Zedstrian
@Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on China put steep tariffs on U.S. exports. Farmers are worried 1 week ago:
Many farmers stupidly voted for Trump in November, so they’re just getting what they voted for. No sympathy for the ones who have no concern for the LGBTQ+ and immigrant rights, and only come out to complain about economic hardship, all the while continuing to laud praise upon Trump himself.
- Comment on Follow libreddit with lemmy client 1 week ago:
Accidentally deleted my original comment, so rewrote it; not sure why other people copied it verbatim.
- Comment on Follow libreddit with lemmy client 1 week ago:
No; libreddit is just a read-only frontend for Reddit.
- Comment on AI is set to drive surging electricity demand from data centres. 2 weeks ago:
Generative AI energy usage is environmentally wasteful and will just raise the cost of energy for regular consumers.
- Comment on EU takes revenge on Trump’s tariffs as countries approve €20B+ retaliation 2 weeks ago:
While the EU is right to rebuke Trump’s unjustified tariffs with retribution tariffs of their own, the phrasing ‘takes revenge’ in the headline is needlessly inflammatory.
- Comment on Switch 2 GameCube controller will only be offered to those who pre-order the console 2 weeks ago:
Nintendo opting to forgo selling retro games piecemeal and instead expecting consumers to rent access to them in perpetuity is an anti-consumer move. I have no problem paying for games when they’re sold at affordable, reasonable prices, so until that’s the case for Nintendo’s library, better to just emulate as much of it as possible.
- Comment on XPG Prime tuning app dumps 50GB of anime girl photos in Redditor's temp folder 3 weeks ago:
Somewhat of a clickbait title, but hopefully the bug gets fixed all the same. 👍
- Comment on John Giannandrea out as Siri chief, Apple Vision Pro lead in 5 weeks ago:
The problem is that Apple’s extensive marketing of Apple Intelligence has led to expectations that far surpass what the final product is likely to be.
Most people think generative AI is magic coming out of a hat, so even if Apple delivers at the same level as other companies, people will feel like they’ve been misled.
- Comment on Google claims news is worthless to its ad business after test involving 1% of search results in eight EU markets. 5 weeks ago:
That’s a symptom of Google holding a monopoly over search results.
Real reporting will always cost more to produce than AI-generated propaganda, and if the former has a paywall and the latter doesn’t, people will inevitably end up reading the news that takes the least effort to produce, to the detriment of actual news reporting.
Requiring Google to both carry such content and pay for it at least ensures that it has an even footing with websites seeking to push propaganda instead.
- Comment on Google claims news is worthless to its ad business after test involving 1% of search results in eight EU markets. 5 weeks ago:
The problem is that society has transitioned to a point where most people essentially go to Google and Facebook for all their information. Given the monopolistic power of such platforms on public opinion, there is a very strong societal interest to ensure that actual news, not merely the propaganda of the highest bidder, is what people have access to.
The responsibility of Google to pay for it can be argued, but as real reporting will always cost more to produce than AI slop pushed by propagandists, there is arguably a public interest in that as well.
- Comment on Google claims news is worthless to its ad business after test involving 1% of search results in eight EU markets. 5 weeks ago:
If that’s what the French want, then it’s Google’s obligation to comply and simply adjust advertising rates as needed.
- Comment on Google claims news is worthless to its ad business after test involving 1% of search results in eight EU markets. 5 weeks ago:
Even so, there is a societal interest in objective news being available to the public, which means that search engines should be required to carry such content, profitable or not. All the more so due to Google’s monopolistic grip on the search engine market.
- Comment on What is the best looking retro console or PC? 1 month ago:
Although the wood-grain Atari 2600 was also my first thought upon reading the title, I think the Wii’s minimal footprint is impressive considering that—in the case of the original model—it’s also a GameCube.
In contrast to the Wii’s 2006 release, the Wii Mini is arguably not yet ‘retro’ with its 2012 release, but definitely looks a lot sleeker, albeit not worth the loss of GameCube functionality for its minimal size savings.
Compared to both, the Wii U is super bulky, and lacks much use beyond improved emulation capabilities now that nearly all of its exclusives have been re-released for the Switch.
- Comment on Gulf of Mexico vs. Gulf of America: How digital maps display disputed names. 1 month ago:
For all non-fascists, the Gulf of Mexico is not a disputed name.
- Comment on Lemmy’s essential 25 PS1 games 1 month ago:
Not a common suggestion, but the Scrabble PS1 port holds up surprisingly well, all the more so for how few Scrabble video games there are.
- Comment on Chegg sues Google for hurting traffic with AI as it considers strategic alternatives 1 month ago:
One shitty company suing another shitty company; nothing more enjoyable to watch!
- Comment on Bus blasts in Israel are ‘suspected terror attack’, say police 2 months ago:
Israel’s invasion of Gaza and the West Bank are known terror attacks; news at 11.
- Comment on Left Apple Maps this week for Magic Earth 2 months ago:
Waze is owned by Google, so it probably implemented the “Gulf of America” typo too. Just tested Magic Earth for a few minutes, and Organic Maps seems to be the more polished of the two in terms of OpenStreetMap frontend apps, in my opinion.
- Comment on Europe will not be part of Ukraine-Russia peace talks, US envoy says 2 months ago:
Fucking over Ukraine by cutting off support and pretending that Russia’s invasion has any legitimacy whatsoever means that without Europe’s involvement there won’t be Ukraine–Russia but Trump having a wet dream has he sees Russia follow in Israel’s stead by annexing territory, stealing natural resources, and ethnically cleansing its population, much as Trump would do to Canada too if he could.
- Comment on Are You Ready to Let an AI Agent Use Your Computer? AI agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google want to lighten your load. 2 months ago:
“Look at all this data on your computer taking up space! Let’s store it in the cloud to lighten your load (and, more importantly, use it for marketing, tracking, and LLM training).”
-Invasive AI Agent
- Comment on What is your favorite app for Lemmy? Include Platform 2 months ago:
Something that only it seems to have, versus the others I compared it to, is a “headline” view for the feed. It’s essentially an extra compact version of the compact view, putting the post’s community name in line with the upvote, downvote, comment counts and post age. Only saves a bit of space compared to the comparison I made a few minutes ago in trying Thunder, but most of all it makes the feed less cluttered, in my opinion.
- Comment on What is your favorite app for Lemmy? Include Platform 2 months ago:
Arctic on iOS; preferred it to Voyager and Mlem due to having more customization options.
- Comment on Russia releases imprisoned American Marc Fogel in what US calls a step toward the end of Ukraine war 2 months ago:
Ending the war in Ukraine involves Russia pulling its armed forces back to within its own borders, returning kidnapped Ukrainian citizens, and relocating Russian settlers who moved to occupied Ukrainian territory since 2014.
Releasing Americans dumb enough to travel to Russia is good, but it doesn’t achieve anything for Ukraine, rather just makes drooling MAGAtts think Putin is someone who can be reasoned with…
- Comment on US defense chief Hegseth says return to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders not realistic 2 months ago:
What an isolationist asshole.
- Comment on Price Per Square Inch for TVs by size 2 months ago:
At least in the case of the Hisense TV I got for my grandparents, a “glitch” with accessibility controls (makes directional inputs unresponsive or multi-press at times) just so happens to make remapping the sponsored remote buttons impossible, as well as breaking the most common method of changing the system launcher, so screen size alone isn’t everything.
Although Hisense still tries to reinstall sponsored apps after I delete them, using Launcher Manager to set a custom launcher that allows for the hiding of unwanted applications and channels made it much more usable for my grandparents.
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to redirect YouTube voice input commands to SmartTube Next, so if I ever replace it, that’ll be a factor in my decision too.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Also deceptive for them to list it on the Play Store as having 500,000,000 “downloads”, when the vast majority of those are non-consensual automatic installations.
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 2 months ago:
Yes, since the pronunciation of Volkswagen can be inferred from taking ‘Volks’ as rhyming with ‘Folks’ and either pronouncing ‘wagen’ as intended—with ‘gen’ rhyming with the ‘gain’ in ‘again’—or just pronouncing it as ‘wagon’. In contrast, the pronunciation of ‘kt’ at the end of ‘flohmarkt’ can’t be inferred from an existing English word. Additionally, using the spelling ‘flow’ disambiguates the English pronunciation of ‘floh’, especially when dialect is taken into account.
Ultimately, because Volkswagen has had decades of advertisements marketing its proper pronunciation and making the brand name widely-recognized, it has an inherent advantage in terms of brand recognition to start with.
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 2 months ago:
I didn’t say it was. An important aspect of promoting the adoption of any product or service is having a brand name that is easily pronounceable to facilitate word-of-mouth promotion. It’s something that’s all the more important for a Fediverse service, given the lack of means to promote Flohmarkt with paid advertising campaigns.
While Flohmarkt works as a brand name in German, it’s not immediately clear how to pronounce it in English, versus the easily pronounced Lemmy, Mastodon, Misskey, Pixelfed, Loops, and Friendica. For that reason, ‘Flohmarkt’ should be kept as the platform’s name in German-speaking countries, but be localized as ‘Flowmarket’ in English-speaking ones.
- Comment on Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace 2 months ago:
I think an English localization as ‘Flowmarkt’ or ‘Flowmarket’ might be more catchy in English-speaking countries, since the intended pronunciation for ‘Flohmarkt’ isn’t clear at a first glance.
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