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- Comment on Google sucks 6 days ago:
Facebook marketplace
The real !mildlyinfuriating is always in the comments. I’m damn near locked out of the used market these days because I refuse to use motherfucking Facebook.
- Comment on Nick Clegg and Tim Berners-Lee: the battle for the soul of the internet 1 week ago:
Tim Berners-Lee already sold the soul of the Internet when he approved web DRM.
This is just two twats arguing; neither deserves our trust!
- Comment on My Bank Recently Changed Their Interface to Move Money Between Accounts 1 week ago:
You must be an electrical engineer or something, since you’re apparently so used to thinking about flows backwards.
- Comment on My Bank Recently Changed Their Interface to Move Money Between Accounts 1 week ago:
They should display all your accounts as a word cloud and have you draw a line (directional arrow) from the source to the destination. Yes, using your finger (on a touchscreen) or the mouse.
#shittyuiideas
- Comment on Root cause for why Windows 11 is breaking or corrupting SSDs may have been found 1 week ago:
- Comment on Anon is an artist 1 week ago:
that rabbit hole is very deep
Phrasing!
- Comment on Scientific possibility! 2 weeks ago:
If we can see evidence of feathers, we could see evidence of clothes too.
- Comment on The Mysterious Noise, The Empty Bottle, The Asshole Labmate 2 weeks ago:
Sealab 2021, not 2020.
- Comment on redwoods 2 weeks ago:
The problem with the fires lately isnt that they’re happening, it’s that they’re happening too frequently.
I thought the problem was that they weren’t happening frequently enough, allowing too much undergrowth to build up and make them worse than they’re supposed to be?
(But I’m not from California, so you probably know better.)
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 2 weeks ago:
It really doesn’t, though. Unless the company running the website has a presence within the EU – which means it ceases to count as “outside” – there’s fuck-all the EU can do to enforce it.
- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 2 weeks ago:
I’m suddenly wondering if horny multiplayer games for couples is already a thing, or if it’s an untapped market.
- Comment on advertising and headers take up 50% of screen space 3 weeks ago:
They should add a per-site setting to use reading mode by default.
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 3 weeks ago:
As a civil engineer with only a tiny bit of experience cos I switched to software.
Holy shit, I’m not the only one?!
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 3 weeks ago:
Not to knock college undergrad core curriculum, but that strong base ought to be acquired before graduating high school.
- Comment on My writing laptop just died 3 weeks ago:
I’m not a Linux person.
[X] doubt
- Comment on What's going on with imgur right now? 3 weeks ago:
LOL. LMAO, even.
Get fucked, Imgur!
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 3 weeks ago:
The fascist US obviously won’t do shit, but Europe ought to outlaw this blatant anti-trust violation.
- Comment on The Fifth Circuit Ruled That the NLRB Is Unconstitutional 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like somebody needs to be reminded that without the NLRB setting fair rules, “illegal” tactics like wildcat strikes, sympathy strikes, union violence, etc. are back on the menu.
- Comment on AWS CEO says AI replacing junior staff is 'dumbest idea' 3 weeks ago:
That’s a future CEO’s problem.
- Comment on Superfan Ben Stiller Has A Star Trek Pitch, Says It’s Important For Franchise To Return To Big Screen 4 weeks ago:
The Orville isn’t “big screen.” What we need is a sequel to Galaxy Quest.
- Comment on 'Ad Blocking is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned By Top German Court 4 weeks ago:
But see, that’s what I’m saying: the court was wrong to consider that 25th box a thing that needed ticking to begin with. There was nothing that needed re-opening because if the computer owner’s property rights were as secure as they’re supposed to be the reason given for sending the case back to the lower court should’ve been considered irrelevant!
- Comment on What would be an inexpensive and reliable way to set up a personal-use VPN tunnel? 4 weeks ago:
The company’s rule isn’t arbitrary; it’s due to state income taxes being paid based on where the employee actually works, not where the company is located. It’s payroll, not IT, who are going to be coming after your friend, because the state tax collectors are going to be coming after everybody when your friend’s lie causes them to not file the taxes correctly.
- Comment on What are the main differences between GPLv2, GPLv3, AGPL, and LGPL? 4 weeks ago:
Permissive licenses (MIT, BSD) prioritize programmers’ freedom, letting them do whatever they want with the code including keeping their own changes proprietary.
All variants of GPL are copyleft, which prioritizes end uaers’ freedom to control the software they use.
LGPL is for people who want the subsystem they’re working on to remain free, but don’t mind it being incorporated into proprietary software.
GPLv2 is for people who want to preserve users’ rights to control the whole program.
GPLv3 is resistant to Tivoization, i.e. to preserve users’ rights to actually run the program on the hardware it was intended for.
AGPL is resistant to circumventing users’ rights by using SaaS instead of letting them run it locally.
(BTW, everyone who thinks there’s a good reason to prefer GPLv2 over v3 is shortsighted and wrong.)
- Comment on 'Ad Blocking is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned By Top German Court 4 weeks ago:
No, it’s even worse than people realize.
This isn’t just about ad-blocking; it’s about computer owners’ fundamental property rights (or lack thereof). It shouldn’t fucking matter if the ad-blocker modifies the website’s code, because both pieces of software are running on the owner’s machine and he has the right to modify his property in any way he sees fit.
It is no different than a book owner crossing out printed text and writing in the margins: that copy of the book is his modify as he wants, and copyright doesn’t fucking enter into it as all because there’s no copying or distribution happening to begin with.
What the German court gas done here is opened the door to copyright holders trying to colonize shit they don’t own, stealing control from the actual owners.
- Comment on Mississippi Senator tells his constituents to 'get a life' 4 weeks ago:
You say that, but clearly some Senators don’t fucking get it just from reading the text and need the long-winded explanation.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 4 weeks ago:
Fuck off, property-rights-hating shill! You are not only wrong but dangerously so, and there is absolutely nothing you could ever write that could ever change my mind.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 4 weeks ago:
What part of “it’s a violation of people’s property rights to try to extract rent for the thing they already own” do you not fucking understand?
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 4 weeks ago:
ECU hacks exists since decades ago…
They call it unlock
Yeah, no shit ECU tuning has long been a thing. I’ve got a '99 VW with an ECU tune myself.
The thing is, they’re calling this shit an “unlock” because they’re charging for it, which is obviously the essential difference. They are attempting to colonize your property in order to charge you rent for something you are already entitled to do!
How the fuck are you failing to understand how beyond the pale that is?!
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 4 weeks ago:
No, that’s absolute bullshit.
In your example, they absolutely and unequivocally bought all 200 HP, from the beginning, and merely got a good deal on it if VW charged a lower price than the identical car with different number on the label. But it was always their property from the beginning because that’s how property works.
They owe VW nothing after the fact, and always had the capital-r Right to use every bit of horsepower the engine was physically capable of!
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 4 weeks ago:
