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- Comment on Star Wars is an ode to the stupidest use of battle lasers 5 days ago:
Space opera, specifically.
- Comment on Holy sh*t: Jack Dorsey just Announced Bitchat(A secure, decentralized, peer-to-peer messaging app for iOS and macOS that works over Bluetooth mesh networks) Licensed Under Public Domain. 1 week ago:
In practice range seems to be a few kilometers, in places with lots of nodes.
- Comment on Solar + Battery (covering 97% of demand) is now cheaper than coal and nuclear 1 week ago:
Very sunny places, like Los Vegas.
- Comment on Corporations are saving the planet! 2 weeks ago:
In the Netherlands plastic waste is mostly burned, I believe.
- Comment on Corporations are saving the planet! 2 weeks ago:
I remember when cans used to have tabs that tore off. These were changed to the current model, where the tab stays attached after the can is opened.
People complained that they couldn’t drink properly with the new tab design. I guess they either figured it out, died, started using a glass, or gave up drinks in cans completely, since I haven’t heard this complaint in decades.
Anyway, I hope you figure it out, comrade! Good luck!
- Comment on Just one more 3 weeks ago:
Could be here?
- Comment on Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted 4 weeks ago:
By self-hosted you mean you have hardware geographically distributed? Like… boxes at friend’s houses or…?
- Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 5 weeks ago:
All of these were taken by the state, not the workers, which was the question.
- Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 5 weeks ago:
I know it’s asking a lot, but you could give an example instead of insulting me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 5 weeks ago:
I can’t think of any examples. Taking over the company requires capital, which is the one thing that capitalists constantly extract from workers so they don’t have any.
The workers of xs4all tried when their new corporate owners, KPN, decided to dissolve them. But a combination of lack of funding and unfriendly courts prevented that. They did end up starting a new company though…
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 5 weeks ago:
Sort of. They can be, but are not always.
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 1 month ago:
We’ve already got free software for filing taxes, kthxbye!
- Comment on public services of an entire german state switches from Microsoft to open source (Libreoffice, Linux, Nextcloud, Thunderbird) 1 month ago:
Is it? Almost every time I use it I end up hitting a bug or missing feature. Just last week I was trying to get Word in Office365 to keep some lines together. I followed the instructions from Microsoft’s help and it didn’t work. Last month I was trying to get “slide M of N” on the bottom of PowerPoint in Office365, but apparently getting the N is just not supported.
LibreOffice almost always works for me, far more often than Microsoft Office.
- Comment on Gemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt out 1 month ago:
I put a tl;dr sentence or two at the top of any e-mail more than a couple of paragraphs. Sometimes for those too.
- Comment on Gemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt out 1 month ago:
I run my own email and I have to say I wouldn’t recommend it.
The biggest hassle is dealing with either Spamhaus or Microsoft, who apparently at random decide to put my IPs on blacklist, and who provide hurdles to working around this (for Spamhaus) or just say “no” (for Microsoft).
- Comment on Telegram will integrate Elon Musk's Grok A.I into the app 1 month ago:
I was about 80% successful switching to Signal from Telegram. So worthwhile.
- Comment on VCs are starting to partner with private equity to buy up call centers, accounting firms and other "mature companies" to replace their operations with AI 1 month ago:
A huge portion of the Netherlands works part time by choice. So, yes, many people voluntarily waive parts of their salary.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 1 month ago:
I’d take that power.
- Comment on How I discovered my partner was an undercover police officer sent to spy on me 1 month ago:
“It is important to note that since Mark Kennedy’s deployment there has been enormous change in undercover policing, both in the Met and nationally, and I want to be clear that this case in no way reflects modern-day undercover policing.”
Press X to doubt.
- Comment on The world was a nicer place before the advent of leaf blowers 1 month ago:
Good episode for sure. Well… most 99% Invisible episodes are good!
- Comment on Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected 2 months ago:
Can you? When all businesses start using AI for customer interaction…
- Comment on Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings 2 months 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? 2 months 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 2 months 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 months 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 months 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 months ago:
Charge your phone! 😉
- Comment on Although i love it 2 months 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.”
- Comment on Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones 2 months 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 months ago:
Caves of Qud. I don’t even like it much, but for some reason I can’t stop.