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- Comment on Mullvad's ads are good 19 hours 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 20 hours 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 1 day 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 days ago:
French Laundry - clip
- Comment on cooking question 2 days 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 days ago:
Quotable quotes - “”NSFW”” depending on your text size settings, maybe
- Comment on big catch 2 days ago:
- Comment on Hell yeah bröther 4 days ago:
Perfect
- Comment on Ugh! 4 days ago:
Keep it up 💪
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
- Comment on Scheduled Upgrade to 0.19.11 - May 2nd 2025 @ 8PM EDT 1 week ago:
Missed this, thanks Dude!
- Comment on Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps 1 week ago:
That sounds really interesting!
- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Really interesting— I don’t follow this nearly enough, so thanks
- Comment on Are spiders turtlely enough for the Turtle Club? 1 week ago:
Obviously this blue part here is the land…
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 2 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 2 weeks ago:
Intriguing, care to say more?
- Comment on Life after 30 be like 2 weeks ago:
lurve le clurb
- Comment on xkcd #3104: Tukey 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Classic dentist 2 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)
- Comment on PROGRESS 2 weeks ago:
poignant my mouf on each one
- Comment on Tough, Tiny, and Totally Repairable: Inside the Framework 12 2 weeks ago:
Hey there we go, now I can be excited about their future… Nice
- Comment on Tough, Tiny, and Totally Repairable: Inside the Framework 12 2 weeks ago:
Imagine Slate without Bezos
Would be so exciting
- Comment on Tough, Tiny, and Totally Repairable: Inside the Framework 12 2 weeks ago:
Oh I still have to watch that, referenced in freaks and geeks I believe
- Comment on Reddit assemble 2 weeks ago:
Understand that!
Me personally -
Team Noblock here defending new Lemmings against apparent echochamber threads
- Comment on Reddit assemble 2 weeks ago:
most common thing in the world is unattained potential
Didn’t somebody say something like that?
- Comment on PROGRESS 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 2 weeks ago:
Appreciate for both of course!
