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- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 2 months ago:
Every single one of your upvotes on lemmy is already public due to how the protocol works, it’s just currently obscured by a bit of work to get them (have to run your own instance, assuming there already isn’t some online tool to easily look them up)
Making them publicly and easily visible would only remove the illusion of privacy we currently have
- Comment on Why is DNS often joked about in the I.T. Industry? 2 months ago:
I tried that but it doesn’t run very well on the Pentium II
- Comment on Justice Department considering push for historic break up of Google after landmark antitrust ruling: report 2 months ago:
We already had first Microsoft anti-trust suit, but what about second Microsoft anti-trust suit?
- Comment on Why is DNS often joked about in the I.T. Industry? 2 months ago:
I’ll keep that in mind for the next time I need to run a DNS server on a Pentium II system
- Comment on Why is DNS often joked about in the I.T. Industry? 2 months ago:
I think I can spare the 55mb of ram my pihole container takes up
- Comment on Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more 5 months ago:
Netplay isn’t exactly ideal, as from what I understand it generally requires the syncing of all players emulated console hardware simultaneously (basically, every emulator tricks the game into thinking they’re all being played on one single console), which is a lot harder to reliably achieve than having native netcode to handle multiplayer
- Comment on I used to be with it, then they changed what "it" is 6 months ago:
“Of course I know about fork-knife and Scooby-Doo toilet”
- Comment on Lemmy Active Users looking good 8 months ago:
Monthly Active Users
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
To be fair I’m a native English speaker and I can barely decipher most people’s cursive
- Comment on Hogwarts Legacy has officially cleared Zelda as 2023's best-selling game worldwide 9 months ago:
I don’t get the whole “this game isn’t even good, there’s no way it was the best selling game of the year without rightoids overwhelmingly buying it simply to own the libs” idea when year after year after year the best selling games are Call of Duty X+1, Madden X+1, and FIFA X+1
A game doesn’t need to be good to be popular, and I’d bet probably 99% of the owners are just normal people who aren’t even aware of the controversy
- Comment on X appears to be juicing MrBeast’s views to woo the YouTuber to the platform, pushing video upload into users’ feeds as an unlabeled ad 9 months ago:
To put into perspective just how unimportant Twitter is in the grand scene of things, Mr Beast’s most popular YouTube video has 40 million more views than Twitter has total monthly active users, and 100 million views is frankly a pretty underperforming video for him
- Comment on YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave 9 months ago:
I don’t think that was ever available in my country
- Comment on YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave 9 months ago:
I’d consider paying a few bucks a month, but not $10 or more
Get rid of shitty YouTube music and give me a tier that’s no ads only
- Comment on Unity bans VLC from Unity Store. 9 months ago:
Wasn’t that the hivemimd robot guy from Mass Effect
- Comment on "Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?" 10 months ago:
A model trained on privately owned, properly licensed, or exclusively public works wouldn’t be a problem.
This is how we end up with only corpo owned AIs being allowed to exist imo, places like stock photo sites are the only ones with large enough repositories of images to train AI that they have all the legal rights to
The way I see it, either generative AI is legal, free for everyone to run locally, and the created works are public domain, OR, everyone pays $20/mo to massive faceless corpos for the rest of their lives to have the privilege of access to it
- Comment on Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads 10 months ago:
I see you fell for the religious puritan group’s propaganda hit piece too
- Comment on Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads 10 months ago:
It’s almost like conservatives refusing to teach their children to have a healthy relationship with sex (sexual health, importance of consent, etc) is fucking them up, and banning porn is a shitty attempted bandaid solution for their inability to properly raise their children
- Comment on SSD prices predicted to skyrocket throughout 2024 — TrendForce market report projects a 50% price hike | Tom's Hardware 10 months ago:
They’re reducing supply because they can’t make any money with this supply/demand mismatch, Micron for example didn’t have a single profitable quarter and lost something like $6B total over the course of this year
The only reason SSD prices have been this low is because we’ve been paying less than the cost to produce them as they try to recoup some of their losses and shed inventory
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free 10 months ago:
The enshittification will continue until profit margins improve
- Comment on Most legible scottish person 10 months ago:
The release of Shrek is closer to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the release of the first Sony Walkman than it is to today
- Comment on Google Promises Unlimited Cloud Storage; Then Cancels Plan; Then Tells Journalist His Life’s Work Will Be Deleted Without Enough Time To Transfer The Data 10 months ago:
To be fair to the guy, over the summer the FBI literally raided his home, took every single electronic device, and are (still?) refusing to give any of it back, so I’m willing to give him a pass if his home network infrastructure isn’t currently up to snuff
- Comment on Google Promises Unlimited Cloud Storage; Then Cancels Plan; Then Tells Journalist His Life’s Work Will Be Deleted Without Enough Time To Transfer The Data 10 months ago:
They keep charging you the original rate presumably, which now only gives you X TB of storage, not unlimited, and as he did not move to increase the amount of storage his plan has (by paying more), he was essentially underpaying his bill the entire time
I’m not sure what sort of pricing he would have with Enterprise (it’s “call for quote”), but the cheapest published way to get the 250TB or so of cloud storage he needs would be to pay $900/mo for a Business Plus plan with 50 users
- Comment on Google Promises Unlimited Cloud Storage; Then Cancels Plan; Then Tells Journalist His Life’s Work Will Be Deleted Without Enough Time To Transfer The Data 10 months ago:
Yeah it’s definitely shitty if they really only give 7 days notice that your account is going from read-only to suspended and deleted, but after basically not paying your cloud storage bill for like 6 months this is a pretty predictable outcome
- Comment on Sleepover at a friend's 10 months ago:
I’m not afraid of heights but the last thing I’d want to do when I’m really tired and ready for sleep is have to climb a ladder
- Comment on Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023) 11 months ago:
The 90-9-1 rule, 1% of users create content, for 9% of users to interact with (upvote, comment, whatever), while 90% exclusively lurk
- Comment on Carmakers Push Forward With Plans To Make Basic Features Subscription Services, Despite Widespread Backlash 11 months ago:
Modchips are an incredibly niche product, millions and millions of people will seek out how to break the law to get free heated seats if subscription services become widespread
- Comment on Air: Where did that bring you? Back to me. 11 months ago:
Every type of cooling is just entropy
- Comment on PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For 11 months ago:
I don’t have an exact time span but personally I wouldn’t trust them as anything more than temporary device storage, they randomly die often
- Comment on PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For 11 months ago:
Hard disk drives will last even less. The lubrication will dry up and the disk will seize way before the 25 year mark.
That’s what you have redundancies and backups
- Comment on Windows PCs can't sleep properly, and Microsoft wants it that way 11 months ago:
The only way for me to keep my desktop off all night is for me to switch off the power supply or unplug it, sleep, hibernate, flat out turning it off, all result in a bright ass screen waking me up at 2am