CatZoomies
@CatZoomies@lemmy.world
2023 Reddit Refugee
On Decentralization:
“We no longer have choice. We no longer have voice. And what is left when you have no choice and no voice? Exit.” - Andreas Antonopoulos
- Comment on Fuck you i'm closing my eyes 2 days ago:
Sometimes when I close my eyes, I can’t see.
- Comment on The good old days 5 days ago:
I’m been browsing Craigslist trying to find a 27” Sony Trinitron.
Maybe I need a VHS player to go along with it.
- Comment on Origins 1 week ago:
I guess there wasn’t an available toddler picture for Bentneck Comfysweater.
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 1 week ago:
Meanwhile, Nintendo in their rebellious youth:
Note: mario didn’t exist at the time, but i got this image from a news site that added it to censor the woman’s breasts.
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 1 week ago:
Never heard of this ad since i was a kid at the time and not Dutch. Here it is.
Wow.
- Comment on Reality vs Fantasy 1 week ago:
In American English, the article “an” is used for a vowel sound to separate the words so they don’t blend together when speaking.
Normally, “a” always precedents a consonant, while “an” precedes a vowel. But “an” also precedes vowel sounds - I.e., the sound of the letter of the beginning of a word.
An apple A banana An hour
Hour starts with a consonant, but is pronounced with a vowel sound at the beginning. Thus, it is not “a hour” and rather “an hour”.
In the case of the example from the meme, id argue that either article works:
- A “I’m…” - Typically when speaking, a person has a brief pause before they begin the quote. Since that pause would be enough to distinctly indicate two separate words, this sounds fine when being verbally spoken.
- An “I’m…” - Looks great in text and would be the correct way to list it grammatically. However when speaking this aloud, since the person would have a brief pause when saying “an” and then the quote, it probably wouldn’t sound as great to some others.
My take - I like “an ‘I’m…’” best. Both in text and verbal form. Others may disagree as far as verbally said; however, grammatically in written form this is how it should be.
- Comment on You received a(nother) like! 1 week ago:
TIL that I’m a 13 year old girl.
- Comment on BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler 1 week ago:
Thoughts and prayers for the next CEO to not get Grok-blocked.
Thankfully, Linda Yaccarino’s Golden Parachute worked perfectly fine.
- Comment on Have a good trip 2 weeks ago:
Amazon drivers just got a substantial upgrade from Bezos.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 2 weeks ago:
Yep, this exactly. They can never clock out at the end of the day. It isn’t 8 hours of work and you’re done. You’re having to constantly try to innovate. Make tons of content, spend so much time editing, constant filming, constant planning. And if you deviate in your schedule, or upload some content that isn’t interesting, the algorithm punishes you and you may even get people that unsubscribe.
Must be hell when you can’t afford to take a vacation from that content creator life. Can never really “switch off”. Plus the fact that less than 1% actually make it big, and it’s mostly based on luck plus years and years of determination.
- Comment on Sleeping beauty bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2 billion 2 weeks ago:
Got it, thanks for that distinction. It’s been years since I last looked into this stuff. Makes sense for a dormant wallet.
If a wallet is not dormant in this scenario, then active users could just migrate their wallet to another wallet and then they’ll be good to go.
- Comment on Sleeping beauty bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2 billion 2 weeks ago:
I hear this a lot but I don’t put any confidence behind it. This argument suggests that one day we’ll be able to brute force into lost wallets when we can break the encryption. Who knows how far in the future that will be.
But if I recall correctly, Bitcoin’s protocol is consensus driven. If there is an imminent threat of quantum computing, the developers could just improve the code base to resist it. Or fork the protocol to one that is resistant (Bitcoin 2). Then it’s up to all the Bitcoin node operators to adopt the protocol.
I think the only reason Bitcoin is around is for two reasons: speculation, or the persons that actually believe it’s decentralised hard money free from control. I’d like to believe that there are a ton of people out there that run the BTC nodes to keep it decentralised. If there is an update that will resist quantum computing, I’m sure they’ll be eager to immediately upgrade their nodes and secure the network and those wallets. At least that’s how I believe it works, it’s been years since I first began researching it.
As an aside, Bitcoin isn’t for me because I hate the environment impact. I hope one day it will become green, because it’s never going to go away. But I don’t blame the people that believe in it. In a world where the rich own everything and control the rules, these people are trying to opt out I guess - use a form of money that can’t be easily controlled or censored. Granted it’s all based on speculation, and whenever we run out of Bitcoin is probably when the system will become useless. Spending is discouraged when you run out of coins, so I don’t know how the Bitcoiners defend that argument. So definitely not for me.
- Comment on Just keep typing, wage slaves 3 weeks ago:
We’re like a family here. When you need help, we support each other. In this case, we support the floors.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 3 weeks ago:
Split Fiction is worth the MSRP. Ideally it’s great if you can get it on a discount, but this is one of the few games I’d pay full price for. My spouse and I loved it.
- Comment on Microsoft Came to Bargain: Use OneDrive for Device Backup, Opt into Loyalty Program and Use Their Products Till You Earn 1000 Points or Pay $30 and They Might Give You Security Updates till Oct 2026. 4 weeks ago:
I switched to Linux last year. I’m just a teacher but I’ve got pretty good techy skills having grown up in the late 80s with computers. Switching to Linux gave me some small problems at first, but everything works just fine for me. My husband’s been pretty curious seeing me have fun with it and mess around on my computer more. Maybe I’ll get him to switch one day too! 🙃
- Comment on The Batpoon's First Appearance: was World's Finest Comics #9 (March, 1943). This is from World's Finest Comics #163 (December, 1966) 4 weeks ago:
A god-like alien that is faster than a speeding bullet should be able to easily dodge Batman poon.
- Comment on How do you know when someone is too stupid to own an electric car 1 month ago:
My what long fingers you have! And hallucinogenic text!
- Comment on You ever just take a shit so huge it boosts your mood after? 1 month ago:
I know what you mean.
- Comment on Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? – Terence Eden’s Blog 1 month ago:
Still using my Nook Glowlight Plus 2015. Haven’t needed to change the battery as battery life is still exceptional. I will be sad when I have to swap the battery one day as I’ll need to break the water resistant seal they manufactured this with.
Haven’t felt any desire to upgrade as this device does exactly what I need: store a shitload of books without distractions.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 month ago:
I didn’t see these listed so I’m dropping three objective masterpieces here:
- Persona 5 Royal
- Golden Sun
- Golden Sun: The Lost Age
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 month ago:
+1 for Beyond Good & Evil.
For those unfamiliar with this game, this was early 2000s Ubisoft when they used to be creative, celebrated, and original.
- Comment on End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again? 2 months ago:
+1 for Linux Mint. I’ve been on it full time since December 2024 and have been incredibly pleased with its performance, stability, and customisation. I found alternatives for all my old Windows workflows, so there’s no way in hell I’ll go back to Windows.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 2 months ago:
And you are correct as there are now Samsung and LG smart monitors. It won’t be long before all monitors are smart.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 2 months ago:
This sucks.
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- Comment on I ran out of toilet paper 3 months ago:
Turtle Power
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #10 3 months ago:
Enjoy your coming Steam Deck! It’s incredible to have your PC library in your hands in a very comfortable device! Every now and then I fire up my old ROMs that I backed up back in the day, so I’ve been dabbling with X-Men Legends on GameCube.
+1 for Control. Played it a few years ago and had a wonderful time with it.
- Comment on Vizio Shows What Happens When U.S. Fascism And TV Enshittification Meet 3 months ago:
- Monitors. Possibly the most cost-effective option and your best choice.
Just adding a note here that the Smart cancer has already begun infiltrating monitors in the past year. Samsung and LG make them, and I’m sure more will follow very soon. It won’t be long before dumb monitors no longer exist.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 months ago:
Already upgraded to Linux Mint - lemmy.world/post/24365609
It’s been going great! Everything works as I expected. I now have full confidence that I will never switch back to Windows. It really does feel liberating having an OS that doesn’t track me.
- Comment on Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users. 3 months ago:
Great questions! Seriously, those made me think for sure.
For question one, I suppose a profiler could do that. If my domain name is myemaildomain.com, they probably could track all emails and sell it collectively. But I don’t think corporations do that at this time. That would be akin to profiling all Hotmail, Gmail, Live, etc emails, appreciating those are massive services. I suppose if nefarious actors were to do that to my domain, I could consider switching domains - I have multiple domain names I own, and it’d be trivial to use the other ones. In the years I’ve been using a custom domain for email, I haven’t encountered any nefarious actors and have significantly eliminated any spam.
For question two, the domain provider I use doesn’t do that in their terms of service. However, if they did look at my MX records and decided they wanted to profile me as a user of Addy, they definitely could do that. Though it would hurt their business as many users would migrate their domains to new registrars - I certainly would move my domains to a new registrar!
