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- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 3 days ago:
I really think it’s capitalism, consumerism, individualism and decades of propaganda more than the lead. Lead will make you slightly dumber, angrier and more impulsive, but not as dumb as American politics today.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 5 days ago:
It’ll be China.
- Comment on Mosquitoes' stabby suckers may find use in high-res 3D printers 5 days ago:
For their study, the researchers obtained euthanized laboratory-reared female Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes, stored them in a freezer, then dipped them in a solution of 80% ethanol to sterilize them.
Next, the soft protective outer sheath of each insect’s proboscis was detached and discarded. An ultraviolet-curable resin was then applied to the now-exposed rigid section of the proboscis, and hardened by exposure to UV light. The resin-coated proboscis was then cut off of the mosquito’s body with a razor blade, forming a nice little rigid tube.
I can’t see it scaling very well.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 5 days ago:
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- Comment on Linux Distros Designed for Former Windows Users Are Picking Up Steam | Linux Journal 5 days ago:
Only Office has a UI very similar to Word. I generally prefer LibreOffice for everything else, but Only Office has an easy layout to learn.
- Comment on Linux Distros Designed for Former Windows Users Are Picking Up Steam | Linux Journal 5 days ago:
Like Android? It’s getting more closed every day.
- Comment on The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos: new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos 5 days ago:
The worst thing I’ve found with the algorithm is that it continually tries to steer me towards right-wing crap like Jordan Petersen, even though it must know my sympathies are with the opposite end of the political spectrum. And if ever you come to YouTube with no account on a clean machine, it pushes almost entirely right-wing propaganda videos.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 1 week ago:
Tankies are typically authoritarian communists, not Nazis, and antisemitism isn’t usually a part of their outlook. You’ll find far more fascists on other social media platforms.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 1 week ago:
If you avoid one or two instances you rarely encounter tankies on Lemmy.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 1 week ago:
Does China not have any companies that can make RAM? Seems like an opportunity to grab some market share. But maybe they don’t, or maybe they’d prefer to sell it to AI companies too.
- Comment on Anyone else have computers by Digiview? 1 week ago:
Gateway was black and white patches like a cow.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 1 week ago:
We’ll be getting the opportunity to rent low-powered cloud computers at premium prices.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 1 week ago:
Using your money.
- Comment on YSK: The pulled *60 Minutes* CECOT segment aired in Canada and is available online 1 week ago:
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- Comment on G-Assist is ‘real’: NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you 1 week ago:
Shut up and get back down the mines or your robot manager will have to terminate you.
- Comment on G-Assist is ‘real’: NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you 1 week ago:
Next: game companies can subscribe to NVIDIA anti-AI-cheating AI. This is innovation under capitalism.
- Comment on Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’ 1 week ago:
Also those companies: Wait, AI isn’t allowed to steal from us!
It’s not even their own content. Google took the search results from the sites they crawled and scraped.
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 2 weeks ago:
Lawmakers will make exceptions to allow E2EE for their own communications and those of the wealthy, and also large corporations.
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 2 weeks ago:
Remember how, before the internet, intelligence agencies by default didn’t know what anyone was saying to anyone else face to face or by mail, and had to actually work to find out? The country didn’t fall apart. Why is the standard now that everything must be handed to them on a plate?
- Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdogwww.techradar.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 10 comments
- Comment on Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM 2 weeks ago:
Not just the tech industry. A huge proportion of the US economy is made up of betting on AI. Like the crash of 2008 (but worse, some predict) it will hurt everyone but the richest, who will become even richer.
- The EHRC does not value the voices of trans folk enough to record the minutes, FOI reveals - TACCtacc.org.uk ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 0 comments
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- Comment on Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI 3 weeks ago:
The font was chosen in an effort to make documents easier to read for the vision impaired.
So It’s Republican policy that the government must not, even in the smallest way, make life any easier for disabled people? Of course.
- Comment on Notepad++ updater installed malware 3 weeks ago:
Until version 8.8.7 of Notepad++, the developer used a self-signed certificate, which is available in the Github source code.
That doesn’t sound wise.