SineSwiper

I only know the guy from the thumbnails and dead eyes. But this really feels like reaching for a justification to hate.

“I’m not educated on what the man has done, but I’m going to spout my uninformed opinion, anyway.”

all I’m saying is that without any context, these kind of statements are kinda cheap and meaningless.

Funny how the Internet is a tool to be able to look up the context in only a few minutes.

Barely. Give him another ten years to reach Musk or Zuckbot’s level.

You honestly think peasants could reach the king without getting gutted by their guards within seconds?

You being very generous by calling the characters interesting. The character line-up was the most generic, by-the-numbers GotG ripoff I’ve ever seen.

Well, that is until the Chevron decision got knocked down.

Do you know how to break the cycle? Use open-source software. Use standard protocols that aren’t locked behind some greedy corporation.

Why not take the features from Discord/Slack and integrate it into a new IRC or Jabber protocol?

It’s like that Woodstock concert in the 2000s. You can’t just recapture magic like that by repetition.

Spontaneity is spontaneous.

Microsoft spent millions of dollars and clout to lock their OEM out of offering Linux on the desktop. There’s a good reason why you don’t see Linux PCs on the shelves of Walmart.

Oh, you mean something like GPL, which has been responsible for more technological freedom than any other concept in the past 30 years, except maybe the internet? Even the Internet was built on open standards and public RFCs, with billions and billions of Internet-bound Linux devices.

Let’s not treat this like it’s some new problem. The solution is right there. Just pick it up and use it, and thank your local OSS developer for actually maintaining the other software you use.

At what point do we declare that it already fell off the tightrope?

Country size has a huge impact on the ability to make sweeping changes to infrastructure and public opinion. A country the size of one US state can do whatever they want and it’s not going to take 50 years to implement.

South Korea has broadband everywhere? Sure, they are a rich country the size of Indiana and lacing all of that fiber is trivial compared to the entire land mass of the US, or worse, Russia or China. Governmental demands scale much differently the larger the country, and tax doesn’t scale in a 1:1 manner to its land mass.

Their policies on automated updates, garbage QA, and recall history are huge turnoffs. Oh, and attachments to Elon Musk.

Both of these takes are extremely cynical, and should be taken with a grain of salt. Israel’s actions with Gaza and the extremely right-wing PM in charge should not define Israel as a country and the reasons why the US has them as an ally, just like how Trump does not define the US as a country.

To be clear, I’m not suggesting that they shouldn’t be criticized. But, let’s criticize the actions, instead of making up reasons that the US is involved with Israel in the first place.

“New”

LAION is a database of URLs, gathered from publicly-available data on the Web. Who is “taking” anything?

This new “journalism” site is not doing itself any favors with bullshit headlines like this. And this is not the first wildly inaccurate article I’ve seen from 404 Media.

Spain is also the size of a single state.

No, that’s literally how the laws in most countries work. It turns out men and women have different biology.

Which means this headline is extreme clickbait.

If Devs was to be believed, it could totally predict the behavior patterns of that single-celled organism 20 seconds into the future. :rollseyes: