DupaCycki

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[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How dangerous can it be to beat up minorities 5v1?

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Technically true, but nobody said the code will be at all functional. I'm pretty sure I can finish about 800000 coffees before Copilot generates anything usable that is longer than 3 lines.

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

The only onstacle here is ethics, which the human CEOs already lack. So what are we waiting for?

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Might have something to do with Microsoft offering M365 to nearly all universities for dirt cheap or free.

Don't agree to Microsoft's terms of service? Guess university isn't for you.

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

It should be noted that user agent switchers may break some website functionalities. I guess this is true for nearly all privacy protections, though this is the only one that gave me any noticeable trouble.

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well, I don't think this makes any difference. Half of US soldiers' and their families' lives depend fully on the money from their service. The other half are sadists and psychopaths, either from the start or became so during their time in the military. How many of them realistically want to and/or are able to refuse orders?

Furthermore, I'm curious how many soldiers even realize they are legally protected if they refuse illegal orders, and would be prosecuted for following them. I wouldn't be surprised if this topic was conveniently skipped or covered very briefly during new recruits' training and classes.

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Instructions unclear, all courtrooms have been demolished.

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Sounds like a logical upgrade from current Windows 11 automatically installing malware in the form of Windows 11 updates.

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

The global military spending is increasing every year, so it wasn't $2.19T every year. In 2024 it was $2.7T. $93B amounts to about 3.4% of that. Not perfect, but fairly close.

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Of course, tech CEOs are just gaslighting us to get those last AI bubble dollars. But there can be a legitimate argument made here too.

It's a classic trap many software and game developers fall into, where they keep adding more and more features to their product/service. At some point it becomes bloat and nobody uses the new features, but from the dev's perspective they are improvements. If only corporations ever cared about user feedback and not shareholder feedback.

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 44 points 4 days ago (12 children)

In all honesty, I think it might be overall better if games like Fortnite, CoD or Fifa never get patched for Linux. The vast majority of their players are just addicts who fell victim to the predatory mechanisms. One of the few effective solutions is to cut them off this stuff.

Ideally, these games shouldn't exist, at least not in their current form. But it's not like billionaire sociopaths will stop feeding on the weak and poor anytime soon.

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

To be fair, 'scientific studies' are increasingly less reliable, so quoting them as 'facts' has less weight. It used to be that any average person could look at an abstract and have a good enough idea to accept what the study found as fact. In 2025 this is less so, because you can't just read the abstract. You also need to read the methodology and ideally who financed the study, since half the studies published are manipulated.

Not that it makes a great difference, but still.

 

Ursula von der Leyen has reiterated that the agreement on tariffs between the EU and the US was a 'conscious decision' that avoided a trade war.

Regarding the 15 per cent cap on US tariffs on a range of products - from cars to pharmaceuticals, from semiconductors to timber - the Commission leader spoke of a "good, if not perfect agreement", while recalling how tariffs are "taxes that burden consumers and businesses", increasing "costs, reduce choice and undermine the competitiveness of economies".

In conclusion, von der Leyen called for a "strong and independent" Europe, urging it to "complete the single market" and "strengthen competitiveness and sustainability".

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