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skeaker··on The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies
If your point is that you're trying to parrot Sanders' beliefs in a deliberately stupid way, it isn't working, because this isn't why he thinks the public should have a stake in how AI companies are being run. It's what you think he thinks after not having read the article.
skeaker··on The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies
Why? He makes a compelling argument for his stance, and he is of course one man, not a business. If AI companies are going to have such a profound effect on the common man, including both you and me, then why shouldn't we have a say in how they operate? I can hardly say the same for Sanders' belongings.
skeaker··on The dead economy theory
Who is "we?" A utopian society is what we should ideally be aiming for at all times, not some dirty word like you seem to think it is.
skeaker··on Old Reddit Is Down
This will be true for me. The new layout is just so, so bad. It's hard to believe they found a way to make a worse UI given how many people found the old one difficult.
skeaker··on Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
Pretty cruel to do this right around finals.
skeaker··on Police Have Used License Plate Readers at Least 14x to Stalk Romantic Interests
I feel like this actually isn't that complicated. Just remove any special protections that they get on the judicial end. The judicial is already there with the intention of balancing the powers of the executive, it just doesn't do that currently because they limply decided that the executive can go and do whatever the hell they please.
skeaker··on LinkedIn scans for 6,278 extensions and encrypts the results into every request
I would imagine using any non-Chromium browser would cause it to fail to find any Chrome extensions, yes.
skeaker··on France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech
Fair enough, but I think many people miss that something can be suboptimal in one way and very optimal in another. As an example, plenty of people here hail ffmpeg as the most optimal way to convert videos between formats, and for the technically inclined it sure is. Despite that, probably 99% of people that have ever needed to convert a video haven't touched it/don't know its name and never will because its interface is totally suboptimal. "It is the best and not successful" can be read as a true statement, but it leaves out that it is the best in this one sense and is far from the best in another sense.

To bring this back to the point I have found that AD is well documented, functions generally the same everywhere, and has an intuitive enough interface that you can get not-super-techy interns on the helpdesk up to speed on reseting passwords in it in short order. I couldn't say the same for any Linux management system I've touched, so even though you could say "system management on Linux is the best" and have that be a true statement, you're still missing where it fails and why that area matters to businesses.

skeaker··on Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers
Surely you understand how a data center is different from housing?
skeaker··on France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech
> Honest question: Why?

Because it works really well for a corporate environment where you require central management for your devices. Yes, the environments of Linux and Windows are different as you said, and unfortunately that means one will generally be better than the other within certain contexts. The corporate workstation use case is a gigantic one that Windows is currently dominating in, and this is terrible for Linux adoption because it means to get a job at a place that uses Windows you are incentivized to use it yourself so you can learn it. It also means that schools (which are often run like businesses internally) are way more likely to use it, so new students that are just learning how to use a computer are coming up on Windows.

Linux is indeed very different from Windows and that's fine, that isn't a problem at all and it has plenty of upsides. What should be clear is that this particular use case is a remarkable downside for Linux, and the mass adoption of Windows in the majority of businesses should make that self evident. Realistically Linux can and absolutely is used in business contexts in the same way as Windows (hence why France is going ahead with it), but it isn't as optimized for it as Windows is, when it totally could be. Macs have had some robust management platforms made for them that I've found pretty similar to AD for example. If someone developed a straight out AD clone for Linux that functioned more or less the same on the front-end it would be huge for Linux adoption in my opinion. Hopefully that answers your question.

skeaker··on Book review: There is no antimemetics division
No, it really just gets like that at the end which is what this chain has been going over.
skeaker··on Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet
You must think you're really clever.
skeaker··on Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet
Patently false, just look as far as Netflix taking down exclusive shows and movies from their catalog. You would literally not be able to watch them anymore if not for folks putting them up online.
skeaker··on Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus
Means there's room for improvement.
skeaker··on Super Monkey Ball ported to a website
This is essentially a port, it was done by transpiling a decompilation.
skeaker··on Google confirms Android attacks; no fix for most Samsung users
In other words, continue as normal: Don't install random crap you don't trust. That this is even newsworthy is kind of strange.
skeaker··on Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton
This is the exception that proves the rule. When you host your own community server, you control how much anti-cheat is built into it, like GP said. That usually meant about none but manual admin bans, but it could also mean lots, like you said.
skeaker··on Steam Frame
If it's anything like the Deck, they will eventually announce a more tangible release date (right now it's early 2026) and then announce a date for preorders to open. For the Deck unless you got into the preorder queue within ~1 minute you had to wait several months for it to be delivered to you.
skeaker··on Steam Frame
Monochrome is rough, but I think pixel count is a few orders of magnitude less important than being able to actually use the damn thing. The Vision Pro has been out for over a year and I haven't seen a single notable application that takes advantage of the hardware, and it seems that that's largely in part due to it being nigh impossible to develop and run software on it.
skeaker··on Steam Frame
Where are you getting this number? I'm not seeing it on the specs page.
skeaker··on Steam Frame
This being a whole system that will allow you to put whatever software you want onto it makes me think that it might actually succeed at being what the Vision Pro wanted to be.
skeaker··on iPod Socks
"At the time" is perhaps too generous a way to phrase it.
skeaker··on Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race
He does not literally say the opposite. Either way, you'll see what I mean when none of this goes the way you think that it will. He's in office now anyways.
skeaker··on Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race
[1] does not mean no more police. The NYPD has $11 billion in funding and has offices all over the world for some reason when they should really just be city-sized for NY. They are overfunded, and he believes they should not be.

[2-6] indicate that our current prison system is punitive and does nothing in the way of rehabilitation or reform. No, he will not close every prison. Yes, in an ideal world we would not need hundreds of prisons full to the brim because we would actually rehabilitate and release people. This is hardly a fringe opinion and it is in fact a very common criticism of our prison system. Interpreting these statements as "he is just going to stop prisons and let all the violent criminals out in one go!!!" with no further though IS reinterpreting his words uncharitably because obviously that would be stupid.

skeaker··on Affinity Studio now free
Better yet, don't ever pay for their software in the first place.
skeaker··on Chipotle stock craters: young people without jobs cannot afford their food
They're saying that subscription based software was inspired by this quote.
skeaker··on Chipotle stock craters: young people without jobs cannot afford their food
Worth noting their prices vary heavily by location. In my area it's often the more expensive option.
skeaker··on Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition
In many ways it remains ahead of the curve. Kids that grow up making games in Roblox rarely survive the jump to a dedicated engine because Roblox is just so much easier to develop for in nearly every aspect. One big thing I've heard is that instantly getting working, robust online multiplayer by default baked into the engine is a major plus.
skeaker··on ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web
To be fair, the matrix as presented in the films is pretty much unarguably way better than the real world in the films.
skeaker··on You are how you act
I have read it in the past as a way to deal with imposter syndrome. You push past it by believing that you're tricking the system by faking it despite your own perceived inadequacy, when in fact you are performing perfectly fine. You do this until the results of your work are evident enough to ward off imposter syndrome. If you are indeed doing bad fake work then I guess this would fall apart, yes.
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