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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it is an authoritarian regime now, and not a state of law and order anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Kindle Can Finally Be Jailbroken Again. [22:00]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Could you give a bit more context?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Arguably sometimes drivers for older devices are more likely to have been ported to Linux at some point then conpletely new devices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to speak for Windows or against Xubuntu, but didn’t Xubuntu just recently have some secrity exploit that was pushed as an update to devices?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are We Living in a Golden Age of Stupidity? - Slashdot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If this is starting post 2012, then social media is probably also to blame.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well… is this a bad aspect in something generally good, or a good aspect in something generally bad. (The good being using public infra, the bad the overworking.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What options of resistance are programmers creating to not submit to AI culture?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AI for the win in figuring out how to use code libraries with minimal to non-existent documentation scattered accross the entire web.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AOMedia Will Be Talking More About The AV2 Video Codec Later This Month⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t AV1 patent free?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm tired of teen superheroes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How old is Invincible in the TV show? He might qualify as a 20s superhero.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Advocates raise alarm over Pfas pollution from datacenters amid AI boom⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wouldn’t the argument being made be that those office buildings already exist, whereas the data centers for AI are being built new? So less of a it’s not a problem in offices and more of a we know this is bad so lets try to not build more of it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modern batteries are great!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t this happen with first aid videos on YouTube?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enthusiasts bond twelve 56K modems together to set dial-up broadband records — a dozen screeching boxes achieve record 668 kbps download speeds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet sometimes even with modern file sharing hosters I can only get 100KByte/s connections.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your must-block tags on social media?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You had me from the very end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube wants me to sign in to prove I'm not a bot and to "protect the community". Yet Google has bots crawling all over for their AI.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And I bet Meta didn’t even properly seed it while they downloaded…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Correct me if I am wrong, but did this not happen to the music of a bunch of Soviet era composers, that was temporarily free of copyright in the USA and then later had to be put into copyright again after the Cold War ended?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme crushes Apple M4, Intel, and AMD in new benchmarks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely ture, your comment being? I think they were simply referencing the fact that there is a lot more software out there that can be made to semi easily run on linux/unix based systems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fooling a self-driving car with mirrors on traffic cones⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This feels like it could be exactly the type of thing that causes the car crash in the pilot episode of the Upload TV series.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does Lemmy output horribly invalid HTML?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This wsa considered in the earlier days of the web, but then intentionally not enforced. HTML was specifically designed to not fall into the same scheme as most programming languages in that it should try to render what it could even if there was a lot going wrong (unlike most programming languages that try to fail fast).

  (And before someone comes after me for comparing HTML to programming languages, I am well aware that it is not Turing complete.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The problem with overeating is that it feels really good⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be honest, this just sounds like sugar shock. If your blood sugar rises too fast for insulin to be able to counteract it, then you start getting symptoms like drowsiness, fatigue, and “high-ness.” This can feel good, but it is basically doing damage to your brain, so I am not sure that this would be good long term. Then again, I suppose the same can be said for (hard) drugs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There is a limit how much power the pedal assist of an e-Bike is allowed to provide (at least in many countries). There is no limit though on how strong the exoskeletton is that you use on a regular b⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Laws are created by humans. What a surprise that there isn’t already a law forbidding something that human common sense tells you not to do.

  That being said, I would love to see a video of somebody wearing an exosceleton pedalling away like crazy on a normal bycicle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a particularly informed comment, but I always figured because people started getting scared of the Christian god, so they started turning towards other religions. As a consequence, the Christian church needed to figure out how to make Christianity a bit more approachable, so the new testament and forgiveness were created.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why can't a PC-laptop boot without datetime?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am fairly certain that I have had a PC before that had exactly the issue that the CMOS battery ran out. It was able to boot just fine, I just couldn’t get it to connect to the internet properly. Took me ages to figure out that the date and time in the OS were completely wrong, because I never really use my computer as a clock anyways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I stop sleeping through everything?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, sometimes having too many alarms can actually lead to alarm blindness where the person does not really recognize the alarms as important and just subconssciousely turns them into background noise.

  That being said, I still think at least in the short term this is a good idea. In the longer term, do you make sure that you are really well rested? I.e. the 15 minutes of boredom trick? (Do absolutely nothing for 15 minutes. You should get really bored. If you can manage to stay awake even through 15 minutes of boredom, then you are well rested, if not you need more sleep)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if "you are what you eat", and you only eat vegans, you're both vegan and not at the same time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I am glad to have lived in a time in history where I could witniss this exchange.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Touch grass… and make local friends. People you know in real life; know their families. Most people are not nearly as bad as the world makes it seem at the moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen to the Earth if it got booped by a giant asteroid going super slowly?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention the fact that an asteroid that large would also start exerting its own (noticeable) gravitaional field when it gets this close to earth. Although I guess you kind of already covered that with the tsunamis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To play devils advocate here: So you help tide the people over that are carelessly thrown away by the disfunctional US government. Just so they can go back to doing what the government wants once the government starts paying them again? I would say these people need to learn not to trust the government and find jobs elsewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Before modern-day authoritarian regimes, did people living under abosolute monarchies talk criticize the monarchs? Or did they just stay silent in fear of persecution?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they were referring to criticizing the US government, not PRC. In an effort to keep free speech around in the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How could I order a package without my parents finding it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And here I was being confused why some person’s parents would get so angry at them for buying computer parts from their own money. I see I was not cultured enough to understand the true question at hand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would **Nothing Nowhere All Seperately** be the prequel or sequel to **Everything Everywhere All At Once**?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And also a great name for a movie in the Everything Everywhere All at Once series. I don’t really mind if it would be prequel or sequel though.