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No relation to the sports channel.
- Comment on AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%. 3 days ago:
To be clear, network costs represent a tiny fraction of WMF’s expenses. Much of WMF’s budget goes to social programs, not technical upkeep.
- Comment on American and British English spelling and pronunciations 4 days ago:
It was found in alum, so it should really have been alumium all along.
- Comment on You must take a long road trip with Donald Trump and no one else in the car. Security is everywhere; no one is in danger. You drive and control the radio, but can only play music. What's the playlist? 6 days ago:
They Might Be Giants, “Your Racist Friend”
- Comment on Video game characters should swear when they get hurt 1 week ago:
Ever play Q*bert?
- Comment on Explicit or educational: Is Big Tech censoring women's health? 2 weeks ago:
This goes back to the days of AOL chat rooms, where they shut down forums for breast cancer survivors because they said “breast”.
- Comment on 🦆 - 🚗The fuck is bigger than the car. 3 weeks ago:
🦊
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 4 weeks ago:
Fascists lie.
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 4 weeks ago:
As a reminder, Eich was turfed from Mozilla for joining an anti-LGBT hate campaign; and his So Brave browser pushed NFTs and stole money via referral fraud.
- Comment on New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code 1 month ago:
Congratulations … you’ve trained a generation of junior product managers.
- Comment on Meta confirms ‘Project Waterworth,’ a global subsea cable project spanning 50,000 kilometers 1 month ago:
First step: Find a country with a navy competent to defend your undersea cables.
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 1 month ago:
Stone two birds with one hit.
- Comment on Chicago Transit Authority deactivates X social media accounts 2 months ago:
I trust my city government a hell of a lot more than I trust the incoming federal administration.
- Comment on Chicago Transit Authority deactivates X social media accounts 2 months ago:
If it’s unified under the federal government, then an asshole president can mess with it.
If it’s distributed, with states and major cities having their own instances, then it’s more asshole-resistant.
- Comment on Did "Party time! Excellent!" come from Wayne's World or Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure? Did one copy the other? 4 months ago:
Bill & Ted is “Be excellent to each other, and party on, dudes!”
- Comment on why do our noses & anuses think different types of paper are softest? 5 months ago:
On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog … until you tell them.
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- Comment on Why did Raspberry Pi make their own SSD? 5 months ago:
Try text.
- Comment on Robinhood admits it’s just a gambling app. 5 months ago:
Even in a home poker game, it is not possible for all the players to go home having made a profit, whereas that is very possible in the stock market due to growth, labor, and natural resources.
- Comment on Robinhood admits it’s just a gambling app. 5 months ago:
In gambling, the house always wins, by extracting value from the players. In stock trading, the players (capitalists) collectively always win, by extracting value from labor, technological growth, and natural resources. These are not the same picture.
- Comment on have you ever been given a warning or suspension for using profane language at work? 5 months ago:
If someone doesn’t understand the difference between swearing at and swearing around, that’s a shitty environment.
In one of my better workplaces, the expression was “you can cuss the hardware, you can cuss the software, but don’t cuss your teammate.”
- Comment on Tech company with offices in Ireland takes down website information on firm's work with IDF. 5 months ago:
As the article mentions, Red Hat is IBM.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
For what it’s worth, getting in the habit of making excuses for one’s use is part of alcoholism.
- Comment on I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was. 5 months ago:
Previously, it was a shithole.
Now, it’s a Nazi shithole. - Comment on HBO should use a different bumper for streaming. 5 months ago:
The 1984 Gibson novel Neuromancer begins with the line, “The sky above the port was the color of television tuned to a dead channel.”
At the time, this unambiguously meant speckled gray TV static. However, before too many years had passed, new TVs started displaying a flat blue screen when tuned to a dead channel.
And in 1996, Neil Gaiman riffed on Gibson’s line, in Neverwhere: “The sky was the perfect untroubled blue of a television screen, tuned to a dead channel.”