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- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 5 days ago:
Every time I see non-tech people talk about Bluesky vs Mastodon, they talk about how awful the user experience is on Mastodon, and how it’s been an issue for years and they keep ignoring it, so people just go to Bluesky instead.
It definitely feels like a “Us tech folk who care about the tech love it, we don’t mind the user experience as long as the tech is here” vs the “I just want the same thing I have over here, the tech aspect could not be any less relevant to my choice of platform” kind of issue.
- Comment on Culture Wars 1 week ago:
I know there’s always a relevant XKCD, but man talk about specific!
- Comment on ... 3 weeks ago:
Neil DeGrass Tyson rails femboy doomers from behind while debating science or something idk.
- Comment on Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy 1 month ago:
That’s not Amazon’s fault.
That’s mostly the fault of consumers who buy from Amazon (and other e-tailors).
There’s quite a few retail stores that don’t keep inventory, even for common things. Staples comes to mind, where it feels like half their damn office items aren’t in stock, so you need to wait for them to have it brought in.
The problem is that those same retail stores can’t compete with Amazon’s shipping speed. It becomes a case of:
- I want to buy a thing, I need it fast, so I guess I’ll check my local retails stores
- My local retail stores don’t have it in stock, but I can order it and it’ll be there in 4-5 days
- I can just buy it off of Amazon at a comparable price, and have it tomorrow
It’s alright if they don’t want to carry inventory, but they need to have the shipping speeds to compete, otherwise there’s no reason for the consumer not to just buy it off of Amazon directly.
- Comment on The Irony of 'You Wouldn't Download a Car' Making a Comeback in AI Debates 2 months ago:
Keep in my that “ingredients to a recipe” here refers to the literal physical ingredients, based on the context of the OP (where a sandwich shop owner can’t afford to pay for their cheese).
While you can’t copyright a recipe, you can patent the ingredients themselves, especially if you had a hand in doing R&D to create it. See PepsiCo sues four Indian farmers for using its patented Lay’s potatoes.
- Comment on Actors demand action over 'disgusting' video game sex scenes 2 months ago:
I think “common” here would refer to having to produce them, over the actual explicitness of the scene. Whether Mass Effect fades to black or not isn’t really the point when the voice actors still have to record the lines that play while the screen is dark.
- Comment on Actors demand action over 'disgusting' video game sex scenes 2 months ago:
Yeah, what they’re asking for is pretty standard stuff in other media. A friend of mine is an actor who played a scene where he had to shoot a masturbation scene. He was alone in a room with like 3-4 people: sound guy, camera guy, director, and I think the intimacy coach was there too.
Having a whole team watch you pretend to have sex is not okay, what the hell.
- Comment on Proton launches privacy-focused Google Docs alternative: Docs in Proton Drive is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted collaborative document editor 4 months ago:
You don’t find it at all suspicious that they claim releasing backend code would make it less secure? What kind of security product is not open for inspection?
No, because Proton has 3rd party audits all the time and they share the results openly.
- Comment on Elden Ring – Patch Notes Version 1.12.3 4 months ago:
Probably wanted to bring it in line with the other perfumes. Rolling Sparks was completely busted lmao
- Comment on Proton launches privacy-focused Google Docs alternative: Docs in Proton Drive is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted collaborative document editor 4 months ago:
Then it’s a good thing all of their products are fully functional and working as advertised, I guess.
- Comment on Proton launches privacy-focused Google Docs alternative: Docs in Proton Drive is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted collaborative document editor 4 months ago:
Today we’re announcing a new end-to-end encrypted, collaborative document editor that puts your privacy first. Docs in Proton Drive are built on the same privacy and security principles as all our services, starting with end-to-end encryption. Docs let you collaborate in real time, leave comments, add photos, and store your files securely. Best of all, it’s all private — even keystrokes and cursor movements are encrypted.
Literally the second paragraph of the post (but I’m sure you haven’t read it, since you seem so busy replying to every comment here about how Proton is becoming Microsoft or something).
- Comment on Proton launches privacy-focused Google Docs alternative: Docs in Proton Drive is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted collaborative document editor 4 months ago:
Let’s be real, using Excel as a makeshift database is probably still better than actually using Access lol
- Comment on Proton launches privacy-focused Google Docs alternative: Docs in Proton Drive is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted collaborative document editor 4 months ago:
They can’t finish a single solution
Gee, it’s almost as if that’s the whole point of an ever-evolving SaaS platform.
- Comment on MODERN WARFARE: How Call of Duty 4 Changed a Genre Forever 4 months ago:
We’re eating good in 2024!
- Comment on Deadrop developer Midnight Society cuts ties with Dr Disrespect following new Twitch ban allegations 4 months ago:
Hear me out: What if they took the DMs and made NFTs out of them?
- Comment on Deadrop developer Midnight Society cuts ties with Dr Disrespect following new Twitch ban allegations 4 months ago:
I can finally share my side of the story now that Twitch employees have come forward. You see, all I did was indulge in a little bit of grooming. One might even say it was a minor case of grooming.
Anyways, I’m not a pedo.
Doc out!
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] "Google is Getting Worse," ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs 4 months ago:
Their outside communication is nonexistent at best
Eh, they’re decently active on Reddit, I guess. They send the occasional newsletter regarding new features if you don’t unsubscribe (and they’re pretty good at not spamming with those, imo).
development speed is unbearably slow
I see people say this all the time, and while feature updates are kind of slow, I’m also not lacking anything, personally. I would appreciate it if they smoothed-out SimpleLogin’s extension, though. That thing is weirdly clunky to use.
Agree on the Linux bit, though. I’m surprised they haven’t put more work into that.
Overall, I’ve been a happy customer for a few years, personally.
- Comment on Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter 5 months ago:
Imagine downvoting someone for saying they’re going to replay on of the best single player games of all time.
- Comment on Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter 5 months ago:
Was gonna say. How is the hero shooter market over-saturated? There’s like 3 games that people actually know about, and like 2 of those are good/decent.
- Comment on Twitter is officially X.com now 5 months ago:
Tell him it’ll be quicker and cheaper than flying to the data centers and pulling out cables by hand before hiring a random moving company to move servers with HDDs in them.
- Comment on OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts 5 months ago:
Realistically, when you’re operating at Reddit’s scale, you’re probably keeping a history of each comment for analytics purposes.
- Comment on OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts 5 months ago:
There’s actually legal precedent against scrapping a website through unofficial channels, even if the information is private. But basically, if you scrape a website and hinder their ability to operate, it falls under “virtual trespassing”.
I’m assuming it would be even worse now that everyone is using the cloud and that scrapping their site would cause a noticeable increase in resource cost (and thus, directly cost them more money because of cloud usage fees).
It’s why APIs are such a big deal. They provide you with an official, controlled, entry point to a platform’s data.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams 6 months ago:
My favorite part about New Teams is when it kept telling me I was forced to move from Old Teams to New Teams because our IT department was pushing the update. Cut to everyone in IT being confused as fuck because no they fucking weren’t.
- Comment on Has Generative AI Already Peaked? - Computerphile 6 months ago:
6M vertex spheres here we come!
- Comment on Apple iPhone sales decline 10% in first three months of 2024 6 months ago:
I got a 13 Pro Max originally (because I liked big phones when I was using Android), and the weight and sharp edges just made it hurt my hand like hell. Got a 13 Pro instead, and I’ve been kind of wishing they kept the “Mini” lineup going the more I use it…
- Comment on Why data centers want to have their own nuclear reactors 6 months ago:
It’s okay, even if if they wanted to nuke the world, they’d need to find which specific portal to log into, and even after inputing everything correctly there’d be around an hour before the servers actually processed the change request.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 6 months ago:
I know people IRL who get offended whenever I mention that I just block ads. Shit’s insane.
- Comment on Spurred by Teen Girls, States Move to Ban Deepfake Nudes 6 months ago:
The issue is that the picture then exists, and it’s hard to prove it was actually destroyed.
For example, when I was in high school, a bunch of girls would send nudes to guys. But that was 10 years ago. Those pictures still exist. Those dudes aren’t minors anymore. Their Messenger chats probably still exist somewhere. Nothing’s really preventing them from looking at those pictures again.
I get why it’s illegal. And, honestly, I find it kind of weird that there’s people trying to justify why it shouldn’t be illegal. You’re still allowed to have sex at that age. Just don’t take pictures/videos of it.
- Comment on Spurred by Teen Girls, States Move to Ban Deepfake Nudes 6 months ago:
such as when the person making them is also a minor
I get the point you’re tying to make. But minors taking nudes of themselves is illegal in a lot of places, because it’s still possession.
- Comment on Framework won’t be just a laptop company anymore 6 months ago:
Nothing, but it’d still be a win for the consumer because then we’d have repairable/customizable laptops across the board?
We’ve also seen other brands aren’t interested in it because it’s harder to make smaller/thinner laptops when they need to be customizable. Also they make more money from having people throw out their old laptops and buying a new one.