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- Comment on Can't unsee 11 hours ago:
My default view is past 6 hours which I think is nice. Missed it the first time though.
- Comment on Can't unsee 17 hours ago:
Ok, but explain the calarts bean heads.
- Comment on Make a note 1 day ago:
When consuming edible THC there is a time between when you have consumed the drug and when the drug kicks in. During this time you would wait and not consume more drugs because you will over consume and have a less pleasant experience.
- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 1 day ago:
The appeal of Amazon is the things that surround the store.
When I buy from a random website it often takes weeks to ship, costs more to ship, makes me deal with CC fraud if something is untoward, fights me on returns and I usually have to pay to ship back etc etc.
Amazon is bad for a number of reasons but the main driver for me is not the choice of things on there, it’s everything else.
- Comment on the wok agenda 1 week ago:
You could sorta Yik yak before you join a herd?
- Comment on Nice horsie! 🐎 1 week ago:
In a large enough group there is still anonymity even if your face and name are on there.
- Comment on Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State 1 week ago:
Every time I hear that I always say the same thing.
It isn’t enough that you have nothing to hide.
All that’s required is that the general public think they have access to information that someone might want to hide.
Once the public thinks that data can exist or is accessible all that’s required is for them to lie or fabricate the required data.
“It would be very unfortunate if there was questionable content ‘found’ on your phone”
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 1 week ago:
As a non FF player who played 8 and 9 I thought 13 was kinda bad.
Lots of hallways when the previous games had more discovery to them.
Have not really played one since as I wasn’t into MMOs and figured I would try the 7 remake when they finished which it looks like they never will.
- Comment on Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story 1 week ago:
No, there are a bunch of things required to be met in the US for libel and a bunch of precedent which is why it’s hard to sue for it and succeed
- Comment on Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story 1 week ago:
As much as I would like to see that happen paying to fight a court case against Conde Nast just to get a retraction that they will stick somewhere invisible doesn’t really sound like a winning formula.
- Comment on Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story 1 week ago:
Sue them for what? He would have to prove damages and they took it down.
- Comment on Canada Judge Openly Sentences Based on Race in Statutory Rape Case 1 week ago:
This newspaper is a foreign owned mouth piece for the right wing in country that is openly calling for us to lose our sovereignty.
No Canadian who actually believes in Canada should read this rag.
- Comment on The Only Solution Capitalism Has Is to Sell Us More Useless Junk: Ad makers will never say the quiet part loud, but they increasingly know that we're unhappy and looking for solutions. 1 week ago:
You’ve brought 2010 ad blocking techniques to 2026.
The ads now a days are less in your face and way more pervasive.
They are in the articles you read with a tiny “sponsored content” under the by line(if there even is one)
They are recommendation from a friend who themselves got the information from some small time influencer or podcast they follow.
They are the AI comments here and elsewhere that might not stick a product in your face but make sure it’s always in the conversation.
The list goes on and on and sucks.
- Comment on Amazon's Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash 2 weeks ago:
This happens every time there is blow back on something like this.
They will reverse course and slow walk it a bit every 3 or 4 months and we will be back here in a years time.
Someone’s bonus depends on this deal at Amazon, they are still going into work tomorrow and they still want that bonus.
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 2 weeks ago:
I should not have even gotten the 128.
I can use it but barely at 4600 because ryzen chips can’t handle 4 dimms of 32gvb.
I honestly didn’t even bother to check at the time of purchase and it is is still a roll of the dice if I restart.
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 2 weeks ago:
I have 128 GB of ddr5 memory in my machine. I paid 1400 for my 7900xtx which I thought was crazy and now half my ram is worth that.
Never thought I would see the day where the graphics card was not the most expensive component.
- Comment on TikTok Refuses to Confirm or Deny That It's Providing User Data to ICE 2 weeks ago:
You ask so they have to say yes even if it’s a non answer because a lot of people don’t know or don’t pay attention.
- Comment on Save as PDF 2 weeks ago:
What? You didn’t want your portable document format to be Turing complete?
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 2 weeks ago:
How hard is it to create discord?
A lot of the technical difficulty in that type of app usually centers around scale. If you only ever have 10 users in a channel it’s not so hard. When you have 10,000 or 50,000 things start to get more tricky.
Still as per usually for small scale (and slightly larger too) there have been options for a long time. The main difficulty is in getting other people to use your proposed option.
- Comment on Save as PDF 2 weeks ago:
“safe”
- Comment on i mean 2 weeks ago:
You’re right it’s just the system had very few games where the d pad was the obvious primary control device.
What everyone here is really missing is the ahead of its time Golden eye 2 controller two stick setup. They knew where things were going the controller was just a little too soon.
- Comment on Start-up idea 2 weeks ago:
Lol 1000 doesn’t even get you half way to a speed Queen. You just get the same low end shit except it’s got app or screen that with show you add eventually.
- Comment on My feelings on the Super Bowl 2 weeks ago:
I’m shitting in it.
It’s slow, has a ton of advertising, causes CTE, wastes money at colleges that would be better spent elsewhere, covers up sex crimes etc.
There are a ton of more interesting / exciting sports than American football.
I’ll still attend a gathering today but only because I like food and socializing whether the game is on isn’t really relevant to me .
- Comment on I don't care if this is fake, I choose to believe it 2 weeks ago:
How do you think he got so big?
- Comment on Islandium 3 weeks ago:
Hawlk tuah… Am I doing this right?
- Comment on After Years of Waiting Jellyfin Finally Lands on Samsung Tizen TVs 3 weeks ago:
I do? I don’t love Android TV but I only have so much time to fight to the good fight with shit.
I would like a less smart tv but I don’t want to by a 7 year old Nvidia Shield and suffered paralysis by analysis trying to decide on on an Android TV box.
So here we are, I use jellyfin on a smart TV
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 4 weeks ago:
Im not generally making source code changes. It’s the dependencies.
Mainly we’re talking about building very old versions of things like libpng. Making things like autoconf and configure and cmake all work is a pain in the ass as their versions slowly change.
The business would be content to let it run on Ubuntu 12 until it’s a major problem so I can’t let the perfect be the enemy of good.
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 4 weeks ago:
Honestly if part of their job is at all trying to get old shit to run on new operating systems AI is very useful for that task.
Part of my job is keeping a 30 year old c++ application compiling and building on newer versions of Linux. LLMs have made this a far easier experience.
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 5 weeks ago:
I mean that is expected, though I guess that is my bias. I just meant that is was more “layman” than running your own storage system.
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 5 weeks ago:
Ubiquiti offers a product that will do that out of the box iirc but I have no idea if it’s good.
Still ring has been handing stuff to the cops for years at this point. They only “stopped” recently and I guess started again.