invertedspear

@invertedspear@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Here's a list of browser extensions to un-shittify Youtube⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just don’t look?

  Annoying that they clog the search results I guess, but they are a great way for creators to drive engagement with their long form content. Sports has guided me to some really interesting content I wouldn’t have found otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roku’s Moana 2 controversy is part of a bigger ad problem⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “All these streaming services trying to make money off your data are bad” says article that requires a membership to read. I’m OOTL on whatever this Roku Moana controversy is and I guess I’ll remain that way, at least as long as the source is Vox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Max Streaming ‘Enshittifies’ Further, Removes Classic Looney Tunes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t stream the Westworld show either. It was an HBO made show.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm sure dolphins will fuck it up in their own special way.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So I’m sure how we conceive of being the dominant species is biased. But if we talk about civilizations and their ability to eventually propagate beyond earth, I don’t think dolphins have it. Their ancestry tried out land and said “nah, back to the water”. Not to mention anything we do that takes humans out of the equation entirely is going to probably kill off the dolphins, apes, elephants, basically most of the mammalians. It’ll be so long before something evolves to take our place as “earthlings” all our works will be fossils at best

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Kind of wish we went with more tradesmen-like titles. Apprentice, journeyman, master. Master software developer sounds like we have Hines our craft. Junior/senior just seems like a length of time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly, the jr dev that could write anything useful is a rare gem. Boot camps cranking out jr dev by the dozens every couple of months didn’t help the issue. Talent needs cultivation, and since every tech company has been cutting back lately, they stopped cultivating and started sniping talent from each other. Not hard given the amount of layoffs lately. So now we have jr devs either unable to find a place to refine them, or getting hired by people who just want to save money and don’t know that you need a senior or two to wrangle them. Then chat gpt comes along and gives the illusion of sr dev advice, telling them how to write the wrong thing better, no one to teach them which tool is the right one for the job.

  Our industry is in kind of a fucked state and will be for a while. Get good at cleaning up the messes that will be left behind and that will keep you fed for the next decade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Protests don’t work if the people in power don’t care. One dude with a gun did more to shake up people in power than any recent protest has. Look how Elon wears his kids as human shields now. Protests are to bring awareness, the world is aware. We are now in need of people willing to take action.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are becoming the first digital grandparents⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You didn’t have to use motion control, but MKWii has motorcycles that actually had a mechanic that set them apart from the karts. They killed it on the switch, but you used to be able to pop a wheelie that would increase speed while making turns hard. Great for a boost on straightaways. The downside is the karts would bump you all over the course. MK8 motorcycles are just a slightly different stat than the karts. No real advantage or disadvantage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You wanna know what’s cool about language? It changes over time. So while the origin of a word may mean one thing, it can eventually mean something else as well or even something entirely different. Cool used to just mean temperature, but it eventually also came to refer to the attitude of a person or even how likable they are in common usage. Nimrod was a mythical hunter but thanks to Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd now means a stupid person. Same with “America” referring originally a set of continents. In common usage it has come to mean referencing the United States of America, mostly because people are lazy and is so much easier to say “American” than it is to describe something as “from the United States of America”. You can resist the change all you want, but eventually you sound like some old person that says automobile instead of car since car originally meant an individual portion of a train.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, the most offensive part of this is that he wants to use an Oracle system. Hey, jokes make the dystopia a little less boring right?🤣😂😢😭

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How screwed would one be if their email provider shuts down?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cox just shut down their email services. They did so by transitioning everyone to yahoo and gave yahoo the cox.net email domain. As long as the provider plans accordingly, they can shut down and not screw over their customers. It was hell getting grandparents to understand their email changed but not really, and just to reconfigure outlook for them so they can keep getting those prayer requests. “No grandma, that’s your windows password, what’s your email password? because that doesn’t work. You know what, I’ll just look it up in the registry.” It was a pretty seamless transition all things considered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are 'micro-apartments' converted from offices the answer to the housing crisis?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean yeah, if people want to live in that condition to be in cities and save money, it’s fine. But not at $850/mo. That’s insane to expect that much to live in a closet with no personal bathroom. For $200-300 a month, maybe.

  The solution is to end corporate ownership of single family homes and flood the market with the vacant homes they’re sitting on. Which will drive down home values, which will drive down rent values.

  This “solution” is just trying to get the working class to be happy peasants because “hey, at least you have a room to yourself”. Get the fuck out of here with that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seeking feedback: how should lemm.ee move forward with external images? (related to frequent broken images)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While I appreciate you trying to make it so, my privacy isn’t your responsibility. Option 3 is the way to go to keep your costs down, which is the long-term best solution.

  It wasn’t one of the options, but from a user perspective a hybrid solution is best. Making a local copy that has a 24-48 hour cache keeps your storage down but still gives us the benefit of option 1. But it sounds like this would require some changes to how the server software works, which would be cool, but again you shouldn’t feel compelled to attempt.

  Keep your costs and stress low wherever possible and thank you for everything you do.