Happenchance

@Happenchance@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising prices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It blows my mind that advertising could be worth more than a subscription.

  Their evaluation of advertising must be tied with brand recognition and other general brain washing tactics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google lays off employees working on its voice assistant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Unplugged mine last week. Fuck em.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ROCKSMITH 2014 LEAVING STORES - Ubisoft⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Because this game costs $40 and they want to release a direct competitor to their own product for $20 month.

  It’s a learning tool: practically every user will need more than 2 months of play time.

  It’s a good thing I have a copy of this already. Yar har.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨my favorite flavor! what's yours?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn son, packaging has gone upscale since legalization!

  Around here all we can get is floor clippings in a tinfoil baggie.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar and wind energy could fulfill energy demand 10-fold, Oxford study finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter

  Nuclear winter is a severe and prolonged global climatic cooling effect that is hypothesized[1][2] to occur after widespread firestorms following a large-scale nuclear war.[3] The hypothesis is based on the fact that such fires can inject soot into the stratosphere, where it can block some direct sunlight from reaching the surface of the Earth. It is speculated that the resulting cooling would lead to widespread crop failure and famine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A whole lotta mental gymnastics going on in this thread.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you never read it you will never know.

  There is a BBC audiobook from the 80s which is really good.

  The original movie is very good.

  The new interpretation is fun but not my cuppa.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A reference to A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

  It means, “good bye forever”, or some such interpretation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “White Good, Black Bad” is a pretty easy case to win when it comes to the “should we consider changing how we speak to not look like an asshole” debate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  While the term blacklist does not originate from racist history, it has certainly been adopted by racists before computers, while terms like master and slave have clear links to slavery as a human history: in either case the terms along with others were found to be offensive to a large population and have since been changed to reflect human decency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  From Wikipedia:

  Various replacement terms for ‘master’ or ‘slave’ have been proposed and implemented. In 2020, GitHub replaced the default ‘master’ git branch with ‘main’.[18] Other replacement names include ‘default’, ‘primary’, ‘controller’, ‘root’, ‘initiator’, ‘leader’, ‘director’, ‘manager’; and for ‘slave’: ‘performer’, ‘worker’, ‘peripheral’, ‘responder’, ‘device’, ‘replica’, ‘satellite’, and ‘secondary’.[18][6][21][22][23] Python switched to ‘main’, ‘parent’, and ‘server’; and ‘worker’, ‘child’, and ‘helper’, depending on context.[7][24] The Linux kernel has adopted a similar policy to use more specific terms in new code or documentation.[22] Other projects and standards have used alternative terms since their inception.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. In the same way that “Master” and “Slave” have been replaced for racist engineering terminology, “Whitelist” and “Blacklist” are replaced with “Allowlist” and “Blocklist”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a leaked memo, Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke put limits on employees having side hustles, saying Shopify requires 'unshared attention'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Lesson learned: Feed your boss shit and do what you want on your own time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US agency sues Tesla as Black workers report “swastikas, threats, and nooses”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I had to peel a white nationalist sticker off of the trolly return area of a local supermarket. I love in Canada.

  America is fucked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They were lucky Aladdin was such a cool dude⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You guys are all ignoring the most fundamental law of physics: Monkey’s Paw Law.

  “Grant the desired wish in the most unpleasant way possible.”

  Hidden Effect: Phyics now supports bugs the size of dogs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They were lucky Aladdin was such a cool dude⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “All bugs are now the size of dogs.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new name of twitter is „X, former known as ‚twitter‘“⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t how I have imagined the internet aging gracefully.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which conditions would make reject or quit your job?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Because real manufacturing draws scrutiny, and these companies are audited regularly enough to make licensing fees palletable.