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jiofj··on Why Is TED Scared of Color Blindness?
>As soon as he heard the world “Black@TED”— the “Employee Resource Group that exists to provide a safe space for TED staff who identify as Black” Colman recognized that he was f*cked.
jiofj··on Fairphone 4 with /e/OS by Murena now available at fairphone.com
A bit of false advertising since it does not support 5G standalone, only the "fake" 5G NSA which is actually 4G.

Also, LCD screen, really underwhelming.

I was expecting much more for that price.

jiofj··on Why don’t Americans eat mutton?
Have you tried asking a butcher? Even if he doesn't have mutton there I'm sure he can arrange something..
jiofj··on AI-Generated 'Subliminal Messages' Are Going Viral.Here's What's Going On
Reduce your browser's zoom level and they will be easy to read.
jiofj··on Why is kernel32.dll running in user mode and not kernel mode
Back in the day of course. Now he's clearly run out of stuff to post. Which I guess makes sense, it couldn't last forever.
jiofj··on Google assigns a CVE for libwebp and gives it a 10.0 score
Downvotes because we are tired of the rust spam.
jiofj··on Google is picking ChatGPT responses from Quora as correct answer
Given enough temperature, can't you melt an egg?
jiofj··on Costco now offering virtual medical care for $29
Free? You don't pay taxes whatsoever? That's odd.
jiofj··on iPhone 15 teardown reveals software lockdown
That's what they already do, but the genuine OLED ceramic screen can't compete in price with some crappy LCD screen with regular glass that shows ripples when you push it with your finger.
jiofj··on PostScript’s sudden death in Sonoma
https://english.stackexchange.com/a/20620
jiofj··on US Government IT contractor could face death penalty over espionage charges
Really, an Ethiopian?
jiofj··on LaLiga “Talks to Google” About Deleting Piracy Apps from a Million Phones
Which is basically the same as the government, because they are the ones voting for that totalitarianism.
jiofj··on LaLiga “Talks to Google” About Deleting Piracy Apps from a Million Phones
There is no worse totalitarianism than the one coming from the government itself. What are we going to do?
jiofj··on Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom
The doom wiki moved like 10 years ago and it's still below.
jiofj··on Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom
I use adblock rules and the site looks perfectly fine. Every few months I have to add something new, but all in all, I don't have a problem with viewing wikis hosted by Fandom.

OTOH, I refuse to edit wikis in Fandom, because it feels like I'm not doing it for the community but for the Fandom company, which I don't care for.

jiofj··on Minecraft Wiki has decided to leave Fandom
The WoW wiki is also leaving Fandom.

In my experience the Fandom wiki will stay always above the new wiki in google, making this move pointless.

jiofj··on Google will retire Gmail’s Basic HTML view in January 2024
That costs money, plus you have to trust the mail provider more than you trust Google.
jiofj··on EU fines Intel $400M for blocking AMD's market access
CPUs: thermal issues, sometimes performance.

GPUs: terrible, awful drivers and compatibility.

jiofj··on EU fines Intel $400M for blocking AMD's market access
Or it is consumer choice.

For decades, AMD/ATI have been sold to me as "like Intel/nVidia, but cheaper". I've fallen for that trick several times and I have always regretted my purchase.

AMD will never get any money from me ever again. Perhaps I'm not the only one.

jiofj··on Mojo: The usability of Python with the performance of C
>For web apps perhaps.

Not even for web apps. You should see how much CPU time a python web app spends doing simple things like filling an html template.

jiofj··on How to Roman Republic, Part IV: The Senate
> At what point do people say to hell with it and bring back kingship?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin

jiofj··on Apple fucked us on right to repair (again)
>Overwhelmingly phones are stolen and sold as-is, not chop shopped.

That's not true. An icloud-locked iphone is a paperweight. Only the components are worth something. Well, were ;)

jiofj··on Apple fucked us on right to repair (again)
Thanks Apple for pairing more and more components thus making my phone a less desirable target for thieves. One of the reasons I will keep buying iphone.
jiofj··on Amazon to add limited ads to Prime Video starting in early 2024
I must be missing something because I've been seeing ads in Prime Video for quite some time.
jiofj··on Volvo to cease production of diesel cars in a few months
Not to mention all the restrictions on diesel cars driving through city centres. People used to choose diesel because it was cheaper, so this disproportionately affected poor people - EU's war on personal transportation continues.
jiofj··on Google accused of directing motorist to drive off collapsed bridge
Na, the family just wants money. It's not some kind of 4D chess move.
jiofj··on UK Parliament undermined the privacy, security, freedom of all internet users
This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
jiofj··on Meta-provided FB chats led a woman to plead guilty to abortion-related charges
For reference this is what a 23-week baby looks like: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families...
jiofj··on British journalist held by police at Luton airport for five hours without arrest
Nothing more democratic than asking for the "containment" of the side of politics that you don't like.
jiofj··on Spanish girls are reporting AI-generated nudes being circulated at school
That is not what I said.

Edit to reply to the comment below (I'm rate limited):

I am not dismissing it as if it was something that didn't matter. I am saying that the coverage of this issue is absolutely overblown, hours and hours nonstop of reporting. I assume you don't live here which is why you don't see it. Every news story where the victim is a female is given an absurd amount of coverage because the government is pushing this narrative where women are always victims and men are always aggressors in the interest of maintaining a divided society.

Things are so bad that Spain currently has unconstitutional laws where men and women receive different sentences for the same crimes, but the three most popular parties are progressive and no one is batting an eye or taking it to court.

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