Bahnd
@Bahnd@lemmy.world
- Comment on xkcd #2951: Bad Map Projection: Exterior Kansas 3 days ago:
Thanks, I hate it.
- Comment on Squarespace to Go Private in $6.9B All-Cash Transaction with Permira 1 month ago:
Not worried about that, I self-host everything, its that Google domains were cheap, quiet, and handled the routing I needed, now… I dont know what to expect.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams 1 month ago:
MS being sued for packaging something with windows? Haven’t we seen this before?
- Comment on Squarespace to Go Private in $6.9B All-Cash Transaction with Permira 1 month ago:
I dont know how to feel about this…
My domain got transfered to them from Google domains shutting down and now its being brought under a private equity umbrella… Something fucky.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 1 month ago:
This is my expirence with LLMs, I have gotten it to write me code that can at best be used as a scaffold. I personally do not find much use for them as you functionally have to proofread everything they do. All it does change the work load from a creative process to a review process.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 1 month ago:
You used the right tool for the job, saved you from hours of work. General AI is still a very long ways off and people expecting the current models to behave like one are foolish.
Are they useless? For writing code, no. Most other tasks yes, or worse as they will be confiently wrong about what you ask them.
- Comment on I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks. 1 month ago:
Entirely fair question and thanks for expanding, bit personal for online nobodys like us. Sorry if I came off as accusitory.
- Comment on I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks. 1 month ago:
Taxes alone is a valid reason. So long as there are social, financial and legal benifits to the institution then there is no argument to have. If you feel that love or religion is a requirment that I feel your concept of marraige is outdated.
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 1 month ago:
Question that pertains to general hosting at those scales. In your opinion what costs more, distributing a piece of content that will get 1M views, or 1000 pieces of content that will get 1000 each? I know the math wont add up, but I dont know where the cost bottleneck is. Is hosting something even though it isnt used or that viral spike in views that kills attempts to make a smaller service like this?
- Comment on No more 12345: devices with weak passwords to be banned in UK 1 month ago:
12345? Thats amazing, I have the same combination on my luggage!
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 2 months ago:
Pi-hole does not block content that is hosted on the same source as the ads. Youtube, hulu and friends host their own ad services so it wont spare you from those. However people using ad services like google adsense on their website will have content blocked as DNS will resolve to the place your trying to go and the webpage asyn-loading its ads will not.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 2 months ago:
Thats fair, I was worried about my discontinued corsiar stuff but was suprised to find that the support was even better than the old driver and managment app I had on my old OS.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 2 months ago:
I made the switch from W10 to Pop_OS for my gaming rig about 2 months ago. Beyond some hiccups with the experimental branch of proton and just getting used to the new UI its been great. Come on in, they water is fine.
- Comment on How come TurboVPN can have double the amount of downloads compared to NordVPN and ExpresVPN? ++ 2 months ago:
That is the tricky part. If you run a public VPN and a governement comes to you and says “give us all you have on user X were investigating them” you sorta have to comply and you cant go telling people that you did that either.
A few of these services will have a line on their website along the lines of “we have never provided data to any governemnt” and when they get told to cough it up they remove the line. Protons data canary has been dead for a long time, and Im not sure if other VPNs even bothered to add something like that.
As for the price tag, I’m paying exactly for that privacy (and also their mail service, de-googling yourself is hard). If I needed a less private VPN I would host one myself.
- Comment on Smothsinian 2 months ago:
If thats actually from the smithsonian in Washington DC, its probably in the recently renovated american history museum. There is a section in the lower levels all about technology and products the changed regulations. So they have an old ipod and lawn darts… Its very odd seeing that stuff be called history.
- Comment on How come TurboVPN can have double the amount of downloads compared to NordVPN and ExpresVPN? ++ 2 months ago:
Yes, but some claim to be log-less so while they can see your traffic, they pinky promise not to record it. Proton being one who proports to not keep logs, and seeing as they are Swiss ,that tracks.
(Proton VPN is the 3rd party one I use)
- Comment on New Boston Dynamics Robot 2 months ago:
Am I the only one who thinks they were going for a pixar lamp look?
- Comment on How In-N-Out Burger’s president runs her fast-food empire: Keep it simple, affordable and close 2 months ago:
Its a cheap burger joint, I think the confusion is caused by a mix-up of expectations.
I was in SLS a few weeks ago and got a double-double combo for under 10$. I feel like there are very few places left that even offer something that could be viewed as a meal for that price. Plus they treat their employees well and their locations Ive been to are very clean.
Are they prefect, no, but we put them on a pedestal because they are how a crappy fast food joint should be run.
- Comment on Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets 2 months ago:
You can, I had an English vendor ship me my FP4 and it works just fine stateside. It does have its quirks being locked to GSM networks and the 5G bands not being universally aligned between the continents.
- Comment on Next on the hydraulic press channel! 2 months ago:
Greetings fellow ISO-8601 fan club member.
- Comment on This is a Test 2 months ago:
ENGLISH! MOTHERF#$KER, DO YOU SPEAK IT!
[Said Mr. Jackson using his inside voice]
- Comment on The eclipse shadow travels on the ground at about 2300 mph, so you could follow it with an SR-71. 2 months ago:
Classic.
- Comment on The existence of Sloths implies the existence Wraths, Lusts, Gluttonies, Prides, Envies, and Greeds. 3 months ago:
I would throw ferrets, weasles or trash pandas for the slot as they are known to like stealing things.
- Comment on I've noticed my boomer parents using Instagram and tik tok. I can't tell you how excited I am for them to kill those platforms like they did facebook. 3 months ago:
We used to do just that, google was where you went to find things. Reddit was where you went to tell other people what you found.
Now you google things on Reddit to find the post where someone else put in the effort to find something. Googles base results are such SEO garbage that niche things might as well not be indexed or gasp on the second page.
- Comment on Finally joined the "work was throwing it out" club 4 months ago:
Cat.
- Comment on Government bonds anyone? 4 months ago:
It also shields you from human error, the IRS already knows what your taxable income is (assuming your employer correctly withholds it for you). Its much less stress to file with an error in your favor than in theirs. If you own them they will hunt you to the ends of the earth and make you resolve it, but if they owe you they just send you a check and call it a day.
- Comment on Stop, minions of darkness! 5 months ago:
Oxtos the sun god?
If so, then prophet Gary is out of jail.
- Comment on Fidelity marks down X valuation by 71.5% 5 months ago:
Oh no, Anyway.
- Comment on Cable lobby and Republicans fight proposed ban on early termination fees / Customers should be allowed to cancel cable TV without penalty, Democrats say 6 months ago:
Dogma was a very funny movie, dont drag shit monsters down to their level.
- Comment on What are the best features of Lemmy that aren't available in Reddit? 6 months ago:
I feel like it makes the conversation feel less hive-mindy as people arnt hunting for upvotes, they just say stuff (for better or worse).