kautau
@kautau@lemmy.world
- Comment on simpler times 23 hours ago:
But also implemented incredibly stupidly. You are purchasing a url in a blockchain that points to a server a singular person or org owns in most cases. That gets rid of any point of the blockchain. With enough money I just buy that server, the image url you purchased is now under my control and now it’s porn or something unless you pay me to restore it. There were very few NFTs where the actual thing you’re buying is on a distributed blockchain rather than a pointer to a centralized and privately owned server. In programming terms it’s what rust does to prevent bad pointers with doc.rust-lang.org/…/ch04-02-references-and-borrow…
- Comment on Samsung TVs to stop collecting Texans’ data without express consent 4 days ago:
What’s funny to me is instead of making a law all manufacturers would need to agree to, they “reached a deal with Samsung.” This is Texas power grid energy
- Comment on Pissing in the shower is better in every way than pissing in the toilet. 4 days ago:
I mean if you don’t flush your toilet though that will happen too. Just climb in and aim for the drain, what’s the worst that can happen
- Comment on Dear Faith II 5 days ago:
Well, rainbow tables are really valuable in certain disciplines, just not those rainbow tables
- Comment on big facts 5 days ago:
well you eyedrop it into your butthole and then expose your butthole to the sun so the positive solar energy modifies it primally because we’re all made of starlight and that’s just how it works
- Comment on It's literally science 1 week ago:
Ah the ol’ crosshair setup
- Comment on It makes me shudder 1 week ago:
Everyone pisses, but if you did it 50 times a day you’d go to a doctor.
- Comment on Better be a sex offender registry on those damn space ships 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Elon Musk's xAI loses second cofounder in 48 hours 2 weeks ago:
Probably someone who booted up openclaw and gave it a lemmy account and then it likely gave away their financial information on moltbook
- Comment on ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering 3 weeks ago:
Nice, less for video and more for images, but there’s also
- Comment on Genes be crazy 3 weeks ago:
But do ants taste like soap or cilantro
- Comment on Genes be crazy 3 weeks ago:
We need a study on if that’s the divide. If you can smell ants you also think cilantro tastes like soap
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I mean as long as you use the shower to get clean too, that’s just pure efficiency
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 5 weeks ago:
Ironic that they named themselves on a plot about breaking out of a cycle of control, classic Palantir or Anduril vibes too of like “haha movies good where stonks”
- Comment on Lemmy: Beans 1 month ago:
I’ve got nipples, Greg.
- Comment on Hurry pls it's urgent 1 month ago:
Yeah lol they also have a literal self destruct that will destroy the fab process in case of Chinese (or other) invasion corporate or national
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 1 month ago:
Not to mention generally enterprise devs aren’t beholden to public launch dates set externally by publishers and therefore end up burning out really fast trying to make a deliverable happen. Not saying that doesn’t happen elsewhere in software, but it’s really common in the games industry
- Comment on Nutritous and delicious 2 months ago:
I think he’d be alright with it
- Comment on Is brain rot real? Researchers warn of emerging risks tied to short-form video 2 months ago:
Obligatory Carl Sagan from 1995:
I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignoranceCarl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
- Comment on Netflix kills casting from phones 2 months ago:
They’re made to “Enhance the
user experienceprofit”“Enhance the user experience” is just what the dev or documentation team writes when management dictates that they drop a feature. The only reasons they would have dropped it:
- Dev work vs actual customer usage (e.g. it wasn’t getting a lot of users but devs had to maintain it with each update)
- People were using it to intercept the stream and capture movies to pirate.
Every decision is about increasing profits first, and UX almost always takes a back seat to that
- Comment on Authentism 2 months ago:
Open a PR. Probably needs theme support. Maybe dynamically generated.
[coffee|tea]-[blend]-[strength]-[milk-%]-[sugar-%] - Comment on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking 3 months ago:
“You worked really hard this year. 60 hour weeks. Impressive but you can do more. See that rolls Royce in the parking lot? If you work 80 hour weeks next year and everything works out, I’ll be able to buy a second one.”
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 3 months ago:
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 3 months ago:
Can’t pass it on to your kids when the bank forcloses on it
- Comment on TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear! 3 months ago:
The GG could only go about five, if you were lucky, on six AA
Which, while of course requiring exponentially more power, the Switch 2 only goes for about 6 hours on less demanding games, funny how battery life hasn’t really changed much for advanced handhelds.
- Comment on #RatFuckTheTimes 3 months ago:
conservative feminism
Ah yes the old
freedom for American internet choice act
Or whatever that actually means that the ISPs in power have the freedom to maintain control without competition and ensures Americans have no choice in internet provider
E.g. it’s literally the opposite of what it says on the tin
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 3 months ago:
Yeah this is another rugpull meant to allow the rich to get richer on the money of idiots
- Comment on life purpose 4 months ago:
I also sort of blame it on the social media culture of being “constantly connected.” In some workplace cultures, (especially outside the dev space), not being constantly visible and grinning is the same as not consistently posting happy updates on your feed and consuming them.
I remember in my last job we had an “open office” plan after buying and renovating a huge space, and I found a niche little area to set up my desk without people staring at me and when people came to ask me questions they would say shit like “oh so this is where you’re hiding!”
Yes, on company property in the main workroom seated at my company desk using my company computer.
Thankfully my new job is fully remote, so fuck all that weird social noise when at the end of the day I’m just whoring my brain and fingers out so I can pay my rent and buy groceries
- Comment on life purpose 4 months ago:
- Comment on life purpose 4 months ago:
Also now your boss can stare at you from his glass office door and see if you’re laughing too much and then Lumbergh you
