[-] knotthatone@lemmy.one 2 points 17 hours ago

It's also likely that an alien species capable of interstellar travel doesn't want anything we have. Our resources aren't anything special, they have no need for slave labor and we don't produce anything of interest to them. It's a long drive. Why burn the gas and waste the time?

[-] knotthatone@lemmy.one 11 points 17 hours ago

Most people don't know how to switch between inputs on their TVs or have gotten rid of their DVD or BluRay players at this point.

They're using the built in streaming apps or they've plugged a Roku in where the cable box used to go.

[-] knotthatone@lemmy.one 45 points 4 days ago

The RIAA vs the AI industry... Can they both lose?

[-] knotthatone@lemmy.one 50 points 3 months ago

I have nothing against advertising in general, but I won't tolerate OS-level advertising and I don't want ad-subsidized hardware.

[-] knotthatone@lemmy.one 48 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

He's also been regularly compromised by sketchy backdoors placed by the manufacturer in his firmware and remote code execution exploits.

But to be fair, anybody on the bridge who knows how to work the consoles could kill everyone aboard if they wanted.

[-] knotthatone@lemmy.one 76 points 3 months ago

Democratic Gov Tim Walz, who vetoed a bill last year that would have boosted pay for Uber and Lyft drivers, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he was concerned because so many depend on those services, including disabled people.

I get the sentiment, but relying on private for-profit companies to provide basic transportation services in a city is stupid. That's how Minneapolis got in this situation.

[-] knotthatone@lemmy.one 46 points 4 months ago

I'm pretty sure the Ukrainians will cease firing once the Russians leave their country and stop trying to murder them.

[-] knotthatone@lemmy.one 50 points 5 months ago

Oh, I very much doubt that he's the only billionaire who's written a letter like this to Google in the past year.

[-] knotthatone@lemmy.one 119 points 6 months ago

We should try making bribery illegal again. That would be fun.

[-] knotthatone@lemmy.one 81 points 8 months ago

It makes some sense for business & enterprise stuff, but not for household/consumer computers & devices. That's just rent-seeking and forced obsolescence. There is no good reason a home computer from the past fifteen years should have security patches withheld because the manufacturers want people to throw them away and buy and brand new ones.

[-] knotthatone@lemmy.one 45 points 10 months ago

For one, he destroyed the legitimacy of the federal judiciary & supreme court. Which is terrible, but great. Like Voldemort.

[-] knotthatone@lemmy.one 72 points 10 months ago

He's an ass, but this isn't single-handed. He only has this power because his fellow Republicans (and Manchin, and probably Sinema) are allowing it. If a handful of Republicans wanted to fix this, they absolutely could.

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