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• Post #2962427

  Best best I’d guess is OCR?

• Post #2783246

  Don’t be so casual about passing your phone number out. The correct response is “5 GB is plenty for email. It’s probably just to reduce abuse from bots. What’s the big deal?”

• Post #2282156

  For most popular distros most stuff works out of the gate. It’s been a long time since I’ve had to wrestle with anything vexing.

• Post #1059735

  Key point: “Ultimately, the fundamental problem with age-gating is that it fails to address any of the root problems with our current online landscape – that is, the extractive business models and pernicious design features of mainstream tech companies. We all exist in a highly commercialised information ecosystem, rife with algorithmically amplified misinformation, scams, harmful content and AI slop. Children are particularly vulnerable to these issues but the reality is that it impacts everyon...

• Post #878682

  Don’t worry, I’m sure we’ll have other tools for quickly and cheaply creating falsified videos and the like. Faith in the veracity of video evidence probably won’t be coming back.

• Post #659318

  Name checks out.

• Post #547768

  Not The Onion?

• Post #530639

  Oh no Valve made popular things that third parties can sell for crazy prices. Let’s sue --those third party platforms-- Valve. Next do WotC.

• Post #482115

  Actually a pretty good idea.

• Post #482074

  Yeah, ESH. His response of editing an archive showed the site to be unreliable as an archive. DDOSing from the site as a counter to the dox attempt caused the site serious reputational harm as well. It sucks because his site was actually more reliable than The Internet Archive.

• Post #72425

  It’s kind of crazy that the company whose name is synonymous with the product category is going into bankruptcy. It would be like if Skype, which is synonymous with video calls, was out competed by every other video call platform.

• Post #34986

  My concern is that they’ll include the equipment for spying on you, and just enable it later. I bought a Hue because it said “no online account required!” Later they changed their mind. I want the promise plus open standards and a base of libre software. I want them to tie themselves to the mast.

• Post #25018

  There are plenty of people who are sociopathic around you right now. What they usually lack is the power/opportunity to do harm. Under capitalism the crimes of capitalists are made normative and legal. All sociopaths are human, and depite what some may think, you can’t just punish/shoot your way out of a systemic problem.