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Don't buy that cute Switch 2 Piranha Plant camera - it's rubbish
  • To Hori, a company that makes fairly decent third-party controllers. They likely had a reasonable expectation that the product wouldn't be shit.

    It disgusts me to defend Nintendo in anything but this just isn't their fault.

  • Brazil's supreme court rules that platforms like Facebook and X can be held liable for user posts, requiring them to remove content even without a court order
  • Censorship is bad, but Facebook and X's entire business models revolve around spreading content that is at once false and inflammatory, either just to create engagement or for more malicious purposes, and they reach a huge portion of the population directly, including children, teenagers, the mentally ill and other vulnerable populations. This requires a new understanding of accountability for spreading information.

    I wouldn't agree that it makes sense to hold a Mastodon instance responsible for what its users post, because they don't have a financial incentive or the ability to promote misinformation at a massive scale. Twitter does. As Aristotle said, we must treat equals equally, and treat the unequal unequally according to the form and extent of their inequality.

  • Harry Potter creator and terrible fucking human says to commit sexual harassment on women
  • I think that the point is "Rowling claims to want to protect cis women but even cis women would be harmed if she got her way, so nobody actually benefits". Maybe it's too charitable an interpretation but then again maybe not.

  • Harry Potter creator and terrible fucking human says to commit sexual harassment on women
  • I squarely disagree. People who dedicate as much time and energy to making life worse for others as her are clearly living with intense negative emotions that they don't know how to deal with in a healthy manner. Happy people don't campaign against rights for others. Rowling is clearly a miserable and pathetic person. In the game of life, she's losing to the average favela musician who has no money but loves their community.

  • Proprietary vs Open Source Backdoors
  • You talk as though closed-source developers reviewed all the upstream code. The exact same problem exists with closed-source, except there isn't even the possibility of reviewing all the code if you want to. At worst, the lack of review in FOSS projects is on par with closed-source projects. At best, it's a much smaller problem .

  • Wrong Logo, No Piracy Proof: French Court Rejects DNS Piracy Blocking Bids
  • This is a very rare situation in which Google is on the right side of a legal dispute.

    It's amazing that a private party can be forced to violate its users' trust 8n the scope and correctness of the services it provides based on alegations that an unrelated third party is doing something illegal. If a man took an Uber to his boss's house and killed the boss, nobody would blame the Uber driver or force him to run background checks on every potential passenger.

  • Rule
  • There aren't any square brackets.

    The form "function(){content}" in bash defines a function called "function" that, when called by name, executes "content". This forkbomb defines a function called : (just a colon) which calls itself twice in a new subprocess (the two colons inside the curly brackets). It thus spawns more and more copies of itself until it overwhelms your processor.

  • Amid its worst ever crisis, Tesla offers discounts on its best-selling car just weeks after new Model Y launch
  • Interest is an increase in price*. Lower interest isn't a discount, it's a smaller increase. Calling it a discount is like punching you instead of stabbing you and calling it nonviolence.

    *In exchange for better payment conditions, but that's not relevant to the point.

  • Decreasing

    Another generation using the text from the I Ching as a prompt. This time it was hexagram 41 - Decreasing, with old lines in the second and sixth positions.

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    Not Yet Fullfilled

    I made this image by prompting Flux-dev with the Image, Decision and Fifth Yao texts from the 64th hexagram (Wei Ji) in Alfred Huang's translation of the I Ching.

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