morgan_423

@morgan_423@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, Google did this to themselves with not properly vetting the advertisers that they sell space to, and with oversaturation of ads.

  If they’d have stopped granting ad space to scammers and malware spreaders, and if they’d have stopped adding advertisements at the line most people find tolerable (which seems to be a single ad between videos… not multiple at a time, and certainly no mid-rolls), they wouldn’t have triggered quite the level of ad blocking that they did.

  I see this “problem” that they have to be entirely of their own making.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Living in a van instead of an old-fashioned house⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and it’s really that it breaks down radically differently between those two groups.

  You’ve planned it all out because you voluntarily want to live this lifestyle for a while? Awesome, have fun!

  You are being forced to live in a van involuntarily due to bad financial circumstances or rough events that have happened in your life? Not so great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I crazy, or are Americans going insane?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’m pretty far left and was thinking, none of these even sound close.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X rolls out new ad format that can't be reported, blocked⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You do realize that the actual issue is that this is kind of thing is going to be normalized, so that it can spread like a plague across the entire corporate-touched internet, objectively making the entire thing as a whole objectively worse… right?

  Because it sure doesn’t seem like it with that reply.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You probably haven't seen this episode yet, but you will.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “Great Scotty! I mean, great scott!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity makes major changes to controversial install-fee program ...😑⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Far too little, far too late. Even if this was the most glowing revision ever (it isn’t, but even if it was), the trust is gone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cross-posting the meme I made for /c/StarWarsMemes' weekly theme earlier today. Figured risa would enjoy it too.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Making Jar Jar speak in Comic Sans is an appalling insult to Comic Sans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does cigarette smoking do for people?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What does cigarette smoking do for people?

  Gives them an assortment of cancers with a side of breathing and cardio issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI team accidentally leaks 38TB of private company data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Save yourself the PR nightmare that accompanies data breaches! Prevent all outside hacking forever by proactively dumping your data onto the internet yourself!

  It’s pure genius!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you describe color to a person who has always been blind?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t really describe colors to someone blind from birth. They just have no reference or mechanical ability to do so.

  Someone below linked a Tommy Edison video (it’s a good watch, as is pretty much everything on his entire channel) where he talks about how people have tried to describe color to him all his life, but nothing they’ve said has ever actually made him see a color. He doesn’t see anything, he doesn’t have a working optic nerve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity deleted these terms, don't let them get out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Any idea of why Unity did this?

  I mean, they’ll generate some short term cash, sure, but they just lost their entire customer base. No developer of any size can take on the liability and risk of working with Unity again, even if Unity realizes how badly they screwed this up and reverts this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do names of countries get translated? What is the reason why Nippon/Nihon is called Japan or Ellada is called Greece in English?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There are actually specific words in the English language for precisely what you’re talking about.

  Endonym - The native name of a geologic feature or place. From your example: Nihon in Japanese.

  Exonym - The foreign name of a geologic feature or place. From your example: Japan in English.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is going on with the number of active users?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure there have been a few spam bot/latent bot purges over the last month on multiple instances. I remember people discussing them a little while back. And it was a ton of bots.

  So part of what you’re seeing is normalization, as the user numbers were always artificially inflated with bots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, how many lemmynsfw.com communities have you blocked?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve found it much more effective to ban the spam posters / bot posters in general, instead of communities. That catches the worst of it and mostly eliminates all of the cross posting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Say goodbye to the name Twitter’s Bird. Elon Musk changing Twitter logo to ‘X’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, the name and branding were the problem. Nailed it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Could they not just go with “.mali” as their governtal extension? It’s only two more characters. Why mess with all of the existing .ml stuff on the internet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boycott In-N-Out.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone living on the East Coast who is never within 2,000 miles of an In n Out Burger, I’ll continue to do my part.