Alt account: @merdaverse@lemmy.world
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merdaverse@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Engineer turns disposable vape pen into a working web serverEnglish
81·16 days agoIt’s crazy to think that this is basically more powerful than the Apollo Guidance Computer that got people onto the moon. It costs 3 cents, and we use it for shit like this and then throw it away. What spectacular waste.
merdaverse@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Brave is charging $60 for a version of its browser that removes the features you probably never wantedEnglish
10·17 days agoFirefox has implemented many of the same features that Chrome has recently (groups, split tabs, vertical tabs, reading mode etc.) but has also consistently been implementing them earlier and better. There are just so many small annoyances with these features on Chrome that aren’t there in Firefox, and Chrome is always late to the party.
The golden era of Chrome is long gone, probably because the most competent people working at Google have moved on.
merdaverse@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•SpaceX has to grow 60x in a decade to justify a $1.75 trillion valuation. It's an impossible bar | FortuneEnglish
12·17 days agoI’m all for spacing capitalists, but I don’t think there’s enough of them to blot out the sun.
merdaverse@lemmy.zipto
World News@lemmy.world•Israel hit by wave of Iranian missiles. Iranian military says: "This is the beginning of a full week of continuous strikes"English
201·17 days agoIn a past life, I would feel sorry for the carnage, but Israel deserves every single missile fired at them and 10x that amount
merdaverse@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees CheatedEnglish
66·21 days agoThe idealized market was supposed to deliver ‘friction free’ exchanges, in which the desires of consumers would be met directly, without the need for intervention or mediation by regulatory agencies. Yet the drive to assess the performance of workers and to measure forms of labor which, by their nature, are resistant to quantification, has inevitably required additional layers of management and bureaucracy. What we have is not a direct comparison of workers’ performance or output, but a comparison between the audited representation of that performance and output. Inevitably, a short-circuiting occurs, and work becomes geared towards the generation and massaging of representations rather than to the official goals of the work itself.
– Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism
merdaverse@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Bernie Sanders proposes bill to give the public a 50% stake in AI companiesEnglish
5·23 days agoWhat profits? All AI companies have major losses. Except Nvidia of course, which just sells the hardware to the other companies so that they can make a loss.
At best, this will just socialize the losses made by decisions of capitalists.
merdaverse@lemmy.zipto
World News@lemmy.world•Israel abducts sister of Irish presidentEnglish
11·23 days agoOh hey, it’s the “capitalism is founded on the idea of workers owning their workplace” person.
Shitty article has link to non shitty source. If you critical thinking skills were as developed as you think they are, you could click on it.
merdaverse@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•The Trump phone appears to have already leaked its customers’ personal information through a glaring exploitEnglish
2·30 days agoTrump phone? I was surprised this was not The Onion
merdaverse@lemmy.zipto
World News@lemmy.world•Israel abducts sister of Irish presidentEnglish
182·1 month agoThe article is factually correct and links to another, more popular source. What is misleading about it?
Biased, yes. So what? If you are still neutral in the face of Israeli crimes, you are complicit.
merdaverse@lemmy.zipto
World News@lemmy.world•Bulgaria wins Eurovision after contest overshadowed by boycott over Israel’s participationEnglish
82·1 month agoEvery year there’s maybe one decent song and a bunch of generic pop crap. It’s famous because it’s a manifestation of modern chauvinism in musical form.
merdaverse@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same dayEnglish
282·1 month agoMost of their profits are paid out to shareholders, like last year, and the year before that. Nobody should expect anything better from any capitalist corporation.
merdaverse@lemmy.zipto
World News@lemmy.world•China’s assault on the Tibetan languageEnglish
14·1 month agoA new report by Human Rights Watch argues that the compulsory use of the Tuscan dialect as the primary language in schools in Italy raises “serious concerns under international human rights law”. At the time of adoption, only 2.5% of the population spoke Italian. This ongoing cultural genocide of 2 centuries has led to some not knowing their own regional dialect, and in some extreme cases, to people from different Italian regions understanding each other!!1
Yes, this news is so silly, that applying the same logic in Europe makes it read like an Onion article.
merdaverse@lemmy.zipto
World News@lemmy.world•Europe is moving to block Microsoft, Amazon, and Google from handling government health, financial, and legal dataEnglish
131·1 month agoHey, that’s not fair! They also nuked 2 civilian cities just to prove their might. One of the biggest war crimes in history for which nobody was punished.
merdaverse@lemmy.zipto
World News@lemmy.world•Europe is moving to block Microsoft, Amazon, and Google from handling government health, financial, and legal dataEnglish
4·1 month agoYes, this has been my main account for the last year. It’s cute that you noticed.
What do your astute analysis skills tell you about Europe’s collective Stockholm Syndrome that the US “saved” them from the nazis?
merdaverse@lemmy.zipto
World News@lemmy.world•Europe is moving to block Microsoft, Amazon, and Google from handling government health, financial, and legal dataEnglish
93·1 month agoYes, they both had a part, and the USSR’s part was significantly more important. But I know that might get in the way of your American exceptionalism fantasy.
merdaverse@lemmy.zipto
World News@lemmy.world•Europe is moving to block Microsoft, Amazon, and Google from handling government health, financial, and legal dataEnglish
164·1 month agoUS saved Germany in 1945
Lol. 8 out of 10 nazi casualties were inflicted by the Soviets. That’s the conservative estimate
merdaverse@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals | UK staff of Google’s AI research lab hope to block the use of the company’s artificial intelligence models in military settings.English
1·2 months agoThat’s pocket change for Google, which made $132 bn profit just last year. They can sell it and write off the small difference as a loss.
merdaverse@lemmy.zipto
Technology@lemmy.world•Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off / All 173 of the RWD Cybertrucks sold by Tesla are being recalled.English
20·2 months agoCybertruck is so futuristic it doesn’t even have wheels!
It’s a feature, not a bug!





Good comparison and data, but I’d like to point out that the leading stats are actually 16k civilians killed in Ukraine (and 46k injured), as per the source. While in Gaza there are 72k direct deaths and 172k injured (mostly civilians and 50% women and children)
It’s disgusting how Western governments still approach one country with all possible sanctions, and the other is just business as usual (and finger wagging if we’re “lucky”).