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TheChargedCreeper864

@ TheChargedCreeper864 @lemmy.ml

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  • Wikipedia is one of the last genuine places on the Internet, and these rat bastards are trying to contaminate that, too

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  • Wouldn't it give them more rights? Before, anyone could scrape it and claim "Wikipedia's public, so it's fair game", but now Wikipedia can say "no, you must licence the content, as did OpenAI and Microsoft." That could give more protection against other AI companies scraping it for their models, wouldn't it?

  • Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs, Study Finds

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  • Any tax imposed will always be split between seller and buyer in the market. If the buyer needs to pay a higher price they will buy less, but due to the increase being spent solely on the tax none of it ends up at the seller and they also earn less.

    The degree to which each party "pays" for the tax depends on things like their ability to pivot to alternatives. Turns out that if you impose blanket tariffs on every single thing ever made anywhere on Earth all at once, and you have nowhere near the capabilities to produce all of that domestically in the short term, that you end up having to suck it up if you plan on buying anything (using parts) from abroad.

    And I doubt such bold ideas as "let's upend entire global supply chains that have been built over decades on the vague notion that somehow the entire world collectively has been able to inflict harm upon the United States unnoticed and unpunished and I, the acting president of Venezuela, am the first American to ever notice this" uttered by someone who the rest of the world expects to be replaced by someone less... "imaginative" as this guy in less than 4 years (Lord what a long sentence) are enticing entrepreneurs to invest in moving every supply chain for every product on Earth to be entirely produced in the US.

    As long as the rest of the world keeps producing as they are, you're dependent on American firms popping up to do it instead. But any businessowner of the scale required to be up for the task knows that proper international trade creates maximum wealth (which is extra nice for them because America is not traditionally known for redistributing this newfound wealth) and would prefer that. And if anyone willing to start one anyway despite all that also believes that this will all be over in 3 years, they'll never bother to engage in any process longer than that to start a business. And even despite all that, there's no guarantee that any American good will be of equal or better quality or price than a foreign good just because it was made fully in America. Especially if the idea is that this will be the case for everything on Earth. It's fully possible that you'll "hurt" the foreign companies (they'll just sell amongst themselves, it's the entire rest of the world, they'll figure something out) and end up in a situation where Americans have inferior goods at higher prices.

    TL;DR: Tariffs do not necessarily lead to consumers paying for most or all of the tariff. Blanket tariffs just because are profoundly stupid and lead to consumers shouldering the burden.

    (I don't know why I was moved to write such a long comment for such a minor technical difference)

  • Nintendo Direct Announced for September 12 - Nintendo Official Site

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  • It will be December 31. They'll put up a gigantically sized image on their website of the logo of the game. I'm talking, like, a gigapixel.

    "After long development time, we have finally managed to release 'Metroid Prime™ 4: Beyond'. The Metroid Prime™ 4: Beyond video game for the Nintendo Switch system, Metroid Prime™ 4: Beyond - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition video game for the Nintendo Switch 2 system and Metroid Prime™ 4: Beyond - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition upgrade pack for the Nintendo Switch 2 system have been delayed to a later date."

  • Wikipedia loses UK Safety Act challenge, worries it will have to verify user IDs

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  • Have a banner with information on why it is blocked, and have the only accessible page be of the Online Safety Act. Then, make that page list what counts as "(teaching) circumvention methods" and say that teaching others how to do those things is illegal. If anyone is truly interested in seeking knowledge and learning, they will be able to figure it out elsewhere

  • Stop Killing Games has exceeded 1.3 million signatures!

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  • Wow, what an unfortunate coincidence. TIL.

  • Stop Killing Games has exceeded 1.3 million signatures!

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  • ... dafuq?

  • Dutch matress advert. The code for a discount is Daddy.

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  • We cannot choose a bed partner for you...

    But a good mattress? Thát, we know everything about

    (Standard advertising mumbo jumbo)

    Use code DADDY for a surprise discount

    In case you were wondering

  • If only people knew (anti-AI edition)

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  • Good to hear that. Scrolling through some recent posts here rings enough bells that the possibility would haunt me in the back of my mind for a while. But where to even start?

    Thanks for sharing

  • If only people knew (anti-AI edition)

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  • Holy shit, that has a name?!

    ... Am I supposed to seek medical advice now or what?

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  • I thought it was real until the part where he gives away the US to Canada and Greenland. Had that not been in there I would've fallen for it

  • My Switch to Linux is Happening Today

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  • Little update in case you were wondering. After the news of kernel 6.13 being out I decided to look up when that would be available on Fedora. I found some mentions of the display bug being resolved in 6.12.9, and it's true! Now my saga of switching a parent to Linux can truly begin!

    Did you ever end up getting that Brother scanner to work?

  • Pixelfed now has the second highest fediverse mau at 92.1k

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  • Instagram IIRC

  • My Switch to Linux is Happening Today

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  • I've been living on Tumbleweed KDE for about a year now, and I love it. My mum recently got a new laptop, so I decided to make it a dual boot of Windows 11 LTSC (no Copilot or forced MS accounts) and Fedora KDE.

    Apparently Windows doesn't ship with the relevant network driver built-in, so that was fun to hunt down while Device Manager didn't announce what network card was in there. The manufacturer's site lists a certain driver as the "latest", and that would "successfully" install without actually doing anything. Half an hour later, it turns out that pressing "more" on their website shows previous versions of the driver... and drivers for a totally different network card that also gets shipped with this laptop sometimes. Naturally, the hidden one worked first try. Most other drivers were borked too, so Windows Update had to fetch them.

    I then got to set up Fedora, which I chose because from what I heard it's neither boring nor too bleeding edge, without Canonical's controversial Snap shenanigans and with some relatively easy enabling of proprietary codecs (which I still need to verify) and with okay package management through Discover. The network card and everything else worked perfectly out of the box, but I have never installed Fedora before and forgot to partition the drive in Windows beforehand. Eventually I finish the install, install some apps and do some updates (while feeling uncomfortable with having to guess how package management works in dnf). I'm finally done, shut the laptop, bring it down to show her, open the lid, screen comes on...

    ... and then it shuts off. Turns back on, flickers a couple times, then permanently shuts off. Turns out there's a kernel bug around display power saving that's causing this, and I don't know when the fix will land on Fedora.

    It's been real fun trying to explain to her that I didn't just break her fancy new laptop every 15 minutes and that everything I did was just a conventional procedure that should be supported (I'm lying)

  • I never knew that USB-C extensions are not allowed for a reason

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  • This sounds solvable, doesn't it? Have the extension cable have a chip saying it can do X at maximum, then compare with whatever is to be extended and communicate the minimum of both upstream. Might not become a sleek cable-like design, but would extend the 240W cable with the extender safely staying at 120W

  • Evil

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  • This gave me a brilliant idea:

    • Everyone adds a clause to whatever license they use stating "any part of this software may not be used for war purposes of any kind"
    • We wait until software with these licences is spread across the supply chain of everything on Earth
    • ...
    • World peace, as no country would be legally allowed to wage war
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  • Someone I know recently showed me that extension. I replied to them with "why bother with a browser extension, just paste the DOI into Anna's Archive and it'll show up 99% of the time" and showed it to them on their computer. It then showed a message along the lines of "you can access this file, but not here. Go to this site instead".

    They were signed into their university account. As you use that extension yourself, do you know if that's normal behavior? I'm afraid the extension flagged this person at the campus IT department or something like that

  • CHATCONTROL STOPPED!

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  • Is it the case where they postponed the vote again because they anticipated it being turned down and needing to wait ages before being allowed to vote again?

    If so, perhaps Poland could host the next vote, deliberately not postponing when it seems it's not going to pass. Maybe even start trolling and remove concessions that would've pleased other countries, forcing even more anti-votes and removing some risk of it passing unexpectedly (I don't know if that would be viable to actually implement though).

    We need it to properly fail big time if we don't want to fear for our privacy every couple months

  • M5-powered iPad Pro Will Reportedly Enter Mass-Production in H2 2025

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  • I'm not one to buy Apple products, but I keep hearing amazing things about their M4 devices. Most of them come with quite some dealbrealers compared to the competition, such as soldered RAM across the board, and Apple proprietary storage on the Mini (which they just have to tack an Apple tax onto).

    The iPad's pretty much the only thing they make where the competition shares most of the same drawbacks (especially if either self-repair is proven to work, or parts pairing gets banned in enough jurisdicitions). Most of the reason that I don't want one is that I don't want to move into yet another proprietary ecosystem.

    So, ever since learning about the fact that Asahi Linux exists, I've been dreaming about an iPad that can run arbitrary OS'es just like the Macs. Imagine running something like Plasma Mobile or Phosh on an iPad, with full desktop apps being ready should you need them. I hope I get to see something like that someday, whether through an exploit, legislation or just Apple finally coming around.

    Crap, I'm fresh out of hopium

  • 10 Features You No Longer Need to Root Your Android Phone For

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  • I used to use ADB backup to move from Android 6 to 8 to 10, but it refused to work from 10 to 12.

    Not that it was fully comprehensive, but it was pretty dang close. Shame they never replaced it with something similar

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    TheChargedCreeper864 @lemmy.ml

    Would there be any merit in the idea of NATO waging a "benevolent war" (for lack of a better term) against Ukraine?

  • memes @lemmy.world
    TheChargedCreeper864 @lemmy.ml

    Why would I need backlit keys anyway?