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- Comment on Australian police design AI tool to decipher predators' Gen Z slang 3 days ago:
No cap 😔
- Comment on Apple becomes third company in history to crack $4 trillion market value 3 days ago:
Really all of the “classics”. No way apple would have ever dreamed of putting 2Tb of storage in your music player but you can do it because they didn’t specifically make it impossible like they would now.
- Comment on Europe's plan to ditch US tech giants is built on open source - and it's gaining steam 1 week ago:
I wonder if the US tech oligarchs have realized they traded in soft power the world over for hard power that likely will not even last that long by backing a monarch.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 1 week ago:
Their proton ran BL4 about 10% faster than Valves for my specific hardware. IDK what they are doing but it might as well be magic.
- Comment on UK | Sex offenders to be denied parental responsibility for children born of rape 1 week ago:
Am an american and would like some clarification. Does the effect things like child support at all? Is that a thing in the UK I always assumed it was but through my reading of the article I didn’t see it mentioned but I am a dumbass anday have missed it.
- Comment on Ukraine uses British Storm Shadow cruise missiles to strike Russian chemical plant 1 week ago:
I feel like articles with titles like this have the intention of making me go “why would they escalate like that” when my reaction is always. “Good hope they do more things like that. Make the russian public feel like the longer this war goes on the less safe they will be.”
Might be reading into it too much but it really is the vibe I get from a lot of the russia-ukrain war news.
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 2 weeks ago:
Does the context make that better? As it stands that sounds like something Kanye would say.
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 2 weeks ago:
I really should pay more attention to firefox news. I’m not even sure what to do in the even mozilla implodes before a new non-chromimium browser actually becomes viable.
Fingers crossed for ladybird.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 2 weeks ago:
Before I figured out how to turn it off DDG’s (DuckDuckGo) AI usually sourced Wikipedia if there was an article available.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Most people immigrating aren’t freahly 18 even if they were able to keep up with the population decline. Yes there are people on student visas but it’s less than half the number of H1B visas.
- Comment on Zelensky urges Trump to end Ukraine war like in 'the Middle East' 2 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 weeks ago:
Tracing is absolutely art. You choose what to trace what parts of the image are important what to discard etc.
- Comment on 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
I feel like that’s a win for hard G honestly.
- Comment on Tarrifs? 4 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” 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 1 month 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 1 month 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” 1 month 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” 1 month ago:
- Comment on Microsoft to force install the Microsoft 365 Copilot app in October 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
I've been looking for a new book to read thanks for the link :).
