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- Comment on US bans Kaspersky antivirus software due to 'national security risk' 1 week ago:
Thanks, the article was accessible for me so I thought it would be also for others.
- Comment on US bans Kaspersky antivirus software due to 'national security risk' 1 week ago:
- Comment on US bans Kaspersky antivirus software due to 'national security risk' 1 week ago:
To be fair, he provided instructions.
- Comment on USA | New mystery monolith appears in Nevada desert 1 week ago:
BuT wHo? It Is A mYsTeRy…
- Comment on Ron DeSantis signs bill scrubbing ‘climate change’ from Florida state laws 1 month ago:
It must be the lead on the pipes.
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 1 month ago:
Penis, got it!
- Comment on Not happening, dude 2 months ago:
Isn’t this why we should embrace EVs and other cars that can use renewable energy so we don’t have to worry about the middle east and other petrostates?
- Comment on Net neutrality is about to make a comeback 2 months ago:
This is great, but we also need a law that mandates leasing of existing last mile, to bring a competition like we had during the days of DSL.
- Comment on Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised at negative impact of laying off 1,500 Spotify employees 2 months ago:
I was able to get it from here: archive.is/…/spotify-earnings-q1-ceo-daniel-eklay…
- Comment on Elizabeth Warren slammed for wanting to ‘break up Apple’s smartphone monopoly’ 2 months ago:
But you just did…
- Comment on ‘It’s catastrophic’: Italian restaurants in London struggle to find staff post-Brexit 2 months ago:
Yes, but he goes into more detail about why that is, why Ukraine is so important etc.
Basically when the Soviet Union collapsed, US politicians believed that as long as Russia has a free market, the democracy will flourish.
They couldn’t be more wrong, what it became was a klepocracy ruled by oligarchy with putin as the master oligarch. Russia on paper looked like a democracy, it has the institutions, but they are all neutered and despite having “elections”, there was never a democracy and free elections in there even in the 90s.
Putin realized that with EU Russia doesn’t matter as much, because EU integration makes smaller countries powerful. EU requires countries to have functional democracy before they can join. Putin tried to join, but instead having Russia to adapt and become a democratic country, he demanded that EU would change to accommodate Russia. That of course didn’t work.
So he created his own union (Eurasian Economic Union) hoping that it would take over EU. Initially they tried to subverting things politically having their puppet (kind of like they did in Belarus), but Ukrainian people demonstrated as they wanted to be part of EU, so it switched to military action first on 2014 and later in 2022.
We did fucked up a bit not supporting Ukrainian earlier.
There is also a lot of how Russia basically changes its own history ignoring all inconvenient events, how option is following fascist authors that render Russia as the World savor, that is on the side of God.
It is quite fascinating. A lot people think of the war as it started in 2022, some more informed will say it started in 2014, but it was much earlier then that. We just ignored it, we seem to pay attention when people are actually fighting, which is sad as most of how Russia is operating is to subvert via disinformation, destabilization and sabotage.
The war of 2022 got to what it got is because putin trapped himself in it, but underestimating Ukrainians.
I’m still not finish with it and am just in the middle of the book.
- Comment on ‘It’s catastrophic’: Italian restaurants in London struggle to find staff post-Brexit 2 months ago:
I highly recommend a book by historian Timothy Snyder called Road to Unfreedom. It explains how we got here, what Russia wants to achieve and why.
- Comment on Trump unable to pay $464m bond in New York fraud case, his lawyers say 3 months ago:
Yeah, even the $80 mil or so he paid after Orban visited him. It is clear he used foreign money.
I can’t believe we forced Carter to sell his peanut farm, and we are allowing this.
- Comment on Trump unable to pay $464m bond in New York fraud case, his lawyers say 3 months ago:
You probably know about it, but just in case, there actually is one.
It’s fucking pathetic seeing regular people donating to a billionaire.
People donating $5, $10, $25 but some also $100, $200, $500, but it is barely moving. Perhaps a good lesson showing how much money billionaires actually have and how much is a half billion. Although I suspect it probably flies over the donor’s heads.
- Comment on Putin claims he agreed to prisoner swap involving Navalny before his death 3 months ago:
Prisoner swap? Did Putin forget that the official reason for the jail was supposedly “economic crimes”?
- Comment on Pre-IPO Reddit lets ads be dressed up as promoted user posts 3 months ago:
I dunno, uBlock never showed any.
fuck spez, fuck Reddit
- Comment on Trump reportedly asked Musk to buy Truth Social last year 3 months ago:
Though I must say I’m still upset at the losers that are still on twitter.
I feel like people changed drastically over the last two decades and are more likely to accept being fucked in the ass by corporations.
Remember what happened to digg when they changed the site to control the articles that are being posted? Or to Myspace when it was purchased by Murdoch?
What the hell happened?
- Comment on How does delisting a game make/save money? 3 months ago:
Corporations don’t always have to make sense it looks like during a meeting they concluded that games don’t generate significant profit so they decided to exit that entire market. They don’t want to have any employees to look over the account, or having to update is something or have any lawsuits (perhaps have offended someone, or formatted computer), I am not saying those could happen or make any sense, but essentially execs say they don’t want to have ANY liability and the lower employees comply the best they can.
Execs don’t care about users, to them this is just business.
If users were priority company for example could just make the games public domain, but that would be too much work, and no way back if (in very unlikely case) they wanted to bring the games back.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg: Tech layoffs in 2024 have been a natural response to pandemic-era over hiring 4 months ago:
Not sure what you do, but 2021 and part of 2022 was crazy in the tech industry and those big companies were hiring like crazy. Smaller places actually had problems finding new employees.
In my company (which normally has a lot of longtimers) a lot of coworkers left during that time, because they found a job somewhere else.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg: Tech layoffs in 2024 have been a natural response to pandemic-era over hiring 4 months ago:
Can you elaborate?
When layoffs were happening we got doom and gloom messages that recession was imminent and that it was primarily caused by interest rate increases.
A lot of people from tech industry were saying that this is because those companies were over hiring in 2021 and 2022. Now Zuckerberg is saying the same thing, but you are stating that it is a lie. Why?
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg: Tech layoffs in 2024 have been a natural response to pandemic-era over hiring 4 months ago:
He is right about that one though. When it was happening there were attempts to pin it to the start of a recession.
Having said that, I also want to add: “eat a bag of dicks, Zucc”
- Comment on Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome 4 months ago:
Just Chrome in this instance, as it spies for Google. Any anti ad blocking features go though to all chromium based browsers and it is better to switch Firefox. If that browser disappears we won’t have a good alternative anymore.
- Comment on These are trying times 4 months ago:
No, these are shoes for money laundering.
- Comment on Apple Vision Pro Could Take Four Generations to Reach 'Ideal Form' 4 months ago:
I find it fascinating how much advertising they pushed on release.
I am not an apple person so I had no idea about it, but on that day I saw it in a there different places. First two I understand: Lemmy post, an ad on some website, but most amazing one was on my kid’s YouTube, started playing Marques Brownlee review after alphablocks episode. Like WTF? I don’t watch anything about Apple, don’t watch his reviews, but somewhat YouTube though that it was most relevant video for the content that was watched.
- Comment on I didn't forget your birthday either. 4 months ago:
You never know. Maybe behind that label it recommends a romantic trip for two?
- Comment on Don't cut yourself on that edge 4 months ago:
It can be dark if it is a shart.
- Comment on 'Betrayed' SAP workers rebel against forced office return 4 months ago:
Yeah, 2021 and half of 2022 they were hiring like crazy.
The layoffs are no surprise. They over hired.
I guess the return to the office might be a way to make people quit so they won’t have to follow the WARN Act, but I’m not sure about it, as first people to switch jobs will be the most valuable ones.
- Comment on Alec Baldwin charged for shooting; 5 months ago:
He says that Baldwin is unlikely charged for firing the gun but more likely for being a producer who failed to ensure that the set is safe.
The thing is that he right now is being charged for firing the gun not for falling as a producer, that’s why it seems pretty weird like they are really trying to sack him for some reason.
- Comment on Target acquired 5 months ago:
He did all of that with a bow, imagine him with a sniper rifle…
- Comment on GTA 5 Actor Ned Luke Calls Out 'Bulls**t' AI Chatbot That Uses His Voice 5 months ago:
It’s because it is about the voice. A good voice actor can produce many voices. Yes you can find someone else but it almost always is not identical. And since you have to hire someone anyway and they are good, what even make them pretend to be someone else? They might have better voices.
With computers you can essentially steal someone’s voice and the way they act and use that for cheap.
Those companies cry about piracy, that someone downloaded something and that made them not purchase the movie, music or game that many wouldn’t purchase anyway.
This actually is the real piracy. They can steal the likeness of those people and make profit without needing to hire them ever again.