jonne
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- Comment on Australian bosses on notice as 'deliberate' wage theft becomes a crime 3 days ago:
It’s been like that in Victoria for a few years, but yeah, disappointing that it’s not treated like any other type of theft.
- Comment on Trump sides with Musk in right-wing row over worker visas 4 days ago:
Both of the guys that tried to kill him this year were right wing lunatics. Expect that to continue, I guess.
- Comment on New bird flu mutation discovered in US as cat infections cause alarm 4 days ago:
Looks like some cats are getting it through cat food, so even that’s not enough. Maybe demand that the FDA regulates pet food?
- Comment on Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds 3 weeks ago:
Which is why you should only buy stuff that relies on local APIs and on board processing.
- Comment on Terror suspect on FBI’s most wanted list arrested in north Wales 5 weeks ago:
They’ll get Trump in 20 years, you’ll see.
- Comment on DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg News reports 1 month ago:
Yeah, they’re currently playing both sides of the digital ad market place, and that’s definitely where you should start when breaking up Alphabet.
- Comment on DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg News reports 1 month ago:
How is Chrome supposed to be a business on its own, tho, especially without search engines sponsoring it (presumably?). Firefox isn’t exactly doing great either, and they’re a non profit.
I agree that alphabet needs to be broken up, but it should probably be done in ways that leave viable business on place.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 1 month ago:
There’s (admittedly comparatively expensive) alternative processes, and even if you stick to the old process and just stop using coal for electricity generation you’d cut coal use by 75%.
Not to mention, the carbon that stays in the steel doesn’t actually go into the atmosphere, so there’s less CO2 emissions for that specific use if you can substitute the fuel used for heating.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 1 month ago:
There’s alternative processes, and if you avoid burning oil for fuel you can basically do all that with the amount of oil that’s in easy reach instead of using tar sands or drilling into even more difficult to reach places.
- Comment on Burning out: how Australia’s bid to cut smoking rates exploded into suburban tobacco wars 1 month ago:
They really need to stop raising the prices until they can get this under control.
- Comment on NBN Co to accelerate higher speed tiers and launch multi-gigabit speeds in September 2025 2 months ago:
Would be nice to drop the price for lower speeds instead.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 months ago:
Yeah, make the logo a button or something.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 months ago:
I have copilot in my IDE and it’s basically worse than the ‘dumb’ autocomplete that just builds off the existing codebase. Copilot knows all the code on GitHub, but doesn’t seem to know anything about the local codebase.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 2 months ago:
Microsoft makes a lot of money hosting the platform that enables the efficient leveling of Gaza. They’re the new IBM in many ways.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza 2 months ago:
Can’t wait to hear Bari Weiss’s take on this.
- Comment on WordPress demands conf organizers share social media logins. 2 months ago:
There’s probably already a bunch of forks people could move to, if needed, people could coalesce around one. That should be a drop-in replacement that the hosting provider could even do for you.
- Comment on WordPress demands conf organizers share social media logins. 2 months ago:
About time.
- Comment on IFIXIT: Victory Is Sweet - We Can Now Fix McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines 2 months ago:
If you run a franchise, you have to get the machine from a specific vendor. That vendor makes a killing charging for their techs to come over to fix those machines. There’s some videos on YouTube that explain how the scam works.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
All of them? I’m pretty sure there’s still a lot of white south Africans around, just because there were a few incidents doesn’t make it largely peaceful. The alternative to a peaceful transition is Rhodesia, if you want to go the route of constant escalation.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Except that the slave owners were fine after the civil war. There were no mass executions, they got to keep their property (slaves excepted) and they retained so much political power they managed to reverse reconstruction within a few decades.
- Comment on Sympathy for their PTSD 2 months ago:
Yeah, the IDF bombed buildings, then the bulldozers came in to clear the streets so the tanks could go through. At no point was anyone allowed to try to rescue anyone from the rubble, and those people are definitely not counted in the official death statistics. We’ll never really know how many people were killed.
- Comment on Sympathy for their PTSD 2 months ago:
CNN has to run every story through the Israeli censor in their Jerusalem bureau. The only mainstream outlet that doesn’t go through that process is Al Jazeera, and Israel closed their offices.
- Comment on Sympathy for their PTSD 2 months ago:
I’m sure we’ll soon get an article about how the pilot felt sad about bombing a hospital.
- Comment on Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands 2 months ago:
Yeah, moving to the EU to escape regulation doesn’t seem like a smart move.
- Comment on Microsoft will end Windows 10 support in exactly one year 2 months ago:
Probably best not to boot it, or windows update might overwrite Grub.
- Comment on Facebook is going to show you even more content from accounts you don’t follow 2 months ago:
Jesus, the feed is already pointless as it is. I’ve just given up on it already, but they just keep going.
- Comment on Google is testing verified checkmarks in search 2 months ago:
I assume SEO spam?
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 2 months ago:
I mean, realistically it’ll juice the stock in the short term until things catch up to them in 6 to 12 months.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 2 months ago:
Yeah, there’s going to be hilariously bad outages at AWS within like a year.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 2 months ago:
It’s like reverse stack ranking. They’ll be left with the people that couldn’t find another job.