cygnus
@cygnus@lemmy.ca
- Comment on List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs 13 hours ago:
The meme that GIMP is in any way comparable to PS? Yeah, I agree.
- Comment on This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops 1 week ago:
No the (attempted) joke was using an obviously AI-written text hyping up protests, but it didn’t really work.
- Comment on This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops 1 week ago:
Political protests are incredibly important to me because they give people a way to express their dissatisfaction and push for change. When I see others out in the streets, organizing and demanding attention to issues that matter, it reminds me of the power we have as individuals to challenge the status quo. Protests help raise awareness about injustices that might otherwise go unnoticed, and they can be a catalyst for real, meaningful change. For me, they represent a critical way to hold governments and institutions accountable and ensure that our voices aren’t drowned out. They remind me that political participation is not just a right, but a responsibility to help shape the society we want to live in.
/s in case it wasn’t obvious
- Comment on Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins 2 weeks ago:
The way you’re describing it, it sounds more like you believe privacy is a privilege, not a right.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
How is this a gotcha - isn’t IDF service mandatory for Israeli citizens? Employing any Israelis at all will automatically make many employees ex-IDF.
- Comment on Smartphones and computers are now exempt from Trump’s latest tariffs. 2 weeks ago:
Oh, so the two largest line items among Chinese imports.
- Comment on mwbml, a search engine where the results are community ranked, has indexed 1 billion pages. 5 weeks ago:
we launched Mwmbl, the open source, non-profit search engine, on Boxing Day 2021
Oh and it’s nonamerican too? Definitely going to try this out.
- Comment on Lenovo joins growing China exodus as manufacturers flee US tariffs — OEM moving production lines to India 1 month ago:
Nobody seriously believes Project 2025 is real, or that the USA will backstab Ukraine, or that they would turn against the rest of NATO, or threaten to kick Canada out of Five eyes, or…
When will you fucking guys wake up? Your country is being taken from you and you’re all standing around like “nuh-uh, no one can be stupid enough to do that!” Well I have news for you: there are people that stupid, and half of your countrymen are equally stupid.
- Comment on Lenovo joins growing China exodus as manufacturers flee US tariffs — OEM moving production lines to India 1 month ago:
Our Prime Minister and Foreign Minister believe Trump is using tariffs to force an annexation of Canada, just as his idol McKinley tried in 1870 (he also failed miserably)
- Comment on Lenovo joins growing China exodus as manufacturers flee US tariffs — OEM moving production lines to India 1 month ago:
Yes. Canada and Mexico are transit countries for products coming from China.
What? No.
Plus, he wants to reduce Fentanyl (but I doubt this is the real reason).
Yeah, we all doubt it: 0.2% of US fentanyl came form Canada. Zero point two percent!
- Comment on Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools faster 1 month ago:
vital
Funny that you emphasized this word, which has become such a tell of ChatGPT (along with “delve” and “crucial”).
- Comment on GPT-4.5 1 month ago:
Those charts are hilarious: wow, it gives the right answer 62.5% of the time and only makes up completely false answers 37.1% of the time! It’s like Russian roulette, but worse!
- Comment on BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired 2 months ago:
“Boomer mode”
- Comment on Linux's Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down - Phoronix 2 months ago:
Obligatory XKCD: xkcd.com/2347/
- Comment on Internet Archive played crucial role in tracking shady CDC data removals 2 months ago:
It wouldn’t take much; they had multiple breaches and other problems last fall, seemingly due to very avoidable reasons.
- Comment on Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery 2 months ago:
How is it possible that it draws 100W at idle? What is it even doing?
- Comment on would you buy a compact laptop that has spacebar touch sensitivity and allows you to adjust input sensitivity, giving it dual purpose (a spacebar and a mouse)+ it has integrated A5 printer in it? 3 months ago:
No, but can you make one with spacebar heating?
- Comment on Dell kills the XPS brand 3 months ago:
Wait, “Dell Pro max” isn’t a joke? Or at least not an intentional one?
- Comment on Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund 3 months ago:
Try PopOS if you’re coming from Mac, it’s pretty easy to get used to!
- Comment on 'Star Trek' now a Canadian enterprise. What made it so? 3 months ago:
I’d like to know where the model came from - was it a gift?
Seems to be DIY: www.facebook.com/groups/…/10169226099440427/
- Comment on Meta’s AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With Slop 3 months ago:
Good question. I imagine it’s too niche to make much difference right now, but I can see this eventually being a reprise of the display ad industry shooting itself in the foot by doing nothing about click fraud.
- Comment on AI-generated phishing emails are getting very good at targeting executives 3 months ago:
That sounds like the same kind of guy who will make a never-ending stink because he insists on BYOD despite IT’s objections.
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 5 months ago:
I like Jason but he completely missed the boat on this one.
The active migration away from social media networks that are owned, controlled by, and distorted by the richest men and most powerful companies in the world to a decentralized platform that is not owned and controlled by billionaires is one of the more hopeful things to happen in what has largely been a bleak year for the human internet as AI slop infects everything and billionaires put their thumbs on the scale of what we see on social media.
He says this and yet jumps to Bluesky, a platform created by Jack Dorsey and now owned and managed by a crypto bro? You don’t need powers of prophecy to see where Bluesky is headed.
- Comment on Meet the Star Trek: Section 31 Crew 5 months ago:
My expectations for this show could not be any lower.
- Comment on I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks 5 months ago:
I’m not surprised the Corsair is better - it looks like there’s a whole nvme drive in there.
- Comment on Russian court fines Google $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 5 months ago:
What’s that number in words?
Per the article, it’s 20 decillion.
- Comment on Elon Musk Fans Are Losing So Much Money to Crypto Scams 5 months ago:
I can absolutely see how the greedy would get scammed by this.
Really? The only way that could sound more like a scam is if there were a chyron at the bottom spelling out THIS IS A SCAM.
- Comment on So Long WordPress. 5 months ago:
Kirby
I wish they had agency pricing. Buying a license for every install is a bit much.
- Comment on Update: Bitwarden posted to X this evening to reaffirm that it's a "packaging bug" and that "Bitwarden remains committed to the open source licensing model." 6 months ago:
That tweet has such a clinical PR tone to it that is not helping put me at ease and im probably going to be moving my vault
Calling open source a “licensing model” in particular sounds like MBA-speak.
- Comment on New "Lower Decks" poster 6 months ago:
This makes me want a Lower Decks movie.