douglasg14b
@douglasg14b@lemmy.world
- Comment on YSK to get a passport in the US, you need to have access to information about your parents and most recent ex-spouse 2 days ago:
In the US
Notice how it’s not
Usit’sUSand the sentence asserts that it is a place?I’m not sure if you are acting dumb or not, if you are, it’s embarrassing.
- Comment on YSK to get a passport in the US, you need to have access to information about your parents and most recent ex-spouse 2 days ago:
It’s literally in the title. What else do you want?
- Comment on Investors are buying close to half the empty lots in LA burn zones, report says 4 days ago:
So even more of the land in this country will be owned by corporations and not people.
Lovely
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 5 days ago:
I mean, maybe I want to go after a passion project and not waste away on someone else’s dream of what having money looks like?
$5mill ain’t gonna start & fund an engineering focused company if that’s my retirement savings.
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 1 week ago:
None of these are audio torrents.
That’s not released yet.
- Comment on Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached 1 week ago:
About 8MB is you assuming average message size is 200 UTF 16 characters.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 1 week ago:
Seriously.
They are already doing this through regulatory capture and corruption. Let’s not give them more power
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 1 week ago:
It’s a play to make at home compute unachievable, forcing people to pay for subscription cloud services and cloud compute in walled gardens.
- Comment on Google Removes Sci-Hub Domains from U.S. Search Results Due to Dated Court Order 1 week ago:
Would recommend. Been using it for a couple years now, and it actually feels gross when I end up on Google.
You will hear shit from a small group on Lemmy about how they also use Yandex for search results, but it’s a pretty hollow argument that keeps being used as some big “gotcha”. But if that’s a turn off for you, it is what it is.
- Comment on Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify 1 week ago:
Yeah, but it’s still operated and organized by people, people who of they are within US jurisdiction be punished and made “an example of”. Effectively killing the archive by cutting off its organization.
- Comment on YSK about Psyllium husk 1 week ago:
Nope.
- Comment on YSK about Psyllium husk 1 week ago:
You know what’s good at removing lead from the body? Fiber.
Citation Needed
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 2 weeks ago:
Pretty much this.
They are making market based decisions because they have to, and all the users bitching and moaning about them making financially driven decisions don’t donate anyways.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 2 weeks ago:
Firefox just can’t win with their users.
- Mozilla makes decisions based on market data
- Users complain they never wanted those features
- Mozilla makes a decision based on user feedback
- Users shit on them for backpedaling or damage control
It’s absurd.
- Mozilla makes decisions based on market data
- Comment on Backing up Spotify 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s a wild move admitting that they are the source of pirated content for music here.
We don’t need Anna’s Archive to go under as a result of Sony going after them because of this…
- Comment on RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders 2 weeks ago:
I want:
- Multitasking speed
- Fast SSD storage for dev tasks, builds…etc
- Large SSD storage for games
- Memory to run multiple development environments, and not have to turn them off to go play a game
- A GPU capable of playing most games on decent settings on a 4k monitor (upscaling allowed)
So generally this means:
- mid-high end CPU
- mid GPU
- 64+ GB RAM
- 1x High Performance 1TB m.2 SSD as primary drive
- 1x w/e 2TB m.2 SSD for secondary
RAM prices makes this… Absurd. My current PC is actually getting a bit slow for me now, it’s about 5 years old now, and it’s time for an upgrade. Which is going to cost me 2-3x what it should, simply from RAM…
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 2 weeks ago:
Just because they suck at it now doesn’t mean they always have
- Comment on what do y'all use for CI/CD? 2 weeks ago:
How does organization work out?
We have something like 30+ GitHub actions and 20+ workflows for our monorepo CI/CD stuff. GirHub organization with the flat structure is incredibly annoying.
GitLab is a single file?? (Or am I misinformed? )How does that work out?
- Comment on what do y'all use for CI/CD? 2 weeks ago:
A lot of that pain can be reduced by writing and running your code locally before pushing it to a CI environment.
And if what you’re trying to do must execute inside an action. You can run actions locally with docker!
- Comment on what do y'all use for CI/CD? 2 weeks ago:
GitHub Actions mostly.
The rest is usually plumbing and code to support it. The actions are just the automated execution environment.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes, the classic:
They must be maliciously lying instead of me using something wrong argument.
Very solid, much sound.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunate Newsflash:
It’s smaller reddit.
The lowest common denominator consumed all. And that denominator includes not being able to read articles or apply critical thought.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 2 weeks ago:
I’m currently running Vivaldi and it’s been fine. YouTube is even smoother.
So you switched to a Google controlled ecosystem. To no one’s surprise their own products, which intentionally run worse on competitive browsers, will work more smoothly once you use their backing software…
Google has a long history of abusing their position of power to “punish” users of other browsers and ecosystems by violating web standards, don’t use Google’s browsers or their derivatives.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 2 weeks ago:
Probably a fork of Firefox that can only survive as a side effect of the Mozilla engineering team’s constant efforts.
Or a Chromium based browser.
- Comment on what happens when you cut something? 3 weeks ago:
A knife generally tears, it separates the material in front, causing it to tear ahead of the blade.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 3 weeks ago:
I mean that applies to literally everything
Everything that you make an investment in has some measure of liquidity.
- Comment on DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's reasons why 4 weeks ago:
The amount of Labor that would go into it it really isn’t that high.
This is what distribution is for.
The company that owns the hardware is not the company that recycles it. The recycler can make a profit by reselling these components, they’re not allowed to.
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 4 weeks ago:
Y’all need to read what CSAM is. Questionable or objectionable art isn’t CSAM in the same sense that drawing a murder isn’t murder, or drawing Noncon isn’t rape.
- Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle 4 weeks ago:
It seems a stretch to call (at least as far as I understand it), a naked (fictional) character riding a horse CSAM?
Or am I missing something here???
- Comment on Quitting Spotify for Navidrome 4 weeks ago:
I disagree.
I don’t necessarily know about new music, artists, or genres. I want to get a mixture of stuff I haven’t encountered.
Something like 60% of the music I listen to in a given month I had never heard of 12 months prior. I’ve found so much music that I vibe with by way of generated playlists.
This doesn’t mean I support Spotify, but it does mean I disagree with your stance.