phatfish

30 ms·

601.
by phatfish 3y ago
Elon should collect all this PI, then swap user names for real names, and disable the ability to delete anything at the same time, with a ninja EULA update.
602.
by phatfish 3y ago
Thanks for the Kremlin talking points on the Middle East. I'm sure instability in another continent is more risk to Europeans than the Russians having control over our energy AND food production -- had they taken all of Ukraine as Puti
603.
by phatfish 3y ago
Once a "tribe" gets big enough it starts to force others to pick a side. Inevitably the system reduces down to two. In politics voting methods can defuse this somewhat by allowing the smaller tribes stick to their own values and n
604.
by phatfish 3y ago
I bet OnlyFans pays more taxes than other companies 10x it's size, to remove a possible avenue of attack in the media. It's probably a net benefit to society based on that alone.
605.
by phatfish 3y ago
Watching the output of "dozens and dozens" of creators monthly sounds like a full time job.
606.
by phatfish 3y ago
I'll stop freeloading when mega corps start paying back even a fraction of what they take from society. Governments have a setup for this, it's called taxation.
607.
by phatfish 3y ago
My family wasn't rich and we had a "connected computer" in 97/98 before ad-tech really took over. Getting online was far less costly than the computer itself.
608.
by phatfish 3y ago
One of the 3 on AI porn? I get they need clicks but maybe drip feed them over a month or something.
609.
by phatfish 3y ago
If I remember one of the original conditions put on the acquisition of ARM by the UK gov was that HQ stays in the UK. So I doubt that will change. Can't say I'm familiar with the tangible benefits, but I assume is exposes ARM to U
610.
by phatfish 3y ago
It's heartening to see the Luddites failed to stop progress on this occasion at least.
611.
by phatfish 3y ago
There are also "plenty" more drivers on the road than the Cruise self driving fleet.
612.
by phatfish 3y ago
I've found that "PDF-XChange Editor" does everything i wanted for free. At least in the version I nabbed a few years ago, not sure if they have removed options from the free version since. Reordering pages, splitting, joining
613.
by phatfish 3y ago
Maybe if author of that comment put as much effort into developing their own browser as they seemed to put into that weird rant we would have a new Chrome competitor which meets their exceptions.
614.
by phatfish 3y ago
Firefox works fine for me, setting have never been reset. Feels like you have some other issues to work out unrelated to free software.
615.
by phatfish 3y ago
It does guarantee transition to a free as in freedom open source license after a set period. Seems to be (at most?) 4 years.
616.
by phatfish 3y ago
It also feels like each country going after them using their own local GDPR enforcement (or equivalent) is better than some EU level action (if that is even possible). It ties up Meta resources having to make more legal challenges, and it p
617.
by phatfish 3y ago
Decentralized is fine, especially Matrix and ActivityPub. In fact it's critical these open protocols get enough support to provide some antidote to Google, Facebook and the rest going full corporate capitalist utopia on internet servic
618.
by phatfish 3y ago
Yeah good point, lets just give up and let Apple, Google and Microsoft spread their propaganda instead. Which is just going to be US propaganda for everyone with zero chance for me to change how US controlled corporations behave. At least I
619.
by phatfish 3y ago
Public schools complete for government funding, the better the school the more funding they should receive to educate as many children as possible. The competition should be the grades attained by the students or their entry into higher edu
620.
by phatfish 3y ago
Corporations want the pubic to think that governments are incapable of running services for them. Then the public service can be asset striped and run on a shoestring. When the private owners get called out for providing a bad service their
621.
by phatfish 3y ago
I think linking to a Firefox account will truncate your local history to the maximum retention of Firefox Sync, which is 1 year or a size limit. It's pretty lame if that is the behaviour. I seem to get variable retentions between com
622.
by phatfish 3y ago
I wonder how Threads users will survive without the latest conspiracy theories and concern trolling from right-wing accounts. It was all there before and after Musk on Twitter. Post Musk you get the added overt racism as a bonus though. Cho
623.
by phatfish 3y ago
Yup it sounds awful, at least with Reddit and to a much lesser extent Twitter the conversation is kept somewhat in control by people having to subscribe to a Subreddit or follow accounts that interest them. Imagine the signal to noise ratio
624.
by phatfish 3y ago
As a light user of Twitter (and not at all at the moment, i don't have an account) the character limit for tweets felt like a good thing. The tweet threads are not terrible, but are inconvenient enough for people to be succinct as poss
625.
by phatfish 3y ago
Hang on, you mean people only buy things they can afford (or have the ability to get some sort of terrible finance deal on)? I thought they went and robbed a couple of banks like I do.
626.
by phatfish 3y ago
Given their team up with Microsoft on Azure I don't see a redemption arc anytime soon. What is left, SUSE I suppose for an enterprise style LTS distro?
627.
by phatfish 3y ago
Yes that is one of the cool side benefits i see too. It's like lossy compression for knowledge. Although, I mean that more in the sense we can have an entire (text) internet search engine on a phone, rather than it being a full backup.
628.
by phatfish 3y ago
Revanced is the only way to stay sane while using Youtube and Twitch on mobile. The adverts and other spam are more obnoxious than cable TV. I just hope it flies under the radar enough that Google don't start banning accounts for using
629.
by phatfish 3y ago
Interesting. Linux desktop really suffers from not having something slick as RDP on Windows. VNC isn't performant enough, I've found the open source RDP servers to be buggy and reattaching to a session sometimes doesn't work
630.
by phatfish 3y ago
Isn't VR porn just a stereoscopic look around? Google cardboard gets you 90% of that experience.

More ›