V0lD

V0lD , 4 months ago to Technology in is this copium or hopium or schizophrenia?

Healthy optimism

V0lD , 4 months ago to Comic Strips in 60 Minutes [beetlemoses]

I'm either missing context, or the joke is going over my head

V0lD , 4 months ago to Comic Strips in Sealioning

Not irrational. The "detail" in this style of comic is visual clutter that makes it actually significantly harder to see what's in the panel right away

V0lD , 5 months ago to Technology in People are worried that AI will take everyone’s jobs. We’ve been here before.

To increase humanities control over its environment. The form that takes is a secondary concern

V0lD , 5 months ago to Technology in Mark Zuckerberg says Apple and Google should manage parental consent for apps, not Meta

Let's be real here, it's the second one

V0lD , 5 months ago to Technology in Microsoft is getting rid of WordPad after 28 years – the veteran editor has been present in the OS since Windows 95

For all intents and purposes it was free word

I haven't really used word in over half a decade since TeX beats it in every conceivable way.

Wordpad was useful in the sparse few cases where I was forced to open a .doc or .docx and couldn't be arsed to upload the file to Google docs

I guess it will be missed for that

V0lD , 5 months ago to Comic Strips in My Dad is Dracula (And Prank Calling Me)

Yes it does, his Dracula dad being random other things is the central premise of this series

V0lD , 5 months ago to Technology in Mozilla’s ”Platform Tilt” Shows How Firefox Is Harmed by Apple, Microsoft

Not everything that isn't ublock is automatically bad. Especially if you just want an adblocker and not also all the other stuff it comes with