Buelldozer
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- Comment on Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users 3 days ago:
The bot problem has been around since before Sam Altman was old enough to legally drink. For example in the early days the founders of Reddit were running bots to make the site look wayyy busier than it actually was in order to attract new users.
- Comment on Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray. 3 days ago:
There isn’t a single county in this country that votes 100% in either direction. So saying that “All of whom voted for this.” is objectively incorrect.
- Comment on Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray. 3 days ago:
I’m in Wyoming and fiber started rolling out in multiple cities with multiple different providers in each city two years ago. They got to my house earlier this year so I now have a 2Gb/s connection.
- Comment on Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray. 3 days ago:
I’m confused. The article is talking about “BEAD” which wasn’t passed until 2021. You must be talking about a different program.
- Comment on France Pushes Digital ID Check Laws For Platforms Like Reddit and Bluesky 6 days ago:
When did France start caring about porn?
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 1 week ago:
As explained in the video you can’t run 50 amps ona dryer outlet. It’s 42 amps max.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
The same tailscale that announced last week that they are going to start charging?
- Comment on We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span. 1 week ago:
Sure, it’s pretty simple really. As wages rise the business has to charge more to cover the increase in cost. As price rises demand falls.
So while the commenters statement “There is no such thing as a labor shortage, only activities that people don’t think are worth the cost.” may be true so is “There is no such thing as a work shortage, only activities that customers don’t think are worth the cost.”
It’s a big reason there’s so few appliance repair people these days. Hard to justify paying someone $
- Comment on We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span. 1 week ago:
There is no such thing as a labor shortage, only activities that people don’t think are worth the cost.
I wonder, do you realize that’s also true on the demand side?
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 1 week ago:
But thats the first example i noticed because it was just so obvious.
You must have been too young in 2015. Redditors watched in amazement as “the switch” flipped from Bernie to Hillary in literal hours.
The DNC later admitted to spending millions of dollars on actual shills, employed by ActBlue, to “Correct the Record” on Hillary.
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 1 week ago:
10 years at least.
- Comment on Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want? 1 week ago:
Oh wow, that explains why so many of the new Audis look worse than my 2015!
- Comment on Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want? 1 week ago:
I would argue that it is already the case that cheap cars look and perform excellently, compared with cars produced fifty years ago.
50 years? Try 30 and even 20 could be argued.
- Comment on Commodore shocks retro TechTuber with option to buy 'the whole company' 1 week ago:
What makes you think that?
Haven’t you wondered why he’s all but stopped making videos on his primary channel? In January of 2024 he released a video where he openly says that he can’t make money like he used too so he’s dialed back his “main” channel and is instead focusing on his Barcade channel.
This isn’t the first time he’s done it either. Remember, he started off as the “TheiBookGuy” where you bought, fixed, and resold used Macs. When that stopped making money he quit doing it and launched a PC Repair channel and when that didn’t pay off he moved to RetroComputing.
Don’t get me wrong, I really enjoy his historical retro type content. I also appreciate the projects and energy he contribute(s/d) to the Retro community but in a contest of altruism between The 8 Bit Guy and Perifractic there’s really no contests.
- Comment on Commodore shocks retro TechTuber with option to buy 'the whole company' 2 weeks ago:
Peri does it for love, David does it for money. Who do you want in charge?
- Comment on Self-hosting your own media considered harmful - I just received my second community guidelines violation for my video demonstrating the use of LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5, for 4K video playback 2 weeks ago:
This kind of crap is driving popular creators, like Geerling, to move to other places. YT / Alphabet has lost the plot.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 2 weeks ago:
YT Premium has no ads. YT Lite does, just fewer of them (supposedly).
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 2 weeks ago:
f the reason EE is shutting down due to lack of staff why would anyone go to a smaller one/one run by a single person?
Small instances can have far less drama and workload. Just because an instance isn’t popular and has a small admin team doesn’t mean it’s in danger of folding up. 😀
- Comment on Lemm.ee communities migration megathread 2 weeks ago:
If you are looking for a small and stable instance you should evaluate lemmy.today. It’s hosted in the U.S. (Pacific North West) and has a high degree of federation.
- Comment on China's first 6nm GPU boots up, targets performance parity with RTX 4060 3 weeks ago:
Big…if true. This article is long on claims but utterly bereft of proof.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns 3 weeks ago:
Cross platform you say? So…like…ARM? 🙂
- Comment on New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why 4 weeks ago:
About $300 is what the mechanics in the area usually charge.
That’s complete robbery. Go to a tire shop.
- Comment on New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why 4 weeks ago:
$300? A TPS sensor replacement should cost like $75 including the sensor itself.
- Comment on New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why 4 weeks ago:
IIRC that’s eithera damaged fuel pump diaphragm or a sticking auto choke valve. Either way its like 10 minutes and less than 1$ to fix using a common Phillips screwdriver.
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 4 weeks ago:
On my Android devices right below “New Tab” is an option for “Bookmarks”. I guess YMMV depending on what your mobile device is?
- Comment on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year 4 weeks ago:
Always amazes me how few people seem to know about DACs. I use them extensively in racks. They’re inexpensive and easy to use.
- Comment on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year 4 weeks ago:
Old meme is old. I’m sitting in Central Wyoming with reasonably priced 2Gb/s fiber and I could order 10Gb/s if I wanted it.
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 4 weeks ago:
Uhhhh, mine does. Why doesn’t yours?
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 4 weeks ago:
Despite your wall of text this isn’t just a problem in the United States.
- Comment on Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits 5 weeks ago:
Libre doesn’t support IDM, nor provide email, nor MFA, nor CAM, nor storage.
M365 Business Premium is a LOT more than Office Documents.