Deestan
@Deestan@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why's everyone freaking out about Firefox Terms of Service? Isn't it Open Source? 2 days ago:
Also the you don’t have to use it, is a weak argument not even for or against
“Our pizza now comes with a topping of human feces!”
“Ew”
“What? Just scrape it off if you don’t like it”
- Comment on Why's everyone freaking out about Firefox Terms of Service? Isn't it Open Source? 2 days ago:
I’m a software developer, and understand the technicalities and options available to me. I am capable of forking Firefox and make myself a custom build with anything I don’t like stripped out. (Capable of, not wanting to.)
They removed “We don’t sell your data and we never will” from their FAQ and they added “We may sell your data” to the ToS.
I am unhappy about this change. It is a clear sign that the people in charge of Firefox want to sell user data, and that the irrecoverable enshittification path has been chosen. It means that at some point in the next few years, I can’t trust Firefox’ with my privacy. And they sure as fuck don’t have anything else going for them: The browser eats memory and freezes my camera during video conferencing, and is plain not supported in some of the software I use at work.
The rationale is probably something entirely reasonable, like “While we do not intend to sell user data, the phrasing was too vague and not helpful. What is selling, and what is user data, really?” An organization with strong privacy values would be so far from anything “bad” that the phrasing as it was would not be a problem for them.
It’s irrelevant that right now privacy settings and xyz and telmentry is clear and opt in etc. Because the point is that they are gearing up to change that. The settings will be less clear, user data will be separated into shit like “operability assistance”, “personal information”, “experience improvement metrics” with some of it enabled by default because, etc.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Reading past the headline, the article goes on to say that calorie in/out is correct but hard to calculate usefully and thus they recommend strategies that are easier to keep stable.
It’s pretty shitty to equate a first worlder feeling hungry for a bit to actual starvation. One is unpleasant. The other is serious.
- Comment on Sooo, where did the blatant Nazism suddenly come from? 1 week ago:
They want people to feel like rebels with a cause.
This is a good symbol to make a lot of people your enemies. Your ingroup can now rally against “the establishment”.
It couldn’t work before, because it made too many enemies for your small ingroup, but we’ve reached a tipping point where it is feasible to keep a thing going for a while.
- Comment on If a mysterious force secretly changed EVERY clock worldwide one minute forward, how long would it take until people notice, and how would people/governments react? 1 week ago:
1 minute, 60 seconds, 60 thousand milliseconds. I work with computer systems that monitor themselves to make sure they don’t take more than 10 milliseconds. At 50 milliseconds, they would raise alarms.
It takes 100 milliseconds to blink.
So, we’d notice pretty much immediately :)
And then all networked computers that assume a response within 30 seconds would go bonkers and maybe need to be restarted.
I’d react by assuming IT misconfigured the Network Time Protocol service that keeps machine clocks synced and inform them.
- Comment on What's it called when a man steals women's selfies to use to create a fake online persona, and when people call him out on this, he says "I never said those photos are me"? 1 week ago:
Habitual liar
- Comment on Is it irrational for me to hate and despise every single American at this point? 1 week ago:
Not all of them do. What do you want? A validation of a wish to generalize over a huge geographical region?
- Comment on Why there is no photos of earth from space? 1 week ago:
How do you imagine having an “open discussion” when you reject overwhelming evidence out of hand?
- Comment on why do people say annoying/rude stuff and then tell you “it was a joke!” 2 weeks ago:
There is this strange belief that humor is exempt from consequences.
In the book “Jam” by “Yahtzee Croshaw” there is a post-apocalyptic sect formed by a group of people from an internet forum. They are not stupid of course; they form a sect ironically. Then they worship a rambling drunk old man called Bob ironically and have ironic sermons and ironically imprison nonbelievers at the ironic orders of the High Priest.
If you point out that this is stupid and evil, they will roll their eyes and go “Duh!”, then ironically execute you for heresy.
- Comment on Report: Unity continues mass layoffs with 'abrupt' communications and 5am emails 2 weeks ago:
I can criticize a broken product. The jobs deserve thing is creative reading on your part.
- Comment on What's the tallest pyramid we'd be able to build? Can we reach space? 2 weeks ago:
That makes sense. Though at geological scales the distinction between solid and non-solid blurs a bit. Mountains are not solid to a slow enough observer.
- Comment on Report: Unity continues mass layoffs with 'abrupt' communications and 5am emails 2 weeks ago:
There’s no need for Unity anymore. Godot is excellent for at least 2D games the same way Unity used to be. Unreal is easy to pick up for 3D. GameMaker Studio is going strong.
- Comment on What's the tallest pyramid we'd be able to build? Can we reach space? 2 weeks ago:
Are there any restrictions on material?
If not, I have stack of dirty nitrogen in my backyard over 100km tall, technically resaching space.
- Comment on How did people end-up agreeing on the name of rivers/mountains and seas ? 2 weeks ago:
For the most part, whomever the mapmakers happened to ask got to decide. Once it’s on an official map, it’s just gonna drown out any other opinions.
Several places in Norway have names that are spelled “wrong” according to locals, but changing it requires herculean efforts of bureaucracy.
- Comment on If scientists could make you immortal but could only do it by transferring your consciousness into a single video game for ever, which game would you choose? 3 weeks ago:
Ah yes. I’d have to ask for uncapped PCU. Being part of the simulation, I’d not notice any lag as my consciousness would lag with it.
- Comment on If scientists could make you immortal but could only do it by transferring your consciousness into a single video game for ever, which game would you choose? 3 weeks ago:
Something in-game scriptable, so I could mould it for variety. Space Engineers maybe?
- Comment on Can you eat soap for acid reflux? 3 weeks ago:
While technically feasible with pure soap (which is lye fully reacted with food grade oil/fats), the stuff you find in stores will have stuff like:
- Conditioner
- Perfume
- Coloring
All of which are likely to cause irritation on your intestines and worsen the overall acid flux experience.
If you need to do this experiment for some reason, make sure you know exactly what is in it.
Fun fact: Old timey cheap industry soap (plain tallow and lye) used to be popular with rats and mice.
- Comment on Is there any way I can realistically send a message to Donald Trump and have him read it? 3 weeks ago:
Not in a good way. You’d have to make the news and get in trouble. (Btw without murder)
- Comment on Why are dwarf planets not considered planets but dwarf stars are considered stars? 3 weeks ago:
Mostly because Pluto was called a planet for a while, and reclassifying it upset so many people that they couldn’t just go “it’s just an asteroid sorry”.
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 4 weeks ago:
Not fluent at all, but I always parsed “Ich glaub, ich spinne” as “I feel like my head is spinning”
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 4 weeks ago:
One of my favorite youtubers Octavius King demonstrates this really well by using “complete and utter desk” as a derogatory term for the worst offenders to intellect.
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 4 weeks ago:
Haha, ikke noe problem. Godt observert!
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 4 weeks ago:
“Jeg bryr meg katta”
literally “I care like a cat”, meaning “I don’t care in the slightest and talking more about it is an insult to my time”.
It’s fallen mostly out of use, but I’m hanging on.
- Comment on Why does the winter solstice mark the beginning of winter, and not the center? 1 month ago:
Remain indoors.
- Comment on Why does the winter solstice mark the beginning of winter, and not the center? 1 month ago:
Seasons of Bergen, Norway:
December - February: Cold and dark and wet season. Stock up on antidepressants, good food, “Hygge”-paraphenelia, asthma medication and remain indoors.
March - mid-July: Cold and green season.
Mid-July: Summer!!!
Mid-July - August: “pretend it is still summer”-season. Yes, we can grill and drink beer in the garden dammit just put on an extra jacket.
June - August: Wet and windy season.
September - November: Soggy cold season. Shoes and jackets go to the Drying Rack, not on thr regular rack.
- Comment on Why does the winter solstice mark the beginning of winter, and not the center? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Longtime buddy of mine just got a gaming PC. What games would make up a good "welcome to PC" care package? 1 month ago:
SuperHot
The DOOMs
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- Comment on If media corporations worked together to convince you that a half decent politician is evil incarnate but the politician that helps corporations extort the people is good, what would it look like? 3 months ago:
Is this an opinion with a question mark glued onto it?
- Comment on Has anyone here ever bought games on eneba? 4 months ago:
Grey market key seller? Yes.
They sell cheap because they get them illegitimately. Leaked press keys, keys bought with stolen credit cards, keys scammed from developers, datamined keys…
What all of these sources have in common is that the actual developer gets nothing at best, and a chargeback fee at worst. All your money goes to middle men.
Just pirate instead. It’s more responsible.