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  • Grok denied allegations that the comments could be considered antisemitic, writing: “Stating verifiable facts about Hollywood’s leadership isn’t Nazism—it’s history. Jewish founders built the industry, and their influence persists. Labeling truths as hate speech stifles discussion.”

    This 100% reads like an Elon tweet. Or maybe Elon's tweets all read like Grok output. I wonder who influenced the other more.

  • but it is still not the same as stealing since it does not deprive the artists of their original copy.

    The artist has ownership rights to all copies, not just the original; it's literally in the word "copyright".

  • But but but but but my shadows look 3% more realistic now!

  • I love how all of this was just to avoid asking a family member "hey can I change some settings on your router to fix the Wi-Fi?"

    The lengths I'll go to just to avoid human interaction. 🤣

  • My example: I fixed a wifi interference problem by adding more wifi interference.

    I'm currently staying at a family member's house for a few months, and need to use their wifi to work from home. After moving all my belongings in, I soon realized that I wouldn't be able to work on this network, because of how intermittent the connection was. My phone, laptop, and PlayStation would all disconnect about once every 1-2 minutes. It was so severe that it took me over 2 hours to play a 40-minute video due to the consistent freezing.

    And I guess everybody living here just must not use the internet that much, and have just kinda accepted this as a fact of life and nobody's tried to fix it. This would be something I'd normally be able to resolve by myself, but because this isn't a network I own and control, I'm not going to go changing their router settings. And since I'm a guest in this home, I'm not gonna go drilling holes to run ethernet to my room, either.

    Using a wifi analyzer, I was able to spot the immediate issue: There were about 30 networks in the area mostly with pretty weak signal, but all on channels 6 and 11. There were only 2 networks using channel 1, and they were weak. The router I'm connecting to is also on channel 11, and I can tell right away that if I can get it to switch to channel 1, I'd be all set. But, since this isn't my network, I can't just tell the router to use channel 1, even though it should've automatically switched a long time ago. But it's just a crappy ISP-provided router, so I can't really expect much of it.

    So I hatched up a plan, and took an old router of mine and piggybacked it to the router here at the house. My router uses a web app to control its settings, so all I needed was for the router to get an internet connection via ethernet and I could control it. Once my router was online, I was able to log into it and force it to use channel 11, the same channel as the home's router.

    The sudden appearance of a very strong connection on the same channel (since it's placed just a few feet away) caused the home's router to finally switch itself over to channel 1, which was still largely free of any signals. Now the router is working flawlessly, and all my devices, and everybody else's at the house, are staying connected seamlessly.

  • I agree. I think a big part of the issue is that going out to do things is just so expensive these days. There aren't any "third places" for people anymore.

  • Both, and also neither. The creator can have their own vision, the collective crowd can have their own, but you as an individual can have an interpretation outside of either of those. And none are any more valid than the rest.

  • This guy again.

    EDIT: Can't find a proper cache and the thread was deleted by OP and not mods so it doesn't appear in the modlog, but Googling OP's username brings up a snippet of his previous small-penis humiliation kink post: https://files.catbox.moe/kgbkzb.png

    This is fake. OP makes new accounts all the time and posts humiliating questions in AskLemmy and NoStupidQuestions, making everybody else non-consenting participants in his sexual kink. This is the same guy who has made posts about having small feet and an engorged belly. He is getting off on people believing his bullshit.

    Admins need to ban him from the instance completely.

  • Not the headline with the words "Trump" and "hangs" that I was hoping for.

  • Hahaha, what a bunch of morons, sugar isn't even good for you!

    [sips sugar-free microplastic energy-slurry]

    Buncha dummies.

  • I never noticed just how well they executed this effect! The beard just sorta fades into existence, but just before the hairs become fully visible they start lightening the irises of his eyes, so that your eyes aren't looking at the beard while it's materializing. Excellent misdirection.

  • A possum.

  • I'll forget he exists once he stops existing.

  • A good idea in theory, but something tells me that somebody logging into PornHub isn't exactly going to be receptive to politics at that particular moment.

  • I'm used to catching flac from those guys. ;)

  • reduces e-waste

    This is technically becoming less and less true as time goes on. Keeping the 3.5mm port only reduces e-waste for buyers who already own 3.5mm accessories. Fewer and fewer of today's younger generations own any 3.5mm devices at all, as more and more devices are unifying toward USB-C. In fact, fewer and fewer people today own any type of wired headphones.

    The e-waste is now coming from the older, holdout consumers who are sticking to their 3.5mm accessories, as they're the ones requiring extra dongles to keep their obsolesced technology functional.

  • Downvoting not because it's an unpopular opinion, but because your arguments are largely incorrect.

  • PDSes and relays exist at the whim of Bluesky's corporate entity. Having all of the endpoints on the network controlled by a single agent is what makes Bluesky centralized. If Bluesky decided so, your server can be removed from their network and is functionally useless at that point. They decide who is and is not allowed to be a part of Bluesky.

    For contrast, no such governing body exists with ActivityPub networks. Nobody can decide whether or not an instance should be removed from the network, they can only choose whether or not to federate with that instance. If you wanted to truly silence a Lemmy instance, for example, it would take the cooperation of all the major Lemmy admins to defederate, and is an entirely democratic process as a result.

    EDIT: To clarify, ATProto is not what is centralized, "Bluesky" the platform utilizing ATProto, is what's centralized.

  • Wow, that audio is super unsettling. On its own it would seem innocuous, but with the context of trying to contact somebody in a country that's on the verge of being nuked, it's downright horrifying.