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  1. Comment on Several Russian developers lose kernel maintainership status in ~comp

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    My only question is why now? I'm assuming the relevant sanctions have been in effect since 2022, so how did these maintainers fly under the radar for this long?

    My only question is why now? I'm assuming the relevant sanctions have been in effect since 2022, so how did these maintainers fly under the radar for this long?

    3 votes

  2. Comment on Reddit moderators will now have to submit a request to switch their subreddit from public to private in ~tech

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  4. Comment on Steam Deck question: how good is the warranty, really? in ~games

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    Tildes ReExtended has you covered there.

    The other site has a tool called RES, an enhancement suite tool that I did use to tag folks. Is there a similar thing for Tildes?

    Tildes ReExtended has you covered there.

    3 votes

  5. Comment on What websites do you visit for your niche interests? in ~hobbies

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    Kanzenshuu is THE Dragon Ball fansite. Once their long-promised wiki opens completely, my status as a productive member of society will be in real jeopardy.

    Kanzenshuu is THE Dragon Ball fansite. Once their long-promised wiki opens completely, my status as a productive member of society will be in real jeopardy.

    2 votes

  6. Comment on New life for an old laptop as a Linux home server in ~tech

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    Can confirm - I've been running a home server for just over a year now with my old college laptop, a 10-year old massive gaming Acer Aspire, and it's been great. I had started off with Miniflux...

    Can confirm - I've been running a home server for just over a year now with my old college laptop, a 10-year old massive gaming Acer Aspire, and it's been great. I had started off with Miniflux and Samba on a Raspberry Pi 2 some time earlier, and the upgrade to the laptop was immediately noticeable. The only other major service I've added since is Jellyfin, but once I find some time, I'll be looking for more.

    I wonder if there's anything that could make use of that Nvidia card it's got in there...

    6 votes

  7. Comment on Crunchyroll announces the removal of its comment section across all platforms to 'reduce harmful content' in ~tech

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    A shame to hear. The only time I went to the comments was when I was watching Gundam ZZ, which has this odd problem of one or two lines being unsubtitled per episode, and generally there was a...

    A shame to hear. The only time I went to the comments was when I was watching Gundam ZZ, which has this odd problem of one or two lines being unsubtitled per episode, and generally there was a comment filling those in. It'll suck that people who watch from now on won't have that option.

    2 votes

  8. Comment on What's a life lesson you've applied that has changed your life? in ~life

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    I never had any use for the footage on my first dashcam, and I even joked that its mere presence protected me through sheer cosmic irony. But then within the first two weeks of buying a new car...

    I never had any use for the footage on my first dashcam, and I even joked that its mere presence protected me through sheer cosmic irony. But then within the first two weeks of buying a new car and installing new dashcams on it, I catch someone stealing my neighbor's trailer. Then a few weeks after that, right after returning from giving my old car to my sister, the back cam catches me getting rear-ended. Since then, it seems that the irony shield has returned.

    6 votes

  9. Comment on Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery | Title announcement in ~movies

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    Don't have to imagine: considering every Nick and Nora Charles movie was called Thin Man and almost every Inspector Clouseau film had The Pink Panther in the title, I think I can live with Knives...

    Don't have to imagine: considering every Nick and Nora Charles movie was called Thin Man and almost every Inspector Clouseau film had The Pink Panther in the title, I think I can live with Knives Out in a subtitle.

    1 vote

  10. Comment on Kroger’s panopticon: Making criminals of grocery shoppers in ~tech

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    What a coincidence. Just last night, I had my first encounter with these new anti-theft measures at my neighborhood Fred Meyer, the Kroger subsidiary where I'm from. The self checkout refused to...

    What a coincidence. Just last night, I had my first encounter with these new anti-theft measures at my neighborhood Fred Meyer, the Kroger subsidiary where I'm from. The self checkout refused to complete my transaction until signed off by the overworked attendant, because their cameras decided that my water bottle and prescription meds in the cart were unscanned items. Not that it gave me a chance to even know what the issue was until the attendant came over. So I spent several frustrating minutes punished for my honesty, while I fail to understand how this obtuse system prevents any shoplifting other than an honest customer forgetting something in their cart, because anyone who wants to not pay for their goods can easily walk past the checkouts.

    38 votes

  11. Comment on Hey, monthly mystery commenters, what's up with the hit-and-runs? in ~tildes

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    My comment writing process is pretty much the same, though I'm going to attempt to write this one without much re-editing. So hey, you're not alone!

    My comment writing process is pretty much the same, though I'm going to attempt to write this one without much re-editing. So hey, you're not alone!

    4 votes

  12. Comment on "Debunking Davos and the global elite": The World Economic Forum and its annual meeting in ~finance

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    He really has a knack for presenting a compelling narrative about even the most mundane topics. If you enjoyed this, I can easily recommend pretty much anything on his channel from the last three...

    He really has a knack for presenting a compelling narrative about even the most mundane topics. If you enjoyed this, I can easily recommend pretty much anything on his channel from the last three years or so, but his recent video on the modern history of coup d'états is a real standout in my mind.

    3 votes

  13. Comment on "Debunking Davos and the global elite": The World Economic Forum and its annual meeting in ~finance

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    The World Economic Forum and its annual meeting of the world's financial and political elite in Davos, Switzerland inspires a seemingly unending stream of conspiracy theories, especially from far...

    The World Economic Forum and its annual meeting of the world's financial and political elite in Davos, Switzerland inspires a seemingly unending stream of conspiracy theories, especially from far right circles.

    Ordinary Things attends this year's Davos meeting and offers a history of the WEF, countering the outrageous fearmongering with a sober account of the organization's philosophical failings and ineffectual posturings.

    9 votes

  15. Comment on "The One Who Is". Who on Tildes recently called God by this name? in ~humanities

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    I'm gonna split some hairs, but that passage has the name rendered as "I Am" and "I Am Who I Am"/"I Am That I Am" in every English version I could find, and my cursory search on Bible Gateway for...

    I'm gonna split some hairs, but that passage has the name rendered as "I Am" and "I Am Who I Am"/"I Am That I Am" in every English version I could find, and my cursory search on Bible Gateway for "The One Who Is" netted a lot of "the one who is x", with only the Revelation passage (sometimes) giving a clear "the one who is" as part of some variation of "the one who is and was and is to come".

    Though, the Good News Translation does have "The one who is called I AM" for Exodus 3:14.

    5 votes

  16. Comment on "The One Who Is". Who on Tildes recently called God by this name? in ~humanities

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    Do you happen to know the origin of the phrase for the Jewish world, because I'm pretty sure Christians got it from the book of Revelation, as /u/krellor already pointed out, but that could easily...

    Do you happen to know the origin of the phrase for the Jewish world, because I'm pretty sure Christians got it from the book of Revelation, as /u/krellor already pointed out, but that could easily be the book's author doing the co-opting.

    4 votes

  17. Comment on Apple has kept an illegal monopoly over smartphones in US, Justice Department says in antitrust suit in ~tech

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    If this does nothing but kill all the BS around iMessage and its green bubbles forever, I'll be quite happy. The cultural chilling effects of that alone are something I've been dreading for a while.

    If this does nothing but kill all the BS around iMessage and its green bubbles forever, I'll be quite happy. The cultural chilling effects of that alone are something I've been dreading for a while.

    6 votes

  18. Comment on Apple has kept an illegal monopoly over smartphones in US, Justice Department says in antitrust suit in ~tech

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    In the real world, there's already a mobile OS that allows sideloading, and what do all of the businesses and social media networks do in this ecosystem? They use the Google Play Store.

    This is simply not how the real world works. Because my bank or my insurance company or some smart home device I need or the social network all my friends are on will require me to side load their app to use it. Once the door is open it’s all the way open.

    In the real world, there's already a mobile OS that allows sideloading, and what do all of the businesses and social media networks do in this ecosystem?

    They use the Google Play Store.

    5 votes

  19. Comment on Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection used modder's work without credit in ~games

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    For PC at least, you can still get the originals on Steam (Battlefront 1, Battlefront 2) and GOG (Battlefront 1, Battlefront 2) for the time being.

    This sucks, I was really looking forward to re-playing this again with my friends.

    For PC at least, you can still get the originals on Steam (Battlefront 1, Battlefront 2) and GOG (Battlefront 1, Battlefront 2) for the time being.

    7 votes

  20. Comment on The future of Duck Game in ~games

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    They're $40 Billion in the hole, for one. With their growth prospects looking bleak, they're resorting to penny pinching. As for how delisting these games would cut costs, hell if I know. You'd...

    They're $40 Billion in the hole, for one. With their growth prospects looking bleak, they're resorting to penny pinching. As for how delisting these games would cut costs, hell if I know. You'd think shopping them around to new publishers or just cutting them loose would work fine.

    6 votes