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DEI has led to anything but viewpoint diversity, fostering ideological conformity via practices such as DEI statements, DEI metrics, mandatory trainings, or cancel culture leading …

I don't find that very funny. It's interesting to see what AI can do, but wait a month or two and watch it again. Compare that to the parodies made by someone like "Weird Al" Yanko…

I have yet to enjoy any of the "creative" slop coming out of LLMs. Maybe some day I will, but I find it hard to believe it, given a LLM just copies its training material. All the c…

The cookie banners aren't worthless. The websites presenting cookie banners either don't know the law, or are engaged in spyware shit. You don't need a cookie banner if you need it…

Eh, no, Open-Source means Open-Source and I hate it when people try overloading words due to market-appeal or ignorance. https://opensource.org/definition-annotated I agree partly …

Consider that we're living in a post-truth world, so you may not like the answer. With enough propaganda, it's easy to blame whatever self-inflicted problem on others.

Please leave AI slop out of the comments section. Thanks.

Android is very usable without a Google account or even Play Services. It's not convenient, you may be missing some functionality, but it's usable and alternative app stores exist.…

GIMP takes some time getting used to, but it's reliable, it will stick around and having used it for the past 20 years, I have issues switching to something else.

Firefox's UI can be easily tweaked with CSS. It's trivial, for example, to get rid of all chrome. The real problem is their ideological stance against PWAs.

A frustrated user probably.

The complaint here is that Firefox won't do what Chromium does, and Chromium's extensions are active and reachable in installed PWAs.

I'm the “European elite” you're thinking of. Well, not “elite” in the sense of being rich, I'm not rich, but I'm also not stupid. It's simple: global trade is good, isolationism is…

Mercantilism doesn't work, there's plenty of evidence that the current policies are really bad for the US and the global economy, there's no silver lining to them, not even the tem…

Self-hosting hundreds of GBs of data isn't feasible, you also need backups and it's a terrible idea for most people. Hetzner does provide managed Nextcloud instances. For bookmarks…

There will be other unintended outcomes from this. If the US can't be relied on as a military ally, then why should US clouds or the software it exports be trustworthy? Couldn't th…

> we've seen that permanent residents can have their permanent residency canceled If you're talking about Mahmoud Khalil, that was probably unlawful, and you should wait for your j…

You're repeating the same information as in the comment I'm replying to. The surveillance laws, no matter how often you repeat the word "draconian", are irrelevant because… Email i…

Let's not exagerate, Mistral is doing just fine. Also, DMA specifically targets monopolies and it will most likely encourage innovation. I mean, let's be honest, legislation isn't …

Australian businesses have to provide GDPR protections to EU citizens, regardless, just as EU companies operating in Australia have to obey Australian law. I also have a feeling th…

Fastmail can be trusted because it's operated by trustworthy individuals, with a company from a country that's still an ally. If you don't want surveillance, you'd better not use e…

“Warrantless surveillance” was yesterday's concern, back when Snowden's revelations were in the news. Today the concern is war, both economic and literal. From that perspective, I'…