[-] kbal@fedia.io 98 points 1 month ago

Right, so the plan is to spend 20 years and 40 petawatt hours building a machine to answer the Great ℚuestion of what we should do about climate change. If it works, the answer will be "you should've stopped burning fossil fuels twenty years ago."

[-] kbal@fedia.io 78 points 1 month ago

Mozilla 2012: We're winning the browser war and saving the web. You're welcome.

Mozilla 2017: Competing with Chrome is hard. What if we break all existing extensions and never let people replace them all?

Mozilla 2021: Through inclusiveness and the power of positive thinking we will facilitate leadership towards in-depth studies of what we can do to improve social media.

Mozilla 2024: Running a small mastodon instance is just too hard, we give up.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 110 points 2 months ago

I wish Signal was developed more openly, more like the linux kernel for a "critical infrastructure" example. I wish it had more features, so it could take the place of something like Slack. I wish it supported interoperability like fedi.

But it's good for what it is and I sure am glad it's around. People who disrespect it don't know what they're talking about.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 71 points 4 months ago

Looking forward to all the Putin and Xi fans having to explain to us how the Taliban has been unfairly maligned by Western propaganda.

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submitted 5 months ago by kbal@fedia.io to c/dailygames@lemmy.zip

Squardle is the best one. There's something of a learning curve. It looks intimidating at first. Once you get the hang of it though, it's just right.

It's given me a few minutes of word game entertainment every morning for the past year. I may not know much, but I know all the five-letter words now.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 69 points 5 months ago

#ChatControl and #EUGoingDark . None of this has even been discussed in the run-up to this election.

Increasingly it does look like Europe really is going dark.

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submitted 5 months ago by kbal@fedia.io to c/skyrimmods@lemmy.world

Why didn't anyone tell me that Papyrus Tweaks NG is mandatory once you have too many other mods?

Too many being probably about four hundred in my case. Script lag was getting ridiculous and then it started locking up, and now suddenly with that one addition, it's smooth and solid again. With that I guess my personal version of Skyrim is pretty much done, or at least ready for play testing.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 77 points 5 months ago

You know you've got a problem with advertising when even the banks want to become ad platforms. People complain about misinformation on social media, while behind their backs and under their feet the whole economy noisily turns into a competition to see who's best at deceiving people.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 95 points 5 months ago

Looks like it's learned that adding "according to Quora" makes it look more authoritative. Maybe with a few more weeks of training it'll figure out how to make fake citations of sources that are actually trustworthy.

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submitted 5 months ago by kbal@fedia.io to c/technology@beehaw.org

Under the slogan ‘Think of the children’, the European Commission tried to introduce total surveillance of all EU citizens. When the scandal was revealed, it turned out that American tech companies and security services had been involved in the bill, generally known as ‘Chat Control’ – and that the whole thing had been directed by completely different interests. Now comes the next attempt.

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submitted 6 months ago by kbal@fedia.io to c/canadapolitics@lemmy.ca

This legislative triad would grant the government sweeping new powers to censor and censure, undermining privacy rights.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 72 points 6 months ago

"The only intuitive interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned." — traditional 20th-century folk wisdom.

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submitted 6 months ago by kbal@fedia.io to c/linux@lemmy.world

Update available! This version is very old.

Xscreensaver has apparently been checking for updates and is disappointed that it hasn't had one for 14 months because Debian is too stable. Can anyone recommend a linux screensaver which would work with xfce and can be trusted to never do that?

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submitted 6 months ago by kbal@fedia.io to c/skyrimmods@lemmy.world

Oblivion remade in the Skyrim engine. Thats our goal. With our planned 2025 release date we’re showcasing gameplay systems, a part of the world map, a new city, Ayleid dungeons and much more.

Despite our progress, we can’t do this alone: we hope with your support to finish the final steps in completing Skyblivion. Does that sound like something you can do? Then please visit our website to apply: https://www.skyblivion.com/volunteer/

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submitted 6 months ago by kbal@fedia.io to c/skyrimmods@lemmy.world

nexusmods.com is blaming their current outage on Fallout:

We are experiencing much more traffic than usual due to the popularity of the Fallout TV series [...] this extra traffic could cause a degraded experience across the website and our applications.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 77 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Well, that's one more small group of people learning not to trust Discord. I hope someone is on hand to show them how to set up a matrix server in a jurisdiction not affected by the DMCA.

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submitted 7 months ago by kbal@fedia.io to c/cybersecurity@infosec.pub

The upstream xz repository and the xz tarballs have been backdoored.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 98 points 8 months ago

Last time I drove a rental car I was constantly aware that it was probably tracking everything I did, sending that data back to its owners, who would then sell it on to data brokers and insurance companies and whoever else wanted it.

It was sort of tolerable on a temporary basis, until I got to driving along a road where the speed limit had recently changed. The car helpfully displayed what it thought the speed limit was, and suddenly I had to choose between driving safely and driving according to what the computers presumably wanted to see.

Drivers of the world, do not let your cars have Internet access. No good can come of it.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 107 points 8 months ago

pov: incel with physics education from wikipedia imagines what it'd be like to talk to a woman

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submitted 8 months ago by kbal@fedia.io to c/reddit@lemmy.world

you’re invited to a special program that lets redditors purchase stock

I loaded a page on reddit due to a search result and found out that I'm among the chosen few. Message sent yesterday. They must've gotten fewer takers than expected on the first round of invites if they're now offering shares to people who haven't posted, commented, voted, or done anything else on the site for the past 8 months.

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submitted 10 months ago by kbal@fedia.io to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

Count Binface, intergalactic space warrior, democracy-lover, and croissant-price-cap crusader.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by kbal@fedia.io to c/canada@lemmy.ca

The bill, which is the brainchild of Senator Julie Miville-Duchêne, was supported by the Conservatives, Bloc and NDP with a smattering of votes from backbench Liberal MPs (the cabinet voted against, signalling it is not supported by the government). The bill raises significant concerns with the prospect of government-backed censorship, mandated age verification to use search engines or social media, and a framework for court-ordered website blocking

This bill passed second reading in the House of Commons. It is a serious threat. The age verification lobby is making its push, trying to bring this arrant nonsense to Canada before we and the rest of the world realise how little good and how much harm it can do.

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submitted 10 months ago by kbal@fedia.io to c/canada@lemmy.ca

I agree with Pierre Poilievre: The next election should be about the carbon tax.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 101 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

With Apple's new iBits™ the 0s are so much rounder and the 1s are so smooth and shiny that they're worth at least twice as much as regular bits.

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