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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From F-Droid to emulators, here's who's hit hardest by Android's new verification rules⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just in time for them to be practically outlawed, if my gut can be trusted. I hope not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In your hypothetical, this field not being present in systemd does not do much to protect you. Its not as if they’ll stop when they hear that there isn’t already a user age field in systemd and figure at that point that the whole endeavor is simply impractical and abandon it.

  So let’s imagine they pass a law in the US that says by 2030 all consumer devices must attest a user age group (or even specific ID) to connect to the Internet and that this must be enforced by the ISP (with the development of new protocols, what have you). If there’s no mechanism with which to do this in systemd or anywhere else using Linux… they’ll still pass the law. I don’t think making desktop Linux defacto illegal for people to connect to the internet with would be a hindrance.

  If they really do go to that extreme, things are pretty dire. We’d be lucky to be allowed to use Linux at all on internet connected PCs. Savvy people will find ways to do it anyway, sure… But man, like I said: dire.

  All this is to say that I don’t think code is the place to be focusing on to resist these potential changes to the law. I think it’s just about irrelevant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are those still a thing? I couldn’t find anywhere to buy them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In that case, the answer has to be shop for used or do without.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: The US massacred hundreds & raped children as young as 12 in one day. Only one perpetrator was convicted - later commuted by President Nixon.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and those were “woke” wars according to the psychos in charge now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spicy spicy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I organize them by flavor

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Big enough for baseless “shill” accusations, lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember the Ron Paul mania on Digg?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think .net is pretty good. People love VS Code.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s more of an apple thing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  CeilingPenguin is watching you masturbate

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fedora’s better ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Floorp (which I use) does not distinguish itself from Firefox with regards to AI features, so if those features existing is a problem for you it’s not an option either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I’ve read elsewhere, precedent is already set. Other game storefronts providers, including Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, do make such payments to PRS. Valve is the odd one. I’d love it if someone here could confirm or deny this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think its true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve upgraded my 13 with new mainboards twice. I’ve yet to upgrade my 16 because everything is too expensive now, and upgrading the GPU to the newer nVidia module would require replacing the screen too and fuuuuuck that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big facts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only real magic is friendship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD, and hard drive prices — AI-driven supply squeeze results in closure of one of the largest online video game archives⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuuuuuuuuck, I knew Myrient was too good to be long for this world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People who know this but still go there are hogs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a culture/country that doesn't have sarcasm in its language?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of a funny memory from the far distant past when a friend of mine, in a middle school Spanish class, expressed surprise that Spanish speakers use rhymes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a culture/country that doesn't have sarcasm in its language?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sarcasm can be used to be inclusive to someone (I’m saying this thing we both know to be untrue, imagine thinking otherwise!) or derisive (I’m saying this stupid thing you’d probably think is true because you’re an idiot and I want to make sure you know it.) I know friendly people who do the former a lot and nasty people who exclusively do the latter. I wonder if the former is more difficult to achieve among a foreign culture with a second language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a culture/country that doesn't have sarcasm in its language?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Even in English, sarcasm can be delivered very dryly in a way that would be undetectable without knowing context. It doesn’t need to be spoken with exaggerated tones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Requiring less RAM is good, but conceptually, it’s Linux that is “wasting” the RAM by never using it. It’s there, and it’s reusable, fill it up! Now, does Windows make good use of it? No idea. Wouldn’t bet on it, but I could be surprised.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This whistle fights fascists | How thousands of 3D-printed whistles are derailing ICE.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right, 3D printers and filaments simply need to be made illegal to own and use without a license, like a still. People should be buying from corporations anyway, not designing and printing things at home. Who do we think we are?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If its an age-restricted project, sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d like for this to be a mass exodus event, but since it only stops you from accessing age-restricted servers you’re not really going to have to verify your ID if you’re just using voice chat with your friends or whatever. (At least, from what i can tell.) So it might cause on exodus of that segment of users, at least, and I’ll take that. That alone might help spur development to reduce the gap between discord and newer competitors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨...is this retro?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m with ya. N64/PSX is difficult. Don’t get me started on Saturn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, idiot. Not “the Jews.” Stop doing the zionists job for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You could convince evangelicals that AI is bad by saying it's converting children to satanism or making them gay⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither one of them is real, let’s not lose sight of that.