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New comment by lom888 in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

lom888 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:09:50 +0000

I've been using Waterfox on deskop for years and adore it. Firefox for mobile does great. I don't grasp how anyone uses Chrome as their daily driver willingly aside from just inertia.

New comment by lom888 in "Why China Believes America Will Flame Out"

lom888 — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:12:30 +0000

Wang Huning, then a little-known academic, was moved by his travels through the U.S. to write the book America Against America, in which he described a nation beset by social fragmentation, inequality, and political dysfunction. Shocked by the country’s problems of homelessness, drug addiction, racial violence, social divisions, and low education standards, Wang concluded that America contained the seeds of its own destruction.

I would love to see poll numbers how many red and blue would prefer to be ruled by the Chinese than to the opposing domestic tribe. I suspect it may be one thing that unites them...

New comment by lom888 in "Why we lose our friends as we age (2023)"

lom888 — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:51:18 +0000

It's just gonna be chatting with sockpuppet AIs from here on out. Someone needs to set up a social network where our AI agents (who for many of us, know us better than our families) sort out who we'd be best set up to socialize with and then set up play dates.

New comment by lom888 in "Does current AI represent a dead end?"

lom888 — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 22:00:05 +0000

I don't know how to code in any meaningful way. I work at a company where the bureaucracy is so thick that it is easier to use a web scraper to port a client's website blog than to just move the files over. GPT 4 couldn't write me a working scraper to do what I needed. o1 did it with minimal prodding. It then suggested and wrote me a ffmpeg front-end to handle certain repetitive tasks with client videos, again, with no problem. Gpt4 would often miss the mark and then write bad code when presented with such challenges

New comment by lom888 in "The NYPD is spending $390M on a new, encrypted radio system"

lom888 — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 19:31:36 +0000

FTA, quotes from council members:

Encrypting police radios “is a crime in itself,” Councilmember Robert Holden testified on Monday.

“There should never be a blackout of the press,” Councilmember Vickie Paladino added.

Radio encryption technology is more than 20 years old. In the UK this technology has been in place since 2000. Criminals monitor open frequencies and use this information in their crimes. I fail to understand the logic of why one would have a police department and then hinder the tools that they use to effectively enforce the law. It's not like they can't just use a cell phone anyway and not have their comms heard by the public.

New comment by lom888 in "If needed, you have a role at Microsoft that matches your compensation"

lom888 — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 19:18:19 +0000

It is pretty rich that Microsoft of all companies is now coming in to be seen as the savior and not many people are batting an eye. It's a face turn 20 years in the making. If Facebook, Apple or Google were doing the same I suspect we'd hear more opprobrium.

New comment by lom888 in "Luxury beliefs are status symbols (2022)"

lom888 — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 18:55:03 +0000

Okay, here's something written by Trump supporter and Cal State Fresno prof. Victor Davis Hanson discussing the effect of immigration on a community where he has lived since 1970:

https://www.hoover.org/research/diversity-illegal-immigratio...

New comment by lom888 in "Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education"

lom888 — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 15:51:53 +0000

It's interesting that we treat kettling children up indoors by age cohort with little movement and making them solve math problems ad nauseum as if it were the most natural thing in the world and treat those who can't sit still and learn in such an environment (or understand the purpose of doing all of those math problems for 13 years) as if they are an aberration.

New comment by lom888 in "Opinion Google Pixel's ad campaign is destroying humanity"

lom888 — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 15:18:19 +0000

https://archive.ph/hHACg

New comment by lom888 in "Luxury beliefs are status symbols (2022)"

lom888 — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 14:12:02 +0000

Exactly, the deflections of 'racism' and 'sexism' are thought-terminating cliches bandied about in an act of pure class war. No need to listen to Trumpies talk about immigration and how it effects their community if they're all racists; that makes them the other and we can just pretend they don't exist.

New comment by lom888 in "US library system, once the best in the world, faces death by a thousand cuts"

lom888 — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 16:17:57 +0000

I subscribe to the FB and Insta accounts of local libraries in my county and those next to mine, and it appears that many of the librarians view much of their position to be engaging in agitprop for certain political points of view. I can understand why funding may dry up when half of the stakeholders in the library are alienated due to culture warring.

New comment by lom888 in "Firefox tooltip bug fixed after 22 years"

lom888 — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 11:03:39 +0000

This bug is older than the initial release of Firefox by two years.

New comment by lom888 in "The Instagram Account That Shattered a California High School"

lom888 — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 11:05:02 +0000

https://archive.is/8S4oD

New comment by lom888 in "One of Reddit’s biggest communities suggests move to Discord [Strike ongoing]"

lom888 — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 15:42:51 +0000

I hope that self-hosting is the route that this plays out a la rdrama and themotte. Eventually these sites will all be confederated via link aggregation and can have their own moderation practices independent of a corporate behemoth.

New comment by lom888 in "The internet didn’t kill counterculture, it's just not on Instagram (2021)"

lom888 — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 15:37:39 +0000

>pub trivia

This was one of my two outlets for social participation until about 10+ years ago, but this pursuit has been ruined by phones. Participants cheat without a second thought and the emcees refuse to enforce rules.

New comment by lom888 in "Supreme Court Rejects Student Loan Forgiveness Plan"

lom888 — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 20:40:38 +0000

Removing the bankruptcy exemption from student loans as was the status quo prior to the 1980s solves this. The lenders then have a vested interest in ensuring that their lendees generate enough income to pay off the loans.

New comment by lom888 in "Pornhub blocks access to entire state of Virginia"

lom888 — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 00:06:13 +0000

I had to throw my VPN on to see this, PornHub in Virginia now shows a message by Cherie Deville against age verification as it's currently being enforced.

New comment by lom888 in "Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions"

lom888 — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 21:19:29 +0000

But perpetuating the logic of groups being advantaged over groups only keeps the identitarian mindset going. By openly favoring certain groups the discrimination never ends. All you need to do is look at India where the active discrimination in favor of scheduled castes goes on ad infinitum to see that the effect of any discrimination amplifies sectarianism. The line needs to be drawn somewhere. You don't fight fire with fire, you fight it with water. You don't solve discrimination with more discrimination, you fight it by having people not accept the logic of identitarianism.

New comment by lom888 in "American states are bailing out public transport"

lom888 — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 14:23:04 +0000

https://archive.is/cAfee

New comment by lom888 in "Amazon cancels my account after exposing account lockout for “racist doorbell” [video]"

lom888 — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 14:00:40 +0000

In your opinion, do they have to say a racism or merely think it to be worthy of being locked out of their home?