halcyoncmdr
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- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 4 days ago:
The advertisers are paying for the opportunity either way. Clicks cost them more money than just displaying the ad. Useless clicks cost them money for nothing.
- Comment on Stardew Valley Baldur's Gate 3 mod back online after D&D owners "mistakenly" send a copyright strike 4 days ago:
This is the type of thing that law firms will send without consulting their client first as soon as they were made aware as a default response, without considering any context to verify proper action. Which in most cases would be fine, but in this particular genre, because of shitty companies like Nintendo, can cause direct reputational harm.
It is Wizards of the Coast though, historically they’re not much better, so this would be 100% believable coming from them on purpose.
- Comment on One in five Americans want their state to join Canada amid escalating trade war: poll 1 week ago:
Keep in mind how the US tends to split when voting. Both sides of the country tend to separate from the middle, where land votes.
I’d bet you can get 10 consecutive states from Canada on both sides through Washington/Oregon/Cali and New England down the coast a bit.
- Comment on One in five Americans want their state to join Canada amid escalating trade war: poll 1 week ago:
There are two kinds of people that think our healthcare system in the US is great.
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The rich who can just pay for whatever they need.
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Those that never utilize the system at all in any form beyond maybe basic checkups.
Absolutely anyone else can tell you the entire thing is a shit show. Especially those that work within the system. There will always be some living in denial, just like there were pro-COVID nurses and doctors, but the vast majority will tell you the system is broken by design.
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- Comment on Trump says US will 'go as far as we have to' to get control of Greenland 1 week ago:
I still don’t understand what the possible motivation for this is. Most of the other actions are clearly tied to Russian interests or general interference and destruction of US power.
Going after Greenland doesn’t really assist either of those goals.
- Comment on GeoGuessr is making its way to Steam next month after almost 12 years of sticking it out as a browser game 1 week ago:
They already added a subscription.
Up front cost cannot cover the ongoing API costs they must be paying for Google Maps. So either this has to be free and just a front end for the same shit, or they’ll still end up net negative.
- Comment on GeoGuessr is making its way to Steam next month after almost 12 years of sticking it out as a browser game 1 week ago:
Why?
- Comment on Fable delayed to 2026 1 week ago:
Mumblings originally in 2017, job openings at the studio in 2018, officially announced in 2020. October 2022 Andrew Walsh, a senior writer from the Horizon Forbidden West team joined the Fable team. June of 2023 had an in-game trailer.
To be honest, that seems to be a reasonable timeframe, especially given the pandemic in the middle, if you aren’t following the “rush it out the door ASAP, fix it after release, if you ever do” approach.
- Comment on HA SEE THAT LIBSSSS! CHEAPER EGGS! 2 weeks ago:
To be fair… A year ago they were very close to the same price.
- Comment on How do you think smartphone manufacturers will comply with EU's replaceable battery regulation? 4 weeks ago:
Having worked in retail phone repair for 15 years, both for a major US carrier and privately… A lot.
I saw water damaged phones every single day, and I’m hundreds of miles from an ocean, sea, lake, or any major body of water. That’s just from mistakes near things like backyard pools.
- Comment on Whose bright idea was it to give the morning people enough power to set the "business hours" anyways‽ 4 weeks ago:
Rise! We protected the group from wild animals for centuries as they slept! We allowed them to sleep peacefully, without fear.
- Comment on How do you think smartphone manufacturers will comply with EU's replaceable battery regulation? 4 weeks ago:
I never said it was impossible. I said it was harder to both make them replaceable and water resistant. And they won’t bother to do both for 99% of models, they’ll just drop the water resistance to comply with replaceable battery requirements. There might be a few that they bother and then sell at inflated prices.
- Comment on How do you think smartphone manufacturers will comply with EU's replaceable battery regulation? 4 weeks ago:
They’ll make them replaceable and ignore waterproofing them for 99% of models citing the added difficulty in making a good seal without being able to glue it shut. Which is arguably true. It’s possible, but more difficult to design and much more likely to fail.
- Comment on SpaceX Starship blows up twice in a row. 4 weeks ago:
Could say the same about Facebook, and Google. Yet they don’t have any issues funding talent.
Money makes the world go round, at least most of the time. And enough of it can make just about everyone shove their principles into a box.
- Comment on SpaceX Starship blows up twice in a row. 4 weeks ago:
Despite what he may say at times. He’s not necessary for SpaceX operations. Gwynne Shotwell runs the day to day company, and they aren’t public so no need to say anything publicly for headlines like he does with Tesla.
- Comment on Like Trump says that the cartels have invaded Canada wouldn't they have to pass through the US, avoid checkpoint, border control on both sides and many other things? So Canada can only blame the US? 4 weeks ago:
Avoid populated areas, and fly low. The exact same techniques that they’ve been using for decades. Radar is dumb, it sends back a return when it bounces off objects, but you can’t tell what it is returning, that’s why planes have transponders to supplement more info. If you just don’t do that and fly low it will get filtered out with the terrain most of the time.
- Comment on U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services proposes to review social media of people applying for US citizenship, green cards, and asylum or refugee status, to comply with Trump's Executive order. 4 weeks ago:
I assumed this was already part of their process. Surprised it wasn’t to be honest.
- Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 4 weeks ago:
Inkjet is great, for photo printing regularly. For absolutely every other situation a laser printer is better.
- Comment on Controversial Influencer Andrew Tate Reportedly Leaves Romania. 5 weeks ago:
They were on house arrest. So…
- Comment on California could bump fast-food minimum wage to $20.70 5 weeks ago:
Just set the state minimum wage across the board based on cost of living, and then tie it to inflation. Businesses can then plan for annual increases based on the previous year’s inflation rate.
That solves this issue almost permanently. Instead of this back and forth bullshit taking years to make any changes and those changes being a decade or more behind by the time they go into effect.
- Comment on Chegg sues Google for hurting traffic with AI as it considers strategic alternatives 5 weeks ago:
WTF is a Chegg?
- Comment on HP to Acquire Parts of Humane, Ai Pin Startup From Ex-Apple Managers, for $116 Million 1 month ago:
What the fuck are they paying for? A shitty ChatGPT frontend and crap hardware no one actually wants?
Who the fuck is approving that purchase over at HP? I knew they weren’t particularly smart over there, but holy shit, that’s straight up brain damage levels of decision.
- Comment on Democrats Blocked From Entering Capitol Building Due to 'Push' Door Labeled 'Pull' 1 month ago:
You realize this is a satire website right? Like The Onion.
- Comment on the definitive proof that you weren't your parent's favorite 1 month ago:
Probably someone trying to use the meme in a Halloween-specific context.
- Comment on Chatgpt refusing to believe Trump won lol. 1 month ago:
Ah that’s true. Hadn’t considered that it would be pulling from before the latest election cycle entirely.
- Comment on Chatgpt refusing to believe Trump won lol. 1 month ago:
This is true. But it also is stating that it knows Trump did not win a second term, insinuating it has data past the election.
There needs to be a lot more transparency in what the models are actually based on and what is being artificially filtered or limited.
- Comment on I don't need no app 1 month ago:
And their app is just a wrapper for a webpage anyway.
- Comment on NASA Ordered to Remove Anything About 'Women in Leadership' From Its Websites: Report 1 month ago:
I mean, our POTUS is a rapist… And we know for a fact gas paid for sex. Pretty sure all his wives have married him for the money and lifestyle.
We all know he would have been a forever incel without his daddy’s money. So it tracks perfectly.
- Comment on This was Likely Recently Auto-Installed on your Phone. 1 month ago:
Lots of apps are able to interact with your text messages. Many apps are able to intercept one time passcode messages when registering accounts for instance.
It’s also not weird to separate this if they intend for it to be able to be used in other areas as well.
Just because it may be used only by Messages right now, doesn’t mean that it’s intended to only be used there.
- Comment on A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? 1 month ago:
Technically, this is the executive branch working within itself.
Now, the check on executive stupidity to this extreme is impeachment, but that’s never gonna happen with the Republican party in charge of both houses of Congress.