brbposting
@brbposting@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 21 hours ago:
I would love tax-included pricing (or maybe VAT?), though from what I know:
TV ads, sponsorship spots, circulars all complicate this.
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 4 days ago:
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 4 days ago:
won’t pass 25w
Reminded of what looked to be a great deal on USB-C cables from a major manufacturer (Anker I think).
Fine print: not for MacBook Pro yaddayadda! Yeah the things can’t hang for it. Gotta spend way more.
I wonder what the best cable labeling solution is for new cables purchased with known specs. Bet a handful of well-resourced geeks do their own printing right on them.
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 4 days ago:
Terrible news for all my USB-C cables less than 2 & 1/2 inches long!
:) yeah good point & thanks for the pic
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 4 days ago:
Europeans from which country get upset when they hear their fellow countrypeople speak English poorly?
Was it Germans, because there’s compulsory English education in schools?
- Comment on Breaking the generational barriers 1 week ago:
10g more than likely 10k typo (perhaps more brain than body/finger typo, there a word for that?)
Oh, “thinko”
- Comment on Mullvad's ads are good 1 week ago:
I like that
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 1 week ago:
Was gonna cite 85th percentile speed but TIL on drawbacks
Screenshot of redirect from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V85_speed
- Comment on Mullvad's ads are good 2 weeks ago:
Wow great point!
btw I’d also thought to mention how I wish it could just be merch or live show tix b/c: did that creator I love REALLY like the new widget that was released or were they financially incentivized?
Which is why I mentioned transparency & labeling. Some will falter and some good people will subconsciously be incentivized, but some will choose sponsors so well they’ll be fine, too.
- Comment on Mullvad's ads are good 2 weeks ago:
Related note
I’m a Ublock Origin kinda guy, but not a SponsorBlock one
Because gestures at capitalism is the thing for now:
Sponsorships, when transparent and well-chosen and clearly labeled and clever, are less grating and don’t use anti-privacy targeting methods. That’s a path forward I’m pretty much OK with (remember capitalism is the thing, you & I have to eat like the YouTubers?).
My expectation is not “everyone should do everything for free” or “you’re only allowed to sell merch, without ever mentioning it” or “uploaders must have live shows and sell tickets if they ever want a dollar”. It’s “ewww, ads” and the malware that we’re exposed to alongside them.
Meant to make a post about this but your comment triggered it early :)
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 2 weeks ago:
Perfect for when malware distributors host on Microsoft domains (Sharepoint?)… built-in ain’t blocking that enormous mess, sigh
- Comment on cooking question 2 weeks ago:
French Laundry - clip
- Comment on cooking question 2 weeks ago:
Did you mean to post a link to the index or a deeper link? Looks like the website is employing… URL cloaking, I once saw it called?
Nowadays we see that all the time on mobile where a website pushes a special URL when we use the share sheet, but manually copying the URL out of the address bar remains unaffected.
Not in this case though!
- Comment on cooking question 2 weeks ago:
Quotable quotes - “”NSFW”” depending on your text size settings, maybe
- Comment on big catch 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Hell yeah bröther 2 weeks ago:
Perfect
- Comment on Ugh! 2 weeks ago:
Keep it up 💪
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 3 weeks ago:
I imagine even the fk_ai crowd appreciate the non-gimmick stuff as long as it is nothing like a chatbot
Tiny example from Gmail:
This is all over, and it can be super useful from time to time.
They say “f AI!” but I mean sure they don’t want better searches than were possible five years ago? If it’s not sycophantic and confabulatory etc. etc.
Good point on intrusivity
PS
PS: I translated news from Iran this week using AI tools and using traditional translators. Who would advocate for the garbage traditional translation—soon as I went the “AI” route, it was suddenly possible to understand what the journalists were trying to say. That doesn’t mean I want translators to lose their jobs, it just means I know what the best available technology is and how to use it to get a job done. (And does not mean just because it translates well that I will also trust it to summarize the article for me.)
- Comment on Become Ungovernable 3 weeks ago:
So the other day I’m traveling in my pollen conveyance, right
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Scheduled Upgrade to 0.19.11 - May 2nd 2025 @ 8PM EDT 3 weeks ago:
Missed this, thanks Dude!
- Comment on Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps 4 weeks ago:
That sounds really interesting!
- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 4 weeks ago:
Hey there I didn’t complain or downvote but also declined to upvote cuz of the two little tiny words of ad hom……
… (idea!) …
DINGUS! Dingus would’ve saved it!
ya dingus
Perfect, feels very Lemmy-appropriate—gets the insult with a perfect lulz factor so even the parent commenter could’ve kinda laughed (I hope ppl can take jokes!)
…sorry I know I’m not your mom, hope this doesn’t come across maximally prescriptive (just my 2c!)
- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 4 weeks ago:
Really interesting— I don’t follow this nearly enough, so thanks
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 4 weeks ago:
Obviously this blue part here is the land…
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 4 weeks ago:
Also fines agricultural workers and CEOs the same for speeding on their way to work—except for that Nokia executive that one time & his countrymen
- Comment on Tough, Tiny, and Totally Repairable: Inside the Framework 12 4 weeks ago:
Intriguing, care to say more?
- Comment on Life after 30 be like 4 weeks ago:
lurve le clurb
- Comment on xkcd #3104: Tukey 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Classic dentist 4 weeks ago:
Booo
If you wanna try to send me your ZIP Code I can see if I can figure out which regulator has a snowballs chance of telling them to knock it off (if they care)
