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New comment by xvokcarts in "How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences"

xvokcarts — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:29:50 +0000

> pivot conversations when someone asks you about something you actually know or are good at, it might be a trick, tell them you're dumb instead

Spot on, can relate to that :)

New comment by xvokcarts in "Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog"

xvokcarts — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 08:51:13 +0000

Why were you trying to dox the archive owner?

New comment by xvokcarts in "Parking lots as economic drains"

xvokcarts — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:00:28 +0000

Build it underground if feasible, or build a parking garage with high-economic-contribution units in upper floors.

New comment by xvokcarts in "Talking to LLMs has improved my thinking"

xvokcarts — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 02:02:40 +0000

That's because a government-run LLM would be like government-run media.

High inflation? No, the government LLM will tell us we're doing great.

New comment by xvokcarts in "Spotify won court order against Anna's Archive, taking down .org domain"

xvokcarts — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 22:55:17 +0000

I understood it as out of a few thousand songs, Deezer only failed to match 2.

New comment by xvokcarts in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

xvokcarts — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 21:05:17 +0000

> Companies exist to provide jobs. Not only to make money for the owner and externalise all the negative effects on society.

I think it's safe to say that the one who starts something has the privilege to make the call on its purpose. And I'd bet most if not all people who start companies do so in order to make money for themselves, and providing jobs is a means to that end.

So, if a company could make profit without employing a single person, it would still serve its purpose.

New comment by xvokcarts in "Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy"

xvokcarts — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 10:58:10 +0000

I guess a lot of people feel that if they didn’t have the ability to know about all relevant products and services, the quality of their lives wouldn’t suffer.

New comment by xvokcarts in "When hardware goes end-of-life, companies need to open-source the software"

xvokcarts — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 13:52:19 +0000

Such regulation would inevitably introduce exceptions for products with limited-time use (because it doesn't make sense to support everything forever), manufacturers would explicitly mark all products as such, and consumers wouldn't even find it wrong.

New incentives to would hit market reality where most people want cheap devices, not lifetime support for something they themselves consider practically disposable.

If most consumers don't care, regulation won't help. Much like climate change.

New comment by xvokcarts in "Internet in a Box"

xvokcarts — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 09:52:27 +0000

How does it work?

New comment by xvokcarts in "The Friendship Recession: The lost art of connecting"

xvokcarts — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 19:47:43 +0000

I think it's the mass immigrations that (some) people are calling out as not in their own best interest, without necessarily believing the immigrants are bad or in any way worse humans than themselves to call it racist.

New comment by xvokcarts in "Australian who ordered radioactive materials walks away from court"

xvokcarts — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 10:55:23 +0000

OK, so like on my X account where I publish names of people on trial.

New comment by xvokcarts in "Australian who ordered radioactive materials walks away from court"

xvokcarts — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 10:20:35 +0000

OK. How am I then not allowed to post here what happened in the court?

New comment by xvokcarts in "Australian who ordered radioactive materials walks away from court"

xvokcarts — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 10:08:56 +0000

> The article says “the quantities of material were so small they were safe to eat”

The question is did the authorities know that the materials were harmless in advance, or only after they acquired them?

New comment by xvokcarts in "Australian who ordered radioactive materials walks away from court"

xvokcarts — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 10:00:03 +0000

Don't you think that if it's in the name of the people that the people should have the right to know? Aren't trials public anyway?

New comment by xvokcarts in "A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen"

xvokcarts — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 19:15:03 +0000

Looks like as long as only positive change is allowed to touch the poor, there will be little change.

New comment by xvokcarts in "Why am I searched every time I go to Australia?"

xvokcarts — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 18:55:06 +0000

Because you're a dual citizen.

New comment by xvokcarts in "There are two types of dishwasher people"

xvokcarts — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 22:35:41 +0000

One shouldn't ever be anxious about such things as being wasteful. Mindful, sure, but not anxious - being anxious about such things is actually a pretty good reason for therapy.

New comment by xvokcarts in "Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'"

xvokcarts — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 22:24:43 +0000

You can buy (and top up) a SIM card without an ID in the EU.

New comment by xvokcarts in "My imaginary children aren't using your streaming service"

xvokcarts — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 10:31:44 +0000

Well, yeah, or else they'll release software with memory leaks, which could become a dependency of some big project and bring down some important things and have real effects on some other people.

Or, yeah, because if my child can access streaming without a child lock, they may not recover from what they see.

Looks like we should protect each other as much as we can, using UI!

New comment by xvokcarts in "Vacheron Constantin breaks the world record for most complicated wristwatch"

xvokcarts — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 21:36:20 +0000

One could argue that the potential number of complications in any smartwatch is practically limitless, and also that the sophistication and craftsmanship required to make it, including the hardware part, is the ultimate testimony of refinement and engineering.

If you took an Apple Watch and this Vacheron 2000 years in the past, which one would the people of the time find more impressive (until the juice runs out, that is)? In other words - which one looks more like magic?

We're just used to microprocessors we can't see tick and maybe don't always appreciate the complexity.