mostlikelyaperson

@mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WoW's Leeroy Jenkins, one of the internet's oldest memes, turns 20 years old—and after looking back on what we wrote in 2005, I feel like we've failed Leeroys everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, often learning anything more than the meme itself is that way, if only because you often find out about the rather sad route many of those early viral meme people went down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  My pet conspiracy theory has been that Elmo was hoping Trump would mandate that everything gov related has to drive Teslas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The moment a certain company is mentioned in an article, lemmy will go rabid, it doesn’t really matter what the article is about. I am a Linux nerd and if MS crashed and burned tomorrow I wouldn’t exactly shed a tear but the knee jerk reactions are pretty weird to observe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CrowdStrike Announces Layoffs Affecting 500 Employees⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My money is on Clownflare, truly a match made in hell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CrowdStrike Announces Layoffs Affecting 500 Employees⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Clownstrike doesn’t know what that is, but they will be sure to ask an LLM about it some time!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh he’s been called out for that for over a decade now, it just got buried under the mass of starry eyed reporting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Playtron wanted to take on Windows and SteamOS with their GameOS, now they're announcing a cryptocurrency⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect they don’t even believe in this themselves, this is just a last ditch attempt at squeezing a little more cash out of dumb investors before declaring bankruptcy eventually. Seeing how one of their investors was Square Enix, that might even work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There have been some attempts in that regard, I don’t remember the names of the projects, but there were one or two that’d basically generate a crapton of nonsense to do just that. No idea how well that works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google won't bring new Nest Thermostats to Europe⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t think of many companies I would be less willing to buy home automation tech from than Google.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenPin is an open-source project to revive Humane's dead Ai Pin - Liliputing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I vaguely wonder what the actual overlap between the sort of people who would buy something like that and people who’d be willing to do this actually is, especially since they didn’t sell a lot in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DeepSeek Transferred User Data & Prompts Overseas Without Consent, Claims South Korea’s Data Protection Authority; Activities Were Carried Out When Service Was Active In January⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, people thought they didn’t? I would be shocked if any LLM company didn’t do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Napster to become a music-marketing metaverse firm after $207M acquisition⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It did, but the branding got sold a few times and is now in the hands of some crypto company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got my first one an hour ago, truly an honor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe zen browser! Idk, my only hope is either Ladybird or Servo producing something usable this decade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You Free⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What? The old internet absolutely had moderation, even back in the day of BBS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rust is Eating JavaScript⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Originally 4 years old at this point it looks like, and the great shift to wasm has failed to manifest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that’s pretty much the only real market I can see for this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tumblr to join the fediverse after WordPress migration completes | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s because tumblr is owned by the company of one of the original wordpress creators.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Sony exits, Verbatim doubles down on optical media — stable supply of discs is a "top priority" despite shrinking market⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not wrong, but 30 years are probably good enough for most backup cases

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Sony exits, Verbatim doubles down on optical media — stable supply of discs is a "top priority" despite shrinking market⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also I feel like at that point you might as well go tape rather than fiddle around with 40 Blu-rays.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky now has 30 million users.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mastodon and the fediverse are nerd shit with massive usability issues. Even I gave up on Mastodon and I would consider myself far more willing to put up with shit than the average user will ever be. The mass will - never - migrate to the fediverse and in many ways, especially looking at moderation issues, that is probably a good thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plebbit is a peer-to-peer Reddit alternative that allows you to self host and own your own community⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yet more cryptotrash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is reshaping social media, but advertising isn't off the table⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tried mastodon, went through three instances, at the end hosted my own single user, ultimately decided the hassle was not worth it. I would rather use nothing than mastodon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Ouest-France' becomes first French newspaper to stop posting on X⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bluesky most likely, I don’t see mastodon happening unless there is a major change in how the network addresses moderation and defederation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"What Is Your Dream for Mozilla" - Mozilla is doing a survey, questions include "What is most important to you right now about technology and the internet?"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, that’s when I lost the remaining hope I had for the project.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palo Alto Networks confirms mystery zero day now exploited⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah fuck them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russian TV companies demand 2 undecillion rubles from Google⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Essentially nothing, Google Russia declared bankruptcy two years ago when the russian government seized their bank account. I am not 100% certain but afaik google has no operations within russia anymore at this point in time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, was my first thought as well. As far as I can see it’s the same problem PeerTube is having and last I checked, were still trying to solve. (For context: github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/5783 )

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Unknown 9: Awakening’ Arrives To 200 Steam Players, Poor Reviews⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same here, and frankly, what kind of title is “Unknown 9: Awakening” supposed to be? That reads like an internal Codename they forgot to change pre-release:

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened to the turn based RPG and RTS genres?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Much as I love WOTR, hard disagree there. BG 3 is much better in terms of reactivity and consequences, polish, and all of its mechanics work properly. Meanwhile WOTR has the stumps that are 50% of its mythic paths, the not particularly well received crusade mode, and one of the worst dungeons I can remember in rpg history (I will freely admit that this last point is not as objective as the rest of my argument, but I know I am far from alone with this opinion).