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hootz

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About hootz

A software engineer from the periphery of capitalism!

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49111059

    Did it always have this music? I don't remember it having music.

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    Comment #49110155

    I don't know how to do that, so I will just get a normal phone and consider it permanently compromised.

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    Comment #49089688

    I would if I could even use their OS. Pixel phones are not available in my country and to import them is to pay 3x the amount I would spend on another phone.

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    Comment #49039106

    There are workarounds for all of those things up until the point of you suffering violence for just using any encryption. But if you are at that point, then your country is complet…

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    Comment #48778113

    My nephew grew 7 cm in one year and 10 cm in another, so by 2040 he will be 4 meters tall!

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    Comment #48749889

    Why would someone ever buy new, if that was the case?

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    Comment #48749399

    I thought this was spam, but no, it's just a fun hack to fix mistyped commands. Cool.

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    Comment #48747034

    That leads to political disaster. Changing just myself has an almost unnoticeable effect on the collective life, while political organization, action and propaganda work much bette…

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    Comment #48746048

    DK Bananza is wonderful, a masterpiece. Pokémon Pokopia is also really fun as a recurring game you come back to every day or every couple of days to relax and build your village. I…

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    Comment #48745978

    Good job on replacing AI with machine learning in the title. If we say "AI finds hidden ECG signal", I believe most people nowadays will assume ChatGPT or Claude found it.

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    Comment #48745857

    Always a great thing to hear. Well paid employees, good results, and I'm definitely loving their Switch 2 releases already.

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    Comment #48745731

    To be honest, they are pretty cute, they don't deserve cancer.

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    Comment #48745728

    It's our Nostradamus Prophecies, just like having an old Star Trek episode for everything that is happening today.

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    Comment #48737929

    Nah, it works, it's just a higher level of political abstraction, but we still tend to use left and right because those words seem to be accurate enough to be worthwhile. We could …

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    Comment #48737870

    Your US company banning usage of non-american models. Other than that, no.

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    Comment #48737723

    Amazing how we always have a Trek episode for everything.

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    Comment #48736659

    Yeah, I don't think human curiosity can be extinguished. It can be disincentivized, yes, but not extinguished. Nerds will always be nerds.

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    Comment #48718678

    Hello. Unfortunately, due to our efforts to make agents first-class citizens, we are demoting your experience to second-class. I hope you understand. Thank you.

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    Comment #48718610

    That would basically be customer support, and after a certain point companies start adding friction and reducing costs in actual human customer support. With small companies you ca…

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    Comment #48718513

    Ah, the wonders of copyright. A weapon disguised as protection. Like with age verification and "think of the children", copyright claims have "think of the small artists".

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    Comment #48717847

    I don't see how, given their answers to simple questions as described in the "2026 run up to the elections" section, this party could ever be considered a leftist party.

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    Comment #48717798

    There are some things that I won't ever defend your right of saying them, to be honest.

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    Comment #48717733

    Yes, not only trust but my willingness to contribute money towards his paycheck. I don't want my money to end up in far-right parties.

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    Comment #48663909

    The future of journalism is indie journalism. Just like indie web, indie games and indie art. It's the only way to fight against corporate slop and AI slop.