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- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 1 week ago:
Italians were also targeted. Being from a Catholic country was sometimes enough to get targeted. Always found it funny (Woody Allen marriage funny, not Woody Allen film funny) that the Protestants who came to what is now Massachusetts seeking “religious freedom” meant it only for themselves and drove out anyone who didn’t subscribe to their views.
- Comment on Do you recognize this PC case? 1 week ago:
It reminds me of a Compaq we had around then. HP had bought Compaq at the time and used the brand on some of their low-end PCs. I don’t know if they were sold in Germany under that name, but it might be another angle to pursue.
- Comment on Four wheels good, two wheels bad: why are there no exciting cycling games? 2 weeks ago:
I saw something within the past year or so that looked like a new version of Paperboy and I got excited but then it turned out it wasn’t and I was disappointed.
- Comment on My brother got arrested for a dime bag. His picture got put up on the jails website. And they advertise. So shouldn't my brother get paid at least a little for providing clicks? 2 weeks ago:
Adding on, there can be good reasons to have arrest records be public and accessible. It can be beneficial for people to know if someone in the community has engaged in dangerous activity that could threaten others around them. Even if that person is able to avoid conviction or negotiate a lesser charge, you might personally want to change your interactions with them. The most common example might be with sex offenders, but that’s also being used for a lot of disingenuous arguments right now, so I’ll offer some others. Say someone is arrested for driving while intoxicated, perhaps someone you know. You might have never noticed them intoxicated before but perhaps they’re just good at hiding it, and you would probably choose not to ride in a vehicle with them driving or let a family member ride with them. Or perhaps you see someone arrested for a violent assault and you’ve also had past experiences with them that were also violent or threatening but never felt like it was worth reporting or felt that reporting the crime might make you less safe. If you or others know that person is in jail it can be easier for you and others to come to the prosecutors to report your own experiences and make it easier for the prosecutors to get a dangerous person out of the public.
On the flip side, the US is supposed to have the principle that someone is innocent until proven guilty. Publicizing arrests before a conviction can make that harder, and there are plenty of examples of innocent people who were “convicted in the media” but later found not guilty in court. That can often place a burden on innocent people to continue defending themselves for years afterwards.
In theory an open and transparent judicial process makes the system harder to abuse. In an effort to prevent punishing innocent people for crimes they did not commit, a judicial process might be designed in way that sometimes allows guilty persons to avoid punishment. The public has a right to know about threats so they can take actions to protect themselves. Wrongly accused individuals should not have to be burdened by false accusations after successfully defending themselves. People who have served their sentence for crimes they committed should not continue to be punished after completing their sentence.
Balancing these different interests is challenging and I think it’s pretty easy to say the current system is not at a good balance. Perhaps a good balance isn’t possible. The world is far more complicated than little comments online can make it seem. I think it’s pretty easy, though, to say the government should not be arresting people and making money by selling information about those arrests. A commercial entity taking that information and publishing it for a profit can also be morally questionable and should perhaps have legal restrictions. Outlets that exist solely to find the most attractive mug shots are at least in bad taste. But the question gets harder the closer this gets to a reputable news organization that is also trying to responsibly balance these considerations.
I’d certainly be interested to see the results of a lawsuit based on the original question.
- Comment on UltraRAM scaled for volume production — memory that promises DRAM-like speeds, 4,000x the durability of NAND, and data retention for up to a thousand years, is now ready for manufacturing 2 weeks ago:
Like DRAM, FeRAM’s read process is destructive, necessitating a write-after-read architecture.
So that’s why it’s still called RAM? It can hold the data a long time but the data is lost when it’s read?
- Comment on What are the main differences between GPLv2, GPLv3, AGPL, and LGPL? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t really have answers for you, but you might find this website helpful
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 4 weeks ago:
I think in this case they’re referring to Chrome on iOS. Apple doesn’t allow any browser engine except WebKit on iOS so to many people that means Chrome and any other browser on iOS is really just Safari with a different interface. Pretty sure I saw something recently about the EU considering forcing Apple to allow other engines on iOS.
- Comment on 17k+ indexed adult games from itch.io on goony.dev 5 weeks ago:
This whole saga has been fascinating in that it has revealed an entire side of gaming I really didn’t know existed. I’m not looking very deeply into it, but just seeing how much exists and how many categories and classifications go into it is surprising, although I guess I really shouldn’t be surprised given how long I’ve been online.
- Comment on Buyer Beware: Some 4K discs and streaming versions of cult classics have soundtrack changes 5 weeks ago:
WKRP in Cincinnati was a famous case of that, where the music was often important. Interestingly in that case the Shout Factory DVD release actually restores most of the music, but they still couldn’t license everything.
- Comment on Anon did philosophy 5 weeks ago:
That would not surprise me since I often see symmetry listed as a fairly constant criteria for attractiveness in most human features. In practice I’m not sure how dissimilar one breast would have to be from another for me to actually notice but I’ve never seen asymmetric breasts even when my wife has tried to point it out.
- Comment on Anon did philosophy 5 weeks ago:
There’s another version I’ve seen of this where some commenters don’t understand and are arguing about it which is pretty entertaining
- Comment on Anon did philosophy 5 weeks ago:
All other things being equal I’d generally say bigger is better, but size is nowhere near the top of my criteria. That’s what I mean if I’m saying I don’t care about size; maybe that’s what others do too?
- Comment on Commit culinary crimes in management sim The Diner At The End Of The Galaxy 1 month ago:
From a studio that also released a winemaking sim called Terroir. Seems like an interesting outfit!
- Comment on Tomb Raider video game composer jailed for Covid loan fraud 1 month ago:
- Comment on Stellantis abandons hydrogen fuel cell development 1 month ago:
I get annoyed when articles talk about one of hydrogen’s problems being a lack of infrastructure to deliver the fuel. Of course there’s not today since there’s no demand for it. If the cars start to develop as a market then the infrastructure would be built as well. The same thing has happened with electric cars. But it would take some entity investing in the infrastructure and being willing to wait years to see a return on the investment.
Of course, hydrogen has a lot of other problems that mean it’s probably not viable. Lack of infrastructure is just a weak argument against it.
- Comment on BulletVPN Closes Down, Pulling The Rug on Lifetime Subscriptions 1 month ago:
Stop buying lifetime subscriptions to services! They’re not sustainable!
- Comment on anything but metric 1 month ago:
!anythingbutmetric@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 2 months ago:
And at those prices I’ve bought it at least twice
- Comment on Which one are you? 2 months ago:
- Comment on Which one are you? 2 months ago:
Yes, normally Neutral Good but will go Chaotic Good if the corral is empty or pretty much empty. I’m lawful good if I only have a free things or there is no corral, but in those cases I try to avoid bringing the cart back to the car.
- Comment on Which one are you? 2 months ago:
Spent the past couple weeks in France visiting my wife’s family, and was surprised that most of the stores had the coin locks but were not using them, as in they had all been disconnected so you didn’t need to use a coin to release them. I think the only store we needed coins at was E.Leclerc.
- Comment on Spidey Senses 2 months ago:
Spider-Ant
Spider-Ant
Does whatever a spider can - Comment on VMware perpetual license holder receives audit letter from Broadcom 2 months ago:
I’d be surprised if this takes down Broadcom altogether, but could certainly kill the division. Oracle still exists, after all, even though they basically killed Sun and Java.
- Comment on Anon has fries 2 months ago:
Fries are usually not going to get you laid. But sharing a couple fries would’ve improved anon’s likability among that girl and maybe her friends, which is probably not a bad thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Wouldn’t breaking something make the exercise more difficult?
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- Comment on Trending Communities for Tuesday 10th June 2025 2 months ago:
That would seem a little odd given the person behind it has listed their account as being on a PieFed instance.
@andrew_s@piefed.social do you know if your bot is/should be tracking PieFed communities?
- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 2 months ago:
My school offered (from most popular to least popular):
- Spanish
- French
- Chinese (I think Mandarin)
- German
I think my child’s high school offers the same, although I don’t know the relative popularities. I’m confident Spanish is still most popular, and judging by the number of posters around the school from German classes trying to convince kids to take German, I’m thinking German is still not very popular.
- Comment on Zynga shuts down Torchlight 3 developer four years after its acquisition 3 months ago:
TIL Zynga still exists
- Comment on How does HTML actually run on a computer? 3 months ago:
If it was pre-compiled that could also cause issues not just across operating systems but also the architectures, right? Like x86 on desktop versus the ARM architecture most mobile devices use?
