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blind3rdeye

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  • Europe’s Greens ask Jill Stein to pull out of US election to prevent Trump victory

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  • Unfortunately, USA doesn't have ranked choice voting. So voting for someone who doesn't have a chance of winning is basically the same as throwing away your vote.

  • Subscriptions Are Ruining Our Lives. Here's Why They're Everywhere Now. | You'll own nothing and you'll be happy!

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  • I mean yeah, subscription services are shitty, but what’s wrong with lifetime purchases?

    This thread is about subscriptions. So I'd assume that when people talk about 'rent seeking companies' etc, they are referring to subscription payments rather than lifetime purchases.

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  • I've literally never bought anything from Amazon ever, at all. Not once. Nothing. Zilch. ... So I think it is more than fair to say that there are plenty of alternatives to Amazon.

  • Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris, paper reports

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  • Jeff Bezos killed. Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris. Paper reports.

    That's a big news day.

  • Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it

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  • By default there is a shortcut to the terminal shortcut on task bar. From memory it is one of three default shortcuts. (File browser, Terminal, Firefox.) You can also find it by pressing the menu button (the 'start menu'). From there the terminal has a prominent special position where it is always accessible. And if you don't notice it there, you can always start typing to search for it - as with any other installed app. I find that if I type 't', then "Terminal" is the top result; and obviously I can kept typing to eliminate the other results if I want.

    So if your difficulty in finding the terminal is your main complaint about about Mint... I'm not sure what to tell you. Do you want it to auto-launch or something?

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  • Mastodon isn't a person. So I don't know who you are talking about when you say 'mastodon was attacking people'. I certainly didn't see anything like that. Perhaps you have an example link for context?

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  • I'd say mastodon is a better choice, mostly so that you're not beholden to yet another profit-focused tech corporation. I'm sure Bluesky is fine right now, but once they have their userbase they will shift to monetization - and you may regret letting yourself become entrenched in the world they control. They're not doing it for your benefit.

    That said, I've come to understand that a lot of people kind of like having their content feed controlled by others. When they only see what they ask for, they get bored. So I'm expecting Bluesky to always be bigger than Mastodon.

  • EU considers calculating X fines by including revenue from Musk’s other firms

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  • And this is why it is ludicrous to believe that ultra-rich people earn their fortune with hard work or good ideas. Being rich generates its own money. Being poor is expensive. There should be no billionaires, for any reason. Such concentrated wealth is very bad.

  • EU considers calculating X fines by including revenue from Musk’s other firms

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  • While I disagree that "billions is beyond being halved", there is some truth to the idea that numbers can get so big that halving doesn't make much difference. That seems very very counter-intuitive, so I'll try to briefly explain.

    Consider (1010 + 2). That's 10000000000+2. I think it's fair to say that the +2 doesn't make a lot of difference. It's still approximately 10^10.

    So then, consider 10(1010)×100. That's a huge number, too big to type here, then multiplied by 100. So the result is 100 times bigger than the huge number. But... writing it down we see this:

    10(1010)×100 = 10(1010+2) ≈ 10(1010).

    So although ×100 does make it one hundred times bigger... that just doesn't really make a lot of difference to a number as big as that one. As numbers get bigger and bigger, they start to take on properties a bit like 'infinity'. Addition stops being important, then multiplication, then for even bigger numbers exponentiation doesn't huge much of an impact either.

    Mathematically, I think this is really cool and interesting. But I don't think 1 billion is that big. 109 is big enough that +2 doesn't matter much, but not so big that ×2 doesn't matter.

    [edit] (I'm struggling to get the nested powers to look right... So hopefully my meaning is clear enough anyway.)

  • What Gmail did to email

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  • To this very day, I know nobody - NOBODY - who even comes close to Gmail’s spam filtering capability.

    I disagree. Perhaps you need hard evidence for a claim like that.

    I have a gmail account, and a proton mail account. My gmail account is packed with spam. It has so much spam its crazy. The account is basically unusable. Which is fine, because I no longer trust google. It's been years since I've told anyone to use this account.

    On the other hand, I can count on one hand the number of times I've got a spam message in my inbox on protonmail. In fact, I remember. It's 2. The account isn't as old, but I've used it to sign up for at least as many things. It's my main account now - partially because I've turned anti-google, but also because its not choked by mountains of junk.

    (To be fair, I suspect the main reason that my gmail account is so bad is that it has a popular username, and other people have accidentally signed up for things with my email accidentally instead of their own. Nevertheless, the fact is that the gmail is spam-central, and the protonmail account is clean.)

  • Umbelievable climate impacts

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  • Apple study exposes deep cracks in LLMs’ “reasoning” capabilities

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  • Good-Bite [Litterbox Comics]

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  • You should know, it is possible that other people find this comic funny even though you don't. And no matter how much you 'explain' why it isn't humorous, you can't undo the fact that other some people have found it funny. So then, what do you think people learn from your explanation?; Probably something about you rather than something about the comic.

  • Self care

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  • At the same time as Pink Floyd singing the same line?

  • Apple study exposes deep cracks in LLMs’ “reasoning” capabilities

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  • Yeah, especially given that so many popular vegetables are members of the brassica genus

  • Does each language have "lefty loosey righty tighty"?

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  • Nar. A statement and its converse are not equivalent.

  • Steam and Mastodon.

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  • I'd say this comic is more relevant:

  • Injuries at different ages [Extra Fabulous Comics]

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  • Partially so, but a lot of adult pain is due to bad posture, and weak muscles from lack of exercise. (Weak muscles don't directly result in pain, but it does mean that stuff like "looking in the mailbox weird", or sneezing, or lifting something off the floor can result in stuff going wrong.)

  • So now I have to PAY you to NOT store files on my device that I don't want?

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  • I find it amusing that they "use cookies to give you the best possible experience", but then ask you to pay to not have them.