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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sudoku is my go-to for boring time on the airplane

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, I’d say that odds also favour places that nobody really gives a shit about, like sure, US, UK, China, Russia, large parts of Europe, and North Korea are probably guaranteed to be nuclear craters, but I doubt that any of the missiles are pointed at Africa or most of South America

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because as long as the Russian state exists and can point to their “history” as an empire and use it as an excuse to take over their neighboring countries (like Latvia, the place where I’m from), I won’t be satisfied.

  Unfortunately the nobody bombing Moscow yet, so anything that isolates and makes the population more angry and can hopefully topple the government is a good thing in my book

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention just randomly scrolling in public and whoops, it’s a random porn clip brought to you by lemmynsfw

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Specific forums for certain things are still the best.

  I have an Aprilia motorcycle from 1999, and the Aprilia forum has 20 years of info, discussion, and advice on that specific motorcycle.

  It is also a bit surreal seeing someone reply to my question and see that they joined the forum itself back when I was less that 1 years old.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile me with a 1500 YouTube music video playlist of liked music and a pile of CDs that I bought used, featuring the artists in that playlist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The three little pigs is actually just the aristocracy blaming the poor for their problems⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t remember any of the versions of this story involving money.

  Nobody ever mentioned where the materials came from, it was just two dumbasses who decided to build their houses out of inferior materials

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon’s recommendations are getting a little too creepy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To play the devil’s advocate, they could be putting that random junk there to see if they can find out other categories of things that you like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit brings back its old award system — ‘we messed up’⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Opposite for me, this place is way more left-leaning and if I comment like I used to on Reddit, the comments easily end up in double-digit negatives

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit brings back its old award system — ‘we messed up’⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, that is still there, RES still works as well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, doubt that much would change, they would be just another boring post-iphone glass slab seller with a slightly better camera

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Because of smartphones, pocket TVs were never a thing.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The PSP also had that type of attachment here in Japan, but it uses the 1-seg standard that IIRC was made for phones and still exists

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even better

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. "Know Your Customer" Proposal Will Put an End to Anonymous Cloud Users⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now I want to see someone break down if that’s even enforceable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Global defence budget jumps to record high of $2440bn⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But that doesn’t prevent my Russia from trying to do do Russian Empire 2 on my homeland, so more guns and rockets please

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just support the fundamental rule that was taught to me in one of those internet safety PSAs back in the day: The internet never forgets and whatever you posted is going to stay out there forever, good or bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this one goes out to the arts & humanities⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Luddite

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the internet⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk, wasn’t it reported that it was Indians piloting the ship? Probably something to do with that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you ever worry that you're secretly a psychopath that unknowingly manipulates people around you?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to try to explain the origins from memory so someone who knows more will probably explain better.

  It comes from an book or a movie, where a husband is planning something nefarious (don’t remember if it’s a murder or something) and he uses the attic of his house to do it. This is set back in the days when they used gas for lighting things and when he turns on the lighting in the attic, it causes the lights to change (probably get dimmer) in the rest of the house. His wife notices this and brings it up to him, since he obviously doesn’t want to reveal that he is the one causing it, he constantly convinces his wife that it’s all in her head and that she might be losing her mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paris votes to crack down on SUVs | Non-Parisians will be charged almost $20 per hour to park large gas or hybrid vehicles within the city center in a bid to address pedestrian safety and air pollu...⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, they should just ban all SUVs from entering altogether.

  Not because of the environment or safety, just because I hate that everything is an SUV these days and they are boring af

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 50 defederated instances⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does kiwifarms.cc even exist anymore? I remember hanging out there while the main site was under maintenance, but it seems to have gone offline since then

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reactionaries and inconsistency are a match made in heaven⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rules are rules and if you don’t follow them, the country doesn’t want you.

  It’s a different conversation when you talk about the consequences of such policies, but that’s what the country decided and those are the rules.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reactionaries and inconsistency are a match made in heaven⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Then too bad, I don’t have an option to fly into space, yet you won’t see me trying to glue myself to the next rocket that SpaceX launches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reactionaries and inconsistency are a match made in heaven⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For me everything is based on how they get there and how they conduct themselves.

  I have been an immigrant to several countries and I still am, but

  I had all of the proper paperwork,

  I didn’t sneak across any borders illegally,

  I didn’t overstay my visas,

  I didn’t pay some guy on a boat to bring me there,

  I didn’t commit any crimes that are worse than jaywalking

  I didn’t get clumped together with other people from my country and try to impose my values on the citizens of the country I was in

  I didn’t do any under the table work,

  I paid all of my taxes.

  These are the thing that I expect from others as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Art Generators Can Be Fooled Into Making NSFW Images⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh, people only discovering this now? I have been using the Bing generator for making NSFW stuff for like a month now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It really is a bit weird when people ask me what kind of music I like and I have to think of a way to describe my 1.3k video YouTube playlist of random genre and time period music that I have found in the most random places