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- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 2 days ago:
That’s not what that means and you know it. It refuses to work unless it can successfully phone home over the Internet.
- Comment on Thousands of Australians call for neo-Nazi leader to be deported to New Zealand 3 days ago:
The US is apparently trying to send people to South Sudan. I don’t mean to suggest that Australia should take inspiration from them, but that seems like a good place to send a racist asshat.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 4 days ago:
Allowing ISPs to pick and choose winners among web services is absolutely what Net Neutrality is about. Bundling or discounting subscriptions isn’t technically the same thing as zero-rating, but the end result of making a particular ISP-preferred service cheaper than alternatives is the same.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 4 days ago:
Wow, shilling for YouTube premium and anti-net-neutrality (the “discount through your phone company” part) in one comment.
- Comment on Scientific possibility! 5 days ago:
If we can see evidence of feathers, we could see evidence of clothes too.
- Comment on FTC chair Andrew Ferguson warns Google not to filter or suppress emails sent by Republicans over Gmail 1 week ago:
Yes, like sorting mails into folders except they can be in more than one at a time. It’d be nice if IMAP were updated to support that sort of thing sync’d on the server.
- Comment on A look at search engines with their own indexes 1 week ago:
On doit apprendre le français (ou l’allemand) pour rechercher le web sans indices Américains? Défi accepté!
- Comment on What am I agreeing to? 1 week ago:
I hate it when Free Software installers present the GPL as if it’s an EULA. It’s not! You don’t have to agree to it to install the software!
You only have to agree to it if you decide to do something that copyright law otherwise does not allow (e.g. redistribution of a modified version), and it is the act of doing that thing itself that signals your acceptance, no button-clicking necessary.
- Comment on The Mysterious Noise, The Empty Bottle, The Asshole Labmate 1 week ago:
Sealab 2021, not 2020.
- Comment on FTC chair Andrew Ferguson warns Google not to filter or suppress emails sent by Republicans over Gmail 1 week ago:
I like the “tags instead of folders” approach though. It’s been a while since I checked; can a normal IMAP-based account + email client like Thunderbird do that these days?
- Comment on redwoods 1 week ago:
The problem with the fires lately isnt that they’re happening, it’s that they’re happening too frequently.
I thought the problem was that they weren’t happening frequently enough, allowing too much undergrowth to build up and make them worse than they’re supposed to be?
(But I’m not from California, so you probably know better.)
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 1 week ago:
Well that sucks.
In that case, sell your Samsung secondhand and then start over with a device from a company that’s less abusive.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 1 week ago:
I don’t know yet; I’m about to email the media coordinator to find out what happens when I refuse to sign the form.
My kids already have Raspberry Pi 400s (might upgrade them to 500s soon), and I have about half a dozen other computers (not including old retired stuff or my pile of other Raspberry Pis), all running Linux. This house is not at all lacking in technology, and I no longer tolerate proprietary shit in it.
What’s really fucked up is that the school district makes all these decisions basically unilaterally – not just for Chromebooks, but for other proprietary nonsense like ClassDojo and Remind and MySchoolBucks – and just assumes every parent will be cool with unquestioningly entering contracts with all these third-party entities. And even worse, most parents are cool with it!
- Comment on FTC chair Andrew Ferguson warns Google not to filter or suppress emails sent by Republicans over Gmail 1 week ago:
Let’s be honest: if Google’s spam filters were biased they’d be filtering and suppressing Democrat emails, not Republican ones.
- Comment on Taco Bell Says 'No Más' to AI Drive-Thru Experiment 1 week ago:
Never mind AI; drive-throughs themselves are absolutely shit-tier urbanism and ought to be outlawed.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 1 week ago:
If you don’t look for avenues around literally everything “default”, you’re being scammed. They don’t, so they will be.
And this is why the real solution we need is enforcement of anti-trust law, not mere individual boycotts.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 1 week ago:
You should return your Samsung for a refund and then start over with a device from a company that’s less abusive.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 1 week ago:
All the non-Google entities that build stuff on Android need to start banding together instead of siloing themselves. If AOSP is being closed, they need to create a non-profit replacement for it.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 1 week ago:
It’s 2025. Many cheap, low-powered devices have more than 2GB of RAM at this point.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 1 week ago:
You can stop using all Google products.
My public school – that my children are basically required by law to attend, remember – is badgering me to sign a consent form so they can have Chromebooks.
This fight is a lot fucking larger than mere individual boycotts!
- Comment on House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias 1 week ago:
You forgot the scare quotes around “oppressed.”
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 1 week ago:
It really doesn’t, though. Unless the company running the website has a presence within the EU – which means it ceases to count as “outside” – there’s fuck-all the EU can do to enforce it.
- Comment on CEO Boasts That He Laid Off 80 Percent of His Staff Because They Didn't Love AI Enough, Threatens to Do It Again 1 week ago:
If they’re being removed for cause rather than lack of work that’s a firing, not a layoff. Why is he lying?
- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 1 week ago:
I’m suddenly wondering if horny multiplayer games for couples is already a thing, or if it’s an untapped market.
- Comment on Toyota Is Recycling Old EV Batteries to Help Power Mazda's Production Line 1 week ago:
IIRC, the Mazda3 was based on the same platform as the European version of the Ford Focus
- Comment on Intel details everything that could go wrong with US taking a 10% stake 1 week ago:
Literally illegal. Only AMD and Intel have the patent cross-licensing rights to make x86 chips. There used to be a third company (Cyrix and subsequently VIA), and (maybe?) still is, but it hasn’t been relevant to the desktop CPU market in decades.
- Comment on Intel details everything that could go wrong with US taking a 10% stake 1 week ago:
No. AMD is fabless; TSMC doesn’t design chips. They’re in different parts of the supply chain.
- Comment on Bambu Lab announces the Vortek H2C, an automatic nozzle-changing version of the H2D 1 week ago:
They haven’t really given anything, but they haven’t tried to take anything away, either. They fall under the clause in my previous comment before the “especially” part.
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 1 week ago:
As a civil engineer with only a tiny bit of experience cos I switched to software.
Holy shit, I’m not the only one?!
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 1 week ago:
Not to knock college undergrad core curriculum, but that strong base ought to be acquired before graduating high school.