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

tsss — Sat, 23 May 2026 20:06:27 +0000

The USA don't owe you citizenship. It's on you to prove that your presence there would be of benefit to the other citizens.

New comment by tsss in "Stop throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations"

tsss — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:07:53 +0000

Speak for yourself. I do write essays in Slack. Just because you, the author, are too dumb or too lazy to put some effort into written communication, doesn't mean that we can't do it either.

New comment by tsss in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

tsss — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:17:33 +0000

I don't think people will ever admit that they're not that special. We already know that animals are "conscious" and still treat them with disdain.

New comment by tsss in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

tsss — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:32:19 +0000

Half of the reason to use local AI is to circumvent the censorship that Google, OpenAI and so on have. I don't want this Google crap on my computer.

New comment by tsss in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

tsss — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:55:06 +0000

Yes. Here in Hamburg you have to pay some useless consultant to come to your house and check that there's no other way to decrease the temperature before you are allowed to install one.

You are also not allowed to but your bicycle in the garage.

New comment by tsss in "NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist"

tsss — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:06:42 +0000

Accelerationists are people who want to embrace the ultra-capitalist surveillance state to force a societal collapse in order to eventually built a better society on its ruins. We are very far from that goal, so I don't see how they have been proven right about anything.

New comment by tsss in "NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist"

tsss — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:01:46 +0000

I don't think you're using that word correctly.

New comment by tsss in "Common drug tests lead to tens of thousands wrongful arrests a year"

tsss — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:01:41 +0000

This is already happening in Germany.

New comment by tsss in "Update on the eBay Scam"

tsss — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:43:10 +0000

Man, I'd like to get a magnetron for free.

New comment by tsss in "French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?"

tsss — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:10:15 +0000

French is such a shitty language. I've been learning Polish lately and every word is spoken exactly as you write it. A real breath of fresh air.

New comment by tsss in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

tsss — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:05:40 +0000

But it's not capitalism, it's market function. The same would happen in a socialist market economy.

New comment by tsss in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

tsss — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:31:41 +0000

> Take an industry with healthy competition like restaurants. You can compete in price, quality, format, service and probably a lot more.

Yes, and you correctly point out: On the average restaurant visit, nothing stands out. A good restaurant only needs to provide not-terrible food and not-terrible service to be almost indistinguishable from all others. Quality of a restaurant visit is hard to measure and compare. Price is easy to measure. Thus, the rational consumer will prefer the cheaper option (and even at the same price, a restaurant with lower costs will be more profitable, thus expand more easily).

The same thing happens on Amazon and other market places: When it is difficult to compare quality, price always wins out. Some products are interchangeable with well defined specs, like a 16GB RAM stick is obviously twice as good as 8GB RAM and so it can be twice as expensive and still sell. But when I'm looking for a new light for my bicycle there are no standardized specs to compare. All the product descriptions and pictures are exaggerated. I have no reliable information to tell if the lamp that is twice as expensive is really twice as good (and from personal experience: they never are), so I'm buying the cheapest one cause I expect all of the products to be equally crappy no matter the price.

It's not Amazon's fault. This happens everywhere.

New comment by tsss in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

tsss — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:41:43 +0000

This is about markets. It has nothing to do with capitalism. And in fact, it is usually _because_ of healthy competition that this type of enshittification happens everywhere because quality is hard to compare for the buyers and so the sellers are forced to compete on cost.

New comment by tsss in "Windows native app development is a mess"

tsss — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 13:47:17 +0000

Honestly, your GUIs are too simple to be part of this conversation. Try writing something like Spotify in WinAPI and that's not even a complicated GUI either.

New comment by tsss in "Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline"

tsss — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 13:31:34 +0000

I was expecting the game from my childhood and was disappointed.

New comment by tsss in "Philosoph Jürgen Habermas Gestorben"

tsss — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:58:36 +0000

Maybe he was critical, but he was also a part of them.

New comment by tsss in "ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did"

tsss — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:25:34 +0000

You could get high quality medical advice 20 years ago on the internet, or 40 years ago in the library. Doctors aren't there to give you advice, they are mostly gate keepers. Every person who's chronically ill knows that doctors are totally useless for anything beyond the 10 most common diseases and primarily exist to approve or reject your pleas for lab work. They won't go away, neither will psychotherapists and all the middle managers that can be easily automated, because their real purpose is not the practical work that they do.

New comment by tsss in "The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future"

tsss — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:37:48 +0000

If anything, _more_ individualism and personal responsibility would help, not less.

New comment by tsss in "The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future"

tsss — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:25:28 +0000

They would just smother whatever is left of the Chinese company with their overbearing management.

New comment by tsss in "The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future"

tsss — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:20:08 +0000

Germany is a country that never moved past 1918, both in technology and society. All the successful industry is from that time and the mindset is too. They may have gotten rid of the Emperor but the top-down government and Prussian subservience are strong as ever. It's no coincidence that the GDR was even more controlling than the Soviet Union and crashed even harder. The German federal republic, too, is turning more and more into a paralyzed command economy. The entire public sector, health care, and all large corporation certainly work that way and it is the reason for their unfathomable inefficiency.

Ignoring EVs is a symptom and not a cause of the problems. It is impossible for these corporations to pivot or innovate, no matter in which direction.