dumbasrocks
Re:Meet the real screen addicts: the elderly
on Monday October 27, 2025 @07:50AM (#45719905)
Same router story but my dad still spends his time reading books all day. I think the barrier of unfamiliarity with social media (and perhaps the disgust of an untailored algorithm) is just high enough that he will never
Re:A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool
on Monday October 27, 2025 @06:07AM (#45719189)
it doesn't mean anything different in American english, he said it himself - Brits consider events involving the murder of (Irish, Palestinian, etc.) civilians as ’ongoing concern(s)’
Re:Abogen – Generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text
on Monday August 11, 2025 @12:14AM (#44860712)
Would you call a network packet generation tool Pakigen?
Re:Abogen – Generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text
on Monday August 11, 2025 @12:10AM (#44860704)
"Abo" carries the same cultural impact as "Paki" in the UK, and isn't a word in its own right, let alone a very commonly used one. Completely different kettle of fish. Seeing as you want to derail this into some free speech rant - it's just distasteful. You really think anybody who wants legislative control over freedom of speech in Australia gives a damn about Aboriginals getting offended?
Re:Abogen – Generate audiobooks from EPUBs, PDFs and text
on Sunday August 10, 2025 @11:59PM (#44860661)
Having zero cultural sensitivity like this is incredibly embarrassing
Re:Forecaster reacts: METR's bombshell paper about AI acceleration
on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @03:17AM (#43759798)
I hear these superforecasters are really good at predicting what happens in the next ten minutes