egrets
@egrets@lemmy.world
- Comment on Atlassian goes cloud-only, customers face integration issues 5 days ago:
Yeah, but it’s OpEx, so it’s just imaginary expenditure.
- Comment on Microsoft mandates a return to office, 3 days per week 5 days ago:
Literally never heard of it. Are you talking about Microsoft 365 Copilot, formerly known as Microsoft 365, formerly known as Office 365?
- Comment on Have there been any technological advances in boucey ball technology in the last decade or two? 1 week ago:
*boucey – they’re Irish, not Scotch
- Comment on Nepal bans social media(Facebook, X, Reddit, Mastodon, Discord, Signal, YouTube and more) for failing to register with the government; Only 7 to be open(Viber, TikTok, Telegram and more) 1 week ago:
Use whatever software you want, more power to you, but I’m not totally convinced that “chaired by a fascist transphobic multibillionaire oligarch who actively subverts democracy at every opportunity” and “introduced a feature I don’t want to use into my free secure messaging app” are even close to equivocal?
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 2 weeks ago:
OnlyOffice is Russian-owned, via a holding company in Singapore. When Russia invaded Ukraine and sanctions threatened the business, they obfuscated this, but it’s still Lev Bannov’s product.
The importance you attach to this is up to you, but they try quite hard to hide it.
- Comment on The Document Foundation is proud to release LibreOffice 25.8. 3 weeks ago:
There’s an optional “tabbed interface” in View > User Interface that’s a lot like the Microsoft ribbon. I’ve not had a need for LibreOffice for a while, but it certainly looks a lot less cluttered than the default old-school toolbars.
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 3 weeks ago:
A society predominantly attended by hobbits.
- Comment on AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day 5 weeks ago:
Hah, sorry, I was just kidding, but I do love to see people on this platform doing the legwork (and I try to do the same myself) – it makes it so markedly different to most places on the web. Respect.
- Comment on AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day 5 weeks ago:
take an old telephone line, cut it in half and a couple of resistors in specific places. You take that modified cable…
- Comment on The Final Stretch Towards Release - Skyblivion Development Diary 1 month ago:
The dialogue system isn’t identical, but we’ll absolutely be including those features as dialogue options. We recently cast the last few open roles, including major characters, so although VA is a bigger job than in any published TES game, we’re well on our way.
- Comment on The Final Stretch Towards Release - Skyblivion Development Diary 1 month ago:
So much dialogue and random NPC banter will have to be cut out if they want to voice act every single NPC like they to plan to do.
Egrets from Skywind here. We’re really not cutting anything in that regard (or really in any respect). For lines that are very repetitive, we might reduce the number of NPCs that deliver those lines to avoid auditory fatigue and immersion issues, and some lines are being tweaked to avoid feeling too encyclopedic in their delivery, but our ultimate solution is just a ton of voice actors (hundreds, literally) and a lot of work to implement them all.
- Comment on xkcd #3122: Bad Map Projection: Interrupted Spheres 1 month ago:
In terms of continental plates, as I understand it, Zealandia straddles the Pacific and Indo-Australian plates, so if this map were split by major continental plates, New Zealand’s north and south islands would be split.
But I’m not a geologist.
- Comment on xkcd #3122: Bad Map Projection: Interrupted Spheres 1 month ago:
If it were divided by continental tectonic plates, it would be welcome news for Southern Asia and most of the Middle East, but terrible news for New Zealand Iceland, and the Caribbean.
- Comment on OpenAI signs deal with UK to find government uses for its models 1 month ago:
A gold hat on a volleyball could replace the royalty at a fraction of the cost.
- Comment on Why do you think I USE search operators? 2 months ago:
Brave’s not the only search engine to do this, but it’s just one of a million reasons not to use Brave. They’re a scummy company. From this rediit post:
In 2016, Brave promised to remove banner ads from websites and replace them with their own, basically trying to extract money directly from websites without the consent of their owners
In the same year, CEO Brendan Eich unilaterally added a fringe, pay-to-win Wikipedia clone into the default search engine list.
In 2018, Tom Scott and other creators noticed Brave was soliciting donations in their names without their knowledge or consent.
In 2020, Brave got caught injecting URLs with affiliate codes when users tried browsing to various websites.
Also in 2020, they silently started injecting ads into their home page backgrounds, pocketing the revenue. There was a lot of pushback: “the sponsored backgrounds give a bad first impression.”
In 2021, Brave’s TOR window was found leaking DNS queries, and a patch was only widely deployed after articles called them out.
In 2022, Brave floated the idea of further discouraging users from disabling sponsored messages.
In 2023, Brave got caught installing a paid VPN service on users’ computers without their consent.
Also in 2023, Brave got caught scraping and reselling people’s data with their custom web crawler, which was designed specifically not to announce itself to website owners.
In 2024, Brave gave up on providing advanced fingerprint protection, citing flawed statistics (people who would enable the protection would likely disable Brave telemetry).
In 2025, Brave staff publish an article endorsing PrivacyTests and say they “work with legitimate testing sites” like them. This article fails to disclose PrivacyTests is run by a Brave Senior Architect.
- Comment on Australia's Federal Court clarifies: Anti-Zionism and criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitic 2 months ago:
Nor can I in this light, but here’s the court judgment record, which details everything that this article has quoted, so it’s not imaginary.
- Comment on Proton joins suit against Apple for predatory practices that harm developers and consumers 2 months ago:
I’ve seen people dismiss this as purely praise for Slater (about whom I know nothing), but it’s very hard not to read these statements from the tweet:
Great pick by @realDonaldTrump.
He likes that Gail Slater was given a prominent role. Fair enough.
10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned.
Implies Republicans stand for the little guys against tech monopolies. Demonstrably not the case.
People forget that the current antitrust actions against Big Tech were started under the first Trump admin.
Suggests the Trump Admin are the bastions against Silicon Valley giants. Completely laughable.
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 2 months ago:
I can’t think of a single company worse at naming products and services than Microsoft. They have an abysmal track record. Some examples off the top of my head, all of which make web searches near-impossible:
- They renamed Office 365 to just “365” (and then “365 Copilot”). The mind boggles.
- They named their light extensible code editor “Visual Studio Code”, despite the fact that they had a long-established IDE (for code) called “Visual Studio”.
- They called their application framework “the .NET framework”.
- They called the replacement framework “.NET Core”, and after a few major versions, changed to calling it “.NET”, but it’s totally distinct from the .NET framework.
- They called their ninth major desktop operating system “Windows 7”, then followed up with “Windows 8” and… “Windows 10”.
- Their web-powered replacement for Outlook is called “New Outlook”.
- They recently renamed their Remote Desktop app “Windows App”. I have no words.
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 2 months ago:
They didn’t make a turn into a crossing. It turned onto the tracks.
Just to be clear for others, it did so at a crossing. That’s still obviously not what it should have done and it’s no defence of the self-driving feature, but I read your comment as suggesting it had found its way onto train tracks by some other route.
- Comment on How do you think early humans survived without water bottles? Did they just live next to water sources all the time? 2 months ago:
And skins, tanned, stitched, and treated with resin. Pottery is also an ancient skill.
- Comment on Why is cottage cheese the only cheese defined by some relationship to a building? 2 months ago:
Roquefort-sur-Soulzon would have taken its name from a fortress, too, so that counts.
- Comment on Quick fix for cracked plastic clip: thread wrap and superglue 3 months ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Quick fix for cracked plastic clip: thread wrap and superglue 3 months ago:
I’ve not used a Dremel - are you clamping the filament end-on, kind of like a pencil lead? Would a drill potentially work in the same way, if so, if you can align it in the chuck properly?
- Comment on Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US 3 months ago:
This is the dumbest comment I’ve read all day but I’ve been chuckling about it for a good couple of minutes.
- Comment on YSK: The Guardian is one of the only newspapers in Australia and Britain to refuse all gambling ads 4 months ago:
Sonia Sodha is still a contributor to The Guardian and is a massive TERF. The Guardian is one of the better news outlets in the UK, but so long as they give her a platform, fuck them.
- Comment on xkcd #3080: "Tennis Balls" 4 months ago:
Qualified “explain” link for mobile users: explainxkcd.com/3080
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #11 4 months ago:
Sad for sure, but the person running the AMA is comically tone-deaf and unprepared.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #11 4 months ago:
Great post.
Here’s the Dreadmoor AMA on r/pcgaming on Reddit. It’s a disaster.
- Comment on Cooking With Fire - Feddit UK 5 months ago:
Non-web ref: !cooking_with_fire@feddit.uk
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
great(adj.)
Old English great “big, thick, stout, coarse” from West Germanic *grauta- “coarse, thick” (source also of Old Saxon grot)
(Trimmed for humor, but not otherwise changed).
