madcaesar
@madcaesar@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days 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 3 days 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 3 days 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 5 days 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 5 days 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 5 days 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 5 days 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 1 week ago:
Yup. When it comes to fucking the people the SCOTUS votes in unison.
- Comment on Rockstar Games Plans Age Verification For GTA Online 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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.
- Comment on Itch.io has begun restoring NSFW content, but only if it’s free 1 week ago:
So if the problem is payment, what stops a company from selling “tokens” and those tokens can be redeemed for “anything”?
That way the visa / mastercard assholes can suck a cock, no?
- Comment on Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU? 1 week ago:
You’re absolutely right. It’s also incredibly susceptible to snowballing. The early votes matter the most on who’s opinion wins out, and those are super easy to rig.
- Comment on Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU? 2 weeks ago:
Yea that’s what pissed me off the top of most. Google / Apple fanbois gargeling corporate balls
- Comment on Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU? 2 weeks ago:
The whole smart phone thing is such a lesson in letting go of the rope.
Once you let corporations get away with a little, they will eventually take everything.
Every time we lost a bit of control me and a few of enthusiasts were screaming, but the regular populace just shrugged…
Even on reddit you’d have to argue with idiots “oh just use Bluetooth headphones! Oh who needs sd cards, just use the cloud! Oh who needs rooting, it’s not needed”
I swear to god if Windows / OS were invented today 80 of people would just shrug as all control of their PC was taken away.
- Comment on "Steam Did Not Respond To Us": Collective Shout Defends Calling On Payment Processors To Ban Adult Games 2 weeks ago:
🤣 Funny people replying to you completely missing the point…
People, read again and turn on your brain.
- Comment on Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io 2 weeks ago:
Ugh… This shit again…
The fucking Bible is FULL OF FUCKING HATE. Hate for women, hate for blacks, hate for gays, hate for the “other”.
I’m really sick of people trotting out two lines from that book of fairytales and doing a pikachu face “how could people read this and be evil?!?”
Easily, because the Bible is filled with vile shit. Because it’s made up bullshit that let’s you argue every side of every point because it’s a amalgam of garbage written by idiots with the occasional line of wisdom sprinkled in.
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 3 weeks ago:
Balkan? The countries that were drawn into a brutal civil war by right wing pieces of shit and are still trying to recover from the bloodshed and brain drain? Those Balkan cities?
- Comment on Tesla Reports Drop in Self-Driving Safety After Introducing “End-to-End Neural Networks” 3 weeks ago:
This is actually in line with ai I’ve used… For some reason it just turns to shit after a while, I’m not sure why
- Comment on Is it sexist to say "I've never worn a wet dress before" 3 weeks ago:
🤣
This is either AI slop or your wife is a lunatic.
- Comment on Who's the most ridiculed POTUS of history? 4 weeks ago:
I personally thought, no-one could ever top or be worse than W. Then Trump showed up. I no longer think Trump is the bottom, because the Republican voter is getting dumber not smarter as time rolls on.
- Comment on What else should I self-host? 4 weeks ago:
How safe is it to self host something that you open up to the web? I’ve been thinking about a keepass self host, but I need it to be accessible from anywhere… I’m just really worried what that does once you open up your local server to the world
- Comment on Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK 5 weeks ago:
The UK has been in lock step with the US in terms of moronic voters and stupid leaders.
The UK is in Europe, but it’s closer to the morons in Texas than Switzerland.
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 5 weeks ago:
Your point is? They are both shit, agreed. The fact that we have asshole corps here, doesn’t mean we need more of them. We need to fight Walmart, not bring in the Walmart of cars.
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 1 month ago:
Magats shit on women… Still get women votes… Shit in soliders still get soldiers votes… Shit on Mexicans… Still get Mexican votes… Shit on men…still get men votes…
I don’t know who this says more about… The voting group or Democrats that can’t win despite this shit.
- Comment on Canada Drops Digital Tax That Infuriated Trump to Restart Trade Talks 1 month ago:
Ughhhhhhh
- Comment on RETIRED: Readarr - Sonarr for Ebooks Book Manager and Automation 1 month ago:
github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf
Is this what you are talking about? How dues this work for funding audio books? That’s my biggest problem
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 1 month ago:
Just make sure to add git and node_modules as exclusions