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  • Study reveals that dark web users show significantly higher levels of depression, paranoia, suicidal thoughts, self-injury, and digital self-harm compared to surface web users

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  • I wonder if this is less of a link between those things and the dark web, and more of a link between the mental issues and being beyond terminally online and over-informed about all the most horrible shit out there.

  • Why Are New Appliances So Bad? [41:02]

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  • I don't keep up on the appliance world very much, but for many years I have been under the impression that when replacing one it's always a good call to NOT get the Samsung.

    I have literally never seen reason to doubt that rule.

    I'm actually pretty happy with my current appliances, but I don't stick all to one brand and I stick with the simpler cheaper designs. If paying for the next higher tier brings higher build quality or upgrades the core function's power/capacity, then I'll probably go for it.

  • Why Are New Appliances So Bad? [41:02]

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  • From Wikipedia, here is the article snippet that originated the term.

    Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a "two-sided market", where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.

  • The Number of People Using AI at Work Is Suddenly Falling

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  • It sure sounds like it's time to check my 401k and get out of US stock based funds while there's still something left.

    The current Shiller PE ratio is over 40. The only other time it was that high in recorded history was 1999 into 2000. And that uniquely crazy time was due to... lemme just check my notes... a massive tech bubble. Fantastic.

    The mean and median for the ratio are both below 20. I like the graph on this site: https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe

    (for anybody not familiar, the PE ratio or P/E stands for price/earnings, or how high the stock price is relative to how much money the company makes)

  • Man Realizes He Can Feed Poison Pills to Facebook AI Slop Page, Driving Its Followers Berserk

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  • I'm right there with you but unfortunately I must report that Facebook is still firmly entrenched in many circles. Like if my kid's school posts some news on their website but not their facebook page, I've seen parents get riled up about that.

  • Valve compatibility layer for running Android games on Linux gets official name in Steam documentation

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  • That kind of suggestive language gives me a large hadron.

  • Valve compatibility layer for running Android games on Linux gets official name in Steam documentation

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  • It amuses me to play Roblox with my son when he's on a tablet or console and I'm using the Sober app to run the Android client on my Linux desktop that was built to be a windows gaming PC several years ago when he was a little baby.

    He has an old PC that he doesn't use much, but he's got a much fancier one on the way.

  • White House to propose significant rollback in fuel economy standards, sources say

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  • Is it though? Sure they’ll have a couple great quarters

    STOP TALKING! WE ARE FUCKING SOLD!

  • ‘Yikes’: New Jobs Data Further Undermines Trump Fiction of Thriving Economy

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  • The entire developed world is on the path to the population stabilizing then gradually decreasing. I've pointed this out multiple times for exactly the reason you state. Policy in the US is horribly backwards even before we get to the immediate damage done to real humans.

  • Oh! Here is terminal for you

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  • Well, the Snaps are one of the things they took out. Flatpaks are enabled in the software manager by default though.

    I believe everything that comes preinstalled, including Firefox and LibreOffice and such, is installed the traditional way as if you did "apt install firefox."

    I installed LibreWolf and like it. It's just firefox with telemetry removed and some privacy hardening out of the box.

  • Oh! Here is terminal for you

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  • Check out Mint. It's based on Ubuntu but has Canonical's controversial stuff removed, plus an added layer of polish.

  • Republicans Complain That Cars Have Become Too Safe, Say It Must Be Reversed

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  • Ah, yeah it's affected everything across the board. But with the US context and you talking about giant vehicles, $60K vehicles, and 3 rows, I thought we were focused on the larger end of the population as a whole.

    I bet the crash safety design of the current honda civic was definitely influenced by the truck regulations and that whole market driving the large end even larger.

    Funny enough, I am eagerly awaiting the official announcement of the 2026 MX-5 of all cars.

  • Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service

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  • Alright fine, I can tolerate the little ✨AI ✨ sparkles in my M365 webpages a while longer if it means more kaboom at the end.

  • A useful flowchart.

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  • My eyes started in the upper left with a single glance focused on the first line, which looks right. I didn't notice the misspelled word on the second line, and I kinda saw the "Yes" off to the right. So my brain was primed to think that this was a normal flow chart, and the big shape in the middle was probably some funny thing about "of course you don't."

    My eyes then immediately followed the arrow in this completely normal flow chart to read:

    Is the tack humasns ceaptative?

    with some messed up lines leading down from it.

    It got me good. 🤣

    Edit: I wonder if this image was actually created to illustrate how our real neurons can instantly pick up on what the toaster neurons were doing, but then once your conscious mind has more time to process what you're looking at it's clear how wrong such an initial impression can be. There are probably also some parallels with how inaccurate eyewitness testimony can be.

  • Chasing the Elephant

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  • I wonder if it's a white balance thing, as in the setting you'd see on a camera or in a post processing tool.

    For instance, consider that "soft" or "warm" light bulbs (say 3000K and below) are common in cozy indoor areas. They cast a much more yellow color of light compared with a daylight bulb or actual daylight, which will look very blue in comparison.

    It's like the model detected that the image was people in a living room and it applied a warm white balance to the whole picture because most images of a family in the living room have warm lighting globally.

    But since it is a machine and apparently has not yet been explicitly taught that comics generally have bright colors and no strange tints, then it does not adjust accordingly.

    I wonder if that is even giving it too much credit. Maybe it's just the deterioration from all the iterations of garbage in, garbage out.

  • Republicans Complain That Cars Have Become Too Safe, Say It Must Be Reversed

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  • Who would have thought that the Orphan Crushing Machine was just a stock Ford F-150 this whole time?

  • Republicans Complain That Cars Have Become Too Safe, Say It Must Be Reversed

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  • Is it really the safety standards? I thought it was a combination of all the stupid "truck" exceptions and our equally stupid culture where the iamverybadasses choose their 3-ton grocery and kindergarten shuttles out of fear because they want to "win" any collisions.

  • Keep these Stupid American Trucks out of Europe

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  • Yes, please.

    I'm a big bearded white guy and look like I should drive a stupid truck, or at least I would look that way with some shades and a baseball cap. Where I live is pretty white, surrounded by rural areas, so the trucks are everyyywhere. I doubt I need to convince anybody on here that these vehicles are bad, but I have a couple of observations from my perspective here in real america(/s).

    I have a couple of friends who are those rare truck owners due to legitimate need because they are literal farmers, in addition to their day jobs (this is the USA, after all). Not only are their pastures on steep hillsides, but they only have huge animals like horses and cattle so that comes with pulling trailers and hauling bales of hay, etc. The trucks LOOK like they are farm trucks, their back seat areas in the cabs are dedicated to dogs, and the drivers are... petite women. 🤣 They are super nice and generous too, so I get to do the "have a friend with a truck" thing.

    But, since I live close to a Home Depot, I don't borrow one of the trucks unless I am buying 12+ foot (3.66+ meter) lumber or an appliance.

    Every time I'm at Home Depot in old clothes with cuts on my arms and legs, loading standard 8' (2.44m) lumber into my decade-old economy sedan, I'm surrounded by people who look like me demographically but are dressed much more cleanly and getting into shiny clean late model luxury SUVs or the hulking pickup trucks that cost even more.

  • Americans say Trump has done more to raise prices than lower them by 2-to-1: New poll

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  • In the US at least, if you look at the entire TOP 30% of earners, the majority of that group would have five-figure incomes. Not destitute, but the exact kind of middle/working class incomes where people are getting beat down by prices.