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- Comment on Bluesky may soon add blue check verification 3 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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. 2 weeks 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. 2 weeks 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. 2 weeks 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. 2 weeks 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. 3 weeks ago:
Now suddenly privacy is important. Fuck everybody else though.
- Comment on The mechanics of ovulation: Study explains how muscle-like fibers help eggs squeeze out from follicle 5 months ago:
This won’t stop the uterus from shedding, but a hormone-less contraceptive would probably be a great alternative for those who have be reactions to the pill.
- The mechanics of ovulation: Study explains how muscle-like fibers help eggs squeeze out from folliclephys.org ↗Submitted 5 months ago to [deleted] | 1 comment
- Comment on A possible explanation for the 'missing plastic problem': New detection technique finds microplastics in coral skeletons 6 months ago:
Thanks. It has been done.
- Comment on A possible explanation for the 'missing plastic problem': New detection technique finds microplastics in coral skeletons 6 months ago:
I admit, I’m not sure if this belongs here. Maybe there’s a better community to this is in…
- A possible explanation for the 'missing plastic problem': New detection technique finds microplastics in coral skeletonsphys.org ↗Submitted 6 months ago to [deleted] | 4 comments
- Comment on The Moral Implications of Being a Moderately Successful Computer Scientist and a Woman 7 months ago:
- Comment on The Moral Implications of Being a Moderately Successful Computer Scientist and a Woman 7 months ago:
Ah, yep. Indeed. Thanks for pointing that out.
- Comment on The Moral Implications of Being a Moderately Successful Computer Scientist and a Woman 7 months ago:
This poor woman needs therapy. It seems like everything around her triggers her and she has thus come to identify all men as culprits. Even going as far as calling her husband an asshole (might be true, I’m not married to the dude).
A comment like “you don’t look like a computer scientist” leads her to make a core point about how she believes others view women.
People tell me I don’t look like a programmer and they are right. My attire is that of what happened to be on the top of the pile that day. Very little thought goes into it. One day I could look like a bum, another a builder, another a knowledge worker, and another a street thug. I don’t take it as an insult unless there is clarification that it’s because of some other feature.Her proof to the next core point of expertise has nothing to do with expertise either: criticising a high pitched voice has very little to do with perceived expertise.
I sat in a class there the most common critique of the male professor was: he talks too quickly. It didn’t reflect on his expertise, just his mode of talking. And they were right BTW, he had heavy accent, didn’t enunciate, and spoke rapidly. Unlearning that would be very difficult.
I appreciate that it’s different from a physical attribute, but behaviours are quite difficult to change. We had a female professor who got similar feedback, tried to speak slowly and it worked for 5 minutes of every lecture before she sped away again. No-one thought she was not an expert. She just had major difficulty talking slowly (like the other male prof).As for dating in the workplace: adults spend a large part of their time awake at work. Are you really surprised feelings develop there? I wouldn’t shit where I eat, hut that’s a personal thing. Many others would (men and women alike). We also live in a society where men are expected to make the first move which, in addition to roles at work, makes things even more complicated. Some people will switch jobs just so that they can get that degree of separation.
I understand that for somebody who doesn’t see work as a place to get emotions it might be annoying, but not everybody’s the same, nor does it always have to do with “the patriarchy” or whatever.Oof…
- Comment on Chinese EV owners are losing access to smartphone app updates and driving features when companies go bust 7 months ago:
Nothing to do with being Chinese. Amazon is going to brick some of their devices that play music in cars IIRC. There are western companies that made pace makers who closed source their communication protocols, went bust, and now the pace makers are in patients who have no way to service them.
Opensourcing after deprecation should be written into law.
- Comment on UN Delegates Cheer As They Vote To Approve Increased Surveillance Via Russia-Backed Cybercrime Treaty 8 months ago:
Privacy dies in thunderous applause. Good job on voting in the conservatives and ludites everybody (or not voting at all)! A+ participation in democracy.
- Comment on Opinion | Don’t Get Fooled Again by Crypto 8 months ago:
No no
- Comment on Opinion | Don’t Get Fooled Again by Crypto 8 months ago:
So, something the majority of people can never attain. Awesome.
Or are you going to hand me a plot of land that isn’t as big as a thimble? If so, sign me up. I want it.
- Comment on #StopKilligGames update: Finland just passed the threshold. 8 months ago:
PirateSoftware was a blizzard dev, is a current dev, and is just basically lobbying against change. I don’t believe he’s being genuine in his arguments and is misrepresenting the cause or hasn’t understood it. It was possible to make games that didn’t stop working once a server shut down and it still is.
Being given a server binary isn’t a licensing issue unless you make it one. And because publishers and studios sign shitty contracts, doesn’t make it right, nor the only way to do business.
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- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO - 9to5Mac 8 months ago:
We can file that under: expanding worldviews.
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- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO - 9to5Mac 8 months ago:
“Selecting a server is too complicated”. Won’t ever understand that.
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO - 9to5Mac 8 months ago:
Probably not. People will hang onto stuff because “everybody’s there” and “but lemmy doesn’t have enough content” 🤷♂
- Comment on Evidence That Our Names Physically Change Our Faces Over Time (Anton Petrov, YouTube) 8 months ago:
What? That sounds like absolute hokum. It’s like saying variable names change the data they contain.
- Comment on JPEG is Dying - And that's a bad thing | 2kliksphilip 8 months ago:
Go is not an option? Zig neither? Even Java would be better (it’s used in high-frequency trading).
