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- Comment on Indonesia blocks Grok over non-consensual, sexualized deepfakes 2 hours ago:
Temporarily? Boooooo.
- Comment on Where are the marketing volunteers? 3 hours ago:
Could it be that marketing is an inherently pro-capitalism line of work and its practitioners are unlikely to be altruistic enough to volunteer, especially for something like Free Software?
- Comment on Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods 2 days ago:
Lucius shouldn’t have that power either! It’s not an issue of being “stable enough;” it’s an issue of anyone having it!
It’s analogous to a limited hangout. Sure, they acknowledge it’s wrong, but that doesn’t stop them from doing it and they suffer no bad consequences for that choice. Really, what’s the Aesop people are actually going to take from it? The one based on the demonstrably empty words, or the one based on the actions?
- Comment on Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods 2 days ago:
“This is wrong” — Lucius Fox, The Dark Knight
Prescient, and also an example of copaganda/how corporate media conditions the public to accept this shit because the “good guy” is the one using it.
- Comment on EU's new "Open source strategy" needs feedback and input 2 days ago:
Do you have to be European?
- Comment on Right to protest is under attack in England and Wales, reports warn 2 days ago:
I am starting to get real sick and tired of all these fascist deniers pretending things aren’t getting worse.
- Comment on 'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular 3 days ago:
Would you happen to have a source for that? Admittedly this is based on nothing more than my anecdotal experience living through it, but I owned a PocketPC back then and I distinctly remember feeling like I was in the minority.
- Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why 3 days ago:
I’m OOTL. Why don’t people recommend GitLab?
- Comment on My apartment building gives me free water but I pay for electricity. What if I run the faucet nonstop and rig up a hydro turbine in my bathtub to generate my power from it? 3 days ago:
What does that have to do with water pressure? In that system, the energy comes from the heat.
- Comment on 'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular 4 days ago:
When was that? I only remember Palm having a lead, and then Blackberry, and then iOS and Android. Windows CE and Windows Mobile were never more than also-rans.
- Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space 4 days ago:
Windows 95 on CD-ROM included three music videos, presumably to show off the capabilities of the format.
- Comment on Pope Leo calls for Venezuela to remain an independent country 6 days ago:
Pope Leo needs to be calling for Catholic Americans to start a literal crusade against Trump if he wants to actually change anything.
- Comment on It is theoretically possible to constantly travel so that it is perpetually daytime wherever you are 1 week ago:
The trick is traveling between the arctic and antarctic quickly enough on each equinox.
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 1 week ago:
I’ve been playing games on [K]Ubuntu just for almost a decade now. There are no excuses, and haven’t been for a long time.
- Comment on Snitches get switches 1 week ago:
That’s what makes them the exception that shouldn’t be reported.
- Comment on Snitches get switches 1 week ago:
I mean, it’s sufficiently descriptive to imply that randos shouldn’t be messing with the plants on it. As a native English speaker, it makes sense just fine.
- Comment on Snitches get switches 1 week ago:
It could mean anything from private land with an easement to prohibit building on it to a National Park, depending on context and jurisdiction. It’s just a non-specific term for “land that is conserved in some way.”
- Comment on NJ’s """answer""" to flooding: it has bought out and demolished 1,200 properties 1 week ago:
If New Jersey acts but other entities don’t, the fight against climate change might fail. If nobody acts because they assume everybody else won’t, the fight will definitely fail.
Therefore, your question is irrelevant and New Jersey must act.
- Comment on NJ’s """answer""" to flooding: it has bought out and demolished 1,200 properties 1 week ago:
Depends on the cause of the flooding. If it’s failure to enforce limits on impervious surface of new construction, they need to fix that. If it’s climate change, they need to make policies that address the causes of climate change (e.g. zoning reform for walkability).
That’s in addition to buying out the properties, not instead of, BTW.
- Comment on enclose.horse 1 week ago:
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- Comment on The 10 most anticipated video games of 2026 1 week ago:
Can’t say I’m “stoked,” but those two looked the most interesting in a list full of AAA licensed garbage.
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 1 week ago:
Can you actually install your hacked version on your TV, or is it DRM’d to prevent it? That’s the only thing that matters.
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 1 week ago:
Sure, because caring about users’ rights is “insane.” Because caring about societal effects of (lack of) antitrust and consumer protection law is “insane.” Because having an ounce of goddamn self-respect and not wanting to be abused is “insane.”
No, I don’t think I’m insane at all, actually. I think you can fuck all the way off with your corporatist simping!
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 1 week ago:
What the fuck? I said I don’t even actually care if the kernel is Linux or NT (or anything else) as long as it’s genuinely open so the user can modify it, and you somehow try to twist that as quibbling over distros?! Way to miss the point by a goddamn mile!
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 1 week ago:
It really isn’t, though. It will still have a shitty UI that tries to shove the “smart” features in your face, it’ll probably shove some bullshit EULA in your face on first startup, and engage in other dark patterns.
- Comment on The mObywatel's user interface source code has been published 1 week ago:
However, browsing it requires an active ”Profil Zaufany” (exactly translated to English as Trusted Profile) account, which is not available for registration for people outside of Poland.
According to the ministry’s statement issued in their own Public Information Bulletin, this requirement has been enforced as a part of ”recommendations issued by the Ministry of National Defence’s CSIRT team, which include the possibility of user accountability”.
Moreover, the published code cannot be easily copied over while browsing via the official website.
🙄 fucking user-hostile wankers
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 1 week ago:
That’s great for the folks who have access to decades-old pre-enshittification technology and the means to maintain it, but what about everybody else?
“Just go live in the fucking woods like the Unabomber, eschewing modern technology” is not a valid solution for normal people! The law must be changed to protect them from predatory abusive corporations.
- Comment on Greece, Italy and France ignore ICC warrant as Netanyahu flies through airspace for Trump talks 1 week ago:
What were they supposed to do? Scramble jets and intercept/ force a landing?
YES!
Surely shooting them down if they haven’t faced a trial can’t be protocol, as a U.S. citizen that would be like blowing up boats and claiming they have drugs on them and not letting the people stand trial
Your comparison is bullshit and you should feel bad. The essential difference is that the US Navy isn’t even trying to give the falsely-accused fisherman a chance to surrender and stand trial.
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 1 week ago:
Because the distinction matters. The corporate raping of Linux has to stop being tolerated or else nothing is solved. The technical details of the kernel don’t actually matter; the licensing and openness is what matters. Hell, if the Windows NT kernel got magically relicensed to AGPLv3 tomorrow it would instantly become the superior option just because of that.
Linux doesn’t fucking matter. Copyleft matters.
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 1 week ago:
This is why permissive licensing isn’t good enough; copyleft is essential. Every part of the system – the tech itself, the management, and the legal/business structure – have to be designed to resist being subverted against the user.