genuine question how hard would it be to rig some form of self destruct to a drive that has to be deactivated before power is lost to it. Obviously their would be a backup power solution for if mains power was lost but would it be feasible and doable without breaking any laws inherently (eg being a trap and killing the thief).
I’m not asking for a friend but I also don’t ever plan to use this knowledge I’m just genuinely curious.
- Comment on YSK When you hover over a piece of the phonetic notation on (English) Wikipedia, it shows you an example for its pronunciation 1 week ago:
I feel like that’s a win for hard G honestly.
- Comment on Tarrifs? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah but unfortunately most people don’t have an extra 200$ to spend right now.
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 2 weeks ago:
You see that you’re doing the generations thing right? Like you are doing the “lazy millennials” thing but just at a different generation. You’re falling for their propaganda.
- Comment on 'We can end HIV': Groundbreaking preventative drug to be rolled out for $40 a year from 2027 2 weeks ago:
Sheer momentum will keep a country that calls itself the United States to exist into the nearish future. The USSR took years to collapse fully after it started wherever you put that point.
- Comment on YSK: YouTube views went down since mid-August because they no longer count views of not logged in users 2 weeks ago:
They’ve been using AI to detect things like that for a long time. (AI in general not LLMs as far as I know.
- Comment on Israel ‘concerned’ about Egypt’s military buildup in Sinai, report says 3 weeks ago:
That and translation being built into social media. That’s what proved to me it wasn’t just him like so many people want you to think.
- Comment on Estonia is digging a 40 km trench to stop Russian tanks — and 600 bunkers are next 3 weeks ago:
Thank you lmao. I saw the article a few times and had to ask because I was very sure that wouldn’t stop a tank but I didn’t want to be the dipshit assuming they know better than civil engineers.
- Comment on Estonia is digging a 40 km trench to stop Russian tanks — and 600 bunkers are next 3 weeks ago:
Is the perspective making them look small or will something like that actually stop a tank?
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 3 weeks ago:
Its probably related to the whole paying users thing.
- Comment on Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Microsoft to force install the Microsoft 365 Copilot app in October 3 weeks ago:
What apps are only available as a docker container? I know some are flatpak only but thata not really the same.
I use an arch based distro though so maybe it’s an issue on smaller ones ive never run into.
- Comment on Groundbreaking Brazilian Drug, Considered Capable of Reversing Spinal Cord Injury, Presented in São Paulo 4 weeks ago:
Thanks a ton going to do a full read through but upon first glance actually looks better done compared to most of the other studies I've looked at talking about seeming miracle cures even with the extremely small sample size. I'm very intrigued.
- Comment on Groundbreaking Brazilian Drug, Considered Capable of Reversing Spinal Cord Injury, Presented in São Paulo 4 weeks ago:
Anyone have a link to the study because this seem too good to be true by a wide margin.
- Comment on New statue of computing pioneer Ada Lovelace gets green light 4 weeks ago:
I've been looking for a new book to read thanks for the link :).
- Comment on Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits 4 weeks ago:
Because there is a level of stability in subreddits with >50k ish subscribers that subs smaller than that just don't have. You might have a lot of MAU because a sub hit r/all multiple times but goes back down to a much smaller number following that because it's out of the news.
- Comment on Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits 4 weeks ago:
I don't know what it is about reddit buy I find myself constantly feeling outraged when I stop by to browse something that's not on Lemmy. I don't have any accounts anymore luckily but for some reason reddit feels harder to disengage on then lemmy/piefed.
- Comment on Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits: Users will now see seven-day metrics that track active visitors and contributions instead. 4 weeks ago:
I highly recommend it. I daily crust because I don't mind if something breaks and I figure it's probably useful having a few people consistently using it so they can alert devs if something is fucked.
- Comment on Firefox Nightly Adds CoPilot AI Chatbot + New Tab Widgets 4 weeks ago:
I swear mozzila is trying to kill itself. They make the wrong choice 99% of the time.
- Comment on Signal announces a backup feature that includes 100MB of storage for texts and the last 45 days' worth of media for free, or 100GB of storage for $1.99/month 4 weeks ago:
I'm keeping this because I really do feel like "techie" people forget that tech shit shit like back ups are a chore that 99% of people would rather not deal with.
- Comment on Lucy Connolly, who urged mobs to burn down hotels, is introduced as "Britain's favourite political prisoner" at Reform UK's conference 5 weeks ago:
Because the UK is also a fascist state?
- Comment on AI startup Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5bn to settle book piracy lawsuit 5 weeks ago:
Probably once they can stand on their own merits and make a profit. So never in the case of AI companies.
- Comment on Happy music could help you recover from motion sickness 5 weeks ago:
Does Europe not sell pads with IPA on them for first aid kits?
- Comment on [fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users? 1 month ago:
I think refering to people on piefed as feds without context would be hilarious.
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 1 month ago:
Your large paragraph has so many fallacies I genuinely don't think you're being serious.
