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- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 1 week ago:
Thanks for posting that quote from the article.
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 1 week ago:
It’s one of many gestures that are used by trained public speakers as non-verbal communication cues. Here are some examples, including the one you asked about: qz.com/…/a-guide-to-ted-talk-hands-seven-signatur…
There are many more beyond those. Using hand gestures in public speaking has been around since at least classical times.
- Comment on Day 468 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
Awesome, you’re welcome, and I hope you enjoy it! People who mesh with it tend to get pretty deep into it and put in hundreds or even thousands of hours of play. I’m not a dedicated gamer, but I have more time in this game than any other. It may be worth watching some trailers and tutorials for it too.
- Comment on Day 468 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
It’s a great game that gets even better when you play co-op in a group. I’ve also heard of some amazing scenarios in PVP public servers.
- Comment on Chairman Comer Invites CEOs of Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit to Testify on Radicalization of Online Forum Users - United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 1 month ago:
Who knew that the Twitch CEO was actually the blonde bearded guy from the meme? TIL
- Comment on Apache Software Foundation Unveils Its Branding Overhaul With New Logo & "The ASF" Name 1 month ago:
That makes a lot of sense, thanks!
- Comment on Apache Software Foundation Unveils Its Branding Overhaul With New Logo & "The ASF" Name 1 month ago:
I don’t understand it either, but thanks for identifying the leaf.
- Comment on Apache Software Foundation Unveils Its Branding Overhaul With New Logo & "The ASF" Name 1 month ago:
That’s cool ASF! /s
But I wonder why they changed the logo from a feather to a weird leaf.
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 2 months ago:
This. And less privacy.
- Comment on Zuckerberg says people without AI glasses will be at a disadvantage in the future 3 months ago:
(slaps forehead) Of course! People without AI glasses will miss out on all those free knuckle sandwiches that people with AI glasses will be offered everywhere they go!
- Comment on Meta pirated and seeded porn for years to train AI, lawsuit says 3 months ago:
Let’s be honest now… Zuckerberg is building a globally-distributed, industrial-scale, disaster-proof spank bank for himself.
- Comment on News publishers take paywall-blocker 12ft.io offline 3 months ago:
Interesting about .onion websites, thanks!
- Comment on News publishers take paywall-blocker 12ft.io offline 3 months ago:
The primary purpose of archive.is is to get around paywalls though. That’s the only thing I’ve ever seen it used for.
- Comment on News publishers take paywall-blocker 12ft.io offline 3 months ago:
Very interesting article, thanks! I had wondered about this. The whole thing sounds pretty mysterious. Who knows, it could be Meta behind the curtains, lol! They’ve been known to resort to piracy to feed their AI.
- Comment on Linux smashes through five per cent desktop share in the US 3 months ago:
As much as I’m pro-Linux and anti-Microsoft and anti-Apple, I have to say that I don’t think comparing desktop use to server use is appropriate when it comes to security. I don’t think server use of any OS translates to desktop use in terms of security at all. If nothing else, the end user is a major difference between the two. End users download, install, run, and interact with all kinds of random software, websites, etc. without thinking and this is the main source of desktop malware. The same is not the case for servers.
- Comment on Linux smashes through five per cent desktop share in the US 3 months ago:
That’s definitely been a catalyzing factor for me. I had fiddled around with Linux and had been pretty ‘meh’ about Windows for years, but I was just coasting along the path of least resistance. Them telling me that I could no longer use my perfectly functional computer for Windows was the ‘last straw’ that finally what made me begin to take action and get ready to say goodbye to Windows.
If you think about it, Microsoft’s timing for this is really perfect. Wait until Linux is very viable for desktop use including gaming then tell vast numbers of your customers that they need to ditch a fully working computer in order to keep using Windows. I expect that this figure will probably double by the end of the year. There’s another article by ZDNet now that says that the share is more like 6% and rapidly accelerating. I’ll post it on the main Linux community if hasn’t already been posted there.
- Comment on News publishers take paywall-blocker 12ft.io offline 3 months ago:
archive.is probably next? It sounds like the same kind of tool.
- Comment on What are the privacy risks of exposing IP adresses? 3 months ago:
I’m inclined to think that your IP provides powerful cross-reference potential. Imagine someone either buys the data off of all data brokers out there or a law enforcement agency obtains similar kind of data through warrants, etc. They can cross-reference IPs and time-stamps and determine, that you, Joe Blow, age 35, who works at X, volunteers at Y, and lives at 123 main street, browse for some kind of very embarrassing porn every night. It’s a drastic example to illustrate the idea, but I don’t think it’s far-fetched.
This could be taken further by imagining a wider net: say, a large portion of people who have donated to this political candidate or who work for this company browse for that same embarrassing porn every night.
I’m thinking birds-eye view of potential privacy violations here.
- Comment on Just a note: When lemm.ee shuts down, all the images will break. 5 months ago:
Good to know, thanks!
- Comment on Just a note: When lemm.ee shuts down, all the images will break. 5 months ago:
Interesting, thanks! I did not realize that.
What do you mean to edit your top posts to an archived version?
- Comment on Just a note: When lemm.ee shuts down, all the images will break. 5 months ago:
What do you mean? Don’t instances keep a local copy of images from other instances?