Comment Privacy rapists (Score 1) 23
That's what we should call companies like Google.
Submission + - Why do killer whales keep handing us fish? Scientists unpack the mystery (sciencedaily.com)
alternative_right writes: "Orcas often share food with each other — it's a prosocial activity and a way that they build relationships with each other," said study lead author Jared Towers, of Bay Cetology in British Columbia, Canada. "That they also share with humans may show their interest in relating to us as well."
Comment AI job applicants (Score 1) 69
Next in the news, a startup company announces AI job application services, which will write resume and conduct video interviews using AI avatars with their customer's faces. Only companies reaching later stages in the hiring process get to meet with actual human applicant.
The startup claims that with big data, their AI avatar knew the correct answer to every stupid HR question threw at them, making sure their customers will get through any screening hurdles HR put in their way.
Comment Vassal state should behave like one (Score 1, Informative) 143
and stop pretending Canada has sovereignty. Otherwise Canada is just asking to be whipped and humiliated in front of the world.
Comment Re:it seems obvious (Score 1) 49
Totally agree. I also only keep a windows partition around for gaming now, but Steam proton has gotten so good I'm very much at the point of reconsidering that.
That decision is even easier when Microsoft unavoidably installs intrusive AI on my PC.
Comment In other news... (Score 1) 147
In the rest of the world, the number of phishing emails just dropped by 20%
Comment it seems obvious (Score 1) 49
That Microsoft are intentionally using misleading product naming to smokescreen their AI sending all your personal data back to their servers.
Comment Re:Funny (Score 1) 85
Funny how all these disabled people worked in the office just fine before.
Slavery and child labor "worked just fine" before, too.
The fact is "just fine" isn't really fine for many disabled people, and years of working remotely proved that remote work is feasible and practical.
Funny how all these remote workers worked just fine before, until the PHBs called for everyone to return to office, then somehow remote working isn't fine anymore. While at the same time, outsource to India is still fine for the same PHBs. You cannot get more blatantly double standard than this, unless all PHBs have split personality.
Comment They want you to quit (Score 2) 85
Isn't it obvious enough yet?
Submission + - Ubuntu Linux 25.10 quietly kills off GNOME on Xorg as Wayland takes over (nerds.xyz)
BrianFagioli writes: Ubuntu 25.10, known as âoeQuesting Quokka,â is taking a big turn under the hood. Canonical has dropped support for the GNOME desktop running on Xorg. Starting with this release, the default âoeUbuntuâ session now uses Wayland only. Yes, folks, thereâ(TM)s no longer an option to log into GNOME on Xorg.
Submission + - Pavel Durov exposes U.S. law that forces engineers to install back doors (x.com) 3
schwit1 writes: Pavel Durov blows Tucker Carlson’s mind by exposing U.S. law that forces engineers to install back doors—and bans them from telling their own company
This is why Telegram didn’t set up shop in America.
“You know what’s interesting, in the U.S., you have a process that allows the government to actually force any engineer in any tech company to implement a back door and not tell anyone about it.”
“Using this process called the gag-order, you know there are certain legal procedures.”
Carlson, stunned, asked: “Not tell his own employer about it?”
Durov confirmed: “Yes, exactly. If you tell your own boss, you can end up in jail. Like, gag order.”
Carlson: “Actually?!”
Durov: “Yeah.”
Carlson: “So your employees have a legal obligation to act as fifth column spies? Saboteurs against you, your employees?”
Durov didn’t hesitate: “That’s one of the reasons I didn’t move to the U.S. with my team.”
This is why Telegram didn’t set up shop in America.
“You know what’s interesting, in the U.S., you have a process that allows the government to actually force any engineer in any tech company to implement a back door and not tell anyone about it.”
“Using this process called the gag-order, you know there are certain legal procedures.”
Carlson, stunned, asked: “Not tell his own employer about it?”
Durov confirmed: “Yes, exactly. If you tell your own boss, you can end up in jail. Like, gag order.”
Carlson: “Actually?!”
Durov: “Yeah.”
Carlson: “So your employees have a legal obligation to act as fifth column spies? Saboteurs against you, your employees?”
Durov didn’t hesitate: “That’s one of the reasons I didn’t move to the U.S. with my team.”
Comment To put things in context, out of 13M students (Score 2) 56
To have a proper perspective, you have to keep in mind China has more than 13 million high school graduates in 2025, with only about 5 million seats in higher education.
277,000 enrollment is only 2% of the total, or about 3-4% out of those 8 million who cannot get into local universities in China.
The 100,000 or so figure throw about for other destinations is less than 1% of this year's high school graduates.
So the change is about less than 0.5%. About as significant as the Dow dropping 200 points.
Comment The simple answer (Score -1) 125
Don't buy Apple products.
It amazes me how some companies have brainwashed their customer base so hard that they can repeatedly screw them over yet customers will keep buying more. Apple is that.
Comment Re: I don't get it. (Score 1) 80
Bizarrely, it seems a lot of legal and government offices in the US still accept a FAXed copy of an original, but not a scanned/emailed one.
Comment Re:Thanks Microsoft! (Score 1) 37
Sorry I should have been more explicit:
The only reason I even keep a windows partition around is for gaming,
Everything else already gets done in Linux (actual Linux not WSL) by way of dual-booting at home, and because my work PC has been Linux-only for years, so I already have it covered, thanks.
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