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- Comment on Lemmy: Beans 1 week ago:
Please don’t post that without a trigger warning. Some of us are IE6 survivors.
- Comment on (TW) Phishing mail in 2026 1 week ago:
Also infuriating, so you’re going to be pissed off and more likely to click the link without thinking.
- Comment on (TW) Phishing mail in 2026 1 week ago:
Also triggering to anyone upset by ICE murdering people in the streets. I’ve never been scammed, but the idea of my emails automatically announcing support for the gestapo stirred up some feelings in me.
… which is why it’s an excellent phishing email, hats off to them. I’d be way more likely to rush to the link in this case than if I received a standard “your account is being locked” phish.
- Comment on World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles 2 weeks ago:
I figured the 2004 release as the PS2 slim turned the tables again, but that was still before the Wii came out in 2006. It’s possible that story only counted the original PS2 and this chart counts both, though.
- Comment on open source journey - 2025 was a big year! 2 weeks ago:
Sorry to hear about your kid, and I hope they get better! I don’t watch TV or play video games either, but right now my wife and kids consume the bulk of my free time. Not that it would matter, I’d never get to your release frequency if I was single either.
I’m more of a “refactor it 90 times before I deem it worthy and then spend some more time failing to come up with a name” kind of guy. I’m pretty good at working with legacy codebases, though, so most of my OSS contributions are patches to existing projects. That’s also easier to cram into my schedule.
- Comment on open source journey - 2025 was a big year! 2 weeks ago:
Holy smokes, you did all that in one year? Alone? Do you just write open source projects full time, or do you also have a day job on top of all that?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Pretty sure Trello was bought by Atlassian?
- Comment on Billionaires plot to flee California over proposed super wealth tax 2 weeks ago:
If it’s a tax on holdings applied every year, 5% is significant. It’s best compared with property taxes, which is another tax which works in a similar way. Property taxes are often capped at 1% of assessed value.
I’m in favor of taxing the rich, and taxing their holdings at 5% (without too many loopholes) would exceed my expectations. I expect this to get whittled down to around 1% before actually making it into law, though.
- Comment on Are we deprogramming empathy in the US? 3 weeks ago:
This is largely an American problem, although it is spreading due to global media.
I blame it largely on Calvinism and the prosperity gospel:
“Good things come to good people” -> “If good things didn’t come to you, you’re not a good person” -> “Poor people are poor because they are bad people, and we should not help them” -> “It’s okay to help billionaires, they wouldn’t be rich if they weren’t good people”
A lot of poor people have this view in the US, which you would think would make them reconsider it, but they solve this with mental gymnastics: They and their in-group are good people, so obviously it’s okay to help them and the good things are coming any second. Another reason not to tax rich people, they’ll be one soon!
- Comment on A new ‘solution’ to student homelessness: a parking lot where students can sleep safely in their cars 5 weeks ago:
A friend of mine used to live in his car, and he told me the worst part was getting chased away all the time. This would remove some stress from a very stressful situation.
- Comment on Don't know, I speak german 5 weeks ago:
Korn means “grain” in German, so both the name and illustration suggests this is made from fermented grains.
- Comment on A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code 1 month ago:
You realize that the spam is not coming from the actual line owning the number, right? They can spoof the number, so they could make it look like it came from any number. If they put some effort into researching you, they could make the spam look like it came from your mom.
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 1 month ago:
Ah. I guess that’s why people were so excited about Valve making one. I’m not really that interested in VR, so I never really evaluated their vs the competition’s offerings.
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 1 month ago:
May I ask why? It seems like a huge risk due to being tethered to a Facebook account which could get banned at any time. Was the price too good to pass up?
- Comment on Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodbye 1 month ago:
Facebook once explained that their mobile app is so huge because they encourage everyone to just roll their own thing instead of sharing code, because it’s faster to not have to coordinate or something. Well, if you never leverage other people’s work ever, you’re going to spend a lot of time reinventing wheels, and a lot of those wheels will look more like hexagons.
- Comment on An argument for using plastic straws: 1 month ago:
TIL mate is to Uruguay what durian is to Thailand.
- Comment on how do plants in a green house get enough co2? 1 month ago:
Not sure how they capture the carbon dioxide, but it’s delivered to the greenhouse itself from a giant tank outside the building. I realize that’s probably not the part of the process you were interested in, but it’s all I’ve got.
- Comment on how do plants in a green house get enough co2? 1 month ago:
Mostly it’s fine as others have stated, but sometimes they pump CO2 in there. One example is Friðheimar tomato farm in Iceland, which enhances photosynthesis by using carbon dioxide produced from natural geothermal steam](fridheimar.is/sustainability/).
- Comment on Vintage 3dfx Voodoo 2 cards may inevitably fail due to pyroelectric capacitors — retrocomputing channel investigates [Bits and Bolts] and recommends preventive maintenance 1 month ago:
Plus the cost of a regular graphics card. You also had to buy a sound card in addition to all the components you still need today. And I was 15 years old, so coughing up another ~$700 for two of the beefier cards would mean a whole lot more working during summer break.
- Comment on TFW you get the old gang back together 1 month ago:
Grossest president so far
- Comment on Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away 1 month ago:
I have a job like that, but I also have kids, so…
- Comment on Legendary game designer, programmer Rebecca Heineman has died 1 month ago:
An upvote is to spread awareness. It doesn’t necessarily mean you like the message.
- Comment on Vintage 3dfx Voodoo 2 cards may inevitably fail due to pyroelectric capacitors — retrocomputing channel investigates [Bits and Bolts] and recommends preventive maintenance 1 month ago:
Someone I knew had two 12MB Voodoo2 cards in SLI. I couldn’t believe anyone could shell out that much. My build was a single 8MB Voodoo2, which was already mind-blowing, especially since I never had 3D acceleration before that.
- Comment on turing completeness 2 months ago:
Does following the 3 laws of robotics increase profits? Does ignoring them increase profits? Are tech bros empty husks without a shred of shame or empathy? Is this too many rhetorical questions in a row?
- Comment on Dear neighbor... 2 months ago:
That battery will be low for a long time before it is fully dead.
- Comment on #environmentalist 2 months ago:
What happened to those Italian pasta straws? They looked promising.
- Comment on Not stealing 2 months ago:
A friend of mine does that for group lunches. If everyone is humming and hawing about where to go, he’ll suggest McDonald’s. This reduces the threshold of making suggestions significantly for the others, because they no longer need to find a great place. They only need to come up with somewhere better than McDonald’s.
- Comment on How does Edward Scissorhands pee? 2 months ago:
Spray and pray
- Comment on Commercials seem to be normalizing an unhealthy work-balance more. 2 months ago:
Ads don’t need to make you explicitly go out to buy the product to be effective. All they need to do is make you feel more familiar with the brand next time they and a competitor are next to each other in the store, and you need to decide which one to pick.
TL;DR: For stuff you’ll need to buy anyway, brand awareness is all the ad needs to do.
- Comment on Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time 3 months ago:
Except if you’re calculating dates from a long time ago. It famously takes some liberties with leap years.