halfempty
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I am kind, and try to do no harm. I bicycle daily, and tinker on all kinds of projects. INFP
- Comment on Tumblr is reportedly on life support as its latest owner reassigns staff 7 months ago:
Hard to believe Tumblr lasted this long even. They killed like 3/4 of their content (and audience) when they decided to not have any porn like 4 years ago. Everybody left. An early example of enshitification.
- Comment on Moscow will confiscate EU assets if Brussels 'steals' frozen Russian funds, Putin ally says 8 months ago:
The article does not say how much EU assets are currently in Russian hands. We would need to clarify exactly what these EU assets are. If they are not currency, then seizing EU assets may not be of much value to the Russians if they cannot support or maintain the EU assets.
- Comment on Elon Musk gives X employees one year to replace your bank - ‘You won’t need a bank account... it would blow my mind if we don’t have that rolled out by the end of next year.’ 8 months ago:
Musk has become erratic, irrational, and volatile. These are not conditions suitable for someone who manages other people's money. Financial institutions know this, and will not be a part of his delusions.
- Comment on San Francisco mayor wants drones and CCTV to stop crime 8 months ago:
Massive surveillance programs won't stop crime. Instead it will be used to persecute target demographic groups.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X removes New York Times’ verification badge 8 months ago:
NYT should simply walk away from Xwitter. NPR did so with no apparent loss of viewership.
- Comment on Chat Control 2.0: EU governments set to approve the end of private messaging and secure encryption 8 months ago:
Acts of authoritarian control always claim to be done "for the children". They don't care about children, they want control.
- Comment on Windows 12 May Require a Subscription 8 months ago:
I'm already using Linux alot, and Windows 10 sometimes. I would drop Windows entirely if it were subscription model.
- Comment on outube bans 3D print channel after manually reviewing its videos as suitable for monetization [Louis Rossmann explains the censorship] 8 months ago:
A new California law was just passed which made "ghost guns" illegal. He was involved in ghost guns, at some level. It wasn't illegal before. Now it is. So now is when he got the boot.
- Comment on Backdoored firmware lets China state hackers control routers with “magic packets” 8 months ago:
"Cisco said the threat actors are compromising the devices after acquiring administrative credentials and that there’s no indication they are exploiting vulnerabilities. Cisco also said that the hacker’s ability to install malicious firmware exists only for older company products. Newer ones are equipped with secure boot capabilities that prevent them from running unauthorized firmware."
- Comment on Judge blocks California law requiring safety features for handguns 9 months ago:
The point is that a mob or gang of armed vigilantes pushing an extreme political agenda is NOT a well regulated militia. But those are the people holding up the second amendment. Ordinary citizens outside of the context of a well regulated militia have been outside of the scope of the second amendment until the rise of the NRA in the middle of the 20th century.
- Comment on Judge blocks California law requiring safety features for handguns 9 months ago:
At first, militia were formed in response to war. There were no standing army until well after the US was formed. The closest we have to a well armed militia as envisioned by the second amendment are our state national guards. The second amendment was created before the concept of a US standing army.
- Comment on Apple removes app created by Andrew Tate 9 months ago:
I can't believe that people still idolize this rapist and sex trafficker.
- Comment on Judge blocks California law requiring safety features for handguns 9 months ago:
So second amendment extreme absolutists are saying that any effort to make guns safer violates our right to have guns. Not to mention that the second amendment has been historically interpreted to apply to "well regulated militia" until fairly recently in supreme court rulings.
- Comment on Unity U-turns on controversial runtime fee and begs forgiveness 9 months ago:
Hardly a U-Turn. If a developer uses Unity's latest LTE version, then they would be subject to the runtime fees. So developers still must migrate off Unity, but have a little more time to do so.
- Comment on Unity boycott begins as devs switch off ads to force a Runtime Fee reversal - Mobilegamer.biz 9 months ago:
Nope. At any point in the future, Unity could simply stop the runtime fee waiver, and the developers would be screwed.
- Comment on 'A cavity is not a vagina': Trans woman refused healthcare in France 9 months ago:
I don't understand why someone without a vagina would go to a gynecologist.
- Comment on Twitter (X) loses over 30% of users in two months! 9 months ago:
Xwitter is a Nazi hate cesspool. I deleted my account not long after Musk took over. I would be delighted to see it fail, and Musk brought down a few notches.
- Comment on Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome 9 months ago:
Microsoft Edge is based on the Chrome codebase, so it will get the baked in ad mechanism.
- Comment on Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history 9 months ago:
A few years ago, I switched from Firefox to Chrome. A few months ago, I switched back to Firefox. Chrome is rolling out changes which are completely unacceptable, such as making adblockers impossible, and using my private browsing history for their own ads.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
You must not only take carefully managed risks, but you must take the correct risks.
- Comment on ChatGPT Has Liberal Bias, Say Researchers 10 months ago:
Far right media considers "Fact Based" to be a "Liberal Bias".
- Comment on ABC shuts down official Twitter accounts due to 'toxic interactions' 10 months ago:
So this is "Austrailia Broadcasting Corporation", not the ABC (American broadcasting Company) which I am familiar with in the US. I presume they share no more than an acronym.