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- Comment on Pro-Palestinian protest leader details 104 days spent in US custody 9 hours ago:
This must be that famous commitment to free speech Americans talk about so much.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever 1 day ago:
I recently learned that Steve Ballmer is a chairman of and big donor to the Jewish National Fund, “Ballmer serves on the World Chairman’s Council of the Jewish National Fund, an organization dedicated to supporting Jewish communities and projects in Israel.” The JNF supports the Israeli military and the settlers in the West Bank. This made me like Steve Ballmer slightly less.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever 1 day ago:
- Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever 1 day ago:
Torvalds is still very active on the Linux kernel. As far as I know, he’s in charge of it and decides what code gets allowed in.
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- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 4 days ago:
For a couple of minutes.
- Submitted 4 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on Trump May Launch Wireless Phone Brand 1 week ago:
The point is not that there’s anything inherently wrong with a Chinese phone, but that they’re lying by saying it’s designed and manufactured in the USA. It is neither.
- Comment on I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount 1 week ago:
Yes, I wouldn’t assume the picture has anything to do with any phone people will actually receive.
- Comment on The Trump Mobile T1 Phone looks both bad and impossible 1 week ago:
He ripped off the font, and some are saying it’s a slightly tweaked REVVL 7 Pro 5G, which is a budget phone T-Mobile sell with a T on the back. Trump’s T is a bit bigger. Would be nice to see T-Mobile take legal action…
- Comment on Trump May Launch Wireless Phone Brand 1 week ago:
If by “everyone” you mean the people stupid enough to buy a made-in-China Trump phone.
- Comment on US experts fear all vaccines at risk as Trump officials target mRNA jabs 1 week ago:
154 million lives and counting: 5 charts reveal the power of vaccines
Being opposed to vaccines is a sign of great ignorance.
- Comment on Anyone else going basic with their NAS? 1 week ago:
I ran mine like this for years. Then a few weeks ago I installed Immich so I can browse photos directly from the NAS on the phone. That’s how it will stay. I don’t want it to turn into an application server.
- Comment on Dyson Has Killed Its Bizarre Zone Air-Purifying Headphones 1 week ago:
Dyson was dead to me when James Dyson campaigned for Brexit on the grounds that it would be better for British jobs then, once Brexit was done, moved his whole operation out of the UK to Singapore. And then he whined to the media about how people were being hard on him, calling him things like “hypocrite” or “weasly little wanker the country’s better off without.”
EU referendum: Sir James Dyson says Britain better off out
Brexit backer Dyson says hypocrisy claim over HQ move abroad ‘incredibly harmful’
- Comment on AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers 1 week ago:
Google is doing a good job of discouraging some of us from buying Pixel phones. But they don’t care because the number of people installing Graphene etc. is relatively very low.
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 1 week ago:
Raising all boats makes a much more fun world.
Billionaires are pathologically selfish, often it seems with actual personality disorders that make them unable to understand a world of mutual support and sharing, or to appreciate how much they benefit from others’ support. Unfortunately we let these people become far too powerful.
- Comment on F.D.A. to Use A.I. in Drug Approvals to ‘Radically Increase Efficiency’ 1 week ago:
The same people who prevent actual vaccine science. ChatGPT can surely do what actual scientists and experienced health professionals can do. After all, ChatGPT can predict what word a person is likely to say next, so do a convincing impression of someone who knows about medicine.
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 2 weeks ago:
ChatGPT the word prediction machine? Why would anyone expect it to be good at chess?
- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 2 weeks ago:
I guess that’s part of the reason they’re exploring coatings - something to slow down the degradation during regular usage.
- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 2 weeks ago:
Ah but imagine the eager faces of Logitech’s execs when they realize they could make their mice dissolve under your fingers and offer a subscription for replacements.
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- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 2 weeks ago:
I remember discovering Digg first and then reddit, and noticing how on reddit, back when it was Digg’s less glamorous knockoff, people didn’t comment unless they really knew what they were talking about. It was a pretty sensible and erudite site for a while. Then it very much wasn’t
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 2 weeks ago:
It’s still quite a lot nicer than reddit, even if it has its share of unpleasant characters. Whenever I read a reddit thread I am glad Lemmy exists.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It is. My phone has been warning me. It’s only password autofill that they’re removing (for now), not TOTP stuff.
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 3 weeks ago:
I guess the idea is you’d still do that, but have more data in each array. It does raise the risk of losing a lot of data, but that can be mitigated by sensible RAID design and backups. And then you save power for the same amount of storage.
- Comment on Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans 3 weeks ago:
Any sane company or government would have already done this
Only if they had no concern for people’s privacy, and no notion of compartmentalizing access to the data to prevent abuse and limit the impact of leaks.
- Comment on Do you actually audit open source projects you download? 3 weeks ago:
For personal use? I never do anything that would qualify as “auditing” the code. I might glance at it, but mostly out of curiosity. I think the idea that the open-source community is keeping a close eye on each other’s code is a bit of a myth. No one has the time, unless someone has the money to pay for an audit.
- The bond market is worrying that 'something may be breaking beneath the surface' of Trump's tax billfortune.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to economics@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 21 comments