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- Comment on Hollywood writers went on strike to protect their livelihoods from generative AI. Their remarkable victory matters for all workers. 5 weeks ago:
Writers are people, not AI that improves its output quality the more money (hardware) you throw at it. The writers of the Halo TV show should have just been replaced with an entirely new team that actually understood the source.
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 5 weeks ago:
Downvoted for truth. Too bad for them this isn’t reddit
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 5 weeks ago:
AI art tools democratize art by allowing those who weren’t born with the affinity, talent or privilege to become artists themselves. It allows regular people the freedom of expression in new dimensions. It is amazing.
They are not made to replace human art. They are made to supplement it. The “artists” who feel threatened and offended at its existence are probably not very good at their art.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 2 months ago:
This being “smart” is entirely based on the assumption that the average user who’s actually trying to just get to their home screen won’t be pissed when the bloated chatbot pops up instead. And that assumption is wrong.
- Comment on I love Mastodon and ActivityPub. But I think Nostr is going to win. Here's why. 3 months ago:
Bluesky and their AT Protocol sound much better.
They follow a federated model quite similar to Mastodon, except with better feeds powered by a variety of user-choosable post ranking and content discovery algorithms. It is the true federated Twitter/X clone.
- Comment on Google CEO tells employees to expect more job cuts this year. 3 months ago:
Why hasn’t Vimea taken off?
- Comment on A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US 4 months ago:
Getting a job as an indulgence because they are interested is fine. Getting a job because their parents are not capable of giving them a dignified lifestyle is downright disgusting and such kids should be rescued. Often greedy parents mask the latter as the former because they are scum.
- Comment on It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. 4 months ago:
No lie, I actually had to shift to Chrome from Firefox today. Some websites are straight-up broken on Firefox, while others load painfully slow (e.g. try arc.net on Firefox vs any Chromium-based browser). Not to mention the massive shame of Mozilla leadership treating its own flagship product as a second-class citizen in favour of “AI initiatives” or whatever the fuck those C-suites want to stud into their resumes.
- Comment on Microsoft keeps shooting itself in the foot with Edge 4 months ago:
It’s a genuine shame because Edge could very easily become the best browser on Windows if only MS played their cards right. Resource optimization of this browser is terrific and it leaves both Chrome and Firefox behind in terms of speed and snappiness. All MS needs to do is make it FOSS, strip down the unnecessary bloat and ensure firsthand content blocking support, and it will be straight-up unbeatable.
- Comment on Any recommendations for time loop games? 4 months ago:
Katana Zero
- Comment on A lot of societies problems would be solved if they taught about forming healthy relationships in school. 5 months ago:
And Europe and USA are? With over 45% divorce rates?
Not defending ME gender cultures in any way, I know they are fucked. But putting the western ultra-individualist dating convention as the standard is a hieght of ignorance. Almost all Asian cultures have existed without delinquent dating being the norm for centuries, and in no way are they any lesser than Western cultures.
- Comment on GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour 5 months ago:
there simply cannot be a pricing model like that
Microtransactions? Battle passes? Episodic releases? Is the guy purposefully playing dumb?
- Comment on GTA 6’s Publisher Says Video Games Should Theoretically Be Priced At Dollars Per Hour 5 months ago:
Case study: Literally every Ubisoft game in the late '10s and '20s
- Comment on A lot of societies problems would be solved if they taught about forming healthy relationships in school. 5 months ago:
You are unfairly holding the entire world to your personal myopic standards. Romantic relationships don’t hold the same importance for everyone (they aren’t even held as positive by many orthodox communities of the world), and the fact that more people have started to avoid having them just out of convention in the West may even be a good thing. Who are you to denounce every single man as someone sick or deficient? Why does the existence of a relationship have to be tied to a person’s social skills or standing?
- Comment on A lot of societies problems would be solved if they taught about forming healthy relationships in school. 5 months ago:
A vast majority of the non-Western world doesn’t see juvenile relationships as conventional or even a good thing. In fact, youngsters fooling around with the opposite sex without parental consent is straight-up delinquent behaviour in almost the entirety of the Middle-East and Asia. What you call “bad” is rather ideal for the better half of the world.
- Comment on Google Brain cofounder says Big Tech companies are lying about the risks of AI wiping out humanity because they want to dominate the market 6 months ago:
All the biggest tech/IT consulting firms that used to hire engineering college freshers by the millions each year have declared they either won’t be recruiting at all this month, or will only be recruiting for senior positions. If AI were to wipe out humanity it’ll probably be through unemployment-related poverty thanks to our incompetent policymakers.
- Comment on Sikh 'barred from Birmingham jury service' for religious sword 6 months ago:
Yes indeed, random Google text is more reliable than someone who literally lives in Punjab 🤦♂️
- Comment on Sikh 'barred from Birmingham jury service' for religious sword 6 months ago:
Yes, I do.
Then you’re stupid.
But even if it was for clout, it wouldn’t change anything about it being allowed.
You can say that you don’t think religions should have excemptions, but that’s another topic. As of this incident the excemption exists and he should be able to carry a blade according to the restrictions in there.
The job of every guard is to look out for threats. If the guard feels it is in the interest of everyone’s safety that a participant removes a literal weapon from their person before entering a place of importance, it is completely reasonable on his behalf. That the participant is feeling sentimental about it is not the guard’s fault and neither should it be.
- Comment on Sikh 'barred from Birmingham jury service' for religious sword 6 months ago:
Do you think Sikhs across the world all walk around with “symbolic” blades just because they’re a sign of their religion? These people only do stuff like this for clout, nothing else.
- Comment on NAC makes you insensitive to alcohol 6 months ago:
Now, depending on people that anti-alcohol protection might be an advantage or drawback.
Yup. Please, please don’t drink too much regardless of how drunk or not it gets you. Alcohol is never good for your body.
- Comment on What do you think about MX Linux 6 months ago:
Yeah but how? What is Debian lacking in user-friendliness that MX is making up for?
- Comment on What do you think about MX Linux 7 months ago:
for someone who doesn’t know how to use debain itself
Huh? What special knowledge does using Debian require and what does MX do differently?
- Comment on Browsers compared 7 months ago:
Brave browser itself is in a public GitHub repo.
- Comment on I just acquired a new PC 7 months ago:
Don’t. If Windows is so insecure by itself, imagine how secure some third-party mod of it made by some random bunch of people would be.
- Comment on Unity CEO John Riccitiello is retiring, effective immediately 7 months ago:
That’s not just CEOs. All employees after a certain point up the ladder have to “put in their resignation” if they are to be fired. It’s a convention that saves face for both parties.
- Comment on Unity CEO John Riccitiello is retiring, effective immediately 7 months ago:
You don’t get fired when you’re at the management level, you “resign”.
- Comment on Is there something like F-droid, but for windows software? 7 months ago:
Winget… literally just acts as an installer downloader. Scoop and Chocolatey actually maintain repositories.
Not to mention Scoop offers a lot more Unix tools that winget won’t. Also it does everything cleanly in a single folder in your %userprofile% and never requires admin privileges.
- Comment on Is there something like F-droid, but for windows software? 7 months ago:
- Comment on What is your favorite programming language? 7 months ago:
Reminds me of this hilarious write-up
- Comment on An EXTREMELY Simple Guide to Mastodon (for when someone says it's too complicated to catch on) 8 months ago:
The difficulty is not in using it, the difficulty is having people use it. Social network platforms matter jack shit when the ones you want to actually follow aren’t on it.