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"technologies are invented to make our lives easier - not our choices."
New @emf policy: Any speakers who supply a rider will have it granted, but interpreted in the manner of an evil genie.
"I would like a bowl of M&Ms with all the brown ones removed"
We have complied with your request and replaced the brown M&Ms with mildly annoyed beetles
of course using subscriptions comes with trade-offs such as privacy erosion, not being sustainable in long-term, heavy push from the companies to "get hooked up" into that - and this is something that should be reviewed and fixed
that's why, even though I don't oppose subscriptions entirely and can embrace them in specific areas, I don't support them in a long term
for the record, while I don't mind gaming subscriptions, at the same time I vehemently oppose the same model for other software - especially one that is more used in everyday life
probably going to be an unpopular opinion - especially considering my sharp criticism of how tech companies are eroding the definition of ownership within software - but gaming subscriptions aren't inherently bad
I'm saying this because they are perfect for people with incomes that don't allow to afford buying new games regularly. of course this comes with a trade-off such as "you don't own the game", but for them, having access is more important
It is amazing how some "clever" people completely misunderstand the world.
"I don't want to watch a video! Give me the text!"
"Urgh! I don't need my browser to summarise this document."
"Just spend a few years learning to play an instrument."
"Did you even read these 17 poorly-formatted but peer reviewed papers about your disease?"
"A voice note? Really? Just type it!"
There's a whole intellectual privilege in thinking that everyone has the same level of literacy as you do.
Hardware patch and debug printf using LEDs
me every time I travel somewhere
The UK will totally replace two-thirds of junior civil servants with AI chatbots, says the chatbot
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/30/the-uk-will-totally-replace-two-thirds-of-junior-civil-servants-with-ai-chatbots-says-the-chatbot/ - text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TWzQJ0Zlvo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA- video
really cool solution to a narrow problem that is also FOSS
This, as they say, is a banger of a speech. “It is time for Europe to rise up once again. To rally around the next great European project. Thus, I believe that our next great era – the next great unifying project – is about building an independent Europe.” https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_25_1366
@walsonde yeah I'm aware of VSCodium, and in a way that's the gist of original post: eventually VSCode forks will be unsuitable to work
in fact, Microsoft have already started doing this indirectly. I can't use VSCodium even if I wanted to because I rely on several extensions for dev environment and they're not working there bc Microsoft forbids them from running on VSCode forks
and now they've started taking away support for even programming language extensions https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/24/microsoft_vs_code_subtracts_cc_extension/
the future of microsoft :blobcatupsidedown:
11-jährige Influencerin in Gaza getötet: Sie war ein Leuchtfeuer der Hoffnung
👉 Yaqeen Hammad war Influencerin und vermittelte Hoffnung im überbordenden Leid von Gaza. Am vergangenen Freitag wurde die 11-Jährige getötet.
next few weeks are going to be a bit nervous, so hopefully all goes well :blobpray:
every time I see the gov't wanting to improve state cyber security – rightly so! – I check how much they offer to pay. and this didn't disappoint:
"The base pay for the new roles is £40,939 ($55,268) base pay with up to £25,000 ($33,750) extra if the applicant has the right skills, or can learn them. Applicants need to be non-naturalized British or Irish subjects..."
in the industry where private companies can afford pay £100k+, £40-65k are pennies.
“If I supply you with a tool to remove DRM (like some versions of Calibre), then I commit a felony and Amazon can have me sent to prison for five years for giving you a tool to move my book from the Kindle app to a rival app like Kobo. ... [E]ven though copyright law says you can format shift your books, music, videos, games, [etc.], DMCA 1201 (a ‘paracopyright law’) makes this an imprisonable felony if you have to break DRM first.” – @pluralistic
https://lifehacker.com/tech/you-can-remove-drm-from-your-digital-books-but-its-probably-illegal
@remixtures fuck caitlin johnstone. and every single brain rotten shithead who quotes her.
literally there is an entire book about how a western big tech company has empowered a totalitarian state just to increase their own profits – and now another company goes with the exact same route, also because they're "missing the target revenue"
big tech's greediness knows no limits
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/29/senators_nvidia_shanghai_office/
#Tech #Technology #China #CCP #AI #Nvidia #Apple #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #BigTech
