2pt_perversion
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- Comment on NATO official: Ukraine has legal right to strike deep into Russia 1 day ago:
By international law they can use weapons supplied by other nations even for long range strikes into Russia yes, to my knowledge it’s just a gentleman’s agreement that they follow the terms of the nation supplying them. Not really a point of contention though as it would be idiotic to violate those terms at risk of not being supplied anymore.
The only point of contention is whether supplying nations should decide to allow strikes into Russia with their equipment because Russia continues to threaten that it would see that as an act of war from the supplying nation. So legally nothing wrong with it but you have to weigh that decision with possibility of starting World War III or a nuclear apocalypse.
- Comment on Lemmy wouldn't really takeoff to replace Reddit until it's content is search indexable 1 week ago:
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site:lemmy.worldin front of your search if using google. You can combine multiple instances with the OR operator iesite:lemmy.world OR site:programming.devthis will force google to give you content only from your desired domains but lemmy.world posts will likely trample the other instances for a lot of stuff.We’re becoming a little centralized (which I personally don’t find to be such a bad thing yet).
- Comment on Why is Facebook filled with so much random junk now? 1 week ago:
It’s non just Facebook either. Every big tech social media platform has headed in this direction of showing you stuff you don’t really want to see based on maximizing profit. For-profit social media seems to mostly be doomed to this outcome because it makes more money.
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 1 week ago:
Linus wasn’t accused of sexually harassing anyone. His company was accused of being a hostile work environment with sexual harassment by a former worker, but the accusations weren’t against Linus himself. LTT hired a 3rd party law firm to investigate - LTT said the law firm basically said there wasn’t legal liability based on the documentation they could find and LTT used that to basically absolve themselves and threaten to sue the accuser if she said anything else.
But this was an LTT hired lawfirm and LTT themselves reporting on what the report said - and since it’s confidential you kind of just have to take their word that they’re accurately reporting the findings. Further there were initially some corroborators of Madison’s story who retracted and apologized quickly (assumingly after being threatened with legal action - Aprime is the example). Besides that a lot of the accusations were things that happened in person that wouldn’t necessarily leave a digital trail so it’s possible even if the 3rd party investigation was completely unbiased that everything Madison was still true.
In the end believe what you want but it seems slimy enough that I stopped watching.
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 1 week ago:
Probably the sexual harassment one that’s when I left. The billet labs stuff was bad too though.
- Comment on Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body 1 week ago:
It just using mushrooms as a sensor. The mushroom senses light, that causes an electrical response in the mycelium, electronics sense that electric signal and use it as a trigger to perform whatever.
The cool part comes from these living components added to robots having the potential to be better and cheaper than the regular tools we use for the job but unfortunately no sentient mushroom robots to party with yet.
- Comment on FTC urged to make smart devices say how long they will be supported 1 week ago:
I’d be a fan of a law that companies who drop support of their product would have to release code that lets 3rd parties or users themselves offer alternative support. If you want to fully abandon a product opensource it. If you’re a big company that doesn’t want to do that release a feature for users to self host before you cut ties. I know it’s not a simple thing to do in the current world but if laws mandated it then tech would have no choice but to adapt.
- Comment on Microsoft formally deprecates the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel 3 weeks ago:
Preach. Make an actual improved control panel, settings is garbage. It’s not just scattering things around it really doesn’t include a ton of necessary settings.
- Comment on SK hynix says its 3D DRAM is half as expensive to produce — credits EUV chipmaking tools 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Microsoft begins cracking down on people dodging Windows 11's system requirements 4 weeks ago:
If it’s just an installer check then people could just use the old installer versions and update afterward right? Or are they planning on stopping updates for unsupported hardware that already installed windows 11?
- Comment on All Windows users should immediately update their computers. An exploit rated 9.8/10 (CVE-2024-38063) compromises all devices running Windows with an IPv6 address. 4 weeks ago:
He owns the botnet.
- Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app 4 weeks ago:
I just dont connect the TV to the internet and hook a separate media center up to the HDMI port.
- Comment on On Bears 5 weeks ago:
I’ve actually heard that with black bears the best method is to ditch it in central park with a bicycle.
- Comment on I definitely never unsubscribed from a YouTube channel just for that... 5 weeks ago:
Tell that to conventional current vs electron flow. Science is ever updating with new information and the words we use to describe it will change over time as well, but I get what you mean. Prescriptive linguistics especially in formal settings like scientific writing is helpful for clear communication.
- Comment on I definitely never unsubscribed from a YouTube channel just for that... 5 weeks ago:
Descriptive linguists unite! Words evolve and that’s okay. Really science should pivot away and start calling more proven theories a different word if they’re upset about the confusion.
The etymology of the word theory comes from meaning more in line with “to look at or speculate” so even in that sense science kind of hijacked a word that was less inline with the modern scientific understanding of the word “theory” and descriptively transformed it themselves for use in their community. And that’s okay too.
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 5 weeks ago:
As long as the creator knows what they’re getting into when they make a paid subreddit it doesn’t really bother me. And it’s honestly probably a good plan monetarily for reddit. But just like when games started adding microtransactions it’s likely to change the core of reddit even further from what I used to like about it. But I’m on lemmy now anyway…
- Comment on Musk's X sues advertisers over alleged 'massive advertiser boycott' . 5 weeks ago:
He’s trying to claim that companies colluded to stop advertising on X and that violates antitrust laws.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_boycott
But it’s strange because this refusal to advertise on twitter doesn’t really harm competition in anyway. Concerted refusal to deal is supposed to be like when 3 big bad companies want to hurt a smaller competitive company so they get together and boycott any suppliers that deal with this competitor or force them to get a worse deal.
The companies GARM (Global Alliance for Responsible Media) represents are big enough (90% of advertising $) but they aren’t really competitors to twitter. If say facebook and tiktok got together and told GARM they wouldn’t run any of their ads unless they stopped working with twitter that would be much more in the spirit of the law.
But Twitter might still have a tiny bit of a case if they can prove they met GARM’s standards but were still excluded anyway. I doubt that’s enough for any major payouts though unless the judge is crazy. And honestly I think it’s still dumb because even if GARM settles it just tells advertisers “Okay you can advertise on twitter if you want they meet our standards”…but are advertisers really going to want to advertise on the site that just sued them?
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 5 weeks ago:
I’m assuming this is going to be more like a creator space type thing like patreon/OF. It will make reddit worse of course because patreon and OF already exist we don’t need reddit for that but as long as they aren’t trying to paywall user generated content on existing subs I don’t really care that much tbh.
If they paywall my old comments that I’ve left up to help others I’m going to go back and delete them.
- Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line 5 weeks ago:
Chromecast naming scheme did get weird - it’s difficult for someone who doesn’t follow these things to know if they want the chromecast ultra or chromecast with google tv. I agree though they should have just called the new product something like “Chromecast Box 2025”.
- Comment on Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line 5 weeks ago:
I guess onn is going to completely take over the low price streaming box market then.
- Comment on Science is Magic 5 weeks ago:
I always like the comparisons to how magical our world would seem to someone in an alternate reality where transistors or maybe even electricity wasn’t a thing.
Like you can dumb it down to really magical sounding things like calling a cpu “runes etched in sand”.
- Comment on If 1 million people sign a petition, a ban on rendering multiplayer games unplayable has a chance to become law in Europe 1 month ago:
Looking at you hitman…
- Comment on There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent 1 month ago:
They probably will at least RMA the really frequently crashing ones. To my knowledge they self-reported when they discovered the problem and the fix so they’d be looking at a lawsuit if they didn’t do at least that.
How much further beyond that they’ll go is what we still have to see. If they have a crazy number of CPUs still dying at 4-5 years old and don’t cover with an extended warranty than fuck em…But we have to wait and see what they actually do first before making that judgement.
- Comment on There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent 1 month ago:
People are freaking out about the lack of a recall but intel says their patch that will supposedly stop currently working cpus from experiencing the overvolt condition that is leading to the failure. So they don’t really need to do a recall if currently working CPUs will stay working with the patch in place. As long as they offer some sort of free extended warranty and a good RMA proccess for the CPUs that are already damaged I feel it’s fine.
If they RMA with a bump in perf for those affected it might even be positive PR like “they stand by their products” but if they’re stingy with responsibility then we should obviously give them hell. We really have to see how they handle this.
- Comment on Netflix Gains Six Million Subscribers After Password Sharing Crackdown 1 year ago:
It still too soon to tell honestly. The major bump of this policy is a one time surge of all the built up password-sharers but it’s likely not going to be huge swing to their growth long term.
And then these new subscribers, are they going to stick around? A common scenario might be someone cutoff midway through a series just subscribing for a couple months to finish them off.
And for the same reason I would expect new subs from the policy would happen quickly while unsubs might be delayed. The main account holders would likely finish off their series and take time deciding on their new streaming service before outright cancelling.
And all of this just ruffles feathers and makes the service a bit less valuable right when real competition is heating up.
