infyrin
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- Comment on It's not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore 1 year ago:
I felt like and always did, about how social media is one gigantic misleading bloat of a sham. We’ve already perfected communication, you cannot get any better than instant messaging and video calling. The only improvements needing to be made is just better bitrate and whatever small technical steps needed.
But in general? Social Media is just overinflated. It overcomplicates communication. And all that social media is, is one gigantic data farm that we all contributed to, because social media was touted as a thing that was going to change the world, the next big thing. Well, it was right in the beginning but it took us too long to have seen the detrimental effects it has on the world now.
Then again, it’s like, we’ve already had social media in it’s simplicity. So okay, you didn’t get together with your favorite niche group in instant messaging. However, there were things like MSN Groups back in the 2000s. There were Yahoo! Groups too. So it’s like, what exactly did Facebook, Instagram, Twitter .etc really bring? Nothing that you couldn’t do two decades ago!
The only net benefit of social media at all anymore is to reach everyone globally and that’s about all of the only net positive I can think of social media’s purpose anymore. Other than that, it’s corporate’s playground.
- Comment on Mastodon is Rewinding the Clock on Social Media — in a Good Way 1 year ago:
And I’m strangely okay with this.
If the idiots of the masses are going to follow individual idiots on one platform. Keep them there. Things like Mastodon and the concept of the fediverse is just too much for their little one-dimensional brains to handle.
- Comment on It's real. Twitter Shadowbanning is back. 1 year ago:
Another obligatory ‘why the fuck are you still on there, go and leave’ comment here.
- Comment on The Kids Online Safety Act is Still A Huge Danger to Our Rights Online. 1 year ago:
“No child left behind!, no child left behind. Oh really? It wasn’t long ago you were talking about giving children a head start. Head Start-Left Behind. Someone’s losing fucking ground here.” - George Carlin
- Comment on The Kids Online Safety Act is Still A Huge Danger to Our Rights Online. 1 year ago:
This will not do anything. Kids are typically dumb online, adventurous, but dumb online who’ll do dumb things in unpredictable fashions. It’s like putting all of those plug covers to make sure children don’t pull them off, except they will and do, prompting them to curiously stick a fork into the socket.
That senator is more concerned about what’s online for kids, than how Republicans are actively pushing kids to work jobs that are unsafe for them. Might want to re-evaluate your priorities, dude.
Don’t even get me started how kids have long been able to lie about their age online to get to adulterated content.
- Comment on This should be a pinned post as it really captures the essence of my experience so far. 1 year ago:
“Here, I just want a space where we can just talk about the idea of talking about what we would like to talk about!”
- Comment on Should we decide to have a main fediverse community or should we keep posting everything twice? 1 year ago:
I do find the idea exhausting to register more accounts just to see content that I otherwise could see on a different instance that hasn’t been posted yet. We’re in an era of the internet where you need a stupid account just to read an article now. No more accounts, please.
- Comment on No one really understands our struggle 1 year ago:
All I say is that if you’re gonna get into some sort of business such as being a landowner, take the responsibility and shut up or get the hell out.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
tagging good and bad users so that you know them in the future. You could color code them to know instantly if you thought they were bots, trolls, or friends easily.
I didn’t know you could do that. I just went by karma count like if I saw a comment or post made by someone but they were -10 in karma by me. Then yeah I know they’re someone I didn’t like from what they posted and anyone in the plus, were someone who’s posts I liked from.
- Comment on The world's largest chipmaker promised to create thousands of US jobs. There are growing tensions over whether US workers have the skills or work ethic to do them. 1 year ago:
“Arizona could require long hours and total obedience.”
That is not a good start to encourage people to work more.
Total Obedience? “WORK! WORK! NO BATHROOM BREAKS FOR YOU!”
- Comment on Robbing Delivery Robots Is Now a Thing 1 year ago:
“Smaller delivery robots feature cameras and sirens to ward off thieves and vandals, though these measures do not appear to be effective in all instances.”
Well of course not, that’d be like someone screaming “STOP!! STOP!!” over and over as they’re being beaten down to death.
These things need to deploy gasses and non-lethal weapons if they want to be effective. Can’t afford it? Oh well.
- Comment on Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty 1 year ago:
Anyone who is intelligent would be rotting their brains reading even a handful of the shit that is circulated on there. Elon is their ringleader now. Why is it news for people continuing to ditch Twitter? They saw the writing on the wall.
- Comment on Google search is over 1 year ago:
Google has been shit for years, news at 6.
Google can’t even fucking tell me sometimes, out of curiosity, what a skillet is. Know what it does? Brings up the band named Skillet, instead. The first handful of results you get, is the band before you ever get to the pan itself. I feel that Google should require a level of separation to not mix the two, but I guess that’d be too hard.
Google is just good at fetching results, but not accurate ones.
- Comment on ISPs complain that listing every fee is too hard, urge FCC to scrap new rule 1 year ago:
Boo fucking hoo. Shut the fuck up and start using the money you get from grants to fulfill promises you’re to abide by, assholes.
- Comment on Amazon Replacement? 1 year ago:
That’s quite a tall order. The options are already there and that’s to directly go to a merchant’s site and buy through them.
But if they’re going to decide to primarily list their store in Amazon or Ebay, there’s really not much one can do about that.
- Comment on Tick tock 🕚 1 year ago:
The same people who think the word ‘allegedly’ means confirmation of guilt.
- Comment on Whats stopping someone from creating a instance that host illegal content? 1 year ago:
So much slippery sloping in this post alone, here.
Are you just mad because you’re lazy and want people to serve you pirated content or something? Where is the bitterness coming from here?
How about you be your own guinea pig and try this out for yourself? Tell us how it goes and later, you can write from jail to us about how it was all a predetermined failure.
It didn’t stop morons from trying to host CP on other social media networks, because the shit finds a way through shitty people in general.
- Comment on Streaming TV costs now higher than cable, as 'crash' finally hits 1 year ago:
It’s already here.
- Comment on Streaming TV costs now higher than cable, as 'crash' finally hits 1 year ago:
Something in the back of my mind tells me that this is a long planned plot of revenge by networking firms, that planted the seeds for greed to take it’s toll on streaming services when people were dropping cable like flies.
And maybe they want the cable subscribers back.
- Comment on You can now verify your Threads profile on Mastodon 1 year ago:
Um, no.
Does anyone go back to the person who raped them? No they don’t.
Does anyone go back to the person who extorted them? No they don’t.
Why would anyone, in their right mind, would want to be remotely associated with another platform they have no interest in?
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- Comment on The 26-year-old Quake 2 just got the remaster of my dreams, plus a big expansion 1 year ago:
I am playing this game again, just for the N64 campaign. For anyone who already owns a copy, gets the remaster for free as an update. It’s amazing that a game I paid $3.99 in a bundle, is getting this much packed in.
- Comment on Music labels sue Internet Archive over digitized record collection 1 year ago:
Ask that question to Spotify’s CEO. Ask that question to YouTube. Ask that question to Sony Music Execs. Ask that question to Warner Music Execs. Ask that question to RIAA.
Come back to us with their responses, I’m sure you won’t get any.
- Comment on Music labels sue Internet Archive over digitized record collection 1 year ago:
Unfortunately, that’s just what we’re down to for options. We’ve tried reasoning with them, we got laughed at. We tried negotiating with them, we got cold shouldered and hard balled. We tried proposing more reasonable and logical systems, they just tripled down on their bullshit.
So yeah I’m up for seeing some pricks from the entertainment industry strung off and beheaded at this point.
- Comment on Music labels sue Internet Archive over digitized record collection 1 year ago:
Yeah like some 95 or so years even after the artist died. That’s 95 years of profiting for greedy executives off of the death of musicians after they’re gone.
- Comment on Music labels sue Internet Archive over digitized record collection 1 year ago:
Internet Archive is already losing to the book publishing assholes, so they’re probably going to lose this one, sadly.
“Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis and Billie Holiday”
They’re all dead. Mind as well name the executive assholes who’re still profiting off of their names by making compilation sets and all that shit. It’d be more accurate. They’re never going to see money again so what gives?
The lawsuit said the recordings are all available on authorized streaming services and “face no danger of being lost, forgotten, or destroyed.”
Where the artists aren’t paid as well, most profits go to, not surprisingly, asshats in suits. Spotify has had a history of taking down songs and albums and artists. So that claim about how they’ll never face danger is bullshit.
While we’re at it, there was a report recently about 87% of commercially released games are lost because of the poor preservation efforts by actual video game companies. Book publishing companies are no different. Show and Movie productions are no different. The music industry is no different, they all have a fair bit of lost media because they suck as preservation while pirates have proven to be efficient at it.
- Comment on Zoom says it won't use your calls to train AI 'without your consent' after its terms of service sparked backlash and prompted people to talk about ditching the service 1 year ago:
Anytime a tech company says they won’t do something - always assume they will. They don’t have to tell you anything because they won’t.
- Comment on It’s time to change how we cover Elon Musk 1 year ago:
The fight is stupid and won’t happen. Even if it did happen, Mark and Musk are going to just meet together and engage in some steamy billionaire sex as a token to how many users they have messed with.
Here’s how to cover Musk, you do the same way with Trump - they both hate truths, so keep spreading truths about them.
- Comment on Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser 1 year ago:
Considering 63.55% of users use Chrome and 19.95% users use Safari, 2.79% for Firefox. I think it’s accurate to say that it isn’t as mainstream as people would have wanting you to believe.
And of course a Firefox user will be biased.
- Comment on Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser 1 year ago:
Any browser that is becoming complicit in web slowly becoming DRM is a browser we all should avoid, yes even people’s dear Firefox is getting into the trend.
I’ve never touched Brave browser either. Seems overrated anyways.