Polar
@Polar@lemmy.ca
- Comment on YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet 1 year ago:
Whatever you’re putting in the allow list is being allowed.
Usernames, IPs, etc.
Whatever you’re putting in the block list is being… blocked.
English is easy. Fuck off.
- Comment on YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet 1 year ago:
How was white and black descriptive?
I remember making a Minecraft server in 2009 and not understanding what whitelist and blacklist meant.
Allow/Block makes sense. White/Black doesn’t.
- Comment on YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet 1 year ago:
Or we can be happy they changed it to something easier to understand.
If you’re angry about a word change, when it makes it easier to understand, you’re probably racist.
I’m glad it’s easier to understand, and has the added benefit of PoC feeling more inclusive.
You’re angry because… idk? You’re racist? There’s no other reason to be outraged.
- Comment on YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet 1 year ago:
I think calling a block list “black” and an allow list “white” makes no sense.
Allow/block makes sense. White/black makes no sense. Words have meaning, let’s use them properly.
If you’re upset about changing the words to better explain what they do, you’re racist. There’s literally no reason to oppose a word change when it makes it easier to understand.
- Comment on Security expert reveals surprising way to make your password stronger: use emojis 1 year ago:
You mean Apple changed it to a water gun and everyone followed suite as to not have an issue?
Thanks, America, and your mass shootings.
- Comment on Security expert reveals surprising way to make your password stronger: use emojis 1 year ago:
Parasocial people.
It was the same on Reddit. All of the people who despised emojis were often posting in really cringe and incel related subs.
My use of emojis sky rocketed after I started dating. They are fun and convey emotion really well.
- Comment on Chrome not proceeding with Web Integrity API deemed by many to be DRM 1 year ago:
Tangerine used to have 4-6 digit PIN (no password) to access your online-only account.
Not sure if they still do. I believe so, though.
- Comment on Chrome not proceeding with Web Integrity API deemed by many to be DRM 1 year ago:
YouTube isn’t suffering. Lemmy has an active userbase of just over 30K. Given the fact a lot of people have multiple accounts (I do), that’s less than 30K active users.
On top of that, probably less than half of Lemmy users actually cry about YouTube.
Even if we are generous, and say the entirety of Lemmy, and each user is unique, 30K is nothing lol.
- Comment on Sundar Pichai argues in court that Google isn’t evil, it’s just a business 1 year ago:
They just moved it. It’s still in place. Thanks for proving me right.
- Comment on Sundar Pichai argues in court that Google isn’t evil, it’s just a business 1 year ago:
Didn’t realize correcting false information is boot licking.
Enjoy living in your own reality where you tell yourself whatever makes you feel better.
- Comment on YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet 1 year ago:
It was changed a long while ago because of race. Grow up. Stop being outraged and melodramatic over a fucking word change to be more inclusive.
Blacklist = blocked
Whitelist = allowed
Calling things slave/master
Not to mention allow list and block list just make sense.
- Comment on YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet 1 year ago:
Racists angry over 1 simple word change that better describes the function of said list.
- Comment on We are not the same 1 year ago:
I’m not embarrassed. I’m just tired of being insulted.
It’s funny because it seems like everyone who attacks my code has nothing to show for themselves. Too busy telling others the “right” way to do things lol.
- Comment on YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world 1 year ago:
Go back to your broken Linux and PeerTube lmao
- Comment on YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world 1 year ago:
Having a discussion about paying for things isn’t garbage. You’re just poor and salty.
- Comment on Sundar Pichai argues in court that Google isn’t evil, it’s just a business 1 year ago:
Except they didn’t drop it.
And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!
- Comment on Sundar Pichai argues in court that Google isn’t evil, it’s just a business 1 year ago:
No they didn’t. Please stop spreading this false rumour.
abc.xyz/investor/google-code-of-conduct/
And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!
- Comment on YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world 1 year ago:
Love how Lemmy downvotes anyone who pays for anything. Such a great place for discussion! Definitely no echo chamber here.
- Comment on Your server owner is now banned from participating on lemmy's Github 1 year ago:
If you say anything positive about anything non-FOSS, you’re downvoted on Lemmy.
Lemmy is a massive echo chamber.
- Comment on ‘It’s quite soul-destroying’: how we fell out of love with dating apps 1 year ago:
I found my girlfriend just before COVID popped off, but I would argue that dating apps are insufferable now due to how polarizing the world is.
Just having basic conversations with people online, including Lemmy, is so tiring. Like how I was called names for saying Windows just works, and then as I was being attacked for it, I was literally typing the comment from a Linux distro that currently wont allow Steam to download at higher than ~120Mbps, despite my internet being 1900Mbps. Then the guy continued to go off, calling me names, telling me that I am such a moron, all because I showed a live example of how Linux wasn’t “just working”?
The internet is so exhausting and toxic these days.
- Comment on They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust. 1 year ago:
I didn’t know what to do. I was being threatened with a ban, even after explaining myself and my edits.
At the end of the day the Wikipedia page didn’t matter to me that much. Who cares if people get misinformation about an OS update. I quite literally didn’t get paid enough to deal with that.
It just really changed my perspective on Wikipedia. Unless you look at the history and check out profiles of people who get in edit battles, you really don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes.
At the end of the day the Wikipedia page I was trying to edit ended up being corrected by someone else (who completely disregarded all of my effort), but it took a month, and someone else to do it, before the page wasn’t full of misinformation anymore. RIP to anyone who visited that page within that month and never returned, because they were fed 80% misinformation.
- Comment on We've invented some silly concepts 1 year ago:
That’s the problem, there isn’t even enough for everyone to have one. There are no left overs.
This is why pretty much everyone I know at 25-32 years old, now live at home with their parents. Not only is it unaffordable thanks to landlords profiting off them, but there aren’t enough to even go around.
- Comment on They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust. 1 year ago:
Their profile was banned last time I looked about a year ago. My profile I deleted because it was permanently tainted by that asshole spamming my talk page.
I remember posting about it on Reddit back when it happened a few years ago, and everyone in the comments told me how they’ve had similar experiences. Really just made me weary about trusting Wikipedia. I mean sure, if they get the date of a movie wrong that’s fine, but as for more serious topics, I just can’t really trust it.
Even sources can be garbage. I’ve seen plenty of blog spam cited as sources, which means nothing.
- Comment on They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust. 1 year ago:
Have you ever looked at the sources? Some pages have some insane blog spam “sources” linked.
- Comment on They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust. 1 year ago:
Nah.
I edited a page for a new OS update that was coming out. The page was FULL of misinformation, and I cleaned it up, linked official documentation as sources, etc.
My edits were reverted by some butt hurt guy who originally wrote the page full of misinformation, 0 sources, and broken English.
I reverted back to mine.
He reverted back to his.
He spammed my profile page calling me names, and then reported me to Wiki admins. I was told not to revert changes or I would be perma-banned. I explained how the original page was broken English, misinformation, and 0 sources were cited. They straight up told me they did NOT care.
Stopped editing wiki pages, and stopped trusting them. They didn’t care about factual information. They just wanted to enforce their reverting rule.
- Comment on We've invented some silly concepts 1 year ago:
Ya, because there’s not enough to go around.
How doesn’t that make sense?
It’s literally the same concept of stores only allowing 1 item to be purchased, to prevent someone from coming in and buying all of them. Limit 1 per customer.
- Comment on We've invented some silly concepts 1 year ago:
Exactly. It’s rare and valuable. So a single person shouldn’t be allowed to own 12 houses and price gouge them.
Everyone should be allowed 1. If you have a reason to need a second one, you should have to be approved and provide a really good reason.
But nah. Let’s let one person own 12 because they were there first.
- Comment on Google Fiber goes big with 20-gig plan 1 year ago:
Just cost me 1K to replace 3 NICs, 1 router, and 2 switches to freaking 2.5Gb.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake 1 year ago:
I tried it, but then realized I couldn’t even view my photos I took with my Nexus phone at the time. No Google photos app, and the web browser just took me to a page that said my phone isn’t supported.
YouTube was also only supported via a third party app, and was missing pretty much every feature.
As soon as I realized I would struggle to do the most basic tasks, I bailed.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake 1 year ago:
Google Nexus (and now Pixel) has always allowed you to double tap the power button to open the camera, and then use the volume buttons to take the photo. Or you can use the volume buttons to zoom in and out.
Isn’t this the same? Dedicated buttons that launch the camera and take photos?