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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why console makers can legally brick your game console⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Answer (without even needing to read the article): they can’t legally brick your console, but we live in an oligarchy that refuses to enforce the law against the powerful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WaaaaAAALLLEEEeee⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Early-2000s PowerMac vs. MacBook

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The unprompted texts I send my best friend.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Puerto Rico is part of the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Be prepared for some respondents to choose the middle option as a proxy for “not applicable,” because that’s what I did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  One existing study that surveyed the general population found that about 8.4% of respondents were self-hosting users

  Wow! That’s a lot higher than I would’ve expected. My guess would’ve been about 1%, or maybe even an order of magnitude or so less than that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How I discovered my partner was an undercover police officer sent to spy on me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Kennedy, who resigned from the Met in 2010, had sexual relationships with as many as 10 other women while undercover.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 supports USB mouse controls, developer reveals⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  MARIO PAINT 2 LETS GOOOOOOOOO

  (Just kidding; I don’t give ever Nintendo my money anymore.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monty Python predicted social media⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  ITT: no actual arguments, just mere contradictions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kangaroo 'tries to drown' man in Australian floodwaters⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile, I’m here on the other side of the world nodding my head and saying “yep, Australia checks out.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Batterypunk⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In this case, we can tell it’s likely parallel because the springs (negative terminals) are on the same side. When the batteries are in series they’re usually placed in the compartment facing alternating directions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. inks bill to force geo-tracking tech for high-end gaming and AI GPUs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Linux

  Believe it or not, straight to CECOT.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. inks bill to force geo-tracking tech for high-end gaming and AI GPUs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  INB4 the US outlaws Free Software drivers and mandates DRM and locked firmware in all new PCs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  An app anonymously tracks if an user clicks a button or not. This becomes “ThIs APp pHOnEs HomE tRaCkiNg uSErS”

  That is not normal and I absolutely object to it! Fuck anybody who wants to normalize that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So what you’re saying is that somebody needs to integrate it into the Fediverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And gay men. I'm sorry. I'm weak for it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If I like my coffee not only with ice but also sweetened, blended, and topped with whipped cream, does it wrap back around to straight?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  STFU, ghost of Dallas executive producer Leonard Katzman!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, so are you the one who did this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Markets sink as debt worries hammer U.S. bonds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure Trump himself repeatedly questioning the validity of the debt and threatening to default on it had nothing to do with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Medicaid researcher attacked by Elon Musk's DOGE just killed herself⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Never kill yourself for something that’s somebody else’s fault.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Witcher III is currently on sale for 3€ until 25th May⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so patient I haven’t played The Witcher 1 or 2 either. Should I get W3 Complete + W1 + W2 for 9.99 + 1.49 + 2.99 = 14.47, or get the trilogy bundle with only the W3 base game for 1.49 + 2.99 + 3.99) * 0.9 = 7.62 and wait for the W3 expansions to be more than 70% at some future date? (In other words, are W1 and W2 likely to keep me busy for a long time, and does a playthrough of W3 need the expansions installed at the start or is it more of a ‘complete the base game and then to the expansion content afterward’ sort of thing?)

  Also, are “The Witcher Adventure Game” and “Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales” worthwhile/important?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Orleans used Minority Report-like facial recognition software to monitor citizens for crime suspects: Report⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It sure would be a shame if the cameras started failing due to damage faster than they could be replaced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Le Creuset enameled cast iron isn’t the same kind of thing as the ceramic nonstick the person upthread was talking about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Putting a second story on likely includes increasing the number of bedrooms, which theoretically increases the number of people who could be living there and thus increase the burden on city services. Renovating for quality and building additions to the square footage aren’t equivalent.

  I think lot sizes are still a much bigger factor, though: a house renovated/rebuilt to max out the allowed FAR (floor-area ratio) on a 1/4 acre lot still ought to get taxed less than a modest-sized house on a 2-acre lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s just scapegoating bullshit temporarily-embarrassed NIMBYs like to tell themselves to avoid the hard truth that we have to fix the zoning code.

  The fact is, plenty of houses exist at reasonable prices in rural areas and small towns. But you don’t want to live in those places, do you? You want to live in a big metro area, just like everybody else. Well, when everybody wants to live in the same place you have to build enough housing units for them all to fucking fit in the same place, or you end up playing musical chairs and the ones who aren’t rich lose. That’s just a fact of geometry and basic supply and demand, not the diabolical machinations of some villain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The fuck-up was by the city, which failed to abolish the single-family zoning in order to allow the land to be developed to its highest and best use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well at least for tax purposes and likely insurance, but not necessarily market rate (tax assessments commonly lag the market, so a market downturn could leave them with a multi-million dollar house that no one will pay the stated value for

  More like the house is likely worth even more than the $4.4M it was assessed at. But nice try trying to spin your point to fit your narrative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  but if you apply the same rate to the homes that average people have to buy you’re going to end up in a shitty spot

  And that’s why you don’t do that and instead make progressive taxation a thing.

  If taxing the rich is the goal we shouldn’t be talking about property taxes on single family homes unless it’s specifically related to second and third homes.

  Nah. It is good and correct to tax extremely large single-family homes at high rates even if they’re primary residences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Simply tying property taxes to home value isn’t fair, because the burden a person puts on city services doesn’t increase just because the perceived value of their home rises.

  It depends how much home value correlates to house size and lot size. A $1M 1500 sqft bungalow on a 1/4 acre lot in a gentrified neighborhood may not burden city services more than a $100k 1500 sqft bungalow on a 1/4 acre lot in a bad neighborhood, but a $1M McMansion on a 2-acre lot on the edge of the city absolutely will. That’s because the cost of city services scales with things like increasing the length of pavement and sewer pipe across the lot frontage and decreasing the number of homes emergency services can reach within a reasonable distance/time from the station.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you mean, “illegal?” If the phone user consents to turning it on, that makes it legal.

  I hate to defend Google, but I will absolutely defend single-party consent for recording. Don’t like it? Don’t fucking call me in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Based on the post title I was expecting to say “no,” but that’s because I was also expecting “heliobiology” to be about sentient plasma eddies or something, not woo-woo magnetic bullshit somehow affecting humans.

  No, seriously, even life inside stars is less implausible than the nonsense you’re asking about: sciencealert.com/physicists-argue-that-life-based…