Don’t try to compare an American claiming to de a different nationality just because they may have had an ancestor from XYZ to something like transphobia.

They are not the same. And rolling my eyes at the ‘plastic paddy’ crowd is not bigotry.

That is an absurd comparison to draw.

I’m aware of the history. It’s still weird. You need to understand that nowhere else does this. It’s strange.

It’s not just him. The “I’m Irish/Italian” crowd is a widely known-about American thing.

I didn’t mean to offend you. Relax. I never said all Americans do it, you don’t need to come up with some reactionary strawman just because you took my comment to heart.

I went into this video expecting it to just be “this service is poor value” or “we had an issue with customer support” but holy shit this is far worse than I expected.

This is real journalism. A lot of research and effort clearly went into this. They even hired a lawyer to go over some things with them.

This is definitely a scam from NZXT. And kudos to this channel for cancelling a $23k ad agreement with NZXT when they found out about it.

True, although that would only go as far back as parents or grandparents. And a PDF from 23andMe saying you’re 8% French certainly wouldn’t be usable grounds to claiming citizenship.

I’m aware. There’s an absolutely huge amount of Germanic-descended people, for example. That’s why I spoke of it being the ‘perceived’ default.

I’m not being hateful about it. I’m just puzzled as to why people think it makes any difference to their lives, or why they’d be disappointed in having the “wrong” ancestry.

I see a lot of Americans obsessed with it so much that it borders on being fetish-like, particularly when it comes to people claiming to be Irish or Italian, and it’s bizarre to me.

Americans seem get really weird with the whole ancestry thing. There appears to be a desire to look into your family history and find something “exotic”, which basically seems to mean non-English - I imagine because that’s perceived as the ‘default’ ancestry, so-to-speak.

Honestly, who the fuck cares? What difference does it make? Nationalities aren’t Skyrim races. You don’t get special abilities. It makes no difference whether your ancestors were British/Irish/Spanish/French/whatever.

E: This is obviously not intended as a hateful statement, people. You have to understand that the rest of the world doesn’t care about this, so we’re confused when we look to the US and see them take it so seriously. We’re especially puzzled when Americans say “I’m Irish” because their great great great uncle bought a pint of Guiness in the 1870s. It’s an alien concept to the rest of the planet.

Yes. And furthermore, if you’ve changed the setting in the past, this new default sort change doesn’t override it.

It’s the default for most of Lemmy too.

Well yeah, you can copy the code and put it on an entirely different platform.

But that’s like saying Prime video is federated because you can rip it and keep a copy elsewhere.

GitHub is the platform, and it’s not Federated.

Microsoft can still remove all copies.

Whereas another instance can’t delete my account or comments from the instance I’m on. The most they could do is block it from theirs.

E: no matter how much you downvote, it doesn’t change the facts. GitHub is not Federated. It is owned and controlled by Microsoft. If you fork a GitHub project and host it on GitHub, Microsoft can take both down.

Everything sold should have a standardised, recognisable, symbol/sticker on the front showing the minimum date that software support will be provided until.

There’s nothing wrong with using an LLM for offline private language translation. It literally preserves privacy by not simply sending all that data to a Google translation server.

There’s nothing wrong with using offline image recognition to aid in helping blind people know what’s on their screen.

As for their “advertising” - you should look up what they actually did. It completely preserves privacy while at the same time not completely destroying the economic model that content creators rely on. It’s a good thing. With any luck, regulators will enforce it.