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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Can you? When all businesses start using AI for customer interaction…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I use Edge on Linux for working with Microsoft stuff on my corporate laptop. For everything else I use Firefox there. Privacy preserved, basically.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I just use restic.

I’m pretty sure it uses checksums to verify data on the backup target, so it doesn’t need to copy all of the data there.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The 1980s were before the DMCA. In those days if you bought an expensive piece of electronics both seller and buyer expected that you owned it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The article is not very clear, but my interpretation is that this is about the e-mails sent from Proton Mail, not users being able to access the Proton Mail web site.

A VPN won’t help you if the server for the recipient of the e-mail drops the e-mail.

So, basically imagine that all Internet service providers in India have to block any e-mail from @proton.me and not deliver them. I think that’s the idea.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers secretly experimented on Reddit users with AI-generated comments⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
From the link you provide:

In 2012, Australian psychologist Gina Perry investigated Milgram’s data and writings and concluded that Milgram had manipulated the results, and that there was a “troubling mismatch between (published) descriptions of the experiment and evidence of what actually transpired.” She wrote that “only half of the people who undertook the experiment fully believed it was real and of those, 66% disobeyed the experimenter”.[26][27] She described her findings as “an unexpected outcome” that “leaves social psychology in a difficult situation.”[28]

I mean, maybe it shouldn’t have been done?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It really is just reddit <3⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Charge your phone! 😉
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Although i love it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Fun fact:

Broccoli and cauliflower (and more), “are all actually varieties of the same species, Brassica oleracea: cauliflower, cabbage, kohlrabi, Brussels sprouts, Chinese broccoli, and collard greens.”

botanistinthekitchen.blog/…/the-extraordinary-div…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Reading this made me wonder if I was having a stroke, because it seems like English but I don’t recognize so many of the words. 👴
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Caves of Qud. I don’t even like it much, but for some reason I can’t stop.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has a patent office ever refused to grant a patent to something on the grounds it was too obscene?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It’s also possible that the military had been using such a device for decades and it was actually prior art that invalidated the patent, but this was lost in the retelling. 🤔
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len()⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
My point is that if your variable can be None then you need the same pattern for the length check.

So for the Pythonic version:
```
if (foo is not None) and not foo:
   ...
```
For the explicit length check:
```
if (foo is not None) and (len(foo) == 0):
  ...
```
Honestly you’re probably better off using type hints and catching such things with static checks and not adding the None check.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len()⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You’d need to explicitly check for None if using the len() construct as well, so this doesn’t change the point of the article.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len()⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
My ad blocker has blocked all pictures on this article, so I can’t say. 😄
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
We’ve had a similar ban in the Netherlands for a year or two now. Mobile phones were already not allowed in classes. Kids seem to have survived.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You are not living in reality if you do not see the huge difference between THEN and NOW⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Forgotten as usual. 😉
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Luxury bones? In *this* economy.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Debt is not a force of nature. Money is owed to someone.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israel publicly announces genocidal intent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
A set of guiding principles from and all-knowing God is not what religion is. Maybe it’s what Abrahamic religions are, but there were religions before them and other religions even today.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israel publicly announces genocidal intent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t think banning is a good answer. My own preferred solution is mandatory religious education. Once you learn about all of the religions of the world the idea that any of them could possibly be correct about either the nature of reality or deciding what is right becomes clearly absurd.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I looked a few years ago when a friend of my partner got a Tesla a few years ago. Picking a color cost like €2000 or so.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Response to Amazon preventing to download books you bought: Some DRM free bookstores and publishers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I always look on itch.io and GoG first!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hetzner announces price hike for cloud servers and bandwidth cut of up to 95%⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
$1 per month is expensive? 🤣
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Would a Fair and Community-Focused Monetization Model on the Fediverse Look Like?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The claim was “Email server owners don’t look at the content”. This is untrue since possibly the largest owner of email servers looks at the content to monetize the service. That’s all.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Would a Fair and Community-Focused Monetization Model on the Fediverse Look Like?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, the largest email company is probably Google (maybe Microsoft). Google definitely looks at every email they receive for users!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GoneWild was once about people feeling wild and posting pictures of it. Now it's just OnlyFans sale⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Meh. I see both?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GoneWild was once about people feeling wild and posting pictures of it. Now it's just OnlyFans sale⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Enshittification is a particular outcome of a particular stage of capitalism.

So, you’re “correcting” someone without them being wrong. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It shows you love them⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I know that you mean well, but you seeing your mother’s vote is exactly why mail in voting should be the exception. Voting booths exist so that votes ate secret, which is how it should be.

My mom hates Trump since she thinks he’s crude, but I’m 99% sure that my dad voted for them both by mail in votes.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14%⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I wish people would stop conflating energy with electricity.

So Germany had ⅔ of it’s electricity from renewables, but still has gas for warming homes, petrol for cars, diesel for trucks, and so on.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's 2025 now, what are the games you'll be starting the year with?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I got Caves of Qud on sale over at itch.io, and have been struggling to get anywhere. The learning curve is steep, so when it gets too much I go back to my Dwarf Fortress game that I started over Christmas.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just discovered Mini Metro, a puzzle game where you have to create metro lines. Very addictive, but also chill, and currently 50% off on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I almost never pause. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯