Comment Larry Ellison emerges victorious - America gets fj (Score 1) 120
Change the combined company name MAGA Media Inc.
Comment I guess I'm out of date (Score 3, Interesting) 22
My watch, a Fitbit 3, has a battery life of over a year. Using a regular watch battery. Granted it doesn't do Siri or tell me when I'm about to die. Life is full of tradeoffs.
Submission + - Reddit Bans 11-Year Account For Announcing a GPL Game, stress testing EU DSA (reddit.com) 3
DF5JT writes: On July 26 I posted a single announcement in r/backgammon: GNU Backgammon for Android, GPLv3, the first standalone backgammon engine on F-Droid. Reddit's spam filter removed the post and permanently banned my 11-year, 30,000-karma account — the result is publicly visible at reddit.com/user/OE1FEU. To this day Reddit has given no reason whatsoever, although Article 17 of the EU's Digital Services Act makes a statement of reasons mandatory. The only appeal channel is a 250-character web form that sends no confirmation and never answered; Reddit's own help text admits: "you may not have received a message to your inbox." A GDPR export of 11 years of data came to 7.2 MB, every post truncated after a few lines, with zero data about the ban decision. So I spent one day escalating through every mechanism the EU provides: certified out-of-court dispute settlement at Austria's RTR, complaints with the Austrian and Dutch Digital Services Coordinators, the data protection authority (citing the ECJ's SCHUFA ruling on automated decisions), noyb, and Austria's consumer association. Bonus finding: the European Commission's DSA Transparency Database contains 14,067 Reddit statements of reasons for that week — none for my ban — and the Commission's own feedback form limits reports to 500 characters and crashed with a 500 Server Error. Is the DSA enforceable for ordinary users, or just paperwork?
Comment Turn signals? BMW?? (Score 1) 249
I thought BMW didn't even install turn signals, or at least they were an expensive option. They're not need really. BMW drivers own the effing road and the rest of us are just intruding on their property. Audi drivers are now trying to pretend they're driving a BMW.
Comment What's good for the goose ain't good for the gande (Score 1) 114
The AI companies don't want their models reading the cr@p they produce. The want their *customers* to read it.
Comment Lawyer up (Score 2) 132
I big enough lawsuit against Flock, LAPD and PPD might lead to better data checking.
Comment Time to switch to an Apple box? (Score 1) 74
I can't trust Murdoch any further than I can throw my diarrhea. Is it possible to hack the Roku boxes? Is there any opensource replacement f/w? Or just forget it and go with a (cr)Apple or (god forgive me) amazon adapter?
Comment Having Trump push contract doesn't hurt (Score 4, Informative) 55
When the Prevaricator in Chief buys your stock then promotes your company then pushes through a $9B govt contract you're having a good year.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fpol...
Comment Too easy to get off into the weeds (Score 1) 121
The AI at work, an isolated instance of Claude Sonnet 4.5, makes it too easy for me to get distracted. I end up investigating something related to something related to something related to what I should be working on. In no time at all I'm out past left field, over the fence, across the parking lot and into the taco stand on the other side of the highway.
Comment Memory chip stocks (Score 1) 70
Memory chip stocks have soared in recent months...
By that he means the NYSE or NASDAQ stock exchange price of memory chip companies, not the quantity of memory chips in the warehouse.
Comment When will anyone else say "enough already" (Score 2) 35
I'm ready to drive a wooden stake into the heart of these AI companies. They're consuming everything and delivering great promises. What good is the ultimate AI if the AI companies swallow all the resources on their way to the top. Or bottom. The only thing the human have left are stone knives & bears kins.
Comment Huh? (Score 1) 36
When did Slashdot turn into Reddit?
Comment Re: Would be way too expensive. (Score 0) 74
I think I agree. IMH & highly uneducated opinion the energy input required to initiate & sustain a stable fusion reaction far out-weighs the energy that could be extracted. Nature has this "gravity" thing that allows it to whip up little fusion pussycats. We don't have that.
Comment Standard Trump contract negotiation tactics (Score 1) 127
Threaten flaming nuclear death and settle for a 15% reduction in contract price which he can loudly brag about. Not mentioned is the reduction in service depth or the verbal agreement to expand and relocate Anthropic's offices in NYC & San Fran into properties owned or managed by Trump or Kushner. Everybody wins! Making Amerika great.
Comment Re: Yeah, that was pretty clear to me (Score 1) 158
And are working hard to return the US to a monarchy. Without calling it a monarchy. And lookie there - a buttload of 'em work in the White House.
