Deebster

@Deebster@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨„If companies were to do the right thing, they would lose the most valuable customers on earth, preteen kids”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe his analysis considered this, but they article doesn’t mention real-world factors like the climate crisis, the cost of living crisis, and what feels like the resurgence of fascism and the spectre of World War 3. It’s noted that liberal families seem more susceptible - perhaps it’s because right-wing families are more likely to believe these things aren’t real, or aren’t a problem?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ukraine unveils AI-generated foreign ministry spokesperson⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a weird time to be alive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine denying other living and breathing lifeforms agency to thrive amd change lol lol lol⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Study after study has shown that trees in cities offer huge benefits: offering shade and cooling (reducing energy consumption), draining storm/flood water (very useful in our more extreme climate), cleaning the air and emitting oxygen, homing wildlife, improving mental health by reducing anxiety and depression, being nice to look at.

  Every city tree should be treasured and protected.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re missing Windows 2000, but I guess you can argue that’s Windows NT not mainline Windows. That was definitely in the good camp, and I was not alone in sticking with it for many years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy instances die twice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I just now noticed it was gone. Did it just vanish one day, or did its users at least have some hint?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d assume it was something you’d typed once (maybe while searching or a typo). I always delete those words when they come up (for me that’s dragging the word up and a bin appears).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No more 12345: devices with weak passwords to be banned in UK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why? Unless you like breaking into other people’s devices, this is good news.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An update regarding the future of m/AskKbin (where we are headed towards) - AskKbin - kbin.social⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mbin seems like a healthy project, and the only sensible move from kbin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨brendan was a hottie⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s been cropped into a square at some point (maybe for a preview image) and here we are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads''⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same, I had to ad-block some custom elements on YouTube ages ago because they kept covering the screen with “related videos” whenever I paused to read something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine how poor Pluto would feel if we decided this new entry counted as a proper planet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The University of Texas at Austin has 'delisted' this video so that it's harder to find.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve kept YouTube monetisation enabled, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube moves to AV1 by default to the dismay of some Android users⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How can I test if my phone uses hardware decoding for AV1?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turn up the heat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed - I think part of the humour in a meme is fitting new situations into the format and when this is ignored (or done poorly) it misses the mark, kind like as if you’d attempted a limerick but got the meter all wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what will be my next server operating system (Fedora Server, Fedora CoreOS, NixOS), your experience and opinion⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I went with Fedora on my VPS because I was also planning to use rootless Podman. Quadlets and running everything through systemd with SELinux enabled is working pretty well for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK ministers considering banning sale of smartphones to under-16s⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is throwing the baby out with the bath water. The problems aren’t with mobile computing, but with social media and free-to-play games abusing the science of addiction to create psychological dependencies in users (and children are especially vulnerable to this). Even the timing of your notifications can and are used to manipulate you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What web services do you subscribe to?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  • email
  • Nebula
  • Kagi
  • domains and hosting
  • VPN
  • windyty
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and ov⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still very happy with the experience, especially the UX and customisation options, and they’re developing new features fast. Not always successfully at first, e.g. the recent integration of WolframAlpha isn’t entirely a step forward (mostly because they’re not displaying the extra context that WA shows that lets you know when it’s answering the wrong question).

  I think overall most people are very happy, as shown by the frequent recommendations on here (so much so that someone on Lemmy was telling everyone it must be astroturfing).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An IRC client in your motherboard⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Such a huge amount of work for a “joke”, even the write-up contains rotatable 3D diagrams. Lots of interesting stuff in there - I wasn’t planning on reading it all but there was nothing I wanted to skip.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thailand poised to legalise same-sex marriage after parliament passes bill⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d assumed it was already legal - the Thais are very progressive with some stuff in this area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using Termux on Android for Self Hosting? Yes, really. – The Thin Computer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe if that site’s also hosted on an old phone running Termux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨geography⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Good meme, wrong community for it though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2907: Schwa⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is why we shouldn’t have phonetic spelling!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2907: Schwa⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For me it’s more like
  /wɒts ʌp? wɒz dʌg gənə kʌm? dʌg lʌvz brʌnʧ. nɜːʔɜː dʌgz stʌk kʌz ɒv ə tʌnəl əbstrʌkʃən. ə trʌk dʌmpt ə tʌn ɒv ʌnjənz. əχ./

  (Gimsonian, anyway, I like the newer, more logical style that would have nurse be /nəːs/)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ASCII art elicits harmful responses from 5 major AI chatbots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Clever work, well done to the researchers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon tries to solve its problem with tracking down other users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So, they’re just going to add a QR code? Of course, you could already do that, but having it built in and be the default process would probably help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fukuyama residents warned not to touch cat after chemical tank fall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It is thought the curious feline had been in a vat of hexavalent chromium, a highly acidic and carcinogenic chemical which is orange and brown in colour.

  I’d clicked into this story after misreading the place as Fukushima. Nothing to do with anything nuclear, but it sounds like that that would have been better for the cat than this stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy Active Users looking good⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think of a lurker as someone who doesn’t post - I guess your definition is someone who doesn’t interact at all (besides making an account and subscribing, I assume).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy Active Users looking good⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume this latest bump is due to lemmy.world updating and now counting lurkers when assessing active users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey, I'm new to GitHub!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently UK universities need to teach how directories work to first year Computer Science students. They’ve grown up with polished, closed devices and many only know apps and the basics of using the internet.