ripcord
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- Comment on Is there any truth to this? 1 month ago:
I noticed that for the first time yesterday.
Today, I don’t see them. I guess maybe moderation and/or blocking is working.
- Comment on How Bluesky, Alternative to X and Facebook, Is Handling Growth 2 months ago:
Currently it’s like tbr difference between Pepsi, and a soda company which is currently, publicly owned by a madman, trying to poison its customers, and spread Nazi shit and fascism.
A little wider gap than you’re saying.
Sure, Pepsi could become that other thing. But it’s not currently.
- Comment on San Francisco tech company Forward, once worth $1B, abruptly shuts down 2 months ago:
Why would there be appointments at all…?
- Comment on Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts 2 months ago:
Does it?
OK, what would they say if they weren’t planning on it?
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 2 months ago:
Maybe there was some special or package deal, but no.
- Comment on X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election 2 months ago:
Since Twitter is currently really really toxic, dangerous, and run by a maniac; and Bluesky currently is not (it’s actually been amazingly non-toxic)…I strongly disagree.
Even shittier anaology, but it’s more like moving from a house that has an active gas leak to a house that has gas pipes in the house. Has potential for leaks, but there aren’t any. And it currently has working gas leak detectors.
- Comment on Matrix 2.0 Is Here! 2 months ago:
Oh
- Comment on Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media 2 months ago:
This isn’t a finite range.
- Comment on Meta has suspended several Threads and Instagram accounts that track the private jets of celebrities such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian, and Donald Trump 2 months ago:
You didn’t…?
Why not?
- Comment on Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands 2 months ago:
A shitload of people, like as many as 10!
- Comment on My parents never did any extravagant trips like to Disney world or Sea world. Knowing what I know now I'm kinda grateful for that. 2 months ago:
…what?
- Comment on My parents never did any extravagant trips like to Disney world or Sea world. Knowing what I know now I'm kinda grateful for that. 2 months ago:
I’m not saying IS. I’m saying Should. Most people SHOYLD be part of the middle class and able to do these regularly.
Extravagant would be like renting a private beach or ballroom or something.
- Comment on My parents never did any extravagant trips like to Disney world or Sea world. Knowing what I know now I'm kinda grateful for that. 2 months ago:
Extravagant?
This should be considered absolutely middle-of-the-road.
- Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox 3 months ago:
I’d be really, really surprised if a bunch don’t bother doing anything. Maybe most.
- Comment on there's now more ads in "legit" sites (YouTube, amazon) than in piracy sites 3 months ago:
I just noticed he also mentioned sponsored ads in Amazon results and etc, which are definitely worse.
I’ve cut down buying from them quite a bit, but when using the Amazon app, or web without adblock, the sponsored results have made the shopping experience SIGNIFICANTLY worse in the last 6 months.
It used to be that you’d see one here and there, but the volume of sponsored results has gotten ridiculous, and the quality is awful. Half of the sponsored results I see - at best - are very specifically not what I searched for. Sometimes not even close.
It’s one of several reasons I hardly buy from them anymore.
- Comment on there's now more ads in "legit" sites (YouTube, amazon) than in piracy sites 3 months ago:
Of all the ads being pushed on us, this type seems like the least egregious to me.
- Comment on there's now more ads in "legit" sites (YouTube, amazon) than in piracy sites 3 months ago:
That didn’t last very long.
- Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books. 3 months ago:
Hwfwm?
- Comment on [Tom Warren] The PS5 Pro still hasn’t sold out in the US or UK. Looks like the $700 price point will mean this console will be readily available this holiday 3 months ago:
Use rats as wig
- Comment on Dell Sales team told to return to office 5 days a week 3 months ago:
They already laid off a bunch.
I guess not enough.
- Comment on Mozilla grants Ente $100k 3 months ago:
Any guesses why that is?
- Comment on Mozilla grants Ente $100k 3 months ago:
It would be really nice if I could have it sync to both. I’d like to sync it locally and have all the features available, but for convenience I would also like the option of a secure, reputable cloud service that costs a reasonable fee.
They seem good. However, using the app seems to be either/or (local or their service)
They’re also twice the price of Google, which is a bit tough to swallow.
- Comment on AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs 3 months ago:
Or, like, “there’s the bottom 10% of a traffic light in this one. Do I click that box? Ia that supposed to count?”
- Comment on Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it 3 months ago:
Which one?
- Comment on The recent events will probably be the first time that Gen Z and Gen alpha are hearing about 'Pagers'. 3 months ago:
Everyone knows they are called flippy flops. Gosh
- Comment on Happy 12 million! 3 months ago:
I knew I shouldn’t have used the word “never”, although I was thinking that only “deleted” accounts would drop thw total count. That’s also a good point.
But it still seems unlikely that there will be a LOT or cases where the total number drops by a proportionately large number, unless something really bad happens (or there’s some big initiative at some point to remove inactive or not accounts)
The more important stat - the one that people would be much more likely to be talking about seeing a “decline” in, in cases like this - is “active” users.
- Comment on Happy 12 million! 3 months ago:
Is that total users, or active users?
- Comment on The mod who bypass' the PSN login for God of War Ragnarök got removed on Nexus Mods 3 months ago:
Where?
- Comment on If the Olympics and presidential elections only happen once every 4 years, why the hell are we not doing them on February 29th???? 3 months ago:
One day for the Olympics would be a pretty mad rush at the moment
- Comment on Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops 3 months ago:
I don’t see what the difference would be in 10 years.
I don’t think 90% of people, especially “young people” would avoid doing this already. It’s already a major awareness/compliance issue, and not at all a “no shit sherlock” moment.
But what did you have in mind that will be different in 10 years? Paricularly for young people.