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- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 week ago:
Franco’s regime in Spain lasted decades. Actually so did the fascists in Italy…
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 week ago:
That’s literally how The Handmaid’s Tale history went.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 week ago:
“quick” like within a couple of days? I think we were all watching tanks roll towards Kiev and amazed that Russia didn’t have air superiority yet.
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 2 weeks ago:
Proper accounting would consider the costs of retraining against the existing vendor. After all, that’s vendor lock-in, which your vendor will use to raise prices…
- Comment on GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You 2 weeks ago:
That sounds kind of good, really. Of course, more profits are always better, but breaking even is awesome.
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 1 month ago:
Thanks for the offer! But I’ve been running Linux only since 2002 or so, currently with Arch on my laptop, because I’m not yet brave enough to try Nyx. 😄
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 1 month ago:
I just installed Linux Mint on my dad’s old laptop. He asked me to do it!
I checked and it could run Windows 11 with a RAM upgrade. But he wasn’t interested in that.
He was surprised at all of the software installed by default. And mostly just uses the browser to read his Outlook mail…
- Comment on The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal 1 month ago:
Yeah, they caught the Dread Pirate Roberts because he leaked some account name, IIRC. There is no such thing as perfect opsec. 😬
- Comment on International travel 3 months ago:
The only time that I experienced genuine dislike for my nationality was when I told a Serbian person at a training that I was giving that I’m American. I think that feelings run deeper when your home has been bombed or invaded or similar by another country.
My father in law has no time for Germans, which I kind of get since he is a Dutch Jew and half of his family was killed during the German occupation of the Netherlands.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I find this trend to disregard every action as “not enough to matter” to be tiring.
Unless such a reply contains specific actions to take in place of what is reported, then I basically consider them propaganda for the existing powers to encourage further inaction.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 4 months ago:
Backseats of cars? This is the UK not Florida.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 4 months ago:
I use up3foe torrenting, but Tor for porn. It’s fine.
- Comment on OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models 5 months ago:
Probably not, since I’m a vegan.
- Comment on OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models 5 months ago:
Do you have a citation handy for that?
- Comment on Star Wars is an ode to the stupidest use of battle lasers 6 months 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. 6 months 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 6 months ago:
Very sunny places, like Los Vegas.
- Comment on Corporations are saving the planet! 6 months ago:
In the Netherlands plastic waste is mostly burned, I believe.
- Comment on Corporations are saving the planet! 6 months 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 6 months ago:
Could be here?
- Comment on Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months 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. 7 months 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 7 months 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) 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months ago:
I was about 80% successful switching to Signal from Telegram. So worthwhile.