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Every year Linux fans:

👐 It’s happening! 👐

Evolutionary psychology is pseudoscience to affirm conservative beliefs. It’s unfalsifiable conjecture

They’ll keep trying until encryption is illegal

Lies

Does it hold up in 2025?

Big yawn

Microsoft is so… Old people stuff

Your low beams were fine 20 years ago. Don’t create this expectation in drivers that they have to turn night into day. That only adds to the problem of asshole drivers prioritizing their ability to see over other people’s ability to see. Matrix headlights are unnecessary and create orders of magnitude more light pollution

Blinding headlights are due to poorly aligned low beams, too bright LED headlights, bigger cars with their headlights mounted higher and higher. So the solutions are: low beam alignment that can’t be made to blind you by the driver, regulation on luminosity and color spectrum of lights, stop financial incentives to make vehicles large, heavier, deadlier.

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Cory Doctorow calls this one “it’s ok because we do it with an app” and urges regulators to enforce the laws already on the books. It’s an absurd defense legally, but there’s no enforcement of antitrust or consumer law at all anymore

AI is a crapshoot, agree. But there has to be more testing before PR disasters like this happen. That isn’t “being my suppliers beta test”, rather sensible project managers not mindlessly putting it out there because the supplier said it worked. Now people are laughing at McDonald’s on top of their cost saving operations being delayed. But I agree overall that AI sucks to replace humans. I’m just criticizing McDonald’s jumping the gun

Here’s what you do: You have the AI take the order, but the human checks each item. They’ll have enough time to work out the kinks

Good for sticking to something you believe in. Highly underrated quality in engineers. “Take the money and run like a thief” is such a bullshit attitude

Can I read the full article without yet another goddamn account?

Autonomous my ass. Is a person remote controlling it from a low wage county?

It’s a loan word. They say Spitzenkandidat in the Netherlands, too.

Context menu is indispensable for me. So many commands can be done mouseless because of this.

I will never get over people using software as a countable noun. You mean a software program or a software application, not a software

A Luhansk resident voting (Polaris images)

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