snownyte
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- Comment on Neuralink to implant 2nd human with brain chip as 75% of threads retract in 1st 5 months ago:
I wonder what it was like for all of the fools that ever bought an Oculus headset and might've been force fed anything Mark projected on that thing.
- Comment on Neuralink to implant 2nd human with brain chip as 75% of threads retract in 1st 5 months ago:
What a world we live in, huh?
We've got corporations who've successfully contaminated the world with their waste in a systematic fashion.
We've got corporations who've blindsided the political system.
We've got corporations who've blindsided affordable living.
We've got corporations who've given us a filtered and artificial companion in AI.
And now we've got a company that is actively seeking ways possible to ruin your way of being and living through chip implanting.
Enjoy the world, people.
- Comment on The Mac vs. PC war is back on? 5 months ago:
I've never mentioned the software store.
And not every single piece of software is on it.
And yes you'll still need to use the terminal for more than just updating and installing software. Kinda routes back to my problem in regards to transitioning from one OS to another.
- Comment on The Mac vs. PC war is back on? 5 months ago:
Ubuntu and it's spin-offs are really are as close as we're ever going to get to a full, user-friendly Linux OS. At least one that isn't going to scare off as many people.
It's just when you tell people the part where you have to keep track of some of the software that they use through the terminal, that's when you start seeing them trickle off back to Windows.
Because the average user doesn't have the patience, time or know-how to utilize commands in a terminal. If you plopped them down during the era where DOS was prominent, they'd be so lost and be begging for a UI to handle everything.
- Comment on Are all phone calls voip (voice over Internet protocol) now? 5 months ago:
It's starting to feel that way. The ISP I use that also serves telephone, only serves VoIP and I've had other services before do the same.
Like, why do that when I've gotten a Google Voice number for free to use?
- Comment on The Mac vs. PC war is back on? 5 months ago:
The only apple things I've ever owned was an IPod. And I never paid full price for that shit.
- Comment on The Mac vs. PC war is back on? 5 months ago:
There is that nvidia open source thing that recently happened. Still think that's going to break down some doors that Linux gamers have long wanted to see. Like to be able to run their Linux OSes with drivers to their GPUs from Nvidia and play games that way.
- Comment on Nabiha Syed will join the Mozilla Foundation as [their] next Executive Director 5 months ago:
Yeah but they also use the word 'commercialize' which could very well mean that they're looking to get something out from this. How much and who's profiting is what we don't know yet but it is a concern.
- Comment on Nabiha Syed will join the Mozilla Foundation as [their] next Executive Director 5 months ago:
My immediate interpretation was "...did she get involved in some copyright lawsuits against pirates?". The answer is inconclusive because I couldn't find any search results that had her name plastered or referenced in any copyright/pirate cases.
However I did discover that she's the CEO of another company called the Markup, which basically is just a nonprofit newsroom that fact-checks some reports. So I suppose she's just someone who studies law on media to get a better understanding if I'm reading into that, but it's such a vague term to use if you're not like a practicing lawyer that specializes in media like copyright. I don't know, she failed to post any credentials other than declaring a position.
- Comment on RIP Twitter Dot Com: Elon Musk Moves Social Network to X Web Address 5 months ago:
If he's spent $44 Billion on it, you can rest assure he's not letting it go that easily unless he sees more than half of that come back from a buyer. And the only way he'll see that money is if Apple or Microsoft will bother with it, which they won't.
- Comment on Nabiha Syed will join the Mozilla Foundation as [their] next Executive Director 5 months ago:
I don't care whether or not she connects with an audience. You can communicate with the audience all you want.
What matters is whether or not she's actually going to mean anything, instead of playing cute for people.
- Comment on RIP Twitter Dot Com: Elon Musk Moves Social Network to X Web Address 5 months ago:
I don't care, that sycophant can fuck himself.
Still Twitter to me.
- Comment on OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts 5 months ago:
Wish I had known this beforehand in like several accounts I've had with that shit-ass place.
Then again, it's likely that Reddit has shit archived because Spez is one of them data-farmers like Mark is. Nothing is truly deleted from their sites. It's just archived.
There's been lots of evidence that proves this, because people have dug up old comments, even down to who posted it originally. Then, even if your account is deleted, your comment body is still there, I know because I've deleted an account and checked back where I was before.
- Comment on Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows 5 months ago:
I'm not sure what can be brought to Winamp that'll make it better through open source. Maybe it'll be a default alternative for Linux distros? That'd be cool.
But, Winamp to me is just a program I use that plays video game soundtracks that are different formats aren't MP3 or WAV. Like Super Nintendo with .SPC for example.
AIMP has predominantly taken the mantle on my system as default media player, it's just feature rich and long won me over the day my PC suddenly rebooted and the song I was playing was just on pause with that program! Winamp couldn't do this, whenever I re-opened it, song stopped playing entirely, gotta play it again.
- Comment on Mean world syndrome has reacted a fever pitch. 6 months ago:
Single away from shitbags like you, yes, I agree being better off single than trying to chance being with people like you thanks.
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 6 months ago:
Probably has a future? It's already here.
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 6 months ago:
I understand that things don't last forever. But and it sounds selfish to say and maybe people might agree, I'd like for these things to last as long as I'm alive to view them whenever I please.
Though I'm really sick of this god damn hot potato shit with the content that's spread across several streaming platforms. As well as unstable services. "Oh, we've shut this down, fuck your purchases" "Oh, we couldn't sustain this platform, go elsewhere".
It means a lot to the customer. Doesn't mean dick to these services.
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 6 months ago:
Steam really did try with the movies idea, it didn't last too long though. Licensing is a bitch to maintain.
- Comment on First human to receive transplanted pig kidney dies 6 months ago:
And we're going to continue making babysteps towards medicine and biology so long as we've got bible thumpers going around shaming people for "playing god" when they turn around telling us that all we need are essential oils and ignore our problems.
- Comment on How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion 6 months ago:
Accidentally?
- Comment on Streaming is cable now | Seventeen years after Netflix and Hulu kicked off a streaming revolution, it’s looking more like cable than ever. 6 months ago:
What is Tiktok doing that is anyway different from what Vine did?
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 6 months ago:
This is more than enough to turn me off from the idea of neural anything in the brains of humans. Especially if it's all being ran by a fledgling sycophant like Musk.
Even if it's not drastic, I don't want to know what the worst case scenario would've been.
- Comment on Renters' hopes of being able to buy a home have fallen to a record low, New York Fed survey shows 6 months ago:
I've accepted the harsh truth that I will never ever own a home in my life. I'm just going to keep apartment hopping until I die it looks like.
- Comment on Streaming is cable now | Seventeen years after Netflix and Hulu kicked off a streaming revolution, it’s looking more like cable than ever. 6 months ago:
You're correct.
Social Media is the perfect example of this. Everytime a new social media network arrives, they always boast about being able to do things you could already have done with the other 9 social media networks. Sharing pictures and video, chatting .etc. They're all things we could've already have done far way back in the days of messaging software like AIM. It's nothing new, it's just recycled ideas being treated as new.
The only things that have ever improved were the amount of size of videos and pictures we can share and the speed in which we're able to do it with. That's it.
The well of finding new ideas has ran dry, because they've all been tried and done before many times. New name, same old shit.
- Comment on Streaming is cable now | Seventeen years after Netflix and Hulu kicked off a streaming revolution, it’s looking more like cable than ever. 6 months ago:
Pretty much.
If you missed an episode of a show on cable television. Well, you're shit out of luck unless it's a show that the network didn't mind running re-runs of, but re-runs only applied for shows that were popular. And if you missed an episode of a show that wasn't popular, again you were shit out of luck and hope to one day acquire it through a VHS or a DVD or these days, blu-ray or on streaming.
Network programming was always like this.
- Comment on Good news and bad news 6 months ago:
This is just his cover to make us think he died.
- Comment on Streaming is cable now | Seventeen years after Netflix and Hulu kicked off a streaming revolution, it’s looking more like cable than ever. 6 months ago:
Um, duh?
Is the author just noticing this? We've been piecing this together for the past 7 some odd years. The day hit us was when YouTube decided to be cute by adding in it's own network via YouTubeTV and with it's onslaught of ads?
- Comment on That's Life 6 months ago:
And burn mountains of money whenever he feels like it.
- Comment on That's Life 6 months ago:
I always almost wonder what exactly villains do when they've failed to beat the superhero and didn't get caught. Now we know.
- Comment on 54% of young Americans say food costs are the biggest strain on their finances 6 months ago:
No where did I say anything about 'family', you're just responding just to argue. Get a life, dude.