john89

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Inside the $621 Million Legal Battle for the 'Soul of the Internet' in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] john89@lemmy.ca 8 points 18 hours ago

Glad they have all this excess to use against the people that gave it to them.

Glad the people that gave it to them gave it to them instead of helping out those who actually need it.

Great world.

*Permanently Deleted* in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] john89@lemmy.ca 18 points 19 hours ago

Is it because they disagree with you? I've found way more intelligent conversations and fewer memes on Lemmy compared to reddit.

Men of Lemmy: What's you take on to marry an OF woman content creator? I'm not talking about hanging out or just sex. please only men answers. in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] john89@lemmy.ca 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

It's really up to you. Are you cool with it? If not, then don't marry her. If so, then do.

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What happens to a lemmy community if the creator/only moderator gets banned or deletes their account? (lemmy.ca)
The Dislike to Ubuntu in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] john89@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think Ubuntu made sense back in the day when Debian wasn't as user-friendly.

Now that Debian is, it looks like Ubuntu is trying really hard to just be as commercialized as possible.

I still don't understand the logic behind their paying for updates for certain programs when Debian doesn't require it.

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Is there a way to turn of notifications for replies? (lemmy.ca)
 

I don't want to be notified everytime I get a reply to one of my posts. Is there a way to turn this off?

Alex Jones’ conspiracy theory empire Infowars will be sold for parts to help pay Sandy Hook families in c/news@lemmy.world
United Nations wants to treat AI with same urgency as climate change in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] john89@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Culture, which can change.

United Nations wants to treat AI with same urgency as climate change in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] john89@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 week ago

I agree. It's great to have machines do the work we don't want to do so we can do other things with our lives.

We just need to get over this mentality that those who have more deserve more and those who have less deserve less.

United Nations wants to treat AI with same urgency as climate change in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] john89@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

So... do nothing about it?

Why are people seemingly against AI chatbots aiding in writing code? in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] john89@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Not really.

Why are people seemingly against AI chatbots aiding in writing code? in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] john89@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

Personally, I've found AI is wrong about 80% of the time for questions I ask it.

It's essentially just a search engine with cleverbot. If the problem you're dealing with is esoteric and therefore not easily searchable, AI won't fare any better.

I think AI would be a lot more useful if it gave a percentage indicating how confident it is in its answers, too. It's very useless to have it constantly give wrong information as though it is correct.

Palworld maker vows to fight Nintendo lawsuit on behalf of fans and indie developers in c/technology@lemmy.world
Why is UI design backsliding? in c/technology@lemmy.world
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Is there any easy way to install a Linux distribution directly to a USB drive? (lemmy.ca)
 

I want to install Debian directly onto my USB drive. Is there an easy way to do this directly without having to reboot to run the installer?

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Is there a federated alternative to 4chan? (lemmy.ca)
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Why is compact mode 'not supported'? (lemmy.ca)
 

I use it all the time and have for years. Just seems like a weird feature to lock behind about.config and say it's not supported while they still support things like Pocket.

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Can we consolidate identical streaming sites under the same group? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by john89@lemmy.ca to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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The streaming sites listed on https://rentry.co/megathread-movies-and-tv#streaming have plenty of duplicates. Essentially, they're the same sites with different names/skins but the exact same content.

It would be beneficial to the community if we could consolidate these down into groups according to which ones are the same.

We can still list all of them, but perhaps do it together so people don't waste their time trying out the same site under a different name.

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How come Windows and macOS users don't have to enter their password every time they need administrator privileges? (lemmy.ca)
 

Isn't it enough to just enter your password once to login, then receive a warning whenever you're about to do something potentially dangerous?

If it's such a big security risk, how come the most popular and widely used operating systems in the world and their users seem to be unaffected by it?

I guarantee, most new users coming to Linux from Windows/macOS are going to laugh and look at you funny if you try to justify entering your password again and again and again.

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Today I learned an oil company prevented the rescue of contracted divers working on their pipe to save money. (www.youtube.com)
 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinidad_Petroleum_Holdings#Paria_Fuel_Trading_Company_diving_tragedy

Of course, there is no direct admittance of "we knew it would be cheaper to let them die."

Instead, they say "we had no legal obligation to rescue them." That's the answer for the people who were born yesterday.

Big oil truly is a disgusting thing.

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