madcaesar
@madcaesar@lemmy.world
- Comment on would you visit an authoritarian country if you had the chance to live there up to 4 weeks for free even if you believe multiparty democracy to be something non negotiable? 4 days ago:
The judicial system can fuck people up even in Democratic countries. Rolling the dice in dictatorships?
Fuck no!
- Comment on Android’s most beloved launcher may be done for good 4 days ago:
Help a brother out, which one is closest to Nova? I don’t mind paying for good work, I just want home screens and being able to place my icons where I want, also widgets!
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 1 week ago:
I cancelled Netflix when they did the sharing bullshit and I cancelled prime when they wanted MORE money to not give me ads. Fuck that.
However, you and I seem to be in the minority since these mega corps push one bullshit after another and people just bend over and go “please use lube this time…”
- Comment on You no longer need JavaScript: an overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome 1 week ago:
The only language worse than JS is CSS…
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 1 week ago:
The one compromise I’d like to see is for sites to have to provide keywords like in the robot.txt file that says what they serve. So let’s say a site provides porn or gore and a parent wants to block access to it, it should be a simple toggle on the router or browser or both.
Anything beyond that is just bullshit
- Comment on Bring out the trumpets and pour out the beer 2 weeks ago:
It would be easy like this
I will make healthcare free for everyone! We’re going to have the best healthcare in the world and billionaires are going to pay for it!
I’m going to start a federal drug program! We’re going to have the cheapest drugs in the world and no-one will have to decide between rent and their medication!
I’m going to start a national Give Parents Freedom Act, where we will provide free daycare for any parent making under 100k/year! We will pay for it by cutting the military budget by 1%!
In my first 100 days I’m going to sign the mothers are awsome executive order mandating 1 year of maternity leave for mothers and 3 months for fathers. Employers will not be allowed to fire any new parent.
I’m also going to divert ICE money into a new consumer agency called “IYCIWFYU” (If you collude I will fuck you up) their entire mission will be to investigate corporations that are price fixing and stealing money from the people.
I’m going to make digital Tax filing FREE for everyone and divert all IRS investigations into people making over 5 million per year!
Instead we get
I’ll try to pass a bipartisan bill to maybe fix some roads… 🤷I don’t know… We’ll see what Republicans let me do 😢
- Comment on Bring out the trumpets and pour out the beer 2 weeks ago:
Fuck your dad.
No offense.
- Comment on Why are they even doing this, the grass wasn't even that tall 2 weeks ago:
What is even the point of buying a home in a HOA? You’re getting fucked by the bank on the loan and then by random dickheads about your yard… Might as well get an apartment at that point and get some rest.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 2 weeks ago:
I think what’s happening is:
40% of men are good people
40% of women are good people
The remaining 20% are pieces of shit that demonize and demean the other sex, which has caused the 80% to become scared and reclusive.
Social media makes it seem like the percentages are flipped but they are not!
The numbers are made up but you get my point.
- Comment on Best Practice Ideas 2 weeks ago:
Second
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 3 weeks ago:
FUCK ADOBE
But yea, those cock suckers are the only reason I have to dual boot.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 3 weeks ago:
Absolutely.
I know people can call superman boring, but to me what makes him even more amazing is that he has enough power to basically dominate everyone… But he doesn’t, he always chooses to do the right thing and tries to give people a second chance.
It’s part of the reason Zach Schneider’s Superman sucked balls, because they tried to make him some dark edge lord that literally kills in the first fucking movie.
Supes is the last hero that remains as some sort of beacon of hope and fairness, which naturally goes against the fascist mindset.
A red hatter cannot comprehend having power and not using it to subjugate or enforce your will. It simply does not compute in their lead infested brains.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Ford is even worse than VW, but VW is overpriced shit.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
The best message I see on my gaming PC is “Your system does not meet the requirements for Windows 11” 🤗
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
🤔 💭 Our cars aren’t selling… Hmm… Should we make them last longer? No. Should we make the interior out of anything except hard plastic? No. Should we make our cars easier to repair and not have even the most basic shit require specialized tools? No. I got it! Subscriptions for basic shit that gauges the few customers still buying our shit!
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
You dodged a bullet.
VW has gone down the drain.
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 3 weeks ago:
The one thing you have to give Microsoft is backwards compatibility. They make hot garbage, but God damn if you can’t run that garbage from 10 years ago.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I mean it’s a bit odd, but fuck it man it’s a date. You go out and have fun. If you’re not into it you pull the plug after 15 min.
Honesty we all need a kick in the ass sometimes to go out and do shit.
I don’t know your relationship with your dad, but if you two are on good terms and trust each other than this is actually kinda cool.
Have fun and enjoy.
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 4 weeks ago:
This is correct, even pihole is helpless against YouTube’s fuckery
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 4 weeks ago:
Wasn’t adblock plus bought by some ad agency? I thought they were long gone…
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 4 weeks ago:
That is disingenuous.
People underestimate the cost of building a fucking browser, it’s not the equivalent of maintaining a array sort app on fucking github.
Some random dude promising to “donate from time to time” is not a valid business model.
I wish they’d strip down and just focus on the browser, but fund it HOW? Ads? Subscription?
The reason a lot of companies are doing AI shit is essentially RD shooting in the dark, hoping something will pan out.
You have to do this if you are a tech company and want to survive in the future.
It’s fun to meme on ai and but that shit is coming and pretending it doesn’t exist or has no value simply isn’t true.
So I ask everyone again, what business model exists for a software company to make money without ads or charging a monthly subscription.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 4 weeks ago:
It’s also an example of a smaller company trying fight a mega Corp with infinite money, gained via unethical means.
People are shitting on Firefox while ignoring what they are up against.
I have no solution for their funding issue, what are they supposed to do? Charge for the browser or ads? There’s literally no other alternative and I don’t know what the solution is.
What I do know is that once FF dies and chrome fully owns the web we are well and truly fucked.
Honesty it might already be too late.
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 4 weeks ago:
Like I said, fuck Joe Rogan, but every big Corp has been responsible for awful shit. At some point you have to live and you have to give in somewhere.
This is coming from someone that self hosts and even I can’t be bothered to self host every fucking random ass song in existence.
My value proposition is that my entire family doesn’t have to listen to ads and I don’t have to spend half my day tracking down songs.
Again, my larger point is that spotify for all its bullshit still isn’t streaming video levels of utter bullshit.
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 4 weeks ago:
I mean spotify is one of those things where it’s harder to move away and the cost benefit is harder to argue against. It’s not like the streaming bullshit that has happened where everything is fragmented and you’d need 200 substations to watch the movies you want.
The thing that sucks with Spotify is the money they gave fucking Joe Rogan
- Comment on Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law 5 weeks ago:
Yup. When it comes to fucking the people the SCOTUS votes in unison.
- Comment on Rockstar Games Plans Age Verification For GTA Online 5 weeks ago:
I fucking hate how there is starvation and homelessness in the world, at the same time as there is morons blasting cash away into imaginary online points.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 5 weeks ago:
Is there rippers for Spotify?
- Comment on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand 5 weeks ago:
Mastercard: We better not alienate our customers! Let’s cave to these religious lunatics from Australia.
Mastercard: Becomes hated by gamers all over the world.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing off Windows 11 SE, its Chrome OS competitor 5 weeks ago:
Because they start it for cynical reasons instead of actually trying to give something good to the consumer, so it fails and they can’t understand why…
- Comment on Itch.io has begun restoring NSFW content, but only if it’s free 5 weeks ago:
The whole crypto scene seems like a scheme at the moment… But then you see the bullshit visa / mastercard are pulling and you see the need for a digital currency.
Any corporation with near monopoly power will ALWAYS fuck up the consumer.