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- Comment on One US politician wants to add trackers to Nvidia's GPUs so they can be bricked if they go to China 1 week ago:
I bet this will be out into a military plane and it’ll brick while flying over China or close to it. The genius of these people cannot be understated. Imagine, if they’re saying this publicly, I bet you they have this in existing military equipment they are selling to partners. Anybody buying military equipment from the US is asking for trouble.
- Comment on Google and Adobe appear to be abusing copyright to silence a whistleblower's video 3 weeks ago:
On one side, fuck google, on the other, the video is “whistleblowing” DEI practices. Not sure what there is to “whistlenlow” about. I thought quotas were mandated for a long time. How is that news?
- Comment on Bluesky may soon add blue check verification 4 weeks ago:
Is this how they plan to make money too? Demand 15 bucks to be verified, 2k/year to be a verification issuer? This is going to be fun to watch.
- Comment on Your next phone could have a 10km Bluetooth connection 5 weeks ago:
Bluetooth barely works when my phone is in my pocket and my headset on my head. Make that work first before imagining users with a 10km long neck.
- Comment on Adobe Deletes Bluesky Posts After Furious Backlash 5 weeks ago:
And yet, Adobe keeps making money. Someone’s paying for it and it isn’t non artists…
- Comment on Airport face scans could replace boarding passes and check-in as soon as 2028 5 weeks ago:
First we make fun of China, then we vote for money hungry politicians with a penchant for power, give in to surveillance because “it’s free!”, and tada, we’re all becoming China (the EU is trying to introduce a backdoor into stuff again, buying surveillance tech, and thinks it’s falling behind due to a lack of AI investments, and having populism take over countries). Maybe China is just the crab of societies?
- Comment on Hundreds of Video Game Workers Join New Union as Trump Attacks Labor Rights 5 weeks ago:
Take everybody in the union, make a new studio that is union run, ???, profit and happiness.
If a large group of game devs, artists, and so on decided to leave their jobs outright instead of threatening to, the next time they come to the bargaining table, the company will know not to duck with them. Leave, join a union, ask if they want to hire you back under a union contract. They say no? Move on.
And if they created a studio, they would probably have a bunch of talent and it would be worker owned.
- Comment on UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill. 1 month ago:
“I have nothing to hide”, until you’re unjustly hauled into a police station and beaten senseless because of a misinterpreted joke you made on WhatsApp with your friends.
People will not value their privacy until it’s too late. Some people only learn by making mistakes…
- Comment on ‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers. 1 month ago:
Anything to replace workers or make them cheaper. He great thing is that the decision makers don’t understand what they’re talking about.
- Comment on "It's Silencing" - Albania Shuts Down TikTok. 1 month ago:
Post it on the fediverse. TikTok isn’t the only platform out there. And if you think TikTok is a necessary evil, you’re part of the problem.
- Comment on Open-Source is Just That. 1 month ago:
100% agree with this dude. On the web, there are so many people who think them being a user of opensource is somehow a gift to the maintainer/developer. It is a damn privilege to be able to use something someone is providing for free and open sourced. Be respectful to the devs and maintainers, unless they aren’t nice to you, or stay silent. Please.
There was another post a while back, I think it was titled “maintainers don’t owe you a goddamn thing” and that statement is also true.
I wish github did more for devs and allowed to bad and report people from projects entirely. I also find it disgusting how people dogpile on github e.g when a dev uses the “wrong” license, disagrees to merge a PR, commits the crime of not writing secure code, when users disagree with something a dev said on another channel and so much more. And they think it’s justified.
Harassing devs became so normalised that it got a state actor (probably) into an a critical open source project, which nearly led to the infection of millions of computers. Look up Jia Tan, SSH and I think xz (or whatever the name was).
- Comment on Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can now hide details of their private jets/// Private aircraft owners can now ask the FAA to keep their registration information out of the public eye. 1 month ago:
Now suddenly privacy is important. Fuck everybody else though.
- Comment on Apple ordered by EU regulators to open up to rivals. 2 months ago:
Wasn’t there also a problem with how these fucks implemented the DMA when it came to allow separate app stores? Other apps still had to go through a procedure with apple to be allowed to be on a separate app store. I’m a little surprised this wasn’t handled. They should be getting bodied for that.
- Comment on Meta Faces Legal Challenge by French Publishers Over AI Training. 2 months ago:
This is in a copyright court in Paris. Whether the judges can be paid off and swayed in Facebook’s way is now going to be very interesting. That the judges in the US are in Facebook’s pockets is not surprising.
- Comment on Will an AI Bot Decide if You Get That Job? 2 months ago:
Dystopian. Wow. Why not just flip a coin on candidates? It might produce less biases results.
- Comment on Socially self-hosting source code with Tangled on Bluesky. 2 months ago:
Forgejo was too slow…
- Comment on As Bangladesh’s factories turn to surveillance and automation, garment workers feel the pressure. 2 months ago:
Don’t we have enough clothes on the planet to clothe every person here? What the fuck do we need to produce anymore? Buy second hand and we should be set.
Also, how is surveillance going to help? Seems like a useless expense.
- Comment on Yes, Claude Code can decompile itself. Here's the source code. 2 months ago:
Is this the future of Rewrite in Rust? 🤣 I wonder how it’ll do with something like the linux kernel. It’s quite modular, so it could theoretically be pointed at the code, module by module, and put into a rust module with tests.
- Comment on New form of crystal storage stores terabytes of data per square millimeter 2 months ago:
There have been multiple crystals like these. I hope they hit the market within the next decade - even if they are write-once. I’d like to have storage that holds data for decades so that I don’t have to worry about constantly backing up and swapping out disks.
- Comment on Apple strikes deal with Indonesia, secures future market access for iPhones. 2 months ago:
The 2017 regulation requires that 40% of smartphones sold in Indonesia use domestically sourced components. The policy is part of Indonesia’s push to boost domestic manufacturing and reduce reliance on imports.
Europe, take note
- Comment on Microsoft finalizes its EU sovereign cloud project 2 months ago:
Fuck off. Nobody really believes that, and of they do, they are clueless. Microsoft can be forced by the US government to turn over data on any client: that means on nearly any government on the planet. The EU better give up their US addiction before it gets terminal.
- Comment on What is wrong with the architecture of the Internet? 2 months ago:
His point of using IPv6 as proof of ossification is partially correct. The major problem with IPv6 is that it’s friggin unreadable to developers. 1::abdc:124 and a bunch of other things just make it difficult to read and parse.
It’s probably obvious that I have not come in contact with it much, but why weren’t dots used instead of colons? IP addresses with double the length or with hexadecimal characters would’ve been OK. Unless there’s a technical reason not to do so…
- Comment on The Humane Ai Pin is dead, HP is buying the carcass. 2 months ago:
But what happens to the pins Humane sold? Well, they are about to become ewaste.
Companies should be forced to pay for disposal in those cases.
- Comment on X is reportedly blocking links to secure Signal contact pages 2 months ago:
Thanks for the Streisand effect, Musk!
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 2 months ago:
As if you’re on morally higher ground by defending the actions of corporations trying to appease a madman…
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 3 months ago:
Meanwhile Germany barely provides 5% of its population with fiber and probably less have access to VDSL. Romania, the Baltics and other countries are fast, but I doubt 10Gbs will be normal there even in 20 years.
- Comment on Is Google Maps fatally misleading drivers in India? It’s complicated. 3 months ago:
Homegrown mapping solutions like… OpenStreetMap? Why are governments so concentrated on building private stuff instead of sharing the data?
- Comment on ‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases 3 months ago:
“We’re being censored!! Free speech is paramount!!” - immediately start censoring as soon as they get into power. What a surprise.
- Comment on ‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases 3 months ago:
Has absolutely nothing to do with masculinity and everything to do with fascism.
- Comment on OpenEuroLLM: European AI alliance unveils LLM alternative to Silicon Valley and DeepSeek 3 months ago:
“OpenAI”