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Re:Peter Thiel, the tech oligarch who believes in the Antichrist
on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:33AM (#50244424)
If you are the sort of person for whom some finite amount is adequate, you will probably not make billions. I mean this in a nice way. If you are a person who thinks certain things outside money and power are more important, you are unlikely to do the odious things necessary to make billions.
Re:Lula wins election after final votes tallied
on Monday October 26, 2026 @03:58AM (#50240531)
Part of being competent is building legislative and other public service systems that run without you being at the helm, and bringing up younger leaders behind you who keep things going upward. Memento mori, and all that.
Re:Demographic "Doomsday" Misses the Mark
on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @05:53AM (#50178242)
But the influence only goes one way, not the other, right? There has never been pressure from society to get married and reproduce?
Re:eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-On...
on Saturday October 17, 2026 @01:51AM (#50128345)
I saw a video recently about someone doing home automation work, put some transmitter in his basement, and all his neighbours' car key fobs stopped working because his transmitter was overwhelming them. It's hard to think of some LLM solution for that.
Re:QGIS bans AI assisted contributions
on Monday October 12, 2026 @12:11PM (#50058505)
A good way to look at it is if I can use AI to add a feature/fix a bug, so can the maintainers. My doing it adds no value to the project. In projects where I am the maintainer/an employee, I can extract a lot of value from using AI to build, I don't need anyone's help to do it.
Re:NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect
on Monday October 12, 2026 @02:32AM (#50052134)
Then it is not as easy to use as the mechanism you used to sign up, and it's now against the law.
Re:US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Pea...
on Friday October 09, 2026 @02:29PM (#50024772)
And the US has done this continuously over the last few decades. GP shouldn't have excused Russia, but the US is just as guilty.
Re:The Escalation of War in Ethiopia
on Saturday October 03, 2026 @11:19AM (#49945051)
What's your point?
Re:Xiaomi MiMo v2.6
on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @05:23AM (#49798489)
How long will it take to convince them that it is worth it to get into long-running relationships with the US. How long before another populist is elected who will rip up agreements for weird reasons and you have to renegotiate them?
Re:Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023
on Thursday September 17, 2026 @10:06AM (#49740971)
Why does everyone assume that we're the ones keeping money under the mattress, not the ones who would have been paid by money otherwise not spent? All transactions have two sides, no?
Re:Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 cli...
on Sunday September 13, 2026 @06:52AM (#49682472)
If said copy paste behavior allows any app to snoop on any other apps' clipboard content without control, then it's been broken for decades.
Re:Linux Zoom client proactively reading everything written to X11 cli...
on Sunday September 13, 2026 @02:49AM (#49680775)
It isn't though. For example, the very article we are discussing.
Re:LG responds to TV spying allegations
on Sunday September 13, 2026 @02:26AM (#49680637)
I.e. spend more money to do things the TV can perfectly well do. We should make the spying illegal so we can use the devices we buy to their full potential without being sold to advertisers. "Give money to this other company that may or may not also be collecting data and may also sell you out in the future" is a suboptimal solution.
Re:Nvidia is the central bank of AI
on Sunday September 13, 2026 @02:06AM (#49680520)
This probably includes little silly games like Candy Crush, and (maybe) others that seem more like "paper" games like Sudoku, Wordle, Connections, etc. Many play those, especially the second bucket.
Re:Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory
on Friday September 11, 2026 @04:56AM (#49655387)
50K without a proper CPU, mind.
Re:Jellyfin 12.0
on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @04:28AM (#49607311)
My only beef with Jellyfind when I used it some time back was inability to resize subtitles, which were huge on a large TV. Could have been lack of knowledge on my part though.
Re:Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil
on Saturday September 05, 2026 @11:06PM (#49582934)
You talk about it as if it's little cliques of students talking about each other in a cafeteria. It's not. It's a giant economy with a giant military that affects everyone's wellbeing.
Re:I Want a Wife (1971) [pdf]
on Saturday September 05, 2026 @03:28AM (#49574039)
Get a surrogate maybe? Should tick many of the boxes you have listed.
Re:US diesel prices hit a record high of $5.85 on average
on Friday September 04, 2026 @09:59AM (#49564779)
Those others have far fewer externalities than burning diesel to move heavy trucks.
Re:EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws
on Friday August 28, 2026 @12:53PM (#49481319)
The hope is in a few more years, we'll not have a cult hell bent on accelerating the apocalypse in charge of the largest economy in the world, or are you guys planning something different?
Re:Xorg-Server 26.0.99.901
on Thursday August 20, 2026 @12:12PM (#49376625)
Even xfce will one day move to Wayland.
Re:U.S. Debt Hits $40T as America's Borrowing Binge Continues
on Thursday August 20, 2026 @03:48AM (#49371633)
A team of outsiders got carte blanche to find and kill waste in your government. How much did they find?
Re:Europe EV Sales BEVs Jump 50% & Reach 26% Market Share
on Monday August 03, 2026 @02:17AM (#49151867)
What's stopping the native companies from making EVs?
Re:Europe EV Sales BEVs Jump 50% & Reach 26% Market Share
on Monday August 03, 2026 @02:13AM (#49151829)
You are probably never starting from zero on workdays, are you?
Re:BMW Is Showing Commercials on Their Car's Dash Screens as a Treat
on Sunday August 02, 2026 @03:39AM (#49142043)
What brands would you think younger people consider a luxury brand? They do make smaller and sportier cars, but 5-series and up, X5 and up, those seem firmly in the luxury car category to me.
Re:Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
on Sunday July 19, 2026 @03:33PM (#48971040)
People usually say "this tv show wouldn't be made today", and it is usually wrong. But this, this would never be assented to by many countries in today's global political climate.
Re:Good Tools Are Invisible
on Friday July 10, 2026 @11:04AM (#48860956)
I really don't understand what everyone does that gets in their way on Linux desktop. I install Debian and the packages I use, I open Gnome, I open the software I'm using, I do my work.
Re:Is The Economist Always Wrong?
on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @05:45AM (#48829814)
What should you read instead?
Re:Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks...
on Friday July 03, 2026 @09:22AM (#48774728)
That's just the label that changed. Same people, same values.
Re:Tidal AI Policy
on Monday June 29, 2026 @01:38PM (#48722383)
You are describing empathy, a human experience.