E_coli42
@E_coli42@lemmy.world
- Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun 1 week ago:
I think Bitcoin was a good proof of concept that this system can work and scale. Ethereum is trying to be the viable option. I personally like Monero. I am sure in a hundred years or so if crypto is still here, it will be more viable and stable.
- Comment on Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments 1 week ago:
Oh I thought you meant Epstein uses fish.
- Comment on DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE 1 week ago:
TIL I am unintentionally boycotting
- Comment on Even though it didn't look like it, it did taste like chicken 1 week ago:
Bro ordered a chicken and got a cock
- Comment on Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments 1 week ago:
Source? I’ve seen the bash reference manual in the files
- Comment on Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany 2 weeks ago:
Interesting. I’ve never had any of these issues. It might be because I use a tiling window manager (shoutout Aerospace) instead of Apple’s own window manager. Also, I’ve never really done any development on the mac itself. I just SSH into my Arch Linux server. MacOS is just a frontend to my browser and terminal basically lol. I don’t really care about my laptop’s OS since it’s just a frontend for my server. I just bought whichever laptop was sexiest.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 2 weeks ago:
They don’t because they are not allowed to. Valve makes game developers sign a contract that if they want their game on Valve, they cannot put it at a lower price on any other store.
- Comment on Can anyone explain why? 2 weeks ago:
Many Gen Z are under 21
- Comment on Set them free and let them bask in the fresh air of nature 2 weeks ago:
Its funny how only the settler colonial countries in the world have such high rates of skin cancer. Like the US, Canada, Australia, Israel, etc. It’s almost as if nature has to keep reminding those people that they aren’t native to the land they live on.
- Comment on Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany 2 weeks ago:
What is wrong with Mac? I find macOS to be very clean and nice. I find it similar to KDE Plasma.
- Comment on TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover 2 weeks ago:
99% don’t know what the Fediverse is. I can’t blame them for jumping ship to Upscrolled since it’s what they have heard of.
- Comment on TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t upscrolled created by a Palestinian? I doubt he’d be okay with censoring a genocide against his people.
- Comment on YSK what legal rights you have in encounters with ICE 2 weeks ago:
I said if EVERY protestor was armed with an assault rifle. Search up black panther armed protests for examples of where this worked.
- Comment on YSK what legal rights you have in encounters with ICE 2 weeks ago:
Source? I didn’t see gun rights being taken away anywhere in the US. If every protestor was armed with an assault rifle, I doubt ICE would have the balls to kill anyone else in broad daylight
- Comment on YSK what legal rights you have in encounters with ICE 3 weeks ago:
2nd amendment right 😉
- Comment on France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials 3 weeks ago:
If is. It’s free (orI guess libre makes more sense since they are French) under Apache-2.0
- Comment on I've wondered since I was a youngin 3 weeks ago:
motherfuck turning the other cheek
- Comment on A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom 4 weeks ago:
It doesn’t have to replace thinking if used properly. This is what schools should focus on instead of banning AI and pretending that kids are not going to use it behind closed doors.
For example, I almost exclusively use Gen AI to help me find sources or as a jumping-off point to researching various topics, rather than as a source of truth itself (because it is not one). This is super useful as it automates away the tedious parts of finding the right research papers to start learning something and gives me more time to focus on my actual literature review.
If we ban AI in schools instead of embrace it with caution, students won’t know how to learn skills in order to use it effectively. They’ll just start offloading their thinking to AI when doing homework.
- Comment on A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom 4 weeks ago:
Interesting. The US is definitely not doing a good job at this then and needs to re-vamp their education system. Your example didn’t convince me that calculators are bad for students, but rather than the US schooling system is really bad if they introduce calculators so early that students don’t even have an intuition of 9 * 25 = (10-1) * 25 = 250-25.
- Comment on ‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid 4 weeks ago:
Hey, this is called the Nirvana logical fallacy. Just because I do other unethical things in my life, that doesn’t mean buying an ethical ETF instead of a normal ETF is useless.
For example, using the Nirvana logical fallacy, I could justify not going to the gym today because I already ate unhealthy food for lunch. It is impossible to be live a perfectly healthy life, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t focus on trying to be as healthy as possible within the confines of what we are willing to sacrifice.
Same thing goes for living an ethical lifestyle.
Hope this helps!
- Comment on Autofocusing Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete 4 weeks ago:
That shouldn’t matter. This is a huge gripe I have with FOSS in its current state. Most of the freedom/privacy/security respecting apps are not noob friendly. They are designed for tech bros and you have to download them from a git instance or F-Droid. Freedom is a human right. It should not be gatekept to the technology savy.
This is why I love the Signal Foundation. They have truly beautifully written software and they have easy to follow UX. Anyone can enjoy the added benefits to their freedoms, security, and privacy without ever having to think about it.
- Comment on Autofocusing Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete 4 weeks ago:
Ah the it for sure will be as slimy as possible. I hope people just wouldn’t buy it then. Not too sure how much people outside tech nerds like you and me even care about this stuff, but I saw when the Oura ring came out, a lot of people were put off because it is subscription-based. I hope the enshitification hits hard enough that people move to more freedom/privacy/security respecting products.
- Comment on ‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid 4 weeks ago:
I’m actually Sikh, but I would assume that Muslims, Christians, and Atheists alike, also share basic human values like don’t give money to companies that use child labor, sell weapons to terrorits, encourage dangerous addictions, etc. I don’t really care if the ETF is targeted towards a specific religion or not. My main gripe would be seeing their stock exclusion list for haram stocks are based on generic human values and not banning companies that sell pork for example.
I did a bit of research online and think EVIF might be what I’m looking for.
Maybe using the word Halal and Haram was confusing since those are Arab words so mostly used by Muslims and Christians.
- Comment on ‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid 4 weeks ago:
Is that ETF (SNAW) you linked your default buy? I am relatively young and new to investing. I have some QQQM but wanted to move to something more ethical (ESG) and more diversified. Probably one of the ESG S&P 500 trackers like XVV, EFIV, RSPE.
- Comment on ‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid 4 weeks ago:
There should be some sort of halal version of popular ETFs that get rid of certain universally excepted evil companies. I just invest in QQQM, VTI, VOO, etc and forget, but I have a friend who buys stocks weighted by NASDAQ except for Palantir manually. Too much of a headache for me lol.
- Comment on Anon tries to save the internet in 2026 4 weeks ago:
It sounds good in theory, but even for someone like me who is very leftist, I allow and encourage private companies to use my strong-copylefted GPLv3 software for commercial purposes.
If more and more people write strong-copylefted software, the FOSS community will amass libraries that have no parallel available to proprietary software, and companies will be forced to use FOSS to be relevant.
For more information, read www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html. This is why GPL over LGPL, but you can use the same logic to explain why software with a significant unique capability should be strong-copylefted.
For something like a keyboard where every private company will just make their own for, I don’t really care whether FUTO discrimates against commercial use or not. For apps like Immich though, I am a little saddened that it is not strong-copylefted.
- Comment on A Project to Poison LLM Crawlers 4 weeks ago:
Why isn’t there anything in the DMCA for stopping crawlers? They have stuff about requiring crawlers to follow attribution and whatnot, but nothing for not allowing crawlers in the first place. Stupid as shit.
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 4 weeks ago:
What’s the point of this when Fediverse is technologically superior?
- Comment on Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform 4 weeks ago:
Love the idea of bandcamp, but sucks that there are no artists there I am interested in. I just download M4A (MP4 audio) files off of YouTube lol
- Comment on Anon tries to save the internet in 2026 5 weeks ago:
I literally just use Claude for UX. It makes my apps so pretty and intuitive and I don’t have to worry about boring UX design.