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- Comment on GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship 5 days ago:
Good trash or bad trash?
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal 1 week ago:
It’s more like some of the best evil can be hidden behind incompetence for quite a while
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal 1 week ago:
It’s not even that. It’s way smaller potatoes down in the org chart.
People always say “why would large company do this” and the answer is almost always that guy 7 or 8 rows down the org chart needs this to get their bonus this year and that point gets distilled into 1 bullet in a power point presentation that is summarized by chatgpt.
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 1 week ago:
The quality of the media was not as good perhaps but I do miss when the world moved just a little bit slower.
No 24h news cycle, no social media, no being pressured to be connected and available to work at all times.
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 1 week ago:
I mean this is sorta one of the things an autocracy does well. You might get substandard work and a lot of graft but when the order comes down no one gets to complain when they run a train line through your house.
- Comment on introducing copyparty, the FOSS file server 1 week ago:
There is a link to a live demo pretty close to the top.
- Comment on kingdom come 2 weeks ago:
Technically all fruits are vegetables since a vegetable is just a plant we eat.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 2 weeks ago:
It would have to be millenials since Gen z exist almost entirely in the walled garden of a phone app.
Most people now a days don’t even use a desktop with a browser. I honestly expect that most of what they are “seeing” is just web scrapers for the LLM. Those are likely to “block” ads simply based on efficiency, since it shows down crawling.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 2 weeks ago:
What is it about flat warm soda that appeals to you?
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 2 weeks ago:
The reality is more like there are just a few massive suppliers for restaurants. Sysco just offers paper straws and removes plastic ones and every establishment just orders a different SKU the next week.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 2 weeks ago:
Honestly I don’t give one shit about the paper straws. I wonder if the people who don’t like them let their drinks sit for hours and chew on the straw till their soggy. Every paper straw I’ve had has lasted the length of time it takes me to drink the drink.
Still banning those things but not fucking everything else in the supermarket that is packaged in plastic is such a massive and stupid waste of everyone’s time and effort. Such an imperceptible inch forward they almost deserve no praise at all.
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 2 weeks ago:
I mean sure, but I’ve been stuck at lights that long too
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 2 weeks ago:
The current answer is that it is very difficult to determine if something was AI generated at scale, and if someone puts some effort in its effectively impossible currently.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 2 weeks ago:
Remember those are just the ones you hear about. Plenty happen and are never talked about by either side for obvious reasons.
- Comment on KDE Plasma Bigscreen (Android TV alternative) is back from dead 3 weeks ago:
Really? I’m on a Linux desktop and I had not noticed. Though I steam from Netflix on it very very rarely.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 3 weeks ago:
The back blaze stats were always useless because they would tell you what failed long after that run of drives was available.
There are only 3 manufactures at this point so just buy one or two of each color and call it a day. ZFS in raid z2 is good enough for most things at this point.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 3 weeks ago:
It isn’t as much as you think, high resolution, high bitrate video files are pretty large.
- Comment on How come nobody does anything about North Korea? 3 weeks ago:
China would never let that happen, it would end up being a China US proxy war… Which it always was
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 3 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s usually a sign that there is no competition in the space since the manufacturer doesn’t want to redesign the item if they don’t have to
- Comment on Can a Russian pls confirm 3 weeks ago:
Ok boomer, calm down
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 4 weeks ago:
I preface this with the caveat that all grants are subjective and you can like what you like.
Stardew Valley is a love letter to the harvest Moon games(and I guess rune factory as well). If you have ever encountered those games you immediately know what to do in Stardew.
I think where Stardew is different is that it came later and benefited massively from the “cozy game” popularity.
While I played harvest Moon on a super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, and Gameboy my girl friend who did not have that exposure growing up loves Stardew. This generational and gender Crossing game has tapped markets that were not available back then. Couple that with the fact that at this point you can play that game on basically any platform from phone to console, new and old and it’s totally understandable why this headline might be true.
- Comment on King forgot his crown 4 weeks ago:
According to a quick Google fraud in Japan is
obtaining property or illicit economic advantages through deceit.
Gifts I assume are property here
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 4 weeks ago:
Any male dominated channel that ever “gives advice” gets shunted into that pipeline by algo pretty consistently.
I like stand up comedy and it’s a full time job keeping Rogan out of my suggestions.
- Comment on xkcd #3109: Dehumidifier 5 weeks ago:
You joke but my dehumidifier has an automatic comfort mode of some sort.
I guarantee that next run will have that button with screen print AI something something above it instead.
- Comment on How streaming changed the way you watch TV 1 month ago:
Yeah that was exactly my thought.
I don’t miss commercials at all (and am annoyed they appear to be creeping back) but I do miss the mono culture quite a bit.
- Comment on It is what it is 1 month ago:
It does have that, but don’t for a minute think they actually control chromium. If Google wanted to they could make life very difficult for brave.
Currently brave still has support for manifest v2 but that will eventually be removed and the more brave diverges from the upstream the more work is required to keep it going.
- Comment on Aging is fun 1 month ago:
You just need to hydrate a bunch. I drink Gatorade or a ton of water after any alcohol. Obviously if you go out and drink a 12 pack that won’t help you but 3 beers in a night should definitely not leave you feeling like crap the next morning.
Actually even if you don’t drink you should stay hydrated.
- Comment on Amazon Doubles Prime Video Ads Per Hour 1 month ago:
The average person doesn’t even have a proper computer anymore. I guess you’re can still torrent on your phone but I’ve not tried it.
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 1 month ago:
So funny thing about Aylo, which used to be called mind geek, they own quite a lot of porn sites. Probably 5 or 6 of the top ten.
- Comment on Ke$he's Quantum Party 1 month ago:
No