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- Comment on Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda 17 minutes ago:
Aren’t we in the 21st Century?
20th ended in the year 1999
- Comment on Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda 17 minutes ago:
Wow, I don’t know how I didn’t notice this /sarcasm
- Comment on Truth hurts! 2 days ago:
Sounds like you’re boring to me, feathered dinos are cool AF
- Comment on Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse 1 week ago:
Huh, til
- Comment on Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse 1 week ago:
The customer is always right was never a thing.
For a start, it’s an intentional shortening of the actual phrase, for exploitative reasons, of “the customer is always right in matters of taste”
Which just means “if they want to buy ugly shit, let them”
- Comment on YSK you can turn off Google's personalised advertising. This prevents them from using things like your browsing history, search history, or personal data to serve you customised advertisements. 1 week ago:
It’s called a “hyperbolic statement”, to appear incredulous to illustrate a point
- Comment on YSK you can turn off Google's personalised advertising. This prevents them from using things like your browsing history, search history, or personal data to serve you customised advertisements. 1 week ago:
YSK you can not use Google and instead use a service with no personalised advertising, such as startpage or duckduckgo
This prevents them from using things like your browsing history, search history, or personal data to serve you customised advertisements.
You also should install an adblocker, on everything that has it.
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 1 week ago:
If you want anything beyond what is offered
Aye, if you’re not using any of the preconfigured forks like Bazzite, popOS! or Mint
But they exist cause they install all that shit for you, same as Windows does
- Comment on Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform 1 week ago:
Shit, that I didn’t know about 😭
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 1 week ago:
We can stand to lose cursive, as long as it’s readable, then any style of handwriting works
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 1 week ago:
Old Man Shouts At Cloud
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 1 week ago:
Who? I thought they were dead
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 1 week ago:
You can get Linux apps for that?
- Comment on The ones who walked away from OMEGAS XLR 2 weeks ago:
Ah then fair
- Comment on The ones who walked away from OMEGAS XLR 2 weeks ago:
You know that people have weird thoughts first thing in the morning, right?
It’s caused by a thing called being sleepy and not eating yet
- Comment on Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform 2 weeks ago:
You suck
- Comment on Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform 2 weeks ago:
People expected them to get fucked after the acquisition, though the new owners are just going “you keep doing what you’re doing, not gonna change a thing, just give us a cut of your profits”
Touch wood, it’s gonna stay that way.
- Comment on Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform 2 weeks ago:
First I’ve heard of FIP, I’ll have to give it a go
- Comment on Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform 2 weeks ago:
FUCK YEAH!
- Comment on The ones who walked away from OMEGAS XLR 2 weeks ago:
Omelas is a utopian city from a short story that’s powered by the suffering of a forsaken child
- Comment on The ones who walked away from OMEGAS XLR 2 weeks ago:
Fully sober
- Comment on The ones who walked away from OMEGAS XLR 2 weeks ago:
Megas XLR is a children’s animated TV series from the mid 2000s
The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas is a serious sci-fi short story by Ursula K le Guin, about a utopian city named Omelas and those who walked away from it after they learned of the dark secret that keeps it utopian
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- Comment on Discord in discussions of going Public Trading, economics expert discusses how that might change things 2 weeks ago:
The first. They’ve only changed name once.
Cause Revolut BANK sued their ass
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 2 weeks ago:
I’m curious, how do two huge groups with myriad subsects and differences between each other feel about these laws?
— you, right now
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 2 weeks ago:
I do worry this will turn out yet another case of “Right Thing, Wrong Reason” like the gov keep fucking doing, again and again
Red Tories appealing to bigotry rather than cause unnecessary mutilation is a bad thing
- Comment on Discord in discussions of going Public Trading, economics expert discusses how that might change things 2 weeks ago:
Stoat.chat is fully just discord but FOSS
- Comment on Discord in discussions of going Public Trading, economics expert discusses how that might change things 2 weeks ago:
I would argue that any amount of resources being spent on adding features nobody wants and nobody uses is Enshitification, as they’re not being used on fixing the myriad existing problems or adding features people actually want
- Comment on Discord in discussions of going Public Trading, economics expert discusses how that might change things 2 weeks ago:
Pretty much immediately after yeah
- Comment on Discord in discussions of going Public Trading, economics expert discusses how that might change things 2 weeks ago:
They did, at least, btw smart enough to already smart enough to say no to a buyout attempt by Microsoft