NutWrench

If a million porn sites can make streaming video work, then YouTube is replaceable.

The article was incredibly light on specifics. What were the hateful / threatening messages? Why would anyone have a problem with helping developers find new jobs? Why were those developers fired in the first place?

Authoritarian regimes must control the flow of information if they want to continue to exist. Just because they can disconnect themselves from the rest of the world doesn’t mean they’ve "taken down the Internet. "

If a rat has a better developed sense of empathy than you do, then you’ve probably made some seriously awful life choices somewhere along the line.

Sympathy? Hmm . . . let’s see . . . sympathy . . ok. I’m sorry he didn’t contract a really ferocious strain of ass-cancer that his insurance didn’t cover.

Elon, if you developed a really ferocious strain of ass-cancer, do you think it would affect your entire body?

When you consider the billions that are at stake in cramming “AI” into computers, cars, phones, agit-prop generation and military hardware, I there’s a non-zero chance that his death wasn’t accidental. Maybe a second coroner’s opinion is in order.

This. As a juror, you can absolutely vote to not convict someone if you think they’re being prosecuted under an unjust law. Just don’t mention “jury nullification” in front of a judge or prosecutors. They hate that.

I know his name. Muad’Dib!

6.5 gigs. “Proceed with installation? y/n”

Yeah, I guess. Fark getting any work done today.

Just “x10” with metric. With imperial, it’s usually “how many rods to a hogshead” or short tons and long tons or fathoms vs leagues.

This. And if folks are worried that their computer’s hardware won’t be supported (wifi, touchscreen, mousepad, soundcard or a weird mobile graphics driver) I recommend testing it by booting from a live linux flash drive. If everything works with the live version, it should work with the installed version, too.

“Killed by several accidents.”

lol.

Ever wonder why websites that use Captchas prefer pictures of cars, busses, crosswalks, stop signs, bicycles, motorcycles and stairs?

They’re using YOU to train their AI models.

I think the best way to make the Internet less sh*tty is to get away from Google search.

I like the SearX search engine. It gives old-school, relevant search results, not google ranked ones.

https://search.inetol.net/

It’s also spread out over many separate instances, so you can pick the one that best suits your search needs:

https://searx.space/

Also, bring back gauges, instead of idiot-lights. It’s nice to know when a problem is beginning (overheating, etc) before it becomes a crisis when you have no choice but to pull over.

“Nature has been extraordinarily kind to you.”

For the 1000th time Tesla: don’t call it “autopilot” when it’s nothing more than a cruise control that needs constant attention.

Whales are the idiots who keep the Madden games alive.

Companies are stealing your computer’s resources (hard disk space, CPU time) to build their own Skynet and charging you for the privilege.