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- Comment on New Orleans ballot for clerk of criminal court runoff election today. Large boxes are city propositions. Tiny box in the top left corner is for the actual runoff...🔎 3 days ago:
The real !mildlyinfuriating part is the implication that the propositions are less important than the election of people.
- Comment on Native Americans? 3 days ago:
Most people in Argentina and Uruguay are white, and the (indigenous + indigenous-mixed) majorities in some of the other countries aren’t necessarily big enough to be considered “virtually all,” especially when you consider that there are folks with African ancestry there as well.
- Comment on Not impressed 4 days ago:
Nah, phylogenetically speaking, all descendants of fish must also be fish, by definition. Therefore, “being cold blooded” cannot also be a criterion (not that it would work anyway since tuna are warm blooded, BTW, and nobody would argue tuna aren’t fish).
The “living wholly in water” criterion actually works, though: land-fish (e.g. humans) live inside a bag of water that we carry with us.
- Comment on Not impressed 5 days ago:
Of course there’s such a thing as a fish! A fish is any swimming vertebrate (or its descendant), such as a tuna, or a duck, or a human.
- Comment on While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago 5 days ago:
I don’t think that was Gabe “hating” Microsoft; I think it was him recognizing that the Windows Store/appx stuff that Windows 8 pushed was a threat to his business model.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 5 days ago:
I know Jeff does raspi stuff.
Then why’d you ask if he’s not a fan of ARM? Were you unaware that Raspberry Pis use ARM CPUs?
I’m not trying to defend the guy or dispute you, BTW; I’m just still confused about why you’d say that.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 6 days ago:
Well, that’s unfortunate re: Jeff, but it’s still weird to me that the other commenter would be aware of that about him (which you mention having to dig through a decade of blog posts and old tweets to find), without at some point also finding out that he’s ‘the Raspberry Pi guy.’
It’s like knowing that Hitler was a vegetarian but somehow not knowing that he was the dictator of Germany who started WWII – it just doesn’t make sense for a fact to be that isolated from its context.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 6 days ago:
…wat.
I think you must be thinking of some other Jeff Geerling. The one I’m talking about is probably the #1 guy on Youtube for content about ARM stuff, and AFAIK isn’t a homophobe.
Your comment doesn’t make any sense because, even if you were talking about the right person and your accusation were accurate, why would you know some obscure thing about him while being unaware of the thing he’s famous for?
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 6 days ago:
Jeff Geerling is probably having a fit right now.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’m disappointed that this didn’t appear in my feed adjacent to the “teaching an octopus to play piano” video for a nice screenshot.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I nominate “octopodusai” to be the new English plural. (Where’d the “a” come from? To make it easier to confuse ‘ai’ with æ because fuck you, that’s why, of course!)
- Comment on Rockstar Games Employee Calls Out Studio For Spreading “Disinformation and Lies”, Union Busting 1 week ago:
That’s what happens when regulators like the FTC, Department of Labor, etc. have been essentially destroyed by neoliberals and crony capitalists.
- Comment on Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games? 1 week ago:
Anything on PC with a mouse/keyboard, maybe with the spacebar remapped.
- Comment on Edible Wood 1 week ago:
NileRed, I assume?
- Comment on I'm fine with being stupid 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 3 weeks ago:
WTF is “thretentiousness?”
- Comment on What are some good things to purchase to add a new distraction to my life? 3 weeks ago:
Ah, well, in that case, furniture-making should definitely be among your new hobbies.
- Comment on What are some good things to purchase to add a new distraction to my life? 3 weeks ago:
You live in a geodesic dome house. Clearly, you already don’t care what anybody else thinks!
(That’s kinda awesome, BTW.)
- Comment on What are some good things to purchase to add a new distraction to my life? 3 weeks ago:
Civic advocacy, hands down. It is infinitely the most important.
- Comment on What are some good things to purchase to add a new distraction to my life? 3 weeks ago:
'Tis the season for over-the-top programmable RGB holiday light displays choreographed to music.
(I haven’t gotten to the “choreographed to music” part of the hobby yet.)
- Comment on Reducing power consumption of a desktop PC 3 weeks ago:
You are using an unsupported browser. Please install Firefox to continue
LOL, nice.
(I’m only not using Firefox at the moment because I’m on Graphene OS and they claim their “Vanadium” browser is best for some reason, so I was giving it a chance. Getting fed up and about to switch back to Firefox, though.)
- Comment on Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd 4 weeks ago:
Well, they are now.
- Comment on arborholing 4 weeks ago:
First we had !NotKenM, now we need !NotStamets.
- Comment on Mom they're fighting again 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on LICK EM 4 weeks ago:
Too coherent for !aneurysmposting@sopuli.xyz IMO. This is just a malapropism.
- Comment on Mozilla is recruiting beta testers for a free, baked-in Firefox VPN 4 weeks ago:
Progressive Web Apps
Modern Tab Management
Isn’t that already an extension?
Improved History Search
Could also be an extension, I bet.
Cross Site Scripting (like “Web Macros”)
Improved privacy containers (fighting browser fingerprinting)
Clearer and more fine granumar permission concepts (like Android, “may this website do xyz”)That’s the sort of thing I meant by “under-the-hood stuff normies won’t notice.”
I think a number of Javascript Apis are lacking in Mozilla compared to Chrome and others.
No, that’s a good thing. Fuck JavaScript; it has way too much access to stuff it shouldn’t already. If anything, APIs need to be removed.
I almost hate Mozilla as much as I do hate Google, because they are slowly letting Firefox die a death of unpopularity.
But at least they can pay their CEOs a lot of money out of that sweet Google ad revenue.
I think Google still deserves to be hated a lot more, but otherwise I agree. IMO there’s no good reason for Mozilla Corporation to exist; it should only be Mozilla Foundation (the non-profit part) and all board and management should be replaced with non-overpaid people who actually believe in the mission.
- Comment on Mozilla is recruiting beta testers for a free, baked-in Firefox VPN 4 weeks ago:
Features like what? Other than under-the-hood privacy/security improvements that normies would never notice, I can’t think of any new feature I want.
- Comment on purrfect costume 5 weeks ago:
I feel like there was a love me of dialogue where one of the characters verbatim said “she’s just a cat in a lab coat.”
- Comment on the robots are helping 5 weeks ago:
Papers were… objectively worse
Are you some kind of minority/disadvantaged person? If so, I bet the real issue was that you were triggering their “bigotry of low expectations” by writing well enough that they just assumed you must have been cheating.
- Comment on Chat Control 2.0: what if Signal supports user-made Add-ons, one which encrypts all messages? Could that circumvent Chat Control 2.0? 1 month ago:
There’s no such thing as a technological solution to a legal problem.
