spikederailed
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- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 6 months ago:
I’m almost sure the site has already been scrapped of current contest for the LLM.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 6 months ago:
I have been running a vertical task bar since Windows XP and have been on KDE as well(like now). The fact it’s not an option for Windows 11(my work laptop) drives me insane.
So many wasted pixels. :/
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 6 months ago:
Then there’s Google’s habit of completely ignoring the browser’s language settings so I have to sit though ads I don’t even understand
I used to occasionally watch YouTube on my lunch break when I would go into the office. I loved getting ads in Spanish, the office was in Greenville,SC not a large Spanish native population. I have premium on my account but don’t like signing in personal account on work machines.
- Comment on FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote 6 months ago:
I had an enterprise fiber side that I just bailed on and quit the place without notice(or another job lined up). It was genuinely soul crushing andi don’t regret my decision. Granted 3 years later I make more than double the pay with less headache.
- Comment on FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote 6 months ago:
Yep, they didn’t want people that think too much. They want drones to read off scripts and fake empathy when theit service is out(again). It wasn’t as bad in CCST(complex coax support team), since my interactions were very rarely with end users(VARS, large national businesses and other carriers). But they got rid of that department and have the REP1(new people) handle that service and put us back on front line phone support. None of the CCST customers were happy about the degraded service from unknowledgeable and untrained support staff. I had an interview to move over to Enterprise Fiber, but skipped that and just completely quit without notice.
The place is structured to make sure nothing ever gets past the status quo. I had multiple engineering tickets closed out for probable network routing issues(on our end) because no one wanted to look into it. If you have any more than signal issues and something a modem reboot won’t fix…good luck getting a problem actually addressed.
- Comment on FCC restores net neutrality rules that ban blocking and throttling in 3-2 vote 6 months ago:
Unfortunately mostly true. I worked for Charter Business, and was told I was “being too helpful”. They only want people who read off the script. I moved over to the CCST group before they killed that off. I’m so happy to be away from there, that place was soul sucking.
- Comment on Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse 6 months ago:
They have, they want you to buy the more expensive model with greater profit margins.
- Comment on Cable lobby vows “years of litigation” to avoid bans on blocking and throttling 7 months ago:
I lived in Charlotte, NC when Google announced GFiber was coming. Instantly AT&T started running as much fiber as possible and Charter(spectrum) was trying to get people locked into cheaper 3 year contracts. Ultimately AT&T got fiber first so we went with them, and it was vastly better. Charter was getting 60% packet loss every night from oversold infrastructure they didn’t care to fix, as before the announcement the only competition was AT&T uverse in some parts of the city.
- Comment on How I cannot be worry?? 10 months ago:
Do I have a problem?
No -> Don’t Worry. Yes -> Can I do something -> No -> What the worst possible outcomes and how will I deal with them? Can I do something -> Yes -> What the worst possible outcomes and how can I negate them to only have best outcomes.
Worrying is good, preparedness makes it easier.
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 10 months ago:
My only regret is that I don’t have more computers to move away from Windows.
- Comment on U.S. intelligence officials determined the Chinese spy balloon used a U.S. internet provider to communicate 10 months ago:
frontier
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 10 months ago:
which I hate considering UT2003/2004 had native Linux support.
- Comment on How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone? 11 months ago:
I did everyday in my car for listening to music when I still had my Pixel4a. Sadly it started to die and I replaced it with a Pixel 8(sans headphone jack) and had to buy a Bluetooth -> aux adapter.
- Comment on Snow! 11 months ago:
There are places like North Carolina where I used to live that got snow once every 3 years or so, no real justification for having snow tires as that point. On the few occasions where it does snow everyone should just stay home, but some don’t have that luxury unfortunately.
- Comment on The average car purchased in 2023 emits higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) than its 2013 equivalent. This is due to the large proportion of SUVs in the mix, which tend to be bigger and heavier. 1 year ago:
Ive recently replaced the engine, but I hope to keep driving my 08 Speed3 for another decade. It’s annoying having everything else in the road so much larger, but I don’t want anything this size.
#RejectSUVEembraceMiniVan
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
I only have a handful of books through them, but it might be time to get those locally.
- Comment on Facebook accused of not showing insurance ads to women and older people in violation of civil rights laws 1 year ago:
same. I use facebook container extension on firefox, and do not have the app on my phone. I have noticed this as well, it doesnt matter how man pages i block and mark “i dont want to see this kind of contect” it just keeps coming.