Wolf314159

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[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

That's just a taxi company with extra steps, extra wage theft, and fewer worker protections.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What's wrong with spouse? Have people forgotten that thesaurus exist? Spouse is already gender neutral, literally means married partner, and doesn't sound like a corporate speak buzzword to make the drones feel like family.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 2 days ago

More like by design for an LTS release.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Does your Dubai chocolate hate have to do with the arguments made in this opinion article, which basically boils down to the popularity of foods and culture being exploited as propaganda, obscuring atrocities committed by authoritarian regimes? If so, that was not at all clear from your post. (I'm still unclear what the ethnicity of the chef has to do with anything.) Any cultural artifact or pastiche is free game for the propaganda machines of the powerful and elite. But those same associations are a double edged sword, hanging a lantern on the same atrocities the regime wishes to obscure. In the end, I feel it is more productive to embrace the fad, eat the chocolate (sourced as ethically as possible), and exploit the popularity as an opportunity to illuminate rather than add to the hate.

Dubai chocolate is really one ethically questionable imperialist exploitation food wrapped around another. The metaphor is delicious. So is the chocolate. Let's eat and discuss instead of hating it.

I hate hate. Retail is hell. That was a great episode. Archer is the best captain. I actually grew to like the theme song a bit. I'm out. Mic drop.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'd like to see ideas like this make a comeback, hopefully with some modifications this time around to protect our privacy and resist corporate exploitation.

We used to use del.icio.us and other variants to do exactly this before browsers had profiles. Back then, its primary draw was that you could take your bookmarks with you anywhere to any machine (this being before that function was baked into browsers and before web browsers could be carried in your pocket). The secondary effect was that you'd share and tag those websites with your own categories/descriptors, thus crowdsourcing a new version of the old web's link directories using Web 2.0. You could browse through symantic tag clouds to discover new things. Del.icio.us was for websites, but people were tagging and logging all of their favorite stuff and sharing it online so that like minded strangers could filled the gaps in their cultural awareness. We tagged our books with librarything. We tagged recipes with recipe thing. Audioscrobbler (later known as last.fm) logged our music listening to automate the tagging, not by direct symantic tagging, but by relational/temporal coincidence. If other people that listened to a lot of the stuff you listened to and they also listened to some other stuff you didn't, those became recommendations for you. That kind of relational algorithm would survive the slow death of Web2.0 to become the backbone of recommendation services like Spotify and probably even TikTok.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

It's because the precision is overstated in the conversion to imperial. If they're going to convert units they could at least give the correct significant digits. It should have read (if one insists on not just leaving it in metric):

  • Operational altitude: nearly 1 mile (1.5km)
  • Weight: Under 1 ton (imperial or metric. Take your pick, it hardly matter.)
[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 5 points 2 months ago

You've just traded down votes for the report button.

I say they are two different use cases. There is often a very wide gulf between a comment that I feel does not contribute to good discussion and one that is so heinous that it needs to be removed. Most of your comments for instance: pretty naive and banal adding little good to the discussion overall, but I don't feel that you've said anything hateful, obscene, or aggressive enough to warrant total removal. Usually I just downvote and move on, especially when I don't want to hear that person's bad take reply on my own point of view. I've made an exception here for you simply because you are trolling all over this thread, seemingly inviting downvotes. But, I'm going to block you and move on because you've killed any interest I have in this thread or the larger discussion. I still don't think your comments rise to the level of reporting.

Reports and blocks aren't a replacement for downvotes and if your instances doesn't federate downvotes you shouldn't use them that way.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago

Yes. I'm assuming your just some dude and not a telecom with teams of lawyers.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago

Now. That's pretty much the situation now. If you don't believe me, try and completely remove Edge and Copilot from an updated Windows 11.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Obviously, it was a skill learned in early grade school and subsequently forgotten through lack of practice. You know, as stated in the article and multiple comments here.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Being able to fold down a larger "sheet" display so that it fit in a pocket would be pretty cool. Having extra room for reading things like maps and comic books is so much better than pinching and zooming on a pocket sized display. What you call limited purpose, I call functional design. I'm kind of over all-in-one devices. They've turned into Jack of all trades, but master of none.

Obviously that's not what this device is, but it got me thinking about why I'd want a device with multiple e-ink displays or a foldable display.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 4 months ago

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

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