wrekone

@wrekone@lemmyf.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Squarespace to Go Private in $6.9B All-Cash Transaction with Permira⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There will likely be no benefit for the employees or the users. For the PE firm, the goal is usually to pump up the value and resell or reenter the market, at a massive profit, in a few years. To do that, they’ll have to make a lot of unpopular choices, such as layoffs and other cost cutting measures. If they’re privately held, those choices have far less impact on the value of the company, since the stock market is heavily swayed by public perception.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what lemmy web app do you use and why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sync. It seemed to have the closest feature set to RiF early on and I’ve just stuck with it since then. I try other apps occasionally. They all have their strengths but Sync feels the most polished.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what’s stopping me too. I’ve tried to convince them that Youtube Music (I’m a holdover from the Play Music days, RIP) is good enough but they won’t have it. I miss Songza.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers unlock fiber optic connection 1.2 million times faster than broadband⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With further refinement and scaling, internet providers could ramp up standard speeds without overhauling current fiber optic infrastructures.

  Don’t worry. They’ll find some way to use this to justify massive rate increases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨El Salvador Will Keep Buying 1 Bitcoin Daily Until BTC 'Becomes Unaffordable' With Fiat Currencies, Says President Bukele – Featured Bitcoin News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  …El Salvador has decided to transfer a large chunk of its bitcoin holdings to a cold wallet and store it in a physical vault

  What are we up to now, like Ocean’s 15 or something?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Generated Videos Just Changed Forever (OpenAI Sora)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was a kid, I had seen, or at least heard of, nearly every TV show from my parent’s generation. Going back probably 40 years. Like, I’ve probably seen every Looney Tunes, every episode of M.A.S.H., and most episodes of The Munsters, because some days there wasn’t anything else to watch. My kids look at me crazy if I haven’t heard of the latest flash-in-the-pan influencer, but if I bring up a 10-year old movie or TV show, they have no idea what I’m talking about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FLOSS communities right now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the “see no evil” approach. If you didn’t report the issue while the admin was online, then they aren’t compelled to do anything about it. Convenient for the project maintainer who doesn’t actually like maintaining things. Awful for the rest of us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FLOSS communities right now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A bunch of the servers I’m on actively discourage the use of threads. No idea why. In a different server I’m on, an admin creates a thread for every post in general, so that people can talk about the post without cluttering up the main thread. I wish more servers followed that example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't expect iPhone apps to get cheaper now that you can pay for them outside of the App Store⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What a bootlicker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The View’ Host Joy Behar Scoffs at Young People Feeling ‘Left Behind by the Economy’: ‘Oh Please, Get a Job!’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Wealthy asshole has no empathy.” I’m shocked. Fuck her. Fuck talking heads in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has google stopped working for finding anything?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a good way to do it, whenever possible. Unfortunately most of the results on Amazon these days are from companies with word salad names, like ENGRTSIAL or LOFRABTAN.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Apple to end partnership with bank that backs Apple Card, savings accounts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  people with Goldman-backed credit cards like the Apple Card are actually making their payments less often than people with credit cards from other banks

  Who could have possibly seen this coming?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[HN] Reddit mods dumped tokens hours before blockchain program termination⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What would you do in that situation? Would you hold on to them out of a sense of propriety, or sell them off as quickly as possible? I’m not sure I can blame them. I might do the same if I learned that my unregulated assets were about to lose nearly all value.