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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought Luigi was the one with ghost gun

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefighting drones head to Aspen—can they suppress a blaze before humans arrive?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh… that kind of firefighting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[TheGamer] Firefly Animated Series Announced With All Surviving Original Cast Members⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To save some clicks:

  Sadly, actor Ron Glass, who played Shepherd Book, passed away in 2016. This will presumably necessitate a single recas

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Federal pilot program launches flying cars in 8 U.S. regions summer 2026⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  you want us to take to the skies

  Lol you think you’re getting one?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Phone is an Entire Computer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the result of two decades of deliberate, calculated effort by the largest technology companies on earth to turn users into consumers, instruments into appliances, and technical literacy into a niche hobby for weirdos.

  Has there ever been a time when computer geeks weren’t consider a weird group of outsiders?

  BTW, I was raised on MS-DOS and it didn’t help my computer literacy one bit (heheh). I still can barely navigate my computer in the CLI, much less build anything or do anything cool from some internalized “mental model” of how a computer works. Meanwhile, there are a bunch of toddlers running around with Arduinos and doing all manners of mind blowing shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The surreal joy of having an overprovisioned homelab (2025) - from Anubis creator⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Please laugh”

  Meant to be a watched talk though, not an article – some of the original tone is prpbably missing in the transcript.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox says it paid out $1.5B to game creators in 2025 and the top 1,000 earned $1.3M on average; 50%+ of creators list high school as their highest education⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good link!

  It is more fucked that the exploitation is targeted at kids, but it also really mirrors the general scammyness of the online economy at large (i.e. a gold rush with a few winners making it big and millions working for free hoping they’ll eventually tap in to a big ore that’ll make the platform rich and pay them a pittance).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interesting Westworld style game with a Next Fest demo⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t look like a game for me, but appreciate your quality post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol is this an actual ”feature”? Can’t tell anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Federal government says there may not be enough workstations for all workers' 4-day-a-week return⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of people considered the vagueness — eg not having a WFH manual – of the setup a gift and didn’t want to stare a gift horse in the mouth. Irresponsible, IMO, but not my problem any more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Federal government says there may not be enough workstations for all workers' 4-day-a-week return⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This was a pet peave for me as a union rep during the pandemic. Our workplace introduced a WFH on a “voluntary” basis scheme over night with no commitments from the employer. Meanwhile the employer cancelled leases for office spaces. In effect, the employer saved a bunch of money on the backs (homes turned into free workspaces) of the employees while giving nothing in return. People working from home got no promise they’d get to keep doing it, people who had to come in to the office had to deal with a lack of space.

  Not a single union colleague wanted to talk about this, never mind raise it with the employer. Reaping: sowing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft 365 Copilot Mobile: Auto Uploads to OneDrive Raise Privacy Risks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Things people miss:

  • IT not yelling at you for going rogue and UNINSTALLING EVERYTHING
  • Being able to access company resources
  • Having a job

  If their Windows machine is company issued, that is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'It's Possible to jailbreak F-35 like iPhone', Says Dutch State Secretary of Defense Tuinman⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds more like an admission that there is something that needs jailbreaking in the first place

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony-led program offers PS5 rentals starting at $13.50 a month in the UK across 12, 24, or 36-month leases — console has to be returned at the end of the contract⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People are buying takeout on credit. Pushing small recurring fees (and interest) for things consumers can’t afford to buy outright has sort of been the name of the game for the consumer economy for the last 20 years or so.

  Maybe more interesting that there is enough of an overstock to do this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are TikTok and X tracking you across the internet? Our privacy tool can tell you⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  These link only clickbait posts irk me a little. First of all, I’m not going to take the bait. Second, I’m not going to use your ”privacy tool” without understanding it’s upside and having a tentative grasp of what it does and what data it uses. Third, I’m not convinced there are any best practice, privacywise, for using blatantly statesponsored Chinese spyware or that there’s any helping you if you’re still on X.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pumping the bubble now, pay later⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reading this comment is a great litmus test. If you think that sounds dumb and nothing at all like a brilliant master plan, you are not part of the world’s financial elite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Geoguessr, but actually fun⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, just had my ass handed to me by you :D

  It’s fun, maybe make sure to feature articles related to the Wiki resources used so that my random guesses can result in some learning?

  Some pictures are very hard (obviously), maybe find a way to have different “levels”?

  To me, it would also be fun with more trivia oriented photos (landmarks, famous things in museums) but that would of course move away from the geography theme a bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨outlawing pedestrians⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This comment is truly mindblowing to me!

  I do welcome you sharing your perspective, but I also feel like we must be of different species, because I so profoundly cannot relate at all. Fascinating!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is some true believer shit.

  Google launched less than thirty years ago.

  At the current rate of deterioration, it’s not exactly certain to what extent the planet will be able to sustain human life, much less whether a much loathed spyware company will still be around to pay the bills.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda x Nintendo Switch™ 2 — Oblivion, Fallout 4, and Indiana Jones Coming to Switch 2⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think its usually in some Microsoft subscriptions if you’re on PC/Xbox, could give you a decent chance to give it a go. If it turns out to be a forever game for you, that might end up more expensive in the end – but maybe that’s fine in that case

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda x Nintendo Switch™ 2 — Oblivion, Fallout 4, and Indiana Jones Coming to Switch 2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It was just boring and empty, except for Space Pirates using clean language and some other really bland factions. It tried to cater to everyone and just sucked. That’s to say nothing of the endless load screens and RNG planets

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Trump Says He’ll Only Accept 2026 Midterms If He Deems Them “Honest”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We can imagine a dystopian scenario where a sitting US president loses an election but claims he didn’t. That the election was rigged. Then he sends a mob of people to storm the legislature, either to pressure the vice president not to enact the election results or to have him killed along with leaders of the opposition before he does (the traitor!).

  I mean we can imagine something like that happening if a truly deranged person was president, but why would we.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda x Nintendo Switch™ 2 — Oblivion, Fallout 4, and Indiana Jones Coming to Switch 2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  On my death bed, one of my many regrets will be having played Starfield

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The galaxy brain move is buying an old dumb tv for a pittance and use it for watching Jellyfin/Plex/stream from a browser with uBlock Origin/DNS filtering – all running on some relative’s “obsolete” smart toaster from last year that they happily gift you because “the new version’s bagel mode IS LIT – pun intended – but it needs the 128 gb DDR7 ram of the new model, can barely toast on the old one any more”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is Building an AI 'Rebel Alliance' To Take on Industry Heavweights OpenAI, Anthropic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the link, hadn’t heard about that project, the list of target features looks very promising

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But they all suck, or rather the Internet kinda sucks these days

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In Google Search’s prime DDG was still terrible and not a viable competitor even with the privacy advantage. Now both services are almost comparable, so it’s kind of a no-brainer to ditch Google.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, search has degraded along with the Internet, you almost need an LLM now to filter out all the garbage hits. For a while, adding “reddit” to your search term was an OK high level filter to remove blogspam and e-commerce sites, but interacting with reddit is so annoying now that it’s barely an option and many of the quality reddit posters have moved on while the state and corporate astroturfers are running the show. Never mind that the “reddit filter” also removed results from much better sources, like specialist forums.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is Building an AI 'Rebel Alliance' To Take on Industry Heavweights OpenAI, Anthropic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What does Mozilla doubling down on AI and becoming less appealing to core users mean for Firefox forks going forward? How independent of Mozilla are the biggest ones in practice?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU should only buy European components for defence, France space minister says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, but the high global integration has also been a winning hand for Europe in the last few decades. There will be some pain and odd bed fellows.