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Yokolos commented on Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/geox

raxxorraxor · 7 days ago

Public ownership can be extremely detrimental, I think it is even worse than state ownership by a few margins. Especially for setting long term goals required for infrastructure. There are investors for that as well, but they are rare and an exception.

I evade working directly for publicly traded companies like hell or let myself be paid very, very generously. Most often your time will be limited in the first place. Better to be employed as a freelancer in that case.

Yokolos · 6 days ago

I'm very confused. Public and state ownership are the exact same thing. Public ownership is not the same thing as being publicly traded.

Yokolos commented on Blurry rendering of games on Mac colincornaby.me/2025/08/y... · Posted by u/bangonkeyboard

troupo · 10 days ago

> I don't understand your logic unless you're implicitly saying the camera needs to go away

Yup. We never had camera before the notch.

> The notch makes for a smaller menu bar but without the notch there would be no menu bar there

Yup. Before the notch we neither had a menu bar that could comfortably fit most menu items even in professional apps, nor did we have a camera.

BTW, you literally are saying "The notch makes for a smaller menu bar". Imagine if I wrote that as the first sentence in my comment, then there would be no misunderstanding

Yokolos · 10 days ago

What MacBook doesn't have a camera?

Yokolos commented on Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy theguardian.com/film/2025... · Posted by u/nemoniac

maxglute · 11 days ago

I spent last few days chasing down a Bravo/peacock show from outside the US trying to watch legally, only to find it on watchseries and realize how good the experience has gotten. It's not even released on torrents or nzb. Watchseries UI is kind of peak now. Nuts. Does anyone know how Watchseries manage to stay up?

Yokolos · 10 days ago

It's been taken down plenty of times. They just host a mirror somewhere else under a new TLD.

Yokolos commented on US Wholesale Inflation Rises by Most in 3 Years bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/master_crab

mbfg · 11 days ago

I believe less than a quarter of the defense budget is for salaries and compensations.

Yokolos · 11 days ago

https://usafacts.org/answers/how-much-does-the-us-spend-on-d...

22%. But operations also includes civilian salaries and procurement naturally includes the labor required to produce what was procured. I would assume that R&D also includes research grants and salaries.

Yokolos commented on Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England news.sky.com/story/facial... · Posted by u/amarcheschi

_the_inflator · 11 days ago

No, it is more like UK is now the new surveillance supermarket for EU: implementing what “works” for UK - trusted and applied technology.

And also the excuse included: “not China”, but even this doesn’t come as cause for concern anymore.

Have a look at the latest US “country report on human rights practices 2025”. Germany is flagged as unsafe so to say.

It is as you can only hope that the NSA has some way to spy on your data when EU gets more on more anti privacy and data protection means EU only storage is mandatory.

Dire times. Double standards are in full effect.

Yokolos · 11 days ago

Anything coming out of a US government institution today is not trustworthy. Not sure why you'd reference the 2025 report. It's a laugh and a half that the country deploying the national guard in their own capital and putting the capital's police under federal government control is saying Germany is unsafe. The country that's rounding up immigrants and even US citizens to be deported to random countries.

Please. Stop falling for the right-wing propaganda.

Yokolos commented on Fight Chat Control fightchatcontrol.eu/... · Posted by u/tokai

Aeolun · 14 days ago

The standard for robust and effective age verification is extremely low, given how I’ve seen anyone do age verification. It’s also pointless if we’re talking about the internet, you are essentially outsourcing your porn production to foreign countries

Yokolos · 14 days ago

Foreign countries with less regulations and protections for sex workers and actresses.

Yokolos commented on Al Jazeera condemns the assassination of its journalists by the IOF network.aljazeera.net/en/... · Posted by u/jacooper

Yokolos · 14 days ago

I'm surprised anybody still takes Al Jazeera at their word on anything. They're no more trustworthy than any Israeli news media. That is to say, not at all.

As for Al Jazeera crying that their journalists keep getting targeted, I'm wondering why I can't find any reports of non-Al Jazeera or non-Palestinian journalists being targeted, when other news media like BBC are more than happy to paint Israel in a terrible light (whether deserved or not).

Yokolos commented on AI is propping up the US economy bloodinthemachine.com/p/t... · Posted by u/mempko

simianwords · 19 days ago

2.5 flash is particularly cheap and fast, I think 2.5 pro would have got all the answers correct - at least it gets this one correct.

Yokolos · 19 days ago

I get a lot of garbage out of 2.5 Pro and Claude Sonnet and ChatGPT. There's always this "this is how you solve it", I take a close look and it's clearly broken, I point it out and it's all "you're right, this is a common issue". Okay, so why do we have to do this song and dance a million times to arrive at the actually correct answer?

Yokolos commented on Every satellite orbiting earth and who owns them (2023) dewesoft.com/blog/every-s... · Posted by u/jonbaer

radu_floricica · 24 days ago

That's... good? In more ways than one.

The most obvious is that any international body would be easily controlled by the big players, so you'd end up with more centralized control by the same national entities, but now they'd be controlling other countries launches as well.

The other problem is that lately international organizations have a pretty bad track record. Two examples, which I've chosen because they are actually both very important incidents and also squarely in the domain of the respective orgs: WHO with Covid with a mostly useless and visibly politicized reaction; and UN with Gaza, with a large block of Arab voters who are basically stuck at condemning Israel, but systematically refuse to actually step up and help with the problem. Both incidents are literally what those orgs were created to handle, and yet they don't.

Also space launches have a military component, not always public. I doubt many would agree to let an international body poke their nose in that.

Yokolos · 24 days ago

Somebody has never heard of the tragedy of the commons. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

> The tragedy of the commons is the concept that, if many people enjoy unfettered access to a finite, valuable resource, such as a pasture, they will tend to overuse it and may end up destroying its value altogether. Even if some users exercised voluntary restraint, the other users would merely replace them, the predictable result being a "tragedy" for all.

There is no right of absolute freedom, because at some point that freedom affects other people who also have rights. So we're always limited explicitly and implicitly in what we can do. Free, unfettered access just means taking something away from somebody else.

Yokolos commented on EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google reddit.com/r/degoogle/s/Y... · Posted by u/cft

WarOnPrivacy · a month ago

In the case of Android, genuine means:

    The operating system was licensed by Google
    The app was downloaded from the Play Store (thus requiring a Google account)
    Device security checks have passed

While there is value to verify device security, this strongly ties the app to many Google properties and services, because those checks won't pass on an aftermarket Android OS

The issue is being raised here: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android...

    I would like to strongly urge to abandon this plan. 
    Requiring a dependency on American tech giants for age verification
    further deepens the EU's dependency on America and the USA's
    control over the internet. 
    Especially in the current political climate I hope I do not have
    to explain how undesirable and dangerous that is.

As a resident of the aforementioned political climate, I find their concerns to be reasonable.

There are a number of comments in that same thread that indicate a mandate to utilize Google services may run afoul of EU member nations' integrity and privacy laws.

Yokolos · a month ago

Why is it I can use my German national ID online without these Google requirements, but age verification suddenly requires dependency on Google?