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New comment by abenga in "Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)"

abenga — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:33:44 +0000

People usually say "this tv show wouldn't be made today", and it is usually wrong. But this, this would never be assented to by many countries in today's global political climate.

New comment by abenga in "Good Tools Are Invisible"

abenga — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:04:16 +0000

I really don't understand what everyone does that gets in their way on Linux desktop. I install Debian and the packages I use, I open Gnome, I open the software I'm using, I do my work.

New comment by abenga in "Is The Economist Always Wrong?"

abenga — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:45:54 +0000

What should you read instead?

New comment by abenga in "Alibaba to ban Claude Code in workplace over alleged backdoor risks, source says"

abenga — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:22:22 +0000

That's just the label that changed. Same people, same values.

New comment by abenga in "Tidal AI Policy"

abenga — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:38:54 +0000

You are describing empathy, a human experience.

New comment by abenga in "Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model"

abenga — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 04:36:50 +0000

How is solar any of those things?

New comment by abenga in "Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed"

abenga — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:47:00 +0000

You shouldn't give them more tools to terrorize the populace though.

New comment by abenga in "Identity verification on Claude"

abenga — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:03:10 +0000

It is a legal fiction invented by corporations to pass the blame onto you when criminals convinces the companies to give them money in your name.

New comment by abenga in "Google display wrong flags for world cup 2026"

abenga — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 20:21:31 +0000

No it's like saying scissors poke so don't use them to hold up an inflated balloon.

New comment by abenga in "The AirPods Effect"

abenga — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:36:39 +0000

that's the point.

New comment by abenga in "How to earn a billion dollars"

abenga — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:27:24 +0000

> they just offer them products and ecosystem and most people are dumb enough to ruin their life with it.

Also an argument for El Chapo and friends (if we didn't criminalize their products and add the violence around the trade, see Alcohol and Tobacco).

> - but I hate them too.

Why do you hate them if you don't think they are bad?

You seem to be saying, "it's not illegal; I will hate it, but it is not bad". What is "illegal" is an arbitrary classification that different countries choose. That's the point of what the unnamed politician (it's AoC I think?) is saying: those things should be illegal.

New comment by abenga in "Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026"

abenga — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:28:09 +0000

> quite taxing on the environment during manufacturing

What power source isn't?

New comment by abenga in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

abenga — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:41:17 +0000

I installed the drivers according https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers. Yet every time a new kernel is released (note that this is new, new kernels, e.g. at the moment I am using 7.0.10, just one point release off the current tippy tip 7.0.11), whether or not Nvidia drivers would work after boot was a crapshoot. Maybe it's better now, seeing as they are trying to open source some part of the drivers, I guess. It got so troublesome at the time that I just got a 7800XT to replace my old 2070. Never had the issue again.

New comment by abenga in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

abenga — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:10:33 +0000

After I switched from Nvidia to AMD GPUs on my main rig, I can now run Sid without issue and upgrade my Kernel whenever I want to without getting a black screen with a blinking cursor on the next boot.

New comment by abenga in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

abenga — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:01:59 +0000

This also involves a significantly larger number of people getting my payment details, actual proper name, etc. Even if I wanted to pay individual channels, I'd probably still do it through the YouTube channel membership feature.

New comment by abenga in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

abenga — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:56:42 +0000

I probably watch too many channels to pay them each outside youtube, it will become quickly logistically unmanageable, if not unaffordable. The maximum I can do is probably 5 channels or so.

New comment by abenga in "New York passes pied-a-terre tax"

abenga — Fri, 29 May 2026 08:32:37 +0000

If your wealth/income increases x1000, their spending will not increase a thousand-fold. It's not like you can eat a thousand burgers in a day. All this leads to is poorer people paying a larger proportion of their income as taxes than the richer.

New comment by abenga in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

abenga — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:51:21 +0000

It's not created any cure or solved crime though. The times it's been applied to those problems, it's either regurgitated stuff that's already in the data or led to the arrest of innocent people.

Also, re: music, if I was fine with listening to AI music, why would I listen to the output of someone else's prompt instead of creating my own?

New comment by abenga in "Googlebook"

abenga — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:26:27 +0000

That one now should not exist (like in plain Gnome).

New comment by abenga in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

abenga — Tue, 05 May 2026 09:28:02 +0000

But the air travel system (airports/atc/etc) would not exist, because taxes were needed to bootstrap it.