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New comment by manbart in "Flock threatens to sue private group in California that discusses diplomacy, law"

manbart — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:49:40 +0000

Attempting to bully into silence first amendment protected speech with the threat of a SLAPP lawsuit? There should be penalties for this

New comment by manbart in "The economy's K-shaped dynamic could be changing"

manbart — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:07:12 +0000

Could inflation be a driver of these numbers (wage and spending growth for lower and middle households vs high) growing in tandem? Didn't see that mentioned in the article

New comment by manbart in "Policy Statement Concerning the Suppression of Accuracy in AI Systems"

manbart — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:49:40 +0000

So, the Ministry of Truth is going to declare any outputs that Dear Leader doesn't like are illegal deceptive advertising?

New comment by manbart in "More Workers Take Mental Health Leave, and Bosses Aren't Happy"

manbart — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:12:24 +0000

Corporate profits have grown (inflation adjusted) from $2.45 trillion to $3.62 trillion over the past 10 years. I think they'll be fine with letting their workers take leave

https://www.macrotrends.net/3607/corporate-profits-after-tax...

New comment by manbart in "Zombie 'who owns Unix?' lawsuit comes alive again"

manbart — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:25:52 +0000

What do Xinuos even stand to gain at this point even if they win?

New comment by manbart in "OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router"

manbart — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:36:15 +0000

What switches are you running it on?

New comment by manbart in "The Doomers Are All Right"

manbart — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 05:23:13 +0000

I dont get it, how would AI cause humans to go extinct?

New comment by manbart in "Murmur: A Speaker with a World Inside"

manbart — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 22:12:00 +0000

This actually seems pretty cool. I hope they can make it to production. However I wonder how much it would cost. Will it actually sell for a price people would be willing to pay for a device of such limited utility?

New comment by manbart in "Dystopian Californian community offers $500 cash reward for Americans to snitch"

manbart — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:04:45 +0000

I think risk of fire is the big reason that they are trying to stamp out fireworks. Wild fires have devestated California in recent years, and they start easily with the dry conditions

New comment by manbart in "Smartphone could become obsolete within a decade, tech leaders say"

manbart — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:07:05 +0000

I assume they mean these products will be voice driven? Maybe I'm an outlier here, but I would not like that, it would make use in public spaces awkward for me. Silence is golden

New comment by manbart in "Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs"

manbart — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:51:21 +0000

Ankther example of why "Smart TVs" are peak enshittification

New comment by manbart in "RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8"

manbart — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:45:19 +0000

How is the software compatibilty with the Tenstorrent cards? Are you stuck using vendor supplied runtimes/models?

It's surprising how little these things come up given the price they go for

New comment by manbart in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

manbart — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:43:12 +0000

For a laugh, search for "p(doom)" (remember that?) and read some articles from 2023

New comment by manbart in "Yserver: Modern X11 Server Written in Rust with the Help of Claude Code"

manbart — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:35:59 +0000

Glad to see this and other efforts to keep X server going. I don't have strong feelings on the Wayland vs X debate, but the window managers I use don't support Wayland, so I'd like to be able to keep using them

New comment by manbart in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

manbart — Sun, 24 May 2026 01:20:31 +0000

One reason is population growth. Our current system is based on the assumption of an ever growing labor force to fund things like social security, medicare, fund our massive debt, and evrything else we want the government to spend on. In their current form, these systems will break down in the face of population decline. Since existing Americans are having fewer kids and trending downward, immigration is the only way to sustain the model.

This doesn't neccisarily.mean the is the best, or even desireable, way to structure society, but I also think the political system is dysfunctional to the point major change is currently impossible

I didnt down vote you by the way. Just throwing out a counter point to consider

New comment by manbart in "Antigravity 2.0"

manbart — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:16:00 +0000

Wow, the new interface is horrible.... They removed the ability to actually edit code in it? Not sure I will continue to use it

New comment by manbart in "Tesla Recalls Cybertruck Because Wheels May Fall Off"

manbart — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:07:03 +0000

How the heck do they have over 173 models of cybertruck?

New comment by manbart in "Notepad++ for Mac – Independent community port"

manbart — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:07:48 +0000

Wish there was a Linux port too

New comment by manbart in "Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo"

manbart — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:42:00 +0000

callous indifference

New comment by manbart in "Rise of the AI Soldiers"

manbart — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 01:19:15 +0000

The future looks bleaker by the day