Bahnd
@Bahnd@lemmy.world
- Comment on Trump confirms plan to declare national emergency, use military for mass deportations 2 days ago:
The funny part is that that is still likely less that a bus load of billionairs actually paying their taxes like the rest of us do.
- Comment on How do you go about evaluating sources of information for truth/credibility/etc.? 2 days ago:
Sorta…
We left a bunch of retro-reflectors up there, if you got really good aim and a sensitive detector, you can bounce lasers off the moon. If you science hard enough you can probably pull it off.
- Comment on This is the way 3 days ago:
This is the way
- Comment on The Magic Keyboard and Mouse now use USB-C! 3 weeks ago:
You would think they could add an induction charger and actually make it “magic”-ly charge.
- Comment on Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening 1 month ago:
A rushed game is usually pretty bad, a delayed game is eventually good. While I dont hold AC in very high regard, im glad they told people that it needs more time to cook instead of throwing it out there half-baked.
- Comment on Burning Up 2 months ago:
0 Degrees Farenhight = very cold, 100 Defrees Farenhight = very hot
0 Degrees Celcius = very cold, 100 Degrees Celcius = dead
0 Degrees Kelvin = dead, 100 Degrees Kelvin = also dead…
- Comment on Toot toot 2 months ago:
Holy URLs Batman!
- Comment on Appropriate 2 months ago:
Also according to an angry Italians fanfic of hell, its not really that hot there either. Some little bits of it are, mostly revolving around people who were generally assholes in life, and a non-zero number of recently deceased (See the 14th century) popes the author had an axe to grind with.
- Comment on What if we teleported the oceans to Mars? 3 months ago:
The amount of money the US governemnt has spent rescuing Matt Damon from things is staggering.
- Comment on TIL 3 months ago:
And the bowl of petunias thought “Oh no, not again…”
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Alpha Centauri is actually 13.6 feet from me, Ive got an old sid meyrs disk somehwere in the box if old tech stuff. Great game, used the same engine as Civ 2, think its on GOG these days.
- Comment on Musk's X sues advertisers over alleged 'massive advertiser boycott' . 3 months ago:
My head-cannon from the lawyers going something like this.
“Thank you Mr. Musk for the lawsuit, we had a lot of fun reading it. Especially the parts you drew (I liked the blue dinosauar). Before we begin, we would like to let you know the legal fees for this case are coming directly from the portion of the advertising budget we allocated to the website formerly known as Twitter”
Probably more entertaining than the actual cases.
- Comment on Twitter 3 months ago:
I go with “The website formerly known as Twitter” mostly for the Prince bit…
- Comment on love eating bread ties and bread tags 3 months ago:
Occlupanida (Occlu=to close, pan= bread).
- Comment on Somebody's got a case of the Mondays 3 months ago:
Could never get the hang of thursdays either.
- Comment on Youtube stopped working for me today when using uBlock Origin in Firefox or Vivaldi with anti-ad enabled. 4 months ago:
It wont be, the scale of service and ease of revenue sharing will keep it as the king of video distribution untill Google kills it (like they do to all their products). FOSS projects and self hosting can not accomodate a viral hit (the slashdot effect), and also a self-hosted project like that would have to find a way to make money for the host to keep the lights on, and even Youtube fails at that one.
- Comment on xkcd #2951: Bad Map Projection: Exterior Kansas 4 months ago:
Thanks, I hate it.
- Comment on Squarespace to Go Private in $6.9B All-Cash Transaction with Permira 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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. 6 months 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. 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 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 6 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 6 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? ++ 6 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.