MimicJar
@MimicJar@lemmy.world
- Comment on Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised at negative impact of laying off 1,500 Spotify employees 2 months ago:
Layoffs also shake every other employee in an immeasurable way.
Even if you didn’t lay someone off they may now change their priorities. Maybe they focus on the people pleaser tasks. Maybe they focus more on what is good for them to keep their job vs what is good for the company.
Layoffs should be a last resort but tech companies are just playing follow the leader right now. In a few years we’ll see memoirs and books stating “in hindsight we may have made a mistake, but we made the best decision we could with the information we had at the time”, it’s all absolutely bullshit. This is all being done for a temporary stock boost.
- Comment on I'm making a "Stanley Parable"-inspired game, accepting suggestions 3 months ago:
Link broken/missing? Or has the game already started and I’m losing?
- Comment on Lyft shares hit 52-week high after accidently including an extra zero to one of its profit margins in an earnings statement 4 months ago:
In the trailing off part of the article,
“Many stock trades are done by computers, reacting in fractions of seconds to new information. The inflated margin likely triggered a buying frenzy before most people could digest the numbers.”
Which, if true in this case, is even more funny to think about. Not only does the share values not reflect actually company value, but that value isn’t even what a person thinks it is.
I’m reminded of the helpless employee who says “The computer won’t let me do it.” The enigma of the computer that is off doing it’s own thing.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video drops Dolby Vision and Atmos unless you pay extra 4 months ago:
Season 2 has been excellent so far.
I do agree waiting 2 years for 4 episodes, then 5 months for 4 more episodes is a huge let down.
- Comment on Fearing social media backlash, companies are using all kinds of euphemisms to avoid being straightforward about layoffs — ‘right-sized’, ‘org changes’, ‘simplified operating model’ 4 months ago:
Because it’s not true. It feels believable, but it’s a lie. Everyone, especially at the top, know this so no one is punished.
- Comment on George Carlin’s Daughter Blasts Dudesy AI-Generated Comedy Special Impersonating Her Dad: “No Machine Will Ever Replace His Genius” 5 months ago:
Ah, so Wall-e.
- Comment on X removes support for NFT profile pictures 5 months ago:
Assuming Twitter survives long enough, it’ll get added back but tied to a Musk-backed currency.
- Comment on What's your favorite game that you will NEVER finish? 5 months ago:
As an example, I’m done with MMOs. I played RuneScape back when it first launched (RS Classic) and continued for a while into the RS2 era and eventually I was just done. I tried WoW and a few other big games but eventually I just realized I was playing RuneScape again, and I played that already. That isn’t to say these new games weren’t different. They offered A LOT of new things, of different things, at their core I was just playing an MMO, and I’d done that already.
I’m also done with shooters. I’d say FPS, but the truth is it applies to third person as well. Again, I played a bunch over the years. CounterStrike, Battlefield 1942, Halo, and a few different Call of Duty games. I’ve dipped my toes into many over the years. If all my friends are playing, asking me directly, sure I’ll hop in. I don’t hate them, but I won’t suggest playing them. I’ve played them a million times. I’m tired of them.
Just to flip it around. I love platformers. I’ve played so many platformers. Each have such huge variety. Friends will have moved on and I’m still going for 100% completion. Even after 100% I’m looking for a leaderboard, or self-imposed challenge to keep me playing.
I’m confident some people feel about shooters the way I feel about platformers. If someone says their tired of games like BG3, I don’t get it. I could never tire of that genre. It has too many options to keep things fresh. But I know some people feel the same about shooters.
I don’t get it, but I guess I get it.
- Comment on 23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached | TechCrunch 5 months ago:
I agree, by all accounts 23andMe didn’t do anything wrong, however could they have done more?
For example the 14,000 compromised accounts.
- Did they all login from the same location?
- Did they all login around the same time?
- Did they exhibit strange login behavior like always logged in from California, suddenly logged in from Europe?
- Did these accounts, after logging in, perform actions that seemed automated?
- Did these accounts access more data than the average user?
In hindsight some of these questions might be easier to answer. It’s possible a company with even better security could have detected and shutdown these compromised accounts before they collected the data of millions of accounts. It’s also possible they did everything right.
A full investigation makes sense.
- Comment on You can only pick one 5 months ago:
Chrome + Wikipedia was my plan. Plus “website” is so vague I could also read millions of books. Grab a spot on a show like Jeopardy and become the new chanp.
- Comment on It is very important that you all know that Sarah Silverman made out with Tim Russ during the time she was on Voyager. 6 months ago:
Re ears, Tim Russ didn’t wear the ears for most of the episode since he wore a hat to “hide” his Vulcan ears.
But I assume he put them on.
- Comment on The Fediverse is working just as intended. 6 months ago:
You’ve mentioned that the majority of Lemmy.world users support defederating from threads. Do you have a source?
As someone in the “wait and see” group I’m curious how many people really are in each group.
- Comment on Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads 6 months ago:
Someone who disagrees with you is not a bootlicker.
Meta is a garbage company. Meta has done terrible things historically. At the moment we don’t know how Threads will affect the rest of the Fediverse. I’m ok with giving Meta a short leash. If you disagree, join an instance that has already blocked them. That’s how this works.
I fully expect, once rolled out, I’ll block Threads, but that is MY choice to make.
- Comment on How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone? 6 months ago:
So I typically have two sets of headphones, really nice ones that I use for long travel & low key ones I use daily.
At the time my really nice ones didn’t have Bluetooth, but I knew future versions did, so I assumed that problem would solve itself.
For the daily I tried a set a Bluetooth and found them to be mostly ok, but had frequent disconnects and eventually I just got tired of remembering to charge them.
A few years later I figured the technology would have improved, but my problems remained the same. I then accidentally ran one of my buds through the wash and that made things worse. It wasn’t the first time I’d run headphones through the wash, but what was previously a $10s of dollars mistake, was now a $100s of dollars mistake.
I now use wired headphones daily and exclusively.
For my really nice ones I don’t have to remember to charge them. I just plug them in.
Also, when traveling on buses and airplanes, they sometimes provide onride entertainment. It’s not clear to me how wireless only folks utilize that. Sure I downloaded things before I leave, but it’s nice sometimes to just plug in.
- Comment on What are the best features of Lemmy that aren't available in Reddit? 6 months ago:
This is the biggest one for me.
At some point I stopped using Reddit on the web/desktop and just started to use it on my phone/tablet. I tried different apps, but settled with RIF. Every few years I’d try different apps, but always found my way back to RIF.
Reddit did a bunch of stupid things over the years, but I could happily ignore them and continue to use RIF.
When RIF went away I had to find a new app. The official app wasn’t going to work for me. Old Reddit on the phone wasn’t going to work for me.
Luckily there are plenty of Lemmy apps. I’ve settled on Voyager (wefwef) but Boost seems fine too.
Sure, the content has changed a bit, but it’s close enough.
For me a good app is key. Lemmy has good apps. I use Lemmy.
So many apps redesign themselves and assume I’ll get used to it. In actuality they cause me to wonder, “Do I still need you?” and start looking for alternatives.
That isn’t to say that apps can’t ever redesign themselves, but so many redesigns seem to follow the latest trend and don’t demonstrate a clear understanding of their users.
- Comment on Ifixit gives fairphone 5 a 10/10 on repairability and maintanence 6 months ago:
Ancient tech? Looks at literally every laptop and desktop sold.
Headphone jack removal is anti-consumer and any device without one is missing a key component. Why would I buy a device missing a key component?
Plus you can find wired headphones EVERYWHERE. Walk into any gas station and pick up replacements for $10. Sure they may not be the best quality, but they work. Also, no charging, just plug them into your device. Also, no setup, just plug it in.
- Comment on That's what I thought 6 months ago:
Chakotay: Welcome to the Maquis Resistance, are you spy?
Tuvok: That would be logical.
And the show is over before it begins.
- Comment on Can anyone explain "Good Burger 2" to me? why does anyone want to watch this? 7 months ago:
Nostalgia is the simple answer. I watched it last night, it wasn’t very good, but it had some funny jokes and throwback moments.
In terms of ratings, 67% is probably a bit high even for the target audience. Outside the target audience it should be much lower.
In terms of content, they stretched the skit to make the first movie and it was fine. For the sequel, they pretty much just reference things and add a little bit.
Basically if you think you’d like to see it, you’ll probably enjoy at least parts of it. If you skip it, you’re not missing anything.
- Comment on easy as π 7 months ago:
That’s not pi? You have some odd rounding.
π ≈ 3.1415926535897
So you get 7 pretty quickly. To get a 0 you need,
π ≈ 3.1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 50
- Comment on Nikki Haley vows to abolish anonymous social media accounts: 'It's a national security threat' 7 months ago:
I wish that were true but what actually happens is some people are nicer, but asshats are still asshats. People who might have called an asshat an asshat, now just respond politely, but the asshats grow more bold.
So what you’ll get is any sense of reasonable Republican to quiet down, and the worst Republicans to speak louder.
Trump can call people vermin and Republicans celebrate. Biden responds that such language is Nazi-like, since we can’t call him an actual Nazi, and Republicans scream back that Biden is overreacting.
- Comment on Totally not listening to it right now.... 7 months ago:
Hard disagree. The opening theme is part of the show. It’s a secret Star Trek call.
A few years back I was waiting for an elevator and randomly the song got stuck in my head. I started to hum/sing the song, quietly, but getting louder as I waited for the elevator. I didn’t notice but another man had also had begun to wait for the elevator. “Is that the Enterprise theme?” He asked? And we shared a conversation about a show each of us had watched 20+ years ago.
You gotta watch with the theme song.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
While the “not a bot” argument exists, it is a weak one. I suspect the goal of this is,
A. Convince users outside of NZ and the Philippines to either create an account or at least keep (not delete) their existing account. Twitter needs to prove to advertisers that Twitter has reach/influence and with this they can say “you may have heard Twitter is bleeding users, but did you know the number of new Twitter users has actually increased xx/yy?” and it won’t technically be a lie.
B. Elon really does think this service will be an everything app of the future. He and anyone who believes this is absolutely bonkers and should genuinely seek help. However the value of an account that is already onboarded (e.g. had a credit card on file) is worth far more than any regular account. Convincing an account to spend their first dollar is much harder than convincing them to spend their second and so on.
- Comment on Google asks Congress to not ban teens from social media 8 months ago:
But also the anonymous Internet is important.
Also, do you think the proposal will actually have the intended effect? Do you think COPPA has been successful? en.wikipedia.org/…/Children's_Online_Privacy_Prot…
Children under the age of 13 absolutely have Facebook accounts. Children of all ages have DEFINITELY seen things that no one should see.
I’m not saying this isn’t a topic worth discussing, but further restrictions is not the right answer.
- Comment on Gargoyles Live-Action Reboot Officially in Works at Disney+ 8 months ago:
Conceptually it looks like the right people have been hired. I do hope we can get our original voice actors back, specifically Keith David. I’d love to see Frakes and other humans, but if this is a full reboot you’ll probably need to recast (but a cameo or different character for sure.)
My concern would be Disney not giving this show time to grow. While a darker “kids” show, I expect the primary audience to be much older. We don’t need to be R rated, but they should lean into that darker tone. I also wouldn’t expect this show to be a big hit, this’ll be a slow roll. They’ve given shows like Andor that freedom, but as a “new” IP Disney may be more reserved.
- Comment on Google asks Congress to not ban teens from social media 8 months ago:
“…like forcing users to upload copies of their government IDs to access an online service.”
“Some states, like Louisiana, have tailored their bills to ban kids from seeing online porn by forcing everyone, including adults, to verify their age before using the site. Google’s proposal does not oppose age verification on porn and gambling sites.”
That’s terrifying. Signing up for Lemmy would require uploading a government ID. I don’t know the solution to this problem, but I’m not confident this proposal is the right one.
- Comment on Here you go, Class 8 months ago:
I know we’re shit posting but if I could get real for a moment, this is how I learned about 9/11.
TV rolls in. Whole class goes “Yay”. Teacher says, “Be quiet and watch”. Whole class goes, “Oh no, he’s grumpy”. Whole class goes, “Wait… This is live TV”. A whole world changes.
Otherwise though, TV good.
- Comment on Video released of LAPD ignoring robbery to catch Togetic in Pokémon Go 8 months ago:
So I watched the video and it sounds like they were also using a website to determine where Pokemon were appearing. Reading the Vice article the quote “and that they were only monitoring a tracking application to catch mythical creatures” appears.
I mention this both because I find it interesting. The phone app will show you Pokemon nearby, but if you’ve caught the Pokemon before you can only see in your immediate area (the immediate area is wider for rural areas, but hardly enough). They also seem to know exactly where each Pokemon who pops up is, with more accuracy than you would get from the phone app and likely further away from where they were.
And the second reason is that, while the video proves plenty, I assume they were using their car computer to check a Pokemon tracking website. I would bet the start of this investigation came from checking the logs on that device.
- Comment on Video released of LAPD ignoring robbery to catch Togetic in Pokémon Go 8 months ago:
Sadly in 2017 there was no star level appraisal system. Third party tools (might have?) existed at that time, but it doesn’t sound like they used any.
- Comment on Video released of LAPD ignoring robbery to catch Togetic in Pokémon Go 8 months ago:
Shiny Togetic wasn’t available in the game at the time. (I had to look it up to be sure.)
Plus when someone gets a shiny, they aren’t quiet about it.
- Comment on Robin Williams' daughter Zelda says AI recreations of her dad are 'personally disturbing' 8 months ago:
What are your thoughts on things like Photoshop? As an example old.reddit.com/…/how_you_remove_a_ex_from_your_fa…
That is generating an image, and in turn an event that didn’t happen.
There are also cases of “repairing” old photos. Sometimes an old black and white photo is torn or faded, but we can restore it, we can add back things that aren’t there.
After someone passes away you often hear people say “I wish I could hear their voice again” or “I wish I could have one last conversation”.
I’m not going to deny that there are A LOT of terrible things that could be done with this technology. I just wonder what positives exist and how we might improve things.