rob_t_firefly

@rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Censorship sucks, giving credit rules.

  As above but without the authors’ usernames scribbled out. Screenshot of social media: a tweet by paige @pswizzz reads, “the biggest scam of all time was convincing kids that wikipedia, a free source of unlimited information, isn’t reliable when there’s literal sources at the bottom & a strict editing policy.” A tumblr post by LesbianBriachiosaurus appends, “Seriously tho as someone who put literal years of effort into creating a Wikipedia hoax it’s basically impossible to get away with for more than like an hour. They’re fucking vigilant. I tried to build up trust by doing legit editing but my account got reviewed cause I approved a page that mismeasured the size of a ship by a few centimeters”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New year, time to reboot the soap opera⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The years start coming and they don’t stop coming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dad jokes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Why censor out the writer’s username?

  Screenshot of the same tweet posted by OP, but the author’s name hasn’t been crossed out.

  Source

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The world isn’t ready for a Dude Lebowski/Dr. Emmett Brown hybrid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cruising around the OKC cock ring is an honored Oklahoman tradition⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hank Hill saying “Boggle?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feeling the Joy on Christmas Morning⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s her present this year!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feeling the Joy on Christmas Morning⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I nearly made it through an entire holiday season without seeing those two, but I’m not even mad at you because it was inevitable really. 🫡

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year? | Defector⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if it was the D string.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I finally break this habit? Tips welcome.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Now I’m hungry for a plate of dryer nachos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peak technology ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hank Hill saying “Boggle?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Casts Sulu and Bones for Series Finale⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We have to take into account that, generally speaking, a 50-year-old jobbing actor on low-budget TV in 1966 looked a good deal older than a 50-year-old Hollywood actor tends to look now. (Hell, I’m not that far from 50, not Hollywood glam by any stretch, and I still look noticeably younger than my boomer parents did at my age and way younger than my Depression-era grandparents looked at my age.)

  Physically, under modern makeup, lighting, and filming, I could see this guy looking very similar in age to Kelley in TOS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Katy Perry is using a sexualized version of the Romulan uniform?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To distract from the quality of her singing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I use your shower?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dating a horse means having a stable relationship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Typical monopoly people⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shitposting is a art.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Typical monopoly people⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The original uncensored version took three seconds on TinEye.com to find.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great guy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Johnny Kidneyhand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Construction magic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems legit to me.

  bjnomnom.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This bedroom game is weird⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then you can do it doggy style so you can both watch X-Files.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this is a stickup⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are few things more disturbing than a sticky wall.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Longing, Rusted, Seventeen, Daybreak, Furnace, Nine, Benign, Homecoming, One, Boxcar⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “I must kill… the Queen…”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Typical monopoly people⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The screenshot of a Twitter conversation OP posted, but in higher quality, without the added censorship over the word “fuck,” and without the users’ usernames erased. @notviking posts, “who the fuck decided rendesvous would be pronounced like that” @CathyJoBaker replies, “Poor monolinguals. They can’t seem to understand that other languages besides English exist” @notviking replies, “what the fuck did u just call me” @CarsonElquist replies, “She called you Mongolian”

  Picture of a sad-looking kitten and the text "Every time you post a censored meme to a community labeled “SHITPOST” a kitten is thrown into busy traffic. Cut that bullshit out. Think of the fucking kittens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You either die Old Mozilla or you live to see yourself become Current Mozilla.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At least give them to the nations which aren’t currently trying to ignore and undo the last 100 years of medicine, physics, and biology. (Sorry, United States.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for your kind words! I’m happy to help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hi! I’m just one guy on the radio, there may be others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The common “why doesn’t someone just make a “dumb” TV for people who don’t want this crap?” question has an easy answer. Dumb TVs do exist, they’re called “commercial monitors” or “commercial displays” and just show the audiovisual signal given to them by whatever else you hook up, in the manner of old TVs before additional apps or spyware were a thing. As implied by the name, stores and other businesses use them to show what they want without the added guff of the apps and ads they wouldn’t be able to fully control.

  Important detail: commercial displays tend to be fuckoff expensive compared to smart TVs of comparable size, quality, and feature set.

  “Hey,” you may be thinking, “how do they get away with charging so big a premium for an appliance fewer features?” And you wouldn’t be out of line to think that. However, what’s going on is more insidious.

  The higher price of a “dumb” TV is more correctly thought of as the real price of the appliance. The reason you pay so much less for a comparable “smart” TV is because the companies behind all the apps and spyware, the preinstalled shovelware apps which get you interested to subscribe to their services (Netflix, Hulu, Prime, etc.) and/or send you advertisements, as well as the spyware companies who profit from all the data about you that gets phoned home as you use the thing, pay the hardware manufacturers to put their shit software onto the device at the factory. That money made by the manufacturer from the shit companies goes, at least partially, toward lowering the price of the TV to entice you to pick it up at the store instead of a competitor’s TV.

  Look at that big chunk of money you save buying a smart TV over a comparable dumb display, and consider that amount as what it’s worth for the shit companies paying for the opportunity to monetize you and your household.

  Then, if you have the wherewithal to pay what is now easily considered a ridiculous amount more for an appliance that isn’t part of a system meant to take permanent advantage of you, you can do so. Alternatively, you can find clever technological ways to buy the cheaper “smart” one but counteract the ways in which it monetizes you, whether technical ways like jailbreaks or simpler methods like never letting the thing onto the Internet no matter how much it begs or enshittifies your user experience. (This strategy will stop working once it becomes cheap enough for the shit companies to just include their own connectivity with internal wireless that doesn’t need your network.)

  It’s a continuing battle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Trust that these people would 100% be doing that if they thought they could get away with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm New⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Read the room, dude. This person is from the UK. They use metres over there, not feet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Polar Bears are one of the only creatures that naturally hunt Humans... This one tries to break into the Cameraman's glass box⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Get off the phone. Get off… the… phone!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨wow, I just found out that Donald Trump has been awarded inaugural FIFA Peace Prize⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It only got a short mention by Colin Jost at the top of Weekend Update:

  Trump has not yet won the Nobel Peace Prize, but he did win the equally prestigious Soccer Peace Prize.

  FIFA actually invented a fake peace prize in Trump’s honor, and that’s why the trophy shows Trump’s gnarled hands dragging Earth into Hell.