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- Submitted 19 hours ago to technology@beehaw.org | 43 comments
- Comment on DeSantis Signs Law Deleting Climate Change From Florida Policy 1 day ago:
The legislation, along with two other bills Mr. DeSantis signed on Wednesday, “will keep windmills off our beaches, gas in our tanks, and China out of our state,” the governor wrote on the social media platform X. “We’re restoring sanity in our approach to energy and rejecting the agenda of the radical green zealots.”
The Republican Party truly is the party for the dumb and the mentally damaged.
- Comment on Schools won't be allowed to teach children that they can change their gender ID, reports say 1 day ago:
I like it, it’s a smart and revealing strategy. Glad I originally misunderstood now because this comment off yours is really helpful and interesting.
- Comment on Schools won't be allowed to teach children that they can change their gender ID, reports say 2 days ago:
Sorry, I misread “from a girl to a woman or from a boy to a man” in your first comment, so I misunderstood your intent.
- Comment on Nature Valley: 10 bars in 5 packs 2 days ago:
Outsmart them by breaking each bar in half. Now you have 20 bars without spending a penny more!
- Comment on Schools won't be allowed to teach children that they can change their gender ID, reports say 2 days ago:
Personally I think we should be giving kids a lot more support in not transitioning. And by transitioning, I mean transitioning from a girl to a woman or from a boy to a man. If the child isn’t 100% certain they want to go through with massive irreversible hormonal changes, they shouldn’t.
I think you’re underestimating the care and caution with which these decisions are approached. No one is rushing kids into transitioning if they’re not sure. There are many safeguards to make sure transitioning only happens where it’s appropriate and the person fully understands and agrees to it.
- Comment on Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking 1 week ago:
At our small company many of us became more productive with working from home, to the point that they closed the office. A couple of people are finding it difficult because of their home situations, so it would be good still to have a space to work outside the home. But generally we’re getting more done these days, and most who do work that needs prolonged concentration find this more conducive to that.
It varies between different companies, teams, roles and temperaments. What Dell is doing sounds like corporate heavy-handedness.
- Comment on R.F.K. Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain 1 week ago:
There are your options, America: two very old white men and an old white man whose brain was partly eaten by a worm.
- Comment on Live Updates: Trump Held in Contempt Again as His Criminal Trial Speeds Along 1 week ago:
If the fine is a fixed amount like that, the law is saying that poor people deserve to be punished while rich people don’t.
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 2 weeks ago:
There’s also freedom from corporate culture, which I have had enough of in the past. Overall I think I’m happier keeping my perfectly tolerable job in its place and earning less, though I can see how others make a different choice and would negatively judge what I do.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 4 comments
- Comment on Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track 2 weeks ago:
A difference in taste, I guess. Having programs generated just to pander to my existing tastes sounds horrible to me. I want to be challenged and surprised and have my tastes tested and changed in unpredictable ways.
- Comment on Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track 2 weeks ago:
I’m not convinced any of these uses are actually beneficial.
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 2 weeks ago:
It’s a very small company. About 1/3 have moved on. The attraction is that it’s relatively accommodating for other things in your life.
- Comment on What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? 2 weeks ago:
Giving raises? My employer quiet quit that more than a decade ago. Meanwhile inflation and price gouging march on.
- Comment on Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps 3 weeks ago:
They still seem relatively easy to filter out compared to the torrent of SEO nonsense online.
- Comment on Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps 3 weeks ago:
I don’t remember saying all books were good. But it’s often possible to find well edited and curated material in print.
- Comment on Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps 3 weeks ago:
Time to go back to books for information.
- Comment on Does enshitification happen because companies are publicly-traded? 3 weeks ago:
I recently discovered the excellent suite of Affinity Photo, Publisher and Designer. Not open source, but very good and they sell them at a reasonable price with no subscription. Seemed pretty ideal. Then a week or two ago they sent out an email saying they had been bought by Canva. I kind of hate Canva because it functions like one big infuriating ad for their subscription service. They promised not to change, but I too have never known such promises to be kept after an acquisition.
- Comment on AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO' 3 weeks ago:
In modern times something similar happened with the atomic bomb, which was originally developed by the Mushroom Marketing Board to be a giant illuminated billboard in the sky.
- Comment on Afghanistan interpreter told his British citizenship bars family from UK visa 3 weeks ago:
Someone should start a crowdfunding site for him. The British government are a nasty bunch.
- Comment on Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions 4 weeks ago:
They think the left are the people doing the censoring by refusing to acknowledge that vaccines turn you into a zombie, races are biological and “white” is the best one, the Holocaust didn’t happen, etc. From their point of view, the prompt is self-consistent: “avoid bias by stating these plain truths.”
- Jail for holding a placard? Protest over the climate crisis is being brutally suppressedwww.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 2 comments
- Comment on Life was better in the nineties and noughties, say most Britons 4 weeks ago:
Even stranger that so many voters seem unable to see this obvious truth.
- Comment on Gunfire From Deputies Killed Teen Who Had Been Reported Kidnapped, Video Shows 1 month ago:
Put on paid leave for a few months and then quietly transferred to another police station, you say?
- Comment on Suicide Mission - What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane 1 month ago:
Enshittification of the skies.
- Comment on Trans youth will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers, NHS England says 2 months ago:
There may have been an organized effort by the far right to take over various national subreddits. It gives the impression that their views are overwhelmingly popular in the country, when really they’re not. The subreddit /r/Canada also got dominated by the far right, which led to the creation of /r/onguardforthee.
- Comment on Can Reddit—the Internet’s Greatest Authenticity Machine—Survive Its Own IPO? 2 months ago:
It will just shamble on, gradually disillusioning all the people who still cling to it long after it’s lost its soul.
Same as the rest of the corporate internet and all other digital services. I wonder whether people will ever lose patience with it and abandon these things.
- Comment on Google says it's killing 17 Assistant features to improve the user experience 4 months ago:
Don’t tell them!
- Comment on eBay agreed to pay maximal possible fine of $3 million after employees harassed, intimidated, and stalked a Massachusetts couple in retaliation for their critical reporting of the online marketplace 4 months ago:
It may have been a “Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?” kind of deal.