billiam0202
@billiam0202@lemmy.world
- Comment on The FDA Is Approving Drugs Without Evidence They Work 22 hours ago:
Phenylephrine is back on the menu, boys!
- Comment on The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink 1 week ago:
Counterpoint: the fact that the moral of “don’t kill the goose that lays the golden eggs” even exists is proof that people are indeed greedy and/or stupid enough to do that very thing.
- Comment on The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink 1 week ago:
Oh, I see.
You think this is a “politicians don’t understand the tech they’re supposed to regulate” issue, and not a “Elon Musk is bribing every greedy asshole in Congress to prop up his businesses at taxpayer expense” issue.
- Comment on YouTube tops Disney and Netflix in TV viewing 1 week ago:
And sports:
Disney’s 0.2 point gain over March was partly driven by cross-network coverage of the NFL Draft, the NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship and the first round of the NBA Playoffs.
- Comment on The technology to end traffic deaths exists. Why aren’t we using it? 1 week ago:
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but Americans are real good at ignoring issues that don’t affect them personally.
Oh I won’t wreck my car, I’m a “good driver”!
I can’t catch Covid because it’s not real!
School shootings are just false flags the government uses to pass gun control laws!
Donald Trump only wants to remove the dangerous immigrants, not the ones I hire for my business!
- Comment on YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024. 2 weeks ago:
The point of RCV isn’t to ensure your chosen candidate wins; it’s to ensure that whoever does win has at least some amount of approval from the majority of voters.
It does still have flaws, but it’s still far superior to the current system the US uses.
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 3 weeks ago:
I did say I use Firefox. I was asking those who don’t.
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 3 weeks ago:
Yes, I already do.
I asked because I don’t know if anyone who does use a Chromium browser has noticed an uptick in ads.
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 3 weeks ago:
Last I checked Alphabet had something like $60 billion in profit.
At this point, they probably consider YouTube to be a loss leader while they siphon up everyone’s data.
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 3 weeks ago:
I use Firefox. Is Ublock Origin still effective on YouTube since Google shoved out Manifest V3 onto Chromium-based browsers?
- Comment on 28 years later, Lego Island's lost source code has been rediscovered – but the fans who spent nearly two years painstakingly decompiling it by hand "can't have it" 3 weeks ago:
And yet, if they ever did release it, you can bet all three companies would C&D it.
- Comment on Tesla Board Opened Search for a CEO to Succeed Elon Musk 5 weeks ago:
So you will believe a rumour based on nothing
Says Tesla. You’re a fool if someone saying “nuh uh!” is good enough for you. Especially when its the reputation of the WSJ vs. the reputation of Tesla.
won’t believe the board of directors denying said rumour unless they sue?
Tell me you know absolute dick-all about corporations, without telling me you know dick-all about corporations.
I’ll give you a hint: what do you think would happen to the stock price of literally any company if the board confirmed they were ousting the CEO before the CEO was out? My dude, your native Australia has a better chance of eliminating every single venomous critter on that island than any corporate board admitting that. And that goes double for the single most overvalued stock on the planet, whose price is driven solely by the hype man’s promises.
So yes. If and when Tesla sues the WSJ, and wins that case, then I’ll believe they were right. Until then, I’m going to treat them like the lying Nazi-enabling shit car company they are.
- Comment on Tesla Board Opened Search for a CEO to Succeed Elon Musk 5 weeks ago:
When Tesla wins a civil suit about this story, then I’ll believe they’re not lying.
- Comment on Marc Andreessen predicts one of the few jobs that may survive the rise of AI automation 5 weeks ago:
This sums it up:
AI can’t tell you what’s true or not, so it can’t tell you when you’re wrong.
- Comment on Google and Adobe appear to be abusing copyright to silence a whistleblower's video 5 weeks ago:
This is exactly how YouTube’s DMCA takedown system works, and how media companies have been abusing it since it’s inception. Someone claims copyright on your video, and Google immediately takes it down. You then can contest the claim and Youtube will put it back up. But the claimant can contest your contest, and Google will then tell you that you can’t have it up and have to settle in court with the claimant. Oh, and you get a strike to boot.
The whole process is automated, because there’s so much content now it’s impractical for every single takedown request to be addressed by a human. And because there is no punishment for bad-faith takedown requests, there is no incentive for the claimants to ensure their IP is really being infringed.
- Comment on Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down 1 month ago:
Google Maps
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 1 month ago:
I didn’t sound like a centralized system from the article. More like they want a third party like Verisign or something.
It’s going to be both. Bluesky will verify users, but they’re also going to have other authorized verification entities.
From what I’ve seen, there will be two distinct types of blue check- users verified by Bluesky will have one mark, and users verified by a trusted authority will have a different mark.
Now who will those third-party verifiers be, and how will they be selected, hasn’t been announced yet.
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 1 month ago:
Right now, venture capital investments - same as all tech starts out.
How it’ll monetize to become self-sufficient remains to be seen.
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 1 month ago:
It would absolutely not surprise me if Teslas calculate miles driven via GPS instead of tire rotation or some other mechanical means.
It’s the kind of “reinventing the wheel, only worse and more expensive” that Musk would do.
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 1 month ago:
It’s been a minute, but off the top of my head:
- The story was ass.
- Not enough content for a “live service” game.
- Enemy levels scaled heavily with your gear level, so better gear didn’t make you feel any more powerful.
- The stats system for the gear was trash. Like, equipping one piece of high level gear and then keeping your starting gear for everything else was legitimately better than trying to get BiS for all of your gear.
- Gear had randomly generated buffs, and those might buff other gear. But sometimes it would you would get a drop for something your class could equip (not every class could use every weapon, for example) but with buffs to a weapon your class couldn’t use.
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 1 month ago:
Anthem was a really great idea for a game that had an absolutely terrible execution.
- Comment on CVE Board members launch the CVE Foundation, a dedicated, non-profit to continue identifying vulnerabilities, after the US ended its contract with Mitre 1 month ago:
This, exactly.
The whole point of CVE is to make sure everyone is on the same page regarding exploits. That necessitates a single point of truth for the whole operation.
- Comment on Google Search is going to be google.com globally 1 month ago:
Well this is just flat out wrong.
The fact that people started appending “Reddit” to their search terms to find answers to what they wanted to know would probably be a gigantic indicator that Google’s results without it were less than helpful.
A useful search engine returns the most relevant result the user wants as fast as possible. An advertising company wants its users to look at as many ads as they can for as long as they’ll tolerate them. Thus it’s apparent the goals of Google (the search engine) are diametrically opposed to the goals of Alphabet (the advertising company).
So yes, it’s in the best interest of Google’s bottom line to figure out how many ads they can show you (read: before you stop using Google altogether) until they show what might be relevant to you.
- Comment on Google Search is going to be google.com globally 1 month ago:
They said “useful,” they didn’t say “relevant.”
In this case, “useful” means “the most results we can get paid to show you without you going to a different website.”
- Comment on Switch 2 preorders delayed over Trump tariff uncertainty 1 month ago:
Which is somehow still less ridiculous than tariffs on penguins.
- Comment on jared 1 month ago:
XcQ
Do not cite the deep magic to me, witch! I was there when it was written!
- Comment on Metroid Prime 4: Beyond Trailer (2025) 2 months ago:
It’s most likely because Nintendo is going to use it as a launch title for Switch 2, so they can’t announce the release date of MP4 beforehand.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 2 months ago:
And that just goes to show:
The only time rich people are held accountable in the US, is when they fuck with other rich people’s money.
- Comment on DOJ renews call for Google to sell Chrome, and Android could be next 2 months ago:
Once you have paid the Danegeld, you never get rid of the Dane.
And by “Danegeld” Kipling meant “bribe money” and by “Dane” he meant “the fat orange fascist fuck mob boss 77 million people were too goddamn stupid to realize should be in jail.”
- Comment on Justice Department asks judge to order Google the "immediate" sale of Chrome 2 months ago:
Yeah, but we’re not talking about Amazon guy, we’re talking about Google guy.
Something about him is different, but I’m not white sure what it could be.
