re-actor | 2 years ago | on: Millions of usable hard drives are being destroyed
From the very very start
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re-actor | 2 years ago | on: Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration
Anything without the ability to delete user content becomes instantly unusable due to spam, pornbots and (if the site get big enough) CSAM.
re-actor | 3 years ago | on: AI Generated Seinfeld banned on Twitch for transphobic jokes
Not only claimed, they've passed laws to that effect
re-actor | 3 years ago | on: Neuropsychiatric researchers rethink what depression might be
Poor not in wealth but in quality of life, which is almost everyone.
re-actor | 3 years ago | on: The Webb Space Telescope’s profound data challenges
No currently available spacecraft can make the trip and service JWST, it's also not really intended to be serviced.
re-actor | 4 years ago | on: Is RT.com being censored in the West?
Yes? What do you think that's a gotcha?
re-actor | 4 years ago | on: “Click to subscribe, call to cancel” is illegal, FTC says
Criminals would be out of a buissness because it became illegal? Are you sure about that?
re-actor | 4 years ago | on: Airbnb removes 80% of advertisements in Amsterdam after registration obligation
Zoning and regulating housing is like exactly what their "business" is in.
re-actor | 4 years ago | on: Intel’s Arc GPUs will compete with GeForce and Radeon in early 2022
Early 2022 is just 4 months away actually
re-actor | 4 years ago | on: Illinois Is the First State to Have High Schools Teach News Literacy
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re-actor | 4 years ago | on: Steam survey shows Linux marketshare hitting 1.0%
Proton's big tech under the hood is DXVK which translates DirectX calls to Vulkan. If MacOS were to add Vulkan support it probably could benefit from Proton. But Apple doesn't seem to care about Vulkan or modern graphics APIs in general.
re-actor | 4 years ago | on: Jeff Bezos’ Dystopian Legacy Goes Far Beyond Amazon
Just because there's an algorithm involved doesn't make it objective in any way.
There is no objective answer to "How productive is this employee", it's not something you can measure empirically.
re-actor | 4 years ago | on: Shell ordered to cut CO2 emissions by 45% in landmark climate case
A slippery slope into what? Accountability?
If you're doing harm to others, profit is no excuse.
re-actor | 5 years ago | on: New Mexico is the second state to ban qualified immunity
You can't predict something you can't explain by just pretending there's something to average. Game theory has it's uses, but this is just absurd.
re-actor | 5 years ago | on: 7% of Americans don’t use the internet. Who are they?
Thanks your position is much more clear to me now.
Why the aversion to complaining? Sometimes things are bad and need changing, and sometimes all you can do is complain. There's a certain alure to saying "don't like it don't use it" and that being the end of it, but at the same time it doesn't acknowledge the fact that these concerns might be legitimate, and sure, something else can always be worse, but that doesn't really address the issues at hand.
The alternative to what the internet is now isn't no internet, change for the better is possible.
There are real structural issues with how the internet is de facto to most people, these are issues of power, governance and capital, turning your back on them doesn't make them go away. I understand why people can feel immense frustration at the current state of the internet (and perhaps the world in general) without making the drastic step to restructure their life around avoiding a utility most of the world runs on.
re-actor | 5 years ago | on: 7% of Americans don’t use the internet. Who are they?
For most people here, getting rid of the internet would also mean changing careers to one of the few remaining things you can do professionally without using the internet.
"You criticize thing yet you also use it, how curious" is such a banal take it's literally a meme.
re-actor | 5 years ago | on: Korean Air, Asiana to ground Boeing 777 after engine incident
Most car models come with various engine options, sure you can't get a V8 in your focus but you can choose between various displacement Gas/Diesel/Hybrid options. In fact the current model year ford focus ships with 14 engine variations.
re-actor | 5 years ago | on: AMD PSB Vendor Locks EPYC CPUs for Enhanced Security at a Cost
The question is not "Does the term grey market have a meaning?" the question posed was "Is the use of the term perpetuating an unhealthy view of commerce to advantage manufacturers?".
After you've been sold a product, the manufacturer has no authority on how you use it or where you resell it. Since the manufacturer doesn't have this authority they you can't be legally circumenvting authorized channels when reselling it.
There is nothing "gray" about second hand.
re-actor | 5 years ago | on: Boeing CEO warns of possible industry bankruptcy
What exactly in my reply are you referring to? I wasn't implying anything about above ground tunnels, construction doesn't get cheaper or easier when you put the tunnels under ground, in fact the opposite is true.
re-actor | 5 years ago | on: Boeing CEO warns of possible industry bankruptcy
What problem exactly is it solving that isn't solved better by a train?
You still need to secure the land and build the track but instead of a cheap traditional track you need a low-pressure vessel. The costs and increased complexity are really not worth the shorter trip times.
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