atrielienz
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- Comment on How to get around the US TikTok ban | Tom's Guide 2 days ago:
No offense but there are far too many users who are assuming this is because of the “ban”, who haven’t read the law or the bill and don’t function all understand what’s going on. And Tik Tok themselves are taking advantage of that. Spreading misinformation (however unintentional) doesn’t help here and is actively hurting users of the platform and people who want privacy law reform.
So can we amend the title of this post to factually reflect the situation?
- Comment on How to get around the US TikTok ban | Tom's Guide 2 days ago:
Make a new account. And use a VPN because the American accounts have been flagged in Tik Tok and they already know who they are. This is literally Tik Tok disallowing US users to access it, rather than the H. R. 7521 “ban” forcing app stores to remove it from the app store. The law doesn’t remove the app from people’s devices and it doesn’t and can’t force manufacturers to do so. Tik Tok made a statement that they would remove access to US accounts if SCOTUS upheld the new law, and they have followed through on that threat. It’s not even just Tik Tok. Other apps and services owned by Tik Tok or distributed by Tik Tok are also doing this.
- Comment on How to get around the US TikTok ban | Tom's Guide 2 days ago:
“How to get around Tik Tom actively banning US Users despite H. R. 7521 not being enforced” FTFY.
TikTok themselves are blocking these users from the platform on purpose.
- Comment on when can we expect level 4 self driving to be commercialized? is it near (1-2 years away)? 2 weeks ago:
When they can exit a roundabout competently.
- Comment on Is it possible to design a social media app or service that rather than focuses on farming engagement, it tries to promote quality content? 2 weeks ago:
I requested an invite and literally never heard back so. No.
- Comment on One what? 2 weeks ago:
Cells can light off individually with color was my point, but you are in fact correct. I’d only seen one video at the time and it certainly wasn’t the best quality so it was hard to tell.
- Comment on One what? 2 weeks ago:
Cells can light off individually with color was my point, but you are in fact correct. I’d only seen one video at the time and it certainly wasn’t the best quality so it was hard to tell.
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 2 weeks ago:
I have opened it but haven’t actually been inside. I usually do okay until the Mawleks. Usually die right after them. It’s not a bad idea to practice bosses actually. I’ve gotten every boss in the game on this save except HK, and Grim.
- Comment on One what? 2 weeks ago:
Fireworks are made of flammable metals or other flammable elements that burn differently depending on their makeup. Electric batteries contain some of these, so it stands to reason that you would see something like this if one exploded. Especially with thousands of individual cells.
- Comment on It's 2025 now, what are the games you'll be starting the year with? 2 weeks ago:
Spiritfall. Got it during the steam sale and I’m interested but haven’t played yet. Looks like a lot of fun.
- Comment on Why do airplanes have big front "headlights"? 2 weeks ago:
It’s for identification as well as light. You can tell which way a plane is facing/ which way it’s moving, and which side of the plane tour looking at based solely on the lights and their color. That’s important for night flights.
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 2 weeks ago:
Hollow Knight.
- Comment on Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content 1 month ago:
I don’t use steam forums. But I have questions. Do the steam forums have any moderation at all? Is there a report button? Can you report comments or forum threads?
I want to know because I feel like a lot of social media has the same problem as steam forums and these tools exist on the majority of those. They rely on the moderation of fellow users.
I also question whether or not steam actually has an automod or anything like that. Or human moderators.
Please keep in mind that I don’t use the forums so I really have no idea. This is the first time I’m hearing about this, and I’m interested in knowing more.
- Comment on DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg reports 2 months ago:
No offense but it was the US Government. Most of their websites were coded for it, and quite a few of them didn’t work properly or reliably in other browsers as a result. This was true up until it was sunsetted and they were forced to update to edge and some of the websites still haven’t been properly moved over to chromium. When the pandemic hit and the Armed forces had to setup remote work for thousands of people Microsoft basically built them a fork of Teams. The US Government is kind of running hand in hand with Microsoft on a lot of stuff if you just hazard a cursory look.
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 2 months ago:
I’m positive at least some of the servers that house Lemmy and its FOSS sister networks are housed in VC companies. The amount of people who can support that data and the servers it resides on is small without Corps being in the mix.
We’re not exactly winning over here on Lemmy or Mastodon. I’ve been a member of the Mastodon community for close to 6 years or so. It isn’t a reasonable replacement for Twitter because (for what I used it for, which had nothing to do with Micro logging), it doesn’t do what I need it to because the number of people I want to follow there are few and far between. Bands, book authors, local news networks, international news networks. I’m not likely to find out about school closings on Mastodon.
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 2 months ago:
- Comment on Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze 2 months ago:
This happens a lot when on all major platforms, there’s nothing (not discussion, not ballot initiatives, not informational pieces about causes) that allow you to take direct action. When things broke out in Ukraine and Russia invaded there were people who jumped on planes to go fight. People were posting donation pages everywhere. People were actively rallying against actions they felt were wrong with avenues to help that were meaningful and available to the average human being.
We just don’t have that in any political election and since it’s a lot of the smaller elections that matter, it’s important to note this deficiency. People who feel a call to action, but not a way to enact change get overwhelmed and despair. Lemmy is one of the only places I see giving information about candidates in local and rural elections (and even that isn’t wide spread and mostly happens on community pages like the one for people from Maine or Chicago, or wherever.
- Comment on Reddit’s getting more popular—and profitable 2 months ago:
How much of the traffic increase is bots. Because we still don’t have those numbers and I still don’t believe this is anything but bot influx and reddit grifting using ads.
- Comment on Is there is any rss feed reader for android that accept the following feeds? 2 months ago:
I was able to add techdirt to Feedly too.
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 2 months ago:
I’m curious how this will affect things like sub-a-thons where people stream for charity and so on.
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 2 months ago:
I am using a pihole and I still have this problem. I’m logged in. I’m seeing videos I watchef last week or two months ago. Or yesterday. They are being resuggedted and do not show as watched if I go to that channel’s page. It’s infuriating.
- Comment on We are at the Wolfenstein stage of capital. 2 months ago:
Probably not actually, especially in the long term. Crowns and veneers can lead to lots of other dental problems and the thing is, the dog doesn’t have human speech to let handlers know it’s in pain or having a problem right away so if they have a rotting tooth or a cracked one under the cap all kinds of things can go wrong.
- Comment on We are at the Wolfenstein stage of capital. 2 months ago:
What the fuck. How is this not animal cruelty?
- Comment on Kroger’s plans to roll out facial recognition at its grocery stores is attracting criticism from lawmakers, who warn it could lead to surge pricing and put customers’ personal data at risk 2 months ago:
I wouldn’t necessarily even consider the quality better at Walmart than it is at Kroger so, while both are bad, Walmart is definitely worse for a lot of other reasons.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Buying isn’t owning from literally any game company. When you buy digital you own a license to play that game. The license can be revoked at any time.
When you buy a physical game you still only buy a license to play that game, and the license can be revoked at any time. The only difference here is you own the physical disk that media is on, and it’s harder (not impossible) for the owner of that media (the one who sells the license) to revoke the license to that media.
I appreciate that people are pissed about this but it was a thing before digital media took off and the only difference between a steam game and a game from Epic is the inclusion (on Epic) of an offline installer store that allows you to install the game without connecting to the internet.
It’s the same license.
- Comment on Kroger’s plans to roll out facial recognition at its grocery stores is attracting criticism from lawmakers, who warn it could lead to surge pricing and put customers’ personal data at risk 2 months ago:
Fuck Walmart.
- Comment on Kroger’s plans to roll out facial recognition at its grocery stores is attracting criticism from lawmakers, who warn it could lead to surge pricing and put customers’ personal data at risk 2 months ago:
Mask mandates may not be in effect but I can wear one to the grocery store. This is stupid and I will not participate.
- Comment on Brave 3 months ago:
Edge is chromium based.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price 3 months ago:
If I take out a loan to buy a home, I don’t own the home outright. The creditor owns the home until I pay off the debt. I’m likening the situations because I want to make it clear that he didn’t put in his own money to buy it.
- Comment on World's Biggest Anime Piracy Streaming Site (Hianime.to) Put on U.S. Government's Radar as Major Threat 3 months ago:
The site itself is under threat of being taken down? It’s that what’s going on?