floofloof

@ floofloof @lemmy.ca

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1mo ago

Robot runners beat humans in Beijing half-marathon
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floofloof @lemmy.ca 1mo ago
Inadvertent MAGA steampunk.

1mo ago

The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe

I'm all for challenging Adobe, but the journalist should ask how and why these competing products are free. What are the implications of that in the long run? I was happy to pay a reasonable price for the Affinity suite, and it becoming free actually worries me. Free isn't something a company does unless they're going to crank up the price later, or carry ads, or spy on you, or steal your creations, or lock you in, or all of the above. It's pretty shallow how the article just stops at "free is great".

1mo ago

Backblaze silently redefines 'unlimited' backups and users discover it's not backing up DB and OD — as firm leans heavier into AI storage services, changes could signal shift away from home backups

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floofloof @lemmy.ca 1mo ago

Sounds good but $60 per month is a lot of money.

1mo ago

Backblaze silently redefines 'unlimited' backups and users discover it's not backing up DB and OD — as firm leans heavier into AI storage services, changes could signal shift away from home backups

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floofloof @lemmy.ca 1mo ago

I agree in general about self-hosting, but backup seems like a special case. Where do you back up your self-hosted data? An offsite copy of the backup is needed, and it should be automatic. For most people (who only have one site, their home) that's not easy to arrange except through a cloud backup service.

1mo ago

Microsoft now offering chance to win $1 million or a car if you switch to Edge

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floofloof @lemmy.ca 1mo ago

I bet they still have some good devs who are continually thwarted by management.

1mo ago

Claude Code Opus 4.7 keeps checking on malware

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floofloof @lemmy.ca 1mo ago

"Not malware": is this the skill they call prompt engineering?

1mo ago

Microsoft now offering chance to win $1 million or a car if you switch to Edge

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floofloof @lemmy.ca 1mo ago

They're just making themselves look trashy and desperate.

What might work is making their software better than everyone else's. But that requires effort and skill and managerial competence.

1mo ago

Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check

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floofloof @lemmy.ca 1mo ago

I'd like to see people rebuild something like that inside i2p or something similar. But with modern browser fingerprinting it's very hard not to be identifiable even there, unless you take precautions most people absolutely won't do.

1mo ago

Iran says Strait of Hormuz will close again amid US blockade

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floofloof @lemmy.ca 1mo ago

So today Iran said it was open, then Trump said it was open, then Trump said the USA was still blockading it so it was closed, then Iran said it was open but would close again because of the US blockade? And somewhere in the middle Trump might have said another time that it was open. Does anyone know what's going on?

1mo ago

MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged

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floofloof @lemmy.ca 1mo ago

They think he staged his own fake assassination, while also blaming Jews and remaining staunch Trump supporters. So just the usual incoherent cultish mumblings, not any actual insight or any movement away from him.

1mo ago

U.S. Navy’s Sole Supercarrier Near Iran Endures Severe Food Shortages as Logistics Disrupted

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floofloof @lemmy.ca 1mo ago

Maybe when they get another trillion dollars they'll figure out how to feed their soldiers.

1mo ago

Trump says gas prices 'not very high' as most U.S. voters blame him for price spike

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floofloof @lemmy.ca 1mo ago

Its hilarious to me that so many people put so much stock in fuel prices, and think The President is solely responsible for them.

In this case, the President ordering a needless war on Iran against all expert advice, and then vowing to blockade the Strait of Hormuz, not to mention all the USA's attacks on other countries and moronic isolationist trade policies over the last year, makes it more the President's fault than it usually would be.

1mo ago

Armed Off-Duty Cop Tried to Incite Violence at a High School Anti-ICE Protest

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floofloof @lemmy.ca 1mo ago

Mullen, who in 2025 drew a salary of $336,518, is suspended with pay and was required to surrender his badge and gun pending the outcome of the investigation, according to a spokesperson for the department.

Fucking hell. These guys are not worth a third of that salary, even when they're working and not just on vacation as a reward for being extra shitty.

1mo ago

Vance calls end of Ukraine aid 'one of the proudest' achievements of Trump administration

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floofloof @lemmy.ca 1mo ago

How about cutting off USAID and thereby causing the deaths of about 10 million people by 2030, or accelerating the pace of climate change beyond what anyone thought possible, and thereby killing life all over the planet? Those are also big achievements.

1mo ago

'You Are Out of Touch': Schumer Faces New Calls to Step Aside After Israel Weapons Vote

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floofloof @lemmy.ca 1mo ago

He's not "out of touch": he's devoted to Israel, as he has repeatedly stated throughout his career. He sees his role as being a defender of Israel from political attacks in the USA. He's not confused about this, nor does he try to hide it.

1mo ago

Captcha for landing on Mars...

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floofloof @lemmy.ca 1mo ago

Or all the ones at the top, since if you go far enough there's probably something living or formerly living in each square.

Or all of them because if you can see them it's a sign you're alive.

Or just switch off the computer and walk away because you're starting to take joke Captcha memes way too seriously and you've had enough internet. Sorry. Time for a break.

1mo ago

Woke Reicht

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floofloof @lemmy.ca 1mo ago

Does "antisemitic" here mean "not approving of genocide", by any chance?

1mo ago

Pentagon ramps up planning of possible military ops in Cuba

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floofloof @lemmy.ca 1mo ago

Shame they didn't notice that he had been a prominent and notorious conman and liar since the 1980s. And didn't notice that during his first presidency either.

2mo ago

Federal Bill Would Bring OS-Level Age Verification to the Entire U.S.

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floofloof @lemmy.ca 2mo ago

Microsoft and Apple. The internet will only allow OSs from large American corporations.

I'd like to see the rest of the world say "fuck it" and carry on as before, leaving the Americans to censor themselves. But governments around the world are suddenly rushing to implement very similar terrible laws. It smells very coordinated.

2mo ago

Federal Bill Would Bring OS-Level Age Verification to the Entire U.S.

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floofloof @lemmy.ca 2mo ago

Would this bill ban the use of all operating systems released before it became law? That seems unlikely.

So then how about OSs released before it became law, with patches released afterwards? That also seems unlikely.

So then how about my computer's current OS, which is a heavily patched version of a little hobby OS called Linux, originally released in 1991?