taladar
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- Comment on Weekends were a mistake, says Infosys co-founder Narayama Murthy 2 days ago:
Just because he is an idiot who never worked a day in his life and so doesn’t know that your productivity goes down significantly without relaxation that doesn’t mean that anyone should listen to that drivel.
- Comment on AI-powered vending machines that sell bullets could be hacked, says a cybersecurity expert 2 days ago:
But that is boring, that might actually solve the problem and doesn’t have any hype keywords to get anyone to overvalue your company and buy it.
- Comment on AI-powered vending machines that sell bullets could be hacked, says a cybersecurity expert 3 days ago:
I guess the local sales organizations couldn’t let online stores have take over the entire dystopian market.
- Comment on AI-powered vending machines that sell bullets could be hacked, says a cybersecurity expert 3 days ago:
Because it is currently the most advanced way to pretend you are doing age verification when really you aren’t that is available on the market.
- Comment on Threads is testing custom feeds for your favorite topics 4 days ago:
Wait? Is that thing in the thumbnail their actual logo? That looks like something a child made in MS Paint.
- Comment on Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts 5 days ago:
“Don’t be evil”…
- Comment on Academic papers yanked after authors found to have used unlicensed software 1 week ago:
You are thinking too small. Even if only one of a thousand companies in one of dozens of third world nations develops an alternative that is enough.
- Comment on This is a simple and satisfying way to fight Trump and Musk | It's time to delete X 1 week ago:
Most people have the concern that the Trump concept is being copied to their country’s politics now.
- Comment on This is a simple and satisfying way to fight Trump and Musk | It's time to delete X 1 week ago:
Not while you are showing them you are still on there.
- Comment on This is a simple and satisfying way to fight Trump and Musk | It's time to delete X 1 week ago:
That doesn’t mean leaving now isn’t better than staying.
- Comment on Academic papers yanked after authors found to have used unlicensed software 1 week ago:
The rationale is that it’s better for them if they use their software without payment instead of using a software from another vendor without payment.
More importantly it is better for the company if they use their software without payment instead of developing some sort of competitor (open source or proprietary).
- Comment on Is it possible to get back a username of the account I deleted? 1 week ago:
That is probably intentionally prevented by just soft-deleting the user so links from comments, posts,… to their author aren’t lost. Not to mention potential security issues if you could just make a user that previously belonged to someone else. Honestly just isn’t worth the headache to allow reuse of usernames.
- Comment on In the context of the leaked Warcraft II remake, do you still trust Blizzard to produce good games? 2 weeks ago:
Boycotting Blizzard is all about their shitty behavior as a company since long before the games they made turned bad too.
- Comment on Interesting to see how dead the MMO genre has become. Are there still players around? 2 months ago:
Many might have also played Guild Wars 1 which had a lot of that content you could only access with a certain minimum party size from what I remember.
- Comment on remote assistance software suggestions 6 months ago:
Haven’t used it myself but you could give rustdesk.com a try.
- Comment on The cost-of-living crisis is so bleak that some Gen Zers genuinely fear becoming homeless 6 months ago:
Allowing commercial inside residential areas the way most countries outside the US do could help the US too. That way people wouldn’t need a car for basic necessities.
- Comment on The cost-of-living crisis is so bleak that some Gen Zers genuinely fear becoming homeless 6 months ago:
Some anti-NIMBY regulation could probably help too at least when it comes to residential buildings.
- Comment on The cost-of-living crisis is so bleak that some Gen Zers genuinely fear becoming homeless 6 months ago:
My sister who is 4 years older than me has been homeless a few times, but she has her own issues.
Maybe that is a radical idea to some but I for one think people shouldn’t become homeless even if they have issues of any kind.
- Comment on I think it's extremely invasive that amazon is telling me this 6 months ago:
Is it common for your delivery driver to knock on your door and hand deliver your package?
Yes, very common. Not everyone lives in a place with a secure location where packages can be deposited.
- Comment on I think it's extremely invasive that amazon is telling me this 6 months ago:
I would see it the other way around. The picture could be useful, e.g. if you want to know if the person at your door is actually the delivery person, the name is really the unnecessary bit of info here.
- Comment on Vermont just passed a 100% renewable electricity mandate 6 months ago:
Not really surprised if someone J.K.Rowling paints as evil isn’t actually that bad tbh.
- Comment on I'm a Tenured College Professor. I'm Quitting. Here's Why. 6 months ago:
Of course politicians and rich people don’t want an educated population, those might actually notice who is exploiting them.
- Comment on European police chiefs call for end-to-end encryption roll out to include public protection measures 6 months ago:
From the outside it honestly looks like half of what the federal government does is prevent certain states from abusing their people.
The problem isn’t large governments, you get abuse of power even on a very local level, think small town mayor or police or even in some hobby related clubs with just a few members.
- Comment on European police chiefs call for end-to-end encryption roll out to include public protection measures 6 months ago:
Is hating basic rights a requirement for that job or does it just attract those kinds of people?
- Comment on Negative electricity prices registered in nearly all European energy markets 7 months ago:
You are correct, I got the wrong numbers. But with your numbers of course it makes even less sense.
- Comment on Can't join on own xmpp server, only through admin account. 7 months ago:
It might be worth mentioning which xmpp implementation you are actually using for your server if you expect anyone to help you. Also in general, more details about your hosting setup, how you installed it, did you follow any tutorial or use any particular installer (e.g. Helm chart on Kubernetes), possibly if you made any changes to the config,…
- Comment on Negative electricity prices registered in nearly all European energy markets 7 months ago:
The point is that even with 100% efficiency you couldn’t get enough water out of the air because the dry air simply doesn’t hold that much water.
- Comment on Negative electricity prices registered in nearly all European energy markets 7 months ago:
Collecting water from the air is not really viable in the parts of the world where lack of water is an issue since humidity is not very high there. You would need to filter huge amounts of air even just to theoretically get enough water, never mind practical concerns like efficiencies of less than 100%.
- Comment on Italy considers law against sharenting to protect children's privacy 7 months ago:
Well, note how I didn’t say it would improve parenting.
- Comment on Italy considers law against sharenting to protect children's privacy 7 months ago:
A right to jail bad parents as other citizens observe them would probably do a lot to change parenting.