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  • YSK you can poison your personal data to fight against surveillance capitalism.

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  • How does it poison their data to share your honest preferences with them? Doesn’t that give them the most accurate dossier possible so they can hit you with ads that micro-target your interests?

  • Klarna for rent

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  • Yes. Previously the alternative was payday loans, which charged exorbitant interest rates.

    People have tried to ban these sorts of predatory loan businesses before but it usually forces people into the hands of organized crime loan sharks who charge even more exorbitant interest and exact brutal punishments on people who don’t pay up.

  • What product do you buy even though you know it's overpriced?

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  • Cheap ice cream is pumped up with air. That gallon of store brand crap probably weighs less than half a gallon of Ben & Jerry’s.

    So convenient that ice cream is sold by volume and not weight.

  • MacOS is the worst Operating System

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  • It’s quite easy to explicitly tell an application to stop running: Quit (command-q). The Mac has worked this way since 1984. If you have unsaved documents you will be prompted to save them (though most modern apps have used the OS’s built in support for autosave for years now) and then all windows will be closed before the app quits.

    Closing the last open window of an application is not an instruction to close the application, it’s an instruction of the form “I am done working with this document now.” No more, no less.

    This dates to a time when computers could reasonably be expected to work on single documents that consume all available memory such that the user must close the current document before opening a new one. Furthermore, in those days the application itself may reside on a different floppy disk from the document itself. Forcing the application to close upon closing the last document would then force the user to swap floppies in order to restart the application and then swap floppies again to open another document.

    I digress. The floppy swapping issue is clearly no longer relevant but the metaphor remains: the Mac was conceived as a virtual desktop where users would work on their documents using applications (tools). If I’m cutting a piece of paper with a pair of scissors and then I put away the piece of paper, I don’t expect the scissors to put themselves away at the same time. I took out the scissors deliberately and I will put them away when I decide I’m finished with them.

  • Call for change in law to tackle covertly-filmed videos of women on nights out

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  • I think this is where we’re really starting to see modern society break down. We’ve gotten to the point where we all live and coexist in a space but there’s nothing binding us together, as community, other than the law. Turns out that if we assume there will always be people who try twist and exploit the law to their own advantage then the law itself no longer works as a tool for building a free and just society.

    In the past, we had other systems such as community norms and traditions which tended to be much more adept at dealing with rule-benders. Where did we go wrong?

  • MacOS is the worst Operating System

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  • close the last window, and accidentally leave an application running that chewing up memory for no reason

    Mac OS has memory compression and paging built in. If you leave an application running with no open windows, it’ll be idle in that state (it can also be idle with open windows, if you’re not interacting with them or running calculations in them) and when memory is low the operating system will first compress the memory of idle applications and later page them out (copied to storage and removed from memory) to disk (a fast SSD on a modern machine). An application that is paged out is so fast to page in and resume working that I’ve never even been able to tell when it happens. It basically feels like the computer has infinite memory available.

    In practice that means you can leave every single one of your applications open and you won’t have any memory issues unless they’re all actively working and allocating memory to get work done. I leave almost all my commonly used applications open for months at a time with no issues. If there were any applications leaking memory or wasting battery then the system would warn me under the battery menu (listed as an app using significant energy).

    • think you're on the last window and go to explicitly close the application using Command Q, only to find out you still had another window open behind it or on another monitor that you needed, because MacOS provides no logical way of finding windows.

    The Mac has tons of ways to find windows. For one, every application has a Window menu in the menu bar that lists all open windows, lets you switch to the ones you want (they may be on separate spaces) as well as more advanced stuff such moving and arranging and resizing all windows for an application:

    Other ways to find windows include command-tab which cycles applications (but will bring up a window from that application if there are any open) and the trackpad gestures 3 finger swipe up to show all open windows in the current space (and be able to switch spaces or rearrange windows into different spaces) as well 3 finger swipe down which does the same thing but only for the windows opened by the current application.

  • MacOS is the worst Operating System

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  • Yes, there’s a dot under its icon in the dock. If the application is in the foreground then you’ll see its name in the top left, the first menu in the menu bar to the right of the Apple menu.

    It’s also the case that regular applications (as opposed to background processes) cannot be running without having an icon in the dock. Icons can be left in the dock for quick access to launch those applications. If an app is not left in the dock then running it will add it to the dock along with a dot underneath it, along with a bouncing animation to draw your attention to it being added to the dock. Quitting an application that’s not normally pinned to the dock will cause it to disappear from the dock.

  • MacOS is the worst Operating System

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  • You’ve coupled the idea of window and application in your mind because that’s how Windows has worked for years. Mac has never worked like that. An application is separate from its windows and has ownership over them. An application can happily continue running with no open windows and still be useful (you control it with the menu bar at the top of the screen).

    One of the most annoying things for me on Windows is when I close a Word file and want to open another one, if the one I closed is the last window then the entire program needs to restart which is very slow. On a Mac this never happens.

  • ubi rule

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  • Don’t you worry that with everyone on UBI, demagogues like Trump can just cut you off?

    That’s my biggest hangup over UBI. I think everyone should have that safety net but I’m afraid of that much centralization of power.

  • Russian War Spending May be Maxed Out

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  • They’ve also been importing soldiers from other countries, letting mercenaries fight for them. Those will eventually run out too but it’ll take a lot longer. There are a lot of men in global south countries who will take what they think is easy money. They have no idea at all what they’re getting into.

  • sigh

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  • Yes! Go Bills!

  • Venezuelan opposition leader 'kidnapped' hours after group freed from prison

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  • He was just released from prison and kidnapped shortly after. This raises the suspicion that his release was a sham. If that’s the case then he wasn’t really kidnapped since he was never really free, despite being briefly outside prison.

  • So close

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  • I’m not defending billionaires. I’ve never defended a billionaire. I’m pushing back on the idea that a billionaire is the same as a regular person but they have a billion dollars in their bank account and they can just give the money away with no consequences. It’s almost never like that!

    So like let’s say you owned a company with 10,000 employees and your company was worth over a billion dollars. Congratulations you’re a billionaire! But if you’re gonna give away a billion dollars that means selling off the company and those 10,000 people losing their jobs! Or you’re selling the company as a whole and the new owner is a billionaire who is responsible for those employees.

    Other suggestions I’ve heard are things like having the government take over the business, like that worked so well in the Soviet Union! Great way to create another Putin!

    So do you have any suggestions for what to do with a billion dollar company without tearing it down, selling it off, or handing it over to the government?

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    Why did most of the world got rid of monarchy, if we're going to elect dictators anyway?

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  • Groups of people don’t act the way individuals do. Sure, individuals can do some unpredictable things sometimes (but often it’s predictable in hindsight, they were just hiding their feelings) but groups are extremely chaotic. You need look no further than how crowds can spontaneously panic and create a stampede for no apparent reason.

    Elections might seem a lot more predictable because of polling but there have been many cases where polls were wrong and the election completely flipped!

  • Noam Chomsky’s wife apologizes for their ‘grave mistake’ in Epstein ties

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  • It’s not even an apology. When you apologize you take full accountability for what you did, you don’t make excuses!

  • ‘Steel Coffins’: Russia’s T-90M Tanks Are ‘Blowing Their Tops’ in Ukraine

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  • Safety of the tank in terms of evading capture. If the tank explodes instead of just being disabled, it’s useless to capture.

  • So close

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  • That’s not the logic we’re operating with here. The GP claimed that if you’re not giving away your excess money, you’re committing the bad deed of inaction. Thus no one should have any savings whatsoever. Every penny beyond what you need to survive should be given away or it’s a bad deed.

  • Nvidia might not have any new gaming GPUs in 2026 — and could be 'slashing production' of existing GeForce models

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  • Nintendo has never sold their consoles at a loss. They sell them at a small profit which then grows to a larger profit as the cost of making them decreases.

  • Nvidia might not have any new gaming GPUs in 2026 — and could be 'slashing production' of existing GeForce models

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