AstridWipenaugh
@AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world
- Comment on Eat lead 4 weeks ago:
Because believers will listen to Christianity’s divinely inspired interpretation of the Bible that says that. Non-christians won’t listen to that. Therefore anyone who believes the earth is older has rejected Christianity. He did it to help identify the non-believers because he’s a petty bitch.
- Comment on 👣👣👣 1 month ago:
It’s because of anti-discrimination laws. In some US states it can be illegal to hire someone for a position without posting it publicly. The concern is that if you’re not posting the job publicly, it can be because you want to prevent certain people from applying.
When you do post it publicly, the company can demonstrate that they allowed anyone to apply, show records that they considered multiple people for the job, and then decided on the internal candidate the best fit. No room for a discrimination lawsuit.
Source: I’m a hiring manager at a multi-billion dollar company and have actually learned a thing or two from annual compliance training over the years.
- Comment on The TrimUI Brick Takes Inspiration From The Analogue Pocket | Time Extension 1 month ago:
Is there a “real” or primary manufacturer? I looked it up and it looks cool, but it’s an endless sea of knockoffs with very different prices.
- Comment on UN World Food Programme halts Gaza staff movements 2 months ago:
after its team came under fire near an Israeli checkpoint.
Shot at by whom??? Must have been all the Hamas soldiers hanging out at the Israeli checkpoint since they won’t say who it was…
- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 3 months ago:
It’s not even that simple. If you skip ahead during an ad, the YT servers could just keep streaming you the ad content anyway. Their servers can ensure that the next 30s of packet data you receive is an ad no matter what, so the only way you can skip it is to wait it out and close your ears and eyes. Basically the same concept as ads on broadcast TV. Which means we’ll have to do a TiVo for YT… Gross.
- Comment on Shapez 2 to enter Early Access: August 15 3 months ago:
Sweet! Shapez is a great take on factory games.
- Comment on Kien, the most-delayed video game in history, released after 22 years 4 months ago:
Star Citizen is on track to beat this in only 10 more years! My children will carry on my legacy.
- Comment on noplace, a mashup of Twitter and Myspace for Gen Z, hits No. 1 on the App Store 4 months ago:
It’s pedantic, but you are not your computer. They don’t collect (according to them) PII other than phone numbers.
- Comment on noplace, a mashup of Twitter and Myspace for Gen Z, hits No. 1 on the App Store 4 months ago:
- Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), - absolutely necessary for anti-ddos techniques
- browser type, browser version, - necessary for UX to build a functional website for the browsers that customers actually use
- the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, - critical for determining what is popular and what isn’t to improve how the interface is designed and what parts are pulled forward and what parts are hidden in menus
- unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data. - useful for determining how often you switch devices and the performance and other experience metrics to drive making the app more user friendly
I work on web software professionally and this is a pretty minimal list that is completely justifiable for maintaining operations. If you can’t answer basic questions like “what are users doing with the app?”, you can’t make intelligent decisions about how to improve it.
There’s a lot of the same stuff here: legal.lemmy.world/privacy-policy/
I don’t know anything about this app or company so I’m not going to defend them, but there aren’t any real red flags here. If this amount of data collection bothers you, you really should stop using the internet in general.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals 4 months ago:
The audio in this game really seals the deal. You’re just swimming along collecting resources and hear a terrifying roar. But you look around and can’t see where it came from… Do you keep going or nope the fuck outta there and go take a breather in your life pod for 20 mins while your heart rate comes back down?
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals 4 months ago:
Being able to build vertically makes it a very different experience. Using a hyper tube chain to meet yourself all the way across the map is chef’s kiss.
The blueprints are helpful for mid to late game when you need to set up dozens of the same thing. It’s not a perfect system, but can definitely be a time saver.
The combat is totally different. There’s no raid/defense mechanism. The mobs have a fixed spawn point. They’ll stop respawning once you start building around that point. Once you learn the appropriate attack/dodge maneuver for each type, they’re barely even a nuisance to kill.
- Comment on Looks like something straight from Warhammer 40K 4 months ago:
I’m sure all those bones are legitimate salvage…
- Comment on Economics 5 months ago:
The TI-89 was ~$100 when I bought one 20 years ago. Looked it up on Amazon and they’re $100-$150 depending on the specific model. They haven’t kept up with inflation at all, which means they’ve been getting cheaper this whole time…
- Comment on Coconuts 🥥 5 months ago:
This is nonsense. Coconuts were spread by humans.
Such an origin indicates that the coconuts were not introduced naturally, such as by sea currents. The researchers concluded that it was brought by early Austronesian sailors to the Americas from at least 2,250 BP, and may be proof of pre-Columbian contact between Austronesian cultures and South American cultures.
- Comment on "William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill" Documentary/Biography in theaters this weekend 8 months ago:
Hopefully it’s a 96 minute reenactment ofRocket Man.
- Comment on mycology 8 months ago:
I used to be a wizard, till I took a mushroom to the knee.
- Comment on mycology 8 months ago:
Not clones, more of a ship of Theseus scenario. A fungal network can be “one thing” because we see it as a single interconnected system. But parts grow and die over time. It doesn’t have individual cells that are infinitely old, but the one wholistic fungal organism, as we define it, can live forever through regrowth. There are types of jellyfish that can also “live forever” in this same way.
- Comment on Coles paper bags have been shrinkflated 8 months ago:
You guys have bags? We don’t have bags in my part of the USA anymore. Plastic got banned and no stores have any paper bags.
- Comment on Usage Of Elon Musk’s X Dropped 30% In The Last Year, Study Suggests 8 months ago:
They’re bots
- Comment on This Is Why Tesla’s Stainless Steel Cybertrucks May Be Rusting 8 months ago:
That’s early access selling DLC.
- Comment on "Suggested" Facebook Disinfo (Moon Landing Hoax Page) 9 months ago:
I traveled to North Carolina for work recently. The ads I got on my phone were off the deep end. Gun stores, FJB apparel, and all manner of right wing nonsense. I don’t get any of that stuff when I’m using cell data in my town.
- Comment on A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US 10 months ago:
Our schools do a “spirit night” fundraiser at a business once a month. The business donates a portion of the sales to the school during a specific time frame. Child labor is not involved.
- Comment on Unity bans VLC from Unity Store. 10 months ago:
Epic is just a troll company. They donated to Godot when it served as a jab in the side of their competition (unity). Their entire business model is to inflict Stockholm Syndrome on their users via free games.
- Comment on Goodbye MatPat, thanks for everything 10 months ago:
I think that’s Tom Zendaya from Skibidi Drip Rizz.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Anyone making gender or race based claims about behavior is an idiot, mmmkay?
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 10 months ago:
Ryobi is great for starting out. They’re definitely not the best tools, but they’re cheap. If you wear out something from them, you’ve earned the right to buy a good brand of that tool.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 10 months ago:
No. They’re repeating cable history. The great bundling has already begun. Hulu and Disney are being rolled together. You’re going to have fewer options moving forward. You’ll have to buy the netflix-hulu-disney-peacock-hbo-starz bundle or the other one with all the rest. Then they can keep cranking up the price because it’s all or nothing. Prices will go up until too many people choose the “nothing” option, then they’ll start doing a “build your own package” to let you drop half and save 10% just because you want one of the services.
- Comment on Israel grants Intel $3.2 billion for new $25 billion chip plant 10 months ago:
That’s the same kind of logic you use about how much you saved when you buy something on sale. Would have saved more if you didn’t buy it at all; Israel would collect more tax money if they didn’t give them massive subsidies and tax breaks.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 10 months ago:
This is exactly it. They’re not building their brand by providing a superior service/experience or driving market prices down. They’re using venture capital to fund giving away games to get you to use their wildly subpar services. They’re trying to buy market position without the services to justify it.
- Comment on What's your favorite note-taking application? 10 months ago:
notion.so It’s a web-based editor with a good android app. Has basic formatting, plugins/integrations, and dark mode. It’s free for individual use cases. Has some nice paid features for collaboration and business use cases, though the free plan still allows sharing and concurrent editing.