isVeryLoud
@isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca
He / They
Software Developer
- Comment on The current system of online advertising has been ruled illegal 2 days ago:
You will have your tor-connected 1024x768 anonymous window and you will like it!
- Comment on The Los Angeles Police Department shot an Australian reporter with a rubber bullet while she was live on TV. Zero provocation. 4 days ago:
SOAD’s “Deer Dance” plays in my head a little too often these days.
- Comment on Self-hosting your own media considered harmful - I just received my second community guidelines violation for my video demonstrating the use of LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5, for 4K video playback 6 days ago:
Gotta preach where the choir is.
- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 1 week ago:
“Oil tanker spills 60,000 tons of crude into the Pacific after hull biodegrades, more at 6”
- Comment on Consumer groups file complaint against SHEIN for dark patterns fuelling over-consumption 1 week ago:
Honestly this would most likely work very well as advertising, and generate a lot of free publicity around the unconventionality of it all.
- Comment on Consumer groups file complaint against SHEIN for dark patterns fuelling over-consumption 1 week ago:
Absolutely, and being repeatedly reminded to get your COVID or measles shots is “positive” propaganda. Herd immunity is objectively a good thing, but any sort of PSA is propaganda. (please get your shots)
It’s like the word “consequence”, people always think consequences are always bad, when you could say “I got rich as a consequence of winning the lottery”, or, re-worded, “I won the lottery, and consequently, I became rich”.
- Comment on Consumer groups file complaint against SHEIN for dark patterns fuelling over-consumption 1 week ago:
It is definitely propaganda against propaganda, everything is propaganda.
There’s “good” propaganda and “bad” propaganda, and whether you think any propaganda is “good” or "bad’ is propaganda in itself just by sharing such an opinion.
- Comment on Consumer groups file complaint against SHEIN for dark patterns fuelling over-consumption 1 week ago:
- Comment on I'm making a guide to Pocket alternatives: getoffpocket.com 1 week ago:
I want my get-off pocket >:(
- Comment on You probably don't remember these but I have a question 1 week ago:
Aux to FM signal adapter, powered by the USB port.
- Comment on Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans 2 weeks ago:
Projection in action. Mostly everything they accuse the other side of, that are guilty of.
- Comment on Thousands of Asus routers are being hit with stealthy, persistent backdoors 2 weeks ago:
Is the RT-AX58U affected?
- Comment on TIL: UnitedHealthcare Caught Paying Off Nursing Homes to Let Seniors Die Because Hospital Transfers were “Too Expensive” 2 weeks ago:
Well yeah, obviously. They get sued by BlackRock if they don’t do that.
- Comment on UN expresses alarm over Israeli law allowing life sentences for 12-year-olds 2 weeks ago:
Ah, yes. The alarm, it has been “expressed”.
IDF doesn’t care.
- Comment on BlackRock is Suing UnitedHealth for Giving “Too Much Care” to Patients After the CEO was Murdered 2 weeks ago:
This is unfortunately true, they’ll likely win the case on that angle.
My point is that legislation shouldn’t guarantee earnings from gambling under unforeseen circumstances. That’s just gambling.
- Comment on BlackRock is Suing UnitedHealth for Giving “Too Much Care” to Patients After the CEO was Murdered 2 weeks ago:
Investments are supposed to be a gamble. Imagine losing at the casino and then suing the casino because you didn’t get the advertised jackpot.
- Comment on At least there's no ads... 5 weeks ago:
black0ut@pawb.social is right, you have no idea what you’re talking about.
Open-source software development can be very slow sometimes. It’s not about speed, it’s about expertise. Like I said previously, they likely hold a day job besides developing Lemmy.
I’ve been in the open-source scene for about a decade, it takes a LOT of developers or a corporate sponsor to do any work. Products live and die because volunteers run out of time and / or interest.
Again, I invite you to fork Lemmy yourself and maintain it faster than the original devs could. Put your money where your mouth is.
- Comment on At least there's no ads... 5 weeks ago:
Fork it, it’s free.
I’d love to see you maintain the codebase. That’s not free.
- Comment on At least there's no ads... 5 weeks ago:
OP doesn’t like the devs’ political opinion. I, too, hate tankies, but their work is not less valuable due to their opinion and they are allowed to seek monetary donations to help them do further work in the future.
- Comment on At least there's no ads... 5 weeks ago:
This is very standard in the open-source world. No matter what you may think of the developers’ personal opinions, their work is valuable.
Also, asking for donations is not “profiting off of us(sic)”, nor is it a salary, it’s just a text prompt hoping you’ll give the devs a kickback for their contribution. You can just ignore it and go about your day.
They likely don’t make enough to live off of from those donations.
- Comment on More Americans are financing groceries with buy now, pay later loans — and more are paying those bills late, survey says 1 month ago:
Absolutely, they get shafted the most.
- Comment on More Americans are financing groceries with buy now, pay later loans — and more are paying those bills late, survey says 1 month ago:
Yes precisely, and merchants increase their prices to account for those unknown processing fees since it varies wildly from card to card.
- Comment on More Americans are financing groceries with buy now, pay later loans — and more are paying those bills late, survey says 1 month ago:
Those benefits are usually your own money + the money of those who fail to make payments since merchants have to increase their prices to compensate for credit card fees.
They indirectly steal from you, launder the funds and present it back to you as a “benefit”, but only if you’ve been a good boy.
This is a similar principle as modern loyalty programs. In exchange for your personal information and your eyes (advertising), you get to pay slightly above the regular price and accumulate ✨points✨ while other schmos get a jacked up price that pays for your points (or the value of your points is built into the price of the items you purchase).
- Comment on Now Teams has even spam? 2 months ago:
Yeah apologies for the attack, I just felt the 8 hour delay was unfair, I was intending to do research and get back to you, which I can’t really do during my workday.
Here’s another example:
This one’s from SharePoint, my previous picture was from Planner.
- Comment on Now Teams has even spam? 2 months ago:
Nah, it has AI artifacting all over it. The UI designers would have had to be deliberate about it, this is just Microsoft eating their own dog food.
- Comment on Now Teams has even spam? 2 months ago:
Yeah, that’s called having a life, you should get one.
Microsoft hasn’t said anything one way or another, but AI generated icons are pretty easy to spot by their artifacts. The shadows are messed up and the gradients are wonky, I use Microsoft products every day and they changed the splash icons in a bunch of their products to this mess.
- Comment on Now Teams has even spam? 2 months ago:
Off-topic, I really hate the new AI generated icons Microsoft is using.
- Comment on Despite constitutional limit, Trump says he's seeking a way to serve 3rd presidential term 2 months ago:
He’s been saying this for months at this point, and it was part of Project 2025, which he seems to be following like a computer runs code.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Since the death of God, there’s been a vacancy open!
- Comment on Help the homeless, go to jail: Fremont passes hard-line law criminalizing encampments 3 months ago:
It’s not even an anecdote, and not likely to be anywhere near accurate.
You’re talking to an RNG.
