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- Comment on Dance 4 days ago:
DISCUSS YOUR CRIMES 𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮 𝓷𝓸-𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝓲𝓼 𝔀𝓪𝓽𝓬𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰.
- Comment on YOLO 4 days ago:
I find my problems by brute forcing everything!
- Comment on Uhm 5 days ago:
- Comment on Out of 10. Be specific! 6 days ago:
4k
- Comment on truth 6 days ago:
"I am alive and well, says the lying dead horse with Tuberculosis."
- Ancient Greek Proverb
- Comment on Birds of peace 6 days ago:
Right. It’s a peli_can_ not a peli_don’t_.
- Comment on Out of 10. Be specific! 6 days ago:
Perfect.
- Comment on No weirdo's please 6 days ago:
I learned about the Oxford comma from my parents, Ayn Rand and God.
It didn’t seem like it at the time but I had a very strange upbringing.
- Comment on DM me on Spotify: Spotify launches a messaging feature. 6 days ago:
Another updoot for Qobuz. Very happy with it, and the migration process was even better for me than as you describe it. Also, I didn’t think I’d give a shit about it the higher-quality codecs but they’re actually amazing. Big fan, A+++, would Qobuz again.
- Comment on Members of far-right party organising asylum hotel protests across UK, Facebook posts show 6 days ago:
I lived in Ashfield in Nottinghamshire up until a few years ago. Of the dozen-plus places I’ve lived around England, I’ve never, ever, ever lived anywhere worse than Ashfield. I’ve lived in poorer areas, areas with higher crime rates, areas with less greenery - fuck, areas that are all three of those things - but I’ve never encoutered a population as vile and beligerent as the regressive, inbred cretins of that area. I wasn’t at all surprised when they fell for Reform’s fairytales at the last election.
- Comment on ‘People just lie’: How Riverford’s Guy Singh-Watson became the most brutally honest farmer in Britain 6 days ago:
I’ve not even read the article, but I already know I’ll agree with, let’s say, 95% of what Guy Singh-Watson says in it.
- Comment on YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality 1 week ago:
at least since digital video
Right. Even back in the eighties UK broadcasters were upscaling American NTSC 480i60 shows to 576i50. The results were varied. High-ticket shows like Friends and Fraiser looked great, albeit a bit soft and oversaturated, while live news feeds looked terrible. If you’ve never seen it, The Day Today has a perfect example of what a lot of US programmes lookd like converted to PAL.
- Comment on When you realize your laptop hasn't been plugged in for the last 4 hours you've been working... 1 week ago:
I feel obligated to point out that the “stupid 3D interface” was actually a REAL stupid 3D interface. Someone at Sun Microsystems genuinely thought we’d enjoy browsing our filesystems by flying over a virtual city. It really was a UNIC system as she said, just one with a batshit frontend.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I think about this kind of thing too often. Take “chlamydia” and “genocide”. Two words with horrible meanings, but they’re really nice words. Flowery and regal. They sound like Victorian girls’s names. “Cousin Peter arrived, with his lovely daughters, Chlamydia and Genocide”.
- Comment on It's just science. 2 weeks ago:
It’s not science, it’s Englilsh.
- Comment on Caption this. 2 weeks ago:
🟥 Discovered Bones ⬜ Undiscovered Bones
- Comment on Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules 2 weeks ago:
You’re blaming the current government for a law that was brought in by the previous government.
- Comment on Shamelessly stolen from Reddit 3 weeks ago:
My problem with the whole thing is well expressed by Bojack Horseman.
An IT technician who spends their entire career in air-conditioned offices in their home country but happens to be employed by the army is worthy of adoration, special treatment and prioritisation, but obviously a nurse saving lives on a daily basis and facing routine abuse from violent drunks and psychotic nutcases can fuck right off because they work at a privately-owned hospital.
Drawing a circle around the armed forces saying “these people are deserving of unquestionable praise and arbitrary benefits” is the same as saying “no-one else is” and it’s insulting to the intelligence of everyone involved.
- Comment on European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, of all the things to criticise the EU for the DSA is a bizarre pick. Challenging techbro dominance with simple and technically-sensible demands on the gatekeepers is a win for the average person in my book.
- Comment on European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge. 3 weeks ago:
The more competitive networks tend to include EU roaming as standard. The ones that charge a lot - like the £2/day mentioned - tend to be the ones with captive customers like Sky, for example, where most of their customers also have TV and broadband from them so they’re stuck.
- Comment on WhatsApp deletes over 6.8m accounts linked to scams, Meta says 3 weeks ago:
I wish they’d delete my WhatsApp account. I got rid of WhatsApp years ago, when I got rid of everything Facebook-related, but they still tell people that I have WhatsApp. Every so often I get an SMS from them telling me that I’m missing out, and the people who use WhatsApp to contact me are basically being told that I’m ignoring them.
And, yes, I have closed my account and even emailed them asking for this to be sorted, even emailed them demanding my data under GDPR but they didn’t even answer. Why respect my autonomy as a human when they could emotionally blackmail me into compliance?
- Comment on I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C 3 weeks ago:
I tell you hwat.
- Comment on I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C 3 weeks ago:
I have a rule: I never preorder anything. I broke that rule recently. www.repebble.com
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 3 weeks ago:
I heartily recommend the last two.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 3 weeks ago:
I’m having a pretty good time with Qobuz. Their curated collections are actually really good and I’ve found a lot of new stuff in there; it’s not the “here’s what the record label is shoveling this week” like on Spotify. Also, the high bitrate stuff… I hate to admit it, but it really does sound better.
- Comment on GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship 4 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Public urged to help catch gangs bringing drugs on ‘mother ships’ to UK coast 4 weeks ago:
Dreams.
- Comment on Public urged to help catch gangs bringing drugs on ‘mother ships’ to UK coast 4 weeks ago:
Years ago me and a couple of mates built mini shallow-level submarines. Initially they were remote controlled, then programmable (since radio waves don’t like water) and eventually we got to the point where they could travel a few miles at a time underwater, surface enough to expose their GPS antennae to confirm a fix and link to Meshtastic for updated instructions, and then carry on their way. My point is these smugglers need to get their shit together. “Mother ships”? Give me a break. Amateurs.
- Comment on Public urged to help catch gangs bringing drugs on ‘mother ships’ to UK coast 4 weeks ago:
Havelock Vetinari, is that you?
- Comment on 4.2% pay rise for police officers across England and Wales 4 weeks ago:
Given the bullshit they deal with - especially in ass-backwards Reform towns - and the effective pay freeze they were under during the last government, I think this is good but not nearly enough. And before anyone chimes in, yes, this also applies to public sector workers in healthcare, sanitation, education, emergency aid, etc, etc.
