Yendor

@Yendor@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iPhone vs Android⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A few massive differences:

  • You opt-in to targeted tracking with Apple. It’s impossible to opt-out with Google. Apple also enforces per-app opt-in for tracking.

  • Apple use your data, but they don’t sell it on

  • Apple features protect you from 3rd party tracking at a software level (Private Relay) and hardware level (MAC randomisation)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oil companies are hiring TikTok influencers to court young people⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re the one simping for the companies that are making the planet unliveable for future generations for their own profit.

  Plenty of evidence for what I claimed, google it yourself if you want:

  insideevs.com/…/social-media-influencers-paid-bas…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oil companies are hiring TikTok influencers to court young people⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oil companies (via “independent film makers”) have been paying influencers to shit on Tesla, ever since Tesla became a viable threat to big oil and legacy auto. Nothing new here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple TV vs Firestick.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have other Apple devices, so you can make use of features like AirPlay, the Apple TV is a no-brainer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the difference between communism and socialism?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The post office system is socialist, so are functions like public roads, and fire and police services.

  I’d argue that having the government provide a service isn’t enough to call something socialist. In “The Wealth of Nations”, Adam Smith said that in a free-market economy, the governments role was to provide defence, law and order, and public works (eg. roads and education). If we’re using Marx’s definitions for communism, then surely we have to use Smith’s definitions for Capitalism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia gets wake up call on materials manufacturing in surge to renewables⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I completely agree on the wind towers, but I find this but strange:

  The energy market operator says the surge in renewable energy generation expected by 2050 needs to be connected by more than 10,000km of new transmission lines and 25,000 transmission towers – each needing up to 60 tonnes of steel.

  Australia has plenty of local cable manufacturing capacity, between Nexans Olex, APEC, Physmian and Elcon. We also have plenty of bauxite and most states have an aluminium refinery and smelter.

  We also have plenty of capability to manufacture towers. But most Australian tower manufacturers are now fabricating them in pieces in Thailand/Phillipines and then assembling here, because boilermakers and coded welders are $60/hr in Australia but $6/hr in south east Asia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First U.S. nuclear reactor built from scratch in decades enters commercial operation in Georgia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, i remember studying the Westinghouse AP1000 reactor design when I was at Uni. It had just been approved, and numerous plants were expected, with the first expected to be online from around 2010.

  It’s 2023, and this is the first one to go live in the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk and company take @x handle from its original user. He got zero dollars for it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t be sociopathic and psychopathic - they’re different points on the same (ASPD) spectrum. Please learn what words mean before throwing them around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft reportedly deleting customer accounts with purchased games if they have been inactive for too long⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I know GOG has a launcher, but I haven’t seen it in a long time. The links on my desktop just go straight to the game executables.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game feels 'timeless' to you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re going to buy HOMM3, get it from GOG. The steam version only has the base game, the GOG version has all the expansions. I’d also recommend downloading the HD Mod - it’s still being updated with new features. And there’s Horn of the Abyss - a fan-made expansion complete with new town types and some things that were started but never made it into the official expansions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game feels 'timeless' to you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Heroes (of Might and Magic) is a turn-based strategy game. You start with a hero and a castle, and you objective is usually to take over all the castles on the map. The computer, or other players, will be trying to do the same.

  One of the craziest things, is that the game is almost 25 years old, but through the “HD Mod” it’s still getting regular updates, and there’s still annual world championships.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game feels 'timeless' to you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Heroes of Might and Magic III.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kevin Mitnick, formerly the world’s ‘most-wanted’ hacker, has passed away⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Gone to the great terminal in the sky. RIP.