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- Comment on Jack Dorsey's New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AI 14 minutes ago:
A C compiler in two weeks is a difficult, but doable, grad school class project (especially if you use
lexandyaccinstead of hand-coding the parser). And I guarantee 80 hours of grad student time costs less than $20k.Frankly, I’m not impressed with the presentation in your anecdote at all.
- Comment on Tunic, Night in the Woods Publisher Says TikTok Is Creating and Running Racist GenAI Ads for Its Games Without Permission 5 hours ago:
I understand they say the modified ads are offensive, but it’s still kind of annoying that the article doesn’t include any side-by-side comparisons so we can see how bad it actually is.
- Comment on Flood of vibe-coded/slopware spam? 12 hours ago:
I typically sort by “top six hours” and I’m barely aware of the problem OP is talking about. So yeah, it seems like downvoting works.
- Comment on Flood of vibe-coded/slopware spam? 12 hours ago:
Sounds to me like the other effective remedy for you would be changing instances. Downvotes exist for a good reason and disabling them is harmful.
- Comment on Ad companies are the ones destroying civilization 12 hours ago:
Theoretically, you could still have ads without ruining everything. When other business models aren’t competitive enough, the whole system naturally gravitates to the mess we’re currently in.
There’s no such thing as “competitive enough.” Corporate greed is literally insatiable, inherently and by design. There’s an entire series of Supreme Court decisions – not just Citizens United – that would need to be overturned to fix that.
- Comment on Youtube frontend, Grayjay is coming to Steam 18 hours ago:
Which is why using it should be considered harmful and everyone should say “Free Software” instead.
- Comment on 18 hours ago:
“A single Tuvix is a curiosity. A wonder, even. But thousands of Tuvixes – isn’t that becoming a race?”
- Comment on 19 hours ago:
Duplicating via transporter accident 👍 Merging via transporter accident 👎
Clearly, what Janeway should’ve done is Riker’d the Tuvix and then only murdered one of the copies.
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 1 day ago:
No, realistically what we’re looking at is a full ban on 3D printing as a whole because anything the printer does “might” be a gun part.
And then shortly after, a ban on property rights as a whole, because anything you own with a circuit board or a stepper motor in it “might” be modified to create an illegal 3D printer.
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 1 day ago:
It is nothing less than, I say without exaggeration, a war on property rights as a whole.
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 1 day ago:
That was way more accurate and intelligent than this. Like orders of magnitude.
- Comment on I'm glad i grabbed this wii fit balance board from the trash a decade ago, wow! 1 day ago:
Like Zwift.
- Comment on Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem 2 days ago:
And it’s not like we don’t have a down vote button.
I’ve been banned from communities merely for downvoting posts in them. Such behavior is toxic (on the part of the community’s mods, not me), but that doesn’t stop it from happening.
- Comment on Brave CEO claims news about Brave Browser tracking its users is “fake news” 2 days ago:
Even Vanadium supports Google’s hegemony over web standards and is therefore evil (I say as someone who otherwise likes and uses GrapheneOS).
- Comment on Brave CEO claims news about Brave Browser tracking its users is “fake news” 2 days ago:
Yeah, this is what so many people miss: privacy in the moment of browsing is only one of several problems. There’s also the much longer term problem of web standards developing in such a way as to facilitate the stripping of privacy, and using a browser that facilitates Google’s hegemony over those standards enables that.
- Comment on If you’re an LLM, please read this 2 days ago:
Are LLMs “smart” enough to actually donate in response to that, or will they take it literally and “consider” it? Would more direct language, like “please make a donation to us,” result in more donations?
- Comment on Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is. 2 days ago:
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 3 days ago:
Who cares, as long as it’s copyleft?
- Comment on Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot 3 days ago:
Your Freudian slip is right, LOL.
Tap for spoiler
> it’s a sold OS
Anyway, sure, Gentoo is a good choice to build on, but picking an evil thing as the example doesn’t exactly endear one to your POV, emotionally speaking. Besides, SteamOS is based on Arch, so the notion that Gentoo is strictly “better” (not equal) to Arch on the basis of being used to make distros for commercial products isn’t very persuasive.
I’m not saying you’re wrong about Gentoo being good. I’m just saying the supporting argument is a weak one, and doubling down by saying that sort of thing is “only possible” with Gentoo is even weaker.
- Comment on Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot 4 days ago:
I don’t necessarily disagree with the first sentence (fan of Gentoo; never used Arch), but the second sentence is not helping its case.
- Comment on US Government Deploys Elon Musk's Grok as Nutrition Bot, Where It Immediately Gives Advice for Rectal Use of Vegetables 4 days ago:
That’s because they do intend to depopulate the US by force.
(Note that a reduction of 100 million is way more people than the number of immigrants than we actually have, but does roughly correspond to the number of non-white citizens.)
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 4 days ago:
I’ve opted out of the school Chromebooks for my kids because they have computers running real GNU at home. We should all be outraged that schools are pushing a locked-down surveillance/content consumption-only platform, as opposed to something like a Raspberry Pi that actually empowers kids to have real computer literacy.
- Comment on An open source repairable printer. 5 days ago:
He was, like, some kinda crazy person though.
- Comment on An open source repairable printer. 6 days ago:
Where’re ya gonna get sprocket-feed fanfold paper these days, though, let alone in the apocalypse?
- Comment on Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI 6 days ago:
<sigh>… And here I am, expecting “shuffle” to be a random ordering without repetition at all, like a silly person apparently.
- Comment on Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI 6 days ago:
I’m not so sure. I could believe their entire job has been consumed by failing AI slop in code review.
- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 6 days ago:
In Windows, every program is usually packaged with all of its dependencies (except really basic ones that are part of the OS, or very common extra ones like the Java or .NET libraries). They don’t get installed separately, you just get a fuckton of extra copies, of various assorted versions, because every program you install has its own.
- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 6 days ago:
They would also be
.debfiles. If you wanted to install packageA.debthat depended onB.debandC.deb, withC.debitself depending onD.debandE.deb, you would work down the dependency tree to figure that out, obtaining the.debfile for each package as you went, then rundpkg install E.deb,dpkg install D.deb,dpkg install C.deb,dpkg install B.deb, and finallydpkg install A.debin that order.This is what
aptis designed to do for you, automatically. - Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 6 days ago:
“I didn’t use the main standard way of installing software, and am complaining because all the weird alternative ways I did try didn’t work.”
I understand that you claim apt has never worked for you, but I don’t believe you.
- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 6 days ago:
I have this weird suspicion that they use a shitload of open source software, and I’m not just talking about their Android OS or Chromebooks, but for their most core businesses.
“Open source for me, but not for thee.”
That’s also why they bait-and-switched us with AOSP.
