NutWrench
@NutWrench@lemmy.world
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 1 month ago:
Yeah but mechanical car door handles aren’t “Cool.” You don’t want to have a car that isn’t cool, right?
- Comment on You have 8 seconds. 1 month ago:
“Nature has been extraordinary kind to you.”
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 1 month ago:
For the 1000th time Tesla: don’t call it “autopilot” when it’s nothing more than a cruise control that needs constant attention.
- Comment on Google creating an AI agent to use your PC on your behalf, says report | Same PR nightmare as Windows Recall 1 month ago:
Companies are stealing your computer’s resources (hard disk space, CPU time) to build their own Skynet and charging you for the privilege.
- Comment on What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes? 1 month ago:
Rich people have special access to the legislative machinery that you and I don’t. Through
bribes“contributions” they can craft laws that let them avoid paying their fair share of the tax burden. They can also “modify” pending legislation to remove the penalties for breaking those laws. It must be nice to live in a consequence-free environment. - Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books 2 months ago:
I’m glad I keep backup copies of anything that might be important later on, like the 40 gig MAME Rom library.
- 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 2 months ago:
Well, you should care about it because that’s how online communities get ruined. Case in point: Twitter has become a propaganda tool for an apartheid-loving fascist since he bought it.
- 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 2 months ago:
A distributed service is much less vulnerable to being bought up by a single narcissistic billionaire who can ruin the online experience of millions of people at once.
On the other hand, a distributed service like Lemmy is spread out over 600 Instances in countries all over the world. If someone buys the most popular Lemmy Instance and wrecks it, those users can simply move to the same communities on the second or third or fourth most popular Instance and the original Instance will wither and die. This also works for communities with power tripping moderators. You can quickly find out through a search which community is the “real” one by the number of subscribers it has.
- Comment on FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect 2 months ago:
Businesses that knowingly buy fake reviews, procure them from company insiders or disseminate fake reviews will be penalized
Penalized how much? How big are the fines?
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 2 months ago:
Another vote for Linux Mint. I finally switched from Windows 10 months ago and I love it.
I’m really enjoying the learning curve with Linux because I’m not always fighting the operating system. On the other hand, every time I’ve had to go “under the hood” with Windows (edit the Registry, change config files) it’s been to stop Microsoft from doing something sh*tty to me.
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 2 months ago:
Dwarf Doc isn’t a medical doctor, that’s just his nickname. He’s a drug connection.
- Comment on Why Choose? 2 months ago:
This link lets you enter a Lemmy instance name and it will tell what other Instances it blocks and who it is blocked BY.
- Comment on Why Choose? 2 months ago:
lemmyNSFW.com
You can also look for Lemmy Instances here: fedi-search.com
- Comment on Honey 2 months ago:
Can you milk a bee? I didn’t think so!
- Comment on [Cory Doctorow] With An Audacious Plan To Halt The Internet’s Enshittification And Throw It Into Reverse 2 months ago:
I think the best way to make the Internet less sh*tty is to get away from Google search.
I like the SearX search engine. It gives old-school, relevant search results, not google ranked ones.
It’s also spread out over many separate instances, so you can pick the one that best suits your search needs:
- Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox 2 months ago:
I like the SearX search engine. It gives old-school, relevant search results, not Google ranked ones.
It’s also spread out over many separate instances, so you can pick the one that best suits your search needs:
- Comment on US couple blocked from suing Uber after crash say daughter agreed to Uber Eats terms 2 months ago:
Well. what are supposed to do? Stop voting for a$$holes? ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on “Model collapse” threatens to kill progress on generative AIs 3 months ago:
Anyone who has made copies of videotapes knows what happens to the quality of each successive copy. You’re not making a “treasure trove.” You’re making trash.
- Comment on Studios are cracking down on some of the internet’s most popular pirating sites 3 months ago:
A lot of these streaming services are ultimately owned by the same company. Ever had a favorite show, where only seasons 1,3 and 5 are available on one “service” and only seasons 2 and 4 are available on the other? This lets the owner of the series double-dip customers on subscription fees.
- Comment on San Francisco says ‘good riddance’ as X prepares to leave 3 months ago:
“Privatize the profits and socialize the risks.” (for billionaires)
“But we can’t let poor people get handouts. That’s socialism.”
- Comment on Research shows more than 80% of AI projects fail, wasting billions of dollars in capital and resources: Report 3 months ago:
AI is a ponzi scheme to relieve stupid venture capitalists of their money.
- Comment on Pirate Streaming Giants Fboxz, AniWave, Zoroxtv & Others Dead in Major Collapse 3 months ago:
I have never heard of ANY of these services and I down a lot of stuff.
- Comment on How do people in this day in age become nazis/neonazies sexist or even incels when there is so much knowledge against it? Do they get anything out of being that way? 4 months ago:
I grew up watching WW2 movies and the Nazis were never shown as being anything other than Bad Guys. I would love to know how anyone grows up here in the U.S. and doesn’t know that.
- Comment on Twitter loses World Bank ads over pro-Nazi content placement 4 months ago:
Who would have guessed that a social media platform owned by an apartheid-loving fascist would trend right wing? I mean, Musk is such a stable genius.
/s just in case.
- Comment on Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10 4 months ago:
Also, almost every older game, like Deus Ex or Giants: Citizen Kabuto, I can run separately under Wine. The only game that doesn’t quite work is NOLF 1. No music. (I can’t seem to get DirectMusic working properly in Wine yet).
- Comment on Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10 4 months ago:
My entire Steam library works on Linux Mint.
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 4 months ago:
YouTube is also aggravating customers who use their official apps by increasing the frequency and length of the ads. In just 4-5 months, I’ve seen YouTube ad lengths on Roku go from 10-15 seconds to 30 seconds, to a minute.
They’re trying to recoup lost ad revenue by pissing the one demographic that is most likely to sit in front of the TV the longest.
- Comment on A surprising number of 'iPad Kids' are on X, study finds 4 months ago:
“Butters? Are you on Twitter?”
“No Dad! Just watching porn!”
- Comment on 2.9 billion hit in one of the largest data breaches ever — full names, addresses and SSNs exposed 4 months ago:
Who TF is “National Public Data?”
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 4 months ago:
The problem with media platforms like Reddit and Twitter is that they take place in a single Instance, with thousands of communities. So it’s easy for one person (like an Elon Musk) to completely screw it up for millions of people.
With Lemmy, everything is decentralized. Communities are spread out and duplicated over hundreds of Instances in many countries. So if somebody ruins one Instance or community, people can just hop over to the second or third most popular Instance, and the original instance will dry up and disappear.