9point6
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- Comment on It's weird how we say "go to sleep" as if sleep is a place 9 hours ago:
Huh that’s funny, “laying to rest” in English is an expression for burying someone after they have died
- Comment on We face nationalisation if we’re not let off fines, Thames Water warns 1 day ago:
Ooooh nooo…
- Comment on VMware reboots its partner program again – and it looks like smaller players are out 1 day ago:
And VMware goes for another rotation around the drain
The fact they won’t sell you a perpetual licence for a hypervisor you run on your hardware, is possibly the most ridiculous subscription model I’ve seen so far
- Comment on Elon Musk Floats a New Source of Funding for xAI: Tesla 1 day ago:
- Comment on Elmo is on fire 1 day ago:
It’s kinda wild this is a legitimate possibility
- Comment on Reddit’s UK users must now prove they’re 18 to view many types of content 2 days ago:
I was gonna say all this is going to do is make a load of people start using VPNs, who would have otherwise had no reason to
- Comment on Google Plans To Combine ChromeOS and Android Into Single Platform 2 days ago:
Not necessarily, been a little while since I checked on it, but my understanding was fuchsia was Google’s home grown replacement for the Linux kernel.
It’s in use already on some of their nest devices IIRC and there’s always been speculation that eventually they may introduce it as an alternative kernel for Android (or chrome OS, though obviously less likely now) one day
- Comment on Google Plans To Combine ChromeOS and Android Into Single Platform 2 days ago:
Lol bit of a blast from the past with the old logo in the thumbnail image
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 4 days ago:
Well shit, I didn’t think the Jurassic park books would ever end up on my reading list but here we are
- Comment on Don't mess with me bro 4 days ago:
I thought he was casually carrying around a PS5 for a second there
- Comment on oops 6 days ago:
Oh I’d somehow forgotten this era
That shit was in everything non solid for like 2 years
- Comment on Why is so hard for musicians to have a good living and be famous? 1 week ago:
Historically, record labels and increasingly so more recently, Live Nation/Ticketmaster and similar live event conglomerates
- Comment on We pay companies for products that we never truly own. When they mess-up, they decide what the mess-up is worth. If we mess-up and think we own their products, they can sue and put us in jail. 1 week ago:
i.e. Helping others modify their own devices
You’re splitting hairs
- Comment on We pay companies for products that we never truly own. When they mess-up, they decide what the mess-up is worth. If we mess-up and think we own their products, they can sue and put us in jail. 1 week ago:
Gary Bowser got fucked by Nintendo for doing shit to a device he bought. Got sentenced for nearly 4 years, now owes like $15m
- Comment on Does anybody actually care that a dude chanted "Death, Death to the IDF" at Glastonbury? 2 weeks ago:
Have you heard of the Nuremberg trials?
There is a very strong set precedent that “I was just following orders” does not come close to cutting it.
- Comment on My Take Home Pay 2 weeks ago:
That looks like a pretty cheap subscription fee for a country ~25%.
Mine is closer to actually half, though we get healthcare and a half decent social safety net with ours.
- Comment on If government hackers can infiltrate big companies, why not hack normal people? 2 weeks ago:
The amount of effort necessary doesn’t make it worth it usually
- Comment on What is this clock icon in my phone status bar? 2 weeks ago:
Ah you figured it out,
Was going to say if you’ve not got any alarms set, an application will be (ab)using the system alarm functionality to do something at a scheduled time
Seems a little odd for signal to use it for scheduled messages, but that’s what’s going on regardless
- Comment on Amazing Grace 2 weeks ago:
The US doesn’t deserve Dolly as a national treasure, she’s a treasure of the world
In spite of the USA we have today
- Comment on POV you and your buddy are transcending the illusion of spacetime but a stranger walks over to ask for directions 2 weeks ago:
How’s glasto, mate?
- Comment on A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy | Content generated by artificial intelligence has become a factor in elections around the world. Most of it is bad, misleading voters & discrediting elections 2 weeks ago:
Did I say “only”?
Fascists are the most dangerous and frankly, alarmingly flooding the internet with their shit right now
“Magnitudes” is a borderline dangerous understatement of the difference in their output versus any other corner of political thought.
Hyper targeted advertising on the internet means you categorically will not be seeing anything close to the worst of it.
- Comment on A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy | Content generated by artificial intelligence has become a factor in elections around the world. Most of it is bad, misleading voters & discrediting elections 2 weeks ago:
Of course it is.
Fascists can create the illusions they need to convince morons whilst at the same time making them distrust reality (“nah that’s AI”)
A lot of people are going to suffer
- Comment on BBC is Getting a Paywall. 2 weeks ago:
It does actually seem like it’s only the US for now
Unless I’ve misunderstood your comment
- Comment on Sign me up 2 weeks ago:
This is either satire or another case of conservatives being entirely unable to criticise anything without also broadcasting their kinks
- Comment on With all the animals that die in the sea, is it possible they get pickled in there? 3 weeks ago:
If a dead thing would pickle, pretty much everything in the sea would end up pickled alive
- Comment on The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam 3 weeks ago:
I wonder if Steam would remove it from people’s libraries in that instance or just the Storefront
- Comment on Once it's on the Internet, it stays forever, but only for the things you DON'T want. For the things you DO want, it will be wiped off the face of the Earth by tomorrow. 3 weeks ago:
Uploading – A Basic Guide – Internet Archive Help Center share.google/nEKYrG78kDEo4yzvS
- Comment on Once it's on the Internet, it stays forever, but only for the things you DON'T want. For the things you DO want, it will be wiped off the face of the Earth by tomorrow. 3 weeks ago:
Archive.org
- Comment on Students in England now graduate with average debt of £53,000, data shows 3 weeks ago:
The lib Dems and Tories decided to fuck over our youth back in the early 2010s
Lib Dems campaigned on a promise of free uni and did the exact opposite when awarded the power to do something about it.
I can’t bring myself to ever trust a word they say again. And anyone that says the Tories stopped them, they were the only thing keeping the Tories in power, they were a VoNC away from potentially preventing 15 years of Tory kleptocracy
- Comment on Thames Water lenders demand UK government block campaigners from legal action 3 weeks ago:
They should get nothing and be pleased about it
