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- Comment on Mullvad VPN: Introducing Defense against AI-guided Traffic Analysis (DAITA) 1 week ago:
This is my thinking for using .world. I don’t get all my news or interaction from Lemmy or the internet as a whole, and Lemmy is small enough that it has an almost zero impact on broader society. I respect those who try, but if my internet experience was antagonistic or frustrating I’d probably just stop using it.
I also feel that conversations of that nature are best had in person, where there’s a higher chance of changing minds. I’ve no proof but it feels like internet discussions are taken less seriously and thus merely end before any opinion changing can occur.
- Comment on Behold, the $400 red pineapple 1 week ago:
Came in here thinking it was some novelty fruit made by a small grower. Were that the case, power to them for taking money from fools.
Naturally it’s those guys though. Fuck those guys
- Comment on So today I finally deleted the bird app 4 weeks ago:
Yeah same. I first remember hearing it when Apple was planning that amazingly invasive local scanning of user images. Now it seems to be everywhere.
I’m not against it though. CP could’ve described multiple things and this one is a lot less mistakable when you know. CP wasn’t particularly intuitive either— no easier to decipher, merely that with years of use many people knew it— so it’s an upgrade overall I think.
Another benefit is that it includes “abuse” in the name. That’s important and ensures the people who seek that stuff out won’t borrow the term like they did CP.
- Comment on double slit 1 month ago:
This is a really high quality edit, I’m genuinely impressed. Probably not too much work mechanically but the attention to detail is great and someone who’s never seen it would probably think it was original. If I were a meme edit rater it would rank very high on my list. I don’t know how to make this comment not sound sarcastic or boomer-y but I actually really love this edit and will send it to people. They won’t understand it but that’s fine.
- Comment on Why has Firefox not removed third-party cookies, despite the fact that Chrome has begun phasing them out? 2 months ago:
As a relative layman I also have the same question. If you can turn it off, what makes it so bad?
I’m not saying I trust Google, of course. It just seems like they have a vested interest in screwing over third party advertisers and making them more dependent on Google. If you can then disable the Google part, isn’t it a net benefit?
(I don’t use chrome and am not familiar with this change, so I may be missing something)
- Comment on Innovation in Japan: McDonald's installs phone cleaning devices. Kills 99.9% of germs within 30 seconds while customers wash their hands - VIDEO 4 months ago:
Oh lol. I said that cause I was inclined to believe it due to false advertising laws. Hence, it would be dumb to make such a grand claim and open yourself up to liability [if it weren’t true]. The anecdote after was worded as mostly unrelated because it wasn’t about the effectiveness, but the convenience of the little unit
- Comment on Innovation in Japan: McDonald's installs phone cleaning devices. Kills 99.9% of germs within 30 seconds while customers wash their hands - VIDEO 4 months ago:
WOTA claims 99.9% sterilization via UV-C. Does Japan have false advertising laws? I genuinely don’t see how it can be that fast, but like, it would be dumb to make difficult-to-believe claims if you could be sued for it.
Anyway, mostly unrelated, I used one of these there and I didn’t care if it was that effective. Wasn’t gonna be holding my phone for that span, so any sterilization is nice.
- Comment on Jeffrey Katzenberg: AI Will Take 90% of Artist Jobs on Animated Films In Just Three Years 4 months ago:
I’m pretty sure Quibi didn’t even last three years so I’m not too confident in his predictions
- Comment on The full source code for GTA 5 has been publicly leaked 4 months ago:
Sorry for late response, one of the other commenters got it but if you didn’t look it up after you probably don’t know the scale of the search. There are a ton of Easter eggs and a few UFOs hanging around in the game, leading many to think there is a large scale mystery that can be solved. Also hard to describe the Easter eggs— there was a mural on a mountain, an ingame serial killer, a ghost and her daughter, a cult, ingame rumors of UFOs, an alien frozen in ice, three UFOs hovering and one crashed, and a lot more that I probably can’t remember.
So for years people scoured through the game and decompiled code hoping to find it. The search is actually vaguely still ongoing apparently, even after the leak since it takes time to parse through.
While there is still stuff undiscovered, it’s most likely that this was part of the cancelled single player DLCs. Which does suck because it was a genuinely interesting idea and it would’ve been cool if R* had managed to hide a real massive subplot in the game.
Not the best summary cause it’s been a while and I was never that invested, but it was pretty interesting in the first few years.
- Comment on The full source code for GTA 5 has been publicly leaked 4 months ago:
Maybe we can finally end all the hopes for that UFO thing. The people who spent years on it deserve closure, even if it was just hints towards a cancelled DLC
- Comment on Spotify doesn't make profit from music streaming, despite having over 400M monthly active users, because it pays two-thirds of all its revenue to the rights holders. 4 months ago:
You’re explaining because people know DJ to mean radio or in person, and neither are practical in context, so everyone is confused on how it’s relevant. People who use streaming service algorithms probably aren’t looking to go to a bar or event every time they want a recommendation.
Not to mention that bars and stuff with music usually cater towards upbeat music. If you’re sure these niche DJs exist, why not name some, or at least provide vague instructions on locating one? It would be a lot more useful to provide actionable advice to people looking for recommendations based on their taste
- Comment on Whats the difference between cheap and expensive modern TVs? 5 months ago:
This is actually pretty crazy to me, I watch <1hr of TV a week but can immediately tell OLED from LCD. It’s the perfect absence of light on black screens, though I’ll admit I don’t see a lot of LCD and may just be encountering only mid ones.
I’m ex-tech so I don’t use my devices, barring my phone, a lot these days but I can’t unsee the difference. I always get OLED when available; had a “next best thing” miniLED iPad that was unbearable in the dark. But I’d rather not care like you do: objectively speaking you miss out on nearly nothing and don’t have to frown at remaining non-OLED devices like car screens or laptops. Even going weeks without computer usage I’ll still notice, and honestly after typing all this I’m kind of jealous.
And y’know, perfect black aside, I don’t think I’d notice otherwise. Really unfortunate thing that my brain notices without thinking about and it’s cost me thousands + fear of static screens causing burn in
- Comment on Watching mouths fill up with towels 5 months ago:
I bring these around during travel because sometimes restrooms don’t have towels and I don’t want to touch the wet handle to get out. Pretty niche and I only go through a few a year but it’s better than wet public restroom door handles
- Comment on alien.top is a new level of Reddit crossposting spam 5 months ago:
I don’t like your bots at all because I, like others, browse all. Lemmy is too small and inactive to stick to little groups. They also filled my feed with a disproportionate amount of stuff I don’t care about, like selfhosted.
The idea is genuinely interesting and the execution, especially the bridge to claim ownership of the bot account, is legitimately really cool. But until it’s not spammy— which may be never at the rate Lemmy is expanding, or lack of expansion— it’s going to meet significant resistance.
It’s weird because I really agree with you. Lowering the barrier to entry for leaving Reddit and porting over its discussions is great. People say they don’t want Reddit content, but honestly I doubt that. Hell, even having copies of the niche Reddit content would help fill out the fediverse’s lack of content. Sadly I don’t see this working at all without two way communication (which you would probably need proxies for). I’d be pretty surprised if you ever brought it back.
I particularly agree on the moral front. I disagree with Reddit the company and don’t care for the state of the internet. But I can’t see a barrier of entry low enough for people to actually stand up for themselves, so while I respect the effort and willingness to do something about your values, my faith in the remaining Reddit users is low enough that I really can’t see a universe where this works.
- Comment on Walmart, Costco and other companies rethink self-checkout, some stores removing them 5 months ago:
Quite a jump from shoplifting to genocide, which makes for extremely poor rhetoric. You should’ve at least listed every next step, e.g.: shoplifting -> robbery -> armed robbery -> murder -> several other steps -> genocide. Which still looks absurd but like, less.
- Comment on YSK that SLS, an ingredient added to most commercial toothpastes, causes canker sores 5 months ago:
I hate these sores with a passion. You can fix them instantly with Oralmedic from the internet (possibly currently undergoing supply chain issues but that is temporary). It is agonizing— you are cauterizing the sore— but provides immediate and permanent relief. You can also get a laser for it, which does not hurt but is way higher effort and costs a ton more. I am passionate about my sore hatred so I have done this.
If you don’t want to do either, Canker Shield is available on Amazon and reduces sore lifespan to around 24-48hr. Also painful to use but nothing is as bad as Oralmedic or debacterol. Combine that with supplements (not one size fits all, lysine seems to have high success rate though) and you can deal with these while away from home.
Anyway this tip actually reminded me to check my travel toothpastes which naturally do have SLS. So thank you. I had noticed an uptick to a sore every couple months since Covid “ended” but that cause slipped my mind
- Comment on YSK that SLS, an ingredient added to most commercial toothpastes, causes canker sores 5 months ago:
Lysine helps too for prevention and healing
- Comment on Rockstar once planned a zombie island survival game using GTA: Vice City code, but it was too "depressing" 5 months ago:
I mean in terms of hours played, GTA V’s map probably is one of the highest of all time. It’s had millions of people play it for over a decade, and to my knowledge the online mode is still going strong. Specifically targeting online only is likely far more successful in that regard because even if you personally don’t play it, thousands of others are doing so right now which would not be sustainable with single player DLC like the older games.
Makes for pretty low quality content, but if the metric alone is not wasting the map as you indicated, it may well be the most played city of all time. I actually wish they would have wasted the map a little more and added new regions with single player quality storyline rather than reuse the same map with minimal changes and a small island add-on that I’m pretty sure can’t even be visited without playing a specific level.
- Comment on Apple Music isn't the best streaming music service — it's just the least annoying 6 months ago:
I’ll admit it sounded a little showy to me too, but a lot of the nicher things with their own benefits sound pretentious when just being said in plain wording. I like fountain pens because they’re pleasant to write with but are more expensive and less convenient. Always sounds pretentious just saying I like them and why if I don’t throw in the caveats like I did here.
There’s the chance he is trying to, of course. I try to assume the best these days for my own sake though
- Comment on 15,000 Scientists Warn Society Could 'Collapse' This Century In Dire Climate Report 6 months ago:
You could be right. I know I’m not supposed to say that but there are cases where things really never do get better.
Thing is, we will all die someday. I don’t know what you’re going through so I can’t say whether you should keep suffering through it for the chance of a better life someday. I can’t say whether a better life even is enough to make up for the suffering you must be feeling now. But I know with certainty that someday the suffering will end.
If it will end anyway, maybe it’s worth seeing a little bit more. Life changes so fast, even if just because we as a species are constantly making changes. And while you could save what seems like unbearable anguish… it all ends eventually anyway, and in death you won’t remember the extra pain. Objectively it’s better to try.
Waiting and seeing isn’t a permanent decision either. I wouldn’t want you to suffer for nothing just because I don’t think you should do this. I just genuinely think there may be more for you, and since you are guaranteed to escape the suffering, it might be worth it to do so in life.
I won’t pretend I know what you feel. My life is what most would consider privileged and I have never known pain like the type you’re exuding. But I have often felt the pull towards escape— like I said, we all die someday. It’s not that I want to die, simply that in a thousand years none of us will have mattered and I’ve had things I don’t want to really live through as well. In the least suicidal way possible, I have wondered why I should keep going when so many bad things could happen and it wouldn’t really matter if I lived or died anyway.
This thinking is all I have. A vague desire to see the future and what becomes of it, since it doesn’t matter either way. I find happiness where I can and that’s enough. For me, that’s hobbies like pens or food or travel. I’m not saying to do those, or that you even have the resources to, but more to try things until you find something you do like. You have nothing to lose. If you’re about to die, none of your non-mental problems can touch you anymore. Unless you’re facing jail time or other confinement.
Whatever you bought, maybe you can use it for something more fun. Could help. Helium? Fill some balloons and hand them to strangers. Who cares if they think you’re weird, you have nothing to lose. Then go live like nothing matters and see if you can find something that will leave you in a happier place for when you do eventually come to a close. Why not?
I can’t make this decision for you, though I wish I could. I just hope you see it my way for now, as unhelpful as this likely was. Sadly I don’t have the positivity of the typical “don’t do it” response and no one else is saying anything, so I’ll try in whatever way I can while you’re still on this site. Feel free to hit me up and talk about what you’re dealing with, I’m clearly not helpful but sometimes discussion alone alleviates some of the burden.
- Comment on 15,000 Scientists Warn Society Could 'Collapse' This Century In Dire Climate Report 6 months ago:
I know better than most that talking someone out of it is nigh impossible. I still hope you don’t regardless, and that things get better. Second chances or spontaneous improvement in brain chemistry are unlikely but possible, and sometimes it is worth sticking around.
- Comment on 15,000 Scientists Warn Society Could 'Collapse' This Century In Dire Climate Report 6 months ago:
Is it only satisfying if others die with you?
- Comment on One of Star Wars’ best FPS games is getting remastered in February | VGC 6 months ago:
1 just needs a graphics remaster while 2 does need some more work. Even TSLRCM isn’t enough, but it probably wouldn’t need too much time to really integrate the content a little more coherently.
But yeah, K1 is basically perfect as is and K2 would be with a bit more development time. The remake looked good visually in the five seconds we saw but I have a weird feeling that the actual game would’ve been worse.
Strangely tho I’d prioritize remastering K1 and 2 over making a 3. It would be good to get new generations of players on it before beginning a third
- Comment on ‘Pause Ads’ Creep Onto Hulu, Peacock and Max as Streamers Seek New Revenue 6 months ago:
Being in advertising “r&d” for these companies must be the easiest job in the world. All you have to do is insert ads into every possible slot (oftentimes just following another example), wait for consumers to roll over and pay for it, then do it again in six months. Freest money ever since consumers will take every blow they’re dealt and just keep paying for it no matter how bad the product becomes. Some day they’ll perfect the art and blast ads in the middle of the screen with the actual show in the top letterbox— reserving the bottom letterbox for buy it now buttons— and they’ll get fired like everyone else. But until then, easiest paycheck in the world
- Comment on really makes you think 7 months ago:
No yeah he got a six pack. Specifically six. It was weird, and kind of hard to tell they were meant to be abs. Even weirder, that was the sole change, he was otherwise visually identical.
I mentioned he got a full redesign for the fourth movie. For that one, he got huge pecs and a bodybuilder physique.
- Comment on really makes you think 7 months ago:
07 yeah. He got a different design every single movie now that I think about it, whereas Prime only got abs in the third then a total change in the fourth
- Comment on Samsung expected to report 80% profit plunge as losses mount at chip business 7 months ago:
I agree that the hamster wheel of infinitely increasing profits is bad. But even in a better world where companies weren’t expected to report record profits every single quarter, an 80% drop would still be rather alarming.
- Comment on “I didn’t realize what a lift I would get…” 7 months ago:
Could you elaborate on how? Do student loans sue for nonpayment? Are they paid back by the estate?
- Comment on Delta is fourth major U.S. airline to find fake jet aircraft engine parts with forged airworthiness documents from U.K. company 7 months ago:
Wow that’s just awful, hadn’t heard about that. It’s been years and the FAA investigation appears to either be ongoing or silently killed? Hope they’re still working on it.
Also I wasn’t saying Delta is an angel obviously, it’s an airline. They suck too, especially recently. I don’t want to defend them at all and, if I could choose, I’d dissolve the whole company and start anew to make a better airline.
That said, Delta didn’t direct their pilots to do that, it could have been any of them. Same with the doctor beating incident. But United’s vile CEO vehemently defended the beating and tried to paint the victim as deserving, while I haven’t seen any indications that Delta’s corporate leadership tried to back up their idiotic pilots. United feels toxic, which is a shame because I also have status with them from a partnering company. Whereas Delta simply feels like garbage, though it may be because I missed all the bad news about them.
I’m not downplaying it— Flight 89 caused far more damage than the doctor beating or some lost baggage. It’s easily the worst of any airline scandal I can think of. Just feels like it was luck that Delta hired those pilots when they could have been on any plane, and the CEO didn’t go around saying “the schoolchildren were belligerent and the crew followed procedure”.
- Comment on Delta is fourth major U.S. airline to find fake jet aircraft engine parts with forged airworthiness documents from U.K. company 7 months ago:
If you fly just once a year with a companion it’s worth keeping, just not worth spending on especially after the recent SkyMiles gutting.
Imo Delta’s still decently better than United and American but costs disproportionally more, to the point where it’s probably not worth it anymore. I also have a personal dislike of those two for suing Skiplagged (so sleazy) though so I continue to fly Delta. Plus United beat up that doctor and American has a high baggage loss rate.