Listen, okay, over 90% of your oh-so-“natural” hedgehog-based pencils are dyed with carcinogenic chromium (pictured in the OP as the yellow color) and act as an environmental contaminant when thrown away. At worst, it’s a lateral change to use plastic.

It is imperative that the cylinder remains unharmed.

Disgusting. This is why I only use ethically sourced mechanical pencils.

☝️🤓 umn ackshually, “pedophile” comes from the Ancient Greek “παιδοφίλης” (“paidophĭ́lēs”), and if you were to construct this in Latin, it would be “paedophilus”. Also ☝️🤓, AI slop didn’t exist in Ancient Rome.

And it’s still better than the hoops we gotta jump through to sideload on iPhone.

The fact that iOS is a joke doesn’t make this any better, and there’s no such thing as “sideloading” outside of corporate FUD; it’s installing perfectly goddamn normal software on your goddamn device that you goddamn own. I didn’t “sideload” Firefox onto my desktop. “Yeah, bro, I just sideloaded Hades II.”

(About 110 MPa)

People this willing to let a self-enriching corporate nanny state erode their ability to use the products they paid for terrify me.

People this willing to fall for the blatant corporate strategy of “We’ll announce something unthinkable but then backpedal to something “only” terrible (and then probably do the unthinkable thing later now that we’ve encroached further and softened the blow)” for the millionth time confound me.

Show some dignity; jesus christ. This isn’t a “compromise”. Me breaking into your house, threatening to kill you, but then “only” hitting you with a bat and leaving isn’t a “compromise”.

Sailors on the Gay of Hormuz always bring lube.

FYI, “HR News” is outrage bait, LLM-generated blog slop that’s specifically crafted to get people to click on it to feel angry. As an example (that I’ll keep harping on about, because it’s proof positive):

“HR News” had an article whose headline said that there was a study quantifying the amount of LLM-generated “corporate troll” content on Reddit (something like “15%”?) The article even said the journal and year it was published. However, they never provided author names, identifiers, a link, the title of the article, a volume/page number, etc. After a lot of digging (exhausting every single article in that journal in that year and searching keywords just in case they somehow got the journal name wrong), it turns out they’d completely made the fucking thing up. The article never existed. The entire premise of the article (that I’ll refuse to call “news”, because it’s a fucking Substack/Medium blog) was fabricated.

Edit: Oh, wait, you’re the one who’s been spreading this poison around Lemmy. Fuck you, OP, you disingenuous sack of shit.

Edit 2: Okay, the headline was: “Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion”. And yes, the study did not exist. The claim was pulled out of thin air and confidently attributed to a nonexistent journal article.

It doesn’t seem like it, or at least there’s zero evidence I’ve seen that this is the case. As the linked OMG Ubuntu article speculates, probably the main benefit financially is making users more likely to sign up to their paid VPN.

Aside: Based on their blog post, the service seems like a proxy rather than a VPN.

Workspaces help you compartmentalize your dread and regrets.

Yeah, it’s not horrific or offensive like most of their work. It’s moreso pretty sad. It’s like the antisocial asshole of the family who ran away from their loving home 10 years ago, and going to visit them now, you see they’re still a terrible person, but scant glimpses beneath all that awfulness into their core show a sad, frightened little child who has no idea what they’re doing.

This is what a competent encyclopedic treatment of algebra looks like for comparison. The other algebra article fucks up from the jump, because the goal of an encyclopedic treatment of algebra is not to teach a reader the rote mechanics of solving a handful of elementary algebra problems (you can as a small example to aid comprehension, but making it nearly the entire article is failing the assignment completely).

It’s to cover what algebra is, its various subfields, its history, its applications, its relationships to other parts of math, etc. Covering algebra encyclopedically by offering a mediocre Algebra I tutorial is like covering internal combustion engines encyclopedically by making the entire article a short guide on how to change the oil and spark plugs in your car; it’s asinine and shows an extremely narrow, trivial understanding of the subject.

If you can believe it, that’s relatively tame for their coverage of mathematics. I linked to the wrong article on accident. Fixed now.

• Cursing you with knowledge
• Blessing you with ignorance (warning: comically horrendous)

Hope this helps, queen.

Edit: swapped second for something much worse.

And the fact two people are taking the selfie at all is bizarre.

• One – Obvious.
• Multiple but spaced out over time – Maybe strange, but makes some sense if you want to use them locally and don’t want to wait to have it sent to you.
• Everyone doing it – Makes sense as a humorous gimmick.
• Exactly two people out of a group of five?
  • As you said, same phone, so zero technical quality difference.
  • Basically the same angle.
  • The rear one will probably capture the first phone in her shot.
  • Looks stupid as fuck.

but saying the public doesn’t support Wikipedia when we’re actually the #1 supporter worldwide of Wikipedia feels kind of disingenuous.

Like I said, active support in hearts and minds – being ready and equipped to defend it if it comes under threat. Relatively, North America is the most supportive financially compared to the rest of the world. To the extent that’s related to a bunch of factors, I’m not qualified to say (and I’ll say I feel a fuck of a lot more qualified than most).

When I say that people take Wikipedia for granted, you can hopefully tell that I’m talking about it in the same way people often used to take basic executive branch norms for granted before Trump’s terms. Not everyone did; people who were especially politically engaged probably didn’t. Most people would’ve told you they supported them; an overwhelming majority of people who weren’t far-right nutjobs would’ve. But they often treated them as “too big to fail”, and they were blindsided as Trump destroyed them.

I’m not sure why you’re calling Americans out here.

Because the original comment (not made by me) was an appeal to Americans. The subsequent comment said it’s not the [American] public. Thus I’m specifically limiting what I’m saying to Americans, regardless of the relative extent to which it applies elsewhere. Because that’s whom the conversation – that I didn’t start – is about.

It’s not that Americans are against either of these per se; it’s that they’re indifferent. Ignoring people brainwashed by the right-wing propaganda against Wikipedia, sane Americans largely take Wikipedia for granted. I don’t mean that bitterly; I mean that it’s been there for 25 years, its quality is better than ever, finances are good, (edit: many people read it through some intermediary), and everyday people therefore don’t consider how unstable its position really is, how much work there is to do, and how irreplaceable it is.

As for the IA, sample 1000 American adults. I’ll bet you five or fewer could tell you what the hell an “Internet Archive” is.

These bailouts for the oil industry are getting ridiculous.