sensiblepuffin
@sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world
- Comment on We should have elections with no candidates. 1 week ago:
Moving away from FPTP is, for democracy, the crucial first step that very few seem to have taken.
- Comment on We should have elections with no candidates. 1 week ago:
Hard disagree. It’s really easy for candidates to talk the talk on the campaign trail, and then do a 180 once they’re in office.
That being said, this doesn’t work if you let them use flowery speech and vague promises. If you had parties submit a platform of actually actionable decisions they would make (e.g. “decrease the federal minimum wage”), you’d be able to suss out what they actually want to do. It would also provide a rubric for re-election - how many of the things you wanted to do did you accomplish? Are there good reasons why you weren’t able to?
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 1 week ago:
It’s extremely disappointing to me (admittedly in the US) that Covid seems to have obliterated any chance for a large-scale investigation on payment processors’ stranglehold on our financial systems. The fees that Visa/Mastercard/etc. charge, especially for tiny merchants with insanely low transaction numbers, are criminal.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price 5 weeks ago:
It’s a fair argument, especially given how much… entertainment he seems to derive from owning it.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price 5 weeks ago:
A cable subscription isn’t a depreciating asset, though.
- Comment on AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs 1 month ago:
In order to pay your utility bill, you have to beat the Undertale Sans fight in Genocide mode
- Comment on Mozilla faces a privacy complaint over Firefox's tracking 1 month ago:
Because it makes it harder for advertisers to mine and sell your data. That’s it.
- Comment on Apple's mobile chips are now made in the U.S. — TSMC produces the older A16 Bionic at its Arizona fab 1 month ago:
I know. I was devastated when I first watched it, because I was so sure it was going to pass…
- Comment on Apple's mobile chips are now made in the U.S. — TSMC produces the older A16 Bionic at its Arizona fab 1 month ago:
Also, if interested, check out this documentary: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Factory. Has a lot of interesting crosstalk between Chinese/American views on work and business.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Does anyone really think that Amazon cares what anyone wants?
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads 2 months ago:
Also, I’m pretty sure it’s not possible to install any other browser on iPhones unless you get root.
- Comment on Nashville man arrested for running “laptop farm” to get jobs for North Koreans 2 months ago:
Turns out the people who write the laws have an interest in making sure that the maximums for these crimes are low.
- Comment on AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data - Nature 3 months ago:
Deep-fried LLMs.
- Comment on Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising 4 months ago:
+1 to PopOS. My only gripe is that they and Nvidia still haven’t figured out how to move to Wayland, but once that happens (and we can all switch to cosmic), I’ll be a happy camper.
- Comment on Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs 4 months ago:
Moving towards something doesn’t imply that cars are being obliterated or banned. Funnily enough, whenever I’m in an unpleasant altercation with a driver, they tend to have plates from far away. If they want to drive their cars out in the country, they can do so - when you’re in a dense urban area (which is the most sustainable way to arrange people), you can park and get on the subway with the rest of us.
- Comment on Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs 4 months ago:
We should be.
- Comment on Elon Musk Begs Advertisers to Return as Twitter's Revenue Plunges 4 months ago:
Can’t stop there, you’d have to break his SIM card and tape a sign to his forehead saying “DO NOT LET THIS MAN TWEET”.
- Comment on Elon Musk Begs Advertisers to Return as Twitter's Revenue Plunges 4 months ago:
Maybe that big bonus package that the board approved stipulated that he must not, quote “say anything stupid” for a little while.
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 5 months ago:
The problem is that fandom tends to vacuum up and supersede the smaller wikis, and the SEO bullshit just makes it happen even faster. The answer to your question unfortunately is “it depends on the game/show/fandom”.
- Comment on Slay the Spire devs followed through on abandoning Unity 6 months ago:
I’m going to guess they’re skipping redirects - that’s what the issue was for me.
- Comment on The FTC isn’t too happy with Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard layoffs 8 months ago:
Generally, the ones who understand the numbers are making enough that they don’t feel as fucked over. In my experience, anyway
- Comment on The FTC isn’t too happy with Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard layoffs 8 months ago:
Idk, I’m starting to think that the shamelessness of bragging to your employees that you’re fucking them over is worse. At the very least, the employees should feel insulted that they’re supposed to be excited about it.
- Comment on Microchips 11 months ago:
That would imply an unrealistic level of self awareness, imho
- Comment on Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform 11 months ago:
Good point!
- Comment on Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform 11 months ago:
The surrounding context of that statement is talking about the app, not the protocol. From the Apple user’s perspective, they see no difference.
- Comment on Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform 11 months ago:
But the statement is not incorrect.
(When photos and videos are sent to an Android user through iMessage), (Android users receive lower-quality photos and videos [via being downgraded to SMS/MMS).
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 11 months ago:
Telling that you think being blocked is a good thing. You’re not harassing me, you’re not trying to dox me, you’re just being annoying and bad at sarcasm. Hence, you’re not worth blocking. But you’re certainly also not worth talking to.
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 11 months ago:
You prefer to communicate with people who assume you’re being sarcastic? That’s kinda weird. I prefer to communicate with people who take my words at face value. You’re not worth blocking.
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 11 months ago:
If you want me to understand your sarcasm, maybe put a modicum of effort into communicating it :)
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 1 year ago:
Tell me you misunderstood the comic without telling me.