Comment I'd be more concerned ... (Score 1) 43
... about Police Scotland getting my data than MS getting it, seeing how Police Scotland goes after you for just complaining about violent thugs instead of being one.
Comment I didn't even want high def (Score 1) 45
I definitely don't want this.
I guess it's easier than good plots though.
Comment It would be funny to see the reactions ... (Score 1) 91
... if we really do find a way to make plastic use just fine.
I mean, it's hard to turn off decades of religious observance ("plastics baaaaaad!!") just like that.
Comment Re:I wonder if it will work in humans for rabies (Score 1) 55
Right now, the survival rate for symptomatic rabies is near zero.
So, if you could take a shot that nukes every virus in your body for a few days, and thereby rid yourself of rabies... that would be worth putting up with a few days of elevated inflammation. It might suck, but there's a pretty good chance that it would suck a lot less than dying of rabies.
This concept should get RFK foaming at the mouth.
Even if you are doing the whole "RFK vaccine nyuk nyuk" bit, something that you just take a few days because you contracted a disease doesn't sound like it fits that whole thing?
Comment Oh no (Score 2) 71
People in Mississippi no longer have access to Bluesky.
I'm sure they are very sad.
Comment Re:Somebody is going to get killed (Score 1) 129
Do I really need to point out how hysterical you sound? Applying the burden of proof and standards of evidence of criminal court to a free association question? Really?
He didn't say that the app should be banned; he just said it's problematic. Free speech and association means that you get to criticize stuff too.
Seems like a fair criticism. It provides a very low effort way to libel someone who you dislike or are ticked off at. Its limited demographic means that it's not so widely used that there is likely to be any social accountability for the accuser, and yet it apparently is used widely enough that lying about someone could cause real problems for them.
Comment Re:This is based on conversations with people dati (Score 3, Insightful) 129
[...] good men [...] And while people can call those men losers or incels,
No one calls them losers or incels. Bachelors maybe. You get called an incel if you have the toxic stew of rage and misogyny.
In theory.
In practice, the term seems to get slung around pretty indiscriminately. It often means (again, in practice) "doesn't hold my every political and social view", or "doesn't say all the shibboleths correctly".
Comment Re:what about an battery door on the phone? (Score 1) 54
Yep!
Comment Re:what about an battery door on the phone? (Score 1) 54
Why?
Why not?
Really, phones used to have covers that came open easily, and batteries that popped easily in and out. Even inexpensive Moto's had them.
That wasn't hard either
Comment Re:Good news???? For Who? (Score 3, Insightful) 73
"Good news, everyone! The new version of Mozilla's browser now makes even more extensive use of AI,"
Coming from The Register, I am pretty sure that was snark.
Comment So ... GW problem solved then? (Score 1) 103
What's that ... no? Then I guess we still need to go nuclear.
Comment Not new (Score 3, Informative) 46
This is an odd turn for "social" media to take. Platforms that are supposedly based on the idea of connecting people with one another, or at least sharing experiences and performances — YouTube's slogan until 2013 was "Broadcast Yourself" — now seem focused on getting us to consume impersonal, algorithmic gruel.
This part isn't new, anyway.
YouTube has been UsTube since at least 2020, when censorship became celebrated. (And let's be honest, was it ever really about home movies more than about copyright violations and monetization?)
Facebook hasn't been about seeing mostly friends and family posts for a long, long time.
Comment How are they any stupider ... (Score 1) 83
... than the non-AI videos that people make and post?
Comment Perhaps a photo ... (Score 1) 9
... of Stallman's couch? :)
Comment Re:Should have dropped the racism sooner. (Score 1) 223
Once Europe can figure out how to support their entrepreneurs and immigrants and help them start businesses, they will have no problem competing, if not overtaking the USA in the innovation corner. IMO, that's why Japan never overtook us and China and India never will. All 3 of those societies are inherently racist and isolationist. They can only compete with their own minds.
Ah yes, that's the problem; Europe hasn't invited enough exotic people, lol
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