Blackmist
@Blackmist@feddit.uk
- Comment on That explains it. 7 hours ago:
Are married men not supposed to look at other people’s tits now?
- Comment on FTC Says Social Media Platforms Engage in 'Vast Surveillance' of Users 7 hours ago:
Don’t forget their 1427 trusted data partners!
- Comment on Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc. 13 hours ago:
World of Warcraft’s pet capture system was actually very similar to Pokemon, including better traps with better chances of success.
- Comment on US can’t ban TikTok for security reasons while ignoring Temu, other apps, TikTok argues 1 day ago:
There’s a bunch of newspapers already with the option between pay for privacy plus or accept tracking.
Fortunately there’s a third option which is leave the site and never come back.
Plus most of the sites will ask you again after a period of time. Until you say yes. After that they can strangely remember your choice.
- Comment on Mozilla is going to shut down their Mastodon instance 1 day ago:
Probably because nobody was using it.
307 users over the last month is barely worth keeping the server running when mastodon.social is getting 249 thousand.
- Comment on Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers 1 day ago:
Are they not already at war with Hezbollah?
They’ve been killing each other pretty much non stop for 40 years.
What’s that if not a war?
- Comment on US can’t ban TikTok for security reasons while ignoring Temu, other apps, TikTok argues 2 days ago:
GDPR is a start, but we need to actually ban it, not just annoy people until they click Accept at the 20th popup of that tantalising offer to share your details with 1473 trusted data partners.
- Comment on US can’t ban TikTok for security reasons while ignoring Temu, other apps, TikTok argues 2 days ago:
And all the CIA ones.
And then block all cookies and tracking.
- Comment on Google has been blocking many tools/IP ranges that try to synchronize with YouTube 2 days ago:
The problem with money being involved is it’s an invitation to spam crap everywhere.
One of my relatives has recently taken up “AI travel videos” and “AI cute videos” as a “hobby”. No doubt based on the first thing that came up when I searched for those things, a video titled “make $10,000 a month spamming up YouTube with your AI slop”.
Oh, and it needs you to buy the AI slop generating tools that they happen to sell. How convenient!
I mean, this also happened with broadcast TV, where we suddenly went from like 4 channels filled with programs and things competing for space, to 200 channels, where the rush was on to fill the gaps between the adverts as cheaply as possible with reality show tat. And that’s all YouTube is now.
- Comment on Google Serves AI Slop as Top Result for One of the Most Famous Paintings in History 2 days ago:
Google Serves AI Slop
as Top Result for One of the Most Famous Paintings in History - Comment on Instagram makes all teen accounts private - npr 2 days ago:
The point of Insta would seem to be the opposite of that. To splatter your life before the world in the hopes of becoming a viral millionaire influencer.
- Comment on Oh Elon 2 days ago:
And everyone knows that can’t be amended.
- Comment on Oh Elon 2 days ago:
His goal is but another amendment away.
- Comment on There are now more electric cars than gas cars on Norway's roads 5 days ago:
Yeah, I’d be a bit more excited if they weren’t making most of the money to pay for that by exporting vast amounts of oil and gas.
- Comment on DeArrow is an open source browser extension for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube. 1 week ago:
When you browse Netflix, they use different thumbnails for the movies depending on the profile they’ve made for you. Even if it’s as blatant as “white person from the movie”/“black person from the movie”. If you ignore a movie for long enough, sometimes they even swap it out for a different image to trick you into watching it.
I’m amazed that YouTube doesn’t try and do this somehow. Instead, every video somehow has the same stupid thumbnails of arrows, meaningless text and gormless faces, and I hate it.
But then I block all ads anyway, so it may be that they’re actively trying to make me go away.
- Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills 1 week ago:
Fuck off old gen, we hate you now. Fo rizz no cap etc.
- Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills 1 week ago:
By the time the generation after them get to working age, somebody will have invented the Swype keyboard for office use.
It will always be in uppercase unless you press the “no cap” button.
- Comment on Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots 1 week ago:
Can I interest you in a FCVTRHJR HDMI cable?
- Comment on How come drug dealers seem to have a messed up house or at least a messed up car with a bunch of trash in it? 1 week ago:
Because they’re also drug users.
- Comment on Big af but sideways 1 week ago:
I assumed this was a chat between two men tbh
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 1 week ago:
Maybe we can have normal priced graphics cards again.
I’m tired of people pretending £600 is a reasonable price to pay for a mid range GPU.
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 1 week ago:
As in as soon as companies realise they won’t be able to lay off everybody except executives and personal masseuses, nVidia will go back to having a normal stock price.
Rich people will become slightly less grotesquely wealthy, and everything must be done to prevent this.
- Comment on Bread 1 week ago:
Takes me about 10 days to get through a loaf, depending on what we’re eating.
I don’t know any type of better bread that would last that long outside of a freezer.
- Comment on Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots 1 week ago:
If your business model allows somebody to game you like that, you kind of deserve it tbh.
It shouldn’t be based on plays. It should be based on money made from a customer and divided between what they spent it on. But then you wouldn’t make as much money from the people that forget to use their subscriptions, which is probably a huge chunk of their revenue.
- Comment on Bread 1 week ago:
Just put it in the freezer in the bag it comes in.
Most of this shit has been frozen before it reaches the supermarket anyway.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 1 week ago:
Hates stuff the west does.
Loves stuff China and Russia do.
It’s the same stuff.
- Comment on The UK section of my local supermarket is taking the piss 2 weeks ago:
Not even Branston beans. What a disgrace.
- Comment on Instance admins, how much does it cost you to run your instance? How much does that represent per active user? 2 weeks ago:
Looking at the domain name, they’re in Mali. Things must be cheap out there.
- Comment on How to cut your energy bills by 30 per cent with a heat pump 2 weeks ago:
They’d get a lot more people onto heat pumps if they didn’t block grants on any unit that can cool as well as heat.
Even then, I think I’d still want gas to heat my hot water. The electrical system can’t cope with doing that on demand. I used to have a hot water tank, and I’m not going back to that. Combi boilers are so much more convenient.
Heating systems can afford to be slow though.
- Comment on Wells Fargo employee found dead in cubicle 4 days after she clocked in: ‘She was just lying on her desk’ 2 weeks ago:
They probably only started looking because they thought she was defrauding the company by not clocking out.