renard_roux
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- Comment on Petition: Bring the Affinity Suite to Linux - #AffinityOnLinux 2 weeks ago:
Also, guessing their standard is pretty low if Gimp does the job — at least from a professional standard. There’s not much of a comparison.
- Comment on Petition: Bring the Affinity Suite to Linux - #AffinityOnLinux 2 weeks ago:
Seconded.
- Comment on EU Civil society organisations file DSA complaint against Meta for toxic feeds 3 weeks ago:
Well that’s nice. Hopefully they have some teeth, so we don’t have to go through another one of Zuck’s crocodile-tears-fuelled hearings, followed by absolutely fuck-all change 🙄
- Comment on Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats 2 months ago:
Slightly unrelated — was watching a Danish military analyst’s commentary on the farcical white house shit-show the other day, and he had this really great line (I’ll paraphrase): “The interesting thing with [Chump] isn’t what he’s going to do next, it’s what he’ll do when it fails” 😂
Video link for those interested (quite good, and in English).
- Comment on Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats 2 months ago:
Someone mentioned that to me, but said the story had been attempted scrubbed from the web — anyone have a link?
- Comment on Is This How Reddit Ends? 2 months ago:
It’s only a matter of time before 6 Flags is just 1000 AIs on rollercoasters.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
… wasn’t OpenAI not also …
Uhm. No? Or yes? Maybe? 🤔😅
- Comment on TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban 3 months ago:
“… reports Chinese state propaganda branch, through western media …” 🙄
- Comment on I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost 3 months ago:
We have a Samsung “smart” TV, hooked up to an AppleTV box. The TV’s original remote is in a drawer somewhere, forever unused.
I have the apps that I need, the tiny Siri Remote turns on the TV and handles volume, and, apart from the aggressively, insanely, mind-blowingly horrible on-screen “keyboard” / text input (we don’t have Apple phones we can use to mitigate this, sadly. Also, what the fucking fuck, Apple?!) we’re happy. For now. I trust Apple to make the experience incrementally worse as a fact of life.
Not perfect, but leagues better than dealing with Samsung’s interface.
- Comment on I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost 3 months ago:
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Is there any indication that they won’t implement this shit at some point?
Also, should we be trying to come up with the most insane “features” in this vein that we can imagine (knowing full well that some corporation will come up with them eventually), and then patent them to protect humanity from them?
Is there any organization that collects patents just to block them (in the consumer’s favor)? A kind of white-hat patent troll? And, if not, should we create one?
- Comment on I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost 3 months ago:
I spy a research rabbit hole in my near future … 🐰
- Comment on Period tracking app refuses to disclose data to American authorities 5 months ago:
That requires that you trust the app vendor not to have some sort of back door, no?
- Comment on Google turns to nuclear to power AI data centres 6 months ago:
I think that would release an awful lot of carbon 😓
- Comment on Apple appears to mislead UK Regulator over deceptive default browser user interface - Open Web Advocacy 7 months ago:
I mean, fuck Apple, but …
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Hanlon’s Razoe (Wikipedia)
Still, though — fuck Apple.
- Comment on My little macgyver meshtastic node ^^ 8 months ago:
Never heard of Meshtastic before, quite the rabbit hole, and sounds super awesome!
Had a look at your other thread (not a member there so seems I can’t comment, or maybe it’s just my client), and trying to understand what you guys are using these for.
Official site says “Hiking safety GPS”, something to that effect, but all this talk of “local topics” has me confused. What’s your use-case?
- Comment on Disney wants a wrongful death lawsuit thrown out because the plaintiff had Disney+ 8 months ago:
- Most of the world uses Google.
- Everyone must accept Google EULA to use.
- Google adds arbitration rule to EULA.
- Google adds “EULA covers all Google subsidiaries and partners” to EULA.
- Google sells “partnerships” to every company that can afford it.
- Profit.
Partner killed by a faulty Ford truck? Never signed a Ford EULA? No worries, Ford is a Google Partner™! See you in arbitration, bitch! 😂
- Comment on Evidence That Our Names Physically Change Our Faces Over Time (Anton Petrov, YouTube) 8 months ago:
No, no! You see, the specific combination of sounds that we use to identify and address a given person shapes that persons body, especially their facial features!
How else would you explain how every person over 50 named Henry looks exactly the same‽ Or why people over 50 named Charles and Charlie look so similar?
I’m 44, and have a friend who is 43, and has the exact same name, and everyone we know always comments on how they’re 100% certain we will look like twins in 7 years.
It’s just science. Get your head out of the sand!
Hell, I wouldn’t be there least amount surprised if everyone over 50 named Gretchen not only look identical, but are also the exact same height. I guess that’s an idea for their next study. I can’t wait to be proven right.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to read how my day tomorrow — and, incidentally, that of the other 1/12 (roughly) of the planet born with the same zodiac sign — is going to turn out.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
That’s actually pretty good. And then they’re open to getting sued when caught.
I guess it could be done on an instance basis, although I’m not sure how happy fediverse users will be if their instance has an official policy of open-sourcing (or maybe it’s public-domaining?) all their content by default.
- Comment on Why are US states, school districts banning smartphones in schools? 9 months ago:
Thank [some deity] for video chats, those little bastards couldn’t spell to save their lives 😅
- Comment on Microsoft CEO of AI: Online content is 'freeware' for models • The Register 10 months ago:
Isn’t that a bit too much like beating a dead horse?
- Comment on Microsoft CEO of AI: Online content is 'freeware' for models • The Register 10 months ago:
Lifetime jail + lifetime jail for X generations of offspring, depending on severity?
- Comment on Microsoft CEO of AI: Online content is 'freeware' for models • The Register 10 months ago:
Games?
- Comment on YouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changes 10 months ago:
That seems like a good idea.
- Comment on YouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changes 10 months ago:
You missed an S in end vitrification.
And I completely agree, Cory seems to be good at coining terms and making them stick 👍
- Comment on Oral-B bricking Alexa toothbrush is cautionary tale against buzzy tech 11 months ago:
A winning strategy 👌
- Comment on Oral-B bricking Alexa toothbrush is cautionary tale against buzzy tech 11 months ago:
I think we need to look a bit back in time for the answer:
“If they pay a penie or two pence more for the reddinesse of them…let them looke to that, a foole and his money is soone parted.”
— From Dr. John Bridges’ Defence of the Government of the Church of England, 1587.
- Comment on The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff 11 months ago:
Zorg ZF-1s fired!
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip 11 months ago:
- Comment on Google fires 28 workers for protesting $1.2 billion Israel contract 1 year ago:
Yay, space opera! 🥰
Highly recommend almost everything by Peter F. Hamilton if you haven’t read them, arguably top 3 space opera authors ❤️
- Comment on Spotify plans to raise prices this year and introduce new plans - GSMArena.com news 1 year ago:
Are you sure you responded to the correct comment? 🤔