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comfyinnernet··on Jeff Bezos: Work-Life Balance Is 'Debilitating Phrase'
Apparently Bezos is worried that someone out there might not know he's a dickhead yet.
comfyinnernet··on Apple and Google investigated by UK competition body
This will go nowhere and everyone involved will be working for Apple and Google in a few years' time.
comfyinnernet··on Manifest v3 Update
>DNR as currently implemented by Chrome does not yet meet the needs of extension developers.

"Yet"?

comfyinnernet··on Instagram lets users hide likes to reduce social media pressure
I thought I'd seen bad analogies before, but I had no idea what was possible.
comfyinnernet··on What's going on here, with this human?
I read the description of a "self-authoring" mind. Can someone ELI5 how it differs from the description of a "psychopath"?
comfyinnernet··on Nuclear fusion plan at former Aberthaw Power Station
I wonder who's spouse, in-law or sibling will get most of that £222m.
comfyinnernet··on Neighbour manages to pollute the 2.4 ghz spectrum with his 120 IoT devices
I feel like I wasn't supposed to see that.
comfyinnernet··on Dear Matt Mullenweg: An Open Letter from Wix’s CEO
This is written in the style of someone who spends 20 straight hours at a time edit-warring on a wiki.
comfyinnernet··on What Is the “Mffam” Policy?
It means, "offensive or repugnant to NFSN," which is a reasonable definition for them to be using imho.
comfyinnernet··on My experience as a Gazan girl getting into Silicon Valley companies
>At Google there were interviews exactly like what Manara prepared us for: data structures & algorithms problem-solving.

I'm surprised this hasn't become the main point of discussion here yet.

Edit: I mean Google's interview technique, and how people prepare for it

comfyinnernet··on WhatsApp to move ahead with privacy update despite backlash
Someone should paste Zuckerberg's face in the middle of the logo whenever they see one of those.
comfyinnernet··on Bangui magnetic anomaly
It's probably that vibranium deposit. I saw a film about it.
comfyinnernet··on Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech
Facial recognition software to count board members? Would that be applauded?
comfyinnernet··on Octopuses Like to Punch Fish
>Certainly I think ... covids and some other groups, show that intelligence is rather easy to come by

Oh shit I hope not!

comfyinnernet··on Sustained, high-fidelity quantum teleportation
I don't think you would need exact duplication for these situations to arise.
comfyinnernet··on YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud
Youtube is the problem. Anyone can put whatever shit they want online, which is fine in itself, but put your snake oil on Youtube and Google's Skynet will expertly find rubes to sell for you and show it to them.

But on a few occasions, like this one, advertisers get nervous.

comfyinnernet··on With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux
Maybe! The real problem is to help people avoid people they want to avoid, not banning clients on technical grounds. A genuine attempt at solving the problem wouldn't be based on universal bans. There could be groups who have their own blacklists. Find the groups you agree with and tick boxes to subscribe to their ideas of who should be banned.
comfyinnernet··on AirPods Max
Is cancelling your nose really a price worth paying?
comfyinnernet··on With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux
It doesn't even matter whether someone is cheating. All that matters is whether they're ruining the game. You don't need a rootkit to determine that.
comfyinnernet··on Microsoft's Creepy New 'Productivity Score' Gamifies Workplace Surveillance
You forgot to use cowsay.
comfyinnernet··on Your Computer Isn't Yours
"a world where a certain subset of people with the technical knowledge have computing freedom"

Even that is optimistic.

comfyinnernet··on EU Draft Council Declaration Against Encryption [pdf]
We're making good progress toward a world without sharks. We can do it!
comfyinnernet··on Privacy-preserving features in the Mobile Driving License
"In some cases, this means you may get advertising in the mail"

It's nice to know Google is concerned about this dystopian possibility.

comfyinnernet··on Great Barrier Reef has lost half of its corals since 1995
People like to talk about technology saving us, but there is only one technology that can stop climate change now. I can't remember what it's called though. It's kind of a big wooden frame with a big metal thing that slides vertically. Used to be popular in France at one time.
comfyinnernet··on The AMD Radeon Graphics Driver Makes Up Roughly 10.5% of the Linux Kernel
I think you proved the parent's point.
comfyinnernet··on OpenAI is giving Microsoft exclusive access to its GPT-3 language model
It's the AT-5000 auto-dialer all over again.
comfyinnernet··on Read Me
I can't tell if the joke is deliberate.
comfyinnernet··on Ketamine that's injected during arrests draws new scrutiny
If the police are acting like Judge Dredd and murdering people then a weak and ineffective police force is exactly what you have.
comfyinnernet··on Developer won’t get hit by a bus, they’ll get hired by Netflix
Either you think America used to have Soviet style communism, or you have serious reading comprehension problems, or you're a parodist.
comfyinnernet··on Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potential Political Bias
"Facebook did not answer questions about why a partner manager would cite ad volume as a reason for not acting against a group of pages."

Oops somebody said the thing out loud.

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