grahamja

@grahamja@reddthat.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iCarly was a streamer before streaming was even really a thing.⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Tom Green was on public access TV taking commentary from the internet. He was “live streaming” before most North Americans had internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If websites are slow for you, this is why, AWS is breaking everything⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Typical Amazon undersells everyone else to remove competition. Then after everyone has gone under reminds you it is a terrible idea. Hopefully we see businesses get burnt more and determine it is better to self host, or even better yet not need half their services on “the cloud” anyways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds wonderful, to have an air gapped smart bed on open source software. Just like having the perfect nuclear missile launch system on Windows XP made by clever engineers. No updates, just dreams.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You should know how to coil cables⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wrapping it around your arm stretches and pulls at the inner cabling. It isn’t a single massive copper pipe in there, its numerous thin guage copper wires wrapped around each other. Wrapping it around your arm puts kinks and folds in the cable that eventually snap those little wires over time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3148: 100% All Achievements⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was no exit plan, the individuals just kept racking up college debt. Debt collectors cannot come to collect the debt if you are still in college, and the college doesn’t care they are still getting the loan money. They were professional students and they “beat” the system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3148: 100% All Achievements⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a friend who worked at a call center to harass people about student loans. They said that one the job was great because one they learned about loop holes to defer loans for as long as possible, and two they had found out about professional students that just kept going to school and didnt have to pay their loans because they would just stay another semester and live off the college loans. If you are in the US, a single person, and were never going to save for retirement anyways… it was doable 15 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought a digital movie from Amazon prime in 2015. It fell off and they didnt give me a refund. The music I got from a burnt CD in 2004 is still on the C: drive of my current PC. I don’t think it pays to do the right thing in the long run.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with imgur right now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Companies killing forums and communities by choice or apathy is so disheartening. They have so much control over what we see and talk about everyday, and they can even just turn the community off by providing poor service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It worked for Google. They corraled a majority of the internet into providing them add revenue. Google maps, Gmail, google search engine, youtube… all just more ways for them to scrape your data and serve you adds. Investors are hedging their bets on what could replace google as the information monopoly of the future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Library user borrows rare Chinese artwork, returns fakes: US officials⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That probably wasn’t enough to make up for what the Red Guard did to their cultural heritage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Killing Floor 3 review⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Popular video game franchises homogenize together so they can make room for new indy games to grow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google AI Overview is just affiliate marketing spam now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do not know how to even shop anymorem All the name brands I know have gotten worse, most of the new brands are unknown and have AI reviews.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s curated to cause problems, I wouldn’t believe anything otherwise. Douyin which is the Chinese version shows completely different content, including government narratives. Tiktok is straight brain rot, and I believe it’s curated to encourage poor behavior in users outside of China.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pinterest changes user terms so it can train AI on user data and photos, regardless of when they were posted⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It ia still a good spot to hang images in categories with citation. Unfortunately most users will never cite anything, and you’ll be stuck reverse image searching from the least user friendly website ever made.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no need for my Kindle services anymore. I bought books there for how easy it was to put on my electronic devices, and to easily make back up copies for later. If I can’t downloaf and reformat the e-book to easily make a physical copy I don’t want it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Funded in 5 minutes - the open source modular mini computer 'Pilet' is on Kickstarter⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This looks like it’s for people who want a a retro cyber deck device, but don’t have the ability or willingness to make their own. It’s just a toy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gundam Assemble: New Gundam tabletop miniatures game⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was already using the gundam artifact models in 40k. I’m excited for Bandai to make more miniatures around the same scale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solution for the Trolley Problem⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the oldest memes I know, and the first thought I had after reading OP’s post. A great way to maximize the horror and ruin OP’s plan.