DingoBilly
@DingoBilly@lemmy.world
- Comment on Tesla scraps its plan for a $25,000 Model 2 EV 7 months ago:
So Tesla’s entire strategy Elon was working was just abandoned.
Continues down the pathway that Tesla is just going to fade to irrelevance.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Welcome to the world of business. First time here huh? Might wanna strap in, this is pretty harmless when it comes to capitalists and it’s by-products.
- Comment on Bullying in Open Source Software Is a Massive Security Vulnerability 7 months ago:
It’s probably far more common than most people realize. Open source software doesn’t automatically make it secure, and in many cases can be less secure than closed source as it’s just one or two people doing it for free.
- Comment on Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time 8 months ago:
I haven’t seen far rights here myself, but it’s a self selecting bias.
I’ve definitely come across more far lefts here which are equally as bad as far right imo.
I’m always concerned if there is only one strong group representation like that though. I’d rather have no extremists obviously, but if we have one side at least allow the other, otherwise that sort of crap starts seeping elsewhere.
- Comment on Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time 8 months ago:
That’s completely fair. 👍
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 8 months ago:
You can’t just ignore the arguments that don’t fit your world view/argument. In that scenario I could just look at the negatives of Steam and the positives of Epic and say that the Epic Store is better than Steam because I ignore all the stuff that doesn’t fit my argument.
It’s not just Cs go but multiple games like Dota Etc. They have specifically built a whole market and ecosystem to convince you to buy stuff and gamble effectively.
- Comment on Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time 8 months ago:
That’s a fair call.
It does run the risk that the fediverse will always be irrelevant and will never see the growth needed to actually be useful for most people.
I’d prefer the risk myself but get that others aren’t.
- Comment on Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time 8 months ago:
You’ll have both though in the fediverse… So it’s pretty irrelevant. Just because you don’t see them doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
- Comment on Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time 8 months ago:
So what do you want exactly? Do you want the fediverse to remain small and irrelevant forever? Or do you want it to grow and become the dominant space with more bad actors but more useful actors as well?
Because you can’t have both, and you will always have more extremists and shitty views with larger groups. I for one think the fediverse is a better implementation of the social tech for pack of a better word, and would prefer its implementation over the closed wall implementation of non fediverse applications.
- Comment on Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time 8 months ago:
But honestly, the fediverse is tiny and I find it’s not a suitable replacement for anything at the moment. It does need to have more people joining for it to be a complete replacement.
As to whether Meta will extinguish it or not I don’t know, but at least in the short term it could help. I don’t think it’s reasonable to pre-emptively shoot your foot off because you might get gangrene - I’d rather wait to see it and then decide.
- Comment on Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time 8 months ago:
But the fediverse already has that lol. I’ve had arguments here with extremists many times.
You won’t just magically cure it by stopping FB from federating.
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 8 months ago:
You are doing exactly what I said.
Valve is good, but they have shit features and I’m not sure why you’re defending them (but maybe you’re just a troll/ignoring my points?).
I don’t care about the competition - it’s like saying a person is molesting a child but hey, those two over there are molesting multiple children and murdering them! So they’re worse!
Marketshare is also a poor predictor as it’s often the first person to market as opposed to what’s best.
Think of it another way - Google has the most marketshare of search. Is it the best and is it doing only good things? If you say yes to both then I can’t help you further.
- Comment on Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time 8 months ago:
Yeah I don’t understand the issue.
People want the fediverse to grow, so FB entering it is a good thing no? Otherwise realistically the fediverse will likely stagnate and always just take up a tiny bit of space.
The more people involved the better. Sometimes I feel this group just wants to shoot themselves in the foot.
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 8 months ago:
I don’t care about the things you mentioned, but yes, those are also issues.
I was talking more about the issues around gambling and making loops specifically to take advantage of gamers with problems.
As well as the real problem that a single leader leading a company/nation will mean that company/nation always fails. The successors will inevitably mess it up sometime.
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 8 months ago:
This stuff is great.
But ignoring all the real issues with Steam is stupid, let alone the fact it all rides on one guy at the moment. Change of hands and within a generation or two you’ve got shit.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Use Windows on the daily and still have never seen these at all, on multiple computers as well.
Generally I’d agree it’s shitty behaviour though.
- Comment on Pre-IPO Reddit lets ads be dressed up as promoted user posts 8 months ago:
This has been the case for ages so it’s not anything new.
- Comment on OpenAI aims to make its own AI processors — chip venture in talks with Abu Dhabi investment firm: report 8 months ago:
My reading of chip wars and similar chip fabrication places is this stuff takes decades to develop and is insanely expensive. Is that not the case here?
- Comment on Sam Bankman-Fried deserves 40-50 years in prison for FTX fraud, prosecutors say 8 months ago:
This makes no sense. He himself was a billionaire who fucked over both rich and non rich people. Just because he failed and took other rich people down a peg doesn’t make him some sort of martyr.
- Comment on Favourite developers 8 months ago:
Favourite is probably Naughty Dog as it’s one of the few studios that keeps producing amazing games and is fairly consistent.
Most other studios drop the ball at some point.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Welcome to 5 years ago? This has been around for years…
- Comment on Never-before-seen Linux malware gets installed using 1-day exploits 8 months ago:
Yep. I have no idea what people complain about with Windows update. Unless you just haven’t used it for 20 or so years.
- Comment on Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” 8 months ago:
Wireless sucks. Wired is always better.
- Comment on Reddit: Return Of The Junk Stock IPO 8 months ago:
It’s a hard call on Reddit.
This article seems to leave out the reality that Reddit’s big win is data and an in built machine learning capability in what is good quality. For future AI and LLMs it’s actually a treasure trove of information that will only rise in value.
Realistically it’s had massively bad PR and issues but people still use it over Lemmy and many others. So it doesn’t seem like it’s going to go away at end of day.
At end of day it’s stocks so it’s coin flips all the way. No one beats the market consistently over time that doesn’t also utilise insider information.
- Comment on Mozilla Firefox is Working on a Tab Grouping Feature 8 months ago:
Yeah I’ve tried them but for my purposes they suck. Just adding some colour to tabs or similar doesn’t do much. Or bookmarking them all in some weird thing is also weird.
Chrome is shit but it definitely does do grouping the best.
- Comment on Mozilla Firefox is Working on a Tab Grouping Feature 8 months ago:
Thank fuck. This is one of the main reasons I can’t use Firefox atm, beyond the fact it’s also slower than its competitors.
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 8 months ago:
Lemmy does draw a certain crowd unfortunately.
- Comment on Lemmy Active Users looking good 8 months ago:
Who gets banned from Reddit as a whole though?
You’d have to literally be posting child porn or something.
Or is this just a conceptual argument that doesn’t actually mean anything in reality?
- Comment on OpenAI shares Elon Musk emails urging startup to raise $1 billion, see Tesla as a cash cow in its early years 8 months ago:
Does this help them or hinder them though?
Isn’t it possible they basically said no, and that they wanted to remain not for profit? So he quit and then they went for profit?
Doesn’t really help their case…
- Comment on Helldivers 2 gets its first rebalance patch 8 months ago:
Subtle arrogance? It seems like a completely reasonable and well thought out post. People read way too much into normal posts.