AntEater
@AntEater@discuss.tchncs.de
Human being (mostly)
- Comment on Cory Doctorow New Book: Enshitification 2 weeks ago:
Just a touch too close to reality. That was a beyond-awesome reply.
- Comment on Neil Young Leaves Facebook & Instagram Over “Unconscionable” Policies for AI Chatbot Conversations With Children 4 weeks ago:
most of those people would forget you exist if you leave Facebook
This is 100% true. I dropped facebook about 10 years back. If I’m not your “friend” without facebook, then you’re not really my friend. Getting out of that cesspool of drama and ignorance was one of the best moves I’ve made.
- Comment on hygiene 1 month ago:
One possibility: Guys will keep the same crack-sweaty shorts in their locker and use them over and over without washing them. It doesn’t take too many doing that for the aura take over the locker room. Some guys really have no sense of personal hygiene.
If it’s specifically the showers, then the staff are not cleaning things up properly.
- Comment on Skateboarding 50mph downhill for internet points 1 month ago:
For internet points? Sorry, we were doing this long before anyone knew about the internet.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 1 month ago:
Oh dear, don’t ever forget your netmask.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 1 month ago:
Exactly. I’ll go back to browsing the web with Lynx before I accept ads. If it breaks, it breaks…
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 1 month ago:
You may be right, technically, but based on the context, I’m quite sure the use of the word “dark” here is intended to frame the behavior as negative. It’s just like when various media authors refer to TOR as the “dark web” even though it has countless valid uses that are not enabling illegal/immoral behaviors.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 2 months ago:
I don’t care. The only reason this is an issue is because of all the other expectations we’ve created around time and scheduling.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 2 months ago:
Humans used to do this for millennia without calendars or clocks
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 2 months ago:
“wearing a watch is like being handcuffed to time.”
That’s perfect! I’m stealing this. I HATE, despise, loath in every respect clocks, watches, calendars and any other form of scheduling oppression. Go pound sand - I’ll show up when I show up.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 7 months ago:
The site is still there, but the comment sections are no longer fun nor do you find intelligent feedback as frequently as you could in the early days. Last time I was poking around there, the mods were upvoting climate denial comments. So much for science. (source: low uid)
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 7 months ago:
Tesla? You mean the Ford Pinto of EVs?? www.rawstory.com/cybertruck-2671127676/
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 10 months ago:
Too much risk of spiders back there!
Found the Australian.
- Comment on Dreams come true 11 months ago:
What’s the academic terminology for “go pound sand”?