NutWrench

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.

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

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

Rich people have special access to the legislative machinery that you and I don’t. Through bribes “contributions” they can craft laws that let them avoid paying their fair share of the tax burden. They can also “modify” pending legislation to remove the penalties for breaking those laws. It must be nice to live in a consequence-free environment.

I’m glad I keep backup copies of anything that might be important later on, like the 40 gig MAME Rom library.

Well, you should care about it because that’s how online communities get ruined. Case in point: Twitter has become a propaganda tool for an apartheid-loving fascist since he bought it.

A distributed service is much less vulnerable to being bought up by a single narcissistic billionaire who can ruin the online experience of millions of people at once.

A distributed service like Lemmy is spread out over 600 Instances in countries all over the world. If someone buys the most popular Lemmy Instance and wrecks it, those users can simply move to the same communities on the second or third or fourth most popular Instance and the original Instance will wither and die. This also works for communities with power tripping moderators. You can quickly find out through a search which community is the “real” one by the number of subscribers it has.

Businesses that knowingly buy fake reviews, procure them from company insiders or disseminate fake reviews will be penalized

Penalized how much? How big are the fines?

Another vote for Linux Mint. I finally switched from Windows 10 months ago and I love it.

I’m really enjoying the learning curve with Linux because I’m not always fighting the operating system. On the other hand, every time I’ve had to go “under the hood” with Windows (edit the Registry, change config files) it’s been to stop Microsoft from doing something sh*tty to me.

The power required for this level of AI won’t be used for faster delivery of pizzas. It will be used for surveillance and control. For world domination shit.

TikTok also wants to turn millions of teenagers into “pranksters” who are just begging for a beating.

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/

Yup. Or Musk never expected to pay the fine, so his lawyers never bothered to research the bank where he owed the money.

I hope the government didn’t let Musk leave the country until his fine was settled.

When you car can connect to the Internet, it becomes a data-mining tool that tells everyone your business. Companies would LOVE to have all that juicy location data that only Google has right now (from your phones). Insurance companies would LOVE to know your driving habits to have any excuse at all to jack up your premiums.

Damn, Acer. You used to be cool. (a very long time ago)

If only there were hundreds of other sites on the Internet that stream video. If porn sites can make it work, anyone can make it work.

Who would have guessed that a social media platform owned by an apartheid-loving fascist would trend conservative?

In April, a CrowdStrike update caused all Debian Linux servers in a civic tech lab to crash simultaneously and refuse to boot.

And then, you boot their servers from a Linux Live USB, run TimeShift to restore the last system snapshot, refuse the latest patch from Cloudstrike and they all lived happily ever after.

The police accepted the software’s judgment and Ms. Hemid went home with no further protection.

This is what happens when you rely on your Nintendos, instead of using your damn brains.

And then they unveiled their, “ByteDance: We’re totally not the CCP” logo.

And everyone laughed harder.