renard_roux
@renard_roux@beehaw.org
- Comment on Period tracking app refuses to disclose data to American authorities 6 days 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 4 weeks 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 2 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 ^^ 2 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+ 2 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) 3 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] 3 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? 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 months ago:
Games?
- Comment on YouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changes 4 months ago:
That seems like a good idea.
- Comment on YouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changes 4 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 5 months ago:
A winning strategy 👌
- Comment on Oral-B bricking Alexa toothbrush is cautionary tale against buzzy tech 5 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 5 months ago:
Zorg ZF-1s fired!
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip 6 months ago:
- Comment on Google fires 28 workers for protesting $1.2 billion Israel contract 6 months 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 7 months ago:
Are you sure you responded to the correct comment? 🤔
- Comment on U.S. Sues Apple, Accusing It of Maintaining an iPhone Monopoly 7 months ago:
Ah yes, the John Waters strategy! ❤️
- Comment on Threads widens the gap with X, with triple the daily downloads on iOS | TechCrunch 8 months ago:
As long as Meta doesn’t manage to EEE the Fediverse first 🤢
- Comment on Threads widens the gap with X, with triple the daily downloads on iOS | TechCrunch 8 months ago:
The white supremacists are running a campaign to help their elderly (quite a large user base) get digitally literate. You get a free noodling glove and a Substack keychain if you install X and take a 15 minute creative writing course.
- Comment on Threads widens the gap with X, with triple the daily downloads on iOS | TechCrunch 8 months ago:
“Threads had 3 app downloads yesterday, easily beating X’s 1” — you’re right, doesn’t sound as sexy 🤔
- Comment on A terminal window periodically flashes on my screen every few minutes. It goes away in one second. I have no idea what it is, nor how to stop it. 8 months ago:
Thank you! I’ll save this, just in case! 😁🤘
- Comment on Enshittification is coming for absolutely everything 9 months ago:
Seems to be very similar to his The Enshittification of TikTok post, linked here on his own platform (no ads).
I didn’t do a full comparison, though.
- Comment on A terminal window periodically flashes on my screen every few minutes. It goes away in one second. I have no idea what it is, nor how to stop it. 9 months ago:
That’s fantastic! 😮
Do you have a similar list for macOS? 😅
- Comment on Stop using Opera Browser and Opera GX 9 months ago:
Same, used Opera religiously back in the day, so much more functional than the rest. Switched to Chrome (yes yes, I know) when it started going downhill.
Chrome still doesn’t have the ability to set a shortcut for “switch to previous tab”, have to use a plugin for that 🙄
- Comment on Google's monopoly in the ad industry lets them profit off allowing scam ads to flourish, with no consequences 9 months ago:
Don’t be evil. - Comment on The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance 10 months ago:
Yikes! That paints a pretty scary picture 😬
- Comment on The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance 10 months ago:
Side note - I really like how you crossed out your spelling error instead of just fixing it - I always proof-read my comments after I post them (because I always forget to do it), and this might actually, in s tiny way, be useful to someone who’s still learning the language, or just didn’t know a particular working is wrong. I’m going to try and start doing this as well, thanks 😊👍
