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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Adding more batteries increases the weight, though, which in turn makes the motors work harder, and therefore makes them use more energy to do the same thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨every time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  And I have a solution for you, too uprKaDGRhfc0aG1.jpg

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo'⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Way back in 2007, my one college buddy had an elderly Thinkpad that he’d spraypainted red and stuck an Apple sticker on. People constantly came up to him and asked him where he got the red Macbook, since they didn’t think Apple made them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation – OSnews⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  slow menu

  Dude of all the things I hate about modern tech, I think the most obnoxious one is that it STILL takes multiple seconds for a simple text-based menu to load. On my one TV, sometimes it takes so long to load that I actually forget that I’ve opened it and am annoyed when it finally shows up. Gotta save all that precious compute power to load ads and shit, I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google catches Beijing spies using Sheets to spread espionage across 4 continents⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, it’s very innocuous-looking from a traffic inspection standpoint, while also being a resilient way of storing an equally-innocuous-looking CSV. Kinda clever, if you ask me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But but but…the internet told me that Americans welcome this with open arms! /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the watchers: how openai, the US government, and persona built an identity surveillance machine that files reports on you to the feds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Behold the duality of man IdsF8DV09SvoDjZ.png

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  On the contrary, there was a very interesting video by PSR (pardon the YouTube link) about how the civil war in Myanmar was being fought almost exclusively with 3D printed firearms. Apparently they’re reliable enough to be an actual threat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember my kubernetes devolver ? It has breached containment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was going to try to goad you into making it work with docker swarm, but then I realized it already does that. Bravo, you beautiful psychopath.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What dating apps are really optimizing. Hint: it isn’t love⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had that happen to me, too, and I’m a straight man. Never really wanted to do gay stuff, and yet Tinder would constantly throw in gay matches as if to say “are you SURE you don’t wanna do a little experimenting while we watch?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Element/Matrix Official Docker Install Method?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For what it’s worth, it sounds like it’s corporate sponsored rather than corporate owned, which is at least a little better in my opinion

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub Is Down⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This raises a question I’ve always wondered about: in the most technical sense, does having sex during working hours (meaning while you’re being paid) make you a prostitute?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is finally killing off legacy printer drivers in 2026 — and it’s going to shake up a lot of older hardware⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if the plumbing required to keep them working is problematic somehow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How ICE is watching you: A rundown of some of the tech the government is deploying to identify and spy on us⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I also want to throw the Android app BLE Radar into that mix. It gives you a map of Bluetooth LE devices around you. It’s available on f droid

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many containers are you all running?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I always saw them pitched by Fedora as the blessed way to run CLI applications on an immutable host.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta burned $19 billion on VR last year, and 2026 won’t be any better | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I agree. I splurged on a Valve Index a while back expecting there to be more than just Beat Saber and Pavlov, but beyond those two games (Alyx never did it for me) I haven’t really seen anything that caught my interest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL putting solar panels on land currently used for biofuels would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks to go electric⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Four, at the very least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubiquiti: The U.S. Tech Enabling Russia's Drone War⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And even if they did shut it down remotely, that could be construed as an unauthorized act of war.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta's latest subscription move is an attempt to offset its AI bets⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I worked there during the whole VR pitch and they tried to encourage those of us with headsets to join meetings with them.

  Nobody had legs. It was a huge selling point of the Quest Pro that you could have legs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Run a NAS OS on an old Compaq laptop?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While I agree with you in principle, I separated mine because I use mini PCs for compute and there’s not a lot of room for storage in any of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children: Grok generated an estimated 3 million sexualized images, including 23,000 of children in 11 days⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what I want to know. It doesn’t do anything unless someone tells it to. Why aren’t the people telling it to make child porn being held accountable? My 3D printer can make guns, but they won’t send the printer to jail if I decide to tell it to make one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t be naive enough to believe there’s not a backdoor somewhere in LUKS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly, they just got bought out by a big, stupid VC firm. Only time will tell what effect that’ll have on their day-to-day operations, but it does make me nervous. Not nervous enough to switch just yet, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch from American tech companies !?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s kinda my point, though. The solutions I mentioned in my original comment are already approaching the same level of simplicity as a smartphone, and they should be recommended over centralized options as much as possible. I’m not suggesting that the average person should try and host their own email, but with something like Yunohost, running a copy of Nextcloud or Seafile is about as difficult as installing their corresponding apps on your phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch from American tech companies !?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Moving to something that’s still at significant risk of being enshittified is an objectively worse move than going to something that’s not, though. I’m not saying to keep US tech, I’m saying to build your own now so you don’t have to move again in a couple years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch from American tech companies !?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Call me cynical, but I don’t expect these to be better alternatives for long. The main issue lies with the fact that these services are both centralized and profit-motivated, and I don’t anticipate that the EU’s privacy laws, though they are better than those in the US, will be much protection once even one of these competitors gets big enough to have a say in politics. Self-hosted, open-source apps are a far better solution than relying on yet another company that has full control of the software, especially with the barrier to entry for those apps getting smaller with each passing day.

  There are multiple projects available that will let you turn even a mediocre extra PC into a platform for self-hosted apps with not a lot of effort. Yunohost and CasaOS are two that come to mind, but other options exist. Hell, even just running Nextcloud is probably enough to cover most people’s SaaS needs, though it can require a bit more work than the other two that I mentioned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Android malware uses AI to click on hidden browser ads⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To play devil’s advocate here, it likely wastes a significant number of resources on the victim’s phone, and it also puts site owners at risk of losing ad money that they would have generated through clicks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bo'le of wa'er⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  [Sad Tycho Brahe noises]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday | Hacker News⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s wild, because I recall seeing job postings for Vimeo as recently as 2 months ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Senator proposes bill permitting AI data centers to bypass federal power rules via off-grid energy infrastructure development⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also a byproduct of petroleum refinement and an even worse greenhouse gas than CO2, so breaking it down into CO2 and water is better than just releasing it. Might as well make some lemonade.