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- Comment on Britain’s richest family sentenced to 4 years in jail 1 week ago:
You know it’s bad when even a two thousand year old gospel considers “rich people don’t go to heaven” to be divine wisdom. It has always been thus.
There’s no way the CEO of my last company - making a cool 6mil one year that I saw an article about the shareholders paying him a bonus of another few mil - works 125 times as hard as my 48k (gross) ass.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge nags users with a 3D banner to change Windows 11's default browser 1 week ago:
Ah, gotcha. Yeah, that’s one of those cases where you either add support yourself (provided you have the time, know-how - which most already don’t - and commitment) or wait until hopefully someone else does. Or - like me - you curse and go back to X11 until something gives you enouhh confidence to try Wayland again. I think I read somewhere on this platform that there will be (or was?) some Nvidia driver update that should help with Wayland support, but I haven’t looked into it.
I don’t have much experience with laptop hardware. I did have one elderly laptop running Ubuntu, though it probably would have been served better with something more lightweight (I just didn’t know much about anything at the time). But that wasn’t doing anything intensive, just some Uni exercises. I think a simple neural network was the most challenging thing it ever had to handle.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge nags users with a 3D banner to change Windows 11's default browser 1 week ago:
I’ve got working Nvidia drivers without any tinkering. Gaming on my 3060 without issues. Never had microphone issues either. This isn’t supposed to be “You’re wrong”, more a “I wonder what I’m doing differently”.
ASUS TUF GAMING B550 MoBo, AMD Ryzen 5600x, some Gigabyte version of the RTX 3060, running the Nvidia version of Nobara (Fedora-based gaming oriented distro).
What distro did you try?
- Comment on Tacos. 1 month ago:
What I find even more reprehensible than the sentiment “Without the threat of consequences, why should I be decent?” is that their own fucking book holds the answer to their goddamn question (not an expletive here, their god should and provably would damn them for it):
“So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.” - Matthew 7:12
The first half of this is a principle independent of religion, a fundamental social contract, the most critical idea underpinning any functioning society: Expect your behaviour to be reciprocated, and act accordingly. If you want others to help you if you need it, help people (if you can). If you want others to be kind to you, be kind to others. If you’re gonna be a prick, expect others to be just as prickly to you.
If all that keeps you from murdering people is the threat of eternal damnation, you forget that your own scripture says “If you kill people, expect that others may kill you in turn.”
Bonus: the biblical Jesus was known to hate hypocrites that pick out one piece of scripture to follow and ignore another and pharisees that carefully interpret and follow the letter of the law to find loopholes and ignore the heart of it. Those people lawyering their way around the otherwise unmistakable passages about generosity and giving away your wealth? Believe it or not, straight to hell.
Signed, an apostate whose faith was shattered by fallacy of preaching love while children suffer and threatening hell while blasphemers thrive.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter 1 month ago:
Given the inertia of moving social platforms and the spoiler effect of fragmentation, I assume ex-Twitter will remain the leading platform for a while still unless Musk manages to run it into the ground at record speed.
I don’t have any hard numbers on the rest, unfortunately. I personally favour Mastodon, and I believe some national governments have officially adopted it and are running their own instances, which might tip the scales a little if people see that as endorsement.
Bluesky overall seems to have the advantage in terms of marketing (probably because they have the advantage of money too). I have no idea about Threads, but being from the same company as Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp may give them an advantage in terms of existing users for those services. I would expect they try to intermesh these services at one point or another.
It’s hard to predict, given that many people might just follow whatever their favourite personalities choose, and once enough users have gone there, other popular people may choose that platform too for its larger userbase, drawing more people in… It can snowball either way.
There’s also the ongoing debate about interfacing the other options with Mastodon. I’m not going to take a stance on that here, but it might be a solution to the split “some of my favourite people have gone here, the others there, but I want to keep up with both in a single app”. I think there would have to be a user-level option in Mastodon to block entire instances to allow people to choose not to get shown content from those services.
As an aside, I think that would be a good idea anyway, for Lemmy too. If I want to be able to browse All without seeing specific instances, I don’t want to have to look for an instance with that exact list of defeds.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Install the Musixmatch app, get the lyrics for free from the original service instead of Spotify’s embedded player.
- Comment on Academic Rizzlers 1 month ago:
I mean, it seems like that’s the cultural push-and-pull depicted here: Some people don’t like it and make that known. If their opinion ends up prevailing and papers containing silliness end up being rejected by the major journals of their field, doctoral comittees etc., eventually the silliness may be driven out and gatekept.
We fans of harmless humour would lament as much as the guy in the OP laments now. We would presumably attempt to encourage silliness, as the guy in the OP does now.
Consensus swinging one way naturally doesn’t magically mean we now have to change our opinions to fit the consensus.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 1 month ago:
How would that invalidate their findings?
- Comment on Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? 1 month ago:
I’m not a native speaker, but somehow have a bigger vocabulary than my phone. Granted, I read a lot, but you’d expect my dictionary to, well, contain the entire dictionary. Some words, it recognises one form, but not others.
- Comment on Recognize the mother of Wifi 2 months ago:
Would that make him the grandfather of smartphones?
- Comment on Apple AirPods are designed to die: Here’s what you should know 2 months ago:
Nah, burning would release even more toxins. We need to find an environmentally friendly (or at least minimally harmful) way to dispose of them.
- Comment on $70 titles are doomed to go “the way of the dodo” says Saber Interactive CEO 2 months ago:
Isn’t it a recurring pattern with rapid growth in kew industry sectors? The industry eventually outpaces the actual market, is carried on for a bit by momentum, and then finally the bubble between what they’re investing to get and the actual earnings grows too large and starts deflating, so investors start trying to cut the losses. And it’s the workers that pay the bill, because they suddenly need a new employer.
- Comment on $70 titles are doomed to go “the way of the dodo” says Saber Interactive CEO 2 months ago:
Palworld copies so much from Pokemon that I’m just waiting for Nintendo to finally bring a lawsuit
- Comment on Last year's top guilty favourite action game has received a big free combat update 2 months ago:
Wouldn’t have been hard to name the game in the title, at the very least
- Comment on Could Cruise be the Theranos of AI? And is there a dark secret at the core of the entire driverless car industry? 7 months ago:
why did you even put this in quotes?
IDK, it’s early morning and I felt like it was an established term. I’m sure I was thinking something, but I can’t reconstruct just what. I’ll fix that.
I have a personal distaste for login-walls. I’m fine with disabling my adblocker for sites I trust and enjoy, but I just don’t like walled-off content. I’m doing my best to avoid tracking cookies, including manually going through the cookie settings on those notifications and clearing cookies on sites I don’t need to stay logged in on. Courtesy of GDPR and judging by the variety of irrelevant ads I do get, I like to think I’m doing a mostly solid job.
- Comment on Could Cruise be the Theranos of AI? And is there a dark secret at the core of the entire driverless car industry? 7 months ago:
Unfortunately, the substack article seems to be freely accessible, while the NYT isn’t. I understand the whole “support journalists” angle, but having to sign up to read stuff so they can more easily correlate what I click on and sell usage pattern data rubs me the wrong way.
- Comment on NASA Plus Streaming: "our new ad-free, no cost, family-friendly streaming service unlocks our Emmy award-winning live coverage, embeds you into our missions through new original video series" 7 months ago:
Did you confuse NSA (American gestapo) with NASA (a bunch of nerds that really like space and use American funds to indulge that passion)?
- Comment on Learned from Kira 8 months ago:
That is Popper’s own proposed solution for that paradox: Tolerance is not to be extended to the intolerant.
He suggests trying to work within the bounds of the contract first (talking, reasoning, voting etc.), but if that fails or is impossible endorses the censorship and suppression (violent, if necessary) of the intolerant. Try the high road, but be willing to acknowledge when that road is a dead end and ready to correct course in time.
- Comment on Reddit’s blockchain-based “Community Points” rewards crash after sunsetting 8 months ago:
…or at least so addicted they’ll spend themselves into trouble
- Comment on Europe is looking to fight the flood of Chinese electric vehicles. But Europeans love them 8 months ago:
To be fair, stuff like the GDPR is probably not in the lobby’s best interests, so they do bring good regulation too
- Comment on Europe is looking to fight the flood of Chinese electric vehicles. But Europeans love them 8 months ago:
Government trying to steer a herd of impulsive and selfish citizens into doing what makes sense for the collective (or what they believe makes sense (or what they’re trying to convince us they believe makes sense))
- Comment on You teleport into the last game world you played. What happens next? 8 months ago:
Probably break my neck because I’m a bloody reckless driver and unlike my avatar in the game, I’m not invulnerable.
Trackmania
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 8 months ago:
Huh. Neat. Thanks for that!
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 8 months ago:
Forgive me for being cynical about the odds of those consequences actually being enacted. Giving the courts a weapon for getting such companies in line is one thing, getting the judges to actually fire it another.
A law is only ever as good as its enforcement.
If I’m wrong, of course, I’ll be glad to learn that. I’ve just run out of optimism halfway through adolescence.
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 8 months ago:
Pretty sure Firefox says that too. Users just don’t read. Like, ever. They’ll get an error message saying “Important!” and click whatever button seems most likely to make it go away before calling support and demanding they “fix the computer”.
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 8 months ago:
Surely they’ll actually comply, not be caught in an audit years down the line and given a friendly “Now now, we talked about this: don’t get caught breaking the law again!” slap on the wrist for failing to delete and instead further monetising that data?
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 8 months ago:
How can my workplace admin block Pornhub even when I’m using private mode? He shouldn’t even be allowed to see what I do privately!
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 8 months ago:
An eternal arms race: Ads vs. Adblockers. Just like malware vs anti-malware protections. System penetration vs. system hardening. It iust entered another stage of technological development, but that doesn’t mean it’s over or that we need to throw the towel.
- Comment on 3D-printed carrot does not rely on large areas of land or maintenance costs, can be cheaper 8 months ago:
Easier dicing too
- Comment on Indian iPhone plant found 'highly hazardous' to worker health 8 months ago:
I like how that report is both very neutral and apathetic, yet very scathing in its matter-of-fact presentation of accusation and defense. Or what passes for defense, anyway - I put more effort into pretending I didn’t steal the last cookie as a kid than they did into selecting a canned generic response.