MrSqueezles

@MrSqueezles@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s mind boggling to see the volume of content Amazon has produced that nobody cares about. Rings of Power was $89 million per episode. Citadel was $42 million per episode. There are solutions other than, “Higher fees”.

  But Upload and The Boys are pretty good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand. Facebook can get data from an open system whenever they feel like it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What? Oh FFS. Context. Yes, Play Store has competitors, so yes absolutely a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Google used to allow third party payments. It turned out to be expensive.

  This is like forcing Walmart to let companies take up space in their stores rent free and process their own payments. When it turns out a bunch of those little stores are stealing personal information and credit card info and money, those customers go to the Walmart service desk and when Walmart employees shrug and say, “I don’t know what the fuck those guys are doing. You see, we give you the big store, but once you step into that smaller store hey are you falling asleep?” it’s national news and it’s Walmart’s fault and they’re called to testify in front of congress to get yelled at for not protecting customers. This is a weird precedent.

  I don’t agree with Google’s decision to force payments through Google. Since congress and courts and media expect Google to police the safety of all apps downloaded from the Play Store, I can’t think of a better solution that also respects privacy, isn’t, “We’ll monitor everything every app does, but pinky swear it’s just so we can make sure they’re being nice to you.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean like Play Store?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You may want to sit down⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  parent comedian stupid funny

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Cybertruck Is a Disappointment Even to Cybertruck Superfans / Looking at the specs alone, the car is delivering 30 percent less range than expected for 30 percent more money⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The article talking about a Cybertruck racing a Porsche

  Electric motors accelerate cars faster than ones with internal combustion engines, so this wasn’t a fair fight.

  Nobody’s permitted to compare electric cars with internal combustion because electric is faster? I don’t understand the logic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Cybertruck Is a Disappointment Even to Cybertruck Superfans / Looking at the specs alone, the car is delivering 30 percent less range than expected for 30 percent more money⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure,yeah. Most cars don’t take pre-orders with down payments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill is a pro grammer⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree for inline code comments, like, “# Save the sprocket”, right above the line that saves the sprocket. Does this include documentation? Because when I see a prepareForSave function that references 10 other functions and I just want to know, “Is this mutating and how is it preparing for save and when should I call it?”, having the author spend 15 seconds telling me is less time consuming than me spending 5 minutes reading code to find out. Anyone who has read API docs has benefited from documentation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Bother With uBlock Being Blocked In Chrome? Now Is The Best Time To Switch To Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Last I checked, Firefox had also been switching to Manifest v3 because they’re also combating the tide of add-ons that pretend to do something useful, but actually steal your information. They asked uBlock at least a few times how they could build Manifest v3 in a way that’d be compatible. Instead of the browser asking about each URL, thereby giving the add-on access to personal information, uBlock could tell the browser what to block. uBlock’s answer was always, “No. That’s not good enough. Give the add-on access to URLs.” It seemed to me like every time uBlock was approached, they turned to news sites to complain and IIR, the feature that would have given uBlock some functionality was removed from v3 because if nobody’s going to use it, why build it?

  I wonder, now that uBlock has conflated the discussion of, “How much should extensions be able to see and modify URLs you’re visiting?”, with, “v3 is a war on ad blockers!”, how quickly Firefox will move forward with v3, if at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is kind of necessary. You could open a store just selling Steam keys. You get Steam’s software distribution, installed user base, networking for free and pay nothing to them. Steam is selling all of those services for a 30% cut. Since your overhead is $0, you can take just a 1% fee and still turn a profit because Valve is covering 99% of your costs.

  Steam could disable keys or start charging fees for them. As long as they’re being this ridiculously generous and permitting publishers to have them for free, some limitation makes sense.

  I’m dubious, though. There must be a provision for promotional pricing. I’ve definitely bought keys for less than Steam prices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t believe that a company that puts out a device running Linux that gives you access to the OS in a few clicks and provides guides for how to install competing distribution platforms is more anticompetitive than Sony, Apple, Nintendo, Microsoft, Google. Valve and Steam aren’t perfect. It’s difficult to accept that having a store and charging for it is worse than, for example, Sony buying studios and paying millions of dollars for some games to be exclusive on their platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AAAAtoms⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fahrenheit measured human body temperature (which he thought was a constant) and called that 96 degrees. We now know normal body temperature is about 98.6 degrees F, but back then, his instruments weren’t as accurate. The number 96 was chosen for its divisibility. It has many divisors (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 48, 96), making it easier to mark subdivisions on the thermometer.

  It’s a scale partly defined by human body temperature, which is, I think, the point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot mistakes man for box of peppers, kills him — Malfunctioning sensor system blamed for technician’s death at Korean food plant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t been in a plant where management tells everyone to go crazy and ignore safety because 1. they aren’t monsters and 2. lawsuits. They’re financially motivated to do the right thing. When I saw the article, my first thought was this person disabled mandatory lockouts because it’s convenient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After luring customers with low prices, Amazon stuffs Fire TVs with ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This needs to become illegal. Ads are part of the price you pay for a device or service. If you didn’t agree to them at the time of purchase, they can’t be sprung on you after you’ve paid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This shows me a never ending stream of CAPTCHAs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cruise Self-Driving License Revoked After It Withheld Pedestrian Injury Footage, DMV Says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  because a human driver would have handed that dash cam footage right over voluntarily.

  I agree this is terrible and DMV did the right thing. Context helps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘World’s first off-road solar SUV’ just drove across Morocco powered only by the sun⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  uses “lightweight and robust” composite materials to cut weight

  Pretty great as an experiment. I wonder how this would fare in crash tests, whether there’s a way to make composites work in practical scenarios.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube intensifies fight against ad blockers showing pop-ups, and users are frustrated | Blocking ad-block users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  From the article

  even if some users stop using YouTube, there won’t be a loss of revenue because those users weren’t watching ads anyway.

  Guys, YouTube doesn’t give a flying fuck that you aren’t going to consume their content without paying. That’s the point. They’re only rolling this out slowly to be sure they aren’t impacting their actual customers.

  Lemmy felt like classic reddit for about a week, actual content that I wanted to see, discussions at an adult level. The amount of bandwagoning and “me too”, “fuck corporations” comments has me signing on less and less.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some Walmart employees say customers are getting hostile at self-checkout — and they blame anti-theft tech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Some machines use scales to measure the weight of items, scan one item, put it in the “bagging area” (scale), repeat. Many stores have disabled scales because they’re buggy and don’t catch thieves, who learn that to steal, don’t put items on the scale. Now, stores have employees watch and offer “technical support”. “Oh, ma’am, I think this item may have been missed. Let’s check. Do you need help with how to scan items?” I don’t try to steal, so don’t find the machines to be a problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy fucking shit I had no idea that I couldn’t download a car. So if it’s really easy to take something without paying, it’s legit, but if it’s difficult and I might actually go to jail, then it’s not. Got it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s totally not fair that a Bently costs so much money. Sure, I could, you know, buy a different car, but fuck Bently for their unfair pricing model, so I regularly steal them.

  I’m sure Bently would love to have me not stealing their cars and Google could not give less of a fuck about not having to lose money from you consuming content and server resources without paying. Over half of the money YouTube makes goes to creators. Consider who you’re stealing from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 with listeners migrated to YouTube Music⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  • Google employee 1: We made podcasts in Play Music better and adoption went up again.

  • Google manager: Oh, that’s neat. I’ll make a bullet point on this week’s team meeting.

  • Google employee 2: We spent many millions on a new podcast app and servers, engineering, data migration, PR, integrations and adoption is lower. Actually, nobody wanted it or cares or likes it.

  • Google VP: Everyone this can’t fail. Pick the best looking metrics, prepare a series of announcements and get ready for a wave of promotions and it’s all thanks to this superstar manager who’s definitely getting a huge bonus and double promotion so I can spin this like it was a win. The best part? Get ready for a repeat when we replace this again in 2 to 3 years.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elektrek: "Tesla FSD Beta tried to kill me last night"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The craziest part of the article is just how much effort the author put into collecting data and filing feedback and really really hoping that Tesla could pull the videos (they can), then went on to actively try and succeeded in recreating the problem at high speed next to another car.