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- Comment on fuckery 6 days ago:
If I have none, clearly I have to mine more with my GPU.
- Comment on fuckery 6 days ago:
A good point 😅
- Comment on fuckery 1 week ago:
Being all out of fucks to give also implies they are finite and exchangeable.
- Comment on X's controversial changes to blocking and AI training saw half a million users leave for rival Bluesky in just a single day 4 weeks ago:
You can see a tweet, but not list of her tweets, iirc.
- Comment on Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic 1 month ago:
Considering the length of your comment, you could have started by reading the article.
- Comment on Norway is mulling building a fence on its border with Russia, following Finland's example 1 month ago:
The fence has been effective ever since it was put up, not sure what you are on about.
- Comment on Norway is mulling building a fence on its border with Russia, following Finland's example 1 month ago:
I thought you just said the issue the government needed to solve was random people wandering across the border without realizing it.
Sorry, that was badly worder. What I meant was that migrants were able walk over the border from wherever, whenever. It wasn’t a huge issue historically, we’re talking about a few dozen people a year maybe, because the border area is so rural, so not many asylum seekers dared to trek there. To do so, would have required ample provisions and good clothing. Surveilled fences solved that issue.
Things however changed early this year:
1. We noticed a new phenomen, asylum seeker numbers at border crossings suddenly skyrocketed. Soon enough reporters and were noticing military transports bringing people from other parts of Russia to towns closer to our borders. Some immigrants were also pushed towards crossing the border illegally, at the southern area.
2. It was confirmed that Russia was providing transportation to scores of Somalian and Syrian migrants, pushing them to seek asylum from Finland, in an effort to destabilize us, and cause issues at the border.
3. Many of those asylum seekers went into hiding after being granted entry, something normal asylum seekers seldom do, as we have good social benefits systems in place that help asylum seekers a fair chance to restart their lives. The fear was that those disappeared people were Russian agents, and indeed random ifrastructure sabotaging has increased radically following the project by Russia. The worries we had turned out to be correct.
4. These migrants, in interviews, stated that they weren’t actively trying to seek asylum in Finland - Russia had pushed them to the border. They were loaded in trucks from south and east Russia, then taken closer to Finnish borders. It’s been reported that Russia even providing them with bicycles to make the final stretch.
Enter today: A few new laws and improved fences are in place now. Both plug the loopholes used by Russia. We have now laws in place to stop the phenomenon, legally, at the border, and we also have more time to respond and catch the ones who attempt an illegal border crossings.
And now, how this all ties into the news article in this thread: After all the changes we made, the next loophole they started to utilize was pushing people to Norway first, and from there on forwards. Norway is now waking up to the same reality that affected us earlier this year, and thus are starting on the same path.
It’s not all in attempt to just cause issues with Finland, getting into the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area easily and then having easy time to get deeper into EU is one of the things their saboteurs are utilizing.
- Comment on Norway is mulling building a fence on its border with Russia, following Finland's example 1 month ago:
The point of mentioning the road crossing points were that those places are reinforced, and yeah, it’s silliness to attempt it there, leaving no possible places to take a truck over the border due difficulty terrain - we’re talking about migrants here, not soldiers.
They aren’t using vehicles, the russians provided migrants bicycles to get to the crossing points when they had the “flood our border with immigrants” operation active some months ago.
That leaves us with one large issue to cover: people traversing the foresty areas by foor, attempting to slip in undetected. That’s where the fence comes in - they can obviously get over it, but it’s a slowing measure. The fence also contains alarm systems and surveillance, so that our border patrol can then pinpoint where they are needed ASAP.
The border patrol people themselves wanted this, and it’s been working well.
- Comment on Norway is mulling building a fence on its border with Russia, following Finland's example 1 month ago:
Here’s something for you to think about when making these silly drive over the fence remarks:
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 month ago:
Being around someone who did search for something is enough (location, same wifi).
- Comment on Regain Control in my ass 2 months ago:
Hurt in my ass 🤔
- Comment on Chat is this real 2 months ago:
Well it wasn’t demonstratably false in any case, as it’s the only course of action in some places.
In a perfect world these arbitration clauses wouldn’t exist, and luckily they aren’t enforceable in many countries.
- Comment on Chat is this real 2 months ago:
The whole point of the discuasion was that arbitration clauses shöuld be illegal, aince they prevent you from suing.
Points was made that it’s still a good thing for tattoo artists and doctors. You earlier comment seemed to dispute this at first, but then pivoted to funds for damages (that exist and you can get without legal action.
You were then told that’s besides the point of the discussion, since it was exactly about suing.
- Comment on I wonder what they smell like. 3 months ago:
Having enjoyed that truly good but weird movie, this story suddenly makes more sense
- Comment on xkcd #2952: Routine Maintenance 4 months ago:
Uhm, it’s hosted at xkcd and op put in the link, too. It absolutely is.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 6 months ago:
Spotify isn’t the only service currently.
Like I said in my op: it’s good service for the consumer. It might not be if enshittification ensues.
But compared to video streaming, it’s awesome.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 6 months ago:
I was referring to the sharding that happened with video streaming services. It used to be Netflix had mostly everything, in the start, similar to Spotify. Now there are services per publisher that contain their own catalogues.
Fuck. That.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 6 months ago:
I’m not familiar with the free tier, but if you don’t pay anything, I think ads are fine.
Paying and seeing ads is wrong on the other hand.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 6 months ago:
You’d be correct
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 6 months ago:
Not sure what the relevance of this comment was, considering what I said
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 6 months ago:
Not sure about the ads? If you mean when the app notifies you about live gigs etc. then yeah, that’s shittification. Luckily it doesn’t happen on my desk or car, but I wish it didn’t sometimes appear on my phone. That’s the one thing that might push me to add music to my video streaming arr stack.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 6 months ago:
None of these have good app support compared to Spotify, sadly. Not supported by my car, nor my Linux desktop, or home speakers.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 6 months ago:
I mean, Spotify is a great service for the consumer. One reasonable monthly fee for most of the music in the world.
If a similar video streaming service existed for 40€/month, I’d pay for it in a heartbeat.
We’re all aware of the issues it created for the artists, and I’d be willing to double the fee if that money directly went to the artists, but this is where the capitalist model fails, as that won’t maximize the profits for shareholders.
If we ever come up with a way to fix the underlying greed models that come with publicly traded companies, that would be great.
As it stands, it is what it is, but I’m glad we have this, instead of a “different Spotify per music publisher”.
- Comment on Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants 6 months ago:
The PS5, and yeah still unreleased, but already driving prototypes out in the wild. They are using the companys tech mentioned in the article and hopefully we’ll see widespread adoption after testing.
I’m usually sceptic, but for once these new battery inventions are actually already implemented, and not just on paper or in a lab.
- Comment on Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants 6 months ago:
Polestar has already equipped vehicles with this tech.
- Comment on Bitwarden has launched a new authenticator app 6 months ago:
I’m in the same boat. I’m a paid Bitwarden user but I’d like to keep 2fa and passwords separated.
If no alternative soon, i’ll just bite the bullet and put everything in bitwarden (except itself, ofc)
- Comment on UK has worst rate of child alcohol consumption in world, report finds 6 months ago:
I’d bet on the French, or Finnish
- Comment on Australian prime minister labels Elon Musk ‘an arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law’ 6 months ago:
This place has enough autistic people who only see black and white. Luckily it’s not a game and the points don’t matter. 😄
- Comment on PSA: Nova Launcher has been owned by analytics company Branch since 2022 6 months ago:
There’s a system over at Nova Discord where we reply to polls about the new features, we’re basically guinea pigs trying out stuff Branch is going to push out via their deals with OEMs. That’s how I’ve understood it.
There is no bytes being sent out with the beta, and replying in Discord is voluntary, obviously.
- Comment on PSA: Nova Launcher has been owned by analytics company Branch since 2022 6 months ago:
Making guesses when you don’t have any actual information makes you look like a fool.
