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- Comment on Layoffs and the threat of AI: Why Irish tech workers are finally turning to unions 13 hours ago:
That’s not true, you can still join a union, and you can always make a choice
- Comment on Reddit users hate NordVPN. Are their criticisms legit? 1 day ago:
TL;DR - sponsored article disguising as an opinion piece, mentions briefly the many many problems with it, but ends with “I trust my corporate overlords to never use my data for evil”
- Comment on Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect." 4 days ago:
We all know that undocumented equals doesn’t exist! That’s how the world works!
- Comment on Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the Law 5 days ago:
If we obstinatly refuse to call it anything else, then it as twitter shall forever remain
- Comment on Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the Law 6 days ago:
- Comment on Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the Law 6 days ago:
I mean I enjoy porn, and they are included in your much maligned self-employed creators.
Also you’re entirely ignoring there’s a middle point, the companies with less than 500 employees total.
And honestly it’s less often that they use it that matters to them, but that it’s seen by fools as dodgy for a company to not have any social media presence
- Comment on Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the Law 6 days ago:
I mean, it’s obvious, the reach.
Big follower count = More Reach = More people likely to click the links or contact you
And that can be done elsewhere, but would require basically starting again from scratch, a big risk for a lot of corporations
- Comment on Are we about to see the WW3? 6 days ago:
No
- Comment on President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems 1 week ago:
Silver lining, this might actually cause the bubble to pop
- Comment on Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site 2 weeks ago:
Nah I meant it as it’s written
- Comment on Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site 2 weeks ago:
This isn’t Reddit, don’t do some weird colour of not using specific letters
- Comment on Ladybird Browser adopts Rust, with help from AI 2 weeks ago:
Not that much, there’s a git log, just found when they started doing AI and fork from then on
- Comment on Banned Mullvad VPN TV ad criticizing United Kingdom escalating censorship and mass surveillance “And Then?” 2 weeks ago:
I mean the whole blog post is just advertising disguised as advocacies really though, would be good if there was something like this made by people without an ulterior motive
Especially as the UK porn ban has been a HUGE boon to those VPN providers, suddenly gaining literally millions of customers
- Comment on Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot 2 weeks ago:
It’s funny that all the pro-AI chuds suddenly coming out of the woodwork to try and say this is a terrible idea, it’s almost like these posts have become brigaded.
- Comment on Roblox, Reddit and Discord users compelled to use biometric ID system backed by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel 2 weeks ago:
Fluxer.app
- Comment on Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot 3 weeks ago:
Jesus, all the pro-AI scum are coming out of the woodwork in force today to try and say this is a bad idea.
- Comment on Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot 3 weeks ago:
It cannot
- Comment on xkcd 2501 generator 3 weeks ago:
Honestly no idea, I don’t think there’s a consensus?
I’ve heard “Lemmings” as one before
- Comment on xkcd 2501 generator 3 weeks ago:
Perfection
- Comment on “Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes: SAVE tool keeps mistakenly flagging voters as noncitizens 3 weeks ago:
People want them to do literally anything at all
- Comment on “Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes: SAVE tool keeps mistakenly flagging voters as noncitizens 3 weeks ago:
That was always the plan
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- Comment on Palestinian social app Upscrolled removed from Google Play Store 3 weeks ago:
Tbh until today I had zero idea if was Palestinian
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for restating my point 😁
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 3 weeks ago:
Again though, not to as much a degree as most audiophiles make out.
It’s worth getting a fancier cable, but not a FANCY cable.
There’s zero discernible difference between a cable that’s £3/metre Vs a cable that’s £10/m. There’s a discernible difference between the £0.50/m and the £3/m though.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 3 weeks ago:
Nah it’s literally only the latter. Cheap and expensive will give the same quality.
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y’know, yeah, I’ve been convinced by ye and others, fluxer also feels like it’s not a complete chambles too
- Comment on New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles 3 weeks ago:
Y’know, I had a feeling I put the wrong unit and then was like “nah… Sounds right”, I would have went with my first instinct
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
They could’ve just made it donations, or made less of the features require premium.
Stoat and Matrix do fine with that model
