billiam0202
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- Comment on Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down 3 days ago:
Google Maps
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 1 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 3 weeks ago:
Which is somehow still less ridiculous than tariffs on penguins.
- Comment on jared 3 weeks 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) 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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.
- Comment on Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be? 5 weeks ago:
Is that Sam Reich in a penguin suit!?
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 1 month ago:
I feel like there’s a difference between various moderators power-tripping on their own little fiefdoms, and a site wide policy.
- Comment on What car stickers say about you 1 month ago:
- Comment on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge 1 month ago:
And now Firefox is requiring you to hand over your data to them.
If you’re talking about the most recent news about the Terms of Service, that is a gross misreading of what they said.
- Comment on Framework wants to fix the budget laptop with its first touchscreen machine 1 month ago:
I really doubt they will.
The thing to note about Framework laptops is the “starting price” is literally just the system board, the screen, standard American keyboard, and the laptop body. You have to add your own RAM, SSD, all the expansion cards, a charger, and a Windows license (if you don’t use Linux). There’s a reason why the starting cost for a Ryzen 13 is $750 and a “pre-configured” system is $1100.
Sure they’ll save some money from using a plastic body instead of an aluminum one, but that’s not the bulk of the cost, assuming they’re still committed to using the same system board form factor as the 13 & 16. I’d consider it a win if they get a fully configured 12 for sub-$800.
Also Trump’s tariffs have to be factored in for US buyers.
- Comment on Framework’s first desktop is a strange—but unique—mini ITX gaming PC 1 month ago:
So can someone who understands this stuff better than me explain how the L3 cache would affect performance? My X3D has a 96 MB cache, and all of these offerings are lower than that.
- Comment on I love the future. 1 month ago:
{Vaccine shedding](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine_shedding) actually is a thing, but it’s 1. only really linked to the oral polio vaccine (which itself is not common in most of the world) and 2. even then it’s extremely rare.
It also requires an attenuated virus vaccine, which means it has a zero percent chance of happening due to mRNA vaccines. In other words, it’s just more lying and fearmongering from bullshit scam artist grifters.
- Comment on Apple is once again advertising on X after more than a year 2 months ago:
If you buy a Pixel, you’re supporting Google which is probably worse.
Maybe a Nothing Phone or a OnePlus?
- Comment on Man who lost $780 million in Bitcoin in a landfill now wants to buy the entire dump before city closes the site 2 months ago:
Nah. I’m in the “everyone involved in crypto needs repeatedly swift kicks in the nads” camp but spending the rest of your life digging in a garbage dump looking for gold is also acceptable.
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 2 months ago:
Yeah, I kinda assumed the people who care about these sorts of things wouldn’t be using an iPhone.
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 2 months ago:
Firefox + Ublock also work on mobile.
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 2 months ago:
For what it was spec’d at originally, I think more people would have been willing to consider it than would like to admit,
I’ll admit it: a $30k EV with 600 miles of range? You’d be an idiot to not consider that, until it was proven to be bullshit and Elon was proven to be a full-on fascist.
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 5 months ago:
No, that’s Mike “My son and I know each other’s porn habits” Johnson.
- Comment on Dentist the Menace 5 months ago:
In 1892, a Canadian dentist called Edgar Parker
born Edgar R.R. Parker, 22 March 1872
DUDE WAS ONLY 20 WHEN HE STARTED THIS!?
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 5 months ago:
very funny, very stupid
Well, their work is half done already!
