scytale
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- Comment on Casio made an Oura Ring alternative that's everything but smart 9 hours ago:
You can now give someone the finger and tell them that’s the only time you have for them
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 1 day ago:
Because most people switching don’t know (or care) about the fediverse and decentralization. They are regular internet users who just want to get away from the cesspool that is twitter, so they go where other people are going.
- Comment on Among apps vying to replace Twitter, Bluesky may have the news and innovation edge 2 days ago:
The posr about Stephen King moving to Threads says otherwise. But to be fair, it’s Threads and not Bluesky, which I guess people here hate more.
- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 2 days ago:
Not really. I mean, sure it’s the same concept, but email has been getting semi-centralized between the big players now, with gmail and maybe icloud getting the largest chunk of users. That would be similar to letting users choose between .world or .ml to sign up with, which is against the fediverse principle to spread the load as wide as possible.
When you present the lowest common denominator internet user with hundreds of instances to choose from and requiring them to think further than clicking through a sign-up page, you lose user interest pretty quickly.
- Comment on AI Elections 1 week ago:
I know Texas is a joke keeping Hot Wheels and Rafael in office, but do we really deserve to become Iowa?
- Comment on Respect 1 week ago:
And ants. I see all the crawling things on the grass/ground when I do yardwork at home, how much more in an open field.
- Comment on pump up the jamz 2 weeks ago:
Inb4 Opeth - Ghost of Perdition. Also, Sardaukar throat singing.
- Comment on THANK YOU 2 weeks ago:
It’s “less” frightening when you realize those red things aren’t the eyes, like the other pictures in the comments that show them better
- Comment on Whenever I see someone walking around in clothes with big, visible branding, I can’t help but think they paid a fortune to wear an advertisement. 2 weeks ago:
Lol I know the feeling. Sometimes I just say “Oh we already use your product…mind if I grab those socks?”.
- Comment on Stop Wasting Pumpkins! 2 weeks ago:
The version I know is that they will only live if they can stick the fruit/vegetable in their ass without making a sound, and they were shot because they couldn’t stop giggling because they saw the third guy carrying <whatever large produce>.
- Comment on Whenever I see someone walking around in clothes with big, visible branding, I can’t help but think they paid a fortune to wear an advertisement. 2 weeks ago:
“free” for me. My job has conference/training budget that is use-it-or-lose-it, so might as well go for it. You can also talk your way through getting swag without giving up your contact details, or just provide fake ones.
- Comment on Whenever I see someone walking around in clothes with big, visible branding, I can’t help but think they paid a fortune to wear an advertisement. 2 weeks ago:
The only other type of clothing with clear, visible branding I own aside from band shirts is tech vendor shirts from conferences. But those I get for free, so I didn’t exactly pay to become their billboard.
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 2 weeks ago:
I also have this incredibly stupid idea to build a very long pipe that goes all the way outside earth’s gravity pull, then launch all the garbage through it with a mechanism similar to a railgun. It doesn’t have to be thrown directly at the sun, just enough to launch stuff out of orbit.
- Comment on How are scammers getting my email address? 2 weeks ago:
Someone who you’ve corresponded to over email had their address book compromised and it was used in a mass phishing email campaign. It’s not necessarily targeted at you. I actually have experience of this happening. I had an email address that I used only to correspond to a single person. I never gave the email to anyone else and never signed up for anything. Well that person’s email was compromised and I started getting spam/phishing emails shortly after that.
- Comment on Support local bands 2 weeks ago:
I always buy merch as it’s worth more than any amount a band earns from streaming. I wish more bands have shirts that aren’t just black though. I’d estimate only a quarter of the artists I’ve seen have shirts of a different color.
- Comment on The Genesis of a joke. 2 weeks ago:
As a fellow prog enjoyer, you’re all good and I appreciate you sharing your own insight on the Genesis eras.
- Comment on Dinner time 2 weeks ago:
Should’ve posted without the name and let people notice it. Still funny though.
- Comment on We are at the Wolfenstein stage of capital. 3 weeks ago:
Is it proper to hold the dog’s snout like a bowling bowl to show its teeth?
- Comment on Visualizing the Cost of the American Dream in 2024 3 weeks ago:
I easily cut that in half by not having kids and pets (personal choice), not spending 44k for a wedding, and not spending 800k on cars. I’ve owned 3 cars over 15 years and they cost 80k total (including loan payments).
- Comment on K-Drama moment 3 weeks ago:
Subway has a huge ad presence in Korea and you’ll see a lot of shows where characters are eating it.
- Comment on YSK that United has significantly escalated their war against basic economy passengers 3 weeks ago:
That’s some budget airline behavior. If they want to do tha, they should price their flights accordingly.
- Comment on Will COVID death rates of Republicans have a significant impact on the outcome of the presidential election? 3 weeks ago:
OP’s question is if the number of republicans who died from covid would affect their voting numbers, not about the quality of the people running or if the people who vote for them care.
- Comment on Loops by Pixelfed • Public beta (hopefully) launching in 10 hours 3 weeks ago:
Storage costs is the biggest hurdle for decentralized video platforms. I wonder how instances will handle that.
- Comment on I for one welcome Bluesky, the ATmosphere, BTS ARMY, and millions of Brazilians to the fediverses! 3 weeks ago:
Getting the BTS fanbase to switch platforms is huge and can essentially get you millions of users in an instant. I wish Mastodon was in the picture though.
- Comment on Magic Mineral 4 weeks ago:
I remember as a kid we had some kind of puck-shaped asbestos bathroom deodorizer. It was also used in urinals back in the day.
- Comment on How do decide what language you speak living on a countries border. 1 month ago:
Whatever the majority of the people in the area are speaking. Another factor is which side of the border the community interacts with more. If say the city is technically closer to an urban area on the bordering country than it’s neighbor within its own country, then they likely interact more with the former so will speak that language more.
- Comment on "Would U.S. tech workers join a union?" survey average: 67% likely 1 month ago:
Gotta ask some of my coworkers if they were one of the participants in the survey.
- Comment on Watch out, Microsoft Outlook could soon give away when you're sneakily working from home 1 month ago:
You can respond with a message included. If I see the location as a physical room and not a zoom link, I accept/tentative and add a comment that I won’t be at the office on that day/time and if we can do it online instead.
- Comment on Watch out, Microsoft Outlook could soon give away when you're sneakily working from home 1 month ago:
Yeah, that’s what the meeting invite RSVP is for.
- Comment on Class 'Inequity' Fuels Air Rage 1 month ago:
I was honestly expecting them to go the route of just hiding the inequality by finding a way to get economy passengers on the plane without going through first/business class.