buddascrayon
@buddascrayon@lemmy.world
- Comment on Looks like a toy 'yota. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah but you should see the side of a penny that goes at the back…
- Comment on 🧿👄🧿 y'all need to step up ur game 3 weeks ago:
Meanwhile when the IT department receives this…
" I’m sorry it seems your repair request has not been received please re-submit."
sounds of paper shredder in the background
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 4 weeks ago:
Well, this is The Register. Not exactly a paragon of stellar reporting here.
- Comment on Satan throws a hell of a party 4 weeks ago:
What I love is the implication that Satan wants lots and lots of unplanned pregnancies. As if that hasn’t been a cornerstone of the Catholic doctrine for centuries.
- Comment on Do you have what it takes to become a geologist? 5 weeks ago:
LoL, imagine the GOP nutters who get so offended by the Gay Rights Rainbow Flag when they are confronted by the ACE Rights Centaur. 😂
- Comment on [Cory Doctorow] With An Audacious Plan To Halt The Internet’s Enshittification And Throw It Into Reverse 1 month ago:
- Lack of competition in the market via mergers and acquisitions
- Companies change things on the back end (“twiddle their knobs”) to improve their fortunes and have a united, consolidated front to prevent any lawmaking that might constrain them
- Companies then embrace tech law to prevent new entrants into the market or consumer rights (see: DMCA, etc.)
This is the criteria he has laid out for the “enshitifacation” of the Internet.
This is funny to me because this is the exact pattern of every industry and service in the United States ever.
- Comment on Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic 1 month ago:
True. The instant response that exists now is only because this is a pilot program and they want to prove that it works. Once it’s normalized they will lay off most of the rider support and fuck you if you have to wait on the line.
- Comment on Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic 1 month ago:
No, but then the same is true of taxis and Ubers. They all have some kind of recording equipment in them for ensuring safety and cover in case someone claims something.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 1 month ago:
I lieu of that, I’d say the mods should just go limp. Stop moderating content and let posters run wild. The company needs to realize just how much their business model depends on all that unpaid labor.
- Comment on Raisins!! 1 month ago:
Also, don’t forget to flour your galaxies in order to keep them in their respective places and prevent them from all rising to the top of your universe.
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 month ago:
I just never gave my TV access to the Internet and use my home theater PC to watch stuff. Never seen a need for more.
- Comment on Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops 1 month ago:
Remember when we used to say, “Don’t put your name on the internet?” And now it’s everywhere?
Mine isn’t, go ahead and look it up. You won’t find my name anywhere in the internet.
Here it is encrypted so only you can read it: >!John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt!<
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 1 month ago:
I had been wondering why everybody was so angry at them for implementing anti-cheat software. I didn’t realize that they were locking out Linux users. That’s a bunch of bullshit.
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 1 month ago:
I wish I had more upvotes to give this comment cause you are so on the money.
- Comment on The mark 1 month ago:
How to get a bunch of random people to take a picture of their arm and post it online.
Choice A: ask everyone to post take a picture of their arm and post it
Choice B: Make it completely absurd statement as if it were absolute truth thereby challenging everyone to prove you wrong
- Comment on Kotaku being Kotaku 2 months ago:
Yes cause 5 to 12-year-olds are the only people who play Minecraft. Nobody over the age of 12 plays Minecraft at all and there aren’t millions of Minecraft players out there that are anywhere from 12 to 70 years old.
- Comment on San Francisco says ‘good riddance’ as X prepares to leave 2 months ago:
Yeah that’s what we call corporate welfare. What exactly did that 5 billion buy anybody? All it did was make that fucking asshole richer.
- Comment on San Francisco says ‘good riddance’ as X prepares to leave 2 months ago:
Yeah I wonder how many billions of dollars in incentives did Texas Republicans promise that douchebag in order to get him to move to their State. And how many Texans are going to have to foot that bill.
- Comment on Toot toot 2 months ago:
I’m pretty sure the oncoming fart triggers the “toot toot”, not the phrase triggering a fart. However you may be correct about the pavlovian aspect.
- Comment on Toot toot 2 months ago:
“he only ever does two, don’t be ridiculous”
This is the most British response to a situation like this you could possibly get.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
My point is just that Lemmy is no longer made up of just Linux nerds. Over the course of the last couple of years the user base has diversified quite a bit.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
I understand that this information is already basically public but there is a thin barrier to the average nitwit user accessing such information and going in a rampage screwing with people who have downloaded them. I’ll say this, if they make it more public I think I will just simply stop voting. I will continue to use Lemmy but only as a passive user.
- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
Aren’t we all supposed to be Linux nerds in here?
After the meltdown that occurred when Reddit ultra monetize their API Lemmy acquired a lot more casual users. Especially when makers of Reddit apps switched over to making Lemmy apps instead.
- Comment on A millennial couple who make $250,000 say they can't find a home in their budget: 'We refuse to become house-poor' 3 months ago:
There’s also a trend of hedge funds purchasing land and homes with the sole purpose of renting or using them as Airbnb’s as a method of “investing”.
- Comment on A millennial couple who make $250,000 say they can't find a home in their budget: 'We refuse to become house-poor' 3 months ago:
Renting for life, this is exactly what the landowning class, much of whom are now giant hedge funds that have been soaking up houses and properties for cash on the barrel head, in this country want.
We desperately need national legislation to put an end to people and corporations owning large swaths of homes in this country otherwise we will end up with fiefdoms and are in danger of returning to a world of medieval nobility in land ownership.
- Comment on Elon Musk loses fight with ex-Twitter staffer, must pay $600K 3 months ago:
Damn, $600k times 35 people is only $21mil. That’s pocked change for this jerk. And yet, I’ll bet he fights paying just the $600k to the one person tooth and nail like the spoiled rich fuck that he is.
- Comment on Shart, not fart 3 months ago:
This is more of a horror story
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Yeah that’s why it would be very nice if they would stop integrating it into fucking search engines.
- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 3 months ago:
What’s hilarious about this article is that I’m actually getting YouTube premium for free as some kind of bonus to my phone service yet I’m still using ad blockers on it and everything else. I really don’t give a shit. If they want to get better at injecting ads I’m going to place my bets on ad blockers getting better at blocking them. Or just not using YouTube. Cause, quite frankly, most of my favorite creators are on Nebula anyway and I pay for that service.
- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 3 months ago:
All of these issues have reportedly led to an increase in ad block uninstalls, leaving users with the choice of YouTube Premium or sitting still until that “skip ad” button appears.
Oh yes, I totally believe that people are opting to delete their ad blocker, that works on not just YouTube but the entire internet, simply because YouTube has become obstinate and difficult. Who the fuck wrote this article? And how much are they getting paid by Google? Do they really think we’re going to buy into this bullshit and follow suit?