atrielienz
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- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 9 hours ago:
- Comment on Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze 10 hours 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 weeks 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 weeks ago:
I was able to add techdirt to Feedly too.
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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] 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 1 month ago:
Edge is chromium based.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price 1 month 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 1 month ago:
The site itself is under threat of being taken down? It’s that what’s going on?
- Comment on Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer 1 month ago:
Yeah. Airlines still use it for log books and reports.
- Comment on Uninstalled Copilot? Microsoft will let you reprogram your keyboard’s Copilot key 1 month ago:
Let me?
- Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox 1 month ago:
I got so tired of the “update chrome because new zero day” articles so I removed chrome altogether from every computer I own except the work on because one specific vendor’s schematics work in chrome and are broken in the other browsers. I haven’t looked back and I don’t think I will.
- Comment on UBO Lite Pulled from Firefox Store by developer 1 month ago:
On lower end smart phones? It probably just slows the phone down less specifically because of how few processes it uses in the background. But I don’t know. I’m not a lite UBO user. It definitely doesn’t have the same number of features as the regular variant of UBO though.
- Comment on UBO Lite Pulled from Firefox Store by developer 1 month ago:
My guess is that it’s used predominantly by people who own budget smart phones. Having lit versions of apps be available to people who don’t use thousand dollar flagships I think is kind of important. However, I intended the post to be informational.
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- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price 1 month ago:
Yeah, but he didn’t pay $44Bn out of his own pocket.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 1 month ago:
Agreed. I can understand fearing being as bloated and not filled as reddit. But we don’t need to grow that big to be a thriving active community of users.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price 1 month ago:
This is just conjecture though. I do think he originally did not intend to buy Twitter. I do think he was essentially forced to buy it. I know from news articles around the time of the sale that he gave significant pushback when relevant parties forced the issue. Things may very well have changed after he became the owner (and what deals he made to be able to afford it may never be known).
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 1 month ago:
They counted comments and the number of upvotes (or what have you) in an attempt to stop trolls and bad actors. If you didn’t have enough comments you couldn’t post anything to the message boards and therefore could really engage with the message oars above a certain level. I remember that some also used to limit the number of comments any one user account could make per day, especially new users.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 1 month ago:
To be fair, a lot of users don’t seem to want the user base here to grow at all. I don’t feel that way but I’ve had enough discussions here to know that this is literally not the case for everyone and it kind of sucks because stagnation is how social networks die.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 1 month ago:
That would have been a lot like how I remember message boards being back in the day, (late 90’s early 2000’s) and honestly I don’t think I like it. People like me (with both low number of comments and posts) wouldn’t be able to reach that bar to entry. I get the bots wouldn’t either, but that still eliminates human users as well and I don’t know if that’s a good thing.
- Comment on The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms. 1 month ago:
My understanding from the other comments here is that qobuz is a good option, and Tidal also. Might want to check those out.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price 1 month ago:
It would appear that he didn’t want to buy Twitter and was literally forced to do so. I think for him Twitter is a temper tantrum. He didn’t get what he wanted so he’s destroying everything around him as a result.
More to the point though, I do wonder why he didn’t just pay the billion dollars to get out of the deal (with his 270 billion net worth - which by the way includes assets not necessarily liquid cash).
I don’t know that he’s not in it for the money. I think the point is to destroy it so he doesn’t have to pay back what he borrowed to buy it.
- Comment on Is there a specific example of Target getting a shoplifter convicted for a small individual theft that puts them over the felony limit? 1 month ago:
I’ve been trying to Google it and haven’t come up with anything. It’s been literally article after article of “ex-target” employees making the claim. Might mean it’s an old wives tale they spread around to each other. Might be that it actually does happen infrequently (probably to repeat offenders who don’t get caught in the act but do get caught when footage is reviewed).