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New comment by quantum_magpie in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

quantum_magpie — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:47:10 +0000

An alternative reply, with analogy, if you like them:

You own a restaurant, where you sell poisoned (intentionally and knowingly) food. A group of people band up for class action lawsuit for poisoning them, and have the lawyers post a sign at your restaurant, that everyone poisoned there should reach out and get some compensation.

Should you be allowed to take the sign down?

New comment by quantum_magpie in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

quantum_magpie — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:42:11 +0000

It’s not a rival store, or speech against them.

It’s a lawsuit, with the users of the platform as the damaged party, against the platform. Removing the possibility to reach the users should result in a default judgement with maximum damages immediately.

New comment by quantum_magpie in "Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise"

quantum_magpie — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:48:49 +0000

Could you point to where you found the details of the exploit? It’s not in the linked page. Really interested. Especially the part about modifying it and the other users propagating it?

New comment by quantum_magpie in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

quantum_magpie — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:43:48 +0000

Well, google doesn’t sell pixels in eu that can use graphene, and samsung installed the israeli spyware on all their devices. So apple is kinda the best solution.

Unless you count xiaomi and huawei as the proper android devices?

New comment by quantum_magpie in "Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economy"

quantum_magpie — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:36:42 +0000

In the German site I get free shipping over 60 Eur, but only by stuff shipped by amazon. And other vendors somehow manage to always screw up shipping, so now I have had all orders for used books that had no/invalid tracking number, not arrive and I have/had to negotiate a refund for all of these refunds with the vendors themselves instead of amazon. So all-in-all, amazon is actually good, makes stuff available that’s impossible to find locally (books in English), and does shipping well.

New comment by quantum_magpie in "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"

quantum_magpie — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:55:06 +0000

No, it’s more like you have 10k km to drive in this car.

And then, after you actually drive it for 10k km on “unauthorized” highways, they ban you.

That’s why analogies are for fucking idiots. There is a true example — you bought access to use your account for n tokens, and google got pissy that you didn’t use the tokens in their spyware ecosystem.

For you analogy loving fucks, it’s like the arcades selling their proprietary 50 cent worth token coins, that only works on their machines, when they could just accept 50 cent coins.

New comment by quantum_magpie in "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"

quantum_magpie — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:33:05 +0000

If I pay for a subscription that guarantees 1000 tokens, I am paying for guaranteed 1000 tokens.

New comment by quantum_magpie in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

quantum_magpie — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:37:14 +0000

Regarding the calculator, I get the same -4 in Android, just checked. So they all suck..

New comment by quantum_magpie in "Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars"

quantum_magpie — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 07:52:41 +0000

I have a 2020 Fiat 500 Abarth, and it is absolutely perfect: There is a screen (I think 7") for Android Auto/CarPlay/radio/nav, and every single other function in the car has a physical button. It is also absolutely gorgeous - pinnacle of design, IMO

New comment by quantum_magpie in "Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss"

quantum_magpie — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 12:06:36 +0000

I ran Teams calls in Firefox on Linux for years, it worked as well as Zoom, I'd say. Other integrations, like the online office files had some issues. Didn't do chats there, though, only the meetings.

New comment by quantum_magpie in "Prozac 'no better than placebo' for treating children with depression, experts"

quantum_magpie — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 18:46:26 +0000

I would be very cautious advising SSRIs for anyone, especially developing children, considering my own experience (on sertralin), which was complete disappearance of a libido, and massive weight gain, +40kg (70 -> 110) in ~10 months. 5 years later I still have not undone the damage from it.

New comment by quantum_magpie in "iPhone Air"

quantum_magpie — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:40:33 +0000

I consider myself a hobby photographer, and I love having a phone camera. I can then have the tele glass on for entire hike/session, and do landscapes on the phone. Currently, 2 weeks in, I didn't even touch the landscape glass in it's case.

New comment by quantum_magpie in "I drank every cocktail"

quantum_magpie — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 14:26:14 +0000

Finlandia and Absolut

New comment by quantum_magpie in "Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole"

quantum_magpie — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 09:51:22 +0000

>They should. If your research is publicly funded you should make it as available to be public as possible. Academics should be able to communicate, and I very much doubt they are unable to acquire the skills

So in addition to being:

-professional researchers

-professional teachers

-professional project managers

-professional budget specialists

-professional scientific writers

-a failed idea away from losing it all

They should also become:

-professional PR managers

-professional popular writers

While still being paid (poorly) for a single job of all of these.

New comment by quantum_magpie in "What happens in the brain while daydreaming?"

quantum_magpie — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 09:38:24 +0000

>2. Do people with aphantasia dream in images?

Yes, I do. As it goes, I think it is some neurological thing, a receptor that is misfiring, or something. I've been testing it for the past decade and I only found three conditions where I can see images:

1. Dreams

2. Transition between awake and asleep during classical music concerts (This one is very interesting, cause one of my most vivid experiences was actually seeing different seasons during a Four Seasons (by Mozart I think?) piano concert, based purely on the music, without knowing which one was actually playing).

3. Psychedelics. Or, at least, mushrooms. Haven't tried others.

It seems when some neurological inhibitor is turned off, the images come back, but I don't know if there was any research on that, or whether it is even true.

New comment by quantum_magpie in "Mastercard Should Stop Selling Our Data"

quantum_magpie — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:03:38 +0000

My number in EU (LTU) is not prepaid, but likely on some bullshit outdated prefix blacklist, so US companies (microsoft and blizzard so far) do not allow to use it for authenticators and such for being a prepaid number. MS simply refused to send the SMS, blizzard explicitly mentioned the prepaid reason.

New comment by quantum_magpie in "Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman"

quantum_magpie — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 05:03:00 +0000

I am in academia and I see the same thing among my colleagues. In physics and chemistry. I also see a lot of data manipulation, lies in methodology, omission of any flaws in the studies, just to get published. Because that is the only measure of your value ti the institution.

Fuck, even the head of the institution publicly announced that only quantity matters, not quality. Because the government funding for research also depends only on quantity.

New comment by quantum_magpie in "Global rice shortage is set to be the biggest in 20 years"

quantum_magpie — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 17:26:51 +0000

Aren't ethanol, animal feed, and human food corn all separate, non-interchangeable species? Usually ethanol stuff and animal feed stock are completely inedible, at least in my EU country.

New comment by quantum_magpie in "Sauce that survived Italy’s war on pasta"

quantum_magpie — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 08:10:08 +0000

You disagree with the OP about canned tomatoes, and then in your recipe you use.. canned tomatoes?

New comment by quantum_magpie in "Mexico cracks down on solar geoengineering"

quantum_magpie — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 07:53:00 +0000

Because 'winging it' like this would be akin to doing your development on prod environment. And if by a complete accident one of these would make money for them (through gov bribery, carbon credit equivalent sales, vc investments, etc.), even if the initial one wouldn't poison everyone, a 100 more would immediately spring up and would poison everyone as long as they can make a cool billion before going to jail. That's why there has to be a sensible, globally agreed upon framework for global-scale geoengineering.

And "the economy" is fighting to keep the climate change going to the last breath, because taking any tool from the chest (and we have an overflowing chest right now!) that is effective and working would 'hurt the economy'.