reddig33
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- Comment on News could use a reboot. 4 hours ago:
Its too bad theres no kind of “truth in labeling” enforcement over the term NEWS. Most of the stuff labeled as news these days is actually opinion, or paid advertisements.
The FTC and FCC could probably pay off the national debt in the US just from these fines alone.
- Comment on Wait... Is Chewbacca a Spacesquatch? 5 hours ago:
Maybe Sasquatch is a Wookie who got stranded on our planet.
- Comment on Most internet traffic is now bots 13 hours ago:
- Comment on Most internet traffic is now bots 13 hours ago:
Do you not have a job where you use email? Do you not get bank statements via email? Receipts? Updates from your HOA? Etc etc etc.
- Comment on Most internet traffic is now bots 15 hours ago:
“Nobody uses rmail anymore”
😆 That’s funny.
- Comment on Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday | Hacker News 1 day ago:
Does Vimeo own their own their own infrastructure, or just lease streaming storage from AWS/Google/Whomever?
If the former, it could be a good takeover target.
- Comment on Verizon carriers start switching to 365-day device unlock policy, up from 60 days 1 day ago:
Thats what e-sim is going to ruin. Cant just move your cards around. Now you have to _contact the carrier. _
- Comment on Most internet traffic is now bots 1 day ago:
Right? Are you really telling me bots outnumber streaming music, movies, and TV???
- Comment on Here I stand, at 50, wishing I could shit as well as my dogs. 1 day ago:
Activia does wonders.
- Comment on AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns 2 days ago:
Microsoft continues to falter without firing Nadella.
- Comment on Reports of ad-supported Xbox game streams show Microsoft's lack of imagination 2 days ago:
No imagination needed when you’ve killed off your product and are just milking it for whatever revenue is left.
- Comment on YSK: When you sit in your car and have a speakerphone conversation, there’s no privacy 3 days ago:
??? I don’t understand what you’re trying to say here.
I’m telling you that the car doors act like a loudspeaker, amplifying the call outside if the car. Everyone in the neighborhood can hear your private conversation about your affair, or urologist appointment,or whatever. If you think sitting in your car talking over bluetooth is going to give you some privacy, it’s quite the opposite.
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- Comment on Melbourne goes from among the most to least expensive capital cities 3 days ago:
Capitol/capital is one of the stupidest word pairs in the English language. Like, why didn’t they just settle on capitol for the seat of government including both the city and the building? And then use capital for large letters and money-related terms?
- Comment on YSK you can turn off Google's personalised advertising. This prevents them from using things like your browsing history, search history, or personal data to serve you customised advertisements. 3 days ago:
Regrettably, that doesn’t work on my TV.
- Comment on YSK you can turn off Google's personalised advertising. This prevents them from using things like your browsing history, search history, or personal data to serve you customised advertisements. 3 days ago:
YSK: If you turn off this feature, you cant use the “never show this ad again” feature on YouTube.
I have mixed feelings about this because if Chik Fil A wants to waste its money repeatedly showing its ads to a gay vegetarian — by all means, let me help you empty your pockets. But if you’re Kristy Noem showing me a “we’re going to deport you” ad — i want to throw my remote at my TV.
- Comment on YSK you can turn off Google's personalised advertising. This prevents them from using things like your browsing history, search history, or personal data to serve you customised advertisements. 4 days ago:
If Google actually honors this setting.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 4 days ago:
YSK: The average citizen doesn’t have much control over the cork in the bottle.
This administration is repeatedly and consistently provoking people. Randomly shooting people in the face, and talking about sending the military to Minnesota is going to cause things to boil over if the other people we elected don’t step in and force them to cool down.
- Comment on Carney mulling $1B membership to Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ 4 days ago:
I can think of so many better things to do with $1 billion.
- Comment on People have near limitless options for what to watch on tv, and still complain 5 days ago:
People were complaining back in the days of cable about the same thing. And they weren’t wrong. Bruce Springsteen even wrote a song about it at the time called “57 channels and nothing on.”
Quantity is not the same thing as quality. The ratio of slop to programming worth watching has probably remained consistent. I’d argue it might’ve even gotten worse just in the last couple of years. Cheap reality programming and endless spin offs and reboots are not helping.
Its interesting that YouTube is starting to dominate. Its become the “build your own cable” bundle that people have longed for since cable came on the scene. You can bring back MTV, E!, CNN, TMC, USA, the original TLC, and PBS all from one provider! Old movies, music, educational programming, foreign programming, stuff that isn’t on the streaming channels because no one wants to pay residuals. Its’ all there ready for you to pick out of the giant hat.
Meanwhile the actual cable networks died because they stopped offering channels catered to specific content like news, sports, music, scifi, etc. SyFi became the WWE channel. News channels became propaganda and opinion. Sports channels became talking heads simply talking about sports instead of showing it.
Streaming is starting to suffer the same fate. They put content back into the “vault” never to be seen again. Replaced by throwing cheap reality programming onto channels like HBO. Classic movie channels show VHS fare like Home Alone and DieHard instead of Citizen Kane and Bringing Up Baby. They merge everything back into cable networks more interested in showing infomercials than actual programming.
So no, streamers actually suck right now. I’d argue even prestige shows like “The Pitt” are just what we used to have on broadcast networks for free (The Pitt is just the everything but the name sequel to former broadcast prestige hit ER).
I blame the FTC for allowing every studio to swallow up every network and then merge into just a handful of companies after that. There’s no real competition or independent voices — just vertical integration. Which is exactly what happened with cable.
- Comment on [Very minor Academy spoilers] Does anyone else think the marketing undersold Holly Hunter as Chancellor Ake? 5 days ago:
Good point!
- Comment on [Very minor Academy spoilers] Does anyone else think the marketing undersold Holly Hunter as Chancellor Ake? 5 days ago:
I’m wondering if she will leave the series after season one, just like they did with Jason and Isaacs previously.
She’s an Oscar winning actress, slumming it on a Star Trek show on a minor streaming network. They are probably not really able to afford her salary long term unless she’s working at a discount because shes a Star Trek fan.
I’m also wondering if she’s done any internal grumbling about working for Paramount’s new management.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test" 6 days ago:
Holly Hunter’s breakout role was in “Broadcast News”. I recommend it if you haven’t watched it before.
- Comment on You could convince evangelicals that AI is bad by saying it's converting children to satanism or making them gay 1 week ago:
Tell them that asking AI a question is just like consulting a ouija board. The answers are coming from the same plane.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Google AI search says it’s a federal mandate in the US. I couldn’t find the related legislation though.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
SOS is what a phone displays when it can reach a cell tower, but cant find an valid account associated with its SIM card. Its so you can make emergency calls to things like 911 from any phone, regardless of whether you’ve paid a carrier for service or had your service cut off.
- Comment on UK officials may be barred from US over X ban 1 week ago:
🤷♂️ Why would they want to come here anyway? So they can have their face scanned? Or their social media analyzed? Or be pulled off the street and deported by ICE for no reason?
- Comment on Android 11 is the "Windows 7" of Android 1 week ago:
Just be thankful it’s not “Liquid Glass”.
- Comment on US | Verizon to stop automatic unlocking of phones as FCC ends 60-day unlock rule 1 week ago:
From the people that brought you esim. Want to switch phones? Cant just move that little card over to your new device. No, _now you have to contact your carrier. _
- Comment on JPEG-XL Image Support Returns To Latest Chrome / Chromium Code 1 week ago:
Creating two copies of a file isn’t backward compatibility. Thats what devs are doing now with webp. One webp file, and one joeg file for clients who cant render webp.
Now if you could open and view a jpeg xl file without having to upgrade your app/browser/whatever — that would be backward compatibility.
