AndrewZabar
@AndrewZabar@lemmy.world
- Comment on why isn't anyone calling for Trump to drop out. 1 day ago:
I don’t know if you’ve been not paying attention but even if he’s not elected, he will never see the inside of a jail cell. Trump is untouchable. I’m not sure why, most people speculate he has dirt on some very powerful people - really serious dirt on many really powerful people. That’s only speculation, but if you recall during his first campaign he bragged about how much he was loved and worshiped he said he could walk out of Trump tower onto Fifth Avenue, and shoot someone dead in broad daylight and he would never face any consequences whatsoever. And he was right.
- Comment on Why do many search engines seem to ignore operators (e.g. exact phrases, term exclusions, OR, etc.)? Is there a good reason for having a dumb 1997-level search logic that I'm not seeing? 2 days ago:
I said so-fucking-long to Google long ago and switched to DuckDuckGo. If I ever get really nowhere and think maybe googs might have a result for me, then on the Duck you just use a !g before your terms and it facilitates the search thru Google but without their ads.
Their focus shifted long ago from being the best to just figuring out new ways to get more out of users, no matter how deceitful and manipulative they need to be.
- Comment on Interview: Digital Eclipse On Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Rita's Rewind 1 week ago:
Why does an article about the power rangers have a thumbnail of Voltron?
- Comment on 2 months ago:
How is Wesnoth? I think I’ve installed it on numerous Linux boxes and my iPhone but never actually tried it yet. Is it worth getting into?
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Wanna dance? Shake it, baby.
- Comment on The retro game experts at Digital Eclipse have released a remaster of [1981's] Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord 9 months ago:
Well, Might & Magic had the advantage of letting you make your moves turn by turn, where’s Wizardry had that weird system where you commit each party member’s action all at once and then let ‘er rip. I always found it strange and also inconvenient.
- Comment on The retro game experts at Digital Eclipse have released a remaster of [1981's] Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord 9 months ago:
Omg I loved that one! Werdna!
- Comment on Amazon pinches sellers: Use our costly logistics services or pay extra fee 10 months ago:
They have been continually and progressively hostile toward their sellers. They want total devotion and commitment, they want their sellers to swear off any and all other venues and pledge total loyalty to Amazon - AND they continually screw them as punishment for not doing so.
Kinda sounds like a cult to me. And yes, according to Louis Rossman, the FTC is preparing to go for the jugular against them.
- Comment on Anyone know what this is? 10 months ago:
I hope you smacked her for that lol.
- Comment on Imagine pitching Joust when nobody had heard of it before. 10 months ago:
It’s foreshortening; there’s nothing “triumph” about it. That being said, hell yeah it’s gorgeous artwork.
- Comment on Tesla Hackers Find ‘Unpatchable’ Jailbreak to Unlock Paid Features for Free 10 months ago:
Ford’s are so precise they can even create images like the Ford Logo with their lights.
That is fucking cool!
- Comment on Tesla Hackers Find ‘Unpatchable’ Jailbreak to Unlock Paid Features for Free 10 months ago:
It’s where every industry is striving for. To continually get paid for something forever.
- Comment on One of Gaming’s Biggest YouTubers Wants to Replace Himself With AI 10 months ago:
So I stead of barely “working” for a living, he wants to not at all work for a living.
Hey, if he can make as revenue off idiots who are willing to consume his drek, good for him.
- Comment on “Absurd”: Google, Amazon rebuked over unsupported Chromebooks still for sale 10 months ago:
Precisely! As long as consumers continue to play their game, they’ll keep upping the ante.
My main computers are 8+ years old running Linux and performing astoundingly well.
Unfortunately, 90% of the time a typical non-savvy consumer buys a new machine it’s for all the wrong reasons and they really don’t have to. They just don’t know better.
- Comment on Spyware maker LetMeSpy shuts down after hacker deletes server data 10 months ago:
All law enforcement and regulatory bodies have their plates full non-stop in this Wild West world we live in now. At any moment for every criminal that’s caught a hundred get away with something.
- Comment on Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed 11 months ago:
I use Firefox. If I’m on the web and a site does not work with Firefox, I leave that site.
Do they think somehow people like me will change our minds? And more to the point, do they think website authors will want to limit their own audience for the benefit of some company?
Unless I’m misunderstanding this, maybe I need an ELI5
- Comment on Moving AI governance forward 11 months ago:
Whatever would be appropriate. It’s not something I can come up with spur of the moment.
- Comment on Moving AI governance forward 11 months ago:
Hahaha making voluntary commitments. I’m other words, unenforceable bullshit. We need legal regulation with massive penalties for violation.
Commitments. Lol. What a joke.
This is because corporate America owns the government.
- Comment on Apple slams UK surveillance-bill proposals 11 months ago:
Got to love all the pretense they claim as the reasons they want this. Oh it’s so we can scan for indications of child abuse. No it’s fucking not, it’s so you can spy on your own citizens. The U.S.A. uses terrorism as an excuse for every imaginable violation of our rights and the UK now wants Apple to let them bypass security with a flip of a switch - without any kind of approval or court order.
We truly are seeing all the sci-fi dystopian society tropes come to life one day at a time, one government overstep at a time.
- Comment on A teachers union says it’s fed up with social media’s impact on students 11 months ago:
The school system is far from perfect, but it’s been empirically demonstrated from many studies from many perspectives, that social media is terrible for developing minds and the mental and emotional well-being of children.
So, while you are right that there are many places for improvement in our education systems, dismissing what’s been proven already is foolhardy. More people need to trust evidence and stop just emotionally backlashing.
- Comment on Reddit is bringing back r/Place at perhaps the worst possible time 11 months ago:
Given the dimensions are huge, the opportunity for a gigantic manipulated photorealistic image is there. How about a photo of Spez sucking an entire bag of dicks.