AnAngryAlpaca
@AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de
- Comment on Round 2 🚢 8 months ago:
There is a one-time upfront payment of $55,000, plus an ongoing annual ground rent of $1,091 per bunker. Bunkers are provided in their as-is condition, without interior improvements, equipment or furnishings, ready for your outfitting.
How is this a “billionaire commune”, when the price is a fraction of a standard 2-bedroom house or even a motorhome, and pretty much everyone can move in?
- Comment on Kids Are Watching Brain Melting AI-Generated Videos on YouTube Without Parents Realizing 8 months ago:
Don’t have any of that; except that youtube keeps showing me colorfull gambling ads in the style of a farmville game… before and between kids videos.
(this happens when playing youtube via chromecast on the lounge TV; i have adblockers on my computers)
- Comment on Tesla starts shipping $3,000 Cybertruck tent, looks nothing like what was unveiled | Electrek 8 months ago:
Well to be honest, the advertised tent looks like Snow White’s Coffin to me…
- Comment on Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome 8 months ago:
You know what really helps for privacy? Adblockers.
- Comment on For those thinking of going back to reddit. Gaze upon this comment section and reconsider. 8 months ago:
Could be bot responses to farm karma. Once the account is a bit older and has enough karma points, it will be either sold, post spam, or Post/comment on an product or topic the owner wants to push, or down vote opposing opinions.
- Comment on Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox 9 months ago:
They would be abused by spam bots in an instant, even before you could write your own “welcome to my guestbook” post.
- Comment on Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox 9 months ago:
Things to add to your product when you want to look hip and trendy, but dont have any real ideas how to make your product better:
1990s: visitor counter 1995: Popups 2000s: flash intros 2005: stock photography 2010: local weather widget 2015: share to social media widgets 2020: fullsize 4k background stock videos 2023: AI assistant
- Comment on Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox 9 months ago:
Unfortunately none. Developing a rendering engine that can handle css, html, javascript, while also rendering a website in the exact same way as Chrome and Firefox is a huge tasks, and not something a hobby programmer can whack out in a few weeks. Thats the reason why even Microsoft abandoned their own rendering engine, because things did always look and work different in IE.
- Comment on Elon Musk Bought Twitter to Settle His Jet-Tracking Beef, New Book Claims 9 months ago:
Planes are already pretty fuel efficient per passenger. And larger planes are unlikely, because this would mean all runways they want to use must be extended so the can start and land there.
- Comment on Canada declares Flipper Zero public enemy No. 1 in car-theft crackdown 9 months ago:
A single guy does not have 3 layers of managers and bosses above him, who have “better ideas”, costscutting policies and “i have no idea what you just explained to me, so lets just not do it!”.
- Comment on Average website visit in 2024 9 months ago:
That’s why everything is an App now, and every website tells you “it’s better in the app”. In the app they have full controll over your device and can access much more data points, while the website is controlled on the users site and might have AdBlockers and other security features enabled, potentially hurting their ad revenue and data they can sell. From a developers perspective it’s a nightmare to develop and maintain website, android and Mac os app side by side. Just having one good responsive website is cheaper, easier to maintain and gives you less headache with app store restrictions, reviews, device incompatibility etc.
- Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby 9 months ago:
Well if i would ask my boomer-parents or non-technical people, they would tell me that spotify is just like collecting CDs, and that you keep the stuff you paid for.
- Comment on Music Piracy Is Back, Baby 9 months ago:
Yeah, I get what you are saying, but then it’s imho dishonest Marketing, and the user expected something different when they signed up for the paid service. I think “renting” movies, tv shows or music is not something the user expects.
If they would advertise it as “pay us 20 Dollarinfos a month, and you can listen to your favorite music for as long as we allow it and don’t take it away from you!” they surely would never be popular…
- Comment on Ray tracing made possible on 42-year-old ZX Spectrum: 'reasonably fast, if you consider 17 hours per frame to be reasonably fast' 9 months ago:
Ray tracing in MySQL instead? demozoo.org/productions/268459/
- Comment on Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature 9 months ago:
My guess is that a cached page is just a byproduct when the page is indexed by the crawler. The need a local copy to parse text, links etc. and see the difference to the previous page.
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 11 months ago:
How rude of them!
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 11 months ago:
Is it worse than intersystems …?
- Comment on YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems 11 months ago:
Try opening your subscription page as usual with your ublock, but then right-click “open in private window” the videos you want to watch. Works for me.
- Comment on Fear of cheap Chinese EVs spurs automaker dash for affordable cars 11 months ago:
People seem to forget that there was a time before cars, where people had to rely on public transport alone.
- Comment on Fear of cheap Chinese EVs spurs automaker dash for affordable cars 11 months ago:
Most people live in a city. In Australia and NZ it’s around 90%, in China, Europe and Canada for sure over 50%.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1 11 months ago:
I think GTAO (and RDR2-O) is pretty much unplayable with all the obvious cheaters in each session. Rockstar doesnt even care if someone runs around with a K:D of > 1000:1, ruining the game for everyone else …
- Comment on Could X go bankrupt under Elon Musk? 11 months ago:
Sure, but withg wechat you can link each user to the real person, bank account, phone number and find his friend circle on we chat. This might not work so well on other apps where any user can sign up via vpn and a random email address…
- Comment on Could X go bankrupt under Elon Musk? 11 months ago:
That is a good example, but as the other commenter pointed out I dont think you can compare weChat with Twitter. Twitter is a startup trying to make money from it’s service. WeChat is a tool for the chinese goverment to track each persons chats, money transactions and purchases, and as such will pretty much receive all the funding it needs. Being profitable is not the main objective of WeChat.
- Comment on Could X go bankrupt under Elon Musk? 11 months ago:
I dont think an “everything app” will ever work.
You can make one thing that does one thing very well and better than the competition, and you will get users. Or you can do one thing that will try to do 10 things half assed, and it will fail to impress users. This happens because you have to divert your resources (time, money, people) for development, maintenance, new ideas, design etc. across all your “everythings”. The more everythings you have, the less resources each one gets, however the costs for maintenance, bugfixes, updates etc. stay the same.
This happened to Yahoo in the early 2000s, where it tried to be Search, News portal, Email, Web directory, Weather, games and whathaveyou, however it failed because none of it’s parts was better than the competition.
The better approach for an app would be to do it’s own thing it is supposed to do, but support other apps that can enhance your product by allowing it to interact with data from other apps, and also give his data back out to other apps: use mailto:links/email instead of inventing your own messaging protocoll, support exporting to standard calendar files instead of implementing your own calendar that is oblivious to the schedule on the users phone. Support exporting datasets into common formats the user knows from his everyday tasks (excel, csv) so he can run his own data analysis on it, instead of baking some half-assed “analytics” module that only has 10% of the features the user needs.
- Comment on Survive the zombie apocalypse 11 months ago:
Zomebie outbreak and owning a jeep? Now you got two problems!
- Comment on Great! I like getting tracked by 766 third parties! thanks Outlook 11 months ago:
With dark patterns you can “guide” the user to click a particular button, for example by having “accept” in a large, bright stand out colored button, and the “reject” button in a low contrast, small or disabled looking button.
This will not prevent people from clicking reject, but it shifts the percentage of people clicking accept vs reject in the websites favor.
- Comment on YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker 11 months ago:
I get some dodgy casino and gambling ads … Before a children’s program. Reported the ad multiple times, but it keeps coming back under a different name.
- Comment on Windows PCs can't sleep properly, and Microsoft wants it that way 11 months ago:
The “allow device to wake up computer” is already set to “off” in mouse, keyboard and other USB devices, together with any bios settings related to wake up. Yet still, at least once a week my computer is on in the morning, after i set it to Hibernate the night before. Sometimes it even power cycles straight away after i tried to turn it of. Same today, when i was was out of the house for a few hours, and it decided to magically turn itself on, run windows update and restart. I have to power it down and turn of the the power on the power-strip each night. My work laptop has the same issue, except it does not care about the power strip switch and discharges the battery overnight instead!
- Comment on Trump’s Truth Social Has Lost $73M Since Launch, New Filing Shows 1 year ago:
Can someone explain how this website lost millions? Given that this size was not that big, I fail to see how it could cost this much in admin and Server cost. Even some better known commercial shops will hardly hit 5digits in server costs, plus salaries for 1-3 admins and support staff, and maybe advertising costs.
37million sounds like something they pulled out of thin air, maybe for some bookkeeping fraud or tax write off…
- Comment on Tesla will sue you for $50,000 if you try to resell your Cybertruck in the first year 1 year ago:
Can I mount a towing hook for my camper?