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- Comment on The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon 20 hours ago:
That’s because Ace Hardware is franchised. It’s essentially a bunch of small businesses that use the same branding.
- Comment on *Now you're playing with power!* 21 hours ago:
If you think that’s bad, imagine an equivalently-accessorized Game Gear.
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 2 days ago:
This is why the Fediverse and VPNs/Tor etc. are so important.
- Comment on How Nintendo locked down the Switch 2’s USB-C port and broke third-party docking 2 days ago:
How is this not illegal in the EU?
- Comment on Costco changed the bag to plastic!! 3 days ago:
It depends what they’re tweaking and why. For example, a lot of stuff is tweaked to become “Roundup ready,” and facilitating the mass use of glyphosate is dangerous.
- Comment on Costco changed the bag to plastic!! 3 days ago:
You’re right: plastic is just as recyclable now as it was before.
Which is to say, it continues to largely fail to be recyclable.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 4 days ago:
I’m surprised there aren’t massive protests scheduled for July 4.
- Comment on Racist AI-generated videos are garnering millions of views on TikTok 4 days ago:
Not economic decline; spiraling inequality. Which is even worse, in some important ways.
- Comment on Cloudflare blocking AI crawlers 5 days ago:
Could very well be. I’m using OpenWRT and basically did the bare minimum to get it to work.
- Comment on The effects of Lemm.ee shutdown can already be seen. 5 days ago:
It seems high as Lemm.ee had 1k daily active users for the last week.
What’s the count from the week before the shutdown announcement?
- Comment on Religion choices 5 days ago:
Brody, 20 years older, in a bolo tie.
- Comment on Just keep typing, wage slaves 5 days ago:
Look up the story of the Citycorp Center in Manhattan; that’s always a fun one.
- Comment on Just keep typing, wage slaves 5 days ago:
Time is a cube!
- Comment on Cloudflare blocking AI crawlers 5 days ago:
Yeah, it’s only anecdotal but I feel like hobbyists like us, who do slightly unusual things without nefarious intent, who are the ones who get hit with these sorts of issues the most. For example, I’ve noticed that some websites start throwing captchas at me or even just straight-up refuse to load with 403: unauthorized errors because I have my router set up to load-balance across two Internet connections. (At least, that’s my guess as to why it’s happening.)
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 6 days ago:
Check the part about misinformation.
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 6 days ago:
What Linux infrastructure? The wikis and torrent links?
Package database mirrors (i.e. the things you’re downloading from when you install new software).
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 6 days ago:
Unless there’s a miracle, it would be:
4 consumer are relegated to DRM’d-to-Hell-and-back smartphones
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 6 days ago:
And that’s honestly why this story isn’t the good news it appears to be. An entire generation growing up used to (or rather, used by) locked-down devices designed for consumption is a goddamned disaster!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
See also: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/…/TheissTitillationTheory : “The sexiness of an outfit is directly proportional to the perceived possibility that a vital piece of it might fall off.”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
To be fair, if your son cares it’s only because you/society taught him to care.
- Comment on YSK: For-Profit News companies are willing to create the world you want, so they can get your clicks. 1 week ago:
I mean, yes, but no. I hate (and I mean really, really hate) to admit it, but the success of all the right-wing propaganda as of late has made it undeniable that perception is very capable of creating reality.
- Comment on (PC) Chill farming games (non-Anime)? 1 week ago:
My initial impression of Moonstone Island is that it’s kind of like a cross between Stardew Valley and Pokemon. Does that sound about right?
- Comment on Vancouver man says institutions unable to recognize new Indigenous street name 1 week ago:
To be fair, not considering unicode support a priority is a pretty damn English-language-centric attitude.
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- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 1 week ago:
Upton Sinclair has entered the chat
- Comment on UK’s Major Porn Providers Agree to Age Checks From Next Month; Aylo, Owner of Pornhub, YouPorn, and RedTube, Will Add Age Assurance Checks by July 25. 1 week ago:
I’m disappointed that Pornhub is apparently capitulating instead of blocking access entirely in protest, like they’ve done in other jurisdictions.
- Comment on PNG is back! 1 week ago:
Wasn’t JPEG XL sabotaged by patents or something?
- Comment on spicy one 1 week ago:
Well, now you’ve piqued my curiosity. Got a link?
The Wikipedia article I’m reading right now says that the Indian plate split from Gondwana 100 MY ago (33 MY before the Chicxulub impact), so that’s not the connection. Further down the page, it says that the plate movement might have sped up as it passed over the mantle plume from the impact that created the Deccan Traps (my interpretation, BTW; the science isn’t actually as settled as I’m making it out to be), but it seems to me that that wouldn’t change the “result” of the plate colliding with Asia and creating the Indian Subcontinent, only the timing of the collision.
- Comment on Us? 1 week ago:
Fun fact: Smartwater bottles are popular with ultralight backpackers because they’re cheap, lightweight, and durable enough to survive an entire Appalachian Trail thru-hike.
In other words, it’s fucking ridiculous that they’re sold as single-use plastics.
- Comment on spicy one 1 week ago:
Considering that we’re in the midst of the Anthropocene mass extinction event already, I’d say it would be a certainty. The only question would be how bad it would get. Given how much larger that crater would be than Chicxulub, I’m guessing it would exceed the “Great Dying” to take the crown.