natecox
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- Comment on Cloudflare gets involved in the battle against piracy, blocking streaming websites in the UK — and VPNs won't help 1 week ago:
The title here is misleading.
Cloudflare “getting involved” would imply they decided to act of their own volition; which is not the case here.
“Cloudflare compelled to block specific piracy sites by court order” would be a more honest title.
We should at least take the time to be mad at the correct people.
- Comment on Prints appear to be lifting in one corner. 1 week ago:
FWIW I wouldn’t do dish soap like all the time, I only go to it when IPA isn’t doing the job. Come to think of it, since I switched to 99% IPA I haven’t needed to use dish soap at all; doesn’t seem to leave behind that residue.
As always, experimenting is the key. If you’ve eliminated wet filament, z-offset calibration, nozzle clogs, nozzle heat, bed heat, bed cleaning, model issues (e.g., low surface area needing brims), and filament feeding issues… that PLA may just hate you.
- Comment on Prints appear to be lifting in one corner. 1 week ago:
I’ve seen the alcohol recommendation already (91% minimum) but have you tried washing the bed with hot water and dish soap? Sometimes when my bed adhesion just won’t take I find dish soap solves it instantly.
PLA does have a shelf life, if cleaning the bed isn’t working getting a fresh roll could definitely be worth a try. PLA+ in particular has always seemed extra finicky to me.
- Comment on EPA says it will eliminate its scientific reseach arm 2 weeks ago:
Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, has boasted about cutting dozens of environmental regulations, saying he wants to make it cheaper and easier for industries to operate.
Yeah because we all know the primary focus of the “environmental protection agency” is protecting corporations.
Fuck everyone involved in this bullshit. And fuck everyone with real authority who is choosing to fail to act.
- Comment on US | Donald Trump says those interested in Jeffrey Epstein inquiry are ‘bad people’ 2 weeks ago:
It’s always projection with them.
- Comment on Someone should make an anticapitalist Dexter. A serial killer who kills evil rich people. 4 weeks ago:
… as a TV show, right? Right?
- Comment on Study finds smartphone bans in Dutch schools improved focus 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think there is a good answer here. I didn’t really want my kids to have phones either but all you’re doing by denying them the primary social tool of their generation is ostracizing them from their peers.
Being a parent sometimes feels like a series of un-winnable choices.
- Comment on Study finds smartphone bans in Dutch schools improved focus 4 weeks ago:
Wat? It’s called a colloquialism. It’s a way to describe something I know you know without needing to spell it out.
You’re basically asserting that anything described using an analogy must inherit all the traits of anything else that analogy is used for, which is just silly. It’s a classic composition/division fallacy.
- Comment on Study finds smartphone bans in Dutch schools improved focus 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, my state just enacted a “bell-to-bell” ban on cell phones in schools for my kids. I absolutely support a ban on phones in class (so long as the school is providing necessary tech to educate with) but banning between class just ignores that phones are an important part of how kids socialize and ripping it away cold-turkey can’t be healthy.
- Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it 4 weeks ago:
I loathe and despise using percentages like this.
500% sounds super scary, but is meaningless without providing the baseline. If there was only one instance before and now there’s 5 it isn’t a significant increase but 500% sure sounds scary.
- Comment on Here's your first look at the rebooted Digg | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
That was a wild ride.
- Comment on What's the e-reader you would buy if you were in the market? 1 month ago:
FWIW I have the color and the non-color libra, and if you’re just interested in reading books where color isn’t a huge part of the experience I highly recommend the non-color version. The contrast ratio and legibility are simply far better.
- Comment on Microsoft uses 'Copilot' for practically everything. A watchdog wants the company to change its advertising. 1 month ago:
NAD
You’d think people who think a lot about advertising would have picked a different agency name…
- Comment on Radicle - Federated Git 1 month ago:
This is the first time I’ve seen it and I was pretty interested until I saw the crypto ties.
What a disappointment.
- Comment on Bambu Lab Controversy Deepens: Firmware Update Sparks Backlash 1 month ago:
I support protesting. If they had said “we know this will impact some of our users negatively and we regret that, but we are choosing to protest this change anyways” I’d be much more on board.
Calling it simply useless though I think hurts the protest.
- Comment on Bambu Lab Controversy Deepens: Firmware Update Sparks Backlash 1 month ago:
Orca Slicer’s developer, SoftFever, has publicly declined to adopt Bambu Connect, calling it unnecessary and of no meaningful benefit to users.
This is a frustrating take. If they don’t adopt Connect then at some point Bambu users are going to be forced into that update and will lose what I consider critical functionality. Seems pretty meaningful to me.
- Comment on Asus and Lenovo’s handhelds get price hike as Valve pauses some Steam Deck sales 1 month ago:
Price hikes for what, Lenovo? I’m still waiting for them to send me my Legion Go S SteamOS edition that I preordered on day one.
- Comment on Duolingo deletes all its TikTok videos after AI backlash—and then returns with a strange message 2 months ago:
Yeah I’m dropping my super subscription and my usage of the app. Fuck AI, and fuck the companies using it to deepen the enshitification of tech.
- Comment on Star Citizen’s new cash shop offerings provoked fresh pay-to-win and predatory monetization accusations | Massively Overpowered 2 months ago:
SC has so much potential. There is real magic in some of the game they have produced; the aesthetic is fantastic and the fundamentals are solid… all of which makes what they’re doing to run the game into the ground so fucking disappointing.
- Comment on Forget foldable phones – LG's 'stretchable' in-car display can grow physical buttons when you need them, and I can't stop watching it 2 months ago:
It still seems like you have to be doing a lot of looking at the controls to use them, which is the whole complaint about a lack of physical buttons.
- Comment on Elon Musk's Social Platform X has filed a lawsuit agains Minnesota, challenging a law banning political deepfakes 3 months ago:
What a fucking chode.
If you need it to be legal to deepfake to manipulate politics you’re the problem.
- Comment on Have you tried Jolla phone? Is it really a good alternative to iPhones/Android phones? 3 months ago:
Additional information
Your purchase includes a 12-month Sailfish OS full license subscription valued at €59.88 (€4.99/month), granting access to all releases, commercial components, and feature upgrades. After the first year, you can choose to continue your subscription and support Sailfish OS development further. Even without renewal, your device will continue to function, but future software updates and commercial component upgrades will not be available.
Subscription pricing for security updates kinda sucks.
- Comment on Starfield PS5 Release Should Be Ready With Next Expansion 4 months ago:
I’ll believe it when I see it, but that would be cool.
- Comment on How do you not feel overwhelmed using Mastodon? 4 months ago:
I guess I don’t understand the mastodon/twitter style feed, I’ve always found that I couldn’t seem to get a feed interesting enough to come back to.
- Comment on How to get people to use Mastodon? 5 months ago:
Too damn close to tankie (TANK-ie), hard pass.
- Comment on nuked from orbit 5 months ago:
Wow what a lousy take from this exchange.
- Comment on Netflix accidentally made its content show up in the Apple TV app 5 months ago:
I’m not surprised. The argument at the time was that they needed users to be inside their own app and anything less was unacceptable.
Gotta gobble up dem user metrics, I guess.
- Comment on Netflix accidentally made its content show up in the Apple TV app 5 months ago:
Solid argument. Go you.
- Comment on Netflix accidentally made its content show up in the Apple TV app 5 months ago:
I mean, you lead with “logging out is hard so I have no choice but to have a single user”. I countered with “it’s not hard, we do it just fine, here are mechanics that make it fairly easy”.
If you don’t understand that closing the tv app stops showing the tv app I’m not sure how to help you.
- Comment on Netflix accidentally made its content show up in the Apple TV app 5 months ago:
I have been using a single Apple TV in a multi-user home for many years, I think you’re overselling the difficulty here. Virtually every app will just ask you what user profile you want to use when the app opens; and when you’re done, closing the app is simple.
It’s far more obnoxious to need to browse every single app for their content rather than having a single unified watch list and closing an app when you’re done.