ansiz

@ansiz@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like the cops should now be worried about civilian phones exploding and now might consider shooting anyone that tries to hand them a phone /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨School Monitoring Software Sacrifices Student Privacy for Unproven Promises of Safety.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They were searching backpacks and lockers in my high school back in the 90’s, student privacy has been dead for a long time. And at the same time they let students keep rifles in their cars on school grounds during hunting season so those students could hunt before school. There’s no real logic at work, just school boards reacting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Duke energy in NC has basically already made it to expensive or at least not worth it to install solar. They reset the power credits to generate and you basically still are stuck paying a power bill regardless of what you generate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s because the news media industry as a whole has stuck with Twitter as their primary social media site. It’s kinda hilarious how much they seem to like it and how much time they spend there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if the DoJ actually does split up Google if separating Chrome would make any difference with behavior like this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Server side ads sound more expensive for Google to me. I’ll just use some future plugin that blacks out the screen or whatever if it comes to that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some bad code just broke a billion Windows machines⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no learning, companies just move to different antivirus. The new hotness, the cycle repeats over and over until the new antivirus does this same shit. Look at McAfee in 2010, in fact the CEO of Crowdstrike was the CTO of McAfee then. That easily took down millions of windows XP machines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now that scotus gave the president immunity Biden can legally assasinate all of the conservative justices⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Biden should at least go full Office Space and move all of their desks to the basement of the Supreme Court building. Maybe pass an executive order where the justices all have to ride to work together on a special Supreme Court short bus. I’m fine if he keeps it petty but I just hope he does something to show how dumb of a ruling it is (but probably won’t).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always just used uBlock on Chrome and I never see ads. I’m not doing anything other than that so it surprises me so many people have such trouble with ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Video Ad Push Seen Generating Extra $5 Billion in Revenue⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I admit I’ve not look into any numbers, if they are available, but I bet Amazon has an advantage of Prime customers that don’t have it primarily as a video streaming service. Those customers probably wouldn’t consider ads a big deal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For some reason, I'm doubtful.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like about every pubic US university was selling those back in the late 90’s. So overpriced, even for the time!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roku lays off 300 workers and removes streaming content to save money⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I take this as a good sign that the data tracking market is growing stale. Like what value can tracking my viewing habits provide anyone, other than Roku, that the streaming platforms aren’t already doing on their own? It’s straight double dipping.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NHS waiting lists: estimated 340,000 died awaiting treatment in 2022⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t Thatcher say that Cameron was her priest achievement? I’m sure she had something to do with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Direct Solar Power: Off-Grid Without Batteries | How we can minimize expensive, ecologically damaging battery storage by changing how we think about energy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  At least in the USA the bigger challenge seem to be the energy company’s really fighting back against residential solar. California is facing some serious changes, I don’t think net metering is even an option in just municipal areas even more. I’ve heard around San Francisco they are going to start hitting folks with big grid connection fees every month.

  In my area of North Carolina it’s the same thing, with the power company doing everything it can to make switching to solar less and less worth it. Just the cost of the panels are enough to do that for most people!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Path of Exile 2 - Gamescom Druid Gameplay Walkthrough⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I just hope they release an actual playable demo, even if it’s just a real short one. Just like a tidal island or twilight stand size area.