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New comment by eowln in "Discord Incident – Resolved"

eowln — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:20:21 +0000

I predict in the future many will blame the poor overall quality of software and the poor uptime of services on AI, as if things weren’t terrible before AI.

New comment by eowln in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

eowln — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:36:45 +0000

That’s not what I said. I said there are more important things to increase the wellbeing of the citizens of a country than democracy. In other words, a country can use democracy as a tool to destroy itself.

New comment by eowln in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

eowln — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:27:34 +0000

So your measure for success is how people get to put a piece of paper in a box every four years whilst their issues get ignored.

New comment by eowln in "Why is southern Italy poorer than northern Italy?"

eowln — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:14:08 +0000

He didn’t mention race anywhere in his comment. Unless you think Californians or Sicilians are a different race, which is an, uh… interesting theory.

New comment by eowln in "Fedora is now the default Linux recommendation, and Ubuntu did this to itself"

eowln — Wed, 06 May 2026 11:56:15 +0000

I doubt Canonical cares much about the desktop segment, at least the segment that doesn't pay. They seem to be focusing on servers. Or at least that's what it seems to me.

New comment by eowln in "Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents"

eowln — Wed, 06 May 2026 07:29:04 +0000

Or an ugly reflection on the intelligibility of some accents.

New comment by eowln in "YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken"

eowln — Wed, 06 May 2026 06:28:34 +0000

How do you filter out live streams? They look exactly the same to me in the rss feed.

New comment by eowln in "Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement"

eowln — Wed, 06 May 2026 06:14:21 +0000

Steal things? What is this, the “you wouldn’t pirate a car” argument again? I thought we were well over that.