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Re:What the Black Hawk pilots could see, just before the crash
on Friday February 14, 2025 @11:21AM (#43050007)
The sentence you highlighted holds the answer.
The European Vat Is Not a Discriminatory Tax Against US Exports
Re:Elon Musk Takes Aim at Reddit
on Sunday February 02, 2025 @08:33PM (#42913944)
>(legally)
You’re operating on presumption that there’s still rule of law in the US. Elon Musk also has de facto control of the government.
Re:USAID website has been taken down
on Saturday February 01, 2025 @07:41PM (#42904233)
I figured linking straight to the site was good way to just show what’s going on and assumed most people interested would understand the context, but I see how it might not have been the best idea.
USAID website has been taken down
Re:Tesla sales in Germany dropped 41% in 2024
on Thursday January 30, 2025 @08:19PM (#42883886)
Not german, but my parents reason for getting rid of their tesla this week was Musk going crazy
Adrian Dittmann (Definitively Not Elon Musk) on Fortnite Friday
Fartcoin hits $1B market cap
Re:Poké Transporter GB [video]
on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @01:32PM (#41370319)
I posted the video as it might be more interesting to most people. The Github page can be found here: https://github.com/GearsProgress/Poke_Transporter_GB
Poké Transporter GB [video]
Re:Google is no longer claiming to be carbon neutral
on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @07:29AM (#40925762)
Google needs 5% of my country’s total energy consumption to run a single data center.
Mac users served info-stealer malware through Google ads
Re:YouTube experimenting with server-side ad injection
on Saturday June 15, 2024 @04:09AM (#40688263)
This already happened after the “adpocalypse”. A lot of channels turned off ads on their videos and started doing direct sponsorships instead. After a while, YouTube decided they would just show ads on every video, even if the uploader had disabled them.
Re:Microsoft to delay release of Recall AI feature on security concerns
on Friday June 14, 2024 @04:16AM (#40678754)
>Yet, for all we know and ever will know, it's exactly how their feature might work.
We already know how it works, it’s based on App Intents. It’s how Shortcuts has worked for years, just instead of meticulously making your shortcuts for each automation you want to do, you essentially get an ML model to make one on the fly.
Re:Musk fired 80% of Twitter and everyone thought that Twitter was doomed
on Monday June 10, 2024 @11:52PM (#40642127)
The company might still be around, but the product has suffered major damage. I’ve been hopelessly addicted to Twitter for a long time, and couldn’t get myself to stop using it after the sale even if it went against my morals. But over time the site just got so unusably bad that I eventually couldn’t put up with it anymore and the problem solved itself.
Re:Researchers identify major driver of inflammatory bowel and related...
on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @03:01PM (#40588946)
I started on Remicade, but sadly I was one of the few who didn’t see results and I managed to get a lot sicker while waiting for it to do its thing. I got put on Upadacitinib and so far I feel a lot better, if it keeps working this well then I’m very happy to just have a pill to take daily. It’s pretty new, but from what I’m hearing it’s very effective.
Re:Google says no "African countries beginning with K" but Kenya has a...
on Friday May 24, 2024 @04:45AM (#40464230)
Prominently displaying “AI” labels on all this garbage content is surely gonna bite them in the ass when it comes to the public perception of a technology they seem to be going all-in on…
Re:The Beautiful Dissociation of the Japanese Language
on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @07:49PM (#40138742)
How do MRI Headphones work?
Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly
on Thursday March 21, 2024 @04:18PM (#39783854)
Yes it is, it just isn’t as big of a target for bad actors because it’s a much less personal device with way fewer users.
Re:U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly
on Thursday March 21, 2024 @11:01AM (#39779350)
That used to be my stance as well, but the App Store has gotten so bad in recent years. These days if there’s an app I want to install, it’s much easier to find the app store link on the developers page than to search in the App Store. At this point the “user experience” argument isn’t really there beyond easy payments and subscription management.
Re:From anxiety to cancer, the evidence against ultra-processed food p...
on Monday March 18, 2024 @02:05PM (#39747784)
I have Crohn’s disease and while there’s still a lot that isn’t understood, it’s clear that it’s linked to highly processed food. Crohn’s is more prevalent in western populations and it’s rising in places that are adopting western diets. There are studies showing that patients who don’t see results from medication can still achieve remission through a strict Mediterranean diet.
Obesity is a huge problem and the spotlight on it is warranted, but it’s also a very simple issue to understand and deal with. The effects of ultra processed foods are more complex and far less understood.
Re:"I Miss My Liver." Nonmedical Sources in the History of Hepatocentrism
on Saturday March 09, 2024 @08:38PM (#39656073)
In norwegian we use the phrase “snakke rett fra levra”(speaking from the liver). It means you’re speaking your honest opinion.
Re:Apple will cut off 3rd-party appstore updates if iPhone is not in E...
on Friday March 08, 2024 @09:38PM (#39648972)
Apple fearing or assuming their rules are unpopular would be even worse. My point is I don’t see why this limitation exists beyond Apple desperately trying to keep non EU users from using EU app stores.
Re:Apple will cut off 3rd-party appstore updates if iPhone is not in E...
on Friday March 08, 2024 @09:16PM (#39648856)
There’s a process in iOS called “countryd” that calculates a country code based on sensor data from GPS, cellular and wifi. If the country code matches an EU country, you get DMA features. I assume the thirty days is how long you have to be abroad for the country code to update, but I don’t know that.
Re:Apple will cut off 3rd-party appstore updates if iPhone is not in E...
on Friday March 08, 2024 @08:51PM (#39648720)
I don’t know how it works, but I don’t see why it would need to leave the device.
Re:Apple will cut off 3rd-party appstore updates if iPhone is not in E...
on Friday March 08, 2024 @08:35PM (#39648611)
This is very interesting because there’s really no reason for this limitation to exist with regards to EU users. The only reason I can see for this is that Apple knows their rules are so unpopular that users from the rest of the world might go as far as travel abroad or start trafficking devices to get around them.
Gab AI's "unbiased" chatbot is biased
Re:New York Times is targeting Wordle clones with DMCA takedowns
on Friday March 08, 2024 @04:38PM (#39646806)
If you’re looking for a Wordle game they can’t take from you, Wordyl on Game Boy is one I’ve been enjoying :)