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- Comment on Number of trackers and cookies I had to go thru after installing a currency converter app 1 week ago:
And you showed it after you went through there and turned off all the legitimate interest ones…
- Comment on Luanti (aka Minetest) removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice 1 week ago:
It makes sense for Google to comply with the law. It would be good for Google to act in good faith, instead of facilitating frivolous spam complaints and preventing their legal resolution through subversive threats to the victim businesses on their platforms.
- Comment on Luanti (aka Minetest) removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice 1 week ago:
Lisan al-Gaib!! /s
- Comment on Luanti (aka Minetest) removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice 1 week ago:
DMCA isn’t all that unreasonable, though. It’s Google’s implementation of the DMCA policy that fails everyone. The article explains this further, with how instead of adhering to the 14 day restoration requirement in the DMCA law, Google took 46 days to restore this app last time.
The legal remedy here is for the developer to sue Google alongside the false DMCA company. Unfortunately, Google’s response to this kind of thing is to usually ban the developer from Google servers, thereby cutting their future income.
TL;DR Google is the biggest cunt in all of this.
- Comment on Luanti (aka Minetest) removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice 1 week ago:
Aurora Store is good enough for most. It’s still on Google Play, but you’re not using the Google Play app and you can even pick which version and see an Exodus tracking report before you download.
- Comment on Love Wins 3 weeks ago:
Pfisterer HV terminations are male to male. They also have big butt plugs for when they’re not in use. Kinky Germans.
- Comment on Return to office propaganda floating around LinkedIn 1 month ago:
A raise with no promotion = more pay for the same responsibilities.
Year 3 sounds divine.
- Comment on courier transform 2 months ago:
Bangin. Just what I needed tonight, thanks.
- Comment on humans in space 2 months ago:
Hey if it works in nature.
The winglets on the end of airplane wings were added after watching hawk wing feathers with slow motion cameras.
- Comment on courier transform 2 months ago:
The joke is that this is the best representation of a Fourier transform you’re ever likely to see.
- Comment on Palantir Gets Massive UK Tax Breaks on Profits Made From Public Money 2 months ago:
… First time?
- Comment on Palantir Gets Massive UK Tax Breaks on Profits Made From Public Money 2 months ago:
Palantir doesn’t own the whole country, not yet, it’s more of a malignant tumour that keeps spreading and resists treatment. Some progress appears to be being made right now but who knows if the country will survive it in the long run.
Meanwhile Trump and co seem to pretty much own the US now.
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 2 months ago:
The clever part is drawing the parallel between two unrelated things, to draw on the recipient’s emotions about one of them and entice them to compare why they feel differently about the other.
Somewhat manipulative, perhaps, but only in the way that explaining things manipulates someone into understanding.
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 2 months ago:
There were people around the globe who knew about the nsa before Edward Snowden and told the truth.
There was a whole fucking Will Smith movie about it in the late 90s.
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 2 months ago:
I mean he did coin/popularise the phrase “Saying you don’t care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is like saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”
- Comment on Trying to dualboot Linux Mint + Windows on a second external hard drive but Windows Setup doesn't let me install on the disk... 7 months ago:
You can set them up in either order, you just need to set them up separately by disconnecting the Linux drive (or the drive of any other OS, even a 2nd Windows install) when installing Windows. Windows needs to think it’s the only OS installed.
But yeah it’s probably simpler to do Windows then Linux, as Linux doesn’t care, so you won’t need to unplug anything.
- Comment on Trying to dualboot Linux Mint + Windows on a second external hard drive but Windows Setup doesn't let me install on the disk... 7 months ago:
Absolutely. The last thing you want is Windows’ multi-OS boot manager popping up all the time. BIOS handles that more than well enough.
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 8 months ago:
We could also all sleep together in big rooms, like stadiums, to save heat and power elsewhere. And it won’t turn into that orgy scene at the end of that Matrix movie, not unless Carol wants it to.
- Comment on Onyo 8 months ago:
OnAIon.
- Comment on Onyo 8 months ago:
Stinky
- Comment on ‘Stop Killing Games’ Finds More Allies From MPs In The UK 9 months ago:
Mr Sewards, who is a member of a parliamentary group focused on consumer protection, also voiced fears that such a precedent could eventually extend to physical goods, as digital technology becomes increasingly integrated into household items.
If anything, the recent AWS outages and all the IOT physical device failures prove beyond all reasonable doubt that this is happening, and not just accidentally.
- Comment on 3-bean soup 10 months ago:
More like a wet three bean salad.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 10 months ago:
Some cars even have a separate zone for the rear. However I’ve only seen that on touch screen models, so they can suck a dick.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 10 months ago:
Hard disagree. Physical buttons with a digital temperature and split controls for left and right (and maybe rear as well). Automatic climate control that also does the fans. I had all of this on a car in 2010, and it was perfect - I could just leave the temperature set at what I wanted all the time, and the fans would blow hard if it needed to heat or cool significantly to get there.
Some manufacturer’s, eg Volvo, don’t automatically adjust the fans, which is wank. But nothing is as wank as touch screen controls - I fucking hate it when you’re trying to aim at a button, then as you go in to press the car bumps and you completely miss.
- Comment on UK officially rolls out digital ID scheme, to combat illegal migrants working. 11 months ago:
Yes, but you have those as physical objects. This is an app you must run on your phone.
- Comment on UK officially rolls out digital ID scheme, to combat illegal migrants working. 11 months ago:
It’s worse than that.
You have to run a government app on your phone. The tracking device in your pocket that goes with you everywhere, that must run government code.
- Comment on Who could have predicted this? 1 year ago:
And Microsoft Activation Script will license it permanently.
- Comment on Who could have predicted this? 1 year ago:
Oh the irony of sitting back on Win 10 being what saves people from the issue.
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 1 year ago:
(Software) Piracy is not theft, by definition. Theft requries an intent to deprive, and copyright infringement does not deprive. Theft is a crime, copyright infringement is a civil offense (aside from the criminal version that now exists thanks to extensive lobbying by predatory rights holder organisations, but that has a slightly higher bar and is meant only for commercial pirates who profit).
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 1 year ago:
It’s a good job car mechanics use filthy language anyway, or they’d be in trouble.