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  1. Comment on Hamas releases Israeli hostages, US President Donald Trump gets standing ovation in Israel's parliament in ~society

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    Their defense minister already tweeted that they will begin destroying the "Hamas" tunnels and residual Palestinian rebellion efforts. As much as they want to make it seem over, I doubt that it is.

    Their defense minister already tweeted that they will begin destroying the "Hamas" tunnels and residual Palestinian rebellion efforts. As much as they want to make it seem over, I doubt that it is.

    16 votes

  2. Comment on LineageOS 23: Sleek sixteen, streamlined suite, future flow in ~tech

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    Just upgraded my OnePlus 8T to it this morning, no real differences noticed or found as of yet. Not surprised as they mention this in the notes, but for a major version change on Android 15 -> 16,...

    Just upgraded my OnePlus 8T to it this morning, no real differences noticed or found as of yet. Not surprised as they mention this in the notes, but for a major version change on Android 15 -> 16, you would expect some immediate differences in performance or visual identity, and not have to wait until the visual patch is released by Google in the future.

    This reliance on Google and not a purely open source foundation for android stewardship is horrible.

    6 votes

  3. Comment on Meta: A Human-Friendly Programming Language in ~comp

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    I like the concept, but this is surprisingly one of the harder simple languages I have ever read the source of. Some good ideas in there, but some choices that are rough....

    I like the concept, but this is surprisingly one of the harder simple languages I have ever read the source of. Some good ideas in there, but some choices that are rough.

    https://language.metaproject.frl/examples/

    7 votes

  4. Comment on Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach in ~tech

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    That's a feature, not a bug, to the proponents of a de-anonymized internet. The risk-factor of leaks is a major component that the salivate at to ensure that even those who are willing to verify...

    That's a feature, not a bug, to the proponents of a de-anonymized internet.

    The risk-factor of leaks is a major component that the salivate at to ensure that even those who are willing to verify their identity, won't ever consider using or joining any off-kilter service due to the inherit risk of anything considered to be a "morally bankrupt organization" could/would/will be leaked and tied to them in official documents. This is either in leaks to the government themselves, or to the public to be used as public fodder, or as blackmail by less scrupulous individuals.

    Requiring identities for anything "they" deem as offensive, ensures that "they" can use that against you.

    5 votes

  7. Comment on Babies’ brains recognize foreign languages they heard before birth in ~humanities.languages

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    This will likely need to be added to the literature of studies that have found that the '90s obsession with placing headphones against the skin during pregnancy and having the foetuses listen to...

    This will likely need to be added to the literature of studies that have found that the '90s obsession with placing headphones against the skin during pregnancy and having the foetuses listen to classical music, such as Bach or Vivaldi, as being incredibly beneficial and not worthless.

    5 votes

  8. Comment on Denmark plans social media ban for under-15s – PM Mette Frederiksen links social media use to anxiety, depression and lack of concentration in ~tech

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    social media ≠ internet ≠ social chat and with that, I am surprisingly fine with this. edit: and I say this as someone who was one of the first proto-influencers at fourteen.

    social media ≠ internet ≠ social chat

    and with that, I am surprisingly fine with this.

    edit: and I say this as someone who was one of the first proto-influencers at fourteen.

    9 votes

  9. Comment on Robin Williams' daughter pleads for people to stop sending her AI videos of her dad in ~tech

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    Canonically, The Architect had attempted two other previous (major) attempts to create the matrix, and they had failed almost as soon as they began - and it's explained that the primary reason...
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    Canonically, The Architect had attempted two other previous (major) attempts to create the matrix, and they had failed almost as soon as they began - and it's explained that the primary reason that the third major matrix succeeded was that they they chose the absolute "peak of human civilization", 1999, to simulate. The direct era that birthed the machines, the time just before everything began falling apart for humanity where they began becoming dependent on the machines.

    In the final wars of Humanity vs The Machines, - after all possible resources were obliterated, and the sky became covered in soot and dark clouds unable to allow light through for energy production, they turned to us, the last of humanity to be their power sources, their batteries1. Just as we became dependent on them, they became dependent on us as "batteries" to continue their existence after we (and they) helped to destroy the world through nuclear and ecological warfare and devastation amongst ourselves.

    By using the "peak of civilization", and not another period, this was the best point in our history that gave us choices, lives, and bearing to something our species had expected to become (along with having the most information created to recreate our world in near perfection, a more perfect facsimile). This was the perfect era and time to create 'fake jobs, [and] fake human connections".

    This was a time that additionally gave us 'independence" and enough choices and possibilities in life through what we see/hear/do that our minds are active enough to give in, willingly, to the Matrix. To feel comfortable, to feel human. In this third iteration, over 99% of humanity accepted the simulation of 1999, whereas all other models and times had projected far worse acceptance rates.

    1. As much as 'humans as batteries' has been derided in the Matrix cannon - caused by the meddling of executives that thought 'neural nets' and distributed computing was too advanced or confusing for the audience, the battery idea kinda works, but it has obvious problems. My personal 'ring around' the cannon to make it work, is that we are batteries, both for power generation (we consume biomatter, which is recycled humans - soylent green style, and output energy) but we are additionally the 'energy' generators of creativity (and randomness through choices) that the machines require to move forward, improve, and upgrade.

    Edit: Fixed cadence, concepts, and horrific grammatical errors.

    11 votes

  10. Comment on Donny McCaslin - Tokyo Game Show (2025) in ~music

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    Highly suggest checking out the full album this sublinks to if this is your kind of jam, it's full of some interesting composition and I have been really digging it.

    Highly suggest checking out the full album this sublinks to if this is your kind of jam, it's full of some interesting composition and I have been really digging it.

    2 votes

  12. Comment on Merriam-Webster has unveiled their latest and greatest LLM to date in ~tech

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    @cfabbro for the sake of being, literal, perhaps the artificial intelligence tag doesnt deserve to be on this post (-; but, language models.large certainly deserves to be there

    @cfabbro for the sake of being, literal, perhaps the artificial intelligence tag doesnt deserve to be on this post (-;

    but, language models.large certainly deserves to be there

    16 votes

  14. Comment on Updates to Xbox Game Pass: Introducing Essential, Premium, and Ultimate plans in ~games

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    The only response from this that I have appreciated, is surprisingly, is the one from GameStop.

    The only response from this that I have appreciated, is surprisingly, is the one from GameStop.

    Welcome to Gamestop.

    15 votes

  15. Comment on Introducing Kagi News in ~tech

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    A deep love of summarizing articles and an incredible amount of free time scouring the internet for news and oddities.

    A deep love of summarizing articles and an incredible amount of free time scouring the internet for news and oddities.

    11 votes

  16. Comment on Introducing Kagi News in ~tech

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    This is kind of incredible to look at, when I was around 17(?) I created a small service similar to this called "read|less" (readless.co I think was the domain at the time), and the design and...

    This is kind of incredible to look at, when I was around 17(?) I created a small service similar to this called "read|less" (readless.co I think was the domain at the time), and the design and idea is nearly the exact same. It's really strange, wonder if someone on their team saw it or was a subscriber in the past (we had ~15k or so subscribers). Only difference is we used serifs and italics, and included a two sentence description on each article. This was somewhere around fifteen years ago.

    This is super cool to see though, happy to see the dream is alive. I'll see if I can find any screenshots from back then.

    17 votes

  17. Comment on Timeout when connecting to a local webserver through the internet, but only on WiFi in ~comp

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    Check the security settings on your Ubiquity system, this tells me that there is something stopping the connection there as you can hardwire in, and direct local IP works.

    If the machine with the browser is connected to a cable and not WiFi,

    Check the security settings on your Ubiquity system, this tells me that there is something stopping the connection there as you can hardwire in, and direct local IP works.

    8 votes

  18. Comment on Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think. in ~games

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    It's all about the muscles.

    It's all about the muscles.

    3 votes

  19. Comment on Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think. in ~games

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    It's how everyone naturally tilts their head. You pull back on your head to look up, and you push forward on your head to look down, simple. That is why I invert my controls.

    It's how everyone naturally tilts their head. You pull back on your head to look up, and you push forward on your head to look down, simple. That is why I invert my controls.

    6 votes

  20. Comment on Windows 32-bit OS Support being dropped for Steam in 2026 in ~games

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    Kind of impressive its taken this long, I can't imagine their user numbers being higher than a fraction of a fraction. Edit: should have read before commenting (the existential modern problem),...

    Kind of impressive its taken this long, I can't imagine their user numbers being higher than a fraction of a fraction.

    Edit: should have read before commenting (the existential modern problem), 0.01%, incredible its even that low, I would have had it atleast a hair higher.

    13 votes