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- Comment on The demise of Flash didn't bring any big HTML5/JS equivalent for watching animations; fast internet and better video compression made those types of animations become raster videos as well 2 days ago:
Those last things you listed were all true of Flash too:
- Back forward buttons, working in a flash site?
- Scroll bars? Same thing.
- CPU usage? Same thing. (See: phone performance.)
- Crashes? It was the number one cause of crashes as reported by Apple when looking at their Safari crash logs. This was true of many plugins of that style from back in the day.
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 3 days ago:
He was someone who was a fruititarian at various points in his life. He was also someone who didn’t shower at certain points in his life.
- Comment on Microsoft reportedly mulls ad-infested free Xbox Cloud Gaming plan — Game Pass Ultimate subscriber allegedly catches ad during game loading 5 days ago:
I hope they really shit the bed and make ads appear like Achievements periodically. Complete with the same notification sound.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 5 days ago:
What do you expect, they started as a pirate platform.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Well, all we need is for the AI companies to jump from where they are now to AGI! It’ll be fine, I’m sure!
- Comment on Hey Google, meet Gemini: the new voice of your smart home 1 week ago:
Few will see that discussion because the thread is negative votes.
- Comment on Hey Google, meet Gemini: the new voice of your smart home 1 week ago:
It’s still really obnoxious that Lemmy downvotes stuff like this.
- Comment on if we all lived within close proximity of sock processing facilities we'd have fewer problems with socks 1 week ago:
I think there’s a gas leak in this thread.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN 1 week ago:
That might be the one I was thinking of. It rings a bell.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN 1 week ago:
I think Valve or others have proposed creating a standard for this for just this purpose.
- Comment on Donald Trump and Peter Thiel are using AI to supercharge the surveillance state 1 week ago:
Well, actually… the ladies in the milk were kinda having hallucinations too……
- Comment on Memecoins Are Coming to the Stock Market 2 weeks ago:
And his casinos lose money 😞.
- Comment on Admins: Instnace randomly running extremely slowly? Check for this 2 weeks ago:
I appreciate the effort!
- Comment on Admins: Instnace randomly running extremely slowly? Check for this 2 weeks ago:
Things have been slow for me off and on in recent weeks. And today it’s quite slow.
- Comment on Australia’s under 16s social media ban could extend to Reddit, Twitch, Kick, Roblox, Steam, GitHub, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, Discord and even dating apps 2 weeks ago:
That is a list of things that are social media, or have aspects of the platform that are social, and contain UGC.
- Comment on Extremists are using Discord to radicalize American youth, officials warned this year 2 weeks ago:
Old person: “wow! And the place they do this at is called ‘Discord’?! How brazen!”
- Comment on Apple iPhone 17 Devices Plagued by Wi-Fi Connectivity Issues 2 weeks ago:
That complaint makes sense, don’t get me wrong guys.
- Comment on JUNO completed liquid filling and begins data taking 2 weeks ago:
Ah ok, I was conceptualizing this as more akin to a large reflecting telescope.
- Comment on Apple iPhone 17 Devices Plagued by Wi-Fi Connectivity Issues 2 weeks ago:
But it’s nonsense and shallow.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
So these Palantir ads… what anudience are they targeting? This must be a non-standard awareness campaign.
It’s not like Blackwater or other similar companies have advertised, right? It’s like they want us to know we are being monitored. They want us curious about what it is.
- Comment on JUNO completed liquid filling and begins data taking 2 weeks ago:
The liquid keeps it stable and absorbs movement, right?
- Comment on Firefly, the shinest damn show in the 'Verse 2 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, I forgot! I totally agree! The movie was good.
- Comment on Firefly, the shinest damn show in the 'Verse 2 weeks ago:
I could never get into it. But everyone I know that’s into it is cool. And Nathan is cool. I’m not sure why it didn’t click with me.
- Comment on Education doesn't increase intelligence by making people memorize things, but by constantly reminding people that they might be wrong. 3 weeks ago:
I know. 😔
I mostly share these feelings because it illuminates the issue a bit for some people who otherwise have not considered it.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Ah, good point. I guess things would rapidly re-form in the favor of the fediverse if this law was overturned…
- Comment on Education doesn't increase intelligence by making people memorize things, but by constantly reminding people that they might be wrong. 3 weeks ago:
Yet again, we have difficulty having shared definitions of the most basic words.
We really need to address this some day. So much conflict will go away once we stop arguing about the definitions of words.
Maybe words are too imprecise, and we need something else. But on the other hand, we have precise words for lots of things. But it’s considered elitist or whatever to use them. “$10 words” are often just very precise and replace a bunch of other words in a sentence.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Well, it’ll be a difficult transition. But in the long run, maybe not?
As long as the Fourth Estate gets their shit together.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
It shuts down Truth social and all social networks. YouTube stops allowing uploads, the fediverse closes up shop, cats and dogs living together.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
There is no Radical honesty on Truth social.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 3 weeks ago:
That’s a fair take. I’m sure they feared looking dated. I think that’s a misguided fear that you have when you don’t think the other aspects can live up to expectations.