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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anons brother has some strong opinions⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a lovely street made of brick pavers that has been paved over with asphalt because it provides a smoother ride for vehicles and pleasant aesthetics are for losers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s even the appeal of Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  An Emacs clone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨makes more sense than this shit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but in 2000, I still felt like shit roughly made sense. We entered clown world long about the time the LHC fired its first high energy collisions.

  The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was first “fired high energy” when it achieved its first high-energy particle collisions on March 30, 2010. On that date, proton beams collided at a combined energy of 7 TeV, setting a new world record and officially beginning the LHC’s research program.

  I remember hearing that that was going to happen and, you know, being mildly concerned. Then it came and went and I forgot about it. But I distinctly remember 2012. A series of truly bizarre things happened in my personal life. I sold a condo I owned at the time and moved away to try and put some distance between myself and what was happening. It was pants-on-head stupid, like I just couldn’t believe what was going on, but it was personal, not earth-shattering, just truly, deeply bizarre.

  Shortly thereafter, Trump happened, then covid - and the whole world began being truly, deeply bizarre. Now things have progressed so far that where I used to think I knew a bit about how the world works and where it’s going, I am now utterly adrift. I don’t even try to make sense of it anymore, just to accept it and roll as best I can.

  I’m not saying correlation is causation but when I first heard the LHC theory it made me stop and think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil. | Quanta Magazine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is Schroedinger’s Stochastic Parrot. Simultaneously a Chinese Room and the reincarnation of Hitler.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People who still use Facebook: “don’t judge me how else would I keep in touch with meemaw and peepaw I only use it a teensy little bit 😭😭😭”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scott Bakula Eyeing Star Trek Return In President Archer Series Pitch From ‘Enterprise’ Producer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  These days? Shit, you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a new Star Trek property. I thought he had a chance tbh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I don’t disagree that that’s historically what it’s been. But increasingly, it seems like record profits just keep going through the roof no matter what. And record stock market numbers. And record everything. Nothing goes down, not substantially. Negative news seems to have no (net) effect anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At what point will we look at these numbers with skepticism? When not one worker is left who can afford their services nor one customer left who wants anything to do with their utterly shit “products” - but they still blow out the quarter with 100 billion? At what point will society recognize that this money can’t possibly represent anything actually real? Will it matter if all of us starve to death and only billionaires are left if the Microsofts of the world will still be able to post 200 billion dollar “profits”?

  I’m actually curious. Because I personally think that’s increasingly what all this is. Fake as shit. Some combination of algorithms, cryptocurrency, dark pools and I dunno, the Illuminati I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Fediverse moderation, even more Draconian than Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe you belong on reddit? ¯_(ツ)_/¯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And I will take this opportunity to mention that Hertz, Dollar and Thrifty are all the same company and they will each of them take every opportunity possible to fuck you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is piefed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Comments with -10 score are collapsed by default. Voting is private.

  I don’t particularly care for these two items. I used to think user-curation was a good thing, but comparing Lemmy to Reddit, I have to say I no longer feel that way. Voting matters less on Lemmy and I think it’s better for it, all things considered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it’s about to affect big money so they sic their bots on it to shape public opinion and stomp it, like everything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice calls out Microsoft for using "complex" file formats to lock in Office users⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And now Microsoft is supported in every thread by an army of stan bots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we humans love music so?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And here I am, I don’t really like pop and I don’t really like metal but put them together and I’m in heaven.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I subtract a semitone (100 cents) from 1 Hz, what is its frequency in Hz after that?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Showerthought: mf is mezzo-forte. ff shouldn’t be fortissimo, it should be fezzo-forte.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're Not Innovating, We’re Just Forgetting Slower⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I came here to post a screed a bit like this, but you did it so eloquently I don’t have to, so thanks! A perfect take, imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't fool me⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting to note that this granite is actually called Galaxy Black with the name dating back to its first commercial discovery and quarrying in India long about 1982-1985, and yet the Hubble Deep Field image was taken in 1995.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shark Dentist is a 'horror roguelike' that's basically The Meg mashed up with an early '90s Milton Bradley toy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Christ I have to stop browsing Lemmy in the middle of the night.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda is allegedly working on ‘multiple Fallout games’, including Fallout 3 Remastered, teases report⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft gave me a free copy so I checked it out. It sucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For me it’s because it seems evident that Microsoft wants Windows to be saas and here’s the thing: I don’t like Windows that much. For over 20 years now, I’ve preferred Linux for server stuff and Mac for daily driver stuff, I’ve only tolerated Windows, mainly for gaming.

  Since Windows 7 died (I skipped 8 altogether and reluctantly have been dealing with 10 with lots of hacks to keep it locked down), I have only been barely tolerating it - and games were the sole reason.

  Well, Proton has now obliterated that, conveniently right as Microsoft has decided that what people REALLY need is for them to be 100% shit. I refuse to install 11. So I’m out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Really Dark Truth About Bots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a fantastic video. I spend less and less time on Reddit now because every time I’m there I eventually get struck with a “this isn’t real people” feeling after reading something. It will always be either mundane repetitive bullshit or yet another post demanding civil war or stoking a feeling of helplessness.

  Lemmy and Mastodon are slow AF but they still feel mostly real.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton joins suit against Apple for predatory practices that harm developers and consumers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope that’s a joke. Airpods could be a Fortune 500 company all on their own.

  No, I was serious, although after looking into it, I am surprised that hardware makes up 72% of their income. Perhaps they could make up the 28% software revenue shortfall with innovative new hardware and still maintain that 3.06T market cap, eh?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton joins suit against Apple for predatory practices that harm developers and consumers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Proton cannot even link to FAQ or customer support pages from its apps, as Apple believes it’s possible that users will then navigate from the support page to a pricing page and upgrade their accounts without paying Apple its fee.

  I didn’t realize this either.

  Yeah, this also is why Apple has been so sluggish on PWAs (this is also why they won’t allow third party browsers). There is literally nothing that can be done in an app that can’t be done quicker and easier as a PWA these days. But how is Apple going to make any money if you can publish your own app and take your own payments? They would then become a hardware vendor and that would absolutely ruin them as a company.

  Apple will throw everything they’ve got at this to attempt to maintain the status quo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remedy is in control | The Verge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost. When you make it back into the tunnels, the game considers it a finished loop and advances to the next day segment, which is considered a type of “save,” but you never save it. There is no "hit escape " “save game.” And yet, even after you make it into the tunnel and the day advances and you know you’re saved, when you hit escape and exit the game, the game is all “Are you sure you want to do this? All unsaved progress will be lost.” It’s like they had a save in, but decided against it, then never fixed the verbiage. Anyway, it’s a relatively minor annoyance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remedy is in control | The Verge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I had the same complaint about Deathloop. If I’m playing the single-player only version, then why do I have to restart the loop if I suddenly have to quit? And why does the game warn me that I will lose all unsaved progress? You literally can’t save!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is not capitalism […] it’s really us expecting shit to be free

  No, “we” are not the problem. “We” donated and participated (by making mods) and “we” are responsible for giving the site what value it had. If it had no value, then it couldn’t have been sold.

  Quit trying to blame the users for fuck’s sake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Been a good couple of years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never used RIF but I came over at the same time due to the fuckery over mods. I quit all my mod positions that day too, no more working for Reddit for free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people like Mario Kart?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironically, the older you get, the better video games are for you, flexing your memory and hand-eye coordination.

  I don’t understand why it’s difficult to see the appeal. To me it’s just like watching TV, but you can participate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have launched a PieFed instance!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So lemmy.ca and piefed.ca have different feeds altogether when I view them, are they two separate things then? I’m not really clear on how communicating “freely” between them works. I understand that’s how the Fediverse works, but I have a Mastodon account and I haven’t sorted out any way to post on/read lemmy content with it, so I’m not sure what the integration actually means in practical application?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mom sues porn sites (Including Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Superporn and Hentaicity) for noncompliance with Kansas age assurance law; Teen can no longer enjoy life after mom caught him visiting Chaturbate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t imagine how this poor teenager will think of his mother over time.

  Not well, this much is certain.