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- Comment on X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research 1 week ago:
Yes, apparently their protocol sends everything to every node, so it would overwhelm anything but a very powerful and expensive server. The Fediverse’s ActivityPub protocol is more efficient and only sends traffic where it is needed.
- Comment on Tax cut for Musk, Bezos and other tech billionaires on the table, Starmer confirms 1 week ago:
From an international perspective, it just makes the British government look scared and weak.
- Comment on LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’ 1 week ago:
“Winning” presumably means doing something as worthwhile as inflicting LinkedIn on the world. I’m good thanks.
- Comment on LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’ 1 week ago:
To be fair, he’s talking to the founders of startups, not employees. But still, he sounds like an ass.
- Comment on Groups Are Told That Federal Humanities Grants Are Canceled 1 week ago:
The USA no longer invests in science or humanities. Only business is allowed! But also tariffs to make business worse.
- Comment on Europe proposes backdoors in encrypted platforms under new security strategy 1 week ago:
a new strategy to enhance internal security across the entire European Union.
By making encryption weak. What a duplicitous use of language.
- Raid on Quaker Meeting House, mass arrests by London Metropolitan Police of Youth Demand memberswww.wsws.org ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 7 comments
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- Comment on ICE Returns All Migrants From Guantánamo to Stateside Facilities 5 weeks ago:
So they wasted no time getting down to abusing the prisoners without due process. Business as usual for Guantanano I guess.
- Comment on Google researchers uncover critical security flaw in all AMD Zen processors 5 weeks ago:
Just like all the BIOSes that have turned out to be using example keys called things like TEST ONLY - NOT FOR PRODUCTION, rendering Secure Boot not.
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- Comment on Tesla for Sale: Buyer’s Remorse Sinks In for Elon Musk’s E.V.-Owning Critics 1 month ago:
There should be a word for that particular unsurprised flatness you feel when reading the NYT once again trying to find the most tangential angle at which to tiptoe around an obvious issue without touching on a blazingly obvious truth. Often you can tell from the mealy-mouthed headlines that it’s the NYT. They always try to paint their cowardice as some kind of superior intellectual take on the issue too, but everyone can see full well what they’re doing.
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- Comment on On May 5, Microsoft’s Skype will shut down for good 1 month ago:
I don’t think you can call landlines from it though.
- Comment on On May 5, Microsoft’s Skype will shut down for good 1 month ago:
I only used Skype for one thing: cheap calls from Canada to international landlines with no time limit and without having to pay a monthly subscription. Can anyone recommend a good alternative?
- Comment on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row 1 month ago:
Word would just get out that you should only use the secure services to communicate anything sensitive. We already have plenty of messaging services that are insecure, but enough people are preferring to use a secure option that it’s worrying the UK Government.
- Comment on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row 1 month ago:
If that means compromising encryption, which it does, then the benefits to everyone of end-to-end encryption and the protection it affords against government overreach and abuse tend to outweigh the benefits of government spying.
- Comment on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row 1 month ago:
Which party promises to defend end-to-end encryption? I thought there were no good options.
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- Comment on Trump Strengthens Grip on Kennedy Center as 18 Trustees and Chairman Are Removed 2 months ago:
Only non-degenerate arts approved by the Führer will be permitted from now on, with performers who are genetically pure examples of the Aryan race.
- Comment on Many workers would take a pay cut to work from home — some would forgo at least 20% of their salary 2 months ago:
Some can perhaps afford to give up 20% of their salary. Good for them. Many of us don’t have that wiggle room.
- Comment on Trump Proposes U.S. Takeover of Gaza and Says Palestinians Should Move 2 months ago:
He doesn’t care about the price of eggs. That was a distraction.
- Comment on US Department of Labor to cease and desist all investigative and enforcement activity under rescinded Executive Order 11246 2 months ago:
Funny way to spell Nazi.
- Comment on ‘I was a multimillionaire, I had a beautiful girlfriend, I was unhappy’: the ups and downs of a supertrader 2 months ago:
“The rich have got a choice,” he says. “They can lend the money to the government or they can buy the assets. I know what I’m doing.”
“OK, what’s that?” I ask, trepidatiously, knowing the answer.
“I’m buying the assets. Stocks, gold, commodities, property, everything. The rich have got a lot of money, they can buy everything. The government has got to compete with that. They can’t. They’re trying to play chess with no pieces.”
This sound like the activity of a leftist. But it’s an interesting question, to what extent you can play the capitalist game while still claiming to be a leftist? When are you undermining from within and when have you just gone over to the other side, no matter how you conceive of yourself?
- Comment on Trump Administration Fires U.S. Coast Guard Commandant 2 months ago:
And, according to the article, wasn’t sufficiently biased towards white men.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Your taxes, straight into the pockets of needy folk like Sam Altman and Larry Ellison.
- Comment on "Meta and X are going rogue:" European Digital Rights group (EDRi) urges EU to invest in infrastructure "like Mastodon, Peertube and other key pieces of the Fediverse" to secure Europe's independence 2 months ago:
Large chunks of the EU are hurtling rightwards too, unfortunately.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Even if you’re right, why bring this up in every single thread? What’s it contributing?
- Comment on UK ‘one of world’s least work-oriented countries’ claims BrewDog founder - as he slams obsession with 'work-life balance' 2 months ago:
How dare people want to balance his quality of life with their own!
- Comment on UK ‘one of world’s least work-oriented countries’ claims BrewDog founder - as he slams obsession with 'work-life balance' 2 months ago:
Don’t buy BrewDog beer. Got it.