Poob
@Poob@lemmy.ca
- Comment on I hate how everything requires you to download a shitty proprietary data harvesting app nowadays when everything can be done just fine without an app. 1 year ago:
I’m guessing the reason for most things forcing you to use an app is less because of data harvesting, and more because it increases repeated use.
When you have to go to your browser and remember to check a website it’s harder to create a habit. If you have an icon flashing on your home screen every day it’s much easier to remember to go to their site. Sure you can “Add to Home screen” functionality, but average users don’t even know that exists.
It also feels like a bespoke app is more “professional” than a website, despite many apps secretly just being a website anyway.
That said, they are definitely harvesting your data. I just don’t think that’s the main reason for most apps.
- Comment on If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been? 1 year ago:
Thanos was a fucking stupid character in the MCU. The human population is currently doubling every 61 years with a growth rate of about 1.14%. Assuming similar numbers across the galaxy, he didn’t do anything except cause suffering. He’s a very poorly written villain.
I guess to stay on topic, they would have looked at population growth, and determined that his plan was moronic, and fought him.
- Comment on If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been? 1 year ago:
Thanos was a fucking stupid character in the MCU. The human population is currently doubling every 61 years with a growth rate of about 1.14%. Assuming similar numbers across the galaxy, he didn’t do anything except cause suffering. He’s a very poorly written villain.
I guess to stay on topic, they would have looked at population growth, and determined that his plan was moronic, and fought him.
- Comment on I feel like are all stuck in a movie where all the rich people live on some kind of floating island or satellite with everything they need to live well, and all of us have zero chance of going there. 1 year ago:
Ah nice, the reductive “everyone who isn’t a conservative is on the left” tactic. It lets you compress 80% of all ideologies into “the left,” which means you can accuse everyone in “the left” of the stupid shit tankies and liberals believe at the same time!
- Comment on Mars Society proposes institute to develop tech needed for Red Planet settlement 1 year ago:
They were shoehorning a reference to the game Starfield where it didn’t fit
- Comment on Why Is Computer Security Advice So Confusing? 1 year ago:
It’s not immediately obvious, but it is pretty straightforward math. It has to do with password length vs alphabet size.
Let’s look at an 8 letter lowercase only password. For every letter, you increase the maximum number of passwords by 26 (the number of letters in the alphabet). So it would be 26x26x26x26x26x26x26x26 or 26^8 which is 208,827,064,576. This is a lot of passwords, but pretty easy for a computer to brute force.
Let’s add the ! symbol. This means there are 27 options or 27^8. The total number of passwords is now 282,429,536,481. A bigger number, but not by much.
If we only have lowercase letters but increase it to 9 letters long, then it increases to 26^9 which equals 5,429,503,678,976. We’ve jumped from millions of passwords to billions with passwords only 1 character more.
If you allow all symbols and numbers, but also increase minimum length, you get the best of both without creating difficult to remember passwords.
This of course ignores the primary way people get past passwords: by asking the user for their password. It also ignores that an intruder is going to check the most common passwords and not just try them all. Adding numbers and symbols doesn’t really change the most common passwords though, since dragon just turns into Dragon1!
- Comment on Gen Z is the end and Gen A is the beginning, they are alpha and omega. 1 year ago:
Hah, Rogan is 7 years older than Alex Jones
- Comment on Rating down at 77% 1 year ago:
So much of the game is simply infuriating, and I’m not all that far in yet.
The menus are attrocious. It feels like wading through mud every time you try to get to menu. Half of them are locked to what feels like 10fps. You go into the map and it’s 37 presses of the tab key to get out, or else use the awkward as fuck hold tab to exit. The inventory menus are a fucking joke. It took two weeks for modders to fix all of Bethesda’s UI garbage that they have to fix every time a new game comes out. How is there not an option to sort by value/weight yet?
There’s a lot of time wasting crap too. If you want to go to a different planet you have to walk to your ship, go up the ladder and go to the cockpit, watch an animation to sit down in the cockpit, watch a cutscene to take off, open the map, find your planet, set course, watch a cutscene as you jump to the planet, open the map again, find where you want to land, watch a cutscene as you land, get out of your ship. That’s a lot of steps. Unskippable cutscenes every time you go somewhere sucks.
- Comment on Rating down at 77% 1 year ago:
This is exactly how I felt playing it. The game played like a much improved fallout, but it took modern fallout’s shitty cynical “everything is a joke” attitude and multiplied it by 10. It was insufferable.
Stanfield hasanaged to tone it down, but every once in a while I see the fallout “jokes” pop up.
- Comment on The IRS Is Using AI to Target the Ultra-Wealthy for Tax Violations 1 year ago:
All software is now AI. The sensor that tells your fridge to turn off when it’s cold enough? Well that makes a decision of some kind, so AI. The cook timer on your microwave? AI. Your thermostat? Definitely AI.
- Comment on What game has a great story and is worth the time investment? 1 year ago:
I came here to recommend Outer Wilds too
- Comment on “AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator 1 year ago:
Capitalism is in a permanent prisoners dilemma.
Overall they need to treat their employees well so that there’s growth in the economy, since no one to buy things means no market to sell things. However, they can also choose to screw over their employees with bad pay, terrible conditions, or in this case, automating their workforce and firing people.
If no one screws their employees, the economy expense with modest growth.
If one or few corporations screw their workers while everyone else doesn’t, they become fabulously rich and the rest get outcompeted.
If everyone screws their workers, then the economy collapses because there’s no growth, and everyone eventually goes out of business.
- Comment on The flying car completes first ever inter-city flight (Official Video) 1 year ago:
Retractable wings doesn’t change the fact it uses airplane technology to fly
- Comment on The flying car completes first ever inter-city flight (Official Video) 1 year ago:
Airplane*
- Comment on How Canada poached 10,000 tech workers from the U.S. — in just 48 hours 1 year ago:
For now. We get crazier every year.
- Comment on ISPs complain that listing every fee is too hard, urge FCC to scrap new rule 1 year ago:
If Comcast hates it, it must be the best solution. In fact, I think we America should run all laws by Comcast executives
- Comment on ULTRARAM may be a silly name but it's the holy grail for memory tech and means your PC could hibernate for over 1,000 years 1 year ago:
Honestly the time you can put your laptop to sleep is the least interesting part, but it’s hard the explain the other benefits to regular users
- Comment on ULTRARAM may be a silly name but it's the holy grail for memory tech and means your PC could hibernate for over 1,000 years 1 year ago:
But it could also have huge ramifications
- Comment on New study finds small reductions in social media use are linked to improvements in health and well-being 1 year ago:
It’s not social media in general that’s harmful, it’s the algorithms that feed you garbage
- Comment on Illinois just made it possible to sue people for doxxing attacks | States crack down on doxxing, but there's still no federal law. 1 year ago:
Dog damn, can we not call it doxxing? Laws shouldn’t use 4chan slang.
- Comment on 80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans 1 year ago:
My corporation is using return to office as weapon to do voluntary layoffs so they don’t have to pay severance
- Comment on Wireless Shower Head 1 year ago:
Would sucking the oxygen from the air to make water not pretty much instantly suffocate you? Is there enough oxygen to make any significant amount of water?
- Comment on Barbie earns $1 billion at the box office worldwide 1 year ago:
Only if it comes with a guillotine
- Comment on What's the difference between communism and socialism? 1 year ago:
I mean, he wrote the book(s) that started the whole ideology. Why would we want one word to mean a bunch of different ideologies? Pick a new word for the other ideas.
- Comment on A little history on Reddit. From the politics subreddit with just 85,678 users in 2008 to 500 million active users today. Lemmy/Kbin will follow the same path. 1 year ago:
We don’t need to become Reddit
- Comment on After Work Gaming: What games do you enjoy mostly after a day of work? 1 year ago:
I think doing something twice a week makes you a regular anything. Either way, my current games after work are Warframe and The Outer Wilds. Loving both.
- Comment on Say goodbye to the name Twitter’s Bird. Elon Musk changing Twitter logo to ‘X’ 1 year ago:
Pining for the fjords
- Comment on ‘Rick and Morty’ Team Gives Update on Recasting Process Following Justin Roiland’s Dismissal 1 year ago:
Nah nah nah, don’t try to pull shit like that. Should companies be forced to forced to keep people because they are accused of a crime?
- Comment on ‘Rick and Morty’ Team Gives Update on Recasting Process Following Justin Roiland’s Dismissal 1 year ago:
You realize that being fired for being a sex pest isn’t federal punishment right? It’s just a company looking after their own bottom line. Are you old enough to understand that public outcry isn’t the same thing as a criminal sentence?
Should the company be forced to employ Roiland until he gets a death sentence?
- Comment on ‘Rick and Morty’ Team Gives Update on Recasting Process Following Justin Roiland’s Dismissal 1 year ago:
Wait, do you think companies shouldn’t be able to fire someone for being a sex pest?