My brain was not designed for anything. It was not designed.

5? In a closet behind me I have a physical disk containing 4 full games, including their scanned manuals, on one CD. That’s right, a CD, not a DVD.

A mass shitting? That sounds pretty awful.

I can’t remember the last time I used either of those. Real glasses and cups exist, and don’t require straws.

Waving is something robots already could in the 80s.

Instead of bread try a layer of grated cheese, and put it under an overhead grill.

On PC I’ve used them pretty much since the start and I have very little to complain about.

On mobile (iOS) I tried a few times but it’s unbearably slow.

You’ll never guess how much putting “you’ll never guess” into your title makes me avoid clicking your article.

The risk for both general and corporate business users far outweighs any minor inconveniences of moving to a new OS version.

Minor inconveniences like HAVING TO BUY A WHOLE NEW FUCKING COMPUTER.

These people live in a fantasy world.

in which the service admitted to “a catastrophic error of judgement”

It’s fancy text completion - it does not have judgement.

The way he talks about it shows he still doesn’t understand that. It doesn’t matter that you tell it simmering in ALL CAPS because that is no different from any other text.

Is that what happens in network congestion: a 1 bit gets in the wire sideways and takes a while to dislodge?

Pretty much anything that’s considered “childish”. Apart from video games, Lego comes to mind.

This distinction — between “design” and “content” — sounds reasonable for about three seconds. Then you realize it falls apart completely.

Bull fucking shit. This is not about platforms being held responsible for user content. This is about adding points and badges and achievements and all kinds of things designed to reward engagement with dopamine.

The author’s example of all content being drying paint would absolutely be addictive if the platform added an achievement for watching 10 different colours. Or: Congratulations, you’ve watched paint dry for 100 hours! As a reward, you get a new fancy emote! THAT is what these platforms do, and that is what is addictive. And that is what they’ve been convicted for.

Is not a loophole to get around section 230 as the author claims.

Wait wait wait. To prove you’re human you have to read something designed for computers to read?

On to Wayland I guess.

A VPN is not a privacy tool. Any VPN being sold on the claim that it protects your personal data is lying.

Yes a VPN can help, but simply using one does almost nothing, by itself, to protect your privacy.

I believe strongly in customizing one's tools

The irony of saying this about a Mac.

Using “streaming” instead of “broadcasting” struck me as an odd choice for someone old enough to remember it.

It’s fine of course, it just stood out to me.

Isn’t the point of a haka to be intimidating?

Thank you for the transparency!

I hope this will be fixed quickly. While people from hexbear often annoy me - that is, if I even understand what they’re trying to say - I love that .zip only defederates very rarely. It’s why I came here after lemm.ee went down.

Lemmy.zip: come for the federation policy, stay for the transparent communication.