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- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 18 hours ago:
for the US, check the somewhat recent Joseph Gelfgatt case.
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 3 days ago:
it’s amazing you think not unlocking your shit will get you out of jail.
or maybe you just come from a country where law and logic is just optional.
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 4 days ago:
i mean i did that too. i dated someone filthy rich and it entirely warped my world view for a few years. it was a slow chip at my integrity but when i finally broke off the relationship and looked in from the outside of what i had become. just wow.
and it isn’t the money that corrupts. yes its probably part of it. but its the people you associate with while rich. you adopt part of their world view. you get influenced. you learn of the justifications. the whys. the reasons X and Y is done. its the entire fucking package of it that eventually changes you.
i’m glad i had the experience because now i have a fundamentally better understanding of humanity in general and the concept of how “power corrupts” actually looks like on the inside and in myself and how i could easily avoid it had i been able to see my own thoughts and behaviors slowly get corrupted.
and yes my initial thoughts going in was “that’s really weird but who am i to judge” until it became the norm.
- Comment on FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled 4 days ago:
and even then, unless you unlock it for law enforcements upon request. you will serve lifetime in imprisonment or until you agree to unlock it and whatever if any crime is within the locker to continue imprisonment. so safeguarding data really doesn’t matter in the end anyway because any sensitive data kept anywhere will be used against you either by the law or by criminals. which often times seems to be one and the same.
- Comment on France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials 1 week ago:
not an english word in sight. must have super potential for becoming a new standard to replace ms office.
- Comment on France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials 1 week ago:
the french do make some great stuff tho like cryptpad or mobilizon - the problem is usually always the same tho. it’s in french and they only give half a shit about their french users, anyone else is considered an obstacle.
heck i’ve been playing dofus for 20 years and the non-french community is always shafted. always.
- Comment on Bye, X: Europeans are launching their own social media platform, W 2 weeks ago:
the “lack of discoverability” is the only reason we’re talking about this problem in the first place. algorithms have utterly fucked the world and if no one stops them we’re beyond fucked so the fact that someone thinks it’s bad and is unwilling to try using a platform you need to curate your own content on (like reddit before it went to shit) is just people willingly stepping into the lions mouth.
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 3 weeks ago:
nuclear is the current dream for capitalists. because fuel is controlled and power is a monopoly - nuclear is guaranteed to always be profitable whereas hydro, solar and wind tend to run at a surplus and collapse the market by going into the negative value. since power can’t be stored, they have no choice but to supply power at no cost. with nuclear, they control the flow of power production and can always keep supply at the breaking point of demand to keep prices high.
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 3 weeks ago:
it’s only amazing as long as the government owns it. in my country we could technically have free power because of renewables (and almost did, but EU stopped us from doing it because it would crash the commercial power market elsewhere - EU bs even made power more expensive just to make it competitive and not to crash oil and coal markets). but because of surplus power generated from renewables, our current neoliberal government has been getting rid of solar and shutting down windpower and attacked hydro in favor of constructing nuclear power plants; on top of making it law that the government isn’t allowed to own or buy the nuclear power plants and also offered to fund private interests the construction of nuclear power plants.
the reason? power is a natural monopoly, and nuclear is fuel based. which means the supplier of power decides the supply and demand by artificially controlling the fuel flow - the idea is to never let power run at a surplus supply generated by solar, wind, and hydro ever again so there is no risk that privately owned power monopolies would be unprofitable.
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 4 weeks ago:
the US is more likely to invade and destroy any country that make fusion viable than to let it compete on the energy market.
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 4 weeks ago:
oil, coal and nuclear are clearly not winning.
we could solve the worlds energy problems today but they’d never be applied simply because oil exists. its literally why the US just attacked venezuela. They could have built another reactor or windmills or whatever the fuck else they feel they need if energy was the reason. but energy has nothing to do with energy and all to do with being a natural monopoly that’s making a small group of people quite wealthy.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 1 month ago:
thank you. came here to say this.
or, well, it also doesn’t play well with ARM, i.e. on macbooks the ram isn’t the bottle neck, its the CPU struggling with electron despite objectively being faster than x86 equivalents.
- Comment on Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content 1 month ago:
this is the type of dangerous overreach potential laws like chat control pose to people under fascist rules. we shouldn’t make it easy for them. people need to get the fuck off facebook and defederate!
- Comment on Hurray! This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source 1 month ago:
with open source we can also create jobs by hiring a developer to add functions we need to the software we use!
- Comment on Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts 2 months ago:
naturally.
it’s the whole “if you can’t afford it, it isn’t for you.” attitude that pisses me off when society is literally turning into a place where just breathing costs you money. it’s such a common attitude among people well off as well. they all think themselves ‘deserving’ of their quality of life and anyone beneath it is simply not deserving. while they did absolutely nothing to get their position beside rolling dice.
another guy i know got his job through his dad who owned the business. he has been making very good income since day one out of school (and i mean, for this guy, and the other guy - they have no degrees because back then you didn’t need one to get good jobs); but after his dad retired 20 years ago they have slowly been tearing apart the job and making the conditions crap. so he actually quit a few months ago and now he is still making some 70% more than my salary on government welfare based on his previous salary and he has the gall to complain that he can’t figure out his economy. like bro, you’ve been giving me life lessons on money management and telling me i shouldn’t live outside of my means and now that you took a hit to your income but still have 70% more than me then suddenly the economy is too hard to manage? take your own damn advice for once and cut down on your frivolous expenses lol. like, do you really need to buy that camera part which costs 4 times your salary? is it vital? how often do you use the camera, once every 3 years? yeah i don’t see you bleeding mate.
- Comment on Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts 2 months ago:
you sound like a guy i know who wanted to be a car mechanic but failed to qualify for the job on account of talking too much shit; but they hired him as a car sales instead with commission so his salary got 8x higher. of course he always gives financial advice now that he’s rich. for example, you shouldn’t buy a house near the city if you can’t afford one. you shouldn’t buy a car if you can’t afford one. and you shouldn’t buy a mobile phone and a subscription if you can’t afford it.
so if we break it down, his advice is: if you have a shitty job that pays you poorly; you don’t deserve to live in any kind of proximity to your shitty job, you should also have no means of transportation to said shitty job (because you now live far away from the city and would actually need a car to get to your job), nor any means of bank and digital ID access (to receive your shitty salary, because its priced outside of the bare minimum wage you’re forced to subsist on).
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows 3 months ago:
the real cold turkey was Riot killing linux support last year. Seems like there wasn’t enough linux players at the time for them to walk back that decision.
- Comment on EU Chat Control didnt pass - proving the media got to alot of you 3 months ago:
all taxes should from now on be paid to you, to protect kids.
- Comment on "Valve must stop making excuses": Steam under fire for "significant price disparity for PC games," causing regional pricing that's "often 20% to 30% higher than the dollar equivalent" 4 months ago:
they changed the model back when the dollar collapsed which ended up like a firesale for those aware. i bought sooo much within those 2 days window lol.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 5 months ago:
i mean; this has always been my take but people don’t understand that we’re all different and insist video medium is best medium.
and now blogs are dying because of ai.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 5 months ago:
i pay $20 a year for basically all of that and even more stuff but open source provided and maintained by a local server company in my country. of course i don’t use half of their offerings because some stuff has alternatives more suited for the platform or its simply not needed. but e.g. their service offers nextcloud which has most of the stuff you listed bundled into the platform by default. and then they have another 50 services added on top available for use.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 5 months ago:
like 90% of my active games library is 2009 or older. that’s not to say i don’t give modern games a shot. they just don’t stick around like the old ones do most of the time. exceptions are, like, Path of Exile 2; which for all intents and purposes plays like a game designed prior to 2009 🤣
so yeah, my kids definitely prefer the older stuff too. plus, i mean, what kid doesn’t play the shit out of minecraft or roblox today anyway?
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 5 months ago:
i caught my 5yo playing golden eye the other day and i was not disappointed!
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 5 months ago:
BankID
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 5 months ago:
afaik our digital identification system does not work well outside of iOS or Android (most of the time, not at all - since it breaks on updates and they update basically daily). so we’re stuck with their duopoly. because digital id is mandatory.
Once upon a time they did support linux on desktop but then ubuntu went and decided to make a phone and linux support was mysteriously discontinued a week after.
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 5 months ago:
who will pay our representatives to push this through?
- Comment on Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed 5 months ago:
the problem is algorithms. during the whole bluesky promo all over lemmy while everyone was shitting on mastodon. the only thing that’s broken is algorithms, and once you throw them out social media is immediately fixed - but of course the primary argument of mastodon vs bluesky was that mastodon requires you to curate your content (like joining a sub on reddit to see it on your front page stream, before algorithms fucked that site, and the thing is people LOVED old reddit so i fail to see how this is bad and doesn’t work, but hey, all of lemmy said so, so who am i to blame) whereas bluesky being a relaunch of twitter and literally curating content for you no matter if you actually want to see it or not but for most people reactionary content is the only content they happily interact with anyway so algorithms makes a lot of sense for them because they feel they are engaging more with the site despite the pointless empty engagement they are doing instead of interacting with real users and real content on pages where you have to actively curate your content instead of being fed the lowest hanging fruit.
/ rant off
- Comment on "I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint 5 months ago:
i stopped paying for cryptpad when they stopped building their own software and started peddling the utter garbage that is onlyoffice.
i asked them a few years ago if they are planning to build something new and they just said why build when there are things like onlyoffice already available.
sigh.
- Comment on "I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint 5 months ago:
many governments are currently trying to tear down art grants aren’t they tho?
people keep voting for the people trying to break everything and get shocked when it breaks.
- Comment on The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) 5 months ago:
what lesson? it’s a ponzi scheme and whoever is the last holding the bag is the only one losing.