ChairmanMeow

@ChairmanMeow@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As a shareholder, you are financially incentivised to not question narratives the company presents if they supposedly present the company in a good light.

  Suppose you do ask, the narrative unravels and the share price tanks. Congrats, you’ve just lost a buttload of money. Why would you do that?

  No, best option is to applaud loudly, tout it in the press and watch useful idiots buy your shares at inflated prices.

  The people who do ask the questions are the people the company doesn’t feel obliged to answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Autofocusing Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When the battery dies, the glasses continue to function as a traditional pair of single-vision specs, ensuring the wearer is never left in the dark or have safety compromised such as when driving or operating machinery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the protests in Iran win/topple the government what will it look like immediately afterwards? Also what would be the good or bad about installing a monarchy again?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of them are protesting for it, judging by the pro-shah chants. Not sure how widespread it is though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Some women visually prefer it for cultural reasons. This mostly goes for the US, in Europe it’s different. But most threads I can find state women prefer uncut penises because they feel nicer and self-lubricate better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Renee Nicole Good said ‘I’m not mad at you’ before ICE agent shot her, video shows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Erratic? She backed up, clearly turned the wheel away from the officers, and only once the car was fully turned away and no officer was directly in front anymore did she accelerate. The officers were never in any danger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germany⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ja

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Entra is derived from the Latin intrate, meaning “to enter”, which makes sense for access management/id verification software tbh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is going to be the next Pres of Venezula after all this US stuff?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Whether or not she is in Russia is disputed btw.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A global, world-ending nuclear war is still unlikely at this point.

  There’s a fair few steps in between filled with horrors that we get to pass first. Such as when superpowers realise that since nobody can realistically use nukes, conventional warfare is back on the table (e.g. if China invades Taiwan and the US intervenes, will either side nuke the other’s population centers? Probably not).

  Then follows the realisation that superpowers can use nuclear weapons in a conventional war, but in a more tactical way (as a little treat). Don’t bomb a city, bomb a navy, or an airfield or army base instead.

  Global nuclear war would only happen if a nuclear state is threatened with total destruction. But fully destroying a state hasn’t been the playbook for some time now. Instead, take whatever peripheral stuff you want, and strategically weaken the enemy state in key areas (e.g. take out an important figurehead, like the US did with Maduro, or fund/arm insurgencies like in Syria). Let civil unrest then do the rest and topple the government for you. Then use diplomatic/economic/military pressure to sway the fledgling new government into your sphere of influence. With a bit of luck the country itself isn’t totally ravaged and can become profitable fairly soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How TF2 Still Makes Millions (With No Updates)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Half-Life Alyx came out in 2020 and was pretty good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World's Video Game Companies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft doesn’t earn more than 90% of their revenue from gaming, so it’s not on here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A belated Christmas gift to R6 Siege!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Their public statement says this isn’t true and a rollback is in progress.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"i can hear the difference"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, it was 4 coat hangers. The Monster cable was therefore outnumbered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Random idea: a federated alternative to Amazon Prime built from independent shops?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The main reason for a store to sign up on a website would be:

  • Advertising
  • Centralised shipping
  • Centralised handling of payments (and note, this one is especially hard due to laws surrounding KYC and complexities in handling different payment methods)

  The Fediverse, being decentralised, has a hard time implementing the latter two. The first is basically not much different than being discoverable on Google.

  So fun as it sounds, it won’t be easy to implement. You’d likely have to have independent “shippers” and PSPs sign up to this, and somehow have webshops choose which to use. And that’s a very awkward structure for a Fediverse-minded solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BillBoard for a Divorce Lawyer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably so young Dutch kids don’t understand, and the majority of Dutch people understand English fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now, that may seem weird to some, but to me what is really surprising is that some languages found it necessary to use two words to describe what is essentially the same fucking shit.

  Sucking on fingers is an entirely different kink from sucking on toes. So somewhat different I suppose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on your definition. Wikipedia is either ambivalent about it, or lists the thumb as a finger.

  In Dutch, thumbs are fingers, and there’s word for “digit” in the context of fingers and toes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That was for the Steam release, it came out earlier on Epic/Switch on August 2nd, 2024.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Transliterated country names into Chinese Language use pre-existing characters that already has its own meaning, therefore native Chinese speakers have a subconcious impression based on country names.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC Germany > Germania > Allemania > Alemanic tribes, people who lived in Germany. France calls them “Allemagne” as well, you can see where that came from.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pedo planet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually it helps but not as much as most people think. Very few people actually use a privacy focused browser, so that in and of itself is surprisingly identifying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why did they make the screens fold in? The Huawei Mate XT folds up in a z-shape, which imo makes more sense as you don’t need a ‘fourth’ outer display anymore. Seems more efficient that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Element zapping is still a thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*confused flatfish noises*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  TIL Greenland sharks can live up to 500 years, take 150 years to reach sexual maturity and have a gestation period of up to 18 years. And apparently it takes a year in the back yard to prepare as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*confused flatfish noises*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re sideways facing eyes, but a bit diagonal. Definitely not forward facing though. They’re just a bit bulgy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A TOS is not a liability shield. If Raine violated the terms of service, OpenAI should have terminated the service to him.

  They did not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please tell me this is shopped.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a correlation between height and dick size, but it’s quite small. IIRC for every 20cm or so in height you get 1cm in dick on average, but it varies enough that it’s no certainty a tall guy has a larger dick.

  Also fun fact: studies into penis size correlating with other factors can be broadly generalised into two categories: measured studies, which is where doctors will measure the penis when erect in a consistent manner, and self-reported studies, where people just tell a researcher how big it is.

  Self-reported studies generally come back with results like “black people have larger dicks, Asians have shorter dicks” etc… But in measured studies, it turns out that worldwide penis size is basically all the same. It’s people self-reporting their own size + a correction for what they think they should have (nobody wants to be below average). In places with high porn consumption, penises tend to “be larger”, because that’s what men see and they want to have the same. Only in countries that tend to censor genitalia in porn do you find people actually self-report a size that’s essentially the same as their actual size (which usually happens to be Asian countries). That, plus the whole “BBC” genre in porn, essentially explains the self-reported racial differences in dick size.

  Also fun: self-reported studies overestimate average dick size by approx. 2cm. Self-reported the average is about 15cm, but when actually measured it drops to about 13cm (which also happens to be 6 inches and just over 5 inches respectively; see the psychological effect there?).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Demsoc” is just a shorthand for “democratic socialist”. Similar to how “ancap” is “anarcho-capitalist” and “nazbol” is “national-bolshevik”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  KDE Plasma is just the desktop environment. It’s not an OS. SteamOS is a full OS, built off of Arch Linux. It has both a Gaming mode, which looks a lot like Steam Big Picture does these days, and a desktop mode that uses Plasma as the graphical shell/interface. It doesn’t matter OS-wise which one you “boot” into, as both are SteamOS.