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- Comment on A Netflix exclusive 20 hours ago:
Haven’t watched it, but did he seriously win? That doesn’t compute for me.
- Comment on Apple faces a new $3.75 billion antitrust lawsuit over iCloud storage 2 days ago:
“Apple does not allow users to back up their data via third-party storage providers.” — don’t know if I agree with that statement. You can back it up locally via iTunes and then sync the folder with whatever provider you want. It’s not as easy but it’s certainly doable. I used to run that way for the longest time before I said fuck it and moved to iCloud.
- Comment on Microsoft: Windows Server 2025 now generally available alongside System Center 2025 2 weeks ago:
Wait till you hear about model years with cars.
- Comment on Google creating an AI agent to use your PC on your behalf, says report | Same PR nightmare as Windows Recall 2 weeks ago:
So why hasn’t anyone said much about Apple Intelligence? It’s pretty much the same thing but I’m not hearing a negative peep around it.
- Comment on Crunchyroll just Committed a Federal Crime. 2 weeks ago:
Had been. But we’re in a post-accountability era for corporations so most likely nothing will happen.
- Comment on A fair proportion of the suffering in the world can be laid at the feet of binary thinking. 2 weeks ago:
You just proved what I was saying though. The thought doesn’t have to be binary. You have a multitude of choices. But the moment you make an action, that is binary. You either do that specific action or not.
- Comment on A fair proportion of the suffering in the world can be laid at the feet of binary thinking. 2 weeks ago:
That’s an interesting thought. Thinking doesn’t have to be binary, but ultimately an action is: you either do it or you don’t. There could be 5 possible actions (including inaction) but whichever one you choose is a binary action (you either do it, or you don’t)
- Comment on I'll share a troubling fact with you if you share one with me 3 weeks ago:
Basically why it’s called MAD (mutually assured destruction). You’ll either get the first shot for free, or everyone kills everyone.
- Comment on [Question for admins] How do you feel about your users requesting content or account removal from other servers. 3 weeks ago:
Cool cool, now realistically, do you have the time, resources and know how to find and contact every owner of every federated instance these comments have made to? Would you be able to deal with the legal resources of any number of jurisdictions to truly test whether that is actually enforceable?
My point basically is that it’s functionally impossible regardless of what the law says, and you should treat your comments and personal information as such that they won’t ever be able to be deleted or scrubbed.
- Comment on [Question for admins] How do you feel about your users requesting content or account removal from other servers. 3 weeks ago:
Except that only applies to federated servers that exist in the EU. If your data gets federated out to a country outside of the EU, they don’t have to listen to your whines of GDPR as it’s not enforceable. And given that you could be federated with hundreds of instances across the world, good luck.
I said the same thing with AI scraping. All someone needs is to add their own instance that federates with everyone else and they can scrape data for AI training till their heart’s content.
- Comment on Seeking feedback: how should lemm.ee move forward with external images? (related to frequent broken images) 4 weeks ago:
I’d lean towards option 3. I view this site as an aggregator and I see plenty of broken images when scrollling through here. It’s not your job to host or proxy those images and working in infrastructure it lends to a lot lighter weight instance that’s easier for you to manage without having to worry about disk, or even worse, bandwidth costs.
The only way I would see option 2 being more beneficial is if it was truly a temporary cache solution where the image gets pulled in 1 time, served out to all lemm.ee users for a period of time (say 24 hours). This would reduce the chance that you end up rate limited, while allowing users to still see the image served via lemm.ee
The proxy on every request solution just seems poorly implemented to me for the reasons you say.
- Comment on Emilia is asking real questions! 4 weeks ago:
3rd season just started
- Comment on Just finished Doki Doki Literature Club, what a fucking rollercoaster 5 weeks ago:
I played the original and it was such a trip that I bought Plus when it came out, but haven’t gotten around to playing it because I know the twist and it doesn’t hold the same.
- Comment on Just finished Doki Doki Literature Club, what a fucking rollercoaster 5 weeks ago:
Yeah no. You hit the “it’s just a joke bro!” phase. You meant things prior to getting called out and downvoted to hell.
- Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox 1 month ago:
Because Edge has also moved to Manifest V3 and Safari uses WebKit which doesn’t have the same degree of blocking. I mean, you do you, enjoy your ads.
- Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox 1 month ago:
Cool thing is you can run multiple browsers. So just use Chrome for your cameras and Firefox for everything else.
- Comment on Why did my bus driver want me to not pay the fare and instead just "TAKE A SEAT!!!" 1 month ago:
In Japan the bus drivers went on strike by offering passengers free rides rather than leave them stranded
- Comment on Avatar: The Last Airbender Is Getting a AAA RPG With Saber Interactive and Paramount Game Studios - EXCLUSIVE 1 month ago:
I’d be good if it was a game set in the universe where you’re a bender but not one of the main cast. For example if you’re in the fire nation you’re in the military and may have run ins with them. Same with the other tribes. You could do unique situations for each element and not be tied to the main characters
- Comment on Mazda's $10 Subscription For Remote Start Sparks Backlash After Killing Open Source Option 1 month ago:
I use my remote start on the other side of the building through countless walls and floors away from my car. Bluetooth is good up to 30 feet.
- Comment on Mazda's $10 Subscription For Remote Start Sparks Backlash After Killing Open Source Option 1 month ago:
There’s nuance to this article. The cost is for the connected services portion, which usually includes the fee for the cellular connectivity the car has to enable the services, that’s not free and there is a cost to maintain that infrastructure. Additionally the “workaround” that someone provided still uses those connected services (again, not something that is just free to maintain).
The shitty part that comes in is that Mazda removed the key fob remote start option from their newer vehicles. That being said though, nothing in the above statements is centered around “right to repair”. If you don’t want to pay for the connected services, then don’t, everything else in your car will still work.
About the only way you could argue for it is a “bring your own SIM” approach but even then, where would it connect to? Who would pay to maintain that? You’d have to allow it to connect to a custom endpoint, but at that point guess what: you’re paying for the cellular connectivity and the server to host an API on to do what you want. That’s still an additional cost beyond what you paid for the car just like the connected services fee.
- Comment on Britain’s prehistoric attitude to drugs isn’t working. Why not learn from Texas? | Simon Jenkins 1 month ago:
Uh… recreational cannabis is not legal in Texas yet. Might want to pick another state.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price 1 month ago:
As long as it’s still in operation and people view it as a valid platform, its numerical value is irrelevant. I won’t be happy until it goes away or is relegated to the likes of Truth Social.
- Comment on Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text 1 month ago:
Considering how old Facebook is…. They probably never bothered to upgrade the authentication system because “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” and it didn’t matter to their revenue.
- Comment on OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman 1 month ago:
So where are they all going? I doubt everyone is gonna find another non-profit or any altruistic motives, so <insert big company here> just snatches up more AI resources to try to grow their product.
- Comment on Walking into a bathroom is a crapshoot. You either get cold crisp air, or you have your nose hairs singed off. 1 month ago:
Most bathrooms (at least in offices) have dedicated supplies and returns and it’s usually has a pressure differential to suck the smell out. At least that’s how most in the US are. I’ve seen it vary around the world.
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- Comment on Janet Jackson’s ‘apology’ for questioning Kamala Harris’ race was unauthorized: report 1 month ago:
I think you missed my point. She would know firsthand her brother was suffering from vitiligo and thus “looked” white and people started questioning if he was black anymore. And here she goes judging Harris in a similar way to how people judged her brother.
Thats why I was saying that she of all people should know what that’s like.
- Comment on Janet Jackson’s ‘apology’ for questioning Kamala Harris’ race was unauthorized: report 1 month ago:
She of all people should not be questioning the color of a persons skin and their race.
- Comment on Cat 1 month ago:
It’s a Flerkin
- Comment on In 1926, TV Was Mechanical 1 month ago:
Had a color wheel in a DLP TV explode on me. Fairly easy to replace but it was a pain to clean out all the glass.