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- Comment on Without a hint of irony, Russia mocks US for 'miscalculating' Iran war 2 days ago:
Choosing not to do business with someone isn’t a “breach of sovereignty”.
- Comment on the soke is jex 2 weeks ago:
Closed Beta Tests?
- Comment on It's literally science 2 weeks ago:
That sounds like a lot of work …
Are you sure there aren’t easy solutions that only involve spending money and not effort? Maybe a pill or expensive chair?
- Comment on Bacon off the menu for Peppa Pig family show in Grimsby 3 weeks ago:
I glad to see Peppa Pig is adhering to the proud British tradition of traumatizing children with horrifying real-life interpretations beloved animated characters.
- Comment on Nice horsie! 🐎 4 weeks ago:
Selective breeding is no different than natural evolution in how drastically it can change an organism given enough time and the right selections for “fitness”.
So you could produce a domesticated, tame zebra – but waiting on and favoring the right mutations would take a very long time and be prohibitively expensive. It’s possible, but not realistically feasible.
- Comment on Removing the auto-off timer from my coffee machine 2 months ago:
Wait until you find out there’s a lot of people that like burnt cheap coffee.
They’re over represented in the “previous military service” and “blue collar shift worker” demographics.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
The TV Tropes entry for “WTF did I just watch?” endings is named after the studio that made Evangelion.
- Comment on I dunno 3 months ago:
Don’t ask anyone over the age of 45 how they remember resistor color codes …
- Comment on I dunno 3 months ago:
8 5 - 5 * 2 + CR .
- Comment on Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’ 3 months ago:
“AI” has become synonymous with “Generative AI”
- Comment on I'm snatching the 12-gauge over the door with the quickness. [sound on] 3 months ago:
… So the people on the decentralized social media network that was created to get away from corporate bullshit don’t like AI?
I can’t imagine why that is.
- Comment on Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension 5 months ago:
I have far fewer bucks to give about the “impact” of my boycotts than I have for my integrity.
I refuse to give my money to fascists if it’s avoidable.
- Comment on ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops 5 months ago:
I had a math teacher in highschool that allowed us make a “cheat sheet” during tests – it had to be hand written on an index card. I discovered that if I actually made a “cheat sheet” I rarely needed to look at it. It’s the same for hand-written lists when I’m shopping.
For a lot of people there’s something about actually writing information down the makes it “stick” better in memory.
- Comment on ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops 5 months ago:
I did something insane: I actually read the article.
The students interviewed used pen and paper because they lack the tempting distractions a laptop/tablet/phone has. One states they feel they “use their brain more” when using a pen and paper. They also mention using a computer to write the final version of an essay for submission, but do most of the work on pen and paper for the aforementioned reasons.
- Comment on Make America Great! 6 months ago:
Oh, fuck off.
- Comment on Good news. :) 6 months ago:
Illinois is down.
- Comment on Most people don't have boxes of USB flash drives sitting around 6 months ago:
- giving files to a friend and not caring if you get the drive back
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 6 months ago:
For what content?
- Comment on Make America Great! 6 months ago:
Native Americans are still people, and it’s a universal truth that people suck.
All the horrible things people do to each other are just easier at scale when you’re not stuck using stone-age technology.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 6 months ago:
It’s funny, because that’s exactly what I did around the age of 13 to bypass my school’s firewall. I had everything on a USB drive, including Ghostzilla and PuTTY so I could browse through an SSH SOCKS tunnel. Mind you, my home computer was the SSH server – but these days it wouldn’t be hard to get a VPS in a less restrictive country:
“Hey [parent], can I borrow your credit card to set up a web server so my friends and I can play [game] together?”
It takes one kid in a group to set something like this up.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 7 months ago:
My daily driver laptop, home servers, media center, NAS, etc are all Linux.
My gaming computer isn’t – as much as I would like it to be. There are certain things (particularly VR) that don’t want to work in Linux.
- Comment on Lemmy be like 7 months ago:
Weird … It looks like I can sign up for an account on dbzer0 even though I’m not actually an anarchist.
- Comment on "ok, imagine a gun." 7 months ago:
That is 100% the origin of the phrase.
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 7 months ago:
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 7 months ago:
Go to the “Filters” tab in the dashboard. At the bottom of the list click “Import” and paste the URL ( raw.githubusercontent.com/…/LegitimateURLShortene… ) in the box. Then click “Apply” to save it.
- Comment on I installed Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's my new favorite way of computing 10 months ago:
I miss the form factor of the HP mini – it’s just a shame the build quality matched the price and they fell apart in short order.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 11 months ago:
- Comment on America is fucked 11 months ago:
- Comment on Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app 11 months ago:
They make a lot more than car navigation systems. Their recreational gear and avionics are top of the line.
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 1 year ago:
Technology has never been the problem: there’s nothing wrong with genetic engineering, AI, etc. The can (and have) been used for good.
The problem has always been the “greed is good” sociopaths using it for evil.
