DirkMcCallahan
@DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world
- Comment on makes more sense than this shit 5 days ago:
I’m now a firm believer in this theory.
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 1 week ago:
A worthy successor to the 65535 Excel bug.
- Comment on Forget Netflix, Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription 1 week ago:
I eagerly await cars that require subscriptions for air conditioning, sound system access, etc.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 3 weeks ago:
I’m not convinced. Look at how Netflix made bank on killing off “sharing is caring.”
People are lazy, and if they want their easy Spotify fix, I fear they’ll hand over their information and move on with their day.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 4 weeks ago:
It seems like a lot of people almost delight in their tech illiteracy. And the big corporations are laughing all the way to the bank.
- Comment on Human civilization won't last forever; someday there will be a last movie ever made 4 weeks ago:
One thing’s for sure: it will be part of Disney’s IP.
- Comment on Why do we humans love music so? 5 weeks ago:
Why do we like reading? It’s just arbitrary characters, really, in a sequence.
- Comment on ICE raids on US farms leaves crops rotting 1 month ago:
Make America Famished Again
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 2 months ago:
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
- Comment on Here's your first look at the rebooted Digg | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
I’m looking forward to the “Here’s your first look at the rebooted Reddit” articles in 7 years.
- Comment on Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers 2 months ago:
I feel like this has been happening for a while, but maybe it’s just that YouTube’s website is shite.
- Comment on Reddit will help advertisers turn ‘positive’ posts into ads 2 months ago:
How better to celebrate the 2-year anniversary of Rexit?
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 2 months ago:
What happens to the communities there? Is there a way for them to automatically migrate to another instance?
- Comment on HBO, Which Was Always HBO, Is HBO Again 3 months ago:
Hey, maybe Elon Musk should have focused on cutting waste in the HBO corporation.
- Comment on In a Boon for Tesla, Feds Weaken Rules for Reporting on Self-Driving 3 months ago:
Serious question: If I get hit by one of these death machines, who can I (or my next-of-kin) sue? Has that been established in court?
- Comment on Google is killing privacy sandbox in Chrome. 4 months ago:
Do
noevil. - Comment on This speaks for itself 5 months ago:
TBF, the latter is a much better reflection of how lifeless and awful their food is.
- Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 5 months ago:
It’s like every company that wasn’t complete shit just suddenly decided to…go to complete shit.
- Comment on Economist warns that Elon Musk is about to cause a "deep, deep recession" 5 months ago:
c/noshitsherlock
- Comment on For those of us that can spot the URL for "Never Gonna Give You Up" at a glance, we are getting rickrolled without ever clicking the link. 6 months ago:
Maybe the next generation of Rickrolling should involve providing a link to a real video but disguising it to look like the Rickroll link?
- Comment on Hate speech on X surged for at least 8 months after Elon Musk takeover – new research. 6 months ago:
Wasn’t that part of the point?
- Comment on Defaults are crucial for good UX and getting more users on the Fediverse 6 months ago:
Yeah, if I hadn’t been so committed to Rexit, I doubt I would have stuck around long enough to find a UX that I liked. Just to name one, it’d be nice if MLMYM were a default skin.
- Comment on Apple, Microsoft Joining Google Using Gulf of America in Maps Programs 6 months ago:
Not sure why anyone is surprised…they’re all bootlicking corporations that don’t want the mob boss to fuck with their mergers and/or investigate them for their various crimes.
- Comment on Google creating an AI agent to use your PC on your behalf, says report | Same PR nightmare as Windows Recall 9 months ago:
“After all, a lot of sensitive data can be accessed via the web browser — including emails, work files, and even banking details — so Google must place a safeguard around Project Jarvis and its future developments to ensure that it doesn’t unnecessarily access your private information.”
Narrator: They did NOT place any safeguards around the project.