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- Comment on Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users 3 weeks ago:
What you describe is the main reason that’s stopping me from 100% leaving Reddit. There isn’t enough variety and there isn’t enough activity in communities that isn’t in the few popular ones. At the moment it feels like +80% of current users fit into a specific demographic.
- Comment on Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers 3 weeks ago:
I think that says more about the channels you watch and your viewing habits. I enjoy STEM and STEM related channels; I don’t experience the same as what you’ve described.
- Comment on What's a good instance to be on at the moment? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve not heard of Sopuli or .cafe before. Do they cater for a niche audience or something?
- Comment on What's a good instance to be on at the moment? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s the exact reason why I dislike the .zip TLD, and the same goes for .mov. The TLDs can be easily abused to look like something they’re not to trick people into visiting their website that downloads something malicious.
- Comment on What's a good instance to be on at the moment? 4 weeks ago:
If you saw
ChromeUpdate202506.zip, then what do you believe it is? A downloadable upload for Chrome or a website?What if a malicious person has purchased that domain and filled the website with something malicious, a virus, an info stealer, etc?
I block the .zip TLD because the domains can be used maliciously. Within the first few days there were hundreds/thousands of domains registered with names to look like a zip files for updating some software.
I also block the .mov TLD for the exact same reason.
Sure on a good day you can spot the malicious intent from a mile away, but I like to protect for when I’m having a bad day. I also block the TLDs for the whole family as well because unfortunately they’re not as tech savvy or meticulous.
- Comment on What's a good instance to be on at the moment? 4 weeks ago:
Good good. I hope that’s the case. I’d prefer to see the variety of instances that people enjoy. :)
- Comment on What's a good instance to be on at the moment? 4 weeks ago:
There are some instances far worst than others other. I think hex bear has been defederated by many for example.
And I agree with the crazies; I think it’s true for any group that’s large enough, regardless of platform or real world communities.
- Comment on What's a good instance to be on at the moment? 4 weeks ago:
Which law is that?
- Comment on What's a good instance to be on at the moment? 4 weeks ago:
Any website or service that utilizes the .zip TLD 🤮🤮
I’m sure there are great websites and services that utilize it, but I have a strong opinion that the TLD should have never been put out there for people to use. I block all .zip TLD domains with no exceptions; and so unfortunately, I cannot use lemmy.zip.
To be fair, I have no real opinions about lemm.ee. It was one of the instances that had the most users when I joined Lemmy, and as far as I’m aware it hasn’t received any real negative press.
I’m more bothered about seeing or being associated with spam and/or an instance full of toxic people. I’m not a spicy person - or so I’d like to think.
- Comment on Dear Kevin 4 weeks ago:
I’ve never clocked on that the colors are in the order of the rainbow. Mind blown that it’s taken your comment to highlight this for me.
I also like that the colors surrounding are shades of lightness… cough cough let’s ignore the brown.
- Comment on Dear Kevin 4 weeks ago:
The racist term I was taught when I was a young person
(Color of darkness) (fatherless children) (coerced non-consensual reproduction activities) our (new people to the world) (XX people) but (pure people) go without.
I hate reading resistor color codes because which is the correct orientation for the resistor. Band gaps and positions on real world resistors don’t stand out as much as what the theoretical charts show - so I always meter them anyway.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 65 comments
- Comment on WhatsApp is officially getting ads 4 weeks ago:
At least normal European people are locked into a platform that doesn’t care what device you’re using, unlike iMessage - so it’s not all bad
- Comment on How to check whether a particular url is safe or not ? 1 month ago:
If it’s a website use a website preview online service.
- 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. 1 month ago:
I generally have already decided what to purchase before I load Amazon’s website. I also rarely purchase cheap white label products, and so Amazon’s reviews are mostly irrelevant to me. I’ve rarely needed to return items too and recently they were all my fault anyway, eg, not quite the dimensions I thought I needed.
- 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. 1 month ago:
I’ve never heard of anyone use a shop’s reviews to decide what product to purchase, so you’re literally the first to me.
If I want a product that I have no idea about then I’ll go to forums, YouTube channels, etc about that type of thing and see what they say about it all. They’ll be people who’ve done product reviews and comparisons. And so they’re the people with the knowledge and their the people that care.
So in your example of wanting a guitar pedal I’d be visiting music and electric guitar places on the internet to gather knowledge on the product range.
Once I hit the online store, I’ve already decided what I want to purchase. And so the store reviews are more about the seller themselves and whether the product is genuine/fake, or a good/bad version of the white label item.
- 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. 1 month ago:
Fakespot has always felt inaccurate to me. Once every 6 months or so I gave it a go to see if any of the updates have improved it but it never felt like it did to me.
Furthermore, I don’t see the point in Fakespot since Amazon bends over backwards to accept returns for any reason.
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 2 months ago:
The only issue with projects like LineageOS is that the camera usually sucks because the full fat camera driver isn’t released to the public, it’s only the basic driver. The camera can still take photos but all of the features you’ve become accustomed to are not there. This was my experience and what the LineageOS team said during the Samsung S5-S8 days.
- Comment on Does anyone have any advice on how to make homemade conductive paint to fix a. cracked carbon trace in a game controller? 2 months ago:
It’s 100% what professionals do to repair traces. Please don’t spread misinformation.
- Comment on Does anyone have any advice on how to make homemade conductive paint to fix a. cracked carbon trace in a game controller? 2 months ago:
Just link out the broken trace with a thin wire. This is what the professionals do. The original traces are carbon to reduce manufacturing costs.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over 2 months ago:
Killed it, as in they were awesome and won, or as in unalived. The quote by itself could mean either.
- Comment on Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds severe data loss and performance issues 2 months ago:
I pulled some data off some old Samsung 1TB SSDs that werent powered for 3-4 years without an issue either. I guess they were SLC based on what others are saying.
I guess it’s a your mileage may vary situation depending on the exact drive you purchase and probably other factors too.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 2 months ago:
Do you acknowledge the questions you haven’t answered and state that you’ll respond to them at a later time or want another person to chime in?
- Comment on What kind of CAPTCHA is this? 3 months ago:
It’s called the ‘John Hammond attack’. Even though it existed before he added his 2 cents, what you see in your image is his addition.
Watch his video to see him explain it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
My submission history looks the same, but I’m not posting about anything political.
I’ve given up on Reddit. I only lurk on it these days and that’s only when Lemmy feels a little stale.
- Comment on How Three Alleged Tesla Vandals Got Caught 3 months ago:
Burn the Tesla with the phone, gotcha
- Comment on FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights 4 months ago:
I’ve thought about turning my entire rear window into a mirror, but I imagine there is a law against it, so I haven’t looked into it.
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 5 months ago:
You and I have completely different views and experiences on this, as I don’t agree with your statement at all; which is why I think you’ve misunderstood.
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 5 months ago:
RIP. I guess you live in the back end of no where.
- Comment on China is quietly pushing ahead with massive 50,000Mbps broadband rollout to leapfrog rest of the world on internet speeds 5 months ago:
I think you’ve misread my comment or there is some misunderstanding.
Just in case, it’s a misread, my speed is 40 Mega bit per second - not 40 mega byte per second.
I have to choose what I want to do and do those things with consideration, otherwise things like streaming will buffer a lot.
If you thought I said 40MBps, then I’d agree, as i imagine the difference between 320Mbps and 1Gbps won’t be noticed unless you’re timing large downloads.