mirshafie
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- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 4 days ago:
I hear a lot about IWW. All hype?
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 5 days ago:
Holy shit, even overriding a presidential veto for that shit. Imagine if Congress had balls like that today.
- Comment on Most of the misery in the world is the direct result of too much money in too few unscrupulous hands. This is not only the cause of the vast majority of human suffering, but also of climate change, wh 5 days ago:
Power is owned by Capital. Capital is owned by Violence.
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 5 days ago:
This sounds like a wildcat strike to me. Not perhaps the most effective means to an end, but important when there’s no other outlet. A good outcome may be establishing better unions. The mere threat of a strike should have capital shaking in their boots.
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 5 days ago:
exceptions for public safety
Like nurses, firefighters… but that’s exactly fucking why you have multi-industry unions. So when nurses need a raise, engineers can strike on their behalf.
- Comment on How the regime in Iran jams Starlink and what people could do 1 week ago:
I should have clarified. Israel used drones smuggled in by agents, and remote-controlled using the internet, to disable air defenses and infrastructure in the first stage of their attack.
- Comment on How the regime in Iran jams Starlink and what people could do 1 week ago:
What the shit is up with the forced tracking cookies on this site?
The aim is to prevent as many images and news as possible from reaching the public, which is why the Iranian government is blocking communication network.
No. The aim is to prevent cyber attacks and coordinated sabotage by drone warfare, like Israel used in June in the first hours of their attack, and like the US did when they kidnapped Maduro.
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 1 week ago:
Well this is Lemmy, not reddit. We’re all tankies here.
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 1 week ago:
You’re absolutely right. Trump is a lightning rod for rage, but most of what the US is doing is bipartisan. It’s a huge problem that so many people harbor false hope for the controlled opposition.
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 1 week ago:
I want a fucking Huawei P70. The 10x camera on that thing can practically take stabilized macro photos from a 5 m distance. But Ursula says Orange Man will spank her if she allows competition to Apple and Google.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 2 weeks ago:
I’m in Sweden. War is almost unthinkable. I have prepared my basement with shelf-stable food and fuel that could feed my apartment complex for a month. If something happens, it’s for my neighbors, not just for my family.
But a month is nothing.
- Comment on What are your technology mispredictions? 3 weeks ago:
I mined a bit too. Got almost 2 bitcoin in 2 weeks. Figured it was a pyramid scheme, went back to running folding@home.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 4 weeks ago:
There’s also a thing called dual sim. Which is standard in the Asian market and used to be common in Europe.
- Comment on GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You 5 weeks ago:
I prefer GOG over Steam for the simple reason that I’m not forced to use a launcher if I don’t want to.
- Comment on Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is free to claim on epic games for the next 24h 5 weeks ago:
I think it’s more than that. The way the game criticizes legal institutions, religion and the union is clearly informed by a revolutionary perspective. I don’t think Disco Elysium is subtle or coy about its politics, it just doesn’t pretend like achieving its goals will be easy.
- Comment on How do I deal with the outside world when I have germaphobia and don't really like outside? 5 weeks ago:
Hey, sounds like you really recognized how to balance a real need for sanitation with keeping sane in a world that is often indifferent.
This is just common sense in the end. I’m kind of grossed out that people don’t wash their hands before eating with their hands in Europe. Compared to the Middle East where the dustiest falafel shack has a sink with soap right by the entrance, I’d say it’s a weird cultural quirk.
Same goes for the kitchen of the vast majority of people where I live. Why no soap by the sink? Some actually wash their hands with dish soap which is really bad for your skin, but most just use water only. I try to politely ask if I can gift them some soap when I visit. Helps keep me sane.
Your hands are made to interface with the world. They will get dirty, and that’s fine. You just need to get the gunk off them before touching your face or vagina.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 month ago:
Let’s have a look at how it works now, so we don’t need to speculate.
When I configured Firefox for AI, I got to choose my LLM of choice. I chose Claude. Now, if I select some text, I get a context menu option that says “Ask Anthropic Claude”, which branches into these options:
- Summarize
- Explain
- Quiz me
- Proofread
- Remove Anthropic Claude
Notice the last one? That’s not a “buried” option. That’s as front and center as the options to use it. Mind you, if I decide to not use it, then nothing happens. The only thing that’s changed is that I now have an optional shortcut for LLM features that open in a sidebar instead of a new tab.
Oh, the humanity.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 month ago:
No, you don’t have to trust anything. It’s open source, you can read the code.
And if you’re feeling paranoid, you can compile it yourself.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 month ago:
Yeah, basically a nothingburger.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 month ago:
Actually having tried it a bit now I can see that it does add some value. I like that it’s aware of content boundaries. Still don’t think I’d actually ever use it, but it’s cool that it exists.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 month ago:
I agree. They’re quite vague about what the feature would actually do, and I have a hard time believing that I would use it.
I think it would probably be wiser spending time and effort on other things (like a really good built-in Dark mode or better memory management), but I don’t fault them for experimenting. Worst case scenario they make something that sucks and either remove it later, or you can fork it off.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 month ago:
Lol. I don’t believe for a second that you were ever a Firefox user.
What makes you think that user preferences will be reversed on update? When was that ever an issue with Firefox? You can still use userChrome.css files from decades ago ffs.
Why should a feature like this need to be enabled for use? If you don’t want to use it, don’t use it. It’s that simple. I never used the “Take Screenshot” option in Firefox, and honestly I would have removed it if I could, but I’m not going to throw a tantrum over it.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 month ago:
Chill out. It’s literally just a sidebar for your LLM of choice.
Don’t like it? Don’t use it.
Don’t want it to clutter up your context menu? The same menu contains the option to disable it. Boom! Problem solved.
Gonna use Chromium-based with no µBlock because your feelings got hurt? Have fun, good riddance.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 month ago:
Not sure what you mean by “will it operate in the background”? The current (and planned) features collect no data. The “operate” when you use them. Disabling them will remove them from the UI.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 1 month ago:
- AI chatbot in sidebar (you can choose which chatbot you want, similar to how you choose default search engine)
- Shake to summarize page (on mobile)
- AI Window (separate from Normal and Private window, upcoming). Apparently it lets you chat with an AI agent to power-browse the internet.
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 1 month ago:
Gerald Broflovski
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 1 month ago:
They’re not going to sell at a loss. The upfront cost will be a lot higher than for a PS5
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 1 month ago:
Silksong??
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 1 month ago:
skankhunt42 has been trolling them hard and they can’t let it go
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 1 month ago:
It’s literally just a sidebar that lets you do queries to your LLM of choice. It’s not even in the way. If you don’t want to use it, you just don’t use it.