Hawke
@Hawke@lemmy.world
- Comment on Sir David Leafenborough 5 weeks ago:
It is. The first couple paragraphs are more legible.
- Comment on Sir David Leafenborough 5 weeks ago:
Because it’s a leaf insect not a stick insect. So the stick name is inappropriate.
- Comment on ugh i wish 5 weeks ago:
Why would you get hate for that? Just because a company that sells cheese also sells raw milk when they probably shouldn’t?
- Comment on Elon Musk Says He Owns Everyone's Twitter Account in Bizarre Alex Jones Court Filing 5 weeks ago:
We were talking about twitter. Stay with the program please.
- Comment on Elon Musk Says He Owns Everyone's Twitter Account in Bizarre Alex Jones Court Filing 5 weeks ago:
Nope.
as a user, “you retain your rights to any Content you submit, post or display on or through the Services. What’s yours is yours you own your Content (and your photos and videos are part of the Content),” although you also grant Twitter a license to use the content, which authorizes it “to make your Content available to the rest of the world and to let others do the same.” Based on this language, other twitter users are also licensed to copy and redistribute your posts by “retweeting” them.
- Comment on Elon Musk Says He Owns Everyone's Twitter Account in Bizarre Alex Jones Court Filing 5 weeks ago:
You do have some control, in the form of copyright. Also the analogy doesn’t hold up well since you’re not using their “pen” and they only let you reach inside through the window. And the audience is outside the house.
- Comment on They're called leaves for a reason. 1 month ago:
It most certainly does not. Source: have a tree, a lawn, and no interest in spending time raking leaves.
- Comment on They're called leaves for a reason. 1 month ago:
Hah, I forgot that there are actually lots of suburban places that have no sidewalks. I was more talking about how no one walks and everyone drives, but it seems everyone interpreted that to mean specifically the driving lanes.
- Comment on They're called leaves for a reason. 1 month ago:
You think anybody is walking on the street in the US?
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 1 month ago:
But “level isn’t what you need. If the floor and ceiling aren’t level, it’ll look wrong.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 1 month ago:
It was that in combination with the “engine-generators” yes. Made it unclear.
- Comment on Know thy enemy 1 month ago:
What’s with the math in the middle of your comment?
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 2 months ago:
You can but it bothers me that it exists, shitting on everything.
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 2 months ago:
Well, this changes things ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 2 months ago:
So … if I tag !boobs@lemmynsfw.com I should be able to see it?
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 2 months ago:
tends to be extremely hostile to any sort of monitization
This is a good thing, seeing as how monetization has ruined other things, the web newspapers in particular.
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 2 months ago:
Authoritarian communists, especially those not native to such a state.
Currently it’s mainly the folks who believe China in particular can do no wrong. Historically it refers to supporters of the USSR in Britain
Specifically, it was used to distinguish [CPGB] party members who spoke out in defense of the Soviet use of tanks to suppress the Hungarian Revolution of 1956and the 1968 Prague Spring, or who more broadly adhered to pro-Soviet positions.
More recently it’s applied online especially to people who are knee-jerk anti-capitalist or anti-US, “if the US/‘west’/capitalism is wrong then anyone who opposes them must be right”
More generally, a tankie is someone who tends to support “militant opposition to capitalism”, and a more modern online variation, which means “something like ‘a self-proclaimed communist who indulges in conspiracy theories and whose rhetoric is largely performative.’”
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 2 months ago:
Lemmynsfw does pretty well. It’s a shame that the main instances don’t federate with the porn instances, but it does nicely prevent either from overwhelming the other.
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 2 months ago:
I hate it because it shows up everywhere and adds nothing of value while displaying busy formatted text. If it lately shows even less meaningful content, that barely seems possible.
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 2 months ago:
I’d rather not. Not sure if you can view the mod log for other people’s accounts, but if so it’s easy to spot from mine.
I’ll say that I have some sympathy because dealing with internet randos is painful soul-sucking work and it’s easy to default to the ban-hammer, but…
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 2 months ago:
Like: decentralization and a renaissance of the old- school dream of what the Internet should be.
Dislike: media bias fact checker bot spamming every damn post. Power tripping mods.
- Comment on Excel enters its 40th year 2 months ago:
Predecessor to Excel.
- Comment on I rented many games solely based on their covers, only to be mildly disappointed when I got home. 2 months ago:
I dunno, Wii seemed to manage it just fine.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
… and if they were hanging around a polling place that might be a problem.
- Comment on I rented many games solely based on their covers, only to be mildly disappointed when I got home. 2 months ago:
BioForge was particularly impressive for the time, with mixed pre-rendered graphics.
- Comment on I rented many games solely based on their covers, only to be mildly disappointed when I got home. 2 months ago:
No, he’s right. The power glove was garbage from the get-go. Really cool cyberpunk thing on paper but … hell, we still aren’t there today!
- Comment on Final Fantasy VII fan translation restores every lost instance of Cloud saying "let's mosey" 2 months ago:
TL;DR the phrase was translated in an inconsistent way that made it jarring when it was kind of supposed to be a catchphrase.
This mod makes it consistent so it’s only strange instead of strange and off-putting.
- Comment on That hurts a little 2 months ago:
It’s vector.
Raster is a grid of dots, vector is lines from point to point.
- Comment on Microsoft backtracks on deprecating the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel | Microsoft has either backtracked or clarified its language to remove the note about Control Panel being deprecated 4 months ago:
Sound is in there too. The one that annoys me is the printer settings being under “Bluetooth” instead of “printers”.
- Comment on Why don't cell phones have BIOS? 4 months ago:
A BIOS does not inherently have to have a configuration utility.
This right here.
My first PC (a 386 circa 1989) did not have a config utility. It had a bootable floppy disk that could configure the BIOS settings. I think all it could change was the system time and the CHS values of the hard drive(s).