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  • what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace?

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  • Honestly, time to talk to HR who I'm sure would have a quiet word with this manager.

    This sounds like bullying, triggered by racism/xenophia/paranoia or just plain bigotry. And yelling at people? That's terrible too.

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  • Uh, the algorithm is what stops random crap. Tailoring just the right balance of stuff that does interest you, might interest you and fits the supplier's aims is why Tiktok is so popular.

    Given the content far outweighs your ability to view it, how would you imagine things would look without any algorithm?

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  • More control to the tech bros.

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  • Indeed, why not? Temugin was the GOAT at this game.

    Global domination isn't a new thing.

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  • I agree. People are people. The racist tone of the original question and the judging of history by modern standards just underlines that.

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  • but remember the Greeks and Swedes didn’t sail around the world killing natives for the craic.

    The Vikings had a fair go at it - and they came from what is now Norway, Denmark and... Sweden.

  • Choosing a distro for a technophobe's computer

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  • I moved my wife's laptop to Debian with Cinnamon as a desktop. She loves it and is as technophobic a person as I know..

    Auto login, automated-updates set up, remote backups. She just has to open the lid and firefox is there, which is 95% of what she wants. Libre office is around for the remaining 5%.

    This is someone who used to get angry at Windows forced updates and reboots, so not having any of that improved her quality of life.

  • would you visit an authoritarian country if you had the chance to live there up to 4 weeks for free even if you believe multiparty democracy to be something non negotiable?

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  • You can't properly hate somewhere until you've lived there...

    If you think you'll be safe, then go. Travel broadens the mind, even if you go with preconceived ideas.

  • Acceptance of homosexuality in the US by state

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  • Don't think you think America is entering a very recessive time and these hard won rights are at risk of being removed?

    Removal of reproductive rights in some states for women, increased religious influence in state and national law making, and an increased uptake of racism fuelled by government anti-immigration rhetoric, fierce government-led hate against trans people and so on. It's a grim time to be an American if you're not white, straight and rich.

  • Those who custom built their PCs (or plan to), what are your specs and usecases?

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  • Just built a new pc, the first for a few years but probably the 20th or so I've made in total. This one's a home server, replacing an HP ML110 Gen 9. It's running proxmox with a dozen linux vms and is performing very well so far.

    • Ryzen 5700X
    • ASUS TUF Gaming B550M-PLUS, AMD B550 (Full linux compatibility)
    • 48gb of ddr4 (32 new, 16 re-used)
    • 2tb nvram (I have a nas for bigger storage)

    Cheap PSU, half a case nailed to a wall (seriously. I keep it in a cupboard). A fanless gpu just to get it booting. Stock cpu fan and that's about it. Idles at around 50 watts, which is less than half of the ML, and is almost silent.

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  • Not sick, no. But if I know it's AI, it does have less value to me. It can still be an amusing distraction if it was cleverly prompted, but there's no thought gone into the generation.

    Real art reflects not only the technical skill of the artist, but the effort they put in, their life experiences that made them look at something in a particular way, and their soul. No matter how good AI gets technically, it'll never have that. But maybe it will be able to fake something that's almost indistiguishable, like how lab grown diamonds can only be told from natural diamonds by someone with many years of experience.

    Why do you view it with such horror? Do you see it as the start of AI taking over everything and the end of humanity?

  • The Epidemic Of Gamers Forcing Themselves To Play/Like a Game.

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  • I've been a computer gamer since 1980 and, apart from a really excellent few years playing Unreal Tournament in a clan in the early 2000s, have entirely played solo.

    Like others, I have a life. People don't get upset online if I get called away from the PC for a while. Or upset IRL if I'm focusing on a team game instead of them.

    I'm not waiting around until we've got a group together. I'm not getting angry at a team-mate for accidentally fragging me. I'm not apologising for accidentally fragging someone else. I don't have to put up with someone else's childish taunting, or racist/offensive views. I don't have an over-sugared twelve year old screaming into my ears because they found the fire button.

    I would like more big open-world games that have a decent solo-first experience, but otherwise this way fits me nicely and your message only reinforces that for me.

  • why do web developers make it hard to see/copy the date of posts and comments?

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  • I'm not a developer at any of these sites, but a couple of guesses:

    1. They genuinely think relative dates are a more user friendly experience.
    2. They know they serve old content, but want it to appear relevant. I've seen social media do this on several platforms where they obscure the date entirely on content that is not very fresh. This can be frustrating when you're searching for an answer to a technical question and do find advice, to only find out after trying it that it refers to a version of the software that's now very out of date.
    3. SEO. Tricks like this might help the page rank higher in search engines. (I don't know, I'm not an expert and SEO annoys me, but it feels like something designers might do to trick the engines)

    Neither is a technical reason, it's going to be about design, marketing and aesthetics.

    Ublock will block what's displayed, but not show you the actual. Something like UserScripts would allow you to extract the dates from the html and display them, or perhaps some css tweaks to change how things are displayed. But these would need tailoring for every single site you want and be liable to break if they change anything on their end.

    Alternatively, you may wish to search sites for their Accessibility settings, or explore software that tries to do this for you - or even contact the sites and ask them to make the dates more readable on accessibility grounds.

  • China’s Domestic x86 CPU, the Zhaoxin KX-7000, Debuts in an AI PC by MAXHUB, Positioning It as a Viable Alternative to Intel/AMD Options

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  • Nice. It'll be good for most of the world to not have to rely on an increasingly unstable US export market for cpus.

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  • No one said ‘different bad’,

    Plenty of people did. "What's the point of change?" "I'm happy with Sys-V" "I don't like Poettering", "Lennart is too powerfull" and a lot more irrelevant and personal attacks.

    Please don't accuse me of gaslighting whilst gaslighting me in return. I was there, I lived through the worst of the Debian wars and saw some great people leave the project, and a side of some friends that I really didn't like. But that war is done and I have zero interest in continuing it so I'll leave this here.

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  • Fair, and representative of some opinions certainly.

    But change, change is constant. Resist it and end up poorer and more bitter.

  • Kick faces possible $49 M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air

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  • Never heard of it, but isn't it the case that if it is shut down, that group of people will just move elsewhere as they have before?

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  • Two groups of people went to war over a difference of opinion.

    1. New! Different! Change! Bad!
    2. Hey, this works better than the old way. Let's use this instead.

  • What was the incident in your school?

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  • Was that in the 60s/70s, Irish / UK?