zuminator's comments

On: EFF is leaving X

[zuminator]

Where's the dishonesty? Low engagement matters when you have to pay for it. It doesn't cost them anything to maintain an active Threads account.

On: Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division

[zuminator]

I happen to be in the middle of this book right now, so I only lightly skimmed tfa, but my copy is about Marie Quinn, not as Diehl says, Marion Wheeler. I do recall that name from an older, less cohesive 2020 ebook version that I had started reading years ago but set aside. Are there different protagonists in different markets? Or different perceived realities?

[prepend → zuminator]

I bought it a few years ago before the new book deal and the name is Marion Wheeler.

I believe it was self published back then. Although it’s a beautiful hard cover that was only like $14 on amazon. I found it funny that it’s one of my favorite recent hardcovers and is cheaper and self published.

On: How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?

[zuminator]

The problem for Microsoft is that branding only works if it's built off a solid, widespread product with a good repuation. Github Copilot might be solid but it's a niche product that most people have never heard of. So people wind up associating the entire Copilot brand with the mediocre to bad Copilot experiences they are exposed to on a daily basis, such as the useless Copilot button on Copilot+ PC keyboards.

On: Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events

[zuminator]

White straight men aren't being barred from the Olympics.

On: Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill

[zuminator]

This poem should be updated for modern sensibilities:

First they came for the Communists

And I was like fuck those Commies

Because I was not a Communist

ditto

ditto

ditto

Then they came for me

And what the fuck bro this is totally not what I voted for

[BoredomIsFun → zuminator]

duh

On: Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill

[zuminator]

There's a couple of ways that could go down.

One way is that you log in under a guest account and the guest account requires you to indicate your age. After your session is over, guest account logs out.

Another way is that the library has two sets of computers, ones set for adults, ones set for minors. You need access card to use computer and the librarian will give you the age-appropriate access card.

Another way is computers are set for restrictive (child) account by default. If you need adult access you have to ask librarian to unlock it.

[iinnPP → zuminator]

It's been a while but as a 12 year old I completely broke the library system, installed cracked Starcraft, and refroze DeepFreeze afterwards.

Not to counteract your point, just as an anecdote I like remembering.

On: Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs

[zuminator]

All this fuckery makes it hard to keep track of financial inflows and outflows, which in turn makes it easy to commit graft and corruption. Especially coupled with the forced retirement of those principled people formerly in bureaucratic positions, and the lack of consequences for lying and scheming on behalf of the kleptocracy.

On: 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips

[zuminator]

Naively, the more stable a piece of software is, the more likely that its failures can be attributed to hardware error.

On: The whole thing was a scam

[zuminator]

The scam part is the fiction perpetrated on the American public that there was a bona fide dispute with Anthropic.

On: 15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram

[zuminator]

*post morgem ti൬.